It was a small room.

Clean, but very monotonous.

The floor, the walls, the ceiling, as far as the eye can see, the only color in the room is gray, bare, without a trace of decoration.

The gray cypress wardrobe leaned quietly against the corner, the wardrobe door was half-open, and a red robe of Jiuyou Academy hung alone.

The gray stone desk crouched coldly in front of the bed, and there was no lamp, no books, no ghost detectors, not even a decent table clock on the bare desk, there was really nothing.

Next to the desk, there is a small single bed.

The bed was covered with gray linen sheets and covers.

Orange sunlight peeked into the room from the window, dappling light and shadow on the small single bed.

This light is the only color that distinguishes the room.

Nicholas sat cross-legged, leaning against the cold wall, on the bed.

His upper body was shrouded in the shadows of the room, while his legs and feet were exposed to the orange light.

Here is his dormitory at First University.

Maybe it's the inability to match his grade accurately, maybe it's the awkward atmosphere that prevents him from living with other classmates, maybe it's just to give him a better environment to study.

Since entering Jiuyou Academy, the dormitory manager Ni Wuye has arranged such a single room for him.

The gray quill burped in satisfaction and began to bubble in the inkwell, urging his master to use it quickly.

After Nicholas straightened the notepad on his lap, he picked up the quill and wrote skillfully:

"Dear Mother......"

After writing these words, he stuffed the quill into the black inkwell again, dipped it, and sighed:

"It's been a long time since I've written to you, and may you be well in heaven. ”

The quill in his hand paused, and Nicholas suddenly felt that relying on the piety of this blessing, perhaps he should have chosen to enter the Atlas Academy in the first place.

But he quickly discarded the funny thought, shook his head, and continued to write:

"I'm fine and so is Liz. ”

"Praise to the Institute of Pharmacy. Without the trouble of hemophilia, Liz has shown a very strong talent...... Even more talented than her brother me. ”

"Yesterday at Bell Lake, while chatting with the old man of Verne, who guards the docks, you will remember, he has a dog of unknown age, and he praised Liz's talent in front of me. ”

"'Unprecedented genius,' he gestured exaggeratedly, as if to encompass the whole lake, 'I bet she'll grow up to be a public scholarship student at Alpha Academy!'"

Writing this, Nicholas suddenly remembered what happened to him at Alpha Academy, and immediately hesitated to cross out this sentence.

But he quickly gave up on this act of covering his ears and stealing the bell, and instead added a sentence below:

"Of course, it's her business which house Liz wants to go into when she grows up, and I think you'll respect her choice as well - it doesn't seem to me that the house is very welcoming to wizards like us, so I'd recommend that she choose a few other houses. ”

"For example, Nine Colleges and Universities. ”

"You should know that the results of my retake at Star Academy last year were not satisfactory. He was supposed to be ordered to drop out of school. ”

"But thanks to the school's concern, I was allowed to take it again and stay at the university of your dreams. ”

"It's just that you can't guess which college I was accepted into this time...... Nine has the academy, the academy that you only go to for nerds. ”

"You're right, this academy is full of nerds...... And stupid. ”

As he wrote the last word, a gentle smile appeared on Nicholas' face, and he raised his head, squinted, and looked out the window into the orange sun.

It seemed to be back to the afternoon when I first met her.

On the wet lakeside, the air was still filled with the stench left after the fish-man left, and the Alpha's guide roared at her menacingly: "...... If you let it go, let it go...... Why are you so stupid!"

What did Fei Fei say at the time?

Nicholas' head tilted back hard, slamming against the dusty wall, and then he remembered.

She didn't contradict her guide, just kept repeating 'I don't know'.

Then he helped her slap out a few words to the alpha guide.

The corners of Nicholas's mouth twitched downward, admiring his original choice from the bottom of his heart.

He dipped his gray quill in an inkwell and continued to write on the spread letterhead:

"The teaching philosophy of Jiuyou Academy is completely different from that of Alpha. ”

"It seems that the only way the college evaluates students is by test scores — no talent bonuses, no letters of recommendation, no club activities. Those guys with high grades in Alpha Academy are afraid that they will become a crane tail car when they come to Jiuyou Academy. After all, in the Nine Beings Academy, they had no way to earn credits with the spells given by the bloodline. ”

"Only by mastering the fixed spells and knowledge points in the textbook can you get the corresponding credits. ”

"I was very fortunate to have the help of a government scholarship student. ”

"She is the first year student of Jiuyou Academy, she is very smart, very powerful, and she can learn what the professor says in class almost in the blink of an eye. It's only been a month since the start of school, and she's already starting to prepare for the exams for the second half of the semester. ”

"She was also a very beautiful, very gentle girl. ”

"Sometimes, I can't help but think that God's personality is really very bad. He has given some people superhuman wisdom and beautiful bodies, but he has given others mutilated life. And then let them meet together. ”

At this point, Nicholas stopped his pen and looked up at the window again.

The gaze was a little misty.

......

"Why are you so stupid!" a boy sighed helplessly to the girl next to him: "Don't touch the stone beasts in the corridor casually, they will beat you..."

The girl puffed out her mouth and tied the big snake in her hand into eighteen knots.

......

"You're dumber than me!" the girl rolled a thin vine with her fingertips, pointing at the boy, laughing: "You can't use such a simple spell......"

The boy looked at the mess under his feet, crying and laughing.

......

"You're stupid! I'll call you stupid from now on. The girl spread out the straw paper in front of her and muttered, "Look, I'll do the math for you again." ”

The boy next to him nodded submissively.

......

"Didn't you play well?, why did you only take a second-level exam in the Fu Gong grade?" The boy babbled and blamed himself: "Did you help me make up for the class so that you didn't have time to review..."

"You're such a big idiot!" the girl wrinkled her nose and threw a tantrum.

......

"Stupid, what's for lunch!"

"Boiled eggs and egg fried rice. ”

......

"Stupid, go to the library and take a seat with me!"

"Okay..."

......

"Stupid ......"

"What's the matter?"

“... Can't remember... Call you again when I think about it, stupid. ”

"Oh..."

......

These sweet memories flowed in his mind, but the quill pen in Nicholas's hand kept brushing and writing.

“...... The purpose of the Nine Talents Academy is to pursue the ultimate justice and equality, which is in stark contrast to the liberal justice of Alpha. ”

"I can't tell which side is right and which is wrong. ”

"But for me, staying at Jiuyou Academy may be a little bit more belonging. ”

"I'm going to keep going no matter what. ”

"Just as you hope, Mom. ”

"It's getting colder, so put a blanket on your bed at night. When the first snow falls, remember to pick two snowflakes for me and Liz. Liz is now a favorite of star-shaped pine needle snowflakes, and she says that the hexagons of the snowflakes are like the Christmas gifts you drew for her as a child — she still doesn't know you're drawing a sleeping charm. ”

"It's late, I'm going to the library to review my homework. ”

"I hope that the next time I write to you, I will bring you some better news. ”

"May Merlin bless us. ”

Drop the quill and let it roll on the ground a few times, spitting out drops of ink along the way.

Nicholas tilted his head and stared blankly at the dormitory window.

It was an equally narrow window, about a meter high and less than half a meter wide.

The windowsill is more than a meter above the ground.

There are no curtains on the arched lintels, and the cross-shaped ridges are inserted into the thick walls on all sides, supporting the thin glass side.

Nicholas jumped out of bed, shook his numb legs, pulled open the wooden cabinet under the desk, and stuffed the folded letter inside.

Sunlight streamed through his fingers.

The wooden cabinet was full of letters.