Li Yusong cleared his throat, breaking the awkward silence. "Mubai, take these three students who passed the test to the next stage first."
Dai Mubai withdrew his hand, that flippant grin returning to his face, though there was a faint stiffness beneath it.
"Let's go, you three."
The four left the registration area and followed the dirt road through the village toward the depths of the academy.
Along the way, Ning Rongrong was the first to break the silence. She leaned close to Zhu Zhuqing and asked softly, "Do you know him?"
Zhu Zhuqing said nothing, merely staring expressionlessly at Ning Rongrong.
Having received no answer, Ning Rongrong felt a little embarrassed, but she still smiled and said, "My name is Ning Rongrong."
Zhu Zhuqing glanced at her and replied coolly, "Zhu Zhuqing."
Dai Mubai walked at the front, introducing the academy as they went.
He pointed at several crooked wooden huts by the roadside and said they were classrooms, then pointed at an open area in the distance and said that was the training ground. A row of low, plain houses nearby served as the student dormitories.
Zhu Zhuqing listened in silence, her gaze sweeping over the dilapidated wooden huts and pockmarked training ground. Her heart grew colder and colder.
There was no test at all. Shrek Academy really was this rundown.
The academy did not even have a proper wall. The planks on the so-called classroom walls were curling at the edges, weeds ran wild across the training ground, and piles of rotten wooden frames from who knew what era were stacked in the corners.
What decent teaching resources could a place like this possibly have?
Zhu Zhuqing sighed silently.
She should have looked into Shrek Academy more thoroughly beforehand.
Back in the Star Luo Empire, she had