Chapter 1228 Lesson 1

The next morning, students were in the general tactics theory class classroom.

Zijing adjusted the cuffs of the teacher's uniform he had just received, pushed the door open, and prepared to welcome his first class.

The students in the classroom sat in an orderly manner. Zijing looked down and saw Kiana, Mei, and Silin - they were wearing student uniforms and sitting together. Silin had a sour face and seemed very reluctant. Kiana secretly made a face at him. Mei looked a little embarrassed, and most of her attention was on the textbook in her hand.

However, when his eyes fell on the seat next to Xilin, his footsteps paused slightly.

Alicia.

She got a brand new student uniform from somewhere, which fit her slender figure perfectly. Her long pink hair was tied into two playful ponytails. Her face was filled with a sweet smile that belonged to a "student" and was full of curiosity. She even wore a pair of decorative frameless glasses, which made her look both pure and... full of a sense of mischief. At this moment, she was holding her chin with her eyes that seemed to be filled with starlight, looking at Zijing at the door without blinking, full of "expectation".

The whole classroom was silent for a moment, and all the students' eyes were curiously focused on the new teacher with a powerful aura.

Zijing was silent for about three seconds, without revealing any flaws on her face, but her eyes stayed on the "overage" and "violated" Alicia for half a second - she immediately responded with an even brighter, innocent smile that seemed to say "Surprised?"

He retracted his gaze, walked up to the podium with steady steps, put down the lesson plan, and said in a clear and steady voice: "Class begins."

"Stand up!" the squad leader shouted subconsciously.

"Hello, teacher!" The students stood up in unison.

Kiana and Mei in the back row also stood up. Silin was quietly pulled by Alicia, and she stood up reluctantly. Alicia stood straight, smiling sweetly, and said in a clear voice: "Hello, teacher~?"

Zijing remained calm: "Hello, students. Please take a seat. I am your temporary tactical theory teacher, Zijing. Today, we will begin to learn basic tactical environmental analysis..."

The class started. Zijing's explanation was clear and easy to understand, combined with several classic small Honkai beast encounter cases, which quickly attracted the attention of real students. He occasionally asked questions, and the students also actively answered, and the classroom atmosphere gradually became better.

However, this "good mood" was soon broken by a pink figure in the back row.

Whenever Zijing asked a slightly open-ended question or talked about a key point, a white and slender arm would always be raised high at the first opportunity, accompanied by a full-blooded voice with a rising ending: "Teacher! Teacher! Ai Li... ahem, this student has a question!"

The first time, Amethyst clicked on her.

"Teacher~? Regarding the flanking tactics you mentioned just now, if we encounter an advancing Honkai beast in a narrow alley, how should we adjust our steps to maximize the risk avoidance? Could you please demonstrate it?" Alicia's question was very professional, even a little beyond the scope, but coupled with her sweet smile and shining eyes, it was hard to refuse.

Amethyst calmly answered the question and briefly demonstrated the key steps, earning the students' admiring glances and Alicia's cute expression of "sudden enlightenment".

The second time, Zijing tried to ignore the raised hand and pointed to another student. As soon as the student finished answering, Alicia's hand was raised again: "Teacher! This student's answer is great! But Alicia... This student has a small additional idea..."

The third time, when Zijing talked about the commander's psychological quality under high pressure, that hand was raised again stubbornly. This time, without waiting for Zijing to call her name, Alicia stood up, with her hands on the table, her body slightly leaning forward, her beautiful eyes flashing with cunning and curiosity, and her voice with just the right amount of innocence and ambiguity:

"Teacher~? As an experienced 'senior', seeing so many young, lovely and energetic beautiful girls sitting in the audience..." She deliberately dragged out the ending tone, her eyes swept across the real Valkyrie candidates around her, and finally fell back on Zijing's face, her smile was sweet and almost dangerous, "How do you feel when you stand on the podium? Will you be...especially happy?"

"Pfft!" Kiana almost laughed out loud and quickly covered her mouth. Mei held her forehead helplessly. Xilin rolled her eyes and muttered softly: "...Shameless."

The other students in the audience were stunned at first, then broke into a small commotion and whispers, and many girls blushed and glanced at Zijing.

Zijing's hand holding the chalk stopped in mid-air, and a nerve seemed to be beating faintly on his forehead. He met Alicia's eyes full of "curiosity" and mischief, and his expression remained calm as a teacher, but his eyes deepened.

The air in the classroom seemed to freeze, and all eyes were focused on the podium.

Zijing was silent for two seconds, then slowly put down the chalk, placed her hands on the edge of the podium, leaned forward slightly, and looked back at Alicia calmly from a distance. Her voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard throughout the classroom:

"This classmate's question involves personal subjective feelings and has nothing to do with tactical theory." He tried to make his voice sound calm and authoritative. "As a teacher, my duty is to impart knowledge and guide students. Any questions that are not related to the course are considered disruptive to class order."

He paused, and his eyes swept across the stage with a hint of warning, and finally fell back on Alicia. The corners of his mouth seemed to twitch very slightly, and he added:

"Of course, if this 'classmate' is so confident in his personal charm, he can discuss with me alone after class... about the topic of 'tactical psychological stress resistance training'."

"Wow~?" Alicia's eyes brightened, as if she had received some interesting permission.

The other students were stunned by Zijing's answer which was both powerful and implied "danger" and they instantly became as quiet as chickens.

"Now, let's get back to the topic." Zijing stopped looking at her, picked up the chalk, turned around and wrote down new points on the blackboard, "Let's continue to analyze the commander's decision tree in an environment with missing information..."

Alicia sat down with a smile on her face, holding her chin, and looked at Zijing's back with satisfaction, like a big cat that successfully teased its prey. Xilin, on the other hand, had a "hopeless" expression on her face and buried her head even lower.

The crisp bell for the end of get out of class finally rang, saving the delicate atmosphere of the first lesson.