Chapter 61: The Welcome Gala Begins

At dusk, Huaxia University was bustling with noise and excitement, with people coming and going everywhere. Today was a major event for Huaxia University: the time for the welcome gala to be held.

Lingyun strolled through the campus with Busujima Saeko and Alice. Alice looked at this beautiful campus with an excited expression, smiling and saying something to Busujima Saeko as she walked. Busujima Saeko was also looking over the campus with an interested expression. Although the school she had previously attended was not small, compared to Huaxia University, whether it was the campus environment or the student and faculty strength, it was like comparing a dwarf to a giant.

"So this is your campus, Ling-kun? It really looks quite amazing!" Busujima Saeko said with some admiration.

"Of course, this is a place where the elites of a great nation gather, so it is naturally extraordinary!" Lingyun said.

"Great Scholar Ling, long time no see!" A woman's voice rang out behind Lingyun.

Lingyun turned around to look and saw that it was Chen Jing and Su Wanyue. As campus celebrities, they also had a performance tonight, but looking at them now, it seemed they had just returned to school.

"Hmph hmph, your life has been going quite well during this time. Living with two big and one small beauty, you've even forgotten about us two old friends." Chen Jing raised her eyebrows at Lingyun.

"What do you mean my life is going well? We are innocent!" Lingyun always felt that Chen Jing's tone was a bit off.

"Didn't I say that if you had time, you should come to my place to sit for a while and catch up? Why haven't you come even once in such a long time?" Chen Jing asked. "Don't tell me you don't have time; you haven't had many classes during this period."

"This..." Lingyun was speechless for a moment; he couldn't very well say that he had been healing his injuries during this time.

"Chen Jing, it's getting late. We need to go prepare for the performance. If there's anything, we can talk after the gala ends." At this moment, Su Wanyue pulled on Chen Jing's clothes and spoke up.

"Yeah, it is getting late." Chen Jing looked at her watch and frowned. "Great Scholar Ling, you are not allowed to run off after the gala ends. Otherwise, you know the consequences!"

Chen Jing shook her little fist at Lingyun, then pulled Su Wanyue and ran off directly.

"Ling-kun, those two young girls seem to be very unusual toward you!" After the two left, Busujima Saeko said to Lingyun in a low voice with a smile.

"What's so unusual about them? They've always been like this!" Lingyun said nonchalantly.

"Just as Ye Xi said, Lingyun really is a blockhead!" Busujima Saeko said in an extremely soft voice.

"Saeko, what did you just say?" Lingyun asked.

"Nothing, Ling-kun. Let's head to the auditorium first." Busujima Saeko changed the subject.

"Xiaojing, how were your previous investigation results?" On the way to the auditorium, Su Wanyue asked softly.

Hearing Su Wanyue's question, Chen Jing couldn't help but frown: "The investigation process was unexpectedly smooth. My people didn't encounter any obstacles, as if they were all just ordinary people. But I always feel like something is wrong, as if all of this was deliberately let us find out. And there is one most important point, which is also the biggest source of my doubts."

"What could be the source of your doubts?" Su Wanyue asked.

"That is, I was high school classmates with Lingyun for three years, and I have never heard him mention that he knew such people."

"But looking at how Lingyun and them get along, they don't look like strangers either, right?"

"That's why this is the part I'm most confused about. However, I believe that one day I will find out the reason. Perhaps we can get some of the things we need from little sister Ye Xi!"

"I have no time to get away right now, so I can only entrust this matter to you."

"Don't worry, leave it to me!"

When Lingyun and his group walked into the auditorium, it was already full of students. The eldest from Lingyun's dormitory spotted Lingyun at a glance and stood up to greet him: "Hey, Fourth, I'm over here. We've already saved seats for you."

Lingyun nodded at them with a smile, then took Busujima Saeko and the other girl and walked over.

"It's about time, the gala is about to start. This is the program list for the performances. Little sister Ye Xi's guqin solo is the twelfth program. We'll have to listen carefully to little sister Ye Xi's performance then." Huang Luo took out a sheet and placed it in Lingyun's hand.

The auditorium of Huaxia University was quite spacious, but now it was almost full. Many sophomores and juniors had also come to join in the fun. After all, this welcome gala had many handsome men and beautiful women attending; it would feel like a loss not to come and see.

Soon it was time for the gala to start, and a male and female host went on stage to announce the start of the welcome gala.

"These two are not simple." At the first glance at these two hosts, Lingyun saw that they both possessed martial arts, and both had reached the Huang Tier Late Stage. In the secular world, people who could reach the strength of the Huang Tier Late Stage at this age were definitely not ordinary people.

"Fourth, you should know these two, right?" Huang Luo pointed at the two hosts on stage and said.

"Uh, I don't think I actually know them!" Lingyun said with some embarrassment.

"These two are both big shots from our school's Media Department. Although they are only juniors now, many large television stations have already extended olive branches to them. Especially that guy; it's said he has already received an offer from CCTV, and he can go work there as soon as he graduates." Han Yu said with an envious expression.

"However, there is one bad thing. This guy is named Zhou Tianyu, and he is Zhou Tianqi's biological older brother. With such a good brother, why does he have such a jerk of a younger brother?" Liu Feng suddenly interjected.

Watching Zhou Tianyu, who had already walked off the stage, Lingyun frowned slightly. He had a feeling that he would definitely clash with this person one day. This was not a malicious speculation, but a premonition from a sudden intuition. For someone like Lingyun, once such a premonition appeared, it would come true nine times out of ten.

"As for that woman, her name is Qin Yueru, also one of the famous campus belles of the Media Department, and she is currently Zhou Tianyu's girlfriend. Not only is she beautiful, but her grades are top-notch. The two of them are hailed as the golden boy and jade girl of the Media Department, and are also the objects of envy for many single men and women on campus!" Liu Feng added from the side.

Lingyun glanced at the three of them: "You guys know quite a lot about these kinds of things!"

Huang Luo shrugged: "Can't help it. There's so much gossip in school, we just learned it all by listening."

After a series of programs, Qin Yueru smiled and said to the audience: "Thank you to the students of the Art Academy for their wonderful performance. After listening to so many modern songs, let us appreciate the classical music of the Chinese nation. Let us invite student Luo Yexi from the Music Academy to bring us a guqin solo — 'Phoenix Singing in the Nine Heavens'."

"Little sister Ye Xi is going on stage, hurry, hurry, get ready to listen to the music!" Huang Luo said.