Chapter 14: Romeo's Choice
Xia Yan walked out of the room of the high-level battlefield and found himself standing in a huge auditorium, the auditorium was made of alloy, large pieces of metal were spliced into the walls, and light blue electric light flowed through the seams. Directly opposite is a semicircular floating stage a few feet above the ground, where ten cone-shaped sweep lights rotate at a constant speed, and colorful light sweeps across the stage, and neatly rows of long tables and chairs under the stage. The tables and chairs are also alloyed, and each row of long tables is covered with a dark gray transport belt that ends into the wall on one side of the auditorium. Some of the cadets who had come out of the battlefield had already found seats in the front row and sat down, looking curiously at the stage.
Xia Yan saw Qianlan standing in front of a row of chairs in the corner waiting for him, so he waved at her and walked over.
"The information has been updated." After they sat down, Asaran said to him. Hearing this, Xia Yan put his palm on the table, and a square fluorescent screen stretched out. On the left is still the identity information, and on the right is the current score, which shows 1000. There is an extra line of red text below the results: The current ranking is tied at 109.
"I'm tied for 120, and although I don't know if the tie will appear among the old students, based on your ranking and the total number of new students, it can already be determined that the number of people participating in the first round of assessment is at least 164 or more." Qianlan analyzed.
"There are more than 100 students who have not graduated before?" Xia Yan looked at his ranking and said. Liuli College has only been established for 7 years, according to the statistics of 55 new students enrolled every year, there are nearly a quarter of the students who have not passed, and the students whose scores are 0 have to be subtracted.
Qian Lan nodded, she tapped the red text in Xia Yan's information that showed the ranking, and a database switched out, showing the ranking of new students, and the top five were the five people who passed through the high-level battlefield, including Xia Yan.
"Can't check the grades of the old students?" Xia Yan slid the screen, and found that he could only turn the page backwards, and said with interest.
"Maybe it's only students who have reached a certain level of ranking." Asa Lan speculated.
The seats around them gradually filled with the students who were entering one after another, and Nishizawa sat in the two rows in front of them, now immersed in the game console in his hand.
Suddenly, the spotlights on the stage spun rapidly, attracting the attention of all the students, and the lights spun for a while, and then went out en masse.
A white screen appeared in the center of the stage, and dozens of students' avatars and names appeared on the screen, and the female voice in the imaginary space sounded again: "The entrance ceremony is over, and the total number of students participating in this ceremony is 55, 52 have passed, and 3 have been eliminated." Accompanied by the sound of the announcement, the avatars of the three students were also crossed from the screen one after another, and they were the three who failed to challenge the high-level battlefield.
The students looked at the screen in surprise, it was only less than half an hour since they came to the Liuli Academy, and three people had already been eliminated.
After the results of the entrance ceremony were announced, the white screen disappeared into thin air, and the lights came on and two figures appeared on the stage. The auditorium, which was still talking, suddenly fell silent because of their appearance, and the students all looked at the stage with wide eyes. Standing in the middle of the stage was Mr. Bai, who had spoken on the screen before, with the black cat in his arms, and Mr. Lan standing straight beside him. Mr. Bai is the dean of Liuli Academy, and naturally has an extraordinary position in the hearts of these students. Judging from the screen, he is just a somewhat confused and kind uncle, but when he really stands in front of him, the majestic momentum still makes people feel awe. A tall, thin student stood up and took the lead in applauding Mr. Bai and Mr. Lan on the stage. Driven by him, everyone also clapped their hands, and the auditorium, which had been quiet, instantly became enthusiastic again.
"Oh? I didn't expect us to be quite popular! Mr. Bai said with a smile to Mr. Lan on the side.
"Maybe not in a few days." Mr. Lan said with a blank face.
Mr. Bai smiled when he heard this, but he didn't refute it. He raised a hand and greeted everyone: "I won't repeat the opening remarks, just now you have already learned the results of this entrance ceremony, and the three eliminated people are now on their way home." Mr. Bai finished speaking briefly, stroking the black cat in his arms and looking at everyone's reaction with a smile. The enthusiastic atmosphere of the students gradually calmed down, and they did not want to feel the feeling of being expelled on the first day of school.
"It's too hasty to be eliminated after the first failure," a girl with a golden ponytail in the first row said angrily, she had been sitting in her seat and looking coldly at the two teachers on the stage, "My brother's talent is unanimously recognized in the family, we have just come to the academy, and many things are still unclear." He just misjudged the difficulty of the battlefield this time, and it would be too cruel to be fired like this, so that he could still raise his head in the family in the future? ”
"Your name is Karina Edward, and you're a nobleman of the City of Glass, aren't you?" Mr. Bai did not answer her question, but asked her with a smile on his face. The information of each student has already been handed over to him, but being able to say the name and identity of a student so casually shows that he is not as cynical as he seems on the surface.
"My father is Prince Andrew, and Her Majesty the Queen is my aunt." Karina replied proudly.
"Well, next time I come to your father, I'll remind her not to snub your brother because of this." Mr. Bai promised her, still smiling on his face, as if they were talking about something as simple as what to eat at noon.
"That's it...... That's it? Karina looked at him in a daze, forgetting for a moment what was angry. She didn't doubt Mr. Bai's status in the kingdom, but what she was questioning now was the education system of this academy. Thinking of this, her face sank again and said, "What I want to say is, how can such an unreasonable system convince the public? ”
"Miss Howard, watch your wording." Mr. Lan on the side couldn't help but interject, "Even if it's your father, you don't dare to talk to Mr. Bai like this!" ”
Mr. Bai waved his hand indifferently at Mr. Lan, without the slightest trace of anger on his face, "It's okay, I was about to talk about this question." Mr. Bai looked at Karina and said, "First of all, there is no such thing as 'serving the public', although Liuli Academy is called an academy, it is not a school. There is no such thing as complaining about childish behavior if you are dissatisfied with a teacher, and if any of you feel that you can't stand the system and life here, you can abstain from voting, and the school will arrange for him to go home immediately. Secondly, Liuli Academy only accepts excellent students, and arrogance is also a kind of incompetence. Mr. Bai smiled at Karina and said, "The rules have already told you, since your brother has chosen a high-level battlefield, he will naturally have to bear the risks it brings. You should be glad that he was sent back here, if it was on the battlefield, this arrogance might have turned him into a corpse. ”
"You!" Karina glared at him angrily, but she couldn't refute it, and couldn't help but be speechless for a moment.
"If you don't have any doubts, let's start the next project." Mr. Bai said to the students casually.
Hearing that there were still projects to be carried out, the students also cheered up and looked at Mr. Bai vigilantly.
"This is Mistress Romeo, and I've already introduced it to you before." Mr. Bai didn't seem to feel the tension in the auditorium, and still pointed to the black cat in his arms unhurriedly and said, If there are still many students at this moment who feel that this dean's doting on pets is a bit exaggerated and ridiculous, then what Mr. Bai said next made them unable to laugh at all.
"Next, it's up to Mistress Romeo to conduct your second round of testing." Mr. Bai said calmly to the students. "Please place your palms on the table until the end of the test."
"Hey, is the Dean serious?" One of the students said to the people around him with a look of disbelief.
"Let a cat come and test it for us?" Most of the academies stared at the black cat lying in the dean's arms with monster-like eyes, and suddenly felt that its originally cute cat face had now become as hideous as the Burning Clan. Doubts are doubts, but with what Mr. Bai said before, no one among the students raised any more objections. Even Karina, with a reluctant face, had to put her right hand on the table as she said.
"Rest assured, this is just a quiz and will not affect your current results." Mr. Bai relieved the nervous students, "The specific reason will be explained to you later, and what I want to tell you is that Lord Romeo has a special ability, which is to recognize the sense of the sensor on the human body. Those chosen by Lord Romeo will be given special training by the Academy as potential sensors. ”
Many of the students didn't know what the sensor was, but when they heard that the test would not affect their results, they immediately relaxed a lot. Instead, he looked at Romeo with a curious and expectant look.
Xia Yan and Qianlan both looked at the black cat in surprise, of course they understood the importance of the sensor, most of the sensorers were born in the city of glass with a certain special conditions, with the conditions to become a sensor, and they needed to go through a series of intensive training to become a real sensor. An individual case like Asaarashi who has evolved into a sensitor can only be regarded as a miraculous existence. Over the years, the number of sensors in the Glass and Cat Guild has been very scarce, which has also become a major factor restricting the growth of the guild. Xia Yan always felt that the cat was a little unusual, but he didn't expect it to have such a peculiar ability.
Romeo, apparently enjoying the astonished glances cast at it, yawned, and lazily jumped out of Mr. White's arms, landing firmly on the table in the first row. The little fat man closest to it was startled and quickly covered his mouth with his hand to prevent himself from screaming. Romeo glanced at him with disdain, and walked slowly past the palms of his hands with an arrogant step. Mr. Bai didn't explain any more, and the students didn't know what to do at the moment, so they all stared at Romeo intently.
Romeo stopped as he passed Karina, who looked cautiously at Romeo who had stopped in front of her. Because of Mr. Bai, she was also wary of the cat. Romeo sniffed Karina's palm, hesitated for a moment, and then placed a front paw on her palm. Karina was caught off guard, and her whole body suddenly seemed to be frozen, motionless. When the cat's paw was removed, a golden paw print appeared on the back of Karina's hand, and her profile was marked with a black line after her name: Potential Sensor. Romeo stepped over Karina's shoulders and jumped straight onto the second-row table.
"Hey, wait, what are we going to do with this paw print?" Karina rubbed the golden cat's paw print on the back of her hand, and when she found that she couldn't get rid of it, she shouted anxiously to Romeo in the back row. She didn't want to have such a silly mark on the back of her hand forever, but Romeo ignored her, and walked around the second row of tables on his own, his tail flicking slowly and flailing.
"Paw prints are proof of being chosen by Lord Romeo, and they will disappear in a few hours." Mr. Bai explained to her with a smile.
"Damn stupid cat...... "Karina whispered in disgust at the black cat that had completely ignored herself.
The students were even more curious about the cat, and several of the girls couldn't resist even wanting to touch the chubby little one, but Romeo cleverly avoided it. Obviously, it won't be easy to get its favor. Walking in rows, passing by Zero, perhaps interested in the mask on his face, Romeo stared at him for a moment, but walked away. Then he stopped in front of a boy next to him, and it was the student in the mid-level battlefield that Mrs. Green had seen in the monitor earlier. According to the information, his name is Fujita Zhe and he is from the city of glass.
"Oh, me?" Fujita said with some flattery when he saw Romeo put his paw on the back of his hand. A golden paw print appeared on the back of his hand. "Many... Thank you, Mistress Romeo! Locke said excitedly.
Romeo left him without looking back, and after selecting another girl who looked a little sickly and a girl with brown skin and blue hair, he finally stopped in front of Asarashi and Xia Yan.
Romeo's green eyes looked at Asarashi and then at Xia Yan without blinking, sniffing his nose in the air, and then sat down in front of them, licking his paws as if he had forgotten to pick a potential sensor. Xia Yan and Qianlan exchanged a surprised look, Qianlan's identity as a sensitor was undoubted, but I don't know why, the black cat in front of him didn't mean to choose her. Romeo licked his paw for a moment, then simply jumped lightly and jumped onto Asarashi's lap, looking ready for a good night's sleep.
Romeo's move stunned everyone present, and Asaharan looked down at the black cat sitting cross-legged on his lap, at a loss. The girls who wanted to please Romeo before let out obvious jealousy, and Mr. Bai glanced at Qianlan and Xia Yan next to her, and laughed.
"Only 4?" He said to himself, "Forget it, it's still expected." ”
Mr. Bai raised his head, waved his hand to the people who were talking, and said, "It seems that the test is over, Lord Romeo, please come back!" The black cat seemed to understand Mr. Bai's words, looked at Mr. Bai with his usual arrogant eyes, reluctantly jumped off Qianlan's legs, and ran quickly towards the stage.
"You can relax, it's time for dinner, and there will be no more tests." Mr. Bai said to everyone, and Romeo returned to his arms, still staring at Qianlan in the back row. "After eating, please go back to the dormitory to rest, the accommodation information and map have been sent to your personal information. There is a curfew from 10 p.m., so no matter how important your business is, be sure to get back to your dorm by 10 p.m., that's all. ”
After Mr. Bai finished speaking, the long table in the auditorium suddenly moved, and plates of delicate food were delivered from the other side of the wall, and stopped steadily in front of each student. The atmosphere in the auditorium was also active again, after a series of tensions and excitement, at this moment they finally completely relaxed, while eating and talking with the people around them, as if they had known each other for a long time.
"Why didn't it choose me?" Qianlan looked at Mr. Bai and Mr. Lan who had left the stage and said.
"It's not that it didn't choose you, it's that it didn't reveal your identity." Xia Yan thought for a moment and said, he picked up the strawberry pie on the plate and took a bite, as if he felt that it tasted good.
"That cat gives me a peculiar feeling." Asa Lan still looked at the empty stage and said, "When it stared at me, I felt as if it was going to speak to me. ”
Xia Yan turned his face to look at her, nodded and said, "I feel this way too, but how to understand a cat's thoughts?" Xia Yan smiled at her, "Although I don't know its motives, I can feel that it has no ill will towards you." Don't worry, judging from the difficulty of the imaginary space before, even if you can't receive preferential treatment as a sensor, we will definitely be able to successfully graduate. Xia Yan finally said to her calmly, he pointed to the food on Qianlan's plate, "If you don't eat it, it will be cold." ”
"Hmm." Asa-lan shifted her gaze from the stage to her plate and nodded.