UNISTAR : Invisible Moon [ENG Version]

Chapter 18 : The Evaporated Air

Invisible Moon

Chapter 18

The Evaporated Air

"The heat of the Moon could evaporate the Air."

#WINisWIND

"I love reading books and articles, but I don't like textbooks as much. Oh, I used to join a general knowledge contest, but I didn't win..."

I explained to P'In after he asked why I knew so many things.

In fact, I have a good memory, but I could only remember what I was interested in or whatever I intended to remember. For example, I knew about Jasmine rice because I loved to eat it, I knew about coconut because I also loved to eat it recently. And I knew about P'In and UNISTAR because — ahh...why? Why did I know so much about them?

Whatever it was, it was true that I had broad knowledge, but I had a limitation of understanding because I could only remember the basic things. I wasn't good at understanding in depth or complex knowledge. That was the reason why my studies weren't outstanding even though I had an extremely good memory. Unfortunately, there was no general knowledge class in my school, so my special ability was rather useless in my pursuit for academic excellence.

"Why didn't you win?" P'In asked. And I recalled a pitiful memory.

"Well, in that contest, I actually knew all the answers, but the judge didn't notice me when I raised my hand..." I sighed. My invisible curse was always a nuisance.

P'In paused for a while before continuing to ask.

"So can you perform it?"

I was shocked. P'In wanted me to perform a general knowledge for the Moon contest?

How?

"Really? But no one has performed this kind of ability in our university before." I wasn't confident.

In general, people would prefer fun and exciting performances, ones that were pleasurable to watch and listen to. I couldn't imagine what kind of general knowledge performance would interest people.

P'In then put down his cutleries. He walked to the sofa, picked up a piece of paper, then came back and handed it to me.

It was the list of judges for this year's XU Moon and Star contest.

I knew that normally, my university would change the judges every year. Each year, teachers from each faculty would be randomly selected to be fair. However, this year was special, as there were students who would be part of the judging panel — P'Wayu and P'In — the current UNISTAR members.

"Teachers from three faculties," P'In said.

I shifted my focus to the teachers' profiles.

The first judge was the Head of Department from the Faculty of Architecture. The second one was the Assistant Professor from the Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy, and the third was a special lecturer from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Chinese Language.

"On stage, let the judges ask." P'In explained how to perform, in his usual brief way. I tried to imagine it.

If I got on the stage and told them that my special ability was general knowledge, the judges could ask me anything that was not advanced knowledge. In fact, it wasn't a very exciting or impressive ability like a musical talent or acting performance, nevertheless, supposing that I could answer all the questions they asked, it would be rather novel.