"Everyone, wait."
The voice was not loud.
Yet it carried a strange penetrating power, like a pebble dropped into the stagnant air of still water, sending clear ripples spreading outward.
Everyone stopped in the same instant.
Flender, Grandmaster, Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, Shao Xin, and the others halted and looked toward the source of the voice. After a brief stunned pause,
they seemed to realize something, and looks of anticipation appeared on their faces.
The three Education Committee members were also drawn to the voice amid the tense atmosphere.
Prince Xue Xing, Dugu Bo, and Prince Xue Beng naturally turned toward its source at once, each wearing a different expression.
The speaker was Ning Rongrong.
Under the gazes of everyone—scrutinizing, amused, hesitant, or hopeful—she walked without the slightest politeness to stand between the Shrek Academy group and Dugu Bo, Prince Xue Xing, and Prince Xue Beng.
Ning Rongrong's chin-length hair glowed softly beneath the candlelight of the Education Committee Hall. Her white dress was clean and neat, and her slender figure stood perfectly straight.
After clearly seeing Ning Rongrong's approaching face, Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng's expressions inexplicably began to diverge.
Meanwhile, the ninety-second-ranked Poison Douluo watched Ning Rongrong before him with great interest through his dark green eyes, looking down at her from above.
There was no killing intent in his gaze, only amusement, as though he had spotted some interesting little bug.
Ning Rongrong met his gaze.
Her almond-shaped eyes were as clear as water, without the slightest evasion, inferiority, or fear.
Her expression remained calm and composed, and there was even a faint, neither servile nor overbearing smile at the corner of her lips.
She stared directly into Dugu Bo's dark green eyes, which held a bloodthirsty sort of amusement.
The Education Committee Hall fell utterly