The wind chimes woke up.

She sat down on the humble bunk, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and looked left and right, trying to find the source of the sound.

Not far from her were the other rat cubs, all of whom had fallen asleep after a day's exertion, some of them snoring evenly. The light around the floor was very dim, except for a dim green glow from a safety light in the corner of the wall not far away.

After looking for a long time, the wind chimes still did not find the source of the sound.

"Did I hear me wrong, I was just dreaming?" The wind chimes scratched her long, fluffy and messy hair, very puzzled.

The search was fruitless, and another wave of drowsiness struck, and the wind chimes lay down again, ready to continue sleeping.

As soon as she lay down, she suddenly found that she had been knocked down by something her back, like a stone, and her back ached, and she suddenly fell asleep.

Turning over, I reached out and touched my back, and it turned out that it was the stone given to her by the rat's head during the day, and the strange thing was that the stone began to vibrate slightly, and the surface was still slightly hot, as if something was going to break through the shackles of the stone and drill out of it.

"What the hell is this?" Wind Chimes died of curiosity and looked at the rocks over and over again.

At this moment, there was a few gentle cracking sounds on the stone, and it disintegrated into countless fragments, which didn't matter, the important thing was that after the stone disintegrated, a drop of translucent liquid glowing with light blue silver light flowed from inside the stone.

As soon as the liquid touched the skin of the wind chime's finger, it seeped directly into the skin like water meets a sponge.

Immediately after, the wind chimes felt a chill in her fingers, and a clearly visible cool air continued to go up and up along the veins in her arm, and even drilled all the way to her heart.

"Ahh

The wind chime let out a low whistle and shook his arm vigorously, trying to shake the contents of his arm out, but it was all in vain, and it had no effect on the cool air in his arm. It continued to drill upward, and after about 10 seconds, the wind chime felt a slight dull pain in his heart.

"Ah~ I'm going to die?"

Wind Chime froze, and she sat on the bunk in a daze, motionless, waiting for the terrible end to come.

Time passed by second, and strangely, the doom she imagined did not appear, and even the abnormalities in her arms and heart disappeared.

If it weren't for the fact that she still had a stone fragment in her hand, she would have thought she was dreaming.

"What's weird, what the hell is going on? Could it be that aliens are trying to experiment on my body? "Feng Chime hasn't read much, and he grew up in a welfare home in Space City since he was a child, so naturally he has never seen the world.

Although it is now the interstellar age, her cognition is still at the level of the storybooks she read in her childhood, and when she encounters a situation that cannot be explained, she subconsciously thinks that it was done by an unknown alien with high technology.

She was curious and scared at the same time, and she experienced the changes in her body for a while, and then sat there thinking nonsense, and could no longer sleep.

After tossing and turning like this for more than half an hour, the vision appeared again.

This time, Wind Chime heard a clear and soft voice ringing in his head: "Hello, Wind Chime. ”

"Ah...... You...... Hello....... Who are you? The wind chimes were startled, and they couldn't speak, and they couldn't help but speak, which looked very strange in the silence of the underground warehouse.

"You don't have to say anything, just talk to me in your head. As for me, you can consider me as your guru. ”

The voice sounded again, still gentle, a young man's voice.

"Guide...... Division? But I don't have any money. The wind chimes froze again.

She remembered that the word tutor was generally used by those high-achieving students in the university town, very tall, and the people who could be become mentors had very profound knowledge and amazing skills, of course, the fees were also very expensive, and I heard that those high-achieving students had to pay tens of thousands of star shields a year as tuition.

She is an orphan from a welfare home, how can she deserve to have a mentor?

"Yes, I'm your free mentor." The sound sounded again, and at the same time dispelled the doubts of the wind chimes.

"But why did you teach me? I can't give you anything right now, I ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to repay you. Wind Chime was a little alert, and her life experience at the bottom told her that no one would treat her well for no reason, and this strange thing must have some intentions for her.

The voice rose again: "Child, don't be presumptuous, raise your head, and follow me step by step." Wait until the day when you feel that you have enough ability, and we will talk about repayment. ”

"Okay, so what do I do?" Wind Chime swallowed, something of unknown origin that made her nervous.

"Lie down and close your eyes. From today, we start to learn. ”

The wind chimes did as they were told.

When she closed her eyes, what she got was not darkness, but light, and she suddenly found that she had appeared in a sunny meadow, the air was filled with the aroma of grass, and not far from her, there was a young man with ordinary black hair.

After seeing the wind chimes, the young man smiled and said, "You want to change your fate, right?" ”

“...... Right. Wind Chimes nodded.

"So, let's study it carefully."

After speaking, the young man made a gesture, and a large and bright house appeared out of thin air on the grass, and there was a podium in the house, a student table and chairs, and the young man stood behind the podium.

"Now, let's start to learn the first lesson of the Encyclopedia of the Universe, 'Recognize Your Position'"

As he spoke, a dark star map appeared behind the young man, in which there was an orange star, surrounded by 16 planets the size of dust, and near the orbit of the fourth planet, there was an even more inconspicuous space city.

"This is the sun of the Tianhe Star Field, the main sequence star of B221, we are currently located here, this is the No. 37 Space City, the diameter of the city is 600 kilometers, and the residents of the city are 37.98 million ......."

The young man's voice was neither fast nor slow, his voice was gentle and mellow, very pleasant, and his content was very vivid, which aroused the curiosity of the wind chimes at once, and she listened attentively.

After listening to it for more than half an hour, the wind chimes were completely immersed in it, and she had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

What is the world like?

The structure of the Earth Federation?

How does a college town work?

How did the spaceship fly into the sky?

She had vaguely thought about all these questions before, and asked the people around her, but people either didn't know, or they just responded perfunctorily, and over time, the wind chimes who couldn't find the answer got used to this state of 'ignorance'.

But now, in her own mind, this young man has broken the familiar things that she is accustomed to around her, and unfolded them in front of her eyes little by little.

This knowledge is more, better, and closer to the essence than she wants, and every knowledge is subverting her cognition, and every word of the other party is reshaping the world in her mind.

There were many moments when the wind chimes would be out of her mind for a short time, and she suddenly realized that in the daytime, she thought that she was living in two different worlds with those young girls, but now, she knew that the other party was not so mysterious, and they were just ordinary people.

This feeling of insight fascinated her, and she felt that there was a strange power in her heart.

Before you know it, the night has passed.

Although she had no sleep all night, the wind chimes didn't feel half tired, and she didn't want to end it yet, but the people around her had already woken up.

The black-haired young man smiled at her and said, "Okay, that's all for today, you can go and get busy first." ”

Overnight, the wind chime's vigilance against this young man no longer knew where to go, and she now felt that the young man in front of her was very, very knowledgeable, he was simply the embodiment of wisdom, and his every move seemed to be exuding a brilliant light of knowledge.

She was reluctant to open her eyes.

"Mentor, when is the next class starting?" Wind chimes are reluctant to give up.

"Tonight. Every night after that, I would show up. ”

"That's great!" The wind chimes couldn't help but shout.

"What's so good, wind chimes are you dreaming?" There was the muttering of peers around him.

The wind chime grinned, didn't speak, got up neatly, trotted to the rat's head to retrieve his usual big bag, and by the way took another packet of nutritious paste, and ran outside while eating.

In the past, eating nutritious paste made her sick to her stomach, but now, she knows that although this thing has a bad appetite, it contains enough nutrients to ensure that the human body needs for a day.

Thinking about it like this, the wind chimes no longer reject it in their hearts, and when they eat the nutritious paste, they still feel a little sweet.

She ran briskly out of the recycling depot and reached the ground, where the stellar light channeled by Space City was projected right onto the ground, and the wind chimes looked habitually to the left and right, and then wanted to raise their arms to meet the sunlight as usual.

At this moment, the voice of the young mentor sounded in her head again: "Close your eyes, others will not see the abnormality, so that you can bask in the sun for a while." ”

"Ahh Wind chimes woke up like a dream, why was she so stupid before, because she was afraid that others would find out the abnormality of her eyes, so she didn't dare to enjoy the sun comfortably.

Why didn't she close her eyes?

For a moment, Feng Chime felt that her past self was so stupid and stupid, the world did not reject her at all, and the bright stellar light never rejected her, and it happened to be herself who really kept herself away.

Wind Chimes stood on the side of the street, her eyes closed, her face raised to meet the bright sunshine, she could clearly feel the warm power pouring into her body like flowing water, the trace of sleepiness left by last night quickly disappeared, and she felt that she was becoming more and more energetic.

It was only after half an hour of basking in the sun that the wind chimes stopped, and she felt that her body had become very light, as if it was full of infinite strength.

However, although he could vaguely feel the strange power in his body, the wind chimes had no intention of actively using this power at all.

As long as she is healthy and energetic, she is satisfied.

She bounced around to pick up the scrap.

Unlike usual, the wind chime did not bow her head, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and there was always a hint of a smile. The only torment was that time seemed to pass very slowly, and how she wished that the day would be over and that she would listen to her mentor again, but the light of the stars above her head would not be extinguished.

In the unbearable waiting, the day finally passed.

Wind Chimes also ran back to the recycling station, threw a large bag of waste to the rat's head, took back a packet of nutritious paste and ate it in a few bites, and then quickly lay down in his bunk and closed his eyes.

The familiar steppe and the black-haired young man appeared on time, and the wind chimes immediately focused.

The black-haired young man didn't talk nonsense, and said, "Now learn Lesson 13 of the Encyclopedia of the Universe: Star Aviation Technology." ”

A very primitive rocket appeared behind the young man, and he said: "This is the first generation of star technology, which uses the violent combustion of chemical fuels to produce high-pressure, high-temperature gases, which are ejected from the jet port at high speed to produce a huge reaction force that proppels the spacecraft forward. The reason why this method works is because of the existence of the law of conservation of momentum......."

Wind chimes listened to the eyes without blinking.

............

Time flies very quickly, and the wind chimes collect the rags as usual during the day, and learn all kinds of knowledge at night, and in a blink of an eye, 10 days have passed.

On this day, when she hurried back to the bunk and closed her eyes, the grassland and the mentor did not appear on time.

"Mentor?" The wind chimes panicked, afraid that the other party would disappear silently.

A response came to mind: "No class today, but there is an after-school task." ”

"Ah, what is it?" The wind chimes were relieved, and anticipation appeared in their hearts.

"Your mission: get out of the rat's head and get out of the recycling bin."

Feng Chime was stunned, she has been in the recycling station for more than 1 year, she is very familiar with the situation here, and she also knows the person of the rat head very well, if you work for him step by step, then he will be kind to you. But leave, don't even think about it, he will immediately turn his face and let you experience the darkness of the world.

There was a group of fierce thugs under the rat head, seven or eight of them, all tall and strong. Whoever is disobedient, fight! Whoever is lazy, then also fight! Whoever wants to leave, also fights, and directly breaks two legs, becomes a cripple, and defrauds a welfare payment from the government.

The big head of this money went into the pocket of the rat head.

Even if you leave secretly, you can't do it, because the rat head has hidden a hidden locator on each rat cub, someone has tried it before, but it was quickly caught, and that night, the whole scrap yard was the man's wail, and after that, the wind chime never saw the man again.

People said that he was thrown into the meat grinder by the head of a rat, and that the meat of that guy was in the nutritious paste that everyone ate, and the story was very suspenseful, but the effect was also very good, and since then, no one dares to escape.

"Mentor, I...... Can I? "Wind Chimes wanted to escape, but she was scared.

"Wind Chimes, become the hero who dominates your destiny!" A voice rang in my head.

After this sentence, the voice never appeared again, and no matter how much the wind chimes asked and shouted, there was no response. Soon, Wind Chime has a vague realization that if she doesn't leave the recycling station, the mentor may never show up again.

What should she do?