Castle of Black Iron

Chapter 2: National Boys' High School

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Heiyancheng No. 7 National School is a standard boys' school. As the name suggests, there is not a single girl in the school because there is a huge difference in the arrangement of boys' courses and girls' courses. It is said that in order to save resources and improve teaching efficiency, after 5 After the co-educational primary compulsory education in 1999, boys and girls were separated into separate schools. All the courses in boys' schools were for one purpose only - survival, so that every young person who enters the school can survive as quickly as possible in this era. Speed, the minimum cost, and accumulate enough capital to survive! Everyone who graduates from this school does not have a so-called graduation certificate. If you can survive in this world after leaving the school, that is the best proof. Therefore, every course offered in the school is taught by professors. Every class in the school is closely related to whether you can survive in this world. It is said that the education in girls' schools will be softer, and there are also courses in music, literature, cooking, art, dance, etc., but these courses are different from those in boys' schools. No chance, except for the most basic Chinese, law, and mathematics courses, every course taught here can be said to correspond to a skill that allows human beings to survive in this era—for example, how to take care of a seed and let it grow. They grow in the fields and become food;

How to use all the resources at hand to process and make the most basic survival tools;

How to build the simplest house using the resources at hand;

How to identify and avoid attacks from dangerous creatures in the wild;

How to use wild plants to prepare the most basic wound medicine;

How to deal with several common illnesses;

How to fight with weapons;

How to exercise to strengthen your body…

After the completion of a total of 8 years of national compulsory education, for most students, more than 99% of ordinary people will leave school, officially enter the society, and start their own lives. What you have learned in school, if you still If we are careful, as long as we get a little training and pick up a hoe, we will be farmers, enter the factory and we will be workers, join the army and we will be soldiers, or to be more precise, we will be cannon fodder and rations for aliens. The spirit of national education in the Iron Age is to use the least cost and the most efficient means to cultivate people who can best survive in this era, rather than a pile of embroidered pillows and beast excrement.

Of course, just like humans before the catastrophe, compulsory education in all eras will not be the most advanced. After the completion of 8 years of compulsory education, in each school, there will be a few real elites with strong backgrounds or outstanding performance in some aspects. Lucky geniuses with extraordinary talents can enter a higher level and more mysterious place to learn more professional knowledge and receive a true elite education. The Black Flame City established by a group of businessmen and factory owners naturally does not have high levels. Among the elite colleges, there is only one ordinary business school, which is also very popular for ordinary people.

I heard that true elite academies can only be found in other human cities and core settlement areas with deeper foundations outside. The requirements for entering those elite academies are so stringent that they are definitely one in ten thousand. Let’s put it this way, the seventh in Black Flame City Thousands of people graduate from national schools every year, but this school has not produced a single student who is qualified to enter a truly elite academy for 8 consecutive years. 8 years ago, a talented Chinese student named Li Shizhen was admitted. He was selected by the Mainland Alchemist Union and taken away directly after graduation. As a result, that person became the pride of the entire school. A personal photo of Li Shizhen hung in the school's exhibition room for 8 years. Every time the school assembly was held, The principal would take out that person and talk about it tirelessly, which made people's ears grow calluses. Hanging with this person's photo, there were two other people, both of whom were legendary from this school. figure. Higher education in this era is definitely a true elite education. It is said that before the catastrophe, the enrollment scale of higher education institutions in human countries was tens of millions every year. Now it seems like a myth. The knowledge of this era, It is very expensive, unimaginably expensive, and that knowledge is in the hands of a few people, a few families, and powerful sects, temples, and churches. Only the real elite have the opportunity to contact them.

Although Zhang Tie himself feels that he has worked very hard in school, in this era when everyone is working hard for their own survival, the results of Zhang Tie's efforts have not made Zhang Tie an elite or lucky person. Zhang Tie's family There are no big names, so Zhang Tie's performance in all aspects is average, not the worst, but he can't stand out. He is not an elite, nor is he trash.

If nothing goes wrong in life, Zhang Tie feels that he may be like his father in the future. After military service, he may seek a peaceful and stable career, and think of ways to enter a factory in the city as a worker. An ordinary worker marries a hard-working woman who is not ugly but can take care of the house, has several children, and then works hard like ants every day to provide food for the family, until one day she lies in bed and is dying. , recalling his miserable and gloomy life as an inconspicuous screw in this era, and thinking about the beautiful women he had seen but never had sex with, such as the goddess Dinah, before finally closing his eyes unwillingly, He raised his hand tremblingly, gave a middle finger to this cào dàn era, and then burped...

This thought made Zhang Tie shudder when he entered the classroom. He was really unwilling to live such a life. Although Zhang Tie had made up his mind a long time ago, he was reminded sharply when he entered the classroom today. Once again, in my life, I must live long enough, have enough gold coins, and have sex with enough beautiful women. If there is a day when I leave this world, what Zhang Tie hopes to see The scene is like this. There are a lot of beautiful and beautiful women who will cry sadly or even commit suicide for their own death. At the same time, there are also a lot of disdainful descendants who will not bear it for the gold coins and family property they left behind. I secretly rejoiced and even looked up to the sky laughing, this old guy finally burped...

Maybe one day I can live the kind of life only those big shots can live, with dozens of inner treasures in the closet, dozens of new leather shoes, eating meat three times a day, and a gorgeous bodyguard with big breasts and a big butt. Maid or something...

Zhang Tie often thinks this way. In his opinion, the life of all big people should be such that they have no worries about food and clothing. However, the distance between this dream and that of an ugly duckling who can only wallow in the mire now dreams of becoming a giant dragon. Just as out of reach.

There were about ten minutes left before class. The morning class was a technical class. When Zhang Tie came to the technical classroom, he saw several animals in the class standing in a row by the window on the side of the classroom, one by one. He stretched his head out of the window, while the other hand was moving quickly under the waist, and some of them were still moaning softly. Zhang Tie looked through the window and saw the goddess Dinah downstairs in the technical classroom. The figure is walking through the flower bed below. From the angle above, the breasts on the chest of Goddess Dinah are extremely majestic...

Zhang Tie swallowed a mouthful of saliva...

These bastards!

"Big Tou, what do you think? Let's enjoy it together..." The guy with acne on his face next to him turned around and gave a "sincere" suggestion while stroking the guy he took out from his crotch.

"No, I just saw Captain Colin walking towards our classroom. You can enjoy it slowly!"

Hearing Zhang Tie's words, everyone stopped moving, and their faces suddenly turned pale. The guy everyone took out was like a popped balloon, shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then There was a lot of excitement in the classroom. Several people were zipping too fast and pinched the skin or pulled the hair. There was another burst of howling and howling. I don’t know if they will have sex in the future. God forgive me, Zhang I can guarantee that if he knew what was happening in this classroom, Captain Colin would really want to come over and crush the eggs of these animals one by one...

Everyone quickly returned to their seats and stood in front of their workbench with eyes, nose, nose and heart. The classroom quickly became quiet. Zhang Tie also came to his workbench and wiped the dust on it casually. , and began to check whether the rows of tools placed above were in good condition. Just like that, ten minutes passed quickly, until the bell rang for class, and the technical teacher walked into the classroom carrying a lot of things. At that time, Captain Colin still did not appear. While he breathed a sigh of relief, the bastards just glared at Zhang Tie one by one, but they did not dare to get angry in class.

The teacher of the technical class is a middle-aged man in his 50s, bald, and very sullen and boring. He never talks much in class, but no one dares to look down on him, because this old man once stood in front of Zhang Tie. All of us, using a few simple tools and a pile of garbage, spent a whole morning tinkering with a small single-cylinder steam engine. We just set up a brazier and the steam engine started to rotate. In this era, no one who can be a teacher is simple.

As usual, the bald man entered the classroom and wrote the words "Handmade coil spring" on the blackboard, and then began to talk to himself. After finishing speaking, he left a few spring winding ratios on the blackboard, compression After formulating the slenderness ratio, mandrel diameter and tensile strength and a few data, someone distributed the steel wires he brought, three to each person. For the Zhangtie guys, this morning's lesson was about hand-made by everyone. Any three types of coil springs. After getting the steel wire, everyone immersed themselves in the workbench and started moving. Even the bastards just now seemed like different people and began to work hard for their own survival capital, while the bald man Then he walked out of the technical classroom with a glass of water.

The biggest difference between humans and those powerful beasts and aliens who only know how to fight is the ability to use and make tools. Although the spring is inconspicuous, it is the most widely used thing, and being able to make it by hand has undoubtedly become a tool. A survival skill.

After getting the steel wire, Zhang Tie thought about it and came up with an idea. After memorizing the formulas on the blackboard, he measured the three steel wires of different lengths and thicknesses in his hand, took a writing board and After calculations on the workbench, we finally decided to make three types of springs, one is the simplest cylindrical compression spring, one is a concave compression spring, and the other is a cylindrical torsion circle hook spring...