Qin Siyang rubbed his chin, sizing up Fu Wanli on the stage.
Fu Wanli's name sounded bold and sweeping, stirring and grand, but his looks were the exact opposite.
Shifty eyes, a rat-like face, a flattened nose, buck teeth. When he smiled, his features twisted together into a few creases. If he went on stage to play a clown, he wouldn't even need makeup.
The only thing worth praising was that his spine was very straight. His figure and bearing didn't sink to the same level as his appearance, so he couldn't really be called wretched.
["Hello everyone, I'm a freshman at South Glory University, Fu Wanli. I'm very happy to speak on behalf of the new students."]
["My family isn't well off. My father is addicted to gambling, my mother is bedridden with illness, my older brother demands a sky-high bride price, and my younger sister travels everywhere. The burden of the family fell on my shoulders very early on…"]
Zhao Sifang, sitting below the stage, frowned as he looked at his phone. Then he opened the chat block and muttered, "That's not right. I checked the freshman records, Fu Wanli's family only has him and his mom. Where did this dad, brother, and sister come from?"
Gu Yunpeng glanced at Zhao Longfei on stage and said, "Look, even President Zhao looks a bit confused. He's probably just as surprised by Fu Wanli's nonsense."
"Could it be he's just talking out of his ass?", Hu Chan's eyes flashed with a hint of disgust, "Making up lies out of thin air like this, honestly, he's almost on par with Boss Qin."
Chu Baxiang shook his head slightly, "No, he's not even close. This kind of small-time trick from Fu Wanli can't compare to Qin Siyang, who can fool the world."
"Fair point."
Qin Siyang didn't join the discussion. He was just thinking about why Fu Wanli would make things up at the freshman ceremony.
Fu Wanli slowly narrated his "hard life," and many people in the audience were moved to tears. He completely broke apart the festive atmosphere in the auditorium and turned it into an emotional lecture.
Even Zhao Sifang, who knew he was lying, felt his eyes grow moist.
["I hope everyone can start a happy life at South Glory University! Thank you all!"]
Fu Wanli bowed, then calmly walked off the stage.
From start to finish, he never used the tragic background he fabricated to gain anything.
That made Qin Siyang feel puzzled.
'All that effort for nothing, what exactly is this Fu Wanli after?'
'It can't just be to make everyone feel sympathy and admiration for him, to look up to him a bit more, right?'
'What kind of illness would it take to pull something like that?'
'He is already eighteen, and has gone through layers of selection to get into a top university, his brain can't be that bad.'
'Wait,' Qin Siyang narrowed his eyes, 'Admission doesn't require an intelligence test.'
'Didn't I just complain about that earlier?'
'Could it be that on the very first day of school, I have already run into the legendary idiot?'
Qin Siyang secretly glanced at Zhao Longfei again.
He noticed Zhao Longfei's expression looked awful, like someone had force-fed him three kgs of crap.
Seeing this, Qin Siyang felt even more convinced his guess was right.
After Fu Wanli, it was actually Florence who went up to speak, which surprised Qin Siyang.
The reason Florence could speak on stage was that he had become the youngest associate professor trained by South Glory University. It seemed his paper had been successfully published, and he had secured a teaching position.
On stage, Florence no longer had the awkwardness from when they met at the tutoring class that day.
Now he looked like a young man who had made it, full of spirit. While speaking, he even secretly smiled at Qin Siyang.
After that, the outstanding senior representative Duan Chongfang gave a speech. Qin Siyang remembered that his rank in the Wolf Card system was [Jack of Clubs]. Although he had only just advanced from sophomore to junior year, he was already among the top Wolf Card students within the safe zone.
But Qin Siyang wasn't interested in his speech at all, so he simply closed his eyes and slept.
By twelve noon, the opening ceremony ended.
Most of the time had been spent listening to people on stage talk nonsense, and he ended up sleeping on and off for about an hour.
Still, Qin Siyang didn't come away empty-handed. He at least learned some of South Glory's rules and systems.
Universities after the apocalypse were indeed quite different from the ones Qin Siyang attended in his previous life.
Students often went outside the safe zone alone to hunt gods. To ensure their safety, they usually didn't tell others their exact schedule or plans. Losing contact or even going missing was very common.
Because of this, strict class-based management became especially difficult, so the class unit was abolished.
Instead, students were required to check in at school at least once every ten days, so the school could confirm they were still alive.
In addition, since students frequently went out or had their own matters to handle, attendance for classes was completely canceled. All classes were recorded, and the recordings were uploaded to the school forum afterward, making it convenient for students to catch up later.
During freshman and sophomore years, students mainly studied foundational general courses about sequences and gods. There were no majors, but they had to take electives. Two days later, this Friday, the freshman course selection would begin.
Also, South Glory University had a very good reputation among students. It was an extremely fair school.
This so-called fairness was reflected in every aspect through the principle of "scores above all", whoever had higher points had more rights.
Students with high god-hunting points and research points got priority in course selection, priority participation in simulated battles on the god arena, and could even cut in line for the restroom.
This also aligned with the United Government's policy, implementing the idea that those with higher points held higher status, motivating students to work harder to fight gods outside the safe zone.
Right now, Qin Siyang, who ranked first among freshmen in both god-hunting points and research points, was basically at the top of the hierarchy in South Glory University.
Besides that, Qin Siyang also received a light gray badge.
According to Lin Yaman's explanation at the freshman assembly, every student had one of these badges.
When receiving it, they had to record their information just like when they registered at the Administration Bureau, then connect that information to the badge through some kind of god-hunting tool.
As for its exact function, Qin Siyang had accidentally fallen asleep while Lin Yaman was explaining, so he didn't hear it. He figured it probably wasn't that important anyway, so he didn't look into it further.
The only thing he caught was that the badge had to be worn on campus at all times.
"Brother Qin, let's go, let's grab lunch at the cafeteria."
Zhao Sifang pulled Qin Siyang, who was about to leave the auditorium.
"The cafeteria?"
"Yeah. Before school started, it was closed. Now that school's begun, it's open again."
Qin Siyang had never been to South Glory University's cafeteria before. He'd heard it was free, and under the same condition of being free, it should be much better than the cafeteria at Ju'an School.
He had gotten a bit tired of eating at the guesthouse these past few days and wanted a change of taste, so he agreed.
"Alright, let's try it."
Zhao Sifang called out again, "Brother-in-law, come along!"
"Okay."
Qin Siyang didn't want to bring Gu Yunpeng, but he had no reason to refuse, so he could only suppress his irritation and go along with it.
Meanwhile, Chu Baxiang and Hu Chan quietly followed behind the three of them.
The top five freshmen in god-hunting points and research points at South Glory arrived at the cafeteria together, keeping a low profile.
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