Chapter 3: My Deskmate Is an Alien

When Lin Lei walked to the classroom door, he undoubtedly received stares from everyone, leaving the physics teacher, Mu Guohua, who was in the middle of teaching, looking completely bewildered.

“Report!” Lin Lei shouted loudly, his face not turning red and his heart not beating faster.

“Class started ten minutes ago; where have you been?” Mu Guohua’s voice contained hidden anger. Anyone who was lecturing well and was suddenly interrupted would get angry. If Lin Lei didn’t answer well, he would explode.

How could Lin Lei not see that? However, he had a ready-made excuse and wasn’t afraid of being challenged. He chuckled, “Report, Teacher, the Homeroom Teacher needed me for something, so I arrived late.”

“Come in. Next time, don’t shout ‘report’ so loudly; my ears are working just fine.” Mu Guohua’s anger didn’t erupt, but his face turned red from holding it in, so his tone naturally wasn’t good.

Lin Lei absolutely wouldn’t touch that kind of landmine, so he walked to his seat with a docile look on his face, ignoring the scorching gazes of all his classmates. He needed to calm down now and sort out the mysterious information flow and the messy System in his mind. This was a major event concerning his future.

First of all, the System was temporarily harmless to him; this could be seen from its earlier performance. It saved him once, healed his wound once, and could silently diffuse the strength in Teacher Li’s hand.

Thinking of this, Lin Lei felt a little excited. Didn’t this mean he had become a martial arts master? If he practiced this energy-dissipating skill further, wouldn’t he achieve some sort of “Indestructible Body”? So, from this perspective, the currently activated “Semi-Automatic Assistance Mode” was greatly beneficial.

What about the other modes? Judging by their names, they should be good things. Body Strengthening Mode—hmm, since his rebirth, his physical fitness had indeed improved by a large margin. With his previously weak frame, which was practically just a skeleton, if he fell from a height of six meters, even if the System could regulate the buffer, his bones would still have broken. His running speed went without saying.

He had to try out the other modes one by one and adapt to the System inside his body as soon as possible, bringing out its maximum potential. This mysterious System looked like a benefit given by the heavens for his rebirth; believing in it wasn’t wrong.

Actually, Lin Lei was helpless too. What if he didn’t believe it? The intelligent being that could silently implant this System into his body was certainly vastly powerful. He was just a small fry and couldn’t resist at all. Now he had nothing to lose; a barefoot man isn’t afraid of one wearing shoes. He would go all out!

You see, Lin Lei was just that simple-minded. Once he decided on something, he would stick to it to the end!

Just like when he was captured by the Layite People on the Savage Planet Mote Planet’s Ecological Sphere. He knew clearly that even if he ran out of the Ecological Sphere, it was a dead end. But for the freedom in desperation and his final dignity, he escaped again and again. Finally, in his fiftieth escape attempt, he succeeded.

As for how he succeeded? Lin Lei himself was a bit confused. Maybe he had pure dumb luck, or maybe the Layite People got annoyed with an Earthling who kept seeking death and let him out. Anyway, he succeeded and escaped the Ecological Sphere that surviving Earthlings called the “Pigsty.”

Lin Lei had seen plenty of Aliens on Mote Planet. They looked roughly similar to humans, just with a few small features different from Earthlings. Take the Layite People for example: if you didn’t look at their eyes, they were almost the same as Earthlings. But if you looked closely at their eyes, you would discover their eyes had double pupils, which looked incredibly eerie at first glance.

Of course, Lin Lei had seen other types of Aliens too, such as those with pointed ears, webbed hands, and gills behind their ears, etc. They shared many common features with Earthlings, so let’s call them humanoid intelligent beings.

However, putting other things aside, perhaps due to their high alien civilization level and long evolution time, their genes were excellent. Their appearance was a grade above Earthlings, possessing some features Earthlings found hard to match.

For instance, that pointed-eared Alien Lin Lei saw once. The one who came to the Ecological Sphere that time was probably a big shot, surrounded by several Layite People treating him with great respect.

That Alien’s exposed skin was incredibly smooth and tender, glowing with a soft, hazy light. Coupled with facial features exquisite to the extreme and a perfect figure, it almost dazzled Lin Lei. In his mind, the word “perfect” was created just for that Alien.

How could a creature grow to be so enchantingly beautiful? How were the beauties on Earth supposed to live?

Hmm? Speaking of skin, his deskmate Yan Siyu’s seemed pretty good too. Compared to the Alien beauty in Lin Lei’s memory (poor guy only saw one glance, no time to distinguish gender, so let’s use “beauty” for now), she was not inferior at all, perhaps even superior.

How was this possible? In his past life, Lin Lei just thought Yan Siyu was pretty, so pretty that the immature him didn’t dare look straight at her. Back then, Yan Siyu always radiated a noble glow, making the ordinary Lin Lei not have the courage to raise his head and look at her seriously. Usually, he would just take a hurried glance and then quickly hide in the crowd.

During the one year of being deskmates in Grade 12, Lin Lei had barely spoken more than three sentences to Yan Siyu. It wasn’t just Lin Lei; in fact, almost all the boys in the school were like this.

Even Wang Xiuyuan from Grade 12 Class 3, whose dad was the City Party Secretary and who claimed to have dated girls all over the world, suffered a crushing defeat in front of Yan Siyu. He would even blush when talking to her, completely transforming into an innocent young boy.

This was abnormal! The current Lin Lei was different from the past; his skin was thicker than the Solar System. A mere Yan Siyu—he could look if he wanted. He had even kissed her, so what was there to be afraid of?

With this look, Lin Lei was startled. The skin on Yan Siyu’s face was as tender and smooth as cream; upon closer inspection, there was a faint flow of light. Her hair was also glossy and black, comparable to the hair in commercials after processing. Looking at her hands, they were small but not petty. Her nails had a rosy luster, and her fingers were slender, white, and tender—truly delicate hands.

Looking at other places… ugh, they were covered by the damn loose school uniform, hiding her figure. Lin Lei had never resented this school uniform as much as he did today. Damn it, couldn’t they make it a bit more fitted?

But this was enough. This wasn’t a level Earthlings could achieve. Earthlings might be able to reach this level in hardware, but in software—that is, temperament—it was absolutely impossible to have this mysterious and ethereal aura. Have you ever seen anyone in Grade 12 this devastatingly beautiful?

Observation of target biological entity reached default query time. Displaying basic information of target biological entity:

Name: Yan Siyu (Elite Aostarian)

Height: 1.65 meters

Weight: 47 kilograms

Physical Energy Level: 6.3 Standard Energy Level

Brain Capacity: 1450 milliliters

Intelligence Level: Level 11

The information flow flashed through his mind, and Lin Lei’s head instantly spun.

Damn! She really is an Alien! Putting other things aside, just the physical energy and intelligence level struck Lin Lei hard. He didn’t know the exact concept of a 6.3 Energy Level, but he clearly remembered his was only 1.1. That was almost six times his. Was he even a man? Lin Lei began to doubt his own gender.

And the intelligence level went without saying. Lin Lei didn’t understand the grading basis, but he knew about IQ. Was IQ something you used multiples to measure the gap? For example, if your IQ is 110, and someone comes along with an IQ nearly three times yours, reaching 300, wouldn’t you feel ashamed?

What? You don’t feel anything! That just means your IQ hasn’t reached 70, which is in the mentally challenged range, so you can’t consider problems at that level.

Lin Lei didn’t know what to feel. Inferior? A little. Anyway, the gap was too big, leaving his mind numb. No wonder this Yan Siyu always ranked first in the grade with perfect scores in every exam. So in her view, these questions were like kindergarten problems.

Wait, Aostarian, so that means her home planet is Ao Star. Where exactly is it in the Universe?

Perhaps hearing Lin Lei’s question, the information flow came again:

Ao Star: Located in the Galactic center region, the 642nd medium-sized star A042 in the M543 cluster. It is a terrestrial planet and the birthplace of the Aostarian civilization. The Aostarian have an extremely long history and created a dazzlingly brilliant civilization.

Aostarian: A Level 11 intelligent race, one of the Watcher Race of the Galaxy. They have dispatched observers to biological planets in parts of the Galaxy’s third and fourth spiral arms. Characteristics: Highly evolved, naturally mastering Protective Force Field, immune to low Energy Level energy attacks and low-intensity physical attacks, possessing close-range mental communication ability and long-range mental resonance ability.

This truly stunned Lin Lei. He didn’t understand the other parts, but he understood the final characteristics of the Aostarian. Born with a Protective Force Field—what level of evolution was that? And mental communication—that was a built-in mobile phone without needing to charge.

The Layite People didn’t have that. That bunch of guys, apart from having double pupils and better eyesight, plus some developed technology, weren’t much different from Earthlings.

Lin Lei, lost in thought, obviously didn’t realize how much trouble his behavior was causing others.

Yan Siyu’s ears slowly turned red, and it spread quickly. In the end, her face and neck were flushed with a rose color, and her whole person exuded a strange charm.

The physics teacher, Mu Guohua, stood high and saw far, so he was the first to be affected by this charm. He had a dull look in his eyes, mechanically reading word by word from the lesson plan, not even knowing himself what he was talking about.

The students below didn’t notice either; they were all listening blankly, but their eyes involuntarily drifted toward Yan Siyu. The boys’ adoration and the girls’ admiration and jealousy scanned Yan Siyu like lasers. Undoubtedly, Lin Lei, with his pig-like expression, became the public enemy of all the boys in the class!

Under the early summer sun, Grade 12 Class 5 was surging with undercurrents, in danger of erupting at any moment!

Lin Lei, who was right next to the center of the storm, was completely unaware, or perhaps he simply didn’t care. He was thinking about another crucial question!

In the previous life, Yan Siyu disappeared without a trace after the college entrance exam, as if she had evaporated from the human world. Lin Lei once thought she had an accident, but now this question received a reasonable explanation.

Since Yan Siyu was an Aostarian, she definitely had ways to know the Layite People’s invasion intentions in advance, so she left Earth.

You have to know, the Layite People’s attack descended unexpectedly on the third day after the college entrance exam. They first destroyed all man-made satellites and space stations in Earth’s outer space, then broadcast their surrender announcement to the Earthlings on all frequencies.

War broke out immediately. Earthlings used various attack methods, but all were declared ineffective. Backward chemical rockets couldn’t even touch the Layite People. Three days later, this brief and intense resistance fell into silence.

The Layite People underestimated the enemy and launched a large-scale landing. Consequently, a global nuclear explosion erupted! This catastrophic act of self-destruction nearly wiped out the Earthlings. Nearly seven billion people were reduced to less than one million, and the Layite People were also left in a sorry state.

It was May now, only a month away from the college entrance exam. Lin Lei had no time to change anything.

The Yan Siyu before his eyes was Lin Lei’s only chance. If he could leave Earth with her, it would add a variable, a trace of Hope, for the humans living in the Ecological Sphere in the future!

Thinking of this, Lin Lei turned his head back and narrowed his eyes at the physics textbook standing on his desk.

Since the humans in that Ecological Sphere cannot find a future, let me ignite the fire of Hope for human revival!