Xiao Fan silently exchanged glances with everyone. He had already guessed what was going on. Looking puzzled, Xun'er walked toward the courtyard entrance and opened the tightly shut gate.
Xiao Fan walked over to where Xiao Fan and the others were sitting, leaned against the wall, and rubbed his brow.
Before long, Xun'er returned and told everyone, "It's a group of new students. They said they wanted to see Brother Xiao Fan."
Having expected this, Xiao Fan nodded. "Let them in."
A group of new students followed Xun'er into the courtyard and gathered around them. For some reason, all their faces were flushed red.
During the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, they had led a group of new students into several battles against the Inner Academy teams, so Xiao Yan had some impression of their leader. After their battle against the Black Fiend Team, this young man named A-Tai had still had strength to spare.
"A-Tai, what's wrong?"
Seeing Xiao Yan speak first, A-Tai, who knew how close he was to Xiao Fan, said to him, "Senior Xiao Yan, here's what happened."
"Ever since this morning, teams of senior students from the Inner Academy have been coming into our new student area, saying they wanted to collect the New Student Contribution Fee-two days of Fire Energy per person. We knew we'd only just arrived and didn't want to cause trouble, so we paid. But they kept coming, one group after another. Three groups have already come by now. In previous years, new students only had to pay the New Student Contribution Fee once."
"But this year, they probably saw that we actually won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, so they're deliberately making things difficult for us. There's nothing we can do, so we could only come to you and the others,