CHAPTER 362: CHAPTER 362: HE’S THE MASTERMIND!

Academic Affairs Office.

As soon as Ji You left, within a few minutes, Director Wang, sitting with his legs crossed, began dialing Principal Hong’s contact number with a smile in his eyes.

Principal Hong answered quickly.

Principal Hong asked, "Old Wang, did it work out?"

"It did," said Director Wang, looking at Principal Hong in surprise, and said, "Wow! Old Hong, guess how many points this girl has in her hands?"

Principal Hong, shaking his leg, asked, "How many?"

Director Wang slapped the table and said, "260,000!"

Hiss—

Principal Hong’s eyes bulged, no longer shaking his leg, he couldn’t help but ask, "How many?"

Director Wang withdrew his crossed legs and said: "Over 260,000! If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it. This kid has a bright future ahead! How long has she been enrolled? Just halfway through the semester, and she’s already amassed so many points. What a promising student!"

Principal Hong’s eyes narrowed, saying, "That means she still has 160,000 in her hands? That won’t do. We need to find a way to drain all the points from her, empty them out."

Director Wang said with a smile, "If I had known she had this many, I would have fleeced her for more! Only 100,000, we really sold ourselves short."

Hearing this, Principal Hong was left somewhat speechless. He originally thought Ji You had at most about 100,000 points, thinking that this time Old Wang could at most fleece her for 50,000 or 60,000. Taking 50,000 or 60,000 would already be quite ruthless, extremely greedy.

To his utmost surprise, Old Wang demanded 100,000.

And even more unexpectedly, the girl really coughed it up.

Thinking about it, he really wasn’t suited for managing finances. Such an unscrupulous job, indeed, was more fitting for an old fox like Wang Lianfa.

Of course—

All of these thoughts went through Principal Hong’s head, but none of it showed on his face. He cautioned, "Old Wang, Leave this matter to you. Find a way to spend all the girl’s points. A young girl with so many points can easily slack off and wait for graduation without worries, that’s not conducive to her development. Doing nothing breeds laziness and a lack of motivation."

Director Wang said with a laugh: "Don’t worry, leave it to me."

Principal Hong smiled slightly and said, "I would really be uneasy entrusting this to someone else. But, Old Wang, I have a hundred and twenty percent confidence in you."

No other reason.

He had just taken action and had skimmed 100,000 credit points off Ji You. In the whole school, who is more adept at skinning someone than Wang Lianfa?

No one.

Wang Lianfa would dare claim to be second, but no one would dare to claim to be the first.

Director Wang said with a laugh: "Old Hong, you’re not being upright. Unloading these despicable and provoking tasks on me—if that’s not intentionally making the students hate me, what is?"

While speaking—

Director Wang suddenly sneezed hard, he raised his hand, touched his nose, and cursed with a laugh: "It must be that girl cursing me behind my back just now, who knows how ugly her words are."

Principal Hong said with a smile: "The capable have to do more work. It’s because you’re suitable for the job that I entrusted it to you."

Director Wang waved his hand and said, "Stop blowing smoke, do you think I don’t know what kind of person you are?"

Truth be told, had Principal Hong not suddenly told Director Wang about batch 131 self-funded student Ji You having a large amount of points and instructed him to figure out how to extract them, Director Wang would not have suddenly taken such a hard line on fleecing Ji You.

All things considered, it was Principal Hong’s fault, but the blame fell on Director Wang.

Regarding this, Director Wang had come to accept his fate.

After all, isn’t it just yet another unfounded accusation about finances he’s been unjustly shouldering for over a decade? What’s one more to the count?

At this thought, Director Wang suddenly asked, "That girl you mentioned just now, did she really win so many points in the Alliance University Cyber Competition? And she rose out of nowhere to 99th on the East District leaderboard?"

Principal Hong replied, "Is there any doubt about it?"

In reality, ’Alliance University official’ does not refer to a single school, but signifies all the universities within the Alliance. This organizational entity is directly under the jurisdiction of the Alliance Education Bureau. Every year, both offline and online, numerous subject competitions are hosted by the Education Bureau and officially presented by the Alliance University. However, the two most significant competitions are the annual Cyber Competition and the annual Offline Competition.

The Cyber Competition begins with selections in September when the new academic year starts and concludes in November. Being an anonymous contest, all students, regardless of school or region, compete only representing themselves. The purpose of this competition is to preliminarily filter and gauge the general capabilities of the new generation of students in the Alliance.

The Idle Contest starts every year in March of the second semester and ends in May. In this contest, students are categorized by school, region, and their affiliated star systems, and the results of their competitive efforts represent not only their own merit but are also fought in honor of their schools. This competition further refines the individual strengths of the new generation across the various star systems and regions within the Alliance.

In summary—

Both competitions are very meaningful.

Even though the cyber race is anonymous and the real identity of the students who participate must be kept confidential, every attending student must use their real student registration number to access the internal network of Alliance University for verification. The network connects to the student’s school to confirm authenticity.

Therefore—

If the senior leadership of a school is really determined to investigate, they can find out exactly how many and which students from their school have participated in the cyber competition.

After learning that Ji You had participated in the competition and achieved a notable ranking, becoming a forum sensation, Principal Hong speculated that she might possess a substantial amount of points.

So—

Principal Hong began to scheme.

After leaving Director Wang’s office, Ji You kept cursing under her breath. Suddenly, she shivered and sneezed several times in a row.

Ji You tilted her head, "Strange??? Why suddenly sneezing? The weather hasn’t changed at all."

Could it be—

Someone is up to some mischief?

Xu Siyu?

Lin Lele?

Or who?

Or, could it be Director Wang?

No matter how hard Ji You racked her brain, she couldn’t guess that it would be Principal Hong.

Continuing to grumble all the way to her dormitory, Ji You stopped in her tracks just before entering. After thinking it over carefully, she felt she hadn’t slipped up in any way. When transferring money to Director Wang, she had purposely covered her tracks to prevent him from peeking at the exact amount of her assets, ensuring that Director Wang hadn’t seen a thing.

It... It shouldn’t be Director Wang, right?

That leaves only Xu Siyu.

Ji You guessed that Xu Siyu must be plotting how to embarrass her after learning that Ji You was challenging the entire school. So, she must be scheming in secret.

But what is there to fear?

Having decided to create a spectacle, Ji You had already prepared herself mentally.

In any case, one counters soldiers with generals and stems water with earth. All their schemes and machinations are just paper tigers!

And with that, Ji You pushed the door open and entered.