The Tentacle Girl's Child Can't Be a Magical Girl

Sunlight streamed in obliquely from the west-facing window.

In this lecture hall on the third floor of the teaching building, areas with distinct light and shadow were divided.

The classrooms at Dongqing University are large, accommodating over a hundred people. The stairs in the classrooms slope gently downwards, and rows of dark blue plastic chairs are laid out, with numbers printed in white paint on the backs. Some of the chairs are worn down to just blurry outlines.

The armrests of the seats have grooves specifically designed for placing tablets or mobile phones, and the edges of the grooves have been worn smooth by countless generations of students.

The blackboard is a smart glass that can be used for handwriting and projection, and it is currently displaying half of the structural diagram left over from the previous class—a simplified version of the abyss energy conduction model.

Bai Yuzhe glanced at it and realized that this was probably the content of a graduate course, not the kind of knowledge they would encounter in their senior year, but it would be soon.

There were still some formula derivations on the whiteboard next to it that hadn't been completely erased.

The handwriting is illegible.

A senior student's chalk writing was still left on the last unfinished equal sign.

Ok,

This senior student used the wrong formula from the beginning, so how could he possibly calculate the later results?

goo—

As protests rang out again,

Bai Yuze slumped down again, immediately entering power-saving mode.

I do not know how long it has been,

Ring ring—

Bai Yuze only looked up when the school bell rang.

Outside the classroom,

A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white coat walked in slowly, exuding a refined and courteous air.

He didn't look like a teacher; he looked more like a researcher in a biology lab, and that was indeed the case. He had previously worked for Genji Biotech, a Fortune 500 company.

According to rumors,

The other party seemed to be a department head, but later left the company for some unknown reason.

By a twist of fate, I ended up teaching at Holly University.

no doubt,

This teacher surnamed Mu is highly skilled and has won numerous awards and honors, both in the Xia Federation and in other countries.

However, this has created a new problem: the other party's level is too high. Even with very simple classroom content, they will cite classics and draw inferences from one instance to another, making it seem like you have only paid for kindergarten but they want you to learn all the knowledge points of the entire nine years of compulsory education.

The teacher is willing to teach.

Students are willing to learn, but some things cannot be accomplished overnight.

First, there must be a foundation.

Only on this basis can houses be built, so many students simply cannot understand it if they do not pay serious attention to this knowledge.

Fortunately, this teacher was very willing to take care of the students. Whenever a student asked a question or said that they didn't understand something, the middle-aged teacher would scratch his head embarrassedly.

To start, let's keep it a little simple.

But only a few minutes later,

The students were once again slapped into the ocean by the waves of knowledge.

Ok,

Although there was care,

But not many.

……

How well do your classmates learn in class?

Bai Yuze was unaware of this.

But he was so happy learning that he even forgot about the hunger in his stomach.

If he could, he would love to study Professor Mu's courses every day, so that he could happily roam in the ocean of knowledge.

creak-

Professor Mu walked onto the podium.

He didn't count the number of students; he just drew an "L" on the blackboard for them to sign in, and then prepared to start class.

It can be said,

Professor Mu's courses are very relaxed, but not many people actually dare to skip them.

Because this is a compulsory course, if Professor Mu marks it as failing on the final transcript, the student will not be able to take the AET exam, and not being able to take the AET exam means that they will not be able to graduate from Holly University.

creak-

Just as Professor Mu was about to pick up the chalk to write,

The classroom door was pushed open from the outside, and a beautiful figure rushed in.

This is a young girl wearing a white dress, with rosy skin and a few beads of sweat on her forehead.

Bai Yuze looked up and felt that the girl was vaguely familiar and somewhat reminiscent of him.

But I can't remember who the other person is.

He hesitated for a second, then stopped thinking about those things.

When you are paying attention in class,

He even had a second to think about girls, that's absolutely heinous!

On the podium,

Professor Mu had a relatively good temper; he didn't immediately lose his temper. His eyes, hidden behind his half-rimmed glasses, quietly turned to look at the girl at the door, and he softly asked:

"Excuse me, what was the reason you were late?"

The girl stood at the door, slightly out of breath, like a bud dampened by a sudden rain.

Upon hearing the teacher's question,

She immediately lowered her head, her hands nervously gripping the hem of her skirt, and explained in a slightly trembling voice:

"I'm sorry, teacher... I was at my work-study job this morning and couldn't leave for a while... I'll definitely pay attention to the time next time."

When she raised her eyes again,

Those clear eyes seemed to be veiled with moisture, filled with genuine fear and unease.

Upon hearing the girl's explanation,

Professor Mu glanced at the other person a few times, then refrained from making any further accusations, offering only a few words of advice.

"My dear student, studying should be your top priority during your university years. You should use your time and energy wisely."

"As for financial difficulties, the school has a comprehensive student aid system, and you can apply for interest-free loans to solve them. Relying on yourself and earning what you need step by step is the foundation for a long-term and stable life. Don't be controlled by some immediate, instinctive impulses, or you will take the wrong path."

The girl lowered her head and replied in a barely audible voice, "...Thank you, teacher, I understand."

"Okay, come in."

Professor Mu nodded without saying anything more, and turned back to prepare his presentation.

After the girl entered the classroom, she looked around as if searching for an empty seat, but when her gaze fell on Bai Yuze, she stopped abruptly and walked straight toward him.

Bai Yuze realized this.

He silently shifted his body.

It seems they wanted to keep their distance from the girl.

There was a pretty girl sitting next to me.

He was a little excited, but he was in class and had already decided to immerse himself in knowledge.

Beautiful women are the most deceitful.

But knowledge won't!

Having said that,

When the girl actually sat down in the empty seat next to him and greeted him with a sweet smile.

Bai Yuze's face clearly showed some embarrassment and awkwardness, just like an innocent young boy who had never been with a girl before.

"Senior, what a coincidence, we meet again~"

"...Huh?"

Bai Yuze blinked, somewhat confused.

"Senior, you haven't forgotten me, have you?!"

The girl noticed the confusion on Bai Yuze's face and immediately showed a sad expression.

"Forehead……"

Bai Yuze looked at the girl in front of him and began frantically searching his memory, finally finding a fragment in some obscure corner.

Upon enrollment,

He seems to have been a mentor to this girl who also came from the Parrot District.

Now she is a sophomore in college, her body has grown up, and she wears light makeup. She is even more striking than when we first met a year ago.

"You...you're Min Zhirou?"

"You scared me to death! I thought Senior Bai Yuzhe had really forgotten about me!"

Saying this,

Min Zhirou patted her chest, and suddenly the waves surged. Although she couldn't compare to the kind and lovely Qianxia from before, her size was still quite impressive.

Bai Yuzhe glanced at the other person briefly, then turned his gaze to the book and said softly:

"Min Zhirou, if I remember correctly, you're in your second year, so you shouldn't be able to choose this course yet, right?"

"Hmph~"

Min Zhirou pouted and leaned closer.

"Senior, let's not say anything since we're still good friends. To be honest, I'm actually here to cover for a class for a senior, but I never expected to run into you."

As he spoke,

She had already skillfully moved Bai Yuze's notes to the center of the desk.

"Senior, it's 25 yuan to cover a large class, and 20 yuan to help you copy notes. I can borrow your notes to copy some, and I'll give you 10 yuan later. Oh, and if you need Zhirou to cover classes for you in the future, I can give you a 50% discount!"

"..."

Bai Yuze remained silent.

Because she was copying notes, Min Zhirou was sitting very close to Bai Yuze. Her petite body carried a faint fragrance, like a cotton blanket soaked in sunlight, with a hint of the warm, milky scent that only babies have.

It was at this time that

Bai Yuzhe could feel the sudden increase in the number of gazes fixed on him, some surprised, some envious, some disdainful... Among them, the students from the Parrot District first looked surprised, and then revealed an expression of envy and jealousy.

This bastard,

I just enjoyed Miss White Tea's breakfast this morning.

Not a few minutes later,

So he started flirting with other girls?!

Beast!

Liu Hao didn't react much, but he gave Bai Yuze a disdainful look, then lowered his head, opened his textbook, and began to study seriously.

It's great to be in a relationship!

Time-consuming and laborious

I'd like to see what happens after you graduate.

How can a loser who can't even afford breakfast possibly win a girlfriend's heart? In the end, he'll probably just watch helplessly as she runs into someone else's arms.

Just thinking about that scene,

He couldn't help but hum softly.

On the other side,

The tall boy sitting in the front row crossed his legs and glanced over. His gaze lingered on Bai Yuze for a moment, then fell on Min Zhirou, and the corners of his mouth curved into a smile.

His smile was tinged with deep disdain.

Asakura Saku,

The second son of the Asakura family in Maple Leaf Ward.

Her father was a senior advisor at Genji Technology, and her mother was a distant relative of the Fujiwara family.

He attended private schools in the Maple Leaf District from kindergarten all the way up to Holly University; his life trajectory resembled a precisely calculated straight line.

He initially thought the girl was quite pretty, and that approaching Bai Yuzhe felt like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung. However, after learning that she was also from the Parrot District, he withdrew his gaze and continued scrolling through his phone, not even bothering to look at her again.

Those people and him,

We were never from the same world.

Boys usually look at girls like that, but girls' reactions are much more normal.

Bai Yuze doesn't have a strong presence in the class. Since the start of the semester, the only girl who has talked to Bai Yuze is the class monitor, Bai Chaqianxia.

But there are also a few girls

Their gazes became very strange.

……

Depend on,

Don't think about it,

He's definitely going to be labeled a scumbag who's always looking for something better while eating what's in his bowl.

but,

He is so innocent.

From small to large,

He has never even held the hand of a human girl.

"Cough cough~"

This eerie atmosphere didn't last long before it was broken by Professor Mu standing nearby.

"Okay, I know this girl is very pretty, but I'd prefer everyone to focus their attention on me, okay?"

Swah——

Several gazes that had been fixed on Bai Yuzhe instantly withdrew, and Bai Yuzhe gradually turned his attention back to his textbooks.

As for the beautiful girl beside him,

He also selectively forgot.

The pretty junior next to me is indeed very cute.

Very innocent,

But when it comes to great scholarship, everything else has to take a backseat!

......

In class,

Professor Mu's eyes behind his glasses gleamed with seriousness and earnestness.

"As we discussed in the last lesson, the energy foundation for carbon-based life activities is ATP, or adenosine triphosphate. Whether it's us humans or the vast majority of organisms on Blue Star before the Abyss Cataclysm, we all rely on oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria or photosynthetic phosphorylation in chloroplasts to synthesize it."

Professor Mu paced slowly in front of the podium with his hands behind his back. His voice was not loud, but it clearly reached every corner, as if carrying a certain spiritual pressure.

He paused for a moment.

His gaze swept over the silent students below the stage, finally settling on Bai Yuze, who was writing and drawing.

Bai Yuze.

My name was suddenly called.

Bai Yuze subconsciously raised his head, but he wasn't panicked; he simply met the professor's gaze calmly.

"You answer this."

Professor Mu walked to the holographic projection, clicked the mouse, and the image instantly switched to a distorted and ferocious monster structure diagram. Its body was covered with a dark purple chitinous carapace, and there were faint blue energy veins flowing at its joints.

"According to current research, the Abyssal Beasts that have entered the molting stage—such as this Swift Beast—do not have organelles similar to mitochondria in their bodies."

Observational data shows that when they move at high speeds or launch attacks, the intensity of their local energy fields can surge to astonishing levels instantaneously. So, what are the molecular mechanisms that support this instantaneous, ultra-high-power energy output? And where does their ATP come from?

Once the problem arose,

Many students in the audience blinked their big eyes in confusion, and a few others frowned slightly. This was clearly beyond the scope of their regular senior year textbooks, involving the cutting-edge and dangerous field of abyssal bioenergetics research.

However, the thought that the person Professor Mu asked the question to was Bai Yuze, who always seemed to be running to Professor Mu's office, came to mind.

They were then relieved.

If class monitor Su Xue is the lackey of counselor Ikeda Rika, then Bai Yuze is Professor Mu's lapdog.

of course,

This doesn't count as insulting the other party.

It was just simple jealousy.

Off-campus

Many company bosses want to get close to Professor Mu but have no way to do so.

"Forehead......"

Upon hearing this question, Bai Yuzhe frowned slightly in thought, then stood up and spoke calmly:

"Teacher Mu, the Abyssal Swift Beast, and most mid-level Abyssal Calamity Beasts, may not use, or not rely entirely on, ATP as their direct energy source."

This sentence,

This essentially negates the idea that ATP is the energy foundation for carbon-based life activities.

After saying that,

Chiba Yume, who had been staring at her book, looked up at Bai Yuze not far away with some surprise.

Bai Yuzhe continued without pausing:

"The synthesis and hydrolysis of traditional ATP involves the formation and breaking of high-energy phosphate bonds. This process has a theoretical limit in terms of energy storage and release efficiency. For a monster that needs to unleash energy comparable to a small-scale fusion reaction in an extremely short time, this efficiency is too low, and the energy flow rate cannot keep up."

He raised his hand, pointing to the eerie blue energy veins of the energy-devouring beast in the hologram:

"The key lies in a special biological structure called the biological microcavity network within the bodies of these abyssal monsters, and its core energy carrier—the void potential energy nucleotide, which is what magical girls in anime often refer to as the crystal nucleus."

"The structure of VPN is similar to that of ATP, both having an adenine group and a pentose sugar. However, its core difference lies in the fact that its terminal is not connected to three phosphate groups, but to an unstable virtual potential bond that is directly coupled to the abyssal field."

Professor Mu raised an eyebrow slightly, but did not interrupt, signaling him to continue.

"This potential bond itself does not store chemical energy, but is more like a coordinate, or a key."

Bai Yuze thought for a moment, then continued.

"When the Abyssal Beast needs energy, the VPN molecule undergoes a conformational change due to the bioelectric signals excited by the microcavity network. The potential energy bonds at its ends instantly pry open the abyssal field in the local space, directly extracting vacuum zero-point energy from the field and converting it into biochemical energy that can be directly used by cells. This process is called the field-induced energy tunneling effect."

"Therefore, it is very likely that the Swift Beast did not use traditional ATP, but instead continuously synthesized and consumed this VPN molecule that can temporarily open energy channels."

Its energy source is the background spacetime itself, or rather, the energy contained in the overlapping area between the abyss field and our real world.

This also explains why areas where the calamity beasts roam are always accompanied by strong background energy fluctuations and disturbances in physical constants, and why surrounding humans are affected.

After Bai Yuze finished speaking, he nodded slightly to indicate that his answer was complete.