After taking care of everything, Qin Siyang arrived at Nanrong University.
After a night's rest, he would head outside the Safe Zone with Li Tianming again to fight the Skywalking Lion-Eagle.
For the first time in a long while, he returned to the tenth floor of Nanrong University's East Guesthouse.
Every room here had been vacated.
Wen Shu, Xu Lanzhi, Hu Chan, Chu Baxing, Gu Yunpeng, Zhao Sifang... all of them had left Southern Glory for the time being, with no telling when they would return.
Even Sally had been called away by her father, because the Warren Merchants' Association had been disgraced after two Guardians of the Reincarnation Church were exposed within its ranks.
They were all gone.
Qin Siyang stood in the corridor, looking at the empty tenth floor, and could not help feeling a pang of melancholy.
The days when they attended Li Tianming's classes together, visited Zhao Longfei in the Principal's Office together, went to the Cafeteria together, and laughed and chatted together were gone for good.
They had not even realized that one ordinary evening would be the last time they gathered on the Southern Glory Campus for dinner.
They were still students at Nanrong University.
Yet they were no longer truly students.
There seemed to be no clear dividing line in that change of identity.
It was as though Qin Siyang had still been a student right up until he thought about it. Yet the instant that thought crossed his mind, he was no longer one.
The realization came late, leaving him with a sudden sense of loss.
"Time goes by so fast..."
Qin Siyang had helped them all a great deal, but had they not helped him just as much?
Qin Siyang had been an orphan since childhood, so he had always lived