"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Wu poked her head out from behind him and said indignantly. "Who pushes students away?"
"What do you know?" The old man sat back down in his chair.
He had already taken out an envelope and begun writing a letter of recommendation himself.
"A genius like this would be wasted here. Better to send him to Good and Evil Academy..."
"By the way, young man, what's your name?" the old man asked as he wrote furiously.
"Sir, don't rush!
I have three more companions behind me." Du Hao hurriedly tried to stop him, but the old man's grip was so strong that the paper didn't even budge.
Things had already gotten completely out of hand.
"Young man, there's no need to hurry.
Let me finish writing your letter of recommendation first!" The old man was so determined that it seemed he absolutely had to recruit the genius before him for Good and Evil Academy today.
Seeing this, Du Hao realized he couldn't mess around anymore and hurriedly said, "Stop writing, sir!
We're here to join Shrek Academy. Principal Flender personally recruited us."
"Hmm?" The old man's pen stopped mid-stroke. He looked up at the young man before him, his face full of suspicion.
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely, sir. Please put away your divine powers!" Du Hao said hastily, breathing a sigh of relief.
He sounded so sincere that he was practically ready to swear an oath to heaven.
He didn't want to leave Nuoding City only to wind up back under the Judgment Society's jurisdiction.
Those lunatics might have come from his own hand, but he really didn't want to get involved with them at all!
The Judgment Society had meddled a little in the academy where he'd studied before, and it had made his life a living hell afterward.
Wouldn't an academy founded by the Judgment Society itself be just like Hengshui High School in his previous life?
He didn't want to face classes starting before dawn...
"In that case, never mind."
Since the students had been recruited by his own principal, it was better not to poach them. He didn't want to get on the wrong side of him... Besides, there was only one of them.
Seeing that the old man had finally given up on sending him to Good and Evil Academy, Du Hao let out a long sigh of relief.
He'd nearly been dragged back into the life of a wage slave from his previous life.
"Sir, I have three companions too." As if afraid the old man might pull something, Du Hao hurriedly added, "The principal recruited all of us. We really aren't going to any other academy!"
"Fine..." The old man pursed his lips.
A little while later, the old man was completely beside himself!
"Th-this! Another level twenty-nine genius!"
"Level twenty-nine..."
"Level twenty-nine! Another level twenty-nine! Are you all monsters?"
"Hahaha, I can't take it anymore! No matter what, I'm getting you all into Good and Evil Academy today!"
The old man had already thrown all thoughts of dignity aside. He kicked the table in front of him clear across the room.
"Staying here would be a crime against education!"
"I'll take you to Good and Evil Academy myself today!" His eyes burned with such fervor, as though he'd just spotted his mistress at the village head.
He looked completely crazed!
"Sir, we were recruited by Principal Flender..." Seeing things taking a bad turn, Tang San hurriedly spoke up.
Tang San really didn't want to go to a place like the Judgment Society. It would be nothing but suffering.
He couldn't even handle the standards at Nuoding City Academy, let alone an academy founded by the Judgment Society itself.
It would be the death of him!
"Flender? He can go to hell!" The old man curled his lip in disdain, then declared arrogantly, "What's he to me? He's not even at the academy today. We'll just pretend you never came here!"
"Come along quietly now..." With the principal away, he was invincible!
"And you lot, you didn't see these four today. Understand?" As he spoke, the old man glared at the people waiting in line, his tone threatening.
"Understood, understood," the people in line answered in unison.
Just as everyone was about to obediently comply,
a voice suddenly came from behind the old man. "Li Yusong, I don't understand!"
"Who doesn't understand? Come out and fight me!" Li Yusong, already worked up into a frenzy, had completely lost his mind.
He spun around, ready to teach the person behind him a lesson and show him why flowers were red.
But... the first thing he saw was a fist flying straight at his face!
A moment later, he hit the ground with a thud!
Li Yusong, who had been acting so imperiously just moments ago, immediately collapsed flat on his back, sleeping like a log.
"Pah! I was the one who dragged you into the Judgment Society back then, and now you dare poach students from the academy?" The newcomer spat at Li Yusong on the ground.
A hulking, muscular man over two and a half meters tall stepped over the unconscious Li Yusong and walked toward them.
His towering figure instantly cast a shadow over the four youngsters. His gaze swept back and forth among them.
"My name is Zhao Wuji. You're the genius students Flender recruited?" His booming voice burst from Zhao Wuji's mouth.
"That's right, I'm—"
Just as Du Hao was about to introduce himself, Zhao Wuji raised a hand to stop him.
"I've already seen your information, so there's no need to introduce yourselves."
"This isn't the place to talk. I'll take you to the fourth round first." As he spoke, he nodded to a teacher who had followed him over.
"Old Lu, hold down the fort for a bit.
I'll take these little guys farther in."
"Sure, go ahead." The teacher, who had already put the table and chairs back in place, gave him an OK sign.
After Zhao Wuji and the five others left,
the people in line began signing up and asking for recommendation letters again, as if nothing had happened.
The only difference was that an old man lay beside the registration desk, fast asleep. No matter how they called to him, he wouldn't wake up.
Li Yusong: "Zzzzzzz."
Meanwhile, Zhao Wuji led the four of them to an open space and stopped.
"I already know your circumstances, but there's one final test before you can enroll."
Zhao Wuji grinned, rubbing his buzz cut as he explained honestly.
"Is it just the four of us?" Du Hao asked.
"If no one else shows up, then it should be just you four." Zhao Wuji shrugged, unsurprised.
The academy's admission requirements were strict to begin with.
And that was despite all their teachers having joined the Judgment Society, which gave them access to a large pool of students.
Otherwise, they'd be lucky to recruit even one or two students a year.
"All right, enough talk." Zhao Wuji cleared his throat a few times and began explaining the rules.
"You only need to hold out against me for the time it takes one stick of incense to burn!
There'll be a reward if you succeed,
and a punishment if you fail!
It's that simple!" Once he'd finished, he looked at them.
"Now it's your time to discuss. Once you're done, we can begin." With that, he folded his arms and stood there, waiting for them to confer.
Just as they were about to discuss their tactics,
a man and a woman happened to approach from the distance!
The white-haired young man walking in front was Dai Mubai, whom Du Hao had taken out with a single scallion yesterday. A pink-haired girl followed behind him.
"Teacher Zhao, there's another new student here..."
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