"Quick, look into Huadun's background."
"Uncle Wei, yes, it's me. I need to trouble you with one more thing..."
"Teacher, should I..."
"Don't panic. I've already contacted the school. We'll have an answer soon."
The students who came to participate in the Interstellar Competition were not here just to fool around. They were basically all carrying the missions of their schools or families.
So even in the elimination rounds, they had to be extremely cautious when choosing every opponent.
A name like Zhou Yi's, which had never appeared in any records, was even more terrifying than opponents from the three major military academies.
After all, the unknown inspired greater fear.
"Found it! Huadun is a small school on a D-Class Star Block."
The first person to react searched Huadun's name on the Star Brain and found its ranking among interstellar mech schools.
They flipped through the rankings for ages before finding it. Out of roughly a hundred mech schools, Huadun ranked somewhere in the nineties.
"No way!"
"How could a D-Class Star Block afford an A-Class Mech for competition? Even if they had one, the students' star power couldn't support it."
"A D-Class mech school has never appeared in this arena before."
"Impressive."
"Are they here to cause trouble? Do they even know the rules?"
The livestream was flooded with comments. People everywhere loved a spectacle, and aliens were no different.
The viewership of Zhou Yi's split-screen feed shot upward in a straight line, even surpassing the seeded contestants fighting fiercely in the adjacent arena.
Soon, everyone in the arena received accurate information. No matter how unwilling they were to believe it, they could not change the fact that Huadun was a trash D-Class school.
"Are you serious, student? There has never been a precedent for a D-Class school participating