"Finally, we're out..."
Beyond North Star's northern border, several people in trench coats removed their hoods, revealing young faces.
"Good thing the authorities didn't deploy many people here. Otherwise, getting across the border wouldn't have been easy."
"Yeah. We ran away from the academy, after all. The authorities must take this seriously and be searching everywhere."
"Maybe it also has something to do with so many border troops being reassigned. People online say Suoloma and North Star have both been moving their armies around frequently lately."
As they spoke, they noticed one of them remained silent and asked him about it.
"Lu Cheng, what's wrong?"
"Yeah, you haven't said a word since leaving the academy. Don't tell me you regret it?"
"You do know what will happen if the academy finds out we're Spore Addiction sufferers, right?!"
Faced with their stares, Lu Cheng remained silent.
He knew what would happen if he was discovered, which was why he had chosen to flee the academy with several other addicts like himself.
Still, when he thought of how all his years of effort had gone down the drain, he could not help feeling as though an entire lifetime had passed.
He had studied so diligently before, all because he wanted to graduate with outstanding grades and be assigned to a good department. Later, he had even learned that he might have a chance of being assigned to the Countermeasure Research Institute...
Lu Cheng's heart sank, and he could not help feeling a measure of resentment toward the dean, Zhou Qinfeng.
If Zhou Qinfeng had not told him about the Countermeasure Research Institute assignment, perhaps he could have pulled back from the brink and sought help in time instead of falling to this state.
But it was too late to say anything now.