Chapter 38: Genealogy of the Dragon Family
"Scholars believe that the nomadic tribe where Attila, the leader of the Huns in ancient Eurasia, originally belonged to the nomadic tribe recorded in ancient Chinese documents, and that ancient Rome was a mixed people, and the original ethnic composition was roughly three, namely the Etruscans, the Sabines, and the Greeks, so in 418 AD, when the 12-year-old Attila was sent to the Roman court as a hostage, it is conceivable that he must have become an outlier among the European peoples, a special existence, just like us."
In the curved lecture hall, the silver-white haired old man strolls through the aisle between the desks and chairs with a pocket in his left hand, a textbook in one hand, a straight black suit supporting his tall figure, and a monocle full of academic atmosphere hangs on his right eye, and a nameless tombstone seems to be planted in the ravine carved by the years above his face.
The lecture hall was silent and could only hear the rustling of paper and pen, probably this is the class environment that all the faculty and staff of the Kassel Academy dream of, you must know that in an elite genius academy, there is always no shortage of pretentious, self-determined students, the star of the world, want to set "rules" for these people, force them to abide by "discipline", this is an unscientific thing.
But now the white-haired old man in the lecture hall has done so, and has not maintained the status quo with harsh chastises or promises of hospitality, and anyone who enters his classroom at any moment will find that the haughty and ambitious geniuses of the past are as docile as sheep, even if the shepherds are not armed with whips and hounds.
Hilbert Jean Angers.
This is the name of the white-haired old man, the teacher of "Dragon Family Genealogy", and the current principal of this dragon slaying academy who is most respected and admired.
"The young Attila performed very well in the court, even if his status was limited, but no matter what the era of genius will never be buried, and he soon entered the eyes of the high-level people with the nature of the secret party at that time, such as Pope Leo I, the chief senator of the Senate Avinus and the leader of the Praetorian Guard, Trijgius, they are all descendants of the dragon slayer family, not only in charge of the prosperous Western Rome, but also in alchemy, dragon script, speech and spirituality have extremely high attainments." Ange said: "For a young man who shows excellent blood, the first decision of the secret party is naturally cultivation, even if he is a hostage, but in the war between humans and dragons, he is still a human - but unfortunately, the Pope made the wrong decision at the beginning, so that before Attila realized his identity, he had already figured out all the background of the human hybrid race at that time, which can be regarded as one of the main reasons for the defeat of Western Rome under the whip of God." ”
"So Attila didn't know he was a dragon king until he became an adult?" Someone in the lecture hall asked questions about the lesson plan that Principal Fang Qian had told in front of him.
"That's a good question." Principal Angers pressed down the textbook with two fingers and glanced at the person who asked the question, and at a glance he saw the blonde hair that was the color of the yellow light of the lecture hall: "But if you hadn't slept in the last class, maybe you wouldn't have asked this question now, Caesar Gattuso." ”
In the last row, Caesar Gattuso raised his hand slowly bent down and scratched his head, and the classroom heard the sound of good-natured laughter from the students, and Ange also smiled lightly and answered the question just now: "It is very common for the dragon king to forget a lot of memories when he wakes up from his slumber, this is a very common thing, it is not uncommon in history, I should have mentioned in the first class of my freshman year that dragons are a kind of immortal..."
Before the words fell, a knock on the door interrupted Ange's explanation, and everyone looked at the door of the lecture hall, the door was closed during the lesson, the headmaster preferred to call himself an aspiring educator to the title of dragon slayer, and one of the least favorite things in a lecture was to be disturbed This is a well-known thing, so few people would risk annoying the headmaster to knock on the door of the "Dragon Family Genealogy" during class, unless there is a major emergency exception.
After being interrupted from the lecture, Ange's face did not show mood fluctuations, he didn't even turn around and turned back, but raised his hand holding the textbook: "Which student in the front row is willing to open the door for the student who is late?" ”
Late classmates?
The first-year students in the lecture hall were stunned, and looked around each other to see if there were any faces missing, they had been taking classes in Kassel Academy for more than half a year, and in the memory of the half-race people, everyone probably knew how many students took this course, but no one found the bold guy who "missed class" before the door was opened.
Hearing Ange's words, a clever young man of African descent sitting by the door jumped over from behind the desk to the door and unscrewed the doorknob, and as soon as the door was pushed open from the outside, a gentle apology was heard: "Sorry, I woke up late this morning, and my alarm clock seems to be broken." ”
Walking in from outside the classroom is a face that is unfamiliar to all the students in the lecture hall, no one has ever seen this young Asian boy in the usual class, even if it is unfamiliar, but the first sight is particularly impressive, just like the historical fragment told by Ange before, the young dragon king Attila was sent into the noble court of Europe, but under the different faces showed the common beauty of human beings, but Rao did not stop him from becoming an outlier among everyone, and attracted a lot of attention.
"Actually, I was always curious about whether you would end your first class at the Kassel Academy with a truancy, because in a sense it represents the student's attitude towards university life." Principal Angers turned and smiled at the Asian boy at the door, his gaze full of scrutiny, but not with the harshness of questioning criminals, but with the kind of love that he tasted when he raised Baoyu.
"I'm sorry... Principal Angers. Lin Nian, who was holding the textbook, bowed his head slightly and apologized.
"It doesn't look like you haven't done any of your homework, at least you know the name of the teacher who taught this course." Principal Ange smiled generously, and laughter rang out in the lecture hall: "Go find a place to sit, Lin Nian." ”
Ange's next sentence ended the abrupt episode, but at the same time it also caused quite a commotion in the classroom, and many surprised eyes fell on the boy holding the textbook next to the podium, and after repeated observations, many people immediately linked it to the photos in the posts on the Night's Watch forum, and recognized the late guy as the prospective 'S' class student who had been making a lot of noise recently, and some people had heard the news that he would be going to class with the freshmen, but they didn't expect it to be so soon.
"Thank you, Headmaster." Lin Nian's expression was calm, he was ready to be reprimanded before he was late, but in general, he didn't have much worry about this, after all, freshmen will always be forgiven for making some mistakes when they enter the school, and what you should worry about is the quality of the teacher's first impression of you.
It seems that Hilbert Jean Angers is not a stereotypical person, and Lin Nian even thought that he had gone to the wrong classroom when he first saw him.
Where is this dried corpse mother, this is simply Larry, the lobster lifeguard.
He clearly remembered that his roommate Fingal had gossiped about him, and the current principal of the Kassel Academy was over 130 years old, but judging from the bulging shape of the biceps brachii part of the arm of the old man in a suit in front of him, Principal Ange was really a good man who could walk on his arms without his clothes as Fingal said, and he didn't know how to maintain it, relying on daily injections of steroids and sheep placenta?
Lin Nian walked all the way to the back of the lecture hall with the book in his arms, and found a row of people to sit in the least crowded place, it is worth mentioning that there was only one blonde boy sitting in this row, he was attracted by the golden hair at first sight, and the color of the eyes was as soft as being dyed by the warm yellow lampshade.
The blonde boy looked sideways at Lin Nian's face, which reminded him of the angular snow-white sculptures in Shilan Middle School's art class, the combination of beauty and toughness was like an artist's lyric poem on ideal beauty, after looking at Lin Nian, the boy raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his hand and opened the seat next to him, signaling that Lin Nian could sit down.
All the students in the lecture hall glanced at this scene with their peripheral eyes but did not speak, Lin Nian was slightly stunned, but did not refuse the kindness that came to his face, nodded and thanked him in a low voice, and then put the textbook on the table and sat down.
"The orientation meeting ends here, students, the time of a morning class is fifty minutes, and we only have about twenty minutes to continue the lecture." Ange patted the textbook and pulled everyone's attraction back, and asked with a light smile, "Can any of you remind me of what we just said?" ”
"The Dragon King is an existence that cannot be killed." Lin Nian said, so everyone's eyes were attracted again, and he looked up to see this scene after turning to the specified number of pages compared to the blonde textbook at the same table: "I stood outside the classroom for a while, and remembered the topic that the principal was interrupted by me, which is what I should do." ”
"Very well educated." Ange did not hesitate to praise: "Yes, we talked about the rebirth of the Dragon King. ”
"Isn't it death?" Someone asked.
"Conceptually speaking, the dragon king is a 'can't kill' thing, the more noble the existence, the more difficult it is to be killed, when they have a premonition that they are about to die, they will make a bone vial in advance, hide their remains in it, and wait for a long time to break out of the coffin again to usher in a new life, and it is bound to be more powerful." Ange held the textbook and walked down the aisle: "Attila was a hostage at the age of 12 and did not realize his identity as a dragon king, he was discriminated against in the court while learning about human culture, he even tried to escape at one point but failed, and every time he was captured, it was a public humiliation and punishment, until he regained the memory of his past, the iron fist and anger that belonged to the tyrants, and Western Rome paid the price for their ignorance and contempt. ”
"Cities, treasures, and princesses? It's very dragon style. The blonde boy beside Lin Nian whispered.
"Do you mean the Western Roman princess Honoria who proposed many times after Attila led the army back to Western Rome in history?" Lin Nian also asked in a low voice.
"Looks like you're pretty good at history." The blonde boy smiled and tapped the white textbook with a pen: "It's hard to imagine that the dragon king in reality will be as greedy for princesses and treasures as the dragon in the knight's novels, do you think the first thing the modern dragon king will do when he wakes up is to rob the princess?" ”
"It's the twenty-first century, but there are no princesses to rob him, and as far as I know, the two most famous princesses of our time are the eldest daughter of Prince Fumihito of Akishinomiya and Princess Beatrice, the granddaughter of ******." Lin Nian took a pencil and buried himself in some handouts in the textbook to sketch and annotate: "Those two are about the same age as us, which can be regarded as peach and plum years, but I don't know what the Dragon King's mate selection criteria are, if it is his appearance, then the first place after he wakes up should be to drill into Disneyland." ”
"The insight is very unique, I also went to Disneyland, but I went there secretly, and I didn't stay long, but I saw Snow White and Cinderella in it." The blonde boy immediately said that he knew about the existence of such a thing as 'Disneyland'.
"I will propose to the school board that in the future, we will spend more money to arrange for executive board commissioners to patrol Disney parks around the world every year, so as not to abduct the princess inside as soon as the dragon king wakes up." On the podium, Ange coughed twice and interrupted the passionate discussion of Disneyland between the two boys in the last row: "Although I don't prohibit academic discussions between students, isn't it a bit too magical realism to talk about Disney princesses in dragon slaying class?" Do you say yes? Lin Nian, Caesar? ”
Lin Nian in the last row paused, turned his head to look at the nonchalant smile on the face of the blonde boy beside him, and suddenly some confusion about the other party's identity was solved.