The scenery of the new campus was indeed beautiful, both aboveground and underground. Eastern-Western University, where the style of medieval European estates perfectly blended with the art of ancient Chinese gardens, was like a paradise hidden away from the world, making people reluctant to leave. Yet as he walked through it, Yin Kuang had little interest in admiring the scenery. Though Shen Kou, Wei Ming, and Zeng Fei chatted and laughed as they looked around, Yin Kuang could still see the sorrow hidden beneath their smiles.
As they continued onward, they gradually came across some of the original Eastern Victory freshmen. When the upheaval had happened, they had still been in class. Afterward, the upperclassmen conducting those classes had strictly forbidden them from leaving their classrooms, so all the first-years had remained in their respective rooms and had not been affected. They were now appearing on Eastern-Western University's campus because people from the former Western God Academy had already gone to every class to announce that Eastern Victory and Western God Academy had merged into one school. At the same time, the former Western God Academy's messengers had announced the abolition of the former Eastern Victory upperclassmen's exploitation of first-years. The most immediate result was that the former Eastern Victory freshmen were not particularly resistant to the merger. On the contrary, quite a few were happy that they no longer had to be exploited. This was not hard to understand. The freshmen had not yet encountered anything on the level of "inter-school examinations," so they did not feel much about it. Instead, they cared more about matters that directly concerned their own interests.
Among the former Eastern Victory freshmen, some recognized Wei Ming and Zeng Fei, since the two had once taught first-year classes. Several students came over and carefully