Minjiang was now a place of bloodshed and turmoil. The slightest disturbance would draw massive attention from the outside world. Even so, their team had stubbornly made it this far, a result that had even surprised the public. Minjiang had never reached this stage in previous years!
Thus, as Mijiang Academy's results continued to improve, rumors and malicious speculation inevitably came flooding in. This was clearly a team mired in public controversy.
Perhaps merely holding on and remaining in the competition had already meant overcoming countless hardships. They wanted to achieve good results in the league, win more support, and help their city.
Now, they had encountered the greatest obstacle in the finals: the Lotus City Light Institute team.
The political significance carried by Minjiang's team was now far too great. Even the teams facing them had to weigh many considerations. When Xu Zhi learned that their randomly drawn next opponent was Minjiang, she frowned slightly.
Was it a coincidence?
With eighty teams divided into groups, drawing Minjiang out of the other seventy-nine teams was quite a coincidence.
And Lotus City happened to be one of the "bullies" currently stationed in Minjiang, attempting to seize the city's sovereignty.
But among the remaining eighty teams, the home cities of at least a dozen teams were such "bullies." The odds of Minjiang encountering one of these bullies trying to occupy their homeland were very high.
But why did it have to be Lotus City?
The others in Lotus City might not feel much about it, but Xu Zhi knew that Minjiang's "man-made disaster" had most likely been Lotus City's doing. More importantly, while in Lotus City, anything connected to [Cup], even the faintest trace, put Xu Zhi on guard.
Had they really just been matched through a random draw?
No matter what,