Chapter 147 In This World without English
Levi didn't know how good the senior sister's water polo skills were.
But the efficiency of the college made him feel what a bloated and complicated bureaucratic system was.
The admission of special students would be delayed for a week because of the existence of general courses, which was reasonable, but the formal students obviously didn't need to wait for a week, but because of various procedures, it took Levi three days to complete all the procedures.
This time, he also got the independent apartment that was standard for formal students. At the same time, relying on his control of the rules of gravity, he was assigned to the Department of Physics and could start directly from the second-year courses.
After this enrollment, Levi could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the college had changed recently.
In order to save the key, the board of directors directly ordered the discipline department, and the discipline director was directly responsible for strictly investigating the prevalence of the natural theory exam among formal students. This is a job that requires extra manpower.
The discipline committee members were all transferred away, which made the atmosphere among formal students even worse.
These changes are of course not lost on the school directors who are organizing the reform of special enrollment.
They don't care about some of the students' private "little entertainment", but Xin Guohong held another emergency school board meeting, saying that after the latest review of the key management committee, it was found that after a strict investigation of cheating, the number of regular students who can rely on their own ability to pass the natural theory exam has even become scarce!
This obviously made the school directors of the college feel uneasy.
If the number of scientists produced by the college is decreasing, it means that human beings are becoming weaker in their control over nature, and such things will really cause trouble!
Even if they didn't care about the atmosphere before, they must crack down on it at this time to let students shift their minds from idleness to study.
The most basic responsibilities of the college cannot be changed. The original intention of this city was to maintain the number of scientists produced, and everything else is secondary.
But Levi obviously didn't know this. He could only feel that the college had issued some notices on strict discipline, but the students below were perfunctory about it.
Things that have become a habit for a long time, how can they change overnight?
Even the discipline committee members, who were already tied up by the strict investigation of cheating, turned a blind eye to this decree. They couldn't manage it and didn't have the energy to manage it.
This made Levi quite keenly aware that this was a very good opportunity.
But he was not in a hurry. It was not easy to join the student union and become a committee member.
After officially enrolling, Levi did not immediately socialize among the regular students and open up his relationships.
Because he knew that if he wanted to enter the student union, it would be useless to rely on these people.
Although the student union is nominally self-governed by students, if you want to join and become a committee member, you need a faculty member to nominate.
The first step Levi wanted to start his plan was not to manage a good relationship with those drunken regular students, but to find a faculty member who could nominate him.
In the second week after enrollment, Levi attracted a wave of attention with his extraordinary appearance and the identity of a scientist before enrollment, and then countless messy clubs sent him invitations.
However, these invitations could only sink into the sea after all, because Levi had determined his goal.
Zhao Mingda, the librarian of the college.
He is not a teacher, but because of the importance of the library and his own strength, he also has a professor-level teaching position, and his qualifications are absolutely sufficient.
The biggest reason why Levi chose him was not because of anything else.
In addition to the fact that this somewhat arrogant old man left some impression on him when he was recruiting special students, the most important reason was that when Levi came to the library recently, he found that he was studying English.
Yes, it was English!
Levi was very familiar with those letters. He was quite good at English when he was in college, at least he passed the Level 6 exam. Although he had not used it for a long time after working, he had not forgotten it.
In this human society, all languages and characters, whether in the East District or the West District, are all in Chinese.
English and other languages have long become the products of ancient history. Not to mention knowing them, even the materials related to English must be documents with a history of thousands of years!
Li Wei accidentally saw this old man named Zhao Mingda in the library. After frowning and studying the paper full of English characters, he was stunned for a while, and then he realized that this was actually English!
"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."
Hearing a completely incomprehensible language suddenly read out behind him, Zhao Mingda frowned and turned his head to look into Li Wei's eyes.
"What did you say?"
Li Wei smiled and pointed to the old document that Zhao Mingda placed on the table.
"You are looking at the text, teacher, 'Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.' This is a motto, which can be translated as action is the fruit of knowledge."
His words made Zhao Mingda obviously stunned. He had figured out the general meaning of this sentence by looking it up in the dictionary, but he still had no idea how to read it or pronounce it. Zhao Mingda was not sure whether the language spoken by Li Wei was pronounced correctly, but the meaning was obviously more accurate than the one he translated with the dictionary!
"Can you understand the words on it?"
Zhao Mingda said, while carefully covering the contents of the document with his arm.
The reason why he dared to take these things out in the open was to make sure that no one could recognize the words on it.
But he didn't expect that this slap in the face would come so quickly!
But Zhao Mingda was not angry about it. On the contrary, when he asked Li Wei, there was a hint of surprise in his tone.
There were too many old documents, and Zhao Mingda couldn't tell which ones were useful and which ones were useless. He relied on him to translate them bit by bit through the dictionary. He didn't know when he would be able to translate all these contents.
But Zhao Mingda remained cautious.
He knew very well what he was doing. If the rule fragments he was looking for were known to outsiders, he would be in big trouble no matter what his identity was.
So, he never looked away from Levi's eyes.
Levi did not avoid his eyes and said bluntly.
"What you are looking at is English, teacher. It was one of the languages used by humans when they were still on land. I can understand it because I have some books about English at home. I have been interested in these since I was a child."
Zhao Mingda continued to ask.
"Are you a freshman? Why have I never seen you before?"
"My name is Vic Forrest. I am from Suiye, the first city in the Western Region after the Central Region. I am glad to meet you, teacher."
Levi showed a sunny smile that was the signature of this identity and extended his hand to Zhao Mingda.
Zhao Mingda did not shake hands with Levi. He still had the cold and hard face that kept strangers away.
"You can recognize these characters. It seems that your family background is not simple."
"The Forrest family has always had a long history in Suiye, but it began to decline in my generation. Now there is only a baron title left. If I hadn't been adopted, even this title would have been lost."
Levi's voice was a little emotional, but soon he smiled again.
"But knowledge is the most precious wealth of people, right? As long as this thing is still passed down, the so-called fame and fortune will come to you sooner or later."
Such words made Zhao Mingda silent for a moment, and then he snorted coldly and turned away from looking at Levi.
"Be careful in the library in the future, don't read what others are reading without permission."
He didn't seem to be interested in Levi, and his attitude was very indifferent. He didn't mean to communicate more or ask him to translate.
But Levi was not in a hurry.
If Zhao Mingda really came to invite him to help now, Levi would doubt his IQ, or have other intentions.
The two of them are still strangers to each other, so there must be a process of investigation and familiarity.
Then Li Wei left the library and did not continue to disturb Zhao Mingda. He did not go to the library for the next few days, but he also knew clearly that his information had been retrieved if nothing unexpected happened.
Sure enough, on the third day after the meeting in the library, Li Wei received a notice.
It was said that the college library had a task for him to do.
And at this time, Li Wei's mouth curled up a real smile from the heart.
The fish took the bait.
The previous chapter has a patch on the identity issue.
Then there may be something tonight. If I can come back, I will update another chapter. If I can't come back, I will start tomorrow.