Morning.
Lu Xun wore a blue and white school uniform, a backpack slung over his right shoulder.
Left hand in his pocket, right hand pushing the door, he walked into the classroom.
The noise from the students gradually quieted down, dozens of eyes focused on him, all showing surprise.
Lu Xun also looked at them, hesitated slightly, then reached out and greeted: "Hello everyone, happy new semester."
The classroom instantly exploded.
"Damn! Old Lu, you still remember to come back?"
"Yo, Scholar Lu is here, I thought you dropped out!"
"Happy new semester? The opening ceremony was two weeks ago, dude!"
...
Everyone was quite surprised by his appearance.
A few boys came up and asked what he had been doing these past two weeks.
Lu Xun didn't explain much, just shrugged his shoulders and said "Had some family matters" to dismiss everyone, then headed to his seat with his backpack.
In the back row by the window.
A humanoid skeleton was lying on the desk, sleeping soundly.
It had no flesh, just eerie white bones exposed to the air, very creepy.
It managed to make the loose blue and white school uniform look like mummy wrappings.
"Da Gu, stop sleeping, give Brother a way."
Lu Xun patted it on the skull, making a "thump thump" sound.
The skeleton sleepily straightened its upper body, the red Soul Fire gradually lighting up in its dark eye sockets.
Once it recognized the person in front, the Soul Fire leapt wildly, and the skeleton exclaimed in a childish voice:
"Brother Lu!!!"
This skeleton was named Wuer Marcellus Leiden.
Undead Race.
Wuer departed from Middleton, the ancestral land of the Undead Race, last year as an exchange student, heading to the Human Federation.
Upon arriving at Jinghai First Middle School, he became Lu Xun's deskmate for a year.
There were about a dozen such exchange students in the school, from different races, distributed across various grades and classes.
In their senior year Class (4), Wuer was the only one.
At first, everyone was a bit afraid of this new student from the Undead Race.
The eerie skeleton and Soul Fire, walking around the campus at night, could scare passersby into fainting.
But soon, the students found out that Wuer actually had a pure heart, an innocent mind.
Now, he was accepted by most students and honored with the nickname "Da Gu".
Wuer had the best relationship with Lu Xun.
Seeing Lu Xun appear, he quickly stood up to make way. Once his deskmate sat down, he began eagerly asking questions.
"Brother Lu, where have you been these days? It's one thing to skip the opening ceremony, but you've dodged two weeks of classes! Even scholars shouldn't be so reckless, the homeroom teacher will definitely deal with you later."
"I already saw the homeroom teacher earlier, don't worry about it." Lu Xun said indifferently, discovering many new textbooks in the desk, all unopened.
Wuer proudly announced: "Hey, I helped you collect the new semester textbooks, won't you praise me!"
"Thanks."
Lu Xun took out the textbooks, opened them one by one, and wrote his name on the title page with a carbon pen.
"You skipped two weeks of classes. Even if the homeroom teacher doesn't pursue it, the subject teachers will definitely deal with you." Wuer whispered a reminder, "The first period is history class, quickly review the previous four chapters now, or it'll be miserable later."
Lu Xun glanced at him indifferently: "You, a slacker, actually reminding the top scholar of the grade to study hard, isn't that reversed?"
"Slacker gets busted for skipping class. Good students can do whatever they want!"
"Uh..."
Wuer was immediately speechless.
He then remembered Lu Xun's brilliant track record.
As a poor student living in the ordinary district of Jinghai City, he got full marks in every subject in the entrance exam and made it into the elite privilege district's first middle school!
The first middle school is the top educational resource school in Jinghai City.
Almost all teachers and students are residents of the privileged district. The students either come from affluent families, have parents who are elite residents, or are exchange students like Wuer.
A commoner, entering an "aristocratic school" of the elite class, and maintaining first grade ranking for five consecutive semesters.
This is simply unbelievable!
Everyone was amazed by Lu Xun's super strong learning ability.
Although there are many prosthetic bodies on the market that can enhance brain memory and storage capacity.
As long as one is willing to spend heavily, digital light computers, external discs, and other artificial implants can be embedded in the brain, enabling the downloading of vast amounts of knowledge from the internet for immediate use.
But according to the Human Federation's law, minors and middle school students are prohibited from modifying their bodies and from implanting any kind of prosthetic bodies; nor are they allowed to inject genetic enhancement potions.
Even with the guardian's consent it's not allowed.
No reputable prosthetic body hospital would accept minors and middle school students... unless confronted with special circumstances.
A student from the First Middle School once went to a black clinic, secretly implanted a brain prosthetic body, effectively turning his college entrance examination into an open-book test.
But he was caught later, treated as cheating.
Along with the black clinic offering prosthetic body services being shut down.
"Brother Lu, honestly, did you install a brain implant? Or have you had a genetic enhancement injection?" Wuer's skull face edged closer, Soul Fire jumping in his eye sockets, sizing him up and down, lowering his voice, "Confide in me, buddy, I promise not to report you."
"Where would a poor student like me find money for this?" Lu Xun denied bluntly, calmly saying:
"Da Gu, my achievements today are all thanks to my hard work! Don't think of shortcuts; if you want to learn well, you need to work hard and sweat diligently."
Wuer realized, couldn't help but admire, giving his deskmate a thumbs up.
Meanwhile.
Lu Xun extended his right hand.
Grasped the new semester's history textbook, silently reciting in his mind—
'Analyze!!!'
Buzz~
The vision in front began to distort, the textbook was like a vortex, sucking his consciousness into it.
[Analyzing...5%...20%...38%...]
A massive flow of information flooded his brain.
[Analysis complete, guide has been recorded.]
[Trait +0.001]
...
Only seven seconds later, Lu Xun opened his eyes, a knowing look on his face.
From the material, structure, ink type of this book, to each chapter, each section's text and illustrations, everything was analyzed, leaving no secrets.
The knowledge within the entire book was also completely understood.
Not only knowing what it is, but also why it is.
This was Lu Xun's golden finger.
His right hand could fully analyze everything in the world, acquiring all information from any carrier.
Analyzing textbooks to gain knowledge; analyzing firearms, cars, mecha, tools... could instantly understand their structures and operating principles, and master their use and operation methods.
Lu Xun called it the "All-Knowing Right Hand."
It had two functions: Analysis, Projection.
The "Projection" function was only for biological bodies.
By analyzing biological bodies or their remains, recording the illustrated guides for various races. It should be noted that different life levels of the same species would also form different biological illustrated guides.
When the guide completeness reaches over 10%, trait points can be consumed to project the genes of various races onto oneself for fusion.
However, gene fusion demands extremely high "compatibility."
If compatibility is below 99%, the fusion will turn one into an ugly monster with lost intelligence.
Only when compatibility reaches 99% or higher can the human body perfectly accommodate Other Race genes.
This is somewhat similar to the principle of biological technology's genetic enhancement potion.
But far more demanding than injections.
Lu Xun had traversed this sewn world that had undergone five "Celestial Convergences" for thirteen years.
He had analyzed over ten thousand original Blue Star species, and more than a hundred Otherworld races.
To date, he hadn't found any genes with compatibility above 99%.
This left him greatly regretting.
Though he walked the "Scholar" route, self-studying prosthetic body medicine, his ideal future major being "Mecha Manufacturing and Repair" or "Archaeology."
But which man could resist the temptation of the "Muscle Bully"?
A muscular build, a robust physique, not only full of male charm that attracts the opposite sex but also possessing the physical power to hypnotize street rogues with one punch, a hard power to knock out a Karami.
Lu Xun certainly yearned to become stronger.
However, the cheapest enhancement needle on the market costs over 50,000 Human Federation coins.
Unwilling to spend lavishly, he could only place hope on the "All-Knowing Right Hand."