The afternoon of the sixteenth.
The team from Phoenix City Second High School arrived in South Ji City and checked into the rooms arranged for them at the Spirit Spring Grand Hotel.
The morning of the seventeenth.
Hu Ruoyun took the team down for breakfast. They had just stepped out of the elevator when, as chance would have it, they spotted another team approaching from the opposite direction.
The middle-aged man in the lead had a gloomy look, but his eyes lit up the instant he saw Hu Ruoyun. He strode over. "Oh, what a coincidence! Isn't this Teacher Hu from Phoenix City Second High School?"
Neither servile nor overbearing, Hu Ruoyun said mildly, "So it's Teacher Li from Fenghai City's Thirteenth High School. Hello."
Zuo Xiaoduo keenly sensed a surge of killing intent from Hu Ruoyun, but it vanished immediately, almost as though it had been an illusion.
Beside her, Luo Lie growled, "You, Li! To think they sent you this time!"
His voice brimmed with fury.
Zuo Xiaoduo and the others felt increasingly certain there was a story here.
Behind Teacher Li, the six students' eyes all lit up at the words "Phoenix City Second High School," and they abruptly turned to look.
Zuo Xiaoduo and the others turned to look as well, their gazes meeting without either side having planned it.
Long Yusheng and the others had wary eyes blazing with fighting spirit.
Unlike them, Zuo Xiaoduo's eyes held nothing but curiosity as he looked over like an inquisitive child.
When he met the other side's piercing gazes, Master Zuo actually looked stunned by them. He turned his head aside, then immediately turned back.
He looked as though they had frightened him, only for him to recover immediately and force himself to show no weakness.
Brief though