Exam Admission Ticket

College entrance exam candidates could enter the exam site with their admission tickets. They only needed to pass through a security gate that verified their identities.

Sheng Hong gave them a few more instructions, then ordered everyone to return to their rooms and wait for further orders.

Lu Yuan returned to his cell, puzzled by a question he could not resolve no matter how hard he thought. He was a candidate from Ning City, so his exam site had to be in Ning City. How could he possibly slip into an exam site in Jiangzhou City?

Before long, there was a noise outside his cell. Lu Yuan stood up and was surprised to find Guo Huai there, followed by Xu Wenbin and three other candidates.

"If I remember right, you have some review materials here, don't you?"

Guo Huai asked casually. Without waiting for Lu Yuan to answer, he picked up the exercises on the little table and leafed through them.

As he flipped through them, he said with a smile, "You've been working pretty hard... Hm? Why is half this page torn off?"

Guo Huai pointed to one of the pages.

"I put it under my bowl while I was eating and accidentally spilled oil on it, so I had to tear it off."

Lu Yuan offered the excuse without betraying any emotion.

Fortunately, Guo Huai paid it no mind. He casually handed Lu Yuan's review materials out to the candidates and ordered:

"Keep these in your hands and read them. You're candidates, so you should look the part. When we get to the exam site, you're not allowed to speak. Just keep your heads down and look at these."

The other three readily agreed. Lu Yuan lowered his head, hiding the sudden brightness in his eyes beneath his bangs.

"My lord, isn't the college entrance exam tomorrow?" Lu Yuan asked cautiously. "What are we going to the exam site for now?"

"Candidates can enter today to look around if they have their admission tickets, and their parents can accompany them," Guo Huai answered with a smile.

Lu Yuan and the other three were taken up to ground level and set off in two vans.

When Lu Yuan saw the sign for Jiangzhou City Psychiatric Hospital, he finally learned where the cult's lair was hidden.

What a pity. It's too late... Lu Yuan sighed inwardly.

Xu Wenbin and Guo Huai were in the van with Lu Yuan, along with three cultists, two women and a man. These people would pose as the candidates' parents and follow Lu Yuan and Xu Wenbin into the exam site.

For once, Guo Huai offered a brief explanation.

"Everyone remember, we're not making our move today. We're only going into the exam site to see where the security facilities are. If cultivators question you, be sure not to stir up trouble!"

As he spoke, he handed Lu Yuan and Xu Wenbin their admission tickets and identity cards.

Lu Yuan looked down. It really was his admission ticket. But the exam site field actually read: Guanghua School.

The bell rang for the end of class, and Lu Youbing packed her schoolbag dejectedly and left the classroom.

As she walked along, many students pointed and whispered behind her back. But their pointing and whispering wasn't malicious; it was all admiration.

"Look, that's her..."

"Dragon Boat Festival Little Sister."

"I never thought we'd have a star right here among us!"

A month ago, the photo of "Dragon Boat Festival Little Sister" had gone viral online, and Xiao Bing had become famous along with it. But unlike other internet celebrities who bloomed briefly like epiphyllum flowers, Xiao Bing's popularity had not faded with time.

Quite a few idol agencies had noticed. They had tried every possible way to contact the school, hoping Xiao Bing would consider a career in entertainment.

This was big news at Ningcheng First Middle School. After all, it was just an ordinary school, not an elite school like Guanghua School. Idol stars were far, far removed from the students at First Middle School.

Xiao Bing had become the object of everyone's envy, and her classmates all called her "big star." In the past, Xiao Bing might have been a little happy. All girls had a bit of vanity.

But now she couldn't bring herself to smile at all, because her brother had been missing for a month!

Ever since Lu Yuan left more than a month ago, he had never come back, and his phone had remained switched off.

A few days later, her mother had been discharged from the hospital, and her parents had come home. Xiao Bing had managed to put them off for a few days at first, but when she could no longer keep it from them, she had to tell them the truth.

Lu Wenkai and his wife had been overjoyed to come home from the hospital, only to find that something so serious had happened. They had anxiously reported it to the police at once, but there had still been no word from Lu Yuan.

They had tried every method they could think of, and in the end had even gone to the Ning City Internal Affairs Bureau to ask the cultivators for help. The staff at the bureau hadn't turned them away, but every one of them had met the family with silence.

Xiao Bing had seen Cultivator Ji Yin's meaningful look. It made her shudder, and she dared not think too deeply about it.

The college entrance exam was tomorrow...

Under a golden rain tree at school, Xiao Bing caught a falling leaf, grief-stricken.

You lied to me. You didn't come back!

As she murmured to herself, someone suddenly emerged from behind the tree. Xiao Bing jumped, then realized the person looked a little familiar.

"You're Lu Yuan's little sister, right?"

Ma Jin asked, holding a novel in one hand and shrinking back. He rarely spoke to girls, much less one as pretty as Xiao Bing. The shut-in stammered, not even knowing where to put his hands.

Only then did Xiao Bing remember that he seemed to be her brother's deskmate. She had seen him after school before, but she couldn't remember his name at all.

"That's me."

"That's good."

Ma Jin breathed a small sigh of relief, as though he had really been afraid he'd mistaken her for someone else. Then he hurried to say what he had come to say.

"Our homeroom teacher said that the college entrance exam is tomorrow, and everyone needs to remember to print out their admission ticket and bring it.

"The teacher knows Lu Yuan has been missing for a long time, but still has to make sure the message gets through. What if Lu Yuan comes back tonight?

"No one can get through to your home phone, so the teacher asked me to pass the message on to you. That's all!"

Xiao Bing wanted to explain that her parents were always out putting up missing-person notices, and there was no one at home.

But Ma Jin turned and ran off. He probably really didn't know how to get along with girls.

Xiao Bing shook her head and was about to leave. But suddenly, she stopped dead in her tracks.

The admission ticket!

She turned and ran toward the school's computer room.

Before Lu Yuan left, he had asked her to register him on the computer.

After successfully registering him, Xiao Bing hadn't paid any attention to the status of Lu Yuan's admission ticket. There was a blind spot in her thinking: subconsciously, she had assumed the ticket would only need to be printed after Lu Yuan came home.

Xiao Bing turned on a school computer and entered Lu Yuan's ID number and password. His registration form soon appeared on the screen, with his admission ticket below it.

She saw that the "print admission ticket" field clearly displayed "printed."

"Bro's still around. He printed his admission ticket!"

Xiao Bing pressed a hand to her heart, which was pounding wildly. At that moment, she was certain Lu Yuan was still alive, but first, she needed to think calmly.

Since he printed his admission ticket, what should Bro be doing now?

Looking around the exam site!

Where's the exam site? Xiao Bing looked at the exam site listed on the admission ticket.

Guanghua School!

Jiangzhou City!