Ninth class citizen

Chapter 374 The Road Is Blocked

As they walked out of the classroom, the trainees still felt dazed, their feet felt unsteady, and they couldn't quite feel their weight on the ground.

It was lunchtime, and apart from a few cautious students who took the medicine back to their dormitories, the rest of the students went to the school's main cafeteria. As a result, it was inevitable that they would run into students who had left early.

"Look, those spineless cowards are out of class!" The baby-faced man led the way, and many others joined in the laughter.

"Tell us quickly, what profound knowledge did Professor Nan teach your experimental class!"

Although Nan Rong did not emphasize in class that the students in the experimental class should keep the class content confidential, the students who stayed behind benefited from it and were not foolish enough to share it with others.

They had already hidden their own gold crystal injections, ignoring the sarcasm of others. They simply smiled politely and dispersed to various specialty food windows to buy their desired lunches.

The others wouldn't let them off so easily. They continued to surround and interrogate them, and although they didn't get any meaningful answers, one thing was certain.

All the students in the experimental class showed indifference when they heard the slanderous or yin-yang remarks about Nan Rong.

Some impatient individuals even bluntly stated that they were like frogs in a well, claiming that Instructor Nan's strength was unfathomable and beyond their comprehension.

“Something’s not right.” The baby-faced man’s eyes darted around a few times. “I have a feeling that they’ve really been brainwashed by that Ms. Nan in such a short time.”

"Actually, this isn't surprising, is it?" one of the students next to him said. "Most of the people who stayed behind wanted to curry favor with Ms. Nan, so even if they regretted it, they had to stick to their guns, otherwise all their efforts would be in vain."

“There’s some truth to that,” the baby-faced man said. “But I still think there’s something wrong with it. It’s one thing to be lenient with others, but look at those bookworms who don’t care about anything but studying. They can’t hide the smiles on their lips and in their eyes. What does that tell us?”

"Could it be that Ms. Nan gave them some benefits?" Another student's eyes lit up. "After all, she's the president's fiancée. It's not impossible that she made some empty promises to win over the students."

The baby-faced man's expression turned cold, and he clenched his fists secretly.

If Ms. Nan really agreed to something, wouldn't we who left early have suffered a loss for nothing?

“That’s the problem. This behavior seriously undermines the fairness of teaching in the college.” He said with a serious expression, “We cannot sit idly by.”

“But what can we do?” Several friends did not dare to go against Nan Rong: “Ms. Nan has His Majesty the President and the Campbell family behind her. She can get Chairman Greg to give her the green light and Dean Xiong to be appointed as a pharmaceutical synthesis mentor. We can just switch shifts. There is no need to go against her.”

“That’s not what I meant either,” the baby-faced man said. “The most urgent thing is to find out what benefits Ms. Nan gave them.”

As he spoke, his gaze swept around the cafeteria, finally settling on a slightly chubby girl.

Sang Pei was in a great mood. The invisible pressure that had been weighing heavily on her chest since she enrolled in school, making it hard for her to breathe, suddenly vanished.

She also came from a ninth-magnitude star. Because of her exceptional talent, she became the only student in the Betala system to be admitted.

But before the excitement of enrolling had subsided, Sang Pei discovered that the Federal Gene Optimization Academy was not the pure and fair ivory tower she had imagined.

Here, the superiority of middle and upper-class citizens gradually becomes apparent over time.

Within the same grade, students from mid-to-high-level planets, before optimization, will definitely have lower physical attributes than students from ninth-level planets. Ninth-level planets, which make up the largest number of federal administrative planets, receive the fewest enrollment slots, and their selection criteria are naturally extremely strict, bordering on brutal.

Only truly exceptional geniuses can obtain that one in a billion chance of admission.

But it's different for mid- to high-level aliens. They can use gene optimizers to easily make up for differences in attributes.

With the backing of their families, they had unimpeded access to the academy and naturally possessed various resources and privileges.

The student council, controlled by high-ranking students, openly refuses to allow lower-class citizens to access materials and books that require various qualifications and authorizations.
Their smooth and natural interpersonal skills allow them to navigate interactions with professors from various departments with ease, easily gaining their extra attention. Whether it's answering questions or earning credits, it's much easier for them than for people from lower-level planets.

Sang Pei also had many questions she wanted to ask her mentor after class. However, the intermediate and advanced star students always surrounded the mentor, naturally interrupting her questions and ignoring her.

Just like the other dozens of ninth-rank students in the class.

No, actually, the people of the ninth rank are not all the same.

For example, Hayden, who is as handsome and dazzling as the sun, is very popular among the lower-level aliens. It is not something that a girl with an ordinary appearance and introverted personality like her can get close to.

The only thing Sang Pei could do was to make the most of every minute, applying it all to learning, extraction, and synthesis, staying up late and getting up early, never daring to slack off in the slightest.

Nevertheless, she could still feel the gap between herself and other mid-to-high-level star students widening.

Gene optimization is never a discipline that can be mastered simply through self-study. As the level increases, the requirements for data, experience, and skills also become higher.

And these are precisely the things that she finds difficult to obtain no matter how hard she tries.

But things are different now. Ms. Nan, who also comes from a ninth-level planet, understands her suffering and her difficulties. She distributed first-level A-grade gene optimization agents to everyone and taught them the invaluable Spirit Sea Training Method.

They even promised in the form of an agreement that the vast majority of students in the experimental class would reach the level of being able to synthesize Grade A gene optimizers before graduation.

That's an A-grade gene optimizer, even if it's only a first-tier one, it's something I wouldn't have dared to dream of before.

Sang Pei smiled slightly as he finished his cheapest whole-wheat fried noodles with relish, downed the complimentary bean sprout soup, and walked briskly toward his dormitory.

She needed to hurry back, use the first-level A gene optimizer, and then use her lunch break to practice the mental sea training method.

Instructor Nan said that even those who are not extraordinary individuals with a spiritual sea will develop one by practicing this method for a period of time. Furthermore, as mental strength increases, the spiritual sea will continue to expand, and control over mental strength will become increasingly stronger.

Although she had never heard of such a thing before, Professor Nan's words were naturally extremely credible, given that he synthesized hundreds of Grade A gene optimizers in half a day and taught in a direct, one-on-one manner.

So as long as you strive to reach your full potential, there will naturally be a path forward.

But Sang Pei's path was blocked. Standing in front of her were Babyface and his friends.