The bell tower of Kassel College rang three times a day. The first time was the bell that signified waking up, the second time was the bell for lunch, and the third time was the bell for the last class of the day.
In the morning when white pigeons were flying, the sun shone through the twilight and reflected the dew on the lawn of Beirut. Lin Nian walked on the cobblestone path with the bell ringing and the yawning Finger. The red squirrel that ran into the academy from the mountain hid in the green forest and sized up the new faces.
"To be honest, I haven't heard the bell in the morning for a long time. When I woke up, I thought it was noon.”Fingal said while yawning. He had received Norma's notice this morning. He was in charge of bringing Lin Nian, who was in the same dormitory, to the gymnasium for a physical examination. The conspiracy of the dormitory allocation yesterday was exposed. After being a mule, Fingal had to be an old horse who could read maps.
"Is there someone in the bell tower who specially rings the bell? I heard the interval between the second and third chimes being two seconds apart from the third and fourth chimes.”Lin Nian turned to look in the direction of the bell tower.
"Junior brother, your ears are quite sharp. However, why did you notice such a detail…There was no soul in an automatic bell. The bell tower of Kassel College was manually knocked. The delay in the bell was most likely due to the vice principal drinking while striking the bell. The two seconds of pause was the time for him to pour whiskey into his mouth.”Fingel stretched his body with great effort, and the huge bones under his muscular skin made cracking sounds.
"The vice-principal still has to ring the bell every day?”
"He lives in the clock tower. You can only see him on the forum. He's also the highest administrator of the forum. At most, I'm working for him for free.”
"But drinking early in the morning is not good for your health, right?。”Lin Nian tactfully expressed his doubts about the quality of life of the leadership of Kassel Academy.
"Don't worry. Instead of worrying about the Vice-Principal's health, you should worry about your mentor's blood pressure. Recently, alchemical items were stolen from the icehouse, which angered Professor Manstein so much that he almost slapped him. Oh, let me tell you a little secret. The Vice-Principal of our academy is actually your mentor's father.”Fingel raised his eyebrows.
"How old is the vice-principal?" Lin Nian was stunned for a moment and thought of Manstein's shiny bald head and mustache. He looked like a man in his fifties or sixties. The vice principal of Kassel Academy was actually Manstein's father? How old would the vice-headmaster be if he still insisted on drinking whiskey every morning at the bell?
"I'm not sure. Every time someone asked him about his age, he would pretend to press the brim of his denim hat and say something. A man's age was like wine. The older it was, the more it tasted. The more women tasted it, the more drunk they became. However, I can tell you that our principal is already over 130 years old and is still alive. You can use the principal's age to calculate the vice-principal's age. I heard that they are close friends.”Fingel pulled his collar to resist the cold mountain wind in the morning.
"The principal is over 130 years old and still hasn't retired? At this age, she should only be able to sit in a wheelchair and work, right?”Lin Nian was shocked by this number.
" Because of his bloodline, a mixed-blood like the principal basically has no chance of getting sick in his life. If he dies one day, it won't be because of a heart disease or a cerebral stroke. The most likely reason is that he lost his footing in front of a horse when he was slaying a dragon, or that he's so old that all his body parts are rusted that he can't move.”Fingel bent his right arm, his biceps bulging his school uniform."Headmaster Anger is still a tough man at the age of 130, just like me!”
Lin Nian tried his best to imagine a 130-year-old man who was as strong as Finger, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only think of the mummy mother in the wheelchair that he met when he was selling chocolate.
"Don't worry, if your bloodline is as good as Professor Manstein said, then you can basically live to the age of the principal and swim back and forth in the Chicago River.”Fingel patted Lin Nian's shoulder and squeezed his forearm.""Of course, if you want to achieve the second point, you have to keep training every day. Junior Brother, you look like you've trained before.”
"I've studied Kendo for a few years for self-defense, and occasionally participate in exhibition matches to earn a living.”Lin Nian explained.
"Oh? This way, you can major in swords and sabers in your cold weapons course. With a foundation, you can easily get full credits in the first year.”said Fingal.
"There's a cold weapons course in the academy?"
" Of course, but it's all physical education. Other schools test a kilometer, pull-ups, and lung capacity. We test bare-handed combat, melee combat with cold weapons, and survival in the wild. Since you have a foundation in Kendo, I suggest you choose Bajiquan or Balou for bare-handed combat.”
"This course is really a professional Dragon Slaying Academy…However, do the people who arranged the classes expect us to use physical techniques to subdue the dragons? It was hard for me to imagine a student executing a Strangle or a Crossguard on a ten-meter-tall monster.”Lin Nian expressed his doubts.
"Actually, most of our enemies are not really pure-blooded dragons.”Fingal shook his head." Hand-to-hand combat, of course, is used to deal with enemies of the same size as us.”
"You mean... People?" Lin Nian stopped in his tracks.
" It should be called a dangerous hybrid." Fingel turned around and looked at Lin Nian.""The academy will always miss out on some mixed-bloods hidden in normal society. There are many dangerous elements among these mixed-bloods. It is also one of our responsibilities to get rid of them.”
"Which is to kill people." Lin Nian said.
Fingal also stopped in his tracks as if he realized that he had strayed too far from the topic and said something he shouldn't have said in advance. He scratched his hair that looked like a chicken nest and said awkwardly,""You can't say that. Those mixed-bloods who have lost their minds can't be called humans in a sense. What they have done has greatly threatened human society. We can only eliminate them or detain them.”
Senior Brother, have you killed anyone before?" Lin Nian asked softly as he caught up with Fingel.
"Me? No, I haven't graduated yet." " Most of the killers with blood on their hands are in the executive department," Fingal said." Maddie should have told you that our academy will distribute the resources, right? You can choose to work in the executive department after graduation. You should know what that place is based on the name.”
"So the war with the dragons can only be learned after graduation?”
"No, I'm not. To be precise, you should still have the chance to experience the feeling of war before graduation.”Fingal hesitated for a moment before saying," Kassel Academy used to be the Secret Party, the headquarters of the special forces. Later, because the original board members had a change of ideas, they decided to run a school. But to put it bluntly, whether it's the Secret Party or Kassel Academy, the iron-blooded beliefs are the same. Therefore, in order to let the freshmen feel the heavy responsibility on their shoulders, the academy would regularly send first-year students on a mission. Most of the missions were to hunt down dangerous hybrids. The freshmen were responsible for keeping watch and watching the work of the executive department's specialists in a safe place. This way, the newborn babies could quickly and directly experience the cruelty of the war between the hybrids and the dragons.”
"It feels quite interesting. Senior, have you considered joining the executive department after graduation?”Lin Nian asked as he looked at the listless man who was half a head taller than him.
" That's for sure. Back then, I was also famous. Joining the executive department is the direction of graduation for 90% of the students. My dream is to join the executive department after I have enough credits and be assigned to the cuba branch. I heard that the crime rate there is very low. The brothers who go on business trips are all driving convertibles with beautiful girls sitting in their arms. They have cigars that the beautiful girls have just rubbed out from their thighs in their mouths. They hold the steering wheel in one hand and the Desert Eagle in the other…In short, it's so coquettish!" Fingel's tone was full of hope and piety.
Lin Nian suddenly felt that if every student who graduated from Kassel Academy was like him, human history would have been finished long ago.
As they chatted, the two of them were almost at their destination. Even though they were on a small path in the forest, they could already see the eggshell-like dome of the gymnasium. This was one of the few modern buildings in the academy.
"The gymnasium is just ahead. This is all I have to do.”Fingel suddenly stopped moving.
Senior Brother Fingel has classes in the morning?" Lin Nian turned his head.
"No, it's just that I ate too much during breakfast and now I feel like squatting in the toilet.”Fingel clutched his stomach awkwardly.
"Thank you for leading the way, Senior Brother." Lin Nian nodded, and Fingel immediately slipped away.
After walking through the last path alone, Lin Nian passed through the forest and saw the main entrance of the gymnasium. Professor Manstein and a tower-like man stood there waiting. When they saw Lin Nian walking out of the path, they immediately waved to him.
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