Mao Feiyang had a flash of inspiration. "Speaking of that, I've heard a dark joke about a prison break."
"A prisoner came down with some disease. First they amputated an arm, then a leg. When they amputated his other leg and he was about to mail them home for burial, the prison staff said they suspected he was carrying out a premeditated escape in installments."
"Do you think this Mountain Man was doing the same thing?"
"Very similar." Mu Daxian paid little attention to the joke, his brow still furrowed. "That shouldn't happen... with the company's review procedures, there's no way they'd make such a basic mistake."
"Forget dismantling an exoskeleton-even if someone took apart a computer, they should've caught it. Unless... they deliberately turned a blind eye?"
Mu Daxian reached out and gently touched the soil, then quieted his mind and felt around.
At that instant, Mao Feiyang felt as though an invisible wave had rippled outward from Mu Daxian...
But Mu Daxian soon stood up. He brushed the dirt off his hands, looked in the direction Mountain Man had vanished, and sighed. "Can't find many other traces. This probably really does involve the company."
"The 'company'?" Mao Feiyang asked in confusion. This was the second time he had heard Mu Daxian mention it. "Brother Xian, what company are you talking about?"
Lin Yi pricked up his ears too. He had heard about the company once more than Mao Feiyang had, from Head Teacher 039.
They couldn't possibly have let you in.
Those had been Head Teacher 039's words.
The company shouldn't have missed it.
Those had been Mu Daxian's words.
From this, the company seemed to have some sort of screening process for people entering the university.
Beyond that, however, Lin Yi knew nothing.
"The company that issued