Chapter 38: The Magnificent Metropolis Psychic University! Luxury Dorms!
Since the other party had said so, Liu Qian and Sun Rui understood.
If they still refused to accept these two tickets, it would seem too contrived.
So after sincerely thanking him, they accepted the two general admission tickets.
As Director of Admissions at the Metropolis Psychic University, Zhang Zhaoyang had considerable experience with college application forms.
Along the way, he gave Liu Qian and Sun Rui plenty of advice regarding their application choices.
For example, which schools in Metropolis might expand admissions this year, or which schools might lower their admission scores.
Such insider information was completely inaccessible to ordinary people.
Thus, besides being delighted, Liu Qian and Sun Rui felt immensely fortunate to have met Xu Jingming on the road.
Otherwise, they could never have accessed such confidential information.
The off-road vehicle sped along and soon entered the Metropolis University City.
Finally, it stopped in front of the gate of the Metropolis Psychic University.
"I'll go park first; wait here for me."
After dropping off Xu Jingming and the others, Zhang Zhaoyang went alone to park the car.
Xu Jingming seized this chance to observe the top-tier university before him.
While still in Jiangcheng, he had researched the Metropolis Psychic University online.
He knew the Metropolis Psychic University was built with great grandeur.
But when the school truly appeared before him, he felt stunned.
Just the gate he could see was over a hundred meters wide!
The flat cement road beneath it could easily accommodate dozens of cars passing side by side!
Its height was nearly ten meters or more!
Across the massive gate, the six characters "Metropolis Psychic University" were written in bold, swirling strokes.
Under the midday sun's illumination, they shimmered brilliantly.
"Damn, even the gate is built this grand—what must the inside of the school be like?"
Xu Jingming finally understood why so many applicants dreamed of elite universities.
Beyond their deep academic heritage, simply passing through such a majestic gate daily was a visual delight.
At the same time, Xu Jingming could not help but look forward to his future four years of campus life.
Beside him, Liu Qian and Sun Rui were equally awed by the grandeur of the Metropolis Psychic University.
They stared fixedly at the gate, not blinking.
"How about it? Impressive, right?"
At that moment, Zhang Zhaoyang, having parked the car, appeared beside them with a smile.
He loved seeing new students stunned by the school.
This was one reason he chose to personally pick up Xu Jingming.
"Our Metropolis Psychic University covers 26 square kilometers; this gate suits it perfectly."
Zhang Zhaoyang's next sentence made Liu Qian's mouth drop open and her eyes widen in shock:
"26 square kilometers?! I remember your Metropolis Psychic University only admits a thousand freshmen each year.
Even adding all four grades, there are only a few thousand students total—how can so few people occupy such a huge area?!"
Liu Qian knew the Metropolis Psychic University was large, but she never imagined it was 26 square kilometers!
That's nearly half the size of an entire county town!
And such a vast area houses only a few thousand people!
Remember, this is Metropolis—where every square meter is priceless!
For a school to have such an area was almost fantastical!
"It's not that few—teachers and staff combined total over ten thousand people; per capita land area is about 2,600 square meters."
Zhang Zhaoyang's casual use of "just" made Liu Qian and Sun Rui's eyes burn with envy.
A per capita land area of over 2,600 square meters—how terrifying a number was that?
In ordinary universities, even one percent of that would be exceptional!
Amid all this shock, Liu Qian and Sun Rui were led into the Metropolis Psychic University.
When they finally came to their senses, Xu Jingming was already waving goodbye:
"I told Teacher Zhang—you're free to tour the campus."
"But once you leave, you can't re-enter. Well then, we'll part ways here."
"I hope you both get accepted into your dream universities."
For Liu Qian, whose aesthetic standards perfectly matched Xu Jingming's height and appearance, it was impossible not to have feelings for him.
But watching his figure walk away with Zhang Zhaoyang,
she mustered all her courage yet still could not call out to ask for his contact information.
"In the end… we're not from the same world."
Liu Qian shook her head.
She was merely from an ordinary family; to Xu Jingming, who had the Metropolis Psychic University come to pick him up, she was nothing more than a passing stranger.
To have met once was already lucky—seeking anything deeper was pure fantasy...
"Xiao Qian, I know who Xu Jingming is!"
Beside her, Sun Rui suddenly cried out, holding her phone up to Liu Qian's face:
"I thought he looked familiar—he's the provincial top scorer from Jiangnan Province!"
"So it was him!"
Looking at the news articles and accompanying photos about Xu Jingming on Sun Rui's phone.
Only then did Liu Qian connect Xu Jingming with the provincial top scorer who had recently set the entire Jiangnan Province abuzz.
"So in the end he chose Magic City Ability University — no wonder a teacher came to pick him up personally."
Although the internet was in an uproar, seeing the actual person in real life didn't necessarily mean you'd recognize him.
This was most people's instinctive reaction, and Liu Qian was no exception.
And on the internet, there had never been any definite news about which university Xu Jingming would ultimately choose.
No one had expected that he had already chosen Magic City Ability University, and had even already started enrollment and registration.
"Sure enough, we're not people from the same world."
Having learned his true identity, Liu Qian instead felt relieved, and smiled as she took her best friend Sun Rui's hand:
"Let's go — it wasn't easy getting in here, we should have a good look around!"
With the admissions office director leading the way, Xu Jingming's enrollment and registration encountered no obstacles whatsoever.
It took only a little over half an hour to complete all the procedures.
He received his student ID and dormitory key.
Originally, Xu Jingming had been awestruck once by the gate of Magic City Ability University at the school entrance.
But when he saw his own dormitory, he was awestruck once again.
Dormitories — he, who in his previous life had studied all the way through to a doctoral graduation, had seen plenty.
He had even transferred through three different universities himself, living in three or four different dormitories.
There were four-person rooms, single rooms, and even three-bedroom apartments specially assigned to doctoral students!
But using a villa as a dormitory, like Magic City Ability University did — he truly had never seen that before!
The villa before him looked even more luxurious than the one he had in Jiangcheng!
At this point, Xu Jingming finally understood why Magic City Ability University's campus area was so vast.
Just the villas provided for the students alone probably took up a small fraction of the total area.!
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