Liu Qian came to her senses as well, her Willow Eyebrows shooting up as she said angrily:
"Zhang Qiang, does your family's car only have four seats? Aren't you deliberately targeting someone?"
"I absolutely didn't mean that. I just thought it might be a little cramped with so many people.
Since you put it that way, let's go together after all. My brother's car can fit everyone."
Seeing Liu Qian get angry, Zhang Qiang froze slightly before immediately changing his tune.
He had wanted to squeeze Xu Jingming out, but there was no point if Liu Qian left as well.
"Who said we care about visiting Huangpu Metahuman University?"
Liu Qian glared, then turned to Xu Jingming.
"Jingming, if you don't mind, you can take a taxi with us.
Before coming here, we'd already planned to visit and inspect several universities. We can go together."
Huangpu Metahuman University was indeed a fairly good school.
Moreover, it normally wasn't open to outsiders.
Under ordinary circumstances, she really would have wanted to visit it.
But she had truly had enough of Zhang Qiang's shamelessly greasy boasting.
Now that he was deliberately squeezing someone out, it was even more intolerable to her.
Sun Rui, standing nearby, also realized that Zhang Qiang seemed to be deliberately targeting Xu Jingming.
Although she really wanted to visit Huangpu Metahuman University, at a time like this, she firmly stood by Liu Qian's side.
She smiled and invited Xu Jingming, "Come with us. One more person will make it livelier."
"You... you guys!"
At those words, Zhang Qiang's originally rather handsome face immediately turned the color of pig liver.
Yet Xu Jingming did not even glance at him. Instead, he said to Liu Qian and Sun Rui, "I'm going to Modu University City, and there's a car coming to pick me up.
I'll ask whether I can bring you along. If I can, I'll take you with me."
"Modu University City..."
Liu Qian was slightly stunned when she heard that.
Modu University City was a famous attraction in Magic City.
Not only was it home to Modu Metahuman University, one of the nation's top three Elite Universities,
but several of the surrounding universities also ranked among the best in the country and had extremely high admission scores!
Of course, precisely because they were all prestigious schools, visitors needed to make reservations in advance.
However, they were simply too popular. Reservations for visits had already been booked several months out, and they had not managed to secure any slots.
Even if they went, it would only be a wasted trip. They would not be able to enter the schools at all.
Still, Modu University City was such a famous attraction that even looking around outside the campuses would be nice.
After thinking it over, Liu Qian nodded. "All right, then let's go ask together. If it doesn't work, we'll take a taxi ourselves."
Xu Jingming had already spotted Zhang Chaoyang's car when he exited the subway station, so he led Liu Qian and Sun Rui toward it.
"Hmph, you guys couldn't even get a reservation for Huangpu Metahuman University. I don't believe you'll be able to enter the schools in Modu University City!"
Watching the three of them leave together, Zhang Qiang could not help but speak sarcastically.
But immediately afterward, when he noticed the direction Xu Jingming was heading, his eyes widened.
"That is...?"
In the direction Xu Jingming was walking, a Mercedes X-100 off-road vehicle was parked.
The Mercedes X-100 was a military-grade off-road vehicle. It could accelerate to one hundred kilometers per hour in just 1.8 seconds and was suited to any complex terrain.
It was the favorite off-road model of Wilderness Area adventurers, with an official price tag exceeding ten million!
Of course, in economically developed Magic City, a car worth over ten million was nothing special.
What drew the most attention was the enormous emblem painted on the hood and doors.
At the center of the emblem were sharp blades and swords, surrounded by thorny roses.
It looked both imposing and magnificent.
Almost every person in Magic City recognized this emblem.
It was the school emblem of Modu Metahuman University!
Although Zhang Qiang was not a local of Magic City, as a college entrance exam candidate, he naturally recognized Modu Metahuman University's school emblem.
In fact, he had noticed this car as soon as he left the high-speed rail station.
He had merely assumed it was there to pick up some distinguished guest of Modu Metahuman University, so he had not paid it any mind.
He had never expected that the car was waiting for Xu Jingming!
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! He must be heading for another car!"
Zhang Qiang stared fixedly at Xu Jingming, hoping that he had guessed wrong.
However, Xu Jingming led Liu Qian and Sun Rui into the car with effortless ease before driving away...
"That car really was waiting specifically for Xu Jingming!"
Zhang Qiang was dumbfounded in the distance.
Modu Metahuman University's official vehicles could not be dispatched casually and were generally only used to receive important figures.
In other words, Xu Jingming, who was dressed so simply, was actually a distinguished guest of Modu Metahuman University!
"Good lord, distinguished guests can be this low-key?"
Amid his shock, Zhang Qiang also felt somewhat relieved.
Fortunately, he had not acted too arrogantly just now...
Meanwhile, after receiving the approval of Director of Admissions Office Zhang Chaoyang, Xu Jingming brought the two of them into the car.
Naturally, Liu Qian and Sun Rui also recognized Modu Metahuman University's school emblem.
They just had not expected the vehicle waiting for Xu Jingming to be such a car!
By the time they came back to their senses, they had already been brought into the car.
"Are these all your friends?"
From the driver's seat, Zhang Chaoyang asked with a cheerful smile.
"We met on the high-speed rail. They want to apply to universities here in Magic City, so they came to inspect them in person.
Since there are quite a few schools in Modu University City, I brought them along on the way."
Xu Jingming, seated in the passenger seat, briefly explained.
"Oh? There are indeed several good schools in University City, but you'll need to reserve in advance if you want to visit them.
Have you all made reservations?"
When Zhang Chaoyang mentioned them, Liu Qian and Sun Rui, who had been as quiet as quails in the back seat ever since getting into the car due to the intimidating aura of a High-Order Metahuman, hurriedly shook their heads.
"You need to make reservations in advance just to visit schools?"
Xu Jingming frowned. He had not expected that.
"I didn't think this through. Once we get there, I'll call a taxi and send you to the places you originally planned to visit."
Xu Jingming apologized, but Liu Qian and Sun Rui in the back seat hurriedly waved their hands.
"It's fine, it's fine. We had only planned to walk around outside the schools anyway."
"How can you just walk around? Here are two all-access visitor passes for every school in Modu University City. Take them."
While waiting at a red light, Zhang Chaoyang handed two passes back from the front seat.
"All-access visitor passes!"
Liu Qian and Sun Rui's eyes lit up at the same time.
Of course, they knew that Modu University City had all-access visitor passes, but it was impossible to get them from the official website.
Scalpers did have tickets, but each one cost twenty to thirty thousand. As students, they simply could not afford them.
"These are too valuable. We can't accept them."
Although they desperately wanted them, Liu Qian and Sun Rui resisted the temptation and shook their heads in refusal.
"They're just two tickets. What's so valuable about them? I have a whole pile here."
Zhang Chaoyang laughed heartily and directly opened the storage compartment in the car.
Inside the compartment was a neat stack of such passes, with at least a hundred of them.
"They were all given to me by others, and they're useless to me.
Since you're both Xu's friends, giving you two is nothing."
As the Director of Admissions Office, Zhang Chaoyang received quite a few such passes every year.
But students of Modu Metahuman University itself could freely enter and leave every school in University City, so they naturally had no use for such passes.
Keeping them with him was no different from keeping waste paper.
In fact, the ones in the car were only a small portion.
There were at least a hundred more in his office drawer...
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