Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 4: Isabel

　　The city of Gordon is like a furnace in June, except of five or six o'clock in the morning. The air is fragrant with morning dew, and in the occasional breeze that brushes your cheek, there is no dryness, all freshness. The campus at six o'clock, like a quiet girl, slowly coming from the morning twilight, compared with the evening, it is like two different worlds.

　　After breakfast, Orion Crest wandered slowly to the library.

　　Gordon University is a nationally renowned institution for advanced study, at this time of the day, outside the open space of library has already a lot of people reading in the morning. Orion took out the book, although it is not as good as inside the library, but with the surrounding atmosphere of learning, the place is also considered to be just right.

         Students waited until half past seven, the library staff finally opened the doors. Like a tidal wave of people pouring in, the open space in front of the library soon cleared out.

　　Orion went to the bookshelf and picked out the book of Advanced Algebra before heading to the corner of the library to find a secluded seat. By rough estimation, it would take one or two hours to read through the book in immersive reading, judging from the number of pages remaining at the moment, the book in his hand, "New Lectures on Mathematical Analysis", could at most last for the whole morning. When it was time for the afternoon, he planned to take this opportunity to catch up on his knowledge in Advanced algebra as well.

　　Taking a deep breath, Orion Crest flipped the New Lectures on Mathematical Analysis to where he had tucked his bookmark yesterday and continued to focus his attention on the book.

　　Soon, he once again entered the same state as yesterday, the whole person forgets about external things, as if the world is only himself and a book ...... time passed by, eleven thirty at noon, Orion Crest let out a long breath and put down the book in his hand.

　　This "New Lectures on Mathematical Analysis" is considered to be thoroughly read, and its value factor has been reduced to 5. This also just confirmed Orion's guess that the system's value coefficient rating for the book was not based on the average academic community, but rather on his own level of knowledge.

　　As for why it was 5 instead of 0, it could be that there were still places hidden in the book that he hadn't fully read through, and he might have to read it again if he wanted to fully understand it. But Orion Crest obviously will not do so, in order to finish those 5 points of value factor and waste the precious time of in-depth reading, it is a losing business.

　　Just as it was time for lunch, Orion Crest put down the book in his hands and headed out of the library. When he passed by the main entrance of the library, he glanced at the hologram at the entrance and saw that the remaining time of the mission had become 18 hours.

　　Orion Crest suddenly felt that it would be fine if the mission wasn't completed so quickly, in just 6 hours, he felt that he had learnt more than he had in the whole last year.

　　Thinking about the Advanced Algebra book that was sitting on his desk still unopened, Orion Crest stroked his chin as he walked on his way to the cafeteria.

　　There was a programming language C exam at the end of the semester, should I find another C book to read?

　　And English...

　　Just don't know if there's a value factor for English books, not for those English newspapers sitting in front of the library anyway... This UTS system, it seems to have a strange bias against liberal arts majors, which isn't good.

          After lunch, Orion Crest hurried back to the library. Firstly, he went to the counter to return the books he had read, then he went to the bookshelf, took a copy of "Programming in C, Fifth Edition" and returned to his seat.