Chapter 80 Deliberate Avoidance
Shang Duojin nodded patiently and pushed his four older sisters back. After finally seeing them off, his sisters kept turning back to look at him.
His gaze swept around and caught sight of Qiao Mei and Shu Qingqing.
"Hey Mr. Shang, look over there in the shade!"
Shu Qingqing waved to Shang Duojin, and Qiao Mei nodded back.
Seeing this, Shang Duojin didn't rush to join them. Instead, he checked again to make sure his four older sisters had gone far away.
Only when he could no longer see them did he breathe a sigh of relief, take out a long white bandage from his smartwatch and wrap it around his hand.
"I must properly seal my power, otherwise I might accidentally harm a student from my own academy, which would be a grave sin..."
As Shang Duojin muttered to himself, the little green snake Leiting, which had been following him, immediately sped up its crawling speed and headed towards Qiao Mei and Shu Qingqing, as if some ferocious beast was following behind it.
Seeing this, Qiao Mei and Shu Qingqing didn't understand why, until they saw Shang Duojin take out a test tube containing a dark liquid, and Lei Ting started to vomit physiologically upon seeing it, then they guessed something.
"Huh? Thunder, why are you running? Come here and drink the color-changing potion. Look at Lord Ao Cang, he's wearing a black snakeskin... oh no, dragon skin, doesn't he look cool? This potion was specially made for you at a high price, how can you not drink it?"
Lei Ting gripped Qiao Mei's skirt tightly and replied speechlessly, "I won't drink it. That stuff tastes awful, like drinking excrement. I'm not drinking it. You drink it yourself!"
"Hey, you're still not listening, you..."
While Shang Duojin was still muttering to himself, Lei Ting tugged at Qiao Mei's skirt and gave her a pleading look.
Qiao Mei met Lei Ting's pitiful, big, bright eyes, and after a moment of helplessness, she spoke up to say something nice for him.
"Alright, Boss Shang, Thunder isn't a dragon to begin with, so it's fine to let it use this blue skin. My Cangcang even said this color looks good, don't you think, Cangcang?"
The girl blinked at the little black dragon coiled around her neck. It was the first time Ao Cang had ever seen Qiao Mei look at him with such a playful gaze.
As if something had poked his heart, he hurriedly looked away and began to lie for her: "Yes, that's right. It looks good with blue skin too, there's no need to change it to black."
Thunder: Waaaaah, it's decided! From now on, Qiao Mei will be its second master!
When Ao Cang spoke, Shang Duojin, a devoted fan, had no reason not to listen. He quickly put away the color-changing potion and then shamelessly asked Qiao Mei for a chance to take a photo with Ao Cang.
It is said that although he already had other photos taken together, the Ao Cang he took this time with was a new Ao Cang.
No fan would complain about having too many photos with their idol, and Qiao Mei knew this, so she could only let him be. Afterwards, she and Shu Qingqing looked at where they should sit at the opening ceremony later.
"I heard that the class assignments are based on entrance exam scores. We'll receive the class assignment information after the opening ceremony. Until then, we can find people we know to sit with at the opening ceremony."
After Qiao Mei told Shu Qingqing and Shang Duojin what she had heard from Xu Heyu, she unsurprisingly received another message from Xu Heyu.
The previous message was asking her where she was and if the journey was smooth. She ignored it.
This time, the message asked her if she needed him to come and lead them to the lecture hall where the opening ceremony would be held. He also bought them drinks to cool them down.
Qiao Mei actually had mixed feelings about Xu Heyu.
She could tell that he seemed to genuinely like the original owner of this body, but since she wasn't the original owner, she couldn't reciprocate his feelings.
In addition, he is a really good person, both in character and in his way of doing things, making him someone she would be willing to befriend.
So whether she directly refused or agreed, she felt it was neither good, so she simply pretended not to see it.
After reading his message, Qiao Mei noticed that he had also attached a photo of cup holders filled with iced drinks, as if he had guessed in advance how many people she would be coming with, no more, no less, including his own, making exactly four cups.
“Sigh…” Seeing this photo gave her a headache.
In this situation, it would be really unfair for her to pretend not to see it and let the other person carry four drinks.
Shu Qingqing heard Qiao Mei sigh, glanced at her furrowed brows, and leaned closer to look.
She noticed her looking at a picture of a drink and her eyes lit up. "Is this your friend? Is there any drink for us? I'm so thirsty."
Ao Cang was still posing for a photo with Shang Duojin wrapped around his arm, feeling utterly hopeless. When he heard Shu Qingqing's voice, he subconsciously thought of Xu Heyu.
Sure enough, the next moment, Xu Heyu, dressed in the gray-white uniform of the Federal Academy, appeared not far away carrying four drinks.
"Little Rose, didn't you see the message I sent you on your personal terminal? Are you thirsty? Here, have a drink."
Xu Heyu, a boy, wore a rose brooch on the left chest of his college uniform today. It's unclear whether he chose it unintentionally or for some other reason.
Qiao Mei turned her gaze away from the rose brooch, silently hoping that it was the former, and then put on a fake smile and lied, "I just saw it and was about to reply to you. I am a little thirsty, so I'll trouble Senior Xu to lead the way for us."
Upon hearing her words, "Senior Xu," Xu Heyu's smile faded slightly, and his dark, intense eyes fixed on Qiao Mei's beautiful face.
Indeed, seeing a hint of alienation in the distance made me feel a little uneasy.
But he quickly composed himself, pretending not to have noticed anything, and handed out the iced drinks he had brought to Qiao Mei, Shu Qingqing, and the others, leading them to the lecture hall where the opening ceremony was being held.
"According to the old rules of the Federal Academy, after the opening ceremony, classes will be assigned, followed immediately by a ten-day military training. I believe you have already received the news about the military training, right?"
All freshmen will be added to a large group to receive temporary notifications.
Although the class assignments haven't been discussed yet, the military training has been arranged in advance, as some supplies need to be purchased by the participants themselves.
Qiao Mei nodded: "Yes, I've already bought everything in advance. It's just that I don't quite understand the mecha part. Haven't we already received formal mecha training? Why are we required to prepare a mecha?"
She specifically asked Xu Hui, and at that time, there was no such rule at all.
And coincidentally, the location of the military training was changed from the Federal Academy to the Federal Army. Is it really just a coincidence?
As Qiao Mei pondered, she recalled the incident during the interstellar mech competition when she was suspended from the competition by the Federation army for investigation, and she felt a little uneasy.
Xu Heyu: Can my ex-wife please turn around and look at me...? (Looking pitiful)
Ao Cang: My dragon tail's been itching lately, I'm thinking of whipping it up. (Threatening face)
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