With two robots, the excavation speed was quick. In less than an hour, they dug down, and Bai Shan and Manbao curiously stepped forward to look. They saw the robots had already hollowed out below, ready to pry up this piece of rock. As long as it could be pried up, Manbao could send it to the classroom without resistance.

Then Teacher Mo would remove the stone from the classroom, completing the delivery.

However, Manbao and Bai Shan were eager to take a closer look at this meteorite that had fallen from the sky.

Thus, they didn’t stop the robots and waited until they pried it up and lifted it.

The irregular meteorite was lifted and rolled half a turn before stopping, perfectly exposing half of its underside.

Manbao and Bai Shan were amazed, "This is..."

The stone was mostly covered with ugly outer skin, but the exposed half underneath had a third adorned with brilliant colors.

Blue and red dominated, interwoven with multiple colors, bright and shining under the sunlight.

Thinking of something, Bai Shan turned around and grabbed a cloak, covering it, enveloping both himself and Manbao under it. In the dim light, they saw a soft yet dazzling glow—coming from the stone.

Bai Shan couldn’t help but say, "I finally understand why the Prince likes that gemstone."

Because it really is beautiful.

Manbao also thought it was beautiful, but such a beautiful thing was toxic.

Even with protective clothing and a helmet, she felt some resistance, so she said, "Let’s send it away."

Bai Shan didn’t have any resistance either. He felt that it was fine to look at something like this briefly; prolonged admiration might lead to poisoning.

So Manbao placed her hand on the stone, allowing Keke to collect it.

Due to the alliance and the encyclopedia’s green channel, their classroom level was now very high, so even though this item didn’t meet teaching material standards, it was still selected.

Almost as soon as the item was added to the classroom, Teacher Mo knew, and both the encyclopedia and the alliance were stirred by detecting high radiation levels.

Everyone aware of the situation took action.

Unaware of these events, once the last piece of stone was sent away, Manbao turned to look at the excavation robots and, together with Bai Shan, took them to inspect and ponder.

Bai Shan’s hands itched, wanting to dismantle and examine them.

Seeing his intention, Manbao pondered before leaning in to whisper, "These things are sold, but the tax is very high, though I can read their books."

Bai Shan raised an eyebrow, "Books aren’t forbidden, but objects are?"

Keke noticed they started and became a bit distressed, promptly entering silent sleep mode, unaware that as soon as it silenced, Manbao sensed it hadn’t stopped her. She leaned closer to Bai Shan’s ear and whispered, "Some books I can print out and take out..." like medical books and all sorts of storybooks.

"Some books I can only read after paying inside." Manbao avoided speaking too specifically.

The encyclopedia had many courses she could learn, some far beyond this civilization’s technology she could study.

But she wasn’t very interested in them, and felt learning them had little use, as many things weren’t here; she’d just be teaching others without fundamental power sources.

But the book said technology incompatible with this world would only bring shock and disaster.

Of course, when she chose medicine back then, she was young and instinctively chose Teacher Mo’s course. Growing older, knowing more, she could choose other courses, but she... was too busy.

In this world, she had to learn medicine from Doctor Ji and others, and in the classroom, she had to learn medicine from Teacher Mo, with Mr. Zhuang’s lessons not to be missed, and her own interest in reading miscellaneous books, leaving no time or interest for additional courses.

But she could see Bai Shan was very interested.

Bai Shan asked her, "Can you transcribe it and take it out?"

Manbao replied, "Personal notes can be."

Bai Shan was moved, grasping Manbao’s hand tightly. After a while, he said, "Manbao, this matter mustn’t be told to others. Absolutely don’t tell a third person, not even your mother, understand?"

Too dangerous, really too dangerous.

Once others know Manbao can access books from another world through her little uncle, even if just for transcription, she’d likely be asked to keep transcribing.

Manbao asked him, "Do you want to see them?"

Bai Shan furrowed his brow, slowly shaking his head after a while, "No, this isn’t urgent. The books you can take out seem not to forbid history, various histories; we can start from there."

He smiled at Manbao, "We only know what happened, then know what we should know, using the least effort to acquire that knowledge."

Bai Shan lowered his voice, "So your medical skills partly learned from Uncle Zhou?"

Manbao didn’t deny it, "There are many prescriptions and medical practices I’ve never seen."

Bai Shan held her hand tighter, "So you need to learn medicine; where’s the time for transcribing other books? Let’s set this matter aside for now."

Manbao nodded.

Bai Shan was slightly worried, "You told me these things; Uncle Zhou..."

Manbao tilted her head, paused, then quietly said, "He’s hidden."

Bai Shan looked down at her intently, Manbao gazed back, and after a while, the two of them smiled and shook their joined hands.

Bai Shan relaxed, because they were sitting on a stone, their feet touching, Bai Shan’s toe gently nudged her shoe, softly saying, "Manbao, when we return, let’s get married."

Manbao blushed slightly, nodding, "Okay."

Bai Shan couldn’t help but laugh, his grin unstoppable, first silent laughter, then with his chest shaking, he laughed aloud, seeing Manbao turn toward him with a bright smile, he laughed heartily...

Manbao’s cheeks were rosy, but she couldn’t help but smile with curved eyes, joining in the laughter...

After laughing enough, they, along with the two robots, filled in the pit from where the stone had been excavated, then collected the robots and searched the crater for some peculiar ordinary stones.

With half a basket filled, they climbed upwards, sitting at the edge of the pit waiting for Daji.

Thinking to have Daji carry the stones out when he returned; they were too heavy.

Bai Shan looked at the stones, thoughtfully asking, "After taking them out, how will you handle them?"

"Soak them in potion and say the toxicity is removed?"