Jiang Sheng saw the list on the forum and said, "...So 380 external students will be taking part in our Starry Sky Exploration Activity this time?"
Only after seeing this news did Xia Chujian understand why their boarding time had been repeatedly delayed.
Chen Yanjun shrugged. "...Which noble family's child is this? They're not from First Military Academy, yet they still want to join this Starry Sky Exploration Activity?"
Xia Chujian looked at him in surprise. "What makes you say that?"
Such a dangerous activity—why would nobles send people in without regard for their lives? Wasn't that old man eating arsenic—courting death?
Chen Yanjun said, "I don't really have a reason. That's just what I think."
He came from a count's family, so perhaps he saw such things more clearly...
Xia Chujian did not dwell on it too much.
After all, no matter how many students came from other schools, they were at least students of the Beichen Empire. That was better than selecting foreign students from abroad to participate in their school's Starry Sky Exploration Activity, wasn't it?
Xia Chujian had always drawn a clear distinction between Enemy-Us Contradiction and Internal Contradiction Among the People.
The "leaked" rumors and selection list did not cause much of a stir at Imperial First Military University, but they provoked a much stronger reaction at other military academies.
The freshman students at those schools discovered that the people selected for this activity were not the top twenty students from their class based on College Entrance Exam scores, but rather those with middling scores.
Those students were neither exceptional nor terrible. Their high school grades before the College Entrance Exam had all been poor. They had basically relied on last-minute prayer, blind guesses, and a bit of luck to score better than usual and