This is the year 3876 AD. It has been five years since the Fifth World War.

This is the most central city in the world, Newva Vanlon, and the reconstruction work is very good, not at all like it was almost razed to the ground before. A cobweb-like overpass connects each of the towers, dividing the city into three levels. The ground floor is a leisure and commercial area, the middle floor is residential, and the upper floor is a high-end office and education area.

It's morning, and most people are rushing to work. They fiddled with the terminals in their hands while waiting for the tiered elevator.

The electronic virtual projection screen above the high-rise building is playing the news.

"The recent rebound of the Genex-II epidemic situation, please pay attention to the public and take the initiative to report. Newborns must be vaccinated, and minors under the age of 18 should participate in monthly compulsory checkups to prevent the spread of the epidemic. ”

"Recently, there have been frequent disappearances of infected people, please pay attention to your safety."

"Registration for the Maximum Ex-ball Cup (MEC) is about to open. Dr. Claude, Chief Scientist of Ex-ball Technology and CEO of Company X, delivered a speech and hoped that the participants could uphold the purpose of health and improvement and improve team spirit. 'Discover yourself, create miracles' is the slogan of this competition......"

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MEC is about to start?

Sophie chewed bubble gum and looked up at the electronic projection screen, and her sleepy brain suddenly woke up.

Ex-ball is the hottest competitive sport today, and its top-level event, MEC, is the second most popular sport in the world, and no one dares to call it No. 1.

With the rapid development of science and technology, artificial intelligence has gradually replaced human labor, completing almost 90% of the labor on the earth. Human work is gradually shifting to the high-end mental side, and no longer engaging in low-end physical work. With the rapid development of the economy, its drawbacks have gradually appeared, and people's physical fitness has gradually declined.

At this time, Company X launched the Ex-ball project, which uses virtual reality.

Their core function is that players can use moves similar to superpower special moves in the game by submitting a programming program to the database, combined with body movements, which must also be triggered by the body coordination action guider. In the competition, real-time calculations are performed based on the intensity of the action and the performance of the program itself to determine the outcome of the confrontation. Ex-ball thus achieves the perfect combination of mental and physical strength, and the meaning of entertaining and teaching is very important. As a result, the program is able to achieve a transcendent effect that traditional sports cannot achieve.

Because as long as you have registered in the database of Ex-ball, as long as you carry it, you can create virtual courts and intelligent electronic referees anywhere, Ex-ball quickly dominates the market with its convenient, easy-to-use and advanced and cool characteristics, on the other hand, it also satisfies the fantasy of human beings with superpowers. The Ex-ball project has become a key cultivation project for various educational institutions. Nowadays, in the recreation area on the first floor of the city, you can see people playing Ex-ball everywhere.

Sophie is naturally also an Ex-ball fanatic. She was excited for a while, and then suddenly wilted.

It seems that this competition has nothing to do with her now......

Moreover, her own situation today is not optimistic.

Today is the first day of school, and there is a ceremony in the morning, and I just went out to find that I had overslept, and it is even more unfortunate that my aircraft has been limited again...... When I called to explain the situation, Mr. Max's reply was "Hehe, then you won't use it today". When she reacted and checked the attendance sheet from the terminal, she found that all her classes throughout the day were marked with the words "absent".

It seems that this semester's grade points are cool......

Always making a slip on my perfect plan. Sophie sat on a park bench, puffing out her cheeks and munching on bubblegum fiercely.

The world is not worth it!

It's no wonder that she overslept in the exam for the class Introduction to General Relativity (Part II) at the end of last semester, and then she sent a text message to the teacher to intercede.

The newsletter is as follows:

"Wise and martial sensei, I am Sophie, a student in the level of '74, and I was told the wrong exam time because of the malicious portrayal of my roommate, and unfortunately missed the final exam of Introduction to General Relativity (II). I love knowledge and love learning, please give me another chance, I believe that the teacher will not condone the behavior of my roommate, and can understand my innocence. Please be clear, teacher! ”

But the problem is, Sophie, Sophie, you're a day student.

It is impossible to make up the exam, and it is impossible to make up the exam in this life, which makes the old man so angry that he blows his beard and stares like this.

Sophie bursts a bubble.

Forget it, let's not take it as an example...... Who knew that Max, the old man, would directly become the head teacher this semester, and he still held a grudge......

Suddenly, an unknown object sits next to Sophie, and Sophie almost swallows bubblegum in shock.

Sophie turned her head slowly, only to see that the unknown object was wearing a white T-shirt, a pair of beach pants, and most strangely, flip-flops. However, the unidentified object was pulling out a pair of dirty sneakers from his backpack to put them on.

Sophie could already smell a smell called foot odor.

"Damn, who are you, you! There are so many empty seats on the side, don't rub next to me. Sophie rolled her eyes.

The unknown object raised his head and scratched his hair, which was as red as a chicken coop, revealing his snow-white teeth against the background of his wheat-colored skin: "My name is Carl, this side is closer to the lawn, I'll sit here, anyway, it's not in the way, it's not in the way." ”

If you say it's not in the way, it won't get in the way...... Sophie was groaning in her heart, always feeling unhappy, only to find Carl staring straight at her chest. She was so angry that she was about to turn her back and slap her: "Look at what! Look at the airport and see for yourself! ”

Carl was inexplicably aggrieved, and his voice was much quieter: "I'm looking at the school emblem...... I'm not interested in men......"

Not interested in men...... Sophie was stunned.

Sophie has a diagonal braid today, and being directly recognized as a man is entirely due to her personality and the fact that she is all over the body. In fact, her own clothes are also very strange: the upper body is a girl's school uniform, but the bow has been replaced with a tie; The lower body is a boy's school pants instead of a school skirt. If it weren't for the school badge, Carl wouldn't have recognized it as his school uniform. Carl thinks that now that the times have progressed and opened up, some boys think that girls' school uniforms look good and wear them, and they also have long hair, which is normal after all......

Although she has always disliked being called a sister by others, and she doesn't like others to emphasize her gender, she is still a little unhappy to cause such a misunderstanding now.

A slap of the knife and you're done.

Carl was beaten again, looking even more aggrieved: "I feel like I chose the wrong school...... How will you spend your studies in the future...... It's too violent......"

"What?" Sophie had a question mark on her face.

Carl pointed to the school emblem on Sophie's chest: "Isn't this the school emblem of the Heavenly Chosen High School?" I won't admit that I am mistaken, my intermediate study is in heaven, and I have looked at this school emblem for four years. ”

Sophie was surprised: "You are also heavenly-selected?" ”

"Well, it should be the third class of the first grade after the school starts."

Sophie smiled evilly: "Oh, new life! Call me senior! My name is Sophie, but I'm in the third grade! She patted Carl on the shoulder, pretending to be a big brother. It doesn't seem like a good idea to take the opportunity to take in the younger brother......

"However, the former ...... Generation," Carl was a little frightened by the change in attitude, "why do you wear a school uniform during the holidays?" He scratched his head.

"Isn't it the opening ceremony today!" Sophie then remembered that Carl was also from the same school, why did he wear slippers leisurely......

"Isn't the opening ceremony number one?" Carl exclaimed, "I've also set an alarm for the schedule!" ”

"What's not number one today?" Sophie pulled out the terminal and threw the date and time directly in Carl's face.

"Impossible!" Carl began to scramble through his terminal, and finally saw that the alarm clock he had set was the first of the next month.

He sprang out like an owl, clutching his head and shouting, "Oh my God! Hurry up, where is the station! ”

Sophie grabbed Carl and dragged him back: "Come on, the opening ceremony is over, and half of the morning class is over...... Also, are you really going to dress like this to school? Just don't go today. Listening to my brother's words, skipping class is the first hidden compulsory course when I come to a senior school. ”

Finally stabilized Carl, Carl sat back in the chair with a tragic face: "It's over, I'm going to be scolded tomorrow, when I was choosing a class before, I heard that my teacher was a thief, and I never gave leave without a hospital certificate......"

Sophie was a little curious: "What class did you have in the morning, and you were so flustered?" ”

"Mr. Max's Introduction to the General Theory of Relativity (Part I)."

Sophie endured it for a long time, and her tears were holding back her tears, so that she could not laugh uncontrollably in front of this sad newcomer.

"You...... Poof...... Ask for more blessings, ah no, mourn and change. Sophie reluctantly comforted her.

It's so real, this brainless guy, if he hadn't run into me, probably wouldn't have thought of going to school tomorrow...... Sophie suddenly felt that this kid was not very annoying.

"Senior, you must take me with you when you choose courses in the future." Carl burst into tears.

"No, I didn't even know the way myself, I only turned around in the second half of last semester." Sophie complained in her heart, otherwise she would not have chosen Mr. Max's class.

"Why did you change schools? Aren't some classes going to be retaken? ”

Sophie touched her chin: "If you want to give a reason...... It's because of the Ex-ball. "She's a little helpless

“Ex-ball？”

"My old school's Ex-ball club was very bad, very bad, and the funding was not approved. I heard that the Ex-ball department of Heavenly Selection is very strong, so I turned around. She blinked, "I've got my favorite Ex-ball." ”

Although how bad it was after that, I won't mention it for the time being......

Carl regained his excitement: "Eh, I'm also from the Ex-ball Club. ”

"Huh?" This time it was Sophie's turn to be surprised, she didn't expect such an unreliable guy to be a player from the famous Chosen Ex-ball club.

"Because I used to be an intermediate student, I have been practicing basic skills, helping senior students adjust equipment, serving tea and water, and I have never played a competition...... But I still love Ex-ball! Originally, I was going to practice today......"

"You brought the equipment?" Sophie's eyes lit up, and without saying a word, she began to rummage through Carl's bag, and sure enough, a black card was found in the seam of the bulging bag, which was the Ex-ball projection device.

Karl suddenly proposed, "Why don't you do that, senior, let's play together!" ”