Chapter 13 Want a Student
Twenty minutes later, Lebo opened his eyes and saw Klein still sitting opposite him.
Lebo rubbed his sore temples, wondering if he was still in aerospace school?
Hey, it was all my fault that I was craving for that tequila. Now I'm fine. Klein would definitely not call him over to take a sip of wine.
Lebo cleared his throat and asked, "Tell me, why are you giving me such expensive wine?"
Klein motioned Lebo to look at the wall, which displayed rows of jumping numbers that jumped every five seconds.
Lebo touched his head and said in a daze: "This is something for you rich people to play with. I can't afford this kind of auction item. Buying a flower will cost one-fifth of my monthly salary."
"I'm not telling you this, look here."
Klein pointed to a line of text that was beating, and gently pushed it to the right with his right hand in mid-air. The text turned into a picture and appeared on the wall.
Lebo rubbed his eyes, stood up, walked forward, and looked up and down at the wall.
"What is this? What is this you are showing me?"
"It's a painting with a current purchase price of 620 lightstones. This is just a copy of that painting."
Replicas? Lebo wanted to say, you new humans are really good at playing, and replicas are so expensive, but they are not authentic works by Van Gogh or Picasso.
If you look closely, it looks a bit impressionistic.
"This is Monet's painting? Where did you find it? We have been away from the earth for hundreds of years, where did we find these things?"
Klein smiled and said, "Are you really not aware or are you pretending not to know? Are you pretending to be drunk or are you really drunk?"
"I don't know if I really don't know, and if I'm drunk, I'm really drunk, so why did you ask me to come here?"
Klein thought to himself, you really don’t know this painting? Is there anyone who doesn’t know this painting now? The author of this painting is your student and you don’t know?
Lebo, you are really leaving your treasure unused as waste.
"Ahem, this was painted by your student. The original painting was sold at the Qianhua Market a few days ago. The price of the original painting at that time was 210 light stones."
Pretend, you look so good!
Seeing Lebo spreading his hands in confusion, Klein suddenly felt that Lebo was probably pretending to be stupid from beginning to end.
"I don't know much about paintings, so why don't you tell me what it means? Tell me about this painting, my students, and any other copies."
"Stop pretending to be confused with me, I'm going to tell you something serious." Klein was a little angry, but I didn't want to take advantage. Is it necessary for Lebo to protect his students like this?
Thinking of this, Klein decided to speak his mind straight to the point. Tequila also invited Lebo to drink, and he fell asleep here for more than ten minutes. There was nothing to waste this time and money.
The stars bear witness that Klein definitely didn’t want to take advantage of it in vain. What he was thinking about was something that would be beneficial to the entire human civilization.
"I want to ask you for a student."
"Ah? Did I hear you correctly? What did you just say?"
Klein patiently repeated, "I said I wanted to ask you for a student."
"No."
"Ah? You didn't even listen to what I said."
Lebo waved his hand impatiently, "I've heard about the coffee invitation."
Coffee please? Now it was Klein's turn to be confused.
Coffee is not a cheap food. Although he has good conditions, he also knows the pocket money level of prep school students. Drinking coffee must be considered a luxury consumption.
It's different for students at the aerospace school. Drinking coffee is their daily consumption...
"What's going on with the coffee invitation?" Klein asked.
A weird smile appeared on Lebo's lips, "I've always heard that students from the aerospace school want to fall in love with girls from the preparatory school."
"Impossible, they are not stupid."
"You can't say that. Don't you think the girls in the preparatory school are prettier than the blond and white-skinned girls in your aerospace school? Those female students of yours are all cut out of the same mold."
"Why are they the same? Each one is different."
Klein regretted giving Lebo those two glasses of tequila.
"The difference is just - well, it's normal for young people to be attracted to each other. They are all human beings, right? Shouldn't young people pursue true love? There are stars and seas outside, yes, but inside, I mean
here."
Lebo put his index finger on his heart and continued: "Even here, there are stars and sea, and there is also a surging heart."
"Even if you are right, human beings have rich inner worlds, but it is impossible for new humans to interact with humans because there will be no results. Children have known this since they were sensible."
"No one would have thought that humans would marry robots, right? More than two hundred years ago, Martian law no longer opposed marrying robots as wives. As long as someone is willing, there is no need for anyone to interfere."
Lebo said whatever came to his mind while drinking. In his opinion, there was nothing incomprehensible about an aviation school student wanting to fall in love with a preparatory school student.
Human love has always been a love that goes deep without knowing its origin.
After falling in love, who cares whether the other person is the same person?
Besides, who is not a "person"?
"I won't argue with you about this, and what I'm talking about is not what you think. I want to ask you for a student. I think it is necessary for him to join the aerospace school."
"Who? Which student?"
"Arthur Lin."
"He? Arthur Lin? Why him? What does he know? His graduation grade is second class, which means that Arthur is not high in physical ability, intelligence, creativity, and spiritual quality."
"Compared to you, it may be far behind. You were rated first-class in all aspects back then. Among ordinary humans, there has never been a person as outstanding as Lebo in a hundred years."
Lebo raised his head with disdain, and said proudly and aggrievedly: "Don't tell me these things, I only know that ordinary people have to pass the tests of the aerospace school, which is like letting a frog without legs swim in the water."
Klein was very dissatisfied with Lebo's vulgar metaphor, but now that he was asking for help, he could only endure Lebo's unfriendly attitude.
"I can train him. I almost trained you as a student in the voyage plan back then."
"It's not that good. You just almost trained me to barely pass the aerospace school entrance exam.
As a result, everyone knows that Lebo failed. It was not that Klein was incompetent, but that Lebo failed.
A human child would never pass the space school test."
"Don't be so stubborn. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean your students can't do it."
"I don't want my students to face this kind of exam that is bound to fail. Why should they take the exam? For what? Even if they pass the exam by chance, will the Voyager program need them?"
"You don't understand the Voyager Project well enough. I can only say that most people may be like you. You don't understand the meaning of the Voyager Project at all."
Lebo's shoulders hunched slightly, and the effect of the tequila gradually dissipated. Klein's expression was very complex. New humans rarely have complex facial expressions because they do not have complex emotions.
Chapter completed!