Chapter 40: Professor Garcia

Thursday afternoon is an elective class.

Last semester, Zheng Qing took a life class, and the course content was to teach first-year students some small magic commonly used in daily life, such as spells for washing clothes, which is very helpful for people who are not very independent.

This semester, Zheng Qing took the Fishman Language. On the one hand, he has been in school for more than half a year, and he has dealt with the fish-man tribe of Linzhong Lake many times, and it may be helpful to learn a little fish-man language, and the young fish-man Iseni of the Ouroboros hunting team wants to do business with D&K, if you don't want to be cheated by the fishmen, it is obviously very important to master their language.

On the other hand, although there is a 'general knowledge' circle on Phuket Island, mastering a 'minor language' is quite popular in the first university.

Just like the 403 dormitory, Dylan learned werewolf language, and Xin Fatzi learned horse language, Zheng Qing felt that he always had to learn something different, so that he could look like a serious wizard.

In addition, Zheng Qing took the course of Fishman Lingua Franca, and there was another reason why it was not enough for outsiders.

Once, when the ruling hunting team was helping the Sin Hunting Team train, he heard Deng Xiaojian say that the final assessment of the Fishman language was very simple, and many people could get a passing score with only two hisses. If you can hiss a desolate tone while hissing, you can even get a high score in the hands of Professor Garcia.

Professor Garcia, whose full name is Abu Garcia, is said to have been the leader of the Fish-Man tribe in Scandinavia – which is now part of Sweden – but who came to Phuket at some unknown time.

In the eyes of his classmates, Professor Garcia does not have the majesty and temperament of the leader of the fish-man tribe, except for the slightly larger whites of his eyes, the backs of his hands, and the fish scales on his neck, he is usually a kind old man.

Unlike the fish-people in Linzhong Lake that Zheng Qing knew, Professor Garcia was a very 'civilized' fish-man.

It is the only old fishman at First University who has a seat in the joint conference of professors, and it is clean and odorless. Plainly, it also wears a black robe like a real wizard, wears a peaked wizard's hat, has a monocle on its chest, a law book around its waist, and always holds a stack of lesson plans in its arms.

Even when he walks, he will hold a cup of coffee or a cup of tea made with goji berries in his hand.

Zheng Qing had never seen Professor Garcia's fins—like the ones on Iseni's back—and most fishmen saw them as something to show off, similar to the tattoos on the minotaurs, the high heels and stockings of French men, and the crotch cloth of Fuso men.

As far as Zheng Qing knows, Iseni likes to hang all kinds of bright knick-knacks on its fins as decorations. Walking with a clang, like a big scalper shaking his head and passing by.

And Professor Garcia never showed its fins, as if they didn't exist.

Classmates privately spread that Professor Garcia cut off all his fins in order to stay at First University to teach. Because according to the rules of the school, teachers and professors need to maintain the dignified style of old-school wizards, and they cannot dress up in strange clothes and other things.

Rumors are rumors because people can't verify their authenticity.

In short, for Zheng Qing and most of the students, Professor Garcia is a good teacher, a good fish man, and that is enough.

But no matter how good a teacher is, he is still a teacher.

As long as the class is in class, the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher is very small – such as math or physics – and even if the good teachers talk about it on stage, the distracted students in the audience will continue to wander.

In the first Fishman Lingua Frana class, the new students who took this course always came to listen to the old fishman with great interest. But soon, everyone realized that Professor Fishman was no different from other ordinary professors, and there were textbooks, lesson plans, assignments, and answers to questions.

Gradually, just like in other classes, everyone's eyes slowly lost their brightness and dozed off unnoticedly. After all, this course is a simple exam, and it doesn't matter if you miss one or two classes occasionally.

On Thursday afternoon, in this class of the lingua franca of the fishman, Zheng Qing sat up straight for the first time in a long time, and listened carefully to the lesson like a real public-funded student - so that the client asked the professor to find the black sheep a little more confident - there were countless times during the period, he wanted to close his eyes and play chess with Zhou Gong for a while, but he forcibly held back. For this reason, he gave himself a lot of praise in his heart.

In this class, Professor Garcia tells the history of the fish-people tribe in slow fish-man language, from Scandinavia to the Aegean Sea to Asia Minor, from the Jiaozhou Peninsula to the Leizhou Peninsula to the Great Barrier Reef, and from the Great Lakes to the Amazon.

The entire history of the migration of the fish-man tribe is a history of the development and growth of wizards.

Professor Garcia may have wanted to use this 'sense of historical mixing' to bridge the gap between the wizards of First University and the fish-man tribe of Linzhong Lake, just as the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty tend to use words like 'fusion' rather than 'kill and conquer' when it comes to the barbarians of the steppes—Zheng Qing is very skeptical that many people understand the professor's meaning.

In addition to scribbling down important names of places, people, and times in their notebooks with shorthand quills, most of the students were staring blankly at the old fishman 'hissing' on the podium.

Listening to the fish-man hiss is a painful thing.

Zheng Qing was scratched by fat cats waving their paws in the dormitory more than once because of reciting the text of the fish-man language, and no one, no cat's favorite place to live was filled with 'hissing' sounds, which sounded creepy. And if you know a little bit of the lingua franca of the fishman, it will inevitably sound like a 'synaesthesia' to the smelly smell of the real fishman, which will be even more uncomfortable.

“...... Violent, not good, very bad. Professor Garcia sighed and summed up the main thrust of the lesson in one sentence: "This cruel pleasure will eventually end in brutality." Destroying order does not bring freedom. Order brings freedom. ”

This sentence seemed to contain a lot of profound meaning, so much so that Zheng Qing couldn't help but chew for a few more seconds.

The Fish-Man tribe used violent methods to resist the school's policy, and they received only a more violent response from the school. Although this sentence is somewhat pessimistic, it is not difficult to understand.

The indescribable latter sentence.

Mr. Wu once said to Zheng Qing that he was a 'seed of order', and the forbidden spell in his body was obtained according to the rules of 'order'. But in Professor Garcia's mouth, order seems to have something to do with freedom again - Zheng Qing wondered to himself that he was obviously a pure student of the Nine Beings, how could he have anything to do with Alpha's purpose?

This is a question that cannot be pondered.

When he came back to his senses, Professor Garcia had walked out of the door with the handout, and all he could see was the corner of his flowing robe.

"Excuse me!"

The young public-funded student packed up his things in a haphazard manner, squeezed through a few classmates blocking the road, and rushed out of the classroom and chased after the old fishman: "Professor, Professor Garcia, please wait." ”