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    System: Holy crap, what the hell are these?

    Yao Lele and Xu Chuanzhi were also completely dumbfounded. They were thinking, wasn’t Rong Ziyan’s geese known as the new darlings of the Veterinary Medicine Department because of their beauty? What the heck are these things now?

    Only Rong Ziyan was very happy. He picked up the goose closest to him and stroked its head. “Great job, in another two months you can make money!”

    Being hugged by their handsome dad! The excited geese immediately launched countless small hearts of love towards Rong Ziyan. Even the half-closed, sharp eyes became round and plump again.

    But as Yao Lele and Xu Chuanzhi pondered Rong Ziyan’s words, their mood became strangely subtle.

    “In another two months you can make money”… does he mean… they can be eaten?

    The system was also worried about this.

    Rong Ziyan was very puzzled: Why eat them? The Anhui White Geese are for down production!

    The system was even more shocked upon hearing this. For a goose, what’s the difference between being plucked alive and being eaten dead? Isn’t it just as terrible?

    So, the system instantly felt a burst of pity and love for the growing geese. It even felt that their current fierce appearance had become cute.

    They remained silent the whole way back. When Rong Ziyan and the others returned to school, it was already after nine o’clock in the evening.

    At this time, apart from couples who were reluctant to part, most people should have returned to their dorms to rest, play games, or read quietly.

    However, the students were not doing that now. Especially the students from the departments of Rong Ziyan and the other two. Except for those who had gone to internships, almost all of them were gathered at the school gate waiting for their return.

    The three department heads were also guarding the gate, and it looked like they had been waiting for a while. As soon as the car stopped, they all crowded around.

    “Good, it’s good you’re back safely.” They looked Rong Ziyan and the others up and down, making sure that all three were safe and unharmed, before they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

    Yao Lele, with red eyes, hugged her advisor. “Teacher, we didn’t bring shame to the Agricultural University!”

    In this competition, not to mention others, just looking at Yao Lele, this girl had endured too much pressure.

    From the initial interview to the sudden attacks during the mock tests, and the unfair treatment during the final competition, the constant pressure almost made her unable to hold on.

    If it weren’t for Rong Ziyan as the backbone, she would have probably collapsed long ago.

    And now, with her loving teacher and concerned classmates around, the string in Yao Lele’s heart loosened and her tears fell uncontrollably.

    Xu Chuanzhi also had red eyes and his voice was choked with emotion, but he was a bit clumsy with words and didn’t know how to express himself.

    Only Rong Ziyan’s emotions were still calm.

    Rong Ziyan’s advisor looked at him carefully for a while, “You’ve lost a bit of weight.”

    Rong Ziyan smiled, “It’s okay, teacher, don’t worry.”

    Then he turned to look at the classmates who were waiting for their return and said loudly, “We’re back! We won the competition, screwed over the production team, and didn’t bring shame to our Agricultural University!”

    “Of course, our Agricultural University is bound to win!” Rong Ziyan’s words instantly ignited the enthusiasm of all the students who were waiting for their return.

    This time, regardless of the teachers’ presence, and without knowing who started it, all the students rushed toward Rong Ziyan and the others.

    Even the several department heads were surrounded and tossed up into the air.

    “Wait, wait! I’m wearing a dress!” Yao Lele tried to struggle, but she was then hugged by her best friend.

    “Lele, you’re finally back, I’ve been scared to death these past few hours. I was so afraid something would happen to you on the road.” Her best friend’s tearful voice rang in her ears.

    Before Yao Lele could reply, a few of her roommates rushed over and hugged her as well. The girls from the Horticulture department were all crying together.

    The Mechanical Engineering department was much more rough. After bumping fists, they were more concerned about how Xu Chuanzhi had managed to make the signal connector on the fly.

    “You even brought these odds and ends when you went on the show, were you a fortune teller?”

    “Not really.” Xu Chuanzhi scratched his head. “It was Rong-ge who specifically told me to bring them.”

    “???” Is Rong Ziyan so powerful?

    Many people cast admiring glances towards Rong Ziyan.

    Rong Ziyan explained casually, “The three of us were planning on ranking up in King of Glory, and I was afraid the signal would be bad on the show, so I told Xu Chuanzhi to bring the stuff.”

    “It was also a fluke.”

    “…” Instantly, the way everyone looked at Rong Ziyan became dangerous. And the expressions of Xu Chuanzhi and Yao Lele also became twisted.

    With Rong Ziyan’s terrible skills, he still needed to worry about the internet speed?

    The legend of him using all of Xiang Yu’s three skills and missing every time was about him!

    The Veterinary Medicine department, seeing that the atmosphere wasn’t right, quickly pulled Rong Ziyan to walk into the school first, while also persuading, “Forget it, forget it! Don’t dwell on it, it’s good they’re back.”

    Although they said it lightly, the pace of their feet was still very fast. Their own academic dog, they could only beat behind closed doors. How could they allow the other departments to take advantage?

    “Pay attention to the lights-out time, don’t sleep too late…” Seeing them scatter like a swarm, the department head of the Veterinary Medicine Department worriedly reminded them from behind.

    He was quickly perfunctorily brushed off by a bunch of half-hearted “Okay” responses.

    “Forget it, let them make a fuss! They’re all young.” The department head of the Mechanical Engineering Department was very open-minded.

    “That’s true.” The head of the Veterinary Medicine Department shook his head helplessly and returned with the other two.

    Their waiting here today was not only for the return of Rong Ziyan and the others, but there was also something more important to do later.

    Putting aside other schools, the several universities in Beijing that had been invited had united to denounce the production team after the incident.

    Even though the TV station had responded very quickly, in the eyes of these teachers, it was by no means a simple apology and the resignation of a director of the station that could solve the problem. They were still waiting for a final explanation.

    There was no way they were going to let those people get away after bullying their students.

    However, unlike the students’ explosive rebellion, the adult world has a deeper way of handling things.

    It was very clear that the TV station’s big move had alarmed those above them. As early as the evening, they had submitted a summary of the whole incident. In another half-month there would be a joint meeting of various universities, and it was conceivable that the meeting would be quite exciting.

    The teachers were still doing their best to make the trashy production team pay the final price.

    Meanwhile, Rong Ziyan and the others were having a riot.

    All these classmates had watched the live stream, and they were all incredibly impressed by the three of them.

    “Forty books in a week! Academic god, how did you do it?”

    “Yao Lele too, you won the environmental protection challenge. Tell us in detail what was going on then.”

    “Hey! Let’s put everything else aside for now, what I really want to know is how did you think to look at the ancient books?”

    “That’s right, how did you know?” Everyone was so curious. Compared with the other two, Rong Ziyan’s frighteningly broad knowledge base was the most shocking to them.

    Rong Ziyan answered as a matter of course, “I just remembered them when I was helping my advisor look up information.”

    Everyone was shocked, “What kind of information required you to look at so many books?”

    Rong Ziyan: “I didn’t have to read that many, but the Beijing Library was free, so I just read a few more whenever I had time.”

    Everyone: …

    [Shock Value +10000]

    So was that just a “few more”? He had clearly finished reading all the books in the Beijing Library!

    “What’s wrong?” Seeing that they were not talking, Rong Ziyan, out of the gratitude from enjoying everyone’s love and concern for so long, also showed his care by returning the favour to the classmates who were about to graduate. “Speaking of research, how are your graduation theses going? I remember it’s time to start defending them, right?”

    “…” [Collapse Value +25000]

    The originally very lively atmosphere instantly cooled down, and the way everyone looked at Rong Ziyan also became less friendly.

    Rong Ziyan: “Don’t tell me you haven’t finished writing them yet!”

    Wasn’t that just utter nonsense? Even thinking about the plagiarism checks was very tiring. He was lifting the lid on something that was not ready to be opened, how could a high and mighty academic god understand the suffering of us commoners?

    The class monitor of Rong Ziyan’s class couldn’t help but start, “I have an idea that I don’t know if I should say.”

    “Say it?”

    “Rong! I’ve really wanted to beat you up for a long time.” As he said this, the monitor gritted his teeth and quickly reached out towards Rong Ziyan.

    Rong Ziyan reacted extremely quickly, immediately grabbing the monitor and pushing him into the crowd, then he took off and ran towards the dorm.

    “Comrades! Stop him! It’s time to avenge ourselves!” A group of big boys chased Rong Ziyan into the men’s dormitory while laughing and joking.

    The class monitor, who was pushed by Rong Ziyan and fell behind, was so angry that he jumped on the spot, “We must catch him! That move Rong Ziyan used to grab me just now was the same as when you grab the pig’s leg when castrating them.”

    “Hahahaha!” Everyone who heard him couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

    And Rong Ziyan had finally lost to the crowd, and was surrounded before he could escape into the dormitory building.

    “Hehehe, Rong! I’ll give you a minute to choose the sack you want.”

    The system erupted into a burst of excited screams, “Ahhhhh! Host, you’re going to get beaten up!”

    Thinking about it, it was actually a little exciting!

    But when it came to being a dog, Rong Ziyan was a professional. How could he really be captured? He quickly pulled out a round, iron item from his backpack, held it up in front of him, and said righteously, “Let me go! Or else I’ll use biochemical weapons!”

    “I’d rather die than submit, let’s all perish together!”

    Those who were nearby took a look and were instantly dumbfounded.

    “Holy crap! Surströmming! Are you going this far?”

    As for those who were moving to attack, they also subconsciously moved away from Rong Ziyan.

    To what extent was the surströmming a terrifying thing? It was so terrible that even the Chinese, who could find deliciousness in everything, could not endure it. The point was that it was too stinky. If Rong Ziyan opened this small can, their whole dormitory would be unbearable for the next week.

    It was three times more terrifying than living in a public toilet.

    So, taking advantage of everyone’s hesitation, Rong Ziyan agilely escaped through the gap between them, returned to his own dormitory, and closed the door.

    Unexpectedly, Rong Ziyan’s four roommates were still there. When they saw Rong Ziyan coming in, they were also clearly dumbfounded.

    Rong Ziyan: Want some surströmming?

    The four roommates: … No!

    This was even more terrifying than the salted fish from before. Rong Ziyan was really going to do anything now! The four roommates were so angry that they grabbed their phones and wallets and ran away. Soon, Rong Ziyan was the only one left in the dormitory.

    System: Rong! You scared them all away.

    Rong Ziyan: Nonsense! Am I such an ununited and uncaring person?

    System: Be confident, remove the “am” and the question mark.

    After messing around for a long time, after Rong Ziyan showered, it was almost half past ten when he lay on the bed.

    In the class’s QQ group, everyone was still discussing the production team’s affairs during the day.

    In the WeChat academic god group, the academic gods from various schools were also telling each other they were safe and sound.

    Rong Ziyan looked at both sides, making sure that nothing was missing, and then covered himself with the blanket, closed his eyes, and planned to sort out his recent gains.

    He could only marvel at the power of internet traffic. Just this one episode had earned Rong Ziyan nearly seven million emotional value points from netizens.

    “Wow! Seven thousand draws! Host, we’re rich!”

    “Mm.” Rong Ziyan also thought so. At the same time, after calculating his salted duck egg inventory, Rong Ziyan decided to first try his luck with two hundred draws.

    System: Anyway, it’ll just be salted duck eggs.

    Rong Ziyan: Don’t talk nonsense! This time I have found a good way to get out of bad luck.

    The system didn’t believe it at all.

    Then he watched Rong Ziyan take out his phone, log into Weibo, and first forward ten lucky carp posts in one go. Then he put his hands together and bowed to the east. Finally, he opened QQ Music and found a very familiar song—”Good Luck”.

    System: Are you sure this is useful?

    Rong Ziyan was very confident: Absolutely no problem!

    Then, accompanied by the cheerful song “Good luck is coming, our good luck is coming”, Rong Ziyan’s dormitory floor was quickly occupied by salted duck eggs and salted fish. And finally, the two hundred draws had reached draw 199.

    The system, looking at the eggs on the floor, was already too lazy to become depressed.

    Rong Ziyan advised it, as if he were an expert, “Don’t be afraid, there’s still one last draw!”

    Then, as soon as Rong Ziyan’s voice fell, he saw a burst of purple light suddenly appear on the roulette.

    The system was immediately shocked: Holy crap! It’s a hit! It’s an SR!

    Rong Ziyan was also waiting quietly, wanting to see what the SR that the system had generated this time was.

    The next second, a pink box with small flowers and the four big words “Heavy Gold Seeking Son” written on it appeared in Rong Ziyan’s hand.

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