Chapter 40: Troy
"Professor von Schneider?" Lin Nian repeated the name: "I seem to have heard my roommate Fingal mention the existence of the Executive Department before. ”
"It seems that you don't have a good impression of the executive department." The principal said.
"I'm not too fond of strife." Lin said in a young voice.
"But you're also going to get into fights with people at the start of school for girls, and you're going to get demerits." Ange looked at Lin Nian, who suddenly raised his head, and shook his head with a smile: "Don't be surprised, we can still dig up this information easily." ”
"After all, this is something that can be found on the school forum at Shilan High School." Lin Nian smiled indifferently.
"I have to say that your uppercut is very sharp, so for your hand-to-hand combat course, I would recommend Bajiquan, which should be very suitable for the way of opening and closing and being vigorous." Ange picked up a piece of chalk on the podium and flicked his thumb, half-cutting off the door that flew straight to Lin Nian.
Lin Nian raised his hand and grabbed the chalk that flew in front of him and opened his hand, half of the chalk had all broken into powder and flowed down from his fingers, Ange looked at this scene and said: "I have read your physical test report, it is very good physical fitness, but you still have to learn how to control yourself, for us people, self-control is the most important and basic point, joining the Lionheart Club may help you learn how to better control yourself." ”
"If there are no accidents, will I join the executive department after graduation?" After Lin Nian let the chalk foam fall clean, he clapped his hands and raised some white ash.
"It's a shame not to join the executive department with your qualifications." The principal's answer was very tactful, but it was also a positive answer to Lin Nian's question.
"I understand, I don't have any opinions in the war practice class, in our Chinese words, don't offend someone who may be your immediate boss at any time and on any occasion." Lin Nian said: "The current situation reminds me of some of the things that Senior Sister Mandy said to me before I came to the academy, which I couldn't understand before, but now I understand much more." ”
"You are very assertive and independent, and I like the Chinese way of education." "Most children of your age in European countries are now thinking about freedom without knowing why, but they don't know what freedom is and what the price of freedom is. ”
"But I have a reluctant request, if you can, to hide it from my sister, I don't want her to sign the repatriation of the body or something."
"Actually, you don't have to worry too much, although the war practice course is called a real battlefield, but generally first-year students will only be assigned to surveillance, sentry posts and logistics work, the main purpose of this course is to observe and experience the atmosphere of the war between humans and dragons, not to let you personally get involved in it and become the key to affecting the battle situation, the real work of licking blood will be done by the commissioners of the executive department." Angers explained.
"I'll pass this on to my sister as it is." Lin Nian's head.
"After talking about the war practice class, there is one last thing I want to tell you." Ange said: "If there are no surprises, you will probably have to go to the Information Department this afternoon to start changing your Executive Department file number." ”
"Why do you want to change the file number?" Lin Nian was stunned for a moment.
"Because your 3E exam results are out, Norma gave a 'excellent' evaluation, and this morning I have stamped the application for your pedigree rating upgrade, and now the paperwork should have been delivered to the school council." Ange smiled and said, "Congratulations to Lin Nian, you have become the first 'S' class student in recent years!" ”
Lin Nian's face froze for a moment, but he did not show an expression of 'ecstasy' or 'excitement', he seemed very calm after hearing this good news, Ange also knew very well why this was, he took a pencil and turned around and walked to the podium and dragged down a blackboard, drawing a Trojan horse on it: "Have you ever heard of the Trojan Horse War?" ”
"Trojan War?" Lin Nian looked at the wooden horse drawn in stick figures on the blackboard: "I've seen the movie, Brad Pitt's version, it's very shocking but also bizarre, there is a sense of magical realism." ”
"Do you mean the depiction of Achilles' infallibility?" Ange put down the chalk and twisted the white ash on his fingertips: "The Trojan film is a mixture of Greek mythology, Achilles is the son of the goddess of the sea and the hero of mankind, so he is half a god, the movie exaggerates history, but also reduces mythology, in the myth Achilles chased Hector around the city three times and finally Hector was exhausted before he was killed, but in the movie they staged a close battle." ”
"One man with fifty soldiers defeated Troy Beach, even if the myth is dropped, it is too bizarre." Lin Nian said that the movie he talked about with the principal was originally organized by the Literature Club to watch the movie on campus, and he sat the whole way.
"What if I told you that something like this really happened in history?" Ange stood behind the podium and looked at Lin Nian: "The Great War of Troy is real, some people have found dragons in the modern illustrations of Homer's epic poems, and half-breed archaeologists have found the existence of alchemy in the ruins of the ancient city of Troy, so they believe that there was a secret war led by half-bloods in the war between Greece and Troy. ”
"Headmaster, you want to say that Achilles and Hector are half-bloods?" Lin Nian was stunned.
"Reasonable, isn't it? That's why he was able to defeat the enemy who was stronger and taller than him in front of the two armies, and led fifty soldiers, or fifty half-bloods, to occupy Troy Beach, and the soldiers could hear his name call all over the sea and sky. Some people have speculated that Achilles' spirit is a dustless place, so he can be invulnerable on the battlefield, and the final ankle arrow can be explained by the fact that his feet are covered at the end of the dustless land. Ange said with a smile: "In the battle between the two armies, there must be brave men, and the Trojan horse plan can be said to be the victory of human wisdom, but the forcible occupation of beaches and siege of cities can only be completed by heroic units, otherwise human beings will pay hundreds or thousands of times the sacrifice." ”
Hearing this, Lin Nian finally understood what Ange wanted to say to himself, and he was silent for a long time under the gaze of the principal, and finally raised his head and replied: "But I don't want to go down in history. ”
"Young people always have heroic dreams, and I'm sure you're no exception, and I just want to tell you that the world does allow heroes, and you have that qualification." The principal wiped the white ash off his hands with a handkerchief and patted Lin Nian on the shoulder: "Can you say that when you were watching a movie, when you saw the black-sailed galleys breaking away from the thousands of troops and landing on the beach, you didn't feel full of pride?" ”
"All I saw was people rising and falling down like wheat straw in winter." Lin said in a young voice.
"But heroes are always evergreen." The headmaster said, "I hope that there will be a few heroes in the Kassel Academy who will leave their names in history, so that the scene you are talking about will not happen." ”
"How far does the headmaster want us to be famous?" Lin Nian shook his head with a smile.
Ange scratched his eyebrows: "According to you young people... At least it has to be a limited pool, right? ”
"Is it limited to five stars of dragon slayer?" Lin Nian laughed dumbly, he didn't expect that the headmaster of a serious science popularization history could suddenly pop out of his mouth.
"I don't know much about your young culture, so I think I'm outdated and can't be a hero of the new era, we need a 'Hero', a 'The One'. The first 'S' class student in recent years, and great, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do. Ange stood behind Lin Nian and pressed his hands on his shoulders.
"I need some time." Lin Nian didn't know how to answer this old man's wish, he had only known him for the first day today, how could he immediately turn around and respond to his wish with excitement at this time?
"That's for the best, everyone needs time to grow, even you." The principal nodded and put away his hands in his pockets: "I suggest you take a leave of absence for this afternoon's speech class, after all, you will probably have a bunch of things to be busy in the information department in the afternoon, and by the way, I recommend that you take the friendship of Caesar Gattuso and go to the student union party in the Ample Pavilion." ”
"Didn't the headmaster suggest I join the Lionhearts?" Lin Nian looked sideways at Ange, who was walking towards the classroom door, with some surprise.
"I guessed the headline on the front page of the Night's Watch forum, the school is more lifeless now, and it needs some extra factors to intensify, maybe you can change the current atmosphere and bring us some fresh air." Ange opened the door of the classroom, smiled at Lin Nian on the side, and walked away.
Lin Nian was the only one standing alone in front of the podium in the lecture hall, and he happened to see the chalk graffiti left on Ange on the blackboard, and the whole person was stunned. I don't know when the stick figure-like Trojan horse was added with a suit of armor and fangs, the wings covered the sky and the sun, the eyes were terrifying, and under the Trojan horse, a villain wearing an ancient Greek Ati helmet held a sword and pointed directly at the Trojan horse that was several times taller than himself, and left a string of obscure board books on the side:
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