No.4 Middle School, lunch break.
Some students did not go back, choosing to stay in the classroom instead.
More than half of freshman year had passed, and the students' sense of novelty toward campus had mostly faded.
Come September, they would enter sophomore year, and a new batch of younger students would arrive.
At the same time, the crucial choice between the arts and sciences tracks would be laid before them.
In Class 9, the students sleeping, reading, playing on their phones, and chatting quietly were not much different from those in Class 8.
Zhang Chi and Yan Tianpeng had not eaten. Instead, they had first returned to the dorm to get the routers.
They stuffed them into large backpacks, filling them to the brim.
Shan Xiao watched the whole thing and even offered midway to share Zhang Chi's burden, but Zhang Chi said there was no need.
What he was carrying was not routers, but his first pot of gold.
Tempted by the prospect of making money, Zhang Chi hurried ahead and was the first to step into Class 9.
He broke the classroom's original silence.
Some students looked up at him. Yan Tianpeng followed behind. The two had specifically agreed that each would install the routers in the other's class.
Zhang Chi walked up to the podium, opened the cabinet beneath the Multimedia computer in front of the entire class, and began installing the router.
Liang Sheng of Class 9 had his forehead resting on his arms, facing beneath the desk as he played on his phone.
He grew tired of playing and looked up, only to discover movement coming from the Multimedia setup at the front.
Liang Sheng's days had been fairly good lately. Ever since Shen Xinli had nearly killed himself falling off the horizontal bar