Evening.
By the time the spacecraft reached Tianshui City, it was already evening. The students had long since left school, and apart from the security guards, the campus was deserted.
Xia Ping disembarked and headed straight home. There was nothing left for him to do now; the teachers would naturally take care of the injured students.
"Hmm?"
Halfway there, he noticed his phone vibrating and chiming repeatedly, as if a large number of messages were coming in.
Before entering Beast Island for the trial, he had been told to turn off his phone and leave it aboard the spacecraft, so he had no way of knowing who had tried to contact him in the meantime.
"Editor Meng Fei?!"
Xia Ping picked up his phone and saw dozens of missed calls, along with fifteen or sixteen video call requests. The most recent one had come in half an hour ago.
"You're in such a hurry to reach me. Could something have happened?" He instinctively tapped to answer the video call.
Beep!
The video call connected at once, and Editor Meng Fei appeared on the screen. He looked delighted. "I finally got through to you. Thank goodness! Teacher Black-Hearted Wolf, where have you been these past few days? Why couldn't I reach you?"
"I was away on a school trial." Xia Ping briefly explained where he had been. "By the way, you were in such a hurry to reach me. Is something important going on?"
"Of course. Something very important."
Meng Fei smiled. "Have you forgotten? It's been over a month, and the royalties for your book have been deposited into your bank account. I just wanted to let you know."
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