Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

Lu Mingfei was stunned.

"Chen Motong!" Professor Mans on the podium suddenly looked at Nuonuo and said calmly, "Stand up."

Nuonuo flinched, stood up obediently, looking like a well-behaved girl, completely unlike her pre-class swagger.

Lu Mingfei grinned, thinking to himself, "This professor must have some serious influence to be able to scare mixed-race people like little chicks."

"Student Lu Mingfei." Professor Mans suddenly turned his gaze to Lu Mingfei.

Nuonuo, who was being punished by standing, glanced down at Lu Mingfei with a gloating look in her eyes.

Lu Mingfei stood up: "Professor."

"Did you understand what I just said?" Professor Mans asked.

"I can only understand a little bit," Lu Mingfei said honestly.

Although he possesses the power of words, he only received the textbooks yesterday, and has only skimmed through a portion of them. He just listened to a lesson for a while, and still doesn't quite understand most of it.

Nuonuo thought to herself, "What nonsense are you talking about? This lousy course is incredibly difficult. I've been taking it for a year and sometimes I still don't understand it. You think you can understand it right away?"

However, Professor Mans then nodded and said, "If there's anything you don't understand, you can come to my office after class to ask me."

"Thank you, Professor," Lu Mingfei said quickly.

“Sit down,” Professor Mans said.

Nono: ? ? ?

Professor, what are you doing? You're not usually this lenient! Punish him! Make him stand as punishment! You usually make at least ten people stand as punishment in one class, punish him! You can't give him special treatment just because he has connections, can you? Are you still the upright, impartial, and incorruptible professor I know?!

Amidst Nuonuo's gaze, a mixture of shock, incomprehension, and a hint of doubt, Lu Mingfei sat down, focused on the lesson, and began to fully activate his Word Power, golden light surging in his eyes.

It's perfectly normal for the golden eyes to light up in this kind of class; almost all the students did—after all, if you're not fully focused, you really can't keep up with Professor Mans's lecture pace.

Therefore, Lu Mingfei was not worried about attracting attention. In this class, those whose golden eyes did not light up would become the focus of attention, because that meant that person was not listening to the lesson and was daydreaming.

Nono glanced down at Lu Mingfei, who was listening intently to the lecture.

So you're a crony, huh? I'd like to see what's going on with you!

Nuonuo focused intently on Lu Mingfei as the subject of her "profile".

This ability is not a word-powered ability, but it is even better than a word-powered ability. It can be used to deduce the course of events, people, etc., in a certain place through observation, and the accuracy is very high. Of course, it can also be used on a specific person to observe their characteristics, draw a "personal portrait" of the person in the mind, and analyze their personality, habits, abilities, strengths, etc.

This ability was usually invincible, but Nono felt something was off this time.

In her "profile," Lu Mingfei, who was beside her, did not show any complex "data" or "clues" like other targets in the past.

He's more like... more like... a mirror?!

The more Nuonuo profiled Lu Mingfei, the stranger she found him. He seemed to have become a three-dimensional mirror, reflecting everything around him without revealing any information about himself.

Until one moment, Nono suddenly realized that Lu Mingfei in her eyes had somehow become herself, sitting there attentively listening to the lecture and reading a book, while the surrounding environment had become distorted lines surrounding the two of them, and the professor's lecture sounded as if it were far away and mixed with the sound of the rain.

Lu Mingfei, who had transformed into "Nuonuo," sat there, suddenly turned his head, looked at Nuonuo, and revealed a smile that was hard to understand.

A nameless fear suddenly gripped Nono's heart, and she instinctively screamed.

The illusion before her eyes dissipated, and Nono looked around, still shaken.

Everyone in the classroom, including Lu Mingfei, was staring at her. Most of them were curious, but Professor Mans had a gloomy expression, as if it were the eve of a thunderstorm.

“Professor…” Nono blinked, her brain racing, trying to come up with a plausible excuse, “I…”

"Chen Motong, go to the lecture," Professor Mans said calmly. "At the end of this semester, you will submit an extra paper. Is that a problem?"

"Professor, I..." Nono's face changed. Submitting two papers for the final exam was like dying.

“Not satisfied? Then submit two more papers, how about that?” Professor Mans asked.

"No problem!" Nono's face fell, thinking to herself that she was now living a life worse than death.

“By the way, it’s all handwritten,” Professor Mans added.

Nono opened her mouth, but ultimately didn't dare to speak.

……

After class, Lu Mingfei walked out of the classroom.

He gained a lot from this lesson. Although there were still many parts he didn't understand because he lacked the basics, he had already memorized them. He can gradually understand them by reading books and studying on his own in the future.

He turned to look at Nuonuo standing by the wall, walked over and asked, "Are you alright?"

After Nono was kicked out, Susie replied to him, saying that she did indeed have such a best friend, although this best friend was very unreliable.

"It's alright, I'm just heartbroken," Nuonuo said expressionlessly.

"The professor is going too far. Three papers, and they have to be written by hand." Lu Mingfei spoke up for Nuonuo.

Nono nodded in agreement.

"At least printing should be allowed," Lu Mingfei said, adding the second half of his sentence.

Nono remained silent.

This time it really wasn't Lu Mingfei's fault. Ever since he started learning from Tony, he's been working non-stop on experiments. Although he doesn't write papers, he's done countless research logs and experimental records every day. After organizing them a bit, he's produced a whole stack of papers.

Therefore, in his mind, the three final papers were not a big deal at all; the only tedious part was that they had to be handwritten.

And Nono...

The new S-class student has a rather wicked sense of humor. She silently noted this information down in her mind.

But at the same time, she couldn't help but look at Lu Mingfei with curiosity—this was the first time her profile had encountered such an unexpected situation. Could this be the special feature of S-class?

Just as Nono was wondering, a familiar slender figure walked over: "Hi!"

"Senior Sister Susie," Lu Mingfei greeted her, "What brings you here?"

“I’m here to see this girl; we’re roommates,” Susie said with a smile.

"Hey girl, you've finally come!" Nono rushed over, "Help me!"

"Help me write my thesis," Nuonuo thought to herself.

"What's wrong?" Susie asked, completely bewildered.

"Senior sister, I'll be going now," Lu Mingfei said.

"Hmm? Where are you rushing off to?" Susie, holding her Nuonuo, turned to Lu Mingfei and said, "I was thinking of taking you on a tour of the academy."

"I'm afraid it's not possible today, Senior Sister. I've made an appointment with the people from the Equipment Department to go on a visit... Hey? Why don't you come with me? You can also invite Senior Brother Chu along, and we can even have lunch at the Equipment Department..."

Lu Mingfei extended a warm invitation.

Susie's expression changed slightly, and she took a half step back: "I'm sorry, junior brother, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do. You can go by yourself. I'm so sorry."

Nono, standing to the side, also had a flicker in her eyes and subconsciously shrank her neck.

"It's alright, see you tomorrow, senior sister." Lu Mingfei waved goodbye.

"See you tomorrow." Susie pulled Nono away quickly.

Lu Mingfei wondered if it was just his imagination, but looking at their backs, he felt that they seemed... a little flustered?

……

Student Union Headquarters, Norton Building, President's Office.

Caesar and Nono were sitting on the sofa in the office.

"In other words, you don't understand this S-class either." Caesar looked intrigued.

This was the first time he had ever seen Nono express her helplessness about something so frankly.

“That person… is strange,” Nono frowned. “He seemed like an ordinary person who was fairly easy to get along with, but the profiling results were…”

After hesitating for a moment, she didn't describe the somewhat eerie scene, but instead said, "The profiling of him was a failure; we didn't get any useful information."

“This should be S-rank,” Caesar nodded in satisfaction, a look of disdain in his icy blue eyes. “It seems that besides Chu Zihang, I have another opponent.”

Nono ignored the guy who was having a fit of chuunibyou and grabbed a pear from the fruit basket on the table and took a bite.

"Nono, do you know where Lu Mingfei is right now? I'm going to see him myself." Caesar stood up with great ambition.

"He said he went to the equipment department," Nono said casually, holding a pear.

"See you later." Caesar sat back down on the sofa.

Chapter 128. Joining the Equipment Department (Chapter 127)

In front of the ground section of the equipment department.

Lu Mingfei was a little surprised.

He found his way here using an electronic map sent to him by the former researcher who had been transferred to be a pilot, and Norma also helped him with voice navigation.

Logically speaking, he shouldn't have made a mistake, but is this shabby and strange building really the equipment department?

Before him stood a small Western-style building with pale walls and a red-tiled roof. Various mystical items hung from the eaves—crosses, crosses with images of Jesus, wooden fish, tarot cards, six-pointed stars, Bagua mirrors, and even garlic and plasticized spaghetti.

Damn it, the last two actually match quite well. Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

This place doesn't look like a place for scientific research at all; it looks more like a "world theological hodgepodge exchange room."

After confirming with Norma that he hadn't gone to the wrong place, Lu Mingfei walked to the door of the small villa. Just as he was about to knock, the door opened by itself.

The room was empty, without any furniture or decorations, except for an elevator with an open door and a screen next to it that read "Please come in".

Lu Mingfei stepped into the elevator, completely bewildered. The elevator then plummeted downwards, displaying not the floor number, but rather how many meters underground they were currently at. The numbers changed rapidly; if this were an old-fashioned mechanical counter, it would probably have already sparked.

The elevator stopped at "-113m", opened its doors, and revealed a high-tech metal corridor with soft lighting that resembled sunlight.

As Lu Mingfei stepped out of the elevator, a voice rang out from somewhere: "Give me the password!"

Meanwhile, dozens of guns with different designs emerged from the surrounding corners, mostly based on game or tokusatsu themes. For example, there was a scaled-down MMI-M633 beam assault rifle, a weapon from the Gundam "Zaku Warrior," as well as Kuuga's "Pegasus Crossbow" and "Rising Pegasus Crossbow," the "Victory Hyper Gun" used by the GUTS team in Ultraman Tiga, and even Dante's "Ebony and Ivory"...

Lu Mingfei remained calm despite being pointed at with a gun. Before he arrived, the pilot had already explained the "body check" process to him. Furthermore, the guns were loaded with tranquilizer darts called "Frigga bullets," which would not harm anyone. Anyone who entered without an official "equipment collection certificate" issued by the academy would be tranquilized and thrown out if they could not answer the code.

The "Equipment Receipt Certificate" is a support material issued by the academy to students who are about to carry out high-difficulty missions. They can come to the Equipment Department to collect the corresponding level of weaponry. Lu Mingfei is not going to carry out a mission, so he naturally doesn't have one. Fortunately, the pilot had already told him the code—it's called a code, but it's in the form of a question and answer session. If he answers three questions correctly, he passes.

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