Chapter 529 Undercurrent (Thanks to 'falling leaves and fragrant flowers' for rewarding the leader)
As the top student in the class for three consecutive years, Su Yunni always believed that she could maintain her ranking.
As for Zhang Yu, who transferred from the Civil Engineering Department, she didn't take him seriously at first.
However, in recent months, seeing the other party's gradually rising reputation in the weapon refining department, Su Yunni couldn't help but compete secretly, and made up her mind to keep her first place in the class.
Reviewing, practicing exercises, doing experiments... Whenever she thought of Zhang Yu following closely behind her, she dared not slack off for a moment.
On the day of the exam, she tried her best and used all her skills.
On that evening in early September, Su Yunni kept refreshing the report card in her eyes, wanting to know her results first.
"First!"
Su Yunni breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the ranking: "I'm still number one in the class."
Just when she was feeling a little proud and wanted to check the messages in the group to see if anyone was bragging about her.
But Zi Yunzhen in the group said: Do you know? Zhang Yu handed in the paper half an hour early.
Another person said: I was in the same examination room with him, and he left the lab an hour early.
Zi Yunzhen: So early? No wonder he was already there when I went to the lab that day.
Su Yunni frowned when she saw these words, and hurriedly looked at the ranking and comprehensive score again.
Zhang Yu is still second in the class, but because of the increase in comprehensive scores and the graduation of ten students, Zhang Yu's department ranking suddenly rose from 48th to 39th.
After calculating the changes in the other party's comprehensive score, Su Yunni found that the other party's comprehensive score increased by the same amount as hers in this final exam.
"I got full marks... did he get full marks too?"
But Su Yunni changed her mind and thought that she had worked so hard to get full marks, while the other party left early in every exam and obviously did not give his best.
The excitement of maintaining the first place in the class also cooled down at this moment. Su Yunni felt like she had punched cotton. She attached great importance to the final exam, but Zhang Yu had a casual attitude towards it.
“Is this guy focusing all his energy on his own projects?”
Su Yunni's eyes flickered with light and shadow, and she had already opened the textbooks for the senior grades one by one.
"I also need to prepare for the design competition."
Although Zhang Yu said that he wanted to compete with Jin Jun head-on, Su Yunni naturally did not believe that Zhang Yu could succeed.
Su Yunni made up her mind to prepare well for the design competition: "I want to win the design competition and obtain the military-grade skills before Zhang Yu completes the military-grade project."
When buying the refining materials needed for the experiment, Su Yunni frowned slightly: "Have the raw materials increased in price?"
"Is it because of the Big Ten League?"
Although the price of raw materials has increased, it is nothing to Su Yunni and she doesn't take it to heart.
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The updating of final exam results also marks the arrival of a new school year.
Zhang Yu also became a senior student.
At this moment, students are constantly refreshing the news in the Songyang fellow townspeople group.
Most of the people posting messages are freshmen who arrived on the second floor after the college entrance exam. They were the most diligent posters after arriving on the second floor a while ago, and now they often discuss the environment, studies, homework, and dormitories of different schools in the group.
Zhang Yu watched their conversation and felt like he was seeing himself as a freshman.
Yu Xinghan: A second-hand Sky Eye Dharma Skeleton that is 90% new. Anyone want one?
Yu Xinghan: After entering university, I didn’t have a good eye and couldn’t attend classes well.
Seeing Yu Xinghan recommending Eye Bones to the freshmen again, Zhang Yu didn't think much of it. Many people in the group were doing similar things, so it could be considered as the old people guiding the new ones in Songyang City.
However, Zhang Yu was still concerned about some of the topics discussed by the freshmen.
"Has Songyang High School become one of the four major high schools in Songyang City?"
Zhang Yu looked at the high school students who had just graduated from Songyang High School in the group and found that many of them were asking about him and seemed to be particularly interested in him.
"I didn't expect that after several years since I left Songyang High School, my legend still remains?"
Just as the freshmen in the group were exuding vitality, the graduated seniors would occasionally lament.
"Have you found a job?"
"This month's employment rate data has dropped again. It seems to be related to the Big Ten League."
"I'm unemployed right after graduation, so I can only do odd jobs..."
Most students still find it difficult to understand the feeling of being a graduate.
To most people, the slight changes in employment data are just as similar to the changes in the annual employment rate.
However, the opening of the top ten leagues attracted the attention of many people and interrupted Zhang Yu's hard practice in the Taiqing Realm.
This year's top ten leagues took place on a floating island in a sea of clouds.
In addition to various professional competitions, the most eye-catching among the top ten leagues are naturally the various military competitions.
For example, the sword fight among the ten schools attracted a lot of attention, and Zhang Yu knew that Bai Zhenzhen and Wen Wuya would also participate.
There is also a treasure hunt among ten schools. As far as Zhang Yu knows, Yan Qianji from the weapon refining department, his senior sister Ye Xingli, and several other geniuses from the weapon refining department will participate.
Because of Ye Xingli's participation, her experimental project was suspended, and Zi Yunzhen, her assistant, temporarily had no experimental projects to do.
Zhang Yu had a pretty good impression of Zi Yunzhen: "She washes the materials quite cleanly."
Zhang Yu was thinking that if he started to refine the Tianri Huangshen in the future, he might be able to recruit Zi Yunzhen as his assistant to do odd jobs and speed up his refining progress.
In response to Zhang Yu's invitation, Zi Yunzhen only asked: How much is the salary?
Zhang Yu: Young people should not just think about money. Don’t you want to participate in military-grade projects?
Zhang Yu: And I can repair magic weapons. If you come to my project team in the future, I can help you repair magic weapons myself.
Zi Yun really had no interest in Zhang Yu's big promises. She just replied casually and didn't bother to read them anymore.
Just after she finished replying to the message on her phone, she noticed that the door of her neighbor's dormitory was open and a strong stench was coming from it.
Speaking of her neighbor, Zi Yunzhen knew that he was a senior student in the Weapon Refining Department, but she hadn't seen him for a long time.
I just found out today that he committed suicide in his dorm a few days ago, apparently because of the plummeting stock price he bought.
"It seems that several stocks have fallen sharply recently."
However, Zi Yun had seen people committing suicide due to falling stock prices, so she just took a quick look and didn't take it too seriously.
Walking into the dormitory casually, Zi Yunzhen adjusted her eyes.
"Today is the Ten Schools Sword Fight, right?"
…
“Why has the medical insurance for the competition increased so much?”
On the sea of clouds, Bai Zhenzhen looked at the medical insurance contract in front of her and couldn't help but curse, "Are you treating us like fat sheep?"
Wen Wuya said, "Really? Isn't that the way all insurance companies are? If it weren't for the teacher's face and the need to ensure fairness in the top ten leagues, they would probably refuse to sell us insurance like they usually do."
With a light swish sound, a sword energy slashed Wen Wuya's body, and fought with her body-protecting sword energy.
Wen Wuya didn't care about this. After all, if Bai Zhenzhen's mood fluctuated slightly, sword energy would come out of nothingness.
Fortunately, Bai Zhenzhen's control has become much stronger. Now, anyone above the level of lower school students will basically not be killed by her sword. Students as powerful as Wen Wuya can even pretend that nothing happened.
None of the other top students from Tianjian University around were weak, so they didn't care about it.
Bai Zhenzhen muttered, "It's still too expensive."
Wen Wuya advised, "I heard that the insurance premiums for participating in the top ten leagues have increased this time. It's normal for them to be a bit more expensive."
But the next moment, Bai Zhenzhen's expression suddenly changed from gloomy to happy, and her body twisted as if a tail was shaking.
Seeing this scene, Wen Wuya immediately understood that the other party was communicating with Zhang Yu.
The sound of whooshing through the air was heard, and the participating students from Tianjian University, including Wen Wuya, all moved away from Bai Zhenzhen.
The next moment, the scarlet sword light swept across Bai Zhenzhen's body, leaving deep sword marks in the air.
Watching this scene, Wen Wuya thought to himself, "Every time I talk to Zhang Yu, it's the most dangerous time for Zhenzhen."
"Did the Seven Emotions God deliberately arrange for them to talk before the match to enhance Zhenzhen's fighting power?"
…
"Ah Zhen, come on!"
After ending the call with Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu received another message from Ying Xin.
"Has the project payment not arrived yet?"
Zhang Yu quickly contacted the person in charge, Juxing Zhenren, but the reply he received made him feel helpless.
Juxing Zhenren: It’s not that I don’t want to help, but everyone’s money is stuck now, and I can’t do anything
Juxing Zhenren: Many projects may have to be temporarily suspended in the future, so let your subordinates suffer a little longer. It should be fine after the top ten leagues are over.
Zhang Yu: What does it have to do with the top ten leagues? Why can playing a game affect our project?
Don't ask me, I don't know either.
Looking at the many employees in the company who were crying for work, Zhang Yu could only take out his savings again, pay part of the salary, and let Zhao Tianxing and others find some part-time jobs first.
Then Zhang Yu looked at the live broadcast in his eyes, and the sword fight between Bai Zhenzhen and his opponent had already begun.
The two sides fought fiercely in the endless sea of clouds, spanning a distance of hundreds of kilometers, detecting each other's whereabouts while hiding their own figures.
In the rolling sea of clouds, only the occasional flash of sword light could be seen, leaving sword marks hundreds of meters long in the sky.
Relying on the hiding ability of the divine root, Bai Zhenzhen was never discovered by the opponent, and finally successfully shot the opponent down from the sky.
Zhang Yu found that the following sword fights became more and more intense, and casualties gradually appeared.
It wasn't just sword fighting. As the top ten leagues continued, Zhang Yu soon discovered that other military competitions were equally fierce. Although the casualties were not as high as in sword fighting, they were still more than in previous years.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "They say the top ten universities are using the wins and losses of the top ten leagues to distribute profits. Now that the conflicts between the top ten universities are getting more intense, will the fighting in the top ten leagues also get more brutal?"
And when Bai Zhenzhen fought against the disciples of the God Transformation School of the White Bone University, the intensity reached a new level.
(End of this chapter)
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