Chapter 2666: Chapter 887: Wizard Psychology
The three great elves entered the preparatory class of the Edge Academy after the Qingming Festival.
That was on Tuesday.
Just a day later, by Wednesday morning, the news about the Qingqiu family sending three young members to study at the Edge Academy spread rapidly, sparking a lot of discussion.
Most people focused on how beautiful the three young ladies were, their robes, their makeup, their jewelry, their every move, their every smile, and so on, after all, Qingqiu is known for producing beauties, and everyone has a love for beauty.
More serious discussions centered on whether a prestigious family like Qingqiu sending its children to Edge Academy would occupy the admission slots meant for the truly marginalized, and whether the Edge Academy would gradually evolve into a low-profile version of ’Alpha Academy’.
There were also some thinking beyond the atmosphere, privately analyzing whether the Edge Academy’s sole acceptance of children from the Qingqiu Family meant the Alliance and the First University had reached a consensus to appoint a certain big figure from the Qingqiu Family as the dean of Edge Academy.
Zheng Qing paid close attention to these discussions.
Even when rumors about him spread around the school a few days ago, he wasn’t as attentive.
The good news is, so far, the reading journey of the three great elves has been going very smoothly, with no bullying, no skipping classes midway, and no negative feedback from the professors.
This made Zheng Qing feel quite relieved.
Incidentally, he became much more earnest in describing (fabricating) dreams for Xiao Xiao and Xin Fat Man — this time the description isn’t related to nightmares, it’s purely Zheng Qing helping his two roommates complete their elective course assignments.
Wednesday afternoon was an elective class.
Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu had elected to study Magic Universe. Xiao Xiao, Xin, and Zhang Ji Xin chose Zhu Si’s Dream Interpretation. And the Dream Interpretation assignments required the analysis of third-party dreams.
Among everyone Xiao Xiao and Xin Fat Man knew, perhaps only Zheng Qing was willing and didn’t mind sharing his dreams with them.
Of course, without real dream omens, Zheng Qing could only try his best to ’fabricate’ some dreams that met the requirements of the textbook, making it easier for his two roommates to write their assignments.
"...I dreamed of a small black dot appearing on the surface of the sun, moving diagonally from top to bottom, slowly." While Zheng Qing was writing his Classical Ritual Study assignment, he casually made up his dream.
"A small black dot appearing on the sun?" The Fat Wizard frowned, analyzing seriously: "The dream nests in star signs content, Teacher Zhu Si will definitely like this dream."
In comparison, Xiao Xiao’s focus was much more detailed: "How big is the small dot? At what angle did it enter? What is the moving speed? Excluding sunspots, there are too many possibilities for that small dot, Mars, Mercury, Venus..."
"Venus... no, Mercury, I dreamed of Mercury’s transit! It’s Mercury at an angle of seven degrees!"
Zheng Qing hurriedly calculated the angle between Mercury and Earth’s orbit around the sun on the star map, unable to help but complain: "I completely don’t understand why Classical Rituals involve calculating planetary orbits! It’s neither pure divination nor star signs..."
"Can we distinguish between Mercury’s transit and Venus’s transit in a dream?" The Fat Wizard hesitantly glanced at Doctor Xiao.
"I can," Xiao Xiaoyan succinctly replied.
The Fat Wizard nodded with satisfaction: "Theory can work, then. Otherwise, I’d have to add some mistakes elsewhere... slight errors would make the results appear more realistic... hmm, let me see, Mercury’s transit occurs about thirteen times every hundred years, usually happening in early May or early November... and the closest one to us should be early May. Does the school have any plans for early May? Spring hunting?"
"Midterm exams." Dr. Xiao adjusted his glasses: "Spring hunting is next week."
"Ah!"
The Fat Wizard sucked in a breath of cold air, looked at his half-written assignment again, and scratched his head: "This is bad, how can I link the plague with midterm exams... could it be that during the midterm exams, there will be a large-scale outbreak of influenza in school? Influenza counts as a plague, right!"
"It does."
Xiao Xiao lifted his eyelids, glancing at the long-faced Fat Wizard, and reminded: "However, the plague is related to Venus’s transit... Mercury’s transit suggests critical decisions like pulling back from the brink or leading to complete failure."
Whether ’pulling back from the brink’ or ’complete failure’, neither seemed to be good words regarding midterm exams.
This made Zheng Qing feel quite apologetic.
"Or, did I remember incorrectly? What I actually saw in the dream was Venus’s transit?" He tentatively looked at his two companions: "Having a cold during midterms is always better than total failure, right."
The Fat Wizard was quite tempted.
But Xiao Xiao decisively refused.
"This degree of divination conclusion won’t affect my grades in any way."
He confidently directed his feather pen, completing the final section of the dream interpretation assignment, and then turned to glance out the window, letting out a long breath: "But midterm exams are just around the corner, makes one kind of sentimental... time really flies... feels like the New Year just passed yesterday, and now it’s more than a month into the new semester, this semester is nearly halfway through already."
The midterm exams for this semester were scheduled for the tenth week, and now it was already Wednesday of the seventh week.
Next weekend there was also the annual spring hunting.
Just thinking about it inexplicably generated a sense of urgent anxiety, giving a feeling of complete lack of time.
Zheng Qing unconsciously touched his hourglass.
With his Time Converter, he has a little more time than others. Additionally, since he applied for early graduation, this semester he doesn’t need to participate in midterm and final exams, which inexplicably gave him a bit of comfort, as if the pressure of not being able to finish assignments regularly had been fully released at this moment.
"Time indeed flies."
The Fat Wizard sighed empathetically: "I remember when I was a child, I’d wait so long for each day to pass, time seemed to crawl. But the older I get, the faster time passes... a few days ago, I saw a viewpoint different from ’time acceleration’.
"What viewpoint?" Zheng Qing was quite willing to be a good sidekick at this kind of time.
"It was an article in ’Wizard Psychology’—on the influence of psychological maturity level on the perception of time speed," the Fat Wizard ostentatiously mentioned the full name of the article.
Zheng Qing pulled the corners of his mouth: "Sounds quite boring."
"It’s not just boring, it’s also ignorant," Xiao Xiao snorted, his tone carrying a hint of disdain: "The biggest problem with those guys studying wizard psychology is their neglect of the essence of the world, and they’re always trying to explain everything with ’I think’... if only they read a few more books, they wouldn’t be fooled by their fallacies."
