Everyone around turned to look at him, watching Xie Xuan clap with varying expressions.
“Beautifully done!” Xie Xuan lowered his hands. “And the way she killed him was perfect! This kind of scum deserved to die, and luckily, she didn't let him off too easily!”
He stood up, pushed up his glasses, and looked at the other Turing City engineers. At this moment, every single one of them had a look of sheer, vindicated satisfaction on their faces.
Xie Xuan declared, “From now on, this Teacher Bai is an honored guest of Turing City!”
“She will forever be a friend of mine, Xie Xuan, and a friend of our Turing City.”
As his voice faded, the other engineers nodded solemnly in agreement.
In the corner, Tian Guannan's face instantly turned incredibly unsightly.
Meanwhile, the other assessors stared at Bai Feifei's screen, their expressions filled with utter disbelief.
Listening to what Wang Gaofeng had just said, everyone was thoroughly shocked.
Even those who had known some inside details of the Graduation Show beforehand did not know as much as Wang Gaofeng. Now, everything had been dragged out into the open!
Only a few hours had passed since the Graduation Show began, yet Bai Feifei's actions had sent everything spiraling out of control, casting a terrifying shadow of conspiracy over the entire event.
The Xu family's schemes, cheating in the Graduation Show, and those potions of unknown origin... This barrage of bombshell revelations made everyone wonder: should this assessment even continue?
Was there even any point to it anymore?
Was the cheating in the Graduation Show he spoke of actually real? How could they verify it?
But no matter what, the nature of this Graduation Show had completely changed...
Even Liu Yun could not control her expression, her brow furrowing deeply.
Xie Xuan ignored the gazes of those around him. “Turing City came here with the intention of friendly technical exchange and assistance.”
“I never expected that we would find our traitor here, let alone that one of Dawn City's own families would be involved.”
He paused, then looked at Liu Yun. “Therefore, the collaboration is canceled!”
The atmosphere became exceptionally oppressive under his words.
“Our people and equipment will withdraw immediately,” Xie Xuan said.
“We can leave the data records of the Graduation Show with you, but from this moment on, until the full truth is revealed, no one in Dawn City except for Teacher Bai is a friend of Turing City!”
Everyone could hear the icy hostility in his tone.
Turing City's stance was no longer just directed at the Xu family. Since the Xu family was one of the five major families, Turing City was now expressing considerable hostility toward the entirety of Dawn City!
Frankly speaking, a city like Dawn City simply could not afford to offend Turing City!
This was why Xie Xuan dared to show such blatant disrespect on their turf, even when his own strength was lacking.
Just as Xie Xuan turned to leave, Liu Yun spoke up.
“Mr. Xie, please wait.”
Xie Xuan stopped in his tracks and turned back to look at her.
“What? Is Prophet Liu Yun going to force me to stay?”
Liu Yun's expression had already returned to calm. She took two steps forward, her voice reaching Xie Xuan's ears:
“Please help us finish this Graduation Show. It is not without benefit to you either.”
Xie Xuan frowned. “What do you mean?”
Liu Yun said, “They mentioned earlier that they are conducting experiments—potion experiments. Since they are running experiments, it is highly unlikely that he is the only traitor here.”
Xie Xuan remained silent.
“You can observe how things unfold,” Liu Yun continued. “Perhaps those traitors of yours are plotting some other hidden conspiracy right now.”
Naturally, she could not let the people from Turing City leave just like that! But she couldn't use force either, so she could only do her best to placate him with words.
Xie Xuan fell silent for a few seconds, his brow furrowing.
He felt that Liu Yun's words indeed made sense.
If there was more than one traitor, then what they were currently researching was exactly what he needed to observe.
Besides, this might give him a chance to capture them...
“Very well!” Xie Xuan finally nodded. “But this has nothing to do with friendship. This is a transaction. If you capture our traitors, you must hand them over to us.”
“For the sake of... Teacher Bai, we will settle this after the Graduation Show ends!”
With that, he turned around and sat back down.
Hearing his words, Liu Yun could only nod, while the corners of the other Dawn City assessors' mouths twitched.
For the sake of Bai Feifei?
This woman had gone on a killing spree and somehow dragged Turing City to her side?
Such high standing!? Shouldn't her usual image be someone that everyone avoided like the plague...
...
On the red soil.
Xu Mo looked down at the tattooed man, who had died with his eyes wide open. He shook the blood off his blade, then raised his head to glance at his game panel.
【Key Storyline: Calamity of Dawn.】
【Current Completion Rate: 16% → 25%!】
The completion rate really did go up.
And it was a substantial increase, almost equivalent to the jump he got from the City Lord's words last time.
It seemed the information this guy provided was indeed genuine, meaning his efforts hadn't gone to waste.
“Alright, I'm logging out now,” Xu Mo said to Bai Feifei in his mind, then swiftly handed back control of her body.
Bai Feifei's body shuddered as she took back control.
She stared down at the mangled corpse before her, falling silent for a long moment.
The potion research was conducted by people the Xu family had brought in from the outside. Those people were not from Dawn City, and United Pharmaceuticals... was merely a shell company used to distribute the drugs.
The more Bai Feifei thought about it, the more she realized how massive this situation was.
This feeling of a rapidly expanding conspiracy was definitely linked to the ultimate fall of Dawn City.
Furthermore, connecting all the dots... could the mastermind behind everything really be Prophet Liu Yun?!
At this thought, Bai Feifei found it somewhat hard to believe.
“Their people are definitely still here, and there's no telling what they're plotting,” Xu Mo's voice suddenly rang out in her mind. “Get ready.”
Bai Feifei's heart tightened.
“This Graduation Show is quite a show indeed, hahahaha!” Xu Mo laughed heartily.
He hadn't expected following the storyline to be this entertaining.
He couldn't speak for other things right now, but at the very least, he knew who to kill!
That was enough!
The reason he had been in such a hurry to return her body was also because he was worried he wouldn't have enough control time left, which would prevent him from logging back in if trouble arose later.
Bai Feifei took a deep breath, suppressing the turmoil in her heart, and tapped her smartwatch.
The screen on her smartwatch lit up, displaying the location tracking information of all the students.
A dense cluster of red dots was scattered across the red wasteland of the North District, moving slowly.
She scanned the screen, and her pupils contracted slightly.
Sure enough!
There were already people in the direction Xu Mo had told her to head in.
According to what Wang Gaofeng had said, there must be people among them who knew the locations beforehand and were cheating.
It seemed that on this red wasteland, quite a few people "owned the roads."
But right now, what was the purpose of helping them cheat? What were they trying to experiment on...
...
Elsewhere, near a pile of jagged rocks deep within the red soil region.
Fang Yang stood in place, clutching a bizarrely shaped whistle in his hand, panting heavily.
He was nearly exhausted just from blowing the whistle all along the way.
The classmates behind him said nothing, watching him in silence with eyes full of suspicion.
Yet no one wanted to ask him directly. After all, the live broadcast cameras were still on, and on the surface, they were merely "exploring."
They absolutely could not let the observing Prophets outside know about their cheating.
Rate on N.U.
