Chapter 9: The Devil Instructor (I)
"Ah, it's Zhou Yuan. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info You are not wrong, the position of 75 with the yellow sign is your seat. This class should be important to you, remember to take notes. β
Winston looked up from the cluttered file box on top of his phone's screen and gestured to the corner by the window.
I'm not here to train my body...... Why do I have to go to class?
Although Zhou Yuan had a puzzled expression, he finally obediently sat in his position with number 75 written on it according to Winston's words.
It was a lot of pressure to sit behind such a group of people staring at Winston earnestly, and all wearing red goggles and face shields......
If anyone dares to say that this is nothing, Zhou Yuan will definitely grab him and press him on the seat to try what it means to be excited.
"So good...... Now that everyone is here, let's start the lesson. The first item for today is the reasons for the formation of the current state of the world. β
After Winston tapped his finger on the three-dimensional screen, the three-dimensional phantom of the slowly rotating globe that he had seen before and D.Va used during the live broadcast. It's just that this globe is made entirely of green.
"I see...... I have no memory of the world at all, and indeed, this class has been very useful to me......"
Zhou Yuan turned his phone sideways, put it on the table, turned on the notepad function, and listened carefully to what Winston said.
"It was about a year and nine months ago. The South Pole of the Earth was dropped on an instrument. The original purpose of this instrument was to be able to tear apart the worldline and connect it with the others. β
"But by the time the instrument reached Antarctica, it had been badly damaged...... So instead of tearing the world line, it projected some things above the world line onto our world. This is where the world collapse event came about. β
"Now, this instrument is housed in the museum of the Overwatch Nubani Branch, and this is its projection. β
Winston turned around and shook his phone at the screen.
A strange-looking, somewhat diode-like thing, but the size of Winston, with a silver-white metal casing was projected onto the large screen in the classroom.
"Also, there's a character on the bottom of this instrument that we can't decipher...... Please see here. No matter how we know the meaning of this sentence. β
The diode was magnified by the movement of Winston's fingers, revealing the text engraved on the bottom.
Zhou Yuan's pupils shrank suddenly, and his mouth unconsciously followed the action of the symbol being displayed by Winston's magnifying diode-like object.
βelβ¦β¦ psyβ¦β¦ congrooβ¦β¦β
There are no more than five people in the world who know this phrase. Coincidentally, Zhou Yuan happened to be one of the five people who knew the meaning of this sentence...... This is something that Rentaro Okabe taught himself for three days before he learned it himself, and according to Rentaro Okabe, it is a symbol that "has no meaning"!
Fortunately, Zhou Yuan is wearing a mask and goggles now, so Zhou Yuan's surprised expression was not noticed by anyone.
"That...... Mr. Winston, where did this instrument come from, does Overwatch know now?"
Zhou Yuan raised his hand and asked. When asking a question, Zhou Yuan's voice was even mixed with a trace of irrepressible tremor because he was too excited.
"We've had a discussion about that. This instrument appeared abruptly in Antarctica, and used technology that has not been broken through by Overwatch now. Finally, I made a preliminary inference based on the analytical isotopes......"
"What?"
Zhou Yuan asked.
"This instrument should come from the future. It can only be understood that this instrument was put back in time by someone from the future who successfully built a time machine. β
Come from...... Future......?
The bottom of the instrument is engraved with the words "el, psy, congroo", and the instrument is transported back in time through a time machine......
No doubt. The only futuristic machine that Zhou Yuan knew was the telephone microwave oven (tentative) from Gunlon, and even if the world changed into such a high-tech era, he had never heard of any time machine.
Plus Okabe Rentaro-style secret words...... There is no doubt that this instrument is from the future Rentaro Okabe!
Zhou Yuan is now beginning to wonder if all this can be changed by a text message of his own.
"With the content of that text message alone, I shouldn't be able to change the world to this extent, and Rentaro Okabe won't do such a thing in the future...... Ahhhh
Sure enough, thinking about this kind of thing is really not suitable for Zhou Yuan.
Originally, this was a very important clue, but after thinking about it for a while, Zhou Yuan decided not to tell the members of Overwatch that he knew the meaning of this slogan, or about the future of Rentaro Okabe.
Although they have now decided to join Overwatch, they are not yet worthy of their full and complete trust. After all, he and Rentaro Okabe are the culprits who caused the world to become like this, and Overwatch's purpose is equivalent to correcting the world......
If you say it, wouldn't you and Rentaro Okabe become bosses in online games......
"Alright, class is over. Next, you can go to physical exercises. β
Well, there's still physical training......
As a result, Zhou Yuan only heard the content of a device related to Rentaro Okabe, and all the other courses were not listened to at all because his brain was messed up.
After walking for a long distance with other people who were dressed exactly the same as himself, Zhou Yuan finally arrived at the training ground he wanted to visit in the morning.
This is an underground space with a height of tens of meters and a radius of hundreds of meters. At first glance, there are fitness equipment and a shooting range dedicated to training firearms accuracy. In addition to the shooting range, there seems to be a training ground that simulates the natural environment and a wooden figure that trains martial arts.
Zhou Yuan was completely dazzled.
"Wow~ That's right! This is the training ground I want......"
Zhou Yuan, who was lamenting the scale of this training ground, suddenly found that the other people had already lined up and stood up, so he had to awkwardly walk to the vacant position of the team and stand upright like everyone else.
"Alright, guys, today we have a new member, Soldier 75. Won't you all give us a round of applause?"
Zhou Yuan always felt that this voice was a little familiar.
The instructor standing in front of him was a strange silvery-white metallic female robot with a body streamlined roughly the shape of a woman, a fusiform head, and a symbol on her forehead that she was familiar with.
Well...... Probably female, after all, the look and voice are female......
"Are you...... Athena?"
While the other soldiers were clapping almost routinely, Zhou Yuan suddenly reacted. I have heard this voice myself, and I have seen the symbol on this forehead myself!
When he was talking to Athena, because Athena couldn't make a video, the black logo on Athena's forehead was displayed in the video frame.
It's just that at that time it was a white logo on a black background, but now it's the other way around.
"Yes...... Let's warm up by running ten laps around this field!"
Zhou Yuan almost didn't throw the pulse rifle in his hand.
"What...... Ten laps?"
The radius of this site is 500 meters, and a circle is more than 3,000 meters...... Ten laps is ...... 30,000 meters......
Is this TM still called a warm-up?