No. 60 High didnât forget about their alliance with No. 59 High. After they reached the top, they drew a teleportation array, and summoned the students from No. 59 High who had been at the bottom.
âWhy is it just the few of you?â Super Chen asked as he looked at Tang Jingze, He Bufeng and some other familiar faces in the teleportation array.
âThose transfer students from Imperial High ran too fastâ¦â He Bufeng fell silent.
Those transfer students were new, but while they were quite strong, they clearly hadnât completely integrated with the group. The moment the whistle sounded, they didnât follow the plan at all, and followed the fervent crowd in climbing the stairs! This had directly led to No. 59 High being short of four members at the top of the pagodaâ¦
But He Bufeng didnât think it was a big problem overall. It wasnât like these Imperial High students werenât strong; it was unlikely that they would be knocked out in the first round.
Just like that, No. 59 Highâs and No. 60 Highâs mediocre rankings actually went up.
In addition, no one had expected No. 60 High to be the third team to qualify with all their members.
Such fierce momentum was astonishing. Those who arrived at the top first naturally had priority in choosing rooms, but there was a problem for No. 60 High. These were all double rooms, and according to the rules, only after two participants checked into a room together would they qualify for the second round.
But the problem which No. 60 High faced was that there were ten of them and five rooms, but there were three girls⦠Did one guy and one girl have to share a room?
That might cause a misunderstanding.
Fortunately, No. 59 High also faced the same problem.
âWhatâs the arrangement?â asked Li Youyue.
He Bufeng thought for a while, then said, âWe also have three girls, but two are from Imperial High, who are still climbing their way up⦠How about one of you girls share with our female team member?â
After saying that, he pushed forward a girl with short hair that was dyed yellow and whose fierce expression looked a little terrifying. âLet me introduce you to my younger cousin, He Chun. She might look like a guy, but sheâs actually a girl.â
After He Bufeng said that, He Chun directly punched him in the stomach.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Then, He Bufeng coughed up blood!
It trickled down from the corners of his lipsâ¦
âAre⦠are you alrightâ¦â
âItâs fine, Iâm used to it.â Whenever and wherever, the gentle smile on the face of the rehabilitated He Bufeng remained the same.
Everyone: ââ¦â
On No. 60 Highâs end, Lotus Sun and Li Youyue were worried.
He Chun was too brash, and gave off the air of a female delinquent. It would be a little scary to stay with her.
In the end, however, the problem of dorm assignments was resolved happily.
Li Youyue and Lotus Sun shared one room.
And⦠Liu Qingyi and He Chun shared another.
It was Liu Qingyi who had proposed it.
Of course, there was a condition â Lotus Sun agreed to give Liu Qingyi a platinum memberâs card for the Conch Lady restaurant chain, which would give her a twenty percent discount.
To Liu Qingyi, there was no better bargain than this at this point in time.
Wang Zhen was green with envy on the side; he also wanted a discount card!
And so, he howled at He Chun, âHow about I sleep with you?!â
He was instantly punched in the stomachâ¦
But this time, it was He Bufeng who punched him.
After being a delinquent for so long, there were times when it was still a conditioned reflex. However, Wang Zhen indeed hadnât been punched in a while. After all, this guy had taken regular beatings growing up; plus, there was a frivolous air about him.
In the end, Wang Zhen was the odd one out on No. 59 Highâs side, and he wound up sharing a room with He Bufeng.
He Bufengâs reason was that he was worried that Wang Zhen had indecent designs on his little sister.
This reason could be said to be utterly irrefutable, and no one present could dispute it.
In the end, the dorm assignments on the boysâ side were: Wang Ling and Fang Xing.
Gu Shunzhi and Zhenyuan.
Super Chen and Hero Guo.
Tang Jingze and Xia Ming.
But No. 59 High was still waiting for the four Imperial High transfer students, and while the rooms had already been assigned, they still needed to go occupy the rooms first, just in case.
And so, after the two schools discussed it, Wang Ling, He Bufeng, Wang Zhen and Super Chen were sent to occupy the rooms.
Sitting in the room by himself at that moment, Wang Ling seemed unbearably lonelyâ¦
However, he had a strong feeling that this first elimination round wasnât that simple.
â¦
At 10.32pm, after the last student checked into the dorm, the list of participants who had qualified in the first round was announced.
Everyone from No. 59 High and No. 60 High had advanced, and no one had been eliminated, which was a good thing.
However, the really nerve-racking segment had yet to start â the second elimination round would begin at 1am!
In other words, most of the participants, especially the students who had climbed the stairs, basically didnât even have time to rest!
Having just completed such intense exercise, they had less than two hours to rest. For a time, there was the sound of numerous complaints.
âThereâs so little time! They really donât treat us as human beings!â
âBeing a student is still good â itâs after you graduate from university when life gets really hard. Do you know what it means to âgraduate from one of Chinaâs top 985 universities, work 996 hours, get fired at 35 years old, be detained for 251 days, and your legal rights 404âedâ¦'â Someone brought up this topic which had been trending online recently, and revolved around an employee who applied for severance pay with his company before leaving his job, only to be charged with extortion once the company gave him the payout[1].
And then, that was itâ¦
This employee was jailed for 251 days before he was acquitted, and received one hundred thousand in compensation from the state.
The whole story probably wasnât as simple as it seemed, as it involved a complicated network of interests. However, the arrogance of these sorts of large enterprises, which had been built on the support of their customers, had already left a deep impression on the people.
When they thought about it carefully now, the happiest was still to be a student.
There was no more time to complain; there was still a second elimination round at 1am, and the real competition would officially start at eight tomorrow morning.
No one knew the specific details of the second elimination round.
They heard that Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal would announce it at 1am.
Wang Ling waited in the room as time passed, and he was quite satisfied with Fang Xingâs unexpected silence. This was a worthwhile roommate; even if he did sneak glances at Wang Ling from time to time, at least he didnât bother him.
At around five to one, Wang Ling pricked his ears when a girl screamed in the hallway.
Many people were alarmed by the shriek. They opened their doors to see a boy from Titan High lying in a pool of blood and a girl crying as she held him. âEveryone, help me. My senior brother really is going to die!â
Everyone gathered round as she sobbed, and had a clear look at the dead boyâs face.
Zhu Hanyun?!
How could it be him???
A lot of them covered their mouths in stunned shock.
[1] Refers to the backlash against Huawei after a former employee the company accused of extortion was acquitted.