I was forced to be the captain of the ghost ship by mistake

Chapter 129
10 month 1 number.

This day was just one month after Tu Fu entered school.

It is also the date of the start of this Göttinghagen Freshmen Challenge Cup. The quality of the freshmen who compete with each other between the two universities is tested through this method.

However, this year, due to the education fund issued by King William II, the Challenge Cup has been dubbed the "King's Cup".

Regardless of whether it is Columbia University or Michigan State University, the participating teams from all major colleges have competed in ability, capital, and connections in a very short period of time, all in preparation for the arrival of this day.

The venue of the competition happened to be at the University of Göttinghagen. The university that has risen in recent years cannot afford to lose this person at its doorstep.

A few days after receiving the finished experiment, Tu Fu followed several team members from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Charles Kane and Professor Fran, who led the team from the University of Michigan, and they jointly represented the instructors of the school in the competition .

Also traveling together are the School of Mechanical Technology, the School of Natural Sciences, the School of Biology, and the School of Medicine, although some schools are here to make up the number.

But one more group of people will increase the chance of winning the first place. Everyone knows this truth.

More than ten leading teachers and thirty participating students took the earliest steam train together, and luxuriously booked two carriages to separate the professors from the students.

In addition to bringing some luggage, Tu Fu also noticed that the people from the Institute of Mechanical Technology used a white cloth to pack the invention they were going to announce. I heard that Crane said it was a table-sized textile machine.

Although the major colleges are careful to hide the inventions that will be displayed today, it is a large-scale competition after all, except for the well-connected and well-informed son of the prime minister like Kelan.

Few contestants took the initiative to learn about the works of other groups.

After all, most of the players participating in the competition are proud and arrogant, firmly believe that they can win, and don't bother to check other people's competition works.

So, on the way to Columbia University, the overall atmosphere of the students from various colleges gathered in the carriage passed in an eerie silence.

"Woo~"

No more, no less, for two hours, the steel monster spewing high-temperature steam on the railroad tracks slowed down after a burst of turbulence, and finally stopped safely at the Central Station.

Tu Fu stared blankly out of the window. After returning to such a metropolis in a rural area like Villedot, it seemed like a lifetime had passed in just one month. It felt like a migrant worker entering the city.

"Gentlemen and ladies, please take your luggage and things, we are here."

The college teacher at hand was a middle-aged professor from the School of Mechanical Engineering. After giving instructions to the group of young children, he carefully ordered people to carry the invention down.

Even the School of Humanities and Social Sciences where Tu Fu works needs to transport a large generator.

Fortunately, there are dedicated people responsible for these trivial matters.

"Göttinghagen, I'm finally back."

Holding the electric light in a wooden box, Tu Fu got out of the car first and took several breaths of fresh air.

He glanced at the noble son David and the prime minister's son Kelan, who were casually chatting about where they should go to spend money in the city after the game.

When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, no one is more professional than them.

Bella and Elena in the girl group talked about the new season's clothing and handbags. No matter what age, women will never be able to do without such topics.

In fact, no matter which school the students are, they are fed up with the life of the university in the rural areas, and they can't help but feel excited when they see this bustling big city.

"Beep beep..."

As soon as the teachers and students of Mississauga came out of the station, several steam buses with the Columbia University logo had already arrived. It was a kind of steam bus with a red nose at the front, which took up almost half of the body.

There was a compartment at the back that could seat about a dozen people, but there were only four wheels under the bus, and a thin white smoke was emitting from the exhaust pipe on the roof.

Once it is running, it makes a rattling sound like a tractor.

However, this battle also showed the rich and powerful demeanor of Columbia University, and there was more than one special steam bus to pick up and drop off, to greet several teachers with smiles on their faces,

"Welcome to the teachers and students of the University of Michigan to come to Göttinghagen, and we will be in charge of your itinerary."

"Hello, I also hope to have a wonderful game today."

Professor Kane is also very understanding of etiquette and politeness to each other. Everyone said that friendship is the first and competition is the second, and they wished to crush each other to death.

That's a hundred thousand kroner for education, enough to make any friendship come to naught.

"Stop rambling, it's better to save these words until after the game."

Professor Fran shook his head impatiently. Immediately, several people noticed the elderly gentleman with a white beard, and immediately recognized him.

The professor who was abandoned by the Göttinghagen Institute actually came to this competition.

Immediately, some acquaintances at Columbia University laughed: "Heh, even old Fran is here. It seems that not only are the students, but even the professors at the University of Michigan are not as good as each other. It is really sad."

"I hope you will be as rebellious as you are now."

Professor Fran didn't bother with the other party.

Over the years, Columbia University's success in various fields is unquestionable, whether it is the level of teaching, or the expansion of power, under the hard money of a lot of money, it has also embarked on a quite successful path.

Let the teachers and students in this college be very proud.

When the steam bus that Tu Fu and his party took drove in from outside, they soon came to a beautiful campus.

This is a modern university that is more than twice as wide as Michigan State University. All buildings are built in a unified style in recent years. High-rise teaching buildings and apartments, grocery stores, artisan shops, clothing stores, and food streets are all available. .

Through the window of the car, those Columbia students were unscrupulously pointing the students to start the car and go to Michigan University.

"Look, the hillbillies from the University of Michigan are here. They must have never taken the steam bus of Columbia University. After all, they can only ride horses in Villedot."

"If I remember correctly, the champions of the Challenge Cup have fallen to our school several times in a row."

"After all, such a school only has history to brag about, and it's really not worth mentioning."

"Gentlemen and ladies, how about admitting defeat in advance, so that it is only half of the loss?"

The temperament of the students here is obviously a lot looser. At least in Tufu, it is rare to see idlers and other idlers in the school on weekdays.

It's no wonder that Winnie is always Hei Geda, a worthless nouveau riche, and it's not at the same level as the well-established UM University, which is not unreasonable now.

The harsh words below fell on the UM students in the car over and over again. The professors in the car in front of them are used to it. When they come to Columbia University every year, this has become a regular item. If you don’t listen to the ridicule a few times, you will feel that the relationship between each other is unfamiliar. up.

And the new students had never seen such a battle before, many of them were flushed with anger, wishing to go down and clean up those cheap-talking guys.

Faced with such a situation, Klan and Elena, who had received aristocratic education, were calm.

It's not that they have a good temper, it's just that they are no longer surprised by such scenes.

Their father was never polite when there were disputes in parliament and the like, especially when he quarreled with people sometimes, he was not much different from street hooligans, and the competition was all about momentum.

The more opponents and enemies use such methods to stimulate them, the more anxious they are.Trying to make them make mistakes in this way, good education makes them have a more stable quality,
And David Smith of the Emerging Class secretly recorded the faces of those who spoke satirically, trying to find an opportunity to teach them a lesson after the game.

"You're not angry at all."

It was at this time that David noticed that Tu Fu maintained the same calmness. After entering the campus of Columbia University, he sat steadily in the car without saying a word from beginning to end.

If I remember correctly, he didn't come from a wealthy family, and the parents with the highest education level in the family also left early. It's really not easy to maintain such self-cultivation.

"It's a trivial matter, why bother to be angry about it."

Tu Fu didn't seem to care, but after saying this, he opened the window directly, showed a just right smile to the shouting Columbia students outside, and deliberately raised his voice several notches:

"After all, in my opinion, for those nouveau riche who can only spend money to build schools and have no background, they are essentially no different from the aborigines in the southern continent. They always wave their fists or scream to frighten them into their territory of outsiders.

But at the University of Michigan, even the dog in front of the library knows better than any gentleman here what it means to be a civilized person. "

(End of this chapter)