Alice in the Land of Steam

Doesn’t Chapter 37 meet Alice’s criteria for choosing a partner?

After two history classes, it was lunch time. Lingge was a good teacher who never delayed the class. He announced the end of get out of class almost on time, and then silently watched the naughty children run home like wild horses to find food. After everyone left, he came to the table at the back of the classroom and knocked on the table lightly, making a "tap tap" sound: "It's time to wake up, Miss Alice."

"what?"

The golden-haired maid looked up, bewildered: "Is get out of class over?"

Lingen nodded and said, "If you don't want to leave get out of class, you can stay and sit in on the math class in the afternoon."

Alice suddenly perked up, stood up from her chair, and said righteously: "Let's go back, it's time to prepare lunch, don't keep Metien waiting too long!"

What she hates most is math class, second only to Chinese, foreign languages, physics, geography, history, chemistry and other subjects.

Lingge didn't comment on this and turned to leave the classroom. Alice hurriedly packed up her notebook and followed him happily.

The two of them left the classroom and walked along the corridor towards the school gate. The violets in the flowerbed were blooming in the cold winter, with a rich fragrance. Alice was naughty and liked to touch their petals. If she was seen by the gardener, she would be scolded. But her luck was better after all, and this did not happen until the two of them left the teaching building.

Although it was a cold month, the weather was sunny. As the school is close to the suburbs, the air quality near the school is quite good. When you look up, you can see the clear blue sky dotted with a few soft white clouds. This scene is refreshing and is absolutely unimaginable for people living in the city, whose lives are only filled with smoke, haze and gloomy clouds.

She didn't speak, so Linger took the initiative to ask her: "What about you, Miss Alice, how are your academic performance in the world over there?"

Alice curled her lips. She knew that a true academic master would always say this, so she didn't believe his modesty. Moreover, with her strong willpower, she forcibly resisted the urge to continue asking. She didn't want to hear Lingge rattling off a bunch of awards, which would deal an overwhelming blow to her intelligence.

"Thoughts? Does Marshal Napoleon count as being very powerful?"

Alice thought hard and racked her brains: "Besides that, well, I feel that the history of this world... is a little too confusing."

Linger nodded and asked her again: "So, after two history lessons this morning, what do you think?"

He saved the country from collapse and turned it around, and turned a country on the verge of extinction into a powerful continent. More importantly, he did not claim to be an emperor, so he was not liquidated. In the end, he died of old age and was buried in the royal cemetery. Compared with his counterparts on Earth, his ending was much better.

"It may be normal to you, but to me, it's just very confusing." Alice said, handing him her notes: "If you don't believe me, take a look?"

This is the truth. In the girl's life as long as she can remember, it seems that she only has memories of hiding in her room playing games, and no memories of her attending classes and studying on campus. It is as if she was born to be a talented gamer, and not any other identity.

"Na Shuai is of course a heroic figure. Even the little kids on the street know about this." Linger glanced at her and said, "Besides that?"

"generally."

Good weather also brings good mood. Alice stretched out in the sun, feeling refreshed in every bone of her body. She exhaled lightly, looked at Lingge walking in front of her, and suddenly she felt playful and walked forward by following Lingge's shadow like a child.

"confusion?"

In order to prevent Ling Ge from finding out, she even deliberately found a topic to distract him: "Come to think of it, you are quite a decent teacher. You were a pastor before. One is a profession of deceiving people, and the other is a profession of educating people. How did you make the seamless transition? Is it your acting skills?"

Lingge opened her notebook and frowned. To be honest, these mysterious magic spells could only be understood by the person who recorded them. So he returned the notebook and told her honestly, "I don't understand."

"Me?" Alice was startled for a moment, then scratched her hair: "I don't know."

"Uh-huh."

If you want to find out the reason, maybe it’s because there is no Waterloo Bridge in the other world?

Just take a look.

Lingge didn't quite understand what she meant, and frowned, "From the Genesis to the Ancient Century, from the Middle Ages to the New Century, the thread of history is clear, so how can it be said to be confusing?"

Ling replied: “When I was in college, I had the experience of teaching in place of an instructor.”

"So that's how it is. So, you did very well in college?"

"That's it?"

Alice took this opportunity to look down on him severely, and then explained: "These are all historical figures from your world: Columbus, Magellan, Darwin, and Martin Luther and Marshal Napoleon mentioned in class just now, as well as their corresponding deeds."

Alice didn't include the prank neta such as "The Count of Bentosan" and "The Three Gunners". It turns out that she really took notes seriously.

Lingge nodded to show that he was listening and asked her to continue.

"What if I tell you that these people have also appeared in the history of the Earth world? And their positions are very similar." Alice clapped her notes: "Columbus and Magellan are explorers, Darwin is a scientist, the great mentor Marx is a thinker and philosopher, Martin Luther is a theologian, Napoleon is a military genius and a hero who saves the country... These can all match up, but when it comes to the specific deeds, it seems a mess."

The great mentor led the bourgeois revolution in Britain, and the European emperor helped the enemy countries win the Hundred Years' War. How crazy must one be to write such a crap?
Alice certainly couldn't write it anyway.

After listening to her story, Lingge became thoughtful and subconsciously slowed down his pace.

If Alice is not making this up, then perhaps it can be proved that there is indeed some kind of connection between the two worlds, and it has been influencing them since long ago. Alice, the alien visitor who fell from the sky, is not an isolated case. Before her, or after her, will there be more nodes connecting the history of the two worlds?

Of course, Lingge didn't want to consider these complicated things for the time being. As a university student majoring in history, he was simply curious about the history of another world. He wanted to know what kind of deeds these historical figures mentioned by Alice had in another world, and what position they occupied in the long river of history.
So he turned around and said to his maid, "Alice."

"what?"

"After you go back, can you tell me about the history of your world?"

"No!" He refused flatly.

"why?"

"I'm very busy!" he said confidently.

"What if I find out in the end that you're not actually busy?"

"Ugh!" Guilty and flustered.

Under Ling's calm gaze, Alice raised her hands in surrender and agreed with frustration: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you! You are a black-hearted employer who exploits maids!"

The last sentence was whispered quietly. Although Ling Ge heard it, he didn't care. After getting a positive answer, he retracted his gaze and continued to walk towards the school gate, saying: "As a reward, you can take some books from the bookshelf in my room to read. The only requirement is that there should be no damage."

"Really!?"

Alice didn't expect that she would be rewarded. Her eyes lit up and she was so touched that she decided not to ask for any more blackmail before going to bed tonight.

"Also," Linger continued, "you can come to school to audit my classes in the future, like today. If you are interested in other courses, I will apply to Mrs. Scarlett and give you a temporary voucher. Of course, the premise of all this is that you don't delay your own work, understand?"

"..."

Alice was more than just touched. She was also a little suspicious: "Why are you so nice to me all of a sudden, Lingge? Do you like me?"

"Although this guy is a bit handsome, Alice doesn't like the three-no type, the tsundere type, and the asshole type. If you really want to know her criteria for choosing a partner, at least he should be a human rights character, right? The kind that will be strong for three years after it appears and won't be weakened for three years."

Alice expressed her inner thoughts through narration.

Ling'er's ears automatically filtered out her nonsense, and he replied expressionlessly: "It's just because your performance today made me feel that you are not hopeless to some extent."

"Oh? Are you complimenting me?"

“You can take that as a yes.”

"Hey, I'm not that good."

"You really take it as it is?"

“Eh, isn’t it!?”

The conversation between the master and servant gradually faded away until it was lost in the wind of the campus.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)