You Wouldn't Want a Mole in the Academy, Would You?

Luo Jun was taken to a sturdy and enclosed room.

As a professional academy for cultivating explorers, both teachers and students here are Cultivators have mastered vital energy, and they can be destabilizing factors if they go berserk. Therefore, unlike ordinary schools, this place has a prison-like area.

Of course, in schools, it's usually called Reflection Room or Confinement Room... There are no windows here, and the walls and doors are made of special materials from another world, making them extremely sturdy and thick, while also being highly resistant to elemental energy. At the same time, the room is also equipped with special sealing spells. Those who enter the confinement room cannot open the Hundred Treasure Box, their elemental energy will be sealed, and they will even be unable to be recruited by the Chaos Mission.

Under such strict constraints, virtually no one can escape.

Luo Jun sat in the chair, looking at his hands.

The Hundred Treasure Box is indeed locked, but less than 10% of its vital energy has been sealed... It seems this Confinement Room has its limits; compared to the complete seal of the Outstanding Trial Arena, it's far inferior.

However, Luo Jun would definitely cooperate obediently, not showing the slightest sign of energy, and his face would reveal anxiety and unease, making him look like an ordinary student who had truly suffered unfair treatment.

Luo Jun trusted Zheng Hu more. Anyone who could serve as an entrance examiner should be trustworthy in terms of both ability and character. Of course, Luo Jun wasn't worried if Zheng Hu didn't perform his duties. His Master was still a professor at the academy, and with things having escalated to this point, he would definitely hear about it when he returned and would surely seek justice for his beloved disciple.

However, his phone was still switched off before he went up the mountain, and no one knew when he would be able to return...

Let's wait patiently...

The Confinement Room had a double door. The outer door was a thick iron door that was completely opaque, with only a small opening at the top. The inner door consisted of five thick metal bars.

"Right here," the security guard said. "At the entrance, just move a chair over and sit down."

The iron gate is now open. In front of Luo Jun are metal railings, and sitting outside the railings is a refined-looking man wearing glasses.

Luo Jun did as instructed, and after a short while, the door opened... but not completely.

Luo Jun thought to himself that everything was settled, and feigned a sigh of relief, "Then you must know that I was innocent, right? You were the one who personally approved my case back then."

"Teacher Song!" Luo Jun recognized him at a glance; this was Song Yi, the person who had interviewed him for the Subject Four part of the driving test. "It's me! Do you remember me? I'm Luo Jun."

However, the academy didn't keep Luo Jun waiting for long. He had taken a morning flight back to Ningdong, and by the time he arrived at the academy, it was already around 2 PM. He thought he would have to spend the night in the Reflection Room before receiving any news the next day. Unexpectedly, the small window on the door opened in just over two hours.

Song Yi smiled and nodded, "Of course I remember. The dean heard about your situation and takes it very seriously. He sent me here because he was worried you might be nervous, since we've dealt with each other before and are quite familiar with each other."

"Get ready, Teacher Song wants to talk to you."

A voice from the security guard on duty outside reminded him, Luo Jun stood up and asked, "Where are we going to talk? What do we need to prepare?"

Song Yi adjusted his glasses. "Tomorrow morning, the dean will hold a faculty meeting to discuss your issue in detail. Save your acting skills for then."

Luo Jun was taken aback, realizing he had almost forgotten that this "Divine Eye Song Yi possessed the ability to see through people's hearts. His panic and grievances were completely ineffective in front of him.

Having figured things out, Luo Jun became much more composed. "Teacher Song, since you can prove I'm innocent, why bother with a big meeting? Wouldn't it be better to just let me go back to school?"

Song Yi smiled and shook her head, "Although I know you did pass the exam, it's a fact that your student status has been removed, and the necessary procedures still need to be followed. You're only concerned about whether you can enroll smoothly, but from the dean's perspective, she's more concerned about why such a major management error occurred."

Luo Jun thought for a moment, "I contacted the college half a month ago to ask for a delayed enrollment and even submitted an application on the website. Could there have been some mistake in that application?"

Song Yi shook his head. "Impossible. Delayed return to school happens frequently at the Explorer Academy. Even if you don't apply, you'll at most receive a warning or something similar, not be expelled directly. And even if you were expelled, there should be a record in the system, but right now, Ningdong Academy's system can't find any information about you, as if you didn't even take the exam."

Luo Jun frowned. "What's going on? Is there a system error?"

"The system couldn't possibly have such a serious bug." Song Yi looked into Luo Jun's eyes. "The only explanation is that someone doesn't want you to enroll and has deliberately tampered with the system."

Luo Jun raised an eyebrow. "Who would target me like this?"

"That's a question you'll have to ask yourself." Song Yi smiled. "This was definitely done by someone within the academy. Think carefully, have you offended anyone in the academy?"

Offending the academy? Luo Jun was taken aback. He thought to himself, besides a few examiners, the only person I knew connected to the academy was my Master. Could it be that he found out I called him "Old Deng" behind his back and, in a fit of anger, deleted my student status?

"To be honest, I didn't even know the academy existed before. Apart from the few days of exams, I had no contact with the academy at all..." Luo Jun said sincerely.

"Perhaps it was during the exam?" Song Yi probed. "During the exam, did you have any conflicts with anyone, or did anything strange happen?"

Luo Jun looked at Song Yi with a strange expression, thinking to himself, "I was the one who had the most strange things happen to me during that exam. You examiners should know best... From fighting with Han Yuri to Han Yuri bribing a Fourth Division Prisoner to kill me..."

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"Teacher Song, what are the results of the interrogation of Han Yuri, who hired someone to kill me?" Luo Jun thought of a crucial point.

Song Yi shook his head. "As far as I know, Han Yuri knows very little. His order for Wu Youde to kill you was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Before that, his only task was to release Wu Youde during the exam. It is said that this was instructed by his teacher who taught him Yuanqi. Wu Youde and his teacher were Senior Brother."

"However, according to the Yuan Cultivation Society's investigation, Wu Youde is Rogue Cultivator with no sect records. When Han Yuri was learning her skills, her Master always used a magical artifact to conceal his appearance, and Han Yuri didn't know his true identity. The Yuan Cultivation Society went to arrest that Master based on the clues provided by Han Yuri, but they came up empty-handed; he had already escaped."

"Now, Han Yuri's vital energy has been destroyed and his memories erased. Of course, he will still be punished by law for hiring a hitman, but his memories have been altered to include hiring an ordinary killer to kill an ordinary person."

Luo Jun nodded, looking into Song Yi's eyes. "Leaving aside the matter of hiring someone to kill me, the fact that he knew Wu Youde had taken the academy exam and could provide a method to break the collar suggests that Han Yuri's teacher is very likely from the academy, right?"

After listening to his analysis, Song Yi smiled slightly, then feigned sudden realization. "That's right, the Yuan Cultivation Society initially suspected a mole within the prison system, but after a thorough investigation, they found nothing unusual. So, it seems the academy teacher is highly suspicious!"

As he spoke, he leaned closer and said to Luo Jun through the railing, "So, catching this mole would be a great thing for you and for the other students in the academy, right?"

(End of this chapter)