[Ft. Freya Academy.]
As one of the top-ranking high schools in the Far East region, both the teaching facilities and teaching quality are beyond question.
However today, Van noticed that his homeroom teacher, Murata Himeko, who had been rated as an "Excellent Teacher" by the education sector for several consecutive years, was a little off.
Not only was she yawning continuously during class, but she also made several verbal slips while teaching.
Looking at the dark circles under her eyes that couldn't be hidden even by her beautiful appearance, Van couldn't help but sigh, 'Teaching and educating people is really not easy.'
Then, Van's gaze was drawn to a certain paramecium sleeping soundly in front of him.
'This girl, did she stay up all night playing games again yesterday? Or maybe…'
After comforting himself several times, Van turned his gaze to the first two rows of the classroom again, and was greatly shocked by what he saw.
'Why does Mei also look like she didn't sleep well? Just what on earth were those two doing last night?'
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,[Lunchtime, school cafeteria.]
With the end-of-class bell just ringing, many students swarmed in, and unsurprisingly, Van was among them.
After buying his favorite tomato scrambled eggs and a bowl of rice, Van casually found a corner to sit in. However, looking at the mouthwatering tomato eggs on his tray, Van had no appetite at all.
Because he realized, around him, even in the entire cafeteria, almost all the students were discussing Honkai Impact 3rd videos.
This made Van feel extremely distressed. He clearly just wanted to live a peaceful and idle life, so why had things turned out like this?
At this moment, a group of people nearby suddenly exclaimed, "It's here, it's here, it's updated, it's updated!!!"
With the shouts, nearly all the students in the cafeteria quickly took out their phones, ready to watch.
And as for our Van, he silently picked up his tray, preparing to leave the cafeteria. No other reason, just because being watched by others over his past was too embarrassing.
However, before he had even taken a few steps, he heard curses coming from not far in the cafeteria.
"Who was the guy that gave a false report just now? Honkai 3 clearly didn't update!"
"Yeah, yeah! Drag that guy who gave false information out here!"
Perhaps influenced by the passionate atmosphere, the suspected "false informer" spoke out, "Wrongly accused! I never said Honkai 3 updated. I said the uploader I follow, Mr. Rick, updated!"
Hearing this, Van unknowingly returned to his previous seat and peacefully began eating his tomato egg rice bowl.
'As long as it's not that cabbage head, everything is fine.'
———
Meanwhile, on Bilibili.
Many fans in the video section were celebrating like it was New Year.
Because their favorite Uploader, Mr. Rick, had finally updated a new video last night. This made many of Rick's fans say, "It's New Year!"
After seeing the title of Rick's latest video, some fans were even more excited and exclaimed "Double fandom joy!"
[It's here, it's here!]
[Even though Honkai 3 didn't update, Rick is enough!]
[Yay! Rick updated, and the content is still my favorite Honkai 3. This wave is a double blessing!]
At this time, Rick's new video related to Honkai 3 received lots of support from fans, but also drew some "fans" who didn't understand.
They left comments under this video questioning if Rick had taken on a sponsorship.
They sarcastically commented, "Understandable, I mean, making money isn't shameful after all!"
But after these remarks were posted, random netizens immediately clapped back.
[No way, no way, are there still people out here blatantly lying with open eyes?]
[Clearly someone who hasn't seen Honkai 3. With its quality, maybe not unprecedented, but definitely crushes all similar works on the market.]
[Try to understand them. I just looked up these people's viewing history, people who can give Cang Hai Fortress and Project 974 a five-star rating, how much judgment do they really have?]
[Do you really think the weight of nearly a million coins in less than 3 hours is fake?]
After the roasting was done and those with ulterior motives got flamed, netizens once again turned their focus to Rick's video.
And this look, well, it brought a big surprise.
In the video, not only did Rick use his professional film industry knowledge to explain the excellence of Honkai 3's special effects, he also praised the editing.
In Rick's own words, "As someone who majored in directing in university, I can't help but marvel, every shot in this video appears at exactly the right moment. Not exaggerating, it's like it actually happened."
After analyzing the "shooting" techniques used in Honkai 3's prologue, Rick made bold predictions about the upcoming plot based on the visual language and character lines.
"What comes next is my personal subjective speculation, so I hope fans don't take it too seriously."
After a brief disclaimer, Rick began sharing his thoughts on the future plot.
To summarize, a classic story of girls saving the world. Although there might be hardships and obstacles along the way, the outcome will be a happy one.
At the end of the video, Rick rarely appeared on camera himself and said, "Honkai 3 made me see hope again in the film and television industry. They've proven that if you wholeheartedly refine your content, you can produce films that make people applaud."
"At the same time, I hope the main creative team behind Honkai 3 will continue to tell us an unforgettable story in the upcoming plot, and that it will be a healthy, sunny, and uplifting work."
With that, Rick's video came to an end, leaving netizens in endless discussion.
———
On the other side, Bronya, who had just finished the "World Hacker Tournament," was on her way back to school.
Though for a genius girl like her, high school could no longer teach her much, Bronya still planned to finish all three years of high school.
Not for any other reason, just because she liked the youthful atmosphere of high school and her two irreplaceable close friends.
Thinking of this, Bronya took out her phone, ready to tell her friend that she would be returning soon.
But the moment she opened her phone, she saw that Kiana had sent her a private message with a video link.
[Smug Bronya! Come quickly and admire this lady's elegant form!]
"This idiot… day after day, who knows what's in her head…" Though Bronya said that, she still opened the video Kiana sent.
And then… Bronya's CPU burned out.
'What the hell? There's actually a movie out there that wants Kiana to play the lead?!'
'Wait! Why is Sister Mei in it too?!'
'What?! You're saying I'm in it too?!'
Seeing this, Bronya's first reaction was that the video was AI-generated. But then she denied her own conclusion.
According to the recently issued "Artificial Intelligence Usage Act," if AI-generated content involves real people, consent must be obtained from the individuals involved.
But Bronya was sure that she hadn't received any related notice emails during this time.
'Which means this video, its production party broke the law!'
You can't blame Bronya for thinking this way. Because in her opinion, "parallel universes" are theories with no scientific basis, and are almost impossible to exist.
After all, if the world truly could prove the existence of parallel universes, then with her status as the "Silver Wolf of Ural," she would definitely have found some clues.
Thinking of this, Bronya opened an unknown chat app on her phone.
She found a group chat named "Stellaron Hunters."
[Silver Wolf: Everyone, has there been any recent news in the academic world about 'parallel universes'?]
After the message was sent, someone with the ID "Sam" replied, [As far as I know, there hasn't been any news on that... Of course, you can also ask Kafka. She knows more about this than I do.]
Ding-dong~
Just as Bronya was preparing to ask more details, she suddenly felt her phone vibrate in her pocket.
Bronya took it out and saw that it was a notification from a specially followed Uploader.
And that Uploader, was none other than the one she had just followed, Mihoyo's No. 1 Idol, Ai-chan.
This means that video with her and her two best friends had updated again.
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