Chapter 153: Cai Kun Is Asking for Death

Page 1 of 3

But Cai Kun clearly did not see it that way.

The moment the message was posted, he hurried to check Wang Chen’s route.

He discovered that the man had already entered the Golden Zone.

Cai Kun ground his teeth in fury. Wang Chen had not even mocked him outright, yet somehow that hurt worse than being killed.

And Wang Chen had obviously done it on purpose.

After all, the routes taken by the teams were invisible to the examinees until the teams themselves made them public.

Only the admissions instructors had direct access to them.

Now everyone could see the route Wang Chen’s team was following. That could only mean he had opened access himself.

As for why he had done so, the reason was obvious.

After seeing Cai Kun showered with praise in the public channel, Wang Chen had deliberately made his own route public.

Wang Chen was already a hot topic in the channel, so people were bound to keep an eye on his team’s movements.

Sure enough, before long, someone broke the news in the public channel.

The messages praising Cai Kun were once again drowned beneath a tidal wave of criticism.

“Brother Chen has already made it to the Golden Zone, while your Brother Kun is still loafing around in the Silver Zone. What exactly is he so proud of?”

“Exactly. He’s the typical case of a half-filled bottle making the most noise. True experts are like Brother Chen—quiet and unassuming.”

“I was just wondering—could it be that Cai Kun started stirring things up anonymously because he’s jealous of how outstanding Wang Chen is?”

“That makes sense. If Wang Chen and Cai Kun were standing in front of Lu Shiyu, even my toes would know whom to choose.”

“So Cai Kun is just an ugly toad who can’t get the swan, and now he’s throwing a tantrum out of humiliation?”

“Exactly, hahaha!”

“…”

Cai Kun had once again become the target of everyone’s ire. As he read the older men in the channel ridiculing him, his face shifted from livid to ashen.

In the end, he had only himself to blame. The heat had nearly died down, but he had insisted on jumping out and making a spectacle of himself.

Now the older men’s enthusiasm had been reignited. He had supplied the firewood himself, so he had no one else to blame.

But Young Master Cai clearly had no intention of reflecting on his own behavior.

He roughly shut off the chat channel, strode over to Meng Liwen, and said urgently, “We’re going to the Golden Zone!”

Meng Liwen rolled her eyes. “Don’t be stupid! Just because you’ve been scraping by in the Silver Zone, do you really think that means you can go to the Golden Zone?”

Page 1 of 3

Page 2 of 3

“Your class abilities are already stretched to the limit in the Silver Zone!” She pointed at Cai Kun’s teammates behind him. “You’re relying entirely on the reinforcements your father found for you. Without them, you would have been torn apart by the beasts long ago!”

Meng Liwen cast Cai Kun a contemptuous sidelong glance. “You should spend less time reading the public channel. Every time you do, you lose control. As a man, you have absolutely no composure.”

Her words only made Cai Kun angrier.

His face flushed red, veins bulging in his neck, and he reached out to seize her by the throat.

Meng Liwen hastily retreated, and the four students behind her immediately stepped in front of her.

Cai Kun’s lunge struck empty air.

Meng Liwen patted her chest, still shaken.

For a moment just now, she had felt the same terror she had experienced when Tang Ruotong suddenly approached and threatened her.

Fortunately, the four helpers she had hired with real money were far more reliable than those fair-weather friends at school.

Three of the four male students were combat-oriented professionals. They stared coldly at Cai Kun while shielding Meng Liwen securely.

Feeling that the situation was on her side, Meng Liwen once again adopted the sharp-tongued manner of a spoiled young lady and snapped, “Cai Kun! Were you just trying to attack me?”

“Do you know that my father could make sure your father never has another client within minutes?”

“You’d better weigh your own worth carefully. Do you really have what it takes to throw your weight around in front of me?”

Meng Liwen’s voice turned severe. “Even if I slapped you across the face, you would have no choice but to take it!”

Cai Kun’s expression grew uglier with every word. His fists tightened and relaxed. After a fierce inner struggle, he ultimately said nothing in retaliation.

He merely said in a low voice, “Our partnership is over.”

With that, he turned, summoned his team members, and walked away in the opposite direction, completely ignoring Meng Liwen’s shouts behind him.

She believed that she was the only one entitled to dismiss others—that no one else had the right to end a partnership with her first.

That was precisely why she was furious.

Cai Kun turned a deaf ear to her. Blood vessels stood out in his eyes, and he looked like a gambler on the verge of losing everything.

He buried all his resentment toward Meng Liwen deep in his heart, where it transformed entirely into hatred for Wang Chen.

“No matter what happens, I’m going to the Golden Zone today!”

Cai Kun roared inwardly as he strode resolutely toward Wang Chen’s location.

“Since you made your route public, you can’t blame me.”

A vicious smile curled at the corner of Cai Kun’s mouth.

…

Page 2 of 3

Page 3 of 3

Inside the conference room.

The screen still displayed the points earned by Wang Chen’s team.

As for the instructors responsible for monitoring other teams and completing their recruitment quotas, they had been assigned additional smaller screens and were checking them on their own.

The situation had been completely reversed from before.

There was no helping it. The three most influential figures in the conference room were all focusing their attention on Wang Chen.

The other instructors who had already met their quotas were also willing to watch Wang Chen’s team.

After all, with only twenty or thirty minutes remaining in the test, the rankings of the other teams were unlikely to change much.

Wang Chen’s team alone seemed like a whale unaffected by the tides, soaring steadily upward and overtaking one team after another.

At that moment, they had already entered the top ten.

A radiant smile hung on Ou Yulan’s lips. She had been the first to submit an admission application for Wang Chen.

Now that Wang Chen’s team was producing such astonishing results, she felt like an investor who had bought a stock nobody else believed in.

In the blink of an eye, that stock had skyrocketed, and so had her own standing.

Just moments earlier, the various admissions instructors in the conference room had showered her with praise, calling her remarkably perceptive for recognizing Wang Chen as a promising prospect so early.

“I imagine that once the test ends, the school should have sent me a reply. I ought to be able to admit Wang Chen directly,” Ou Yulan said with a smile to Yu Jiajin.

Yu Jiajin cupped his hands and smiled. “Congratulations, Instructor Ou, on recruiting such an outstanding student. I imagine Wang Chen will continue performing miracles at North Prosperity and add yet another brick to its honor.”

“Then I’ll take that as a blessing from you, Elder Yu.” Ou Yulan smiled so broadly that her cheeks flushed red, clearly delighted beyond measure.

“Who says Wang Chen is certain to attend North Prosperity?” Zhu Jingjun suddenly remarked from the side.

Ou Yulan’s smile froze. She turned with a frown and asked, “What do you mean by that, Instructor Zhu? Surely North Prosperity is Wang Chen’s best choice. If he doesn’t come to North Prosperity, where else would he go?”

Faced with Ou Yulan’s sharp questioning, Zhu Jingjun did not even turn his head. He continued staring fixedly at the main screen.

Wang Chen’s team was still racking up points at an astonishing rate. In the blink of an eye, their ranking had risen to sixth place.

Zhu Jingjun had already made up his mind. He opened his mouth and said, “Perhaps North Prosperity was indeed the best academy he could attend before.”

Page 3 of 3