The Dark King – Chapter 7
Radiation values
Gray and his wife were not angry. It is a good thing for children to have their own opinions. They are not serfs. So it was plaudible for them to have a child with assertive personality.
“Unfortunately, the doctor is too difficult to get started.” Jura said with some regret. Dudian is a clever child. Unfortunately, it was very late to enter studies to become a doctor.
“Well, what do you want to study?” Gray smiled.
Dudian looked up at them and said, “The law.”
“Law?” Gray hesitated a bit, Jura ask: “Dean, do you know what sort of career that is?
“I know, it is one of the three major civilian occupations. It has better prestige than a doctor.” Actually Gray had brought a career table to Dudian. It had information regarding job descriptions and qualifications needed to work as one. This table had helped Dudian to have better understanding of possible study directions and future benefits.
“I just want to be a bit clear. The law school is the hardest to study. Its more difficult than medical studies. You need very flexible thinking and logical ability. Although you are a smart boy but do compare law school’s level to studies that you had in orphanage. It is very difficult to graduate from law school and become a qualified official.”
Dudian looked straight at him, insisting: “I wanted to study law no matter what”
Gray frowned slightly. This is the first time Dudian was so persistent in front of them so he didn’t know how to refuse. Ever since the last time Avril house refused the marriage proposal, Gray and Jura had begun to accept Dudian as their “own” child. As a result they didn’t want to hurt his feelings.”
Dudian looked at her, silently thought “I want to study the law, not to comply, but to break it!”
Gray sighed and said, “All right.”
Dudian heart was relieved. He looked at them, said: “Thank you!
When he heard Dudian, Gray ‘s face smiled again, and said, “If you choose, stick to it. If you want to give up sometime in the future, then you are going to come back to learn to saw with me. A textile worker is good enough to feed yourself.”
Dudian nodded slightly.
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After the rainy season the temperatures also pick up a lot.
Three days before school assessment.
There is a special festival called “Prayer day”.
Each household in groups goes to the central neighborhood to Cathedral of Vía.
They pray to Father the God to let them safely pass through the next season. So that god helps to avoid plagues and diseases.
This is a grand ceremony.
Gray and his wife went to pray with Dudian. Dudian also first met the world’s faith, Holy Light Church. There is just a bright cathedral built in a residential sub-area. A huge sculpture of the four-winged angel sculpture was built in the middle of the square, with both hands embracing all the believers, full of kindness and harmony.
Three days after the “prayer day”, various schools began their enrollments.
Dudian was led by the Gray couple to law school. They walked for about ten kilometers to reach the law school. Parents and children were bustling in front of the entrance. Parents and children were dressed in simple clothing. Most of them had clear skin color with few others with yellowish skin. There were almost no people with rough skin which meant that children of lower social statuses didn’t even bother to bring their children for enrollment examination. After all the law school is a notorious one in Silva and tuition fees are expensive. Low social status civilians couldn’t afford the fees.
“I heard that you want to enter the law school, but also through the assessment.”
“Yeah but if it does not go through I’m thinking about Sewing Institute or maybe Geological Institute?”
“I do not know too. The assessment should be quite hard.”
Some parents talked quietly.
“Does the Law School’s assessment began yet?”
“It should be similar to our medical school assesment.” Jura blinked, bowed to Dudian said: “I remember the test to ask few simple things. In our medical college examination it was about memory, it should be almost the same here. ”
Gray dawn over. He smiled: “It is up to you now. It depends on your own performance. In case you fail there is nothing to worry about as we can go to Sewing Institute for registration”
Dudian mind turned a supercilious. He would be more than happy if the examination was about memory test. In old era children with IQ range of 120 to 140 were labeled as geniuses. His daredevil sister had 142 IQ. However his result from IQ test was 168. He never forgets the day that he was accepted to Harvard University at the age of twelve.
Their siblings IQ was high because of inherited gene from parents. Both of them were international scientists. If the disaster didn’t broke out, with “cold storage” invention they should have gained an international science award.
At this time, it was Dudian’s turn to enter as the children before him had gone into to assessment room in succession.
“Parents should stay here. Child go into the assessment room.” A middle-aged scholar-like person blocked the Gray couple.
“Dean, come on!” Jura tried to inspire Dudian. Dudian saw the happiness reflect in her eyes.
In the spacious room, Dudian saw a man and a woman. Two middle-aged examiners dressed in black robe, gowned with complex gold silk embroidery patterns. They looked simple and gorgeous. They saw Dudian, smiled: “Child, come over”.
Dudian stepped forward.
“I will ask you a question. You have a frying pan and it can fry only two fish at the same time. To fry one side takes a minute. If I would like to fry three fish how many minutes would it take the fastest?”Middle-aged woman smiled.
“Three minutes,” said Dudian without thinking.
The question was not difficult but both examiners got surprised. Even the most clever children would need some time to think to answer the question. To say the correct answer directly without any time to consider, Dudian had a positive impression on them.
“You pass child. You are very smart.” The right middle-aged man smiled, said: “Take this, go next to the physical examination. If there are no problems in physical examination, you can officially being your studies in law school. “, and he handed a small note to Dudian, which had few words on it.
“There are physical examination?” Dudian wrinkled, nodded, turned and left the room.
“So hard!”
“I answered four minutes and I was told that it was wrong. How come it is not four minutes. If both sides must be fried, certainly four minutes ah!
“This question, why fish, ah! I do not like to eat fish, and fried fish with the law have nothing in common ah!
“Well, my father is a chef he could cook three fish in a minute! They did not believe it.”
Dudian went out and heard a few children coming out from next rooms. They had dissatisfaction with the examination question. His mouth twitched a little, as did not hear those words, and turned back to wait in front of the Gray couple.
“What about it?” Gray smiled. He heard the words of the children. Although it is not clear what the specific test was, but it seems it was not so easy to pass.
Dudian lightly glanced at him, said: “Passed, now gotta go to physical examination.”
Gray smiled, but was discouraged as he wanted Dudian to go to Sewing Institute. Nevertheless the thought of Dudian being smarter than other children enraptured him.
“Physical examination is to detect the value of your body’s radiation. Dean’s skin color is too white so the radiation value is certainly not high. He should pass this one easily. ” Jura seems to know something about physical exam so she spoke with confidence.
In the global nuclear explosion, the world was full of nuclear radiation. The silver-gray clouds in the sky was the result of gathering of large number of nuclear radiation dust. That’s why there is a long rainy season in this world. An extremely dangerous and even fatal rainy season that brings illness and even death.
However, he came out from the cold storage. He has been here for a few months only, so the body radiation value should not go high.
But, he was curious, how these people detect the radiation value?
What kind of instrument do they use? They haven’t even stepped into industrial era, they don’t even know what ‘electricity’ is?
At this time, Jura took him to a room next to a “physical examination”. There was no line. After all, the people who passed the first assessment amounted to few. In the room sat a middle-aged woman. She checked the note in Dudian’s hand and said “Alright, let’s go with the test”
Dudian approached the woman. He looked over but did not see any extraordinary instrument. Only a row of glass tubes, similar to thermometer.
Middle-aged women checked the note again to confirm. Then from the side picked up a clean glass tube. The sharp end of the tube was position near Dudian small finger. She smiled and said “Child, do not be afraid. It won’t hurt.”
Dudian did not expect that to detect radiation value a glass tube as small as that was used.
Soon, Dudian’s red blood began to penetrate into the glass tube. Dudian noted that the glass tube had scales with a hair-width silky red line.
Middle-aged women checked again to confirm there is no mistakes. She could not help but be stunned at Dudian’s result. His skin color was too white, even the same age girls, are not so white.
Her eyes revealed a trace of confusion and she spoke to Gray couple with emotion: “The value of such a low radiation level. It’s the first time I’ve met. Too incredible. Most probably only in commercial district a healthy body such as his will appear. ”
Jura clearly understood the radiometer. Her face was shocked, then relieved. She talked to her “lost” husband: “This is a radiometer, a special apparatus used to test human radiation value, Dean radiation value … … is very low. It is comparable with those aristocratic children.
Gray knew the importance of human radiation value, but did not care a bit. But when Jura said “comparable with those aristocratic children”, his pride suddenly went over the horizon. He touched Dudian’s hair.
Dudian glanced at the red line on the radiometer, suddenly feeling this line twisted slightly, it seems that … … is a living thing!
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In the evening of the day when Dudian registered to law school.
In a a castle in the commercial district.
A luxury room covered in diamond mosaics. A shadow-like silhouette, silently in the room, was looking at the information in front of his desk “Test results, there are 27 qualified!”