48 Hours a Day - Chapter 284

Chapter 284

Chapter 284 Are You Sure?

After the class, everyone felt that no different from after completing the Multi-Axis Trainer; their brains spinning nonstop after attending Steve’s Rocket Thrust Physics class . Throughout the lesson, Steve mumbled like a machine gun out of control, seeming as if he wanted to spill everything he knew about the Saturn V rocket within an hour .

Ten minutes into the class, tubby was on the verge of crying, not even bothered to pick up his pen cap when it dropped on the floor . This time, someone reacted worse than him . And that person was Anthony . Ever since he received the learning material, he kept wiping the sweat off his brow .

The knowledgeable middle-aged adult passed a piece of paper to Anthony . However, he did not take it from him . Instead, both his eyes were starting the level-three rocket structure in his book . He looked absolutely lost . He wasn’t the only one, though, as the high-school kid was no longer Mr-know-it-all, scratching his head and grabbing his hair in silence during the lesson . As for the girl beside Zhang Heng, she had closed her book and was leaning lazily on her seat . Then, she started complaining about the whole thing .

“Psst . All these English jargon… and no translations in the book! Who the hell can understand them?!”

Those who were bold enough to venture on single-player mode were usually multi-lingual and had a good foundation in various languages . With English being the most widely used language around the world, it was naturally everyone’s first choice to master . However, each individual had varying language proficiency . Although using English to communicate wasn’t a problem for most of them, a situation like this would undoubtedly put their vocabulary to the test .

The high-school kid’s English was audibly better than most, and seeing that he was an aerospace enthusiast as well, he could recognize most of the technical terms used during the lesson . However, he still found it hard to absorb everything that Professor Steve was pouring out of his mouth . On the other hand, Anthony was already a state of total confusion . The knowledgeable middle-aged man seemed to be indifferent; the look on his face unchanged since the start .

Nonetheless, the player that surprised Zhang Heng the most was the listless young man . Among the seven, he was the one who had paid full attention, busily jotting down the professor’s teachings as he went on .

The girl beside Zhang Heng noticed him staring at the young man . Out of curiosity, she too turned to look at the man sitting in front of her . Professor Steve was talking about the pressure in the J2 engine’s chamber and the consumption speed of oxidizing agents . When the girl leaned forward to get a better look, her breasts accidentally brushed Zhang Heng’s shoulder, her warm breath on his neck, causing a tingle on his skin .

“Is he serious right now, or is he putting on a show? Perhaps he’s silently cursing on his notebook . ”

The listless young man heard what she said . Unexpectedly, he turned around and smiled frivolously at her, leaving her in an abashed shock . She quickly looked back at Zhang Heng . After a while, she whispered into his ears .

“I don’t like him . I don’t think he’s a good person in the real world . And that uncle over there? I have seen people like him at work . These may look gentile and polite on the surface, but I know of the evil intention reeking within them, just waiting to burst out . ”

Zhang Heng kept staring at the blackboard, not responding to the girl . “I can see that you are different from them . Though you might look fierce on the outside, I know you’re actually a good person…” “You sure about that? Unfortunately, I have killed many people . There were young kids, elderly, young soldiers with wives waiting for them to come home, and even hard-working fishermen that toil away on the shores . To be honest, I’ve forgotten how many died in my hands . They are both soaked in blood . I’m now numb, and I don’t really care anymore . ”

“All these things happened in the game, right? You only did it to survive, I suppose . In the real world, however…”

“You have no idea what I look like and who I am in the real world . Vice versa, I don’t know what kind of person you are in the real world as well . But, I know what you want from me .

“The only thing I can tell you right now is that you chose the wrong target . If I were you, I would stop wasting time on me . One more thing, can you please keep quiet if you don’t mind . I know that you don’t care about this lesson, but it doesn’t mean that others are not interested . ”

Once Zhang Heng finished, Professor Steve turned around and grabbed his messy hair .

“Erm… so, this is what you need to know for the J2 engine . You can compare it to the F1 engine behind you . Next, we will take a look at the inter-stage rings . It has eight small rocket thrusters . Its function is to separate itself from the second stage of the rocket . It is considered one of the most important sections of the Saturn V launch vehicle…”

In that hour, Zhang Heng finally got to enjoy the silence that he longed for . It seemed like his warning worked on the girl, and she no longer whispered to him, nor did she grace him with any subtle touches of her body . He could finally focus on the complicated subject at hand . It was already 6 . 20 p . m when Professor Steve finished his first lesson, dragging them on for a good 22 minutes before finally releasing the lot .

“That’s all for today . ”

At that point, everyone simply wished that he would just close his book and leave them . Thankfully, the professor said no more, opened the door, and stylishly left the room . Immediately, every player in the room breathed a massive sigh of relief . The grueling ordeal was over for now . Even the young man who had been paying his full attention for two hours found that he reached a saturation point . Sitting through two hours of nonstop physics was tiresome, to say the least .

Anthony stood up from his seat and stretched in exasperation like an exhausted cat . Suddenly, a short, bald man walked into the room and wiped off the notes of rocket thrust physics from the blackboard . He then picked up the chalk and quickly wrote ‘aerospace engineering theory’ on the blackboard . “Hello, everyone . I know we are on a tight schedule, so I’ll skip the introductions . Welcome to aerospace engineering class . ”

“Hold on . Did you enter the wrong class?” asked the listless young man .

“Oh . There are seven minutes left . There much to cover, and I think we can start covering the basics first . ”

“Problem is, we haven’t had dinner,” groaned the middle-aged man with a bitter smile .

The moment he said that, a meal cart was being pushed into the classroom .

“Don’t worry about it . You can eat while listening . ”