What a coincidence, I also find you familiar.
This is, this is that person, that person... Jiang Hui remembered that she seemed to have seen this person not long after she first arrived in the interstellar world, which is why she felt he looked familiar just now.
Isn't this the teacher she encountered at the hands-on mecha experience class?! The other party had even guided her a few times back then. With so many things happening afterward, Jiang Hui had never thought of him again.
Seeing this face again now suddenly triggered her dormant memory. Jiang Hui remembered that this was the teacher who had explained mecha model assembly to everyone present at that time, apparently an intermediate mecha engineer.
But she remembered he was from some Wanhua Middle School. How could he be at their school? Today should be a school day, and supposedly Beska Intermediate Academy's daily management was quite strict, unlikely to casually allow teachers and students from other schools to enter the campus.
Seeing the nameplate on his chest that clearly bore the Beska Intermediate Academy emblem, Jiang Hui quickly formed a guess - could this person already be a teacher at their school?
Carlo also felt this student looked very familiar. At first glance, he didn't think much of it, but the subsequent vague sense of familiarity lingered, making him somewhat concerned about where exactly he had seen this student before.
This Mr. Carlo was quite a renowned figure even in the central star district. Usually, it was others who sought to meet him. Now encountering some doubt, he naturally asked openly and straightforwardly, without any hesitation.
"Teacher, if you participated in that hands-on class organized by Dongbo Group before the school term started, then we have indeed met," Jiang Hui replied.
Dongbo Group? Hands-on class? This reference was very clear, pointing obviously to a specific event without any other interpretation.
It wasn't a particularly grand event, rather small actually, and was even deliberately arranged by those people from Wanhua Middle School to humiliate him. But what happened that day made a deep impression on Carlo, unforgotten to this day.
It was with that day's events as a prelude that in the following months, Planet 732 and even the entire permanent star system had no peace. Those rebels acted like a disturbed hornet's nest, causing trouble throughout the permanent star system, making the authorities extremely annoyed.
Carlo looked Jiang Hui over and finally managed to dig up an extremely faint memory from the corners of his mind.
No wonder he felt the other party was somewhat familiar yet not quite clear - it was only a brief encounter after all... He had noticed this little student was quite capable back then and had given her some guidance. He hadn't expected to encounter her again after so many days, at this time and place.
"So it's you, little student. So you're a student at the intermediate academy, just enrolled this year?" Carlo was now a teacher at Beska Intermediate Academy, so the other party could be considered his student. What a coincidence, so he casually asked.
Jiang Hui nodded: "I'm a first-year student."
The other party appeared to be around fourteen or fifteen years old, indeed the right age for entering intermediate academy. Carlo had seen the roster from the mecha department - basically all were around this age, some even slightly older.
At this moment, Carlo hadn't considered the possibility that Jiang Hui might not be a Mecha manufacturing department student. Because he had first met her at the hands-on class, he had formed a preconception and naturally assumed Jiang Hui was a Mecha manufacturing department student.
"What book are you here to borrow? If you're looking in the mecha section, it would be better to come back in a few days. The catalog might be missing quite a few books these days." More importantly, Carlo didn't want these students to continue borrowing reference books with obvious fundamental errors in confusion.
Mecha manufacturing was an extremely precise discipline that required learners to have solid foundations and very deep accumulation, while also being a typical profession requiring high mental power. Everyone working in this field basically possessed a certain level and strength of mental power.
This obviously technical discipline wasn't something anyone who wanted to learn could learn. Suitable guiding teachers, extensive reading, and the ability to draw inferences and make connections... none could be lacking. Many people often couldn't even cross the threshold and had to give up their ambition to glimpse this field, accepting that not everyone could become a mecha engineer.
Mecha manufacturing extremely taboos unstable foundations or even being full of errors. Because mechas themselves were "extraordinary combinations" constructed from countless basic modules pieced together, no matter how advanced, they still started from the basics.
Therefore, if the manufacturer had any misunderstanding about a certain knowledge point or couldn't grasp its essence, it could very likely cause a series of errors. When magnified to mecha assembly, this would be fatal.
Carlo always taught students to solidify their foundations, correct errors when found, and never work behind closed doors with arrogance. These erroneous versions or books mixed with outdated technology were, in Carlo's view, simply tumors that delayed student learning and had to be dealt with immediately, without delay.
However, although he was making a suggestion to Jiang Hui, because his tone was somewhat firm in stating facts, it sounded like it carried a hint of command.
Fortunately, Jiang Hui didn't mind this much. She just honestly shook her head and said: "No, it's this one. I don't know which student accidentally put it somewhere else. I was worried that others who wanted to find it couldn't, so I took it upon myself to bring it over." She pointed to the thick volume that had just been returned to its original position.
She had already thoroughly browsed through the mecha section. It was one of the first areas she had "conquered," but unfortunately, there wasn't much useful material. Some were completely like heavenly scripture for someone with zero foundation like her, with different orientations as well, so she hadn't wandered around there much afterward.
So it had been misplaced in the wrong section - no wonder he had searched for so long without finding it, and checking the system showed no record of it being borrowed out.
Carlo relaxed his brow and said: "Thank you, I was just looking for it." He glanced at the catalog number on the book and raised an eyebrow - this was actually an out-of-print edition, one of the best versions among all its editions.
Due to certain controversial issues at the time, the original author had made partial deletions, and subsequent editions became more and more abbreviated, making them less useful. This version was selected by Taro after examining over a dozen versions spanning several generations as the most useful version - he used this same version at home.
This was actually a fortunate blessing in disguise for the library management here. Although there were many erroneous versions and quite a few garbage books that misled students were dug up, there were actually dozens of out-of-print books that were hard to find on the current market - some would require participating in small auctions to purchase now.
With proper management, Beska Intermediate Academy's library would certainly not be inferior to other higher institutions in the future, and might even surpass them. Carlo was confident he could help the students of Beska Intermediate Academy in this regard - it only required small changes in details.