(Something came up at home today, and I had to take care of it. I owe you a chapter and will make it up tomorrow.)
(The auction storyline starts tomorrow. The plot will pick up speed after that, so I can finish the tournament section as soon as possible. Then comes the real highlight. Please look forward to it!)
(One more, more, more thing: given how utterly inhuman the Japanese have been, I'm scrapping my original plan to buy the Japanese joint-venture car I had picked out and buying a domestic car instead. Boycotting Japanese goods starts with me.)
"We won! We defended Shrek's glory!"
In Shrek Academy's conference room, Wang Yan looked at the members of the Shrek Academy Team around him in high spirits, his joy written all over his face.
The round-robin tournament had ended, and in their final four matches, the Shrek Academy Team had not encountered another opponent capable of threatening them.
Group One, which Shrek Academy belonged to, had only eight teams in total. Each team had to play seven matches to complete the round robin. With seven wins from seven matches, the Shrek Team had claimed first place in their group and advanced to the brutal knockout tournament ahead.
Particularly worth mentioning was the first of those four matches, against Changning Academy. Huo Yuhao had fought one against seven and ruthlessly inflicted serious injuries on four of their students. The other three had only escaped because they were standing farther back and had managed to hide behind the referee in time. Otherwise, they would never have gotten away either.
Huo Yuhao had done this to show the academies that would face Shrek Academy afterward that he had neither the patience to help them train their teams nor any desire to reveal too many