CHAPTER 706: CHAPTER 710: INTERSTELLAR HEARTTHROB (29)

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"At the front, students, please put on your devices. We are about to enter the historical simulation classroom to study a year of great significance in interstellar history."

In the Cosmic Alliance Middle School classroom, the teacher, while speaking, took the lead and pressed the wires against both of her temples.

Soon, the scene shifted. As if they were truly there, they arrived in the interstellar calendar year 4976.

It was the time when Free Will officially announced their formation to the entire interstellar community.

Not long after, the teacher’s students appeared beside her. Once everyone had entered the simulation classroom, the teacher began to walk and explain the knowledge points that the students needed to master today.

Everything in the simulation classroom was produced in the mind. With the development of technology to this extent, many possibilities had been realized.

Perhaps in a few hundred years, their study of history wouldn’t need to take place in a simulated classroom in the mind but could involve directly traveling back to the actual year in history, witnessing the events unfold as a bystander.

"Today, we’re going to discuss a character who had the most significant impact on Free Will."

"I know this one—it’s Su Li, right?"

The teacher gave the student who had just answered an appreciative look, saying, "This student has done well. You must have studied before class."

Seeing this student praised, the other students were not to be outdone and expressed that they too had prepared in advance.

"Me, me, I also know... He was one of the most influential figures of that era. Many people were his supporters. If the Federation ever thought about making a move on him, they would face an uprising from the public..."

"It’s said that his true identity was actually a woman, and he even had a daughter... Later, even his husband came forward to explain, but without a response from the original owner, the doubts about his gender have never ceased."

"Honestly, whether he’s male or female, with his looks, he’s irresistible to both men and women. After seeing him, the difficulty of finding a partner has definitely raised above the ordinary."

"Not only that, his Combat Power was off the charts, full of boyfriend potential.... Actually, thinking about it, it’s still hard to believe he was a woman, especially considering that the first queen in the history of the Empire, Queen Sophie, once said that because of Su Li’s words: ’Girls must take good care of themselves when outside.’ She never found a husband to her liking and thus focused on power and became the first queen."

"Queen Sophie said she never felt that sincere, heartfelt concern from anyone else. She became so powerful that she protected everyone, but no one knew that her greatest wish was to live as a little princess, protected and cherished for life."

"I’ve seen it too, was it in the memoirs Queen Sophie had filmed in her later years, right?"

"I also remember Queen Sophie saying that because of that casual remark, she missed out on a lifetime, remained single forever, because she never met someone who would tell her to take care of herself when she went out. Everyone thought she was invincible, the guardian deity of the Empire..."

"When I watched that video, I was moved to tears. It sounded so poignantly regretful."

"Could some love be regardless of gender, needing only that specific person..."

"Eh, I can’t accept what you’re saying. The relationship between Su Li and the queen wasn’t love, right? It doesn’t even seem like friendship. They reportedly only met once when Su Li rescued the then-Princess Queen and even thought about blackmailing her initially...."

As the discussion continued, the teacher’s intervention became unnecessary. The students’ gossips grew increasingly off-topic, completely unrelated to the lesson at hand.

They began sharing juicy tidbits they’d heard from various sources until the teacher, unable to bear it, coughed loudly several times to quiet the increasingly excited students.

The students, one by one, smacked their lips, still eager to sneak in a few more words when the teacher wasn’t paying attention.

"Look, I, I saw Su Li wink at me..."

"How is that possible..."

Suddenly, a boy pointed at the image of Su Li, who was walking in front of them and exclaimed.

But his words were not believed by everyone; they all thought he was playing a prank. The teacher warned severely, "Please do not talk nonsense. The conscious classroom we are currently in is based on special new technology that 100% restores the historical scene of that time. However, from a technical perspective, it has not reached the ability to unravel the mysteries of time and directly travel to that historical moment, so what you’re saying is absolutely impossible."

"The image of Su Li we are seeing is also the only time he was ever secretly captured on camera, a precious piece of footage."

"But I really did see it..." The boy was initially scared, thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him, but after rubbing them several times, he became sure of what he’d seen.

His consciousness must have accidentally entered a parallel timespace. He’d seen the real Su Li, but it must belong to another timespace, a different moment in time.

Now, the theory of parallel universes was discussed repeatedly, yet time and space remain the most enigmatic phenomena. Who knows what triggers their tangible realization?

The boy didn’t argue with the teacher and his classmates. Looking again, everything was normal, as if it were a mere illusion.

Only he knew that in those brief moments, something happened that no one else was aware of.

Such a simple experience, unknown even to the boy himself, laid a profound and significant foundation for his future choices.

For the birth of a great space-time scientist.

And this scientist, who would go on to create the first time machine, was currently just a middle school student misunderstood by his teacher.

In a fleeting moment, Su Li felt an odd gaze on her. Looking intently, she saw the stare of a child through a thin rift in time.

Su Li smiled and nodded at the child, then watched as an astonished, ghost-like expression appeared on the child’s face.

Su Li couldn’t help but laugh at the child’s reaction.

But soon, the rift repaired itself, and the child disappeared from her sight.

In that reset small world, Su Li gained a new understanding of time, and the overlap of different moments within the same world brought her new insights.