Chapter 2853: Hidden Struggle

It's not that I can't beat them.

Zheng Qing told himself silently in his heart -

I just don't fight witches.

After three times of this, he successfully built up his mentality and finally had the courage to face the great wizard in front of him again. Fortunately, the black-robed and naked people in the room had left, so no one else cared about this little silence.

"Didn't you say that those 'Edge Ones' are a great way for the Edge Academy to show the spirit of 'sacrifice'?" After speaking, the boy unconsciously took a step back when he met the witch's 'aggressive' eyes.

Although he was wearing a black robe, he still felt a little naked.

Korma coughed dryly and continued to look Zheng Qing up and down, his eyes were ambiguous.

The boy couldn't help but wrap his robe tighter.

"Well, sacrifice is not a waste. There is no need to waste our precious 'spirit' in such a place." After answering the wizard's question, she suddenly smiled evilly and blinked: "-Speaking of precious, am I the first one to see you..."

"No!" The wizard's face flushed again, and he almost screamed to interrupt the witch's words, and his tone was firm: "Absolutely not! One million percent not!"

This is not a lie.

After all, he never wore clothes after he turned into a cat.

Korma's eyes suddenly flashed with suspicion. One arm was folded in front of his chest, and one hand pinched his chin, thinking: "Really? Then who is the first one... Su Shijun? Jiang Yu? I always feel that they are not at the stage of 'being frank with each other' with you... Or, you are cheating on them behind their backs? Tsk, it turns out that there is no wrong nickname..."

"I want to quit!" The wizard finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted.

"Quit? Really?"

Another 'really?' came from behind, but this time it was a male voice. Zheng Qing turned around and saw that the person who spoke was Professor Monteria who had just entered the room. He looked a little surprised: "- Weren't you still very determined a few days ago?"

This rhetorical question was like a blow to the head.

Zheng Qing calmed down immediately.

He quickly glanced at the slightly annoyed Korma, and suddenly became a little alert. With Korma's identity and habits, he shouldn't squeeze him like this at this time-you know, the Giant God Soldier Project is the most important thing in the establishment stage of Edge College, and he is the only qualified person in the project team at this stage.

He inexplicably felt that the two vice presidents of Edge College seemed to want him to quit the project, but they didn't want him to quit under the persuasion of the other vice president?

Subtle and complex thoughts flashed through the boy's mind in an instant.

"No, I don't want to quit."

The young qualified person tried to force himself to forget the embarrassment and annoyance of a few minutes ago, tightened the belt on his robe, and squeezed out a slightly stiff smile on his face: "-Just now I was just joking with Senior Colmar... I am a public student of Jiuyou College. How could I give up the task assigned by the school?"

Papapapa!

A crisp clapping sound came from behind the three people.

Zheng Qing looked in the direction of the sound and was surprised to find that Lao Yao had appeared in this slightly empty room at some point, biting his pipe and clapping happily.

"Well said, very good! You are worthy of being a student of our Jiuyou College."

He gave Zheng Qing a thumbs up, and then looked at the two vice presidents of the Edge College: "-Since Zheng Qing is not going to quit, and everyone happens to be here, let's have a chat?"

Professor Colmar and Professor Monteria had serious expressions, and it was hard to see what they were thinking. But Zheng Qing inexplicably felt that Lao Yao's appearance seemed to be beyond the two's expectations, because they were silent for a long time about Lao Yao's last suggestion.

In the end, it was Zheng Qing who broke the slightly awkward silence.

"What to talk about?"

The wizard raised his belt - the robe that Korma found for him was a little big, and he always felt that it was constantly sliding down - looked around, and said with a hint of hesitation: "Don't we need to find a conference room?"

He remembered that Korma said that the first thing he did today was to hold a brief meeting.

"Conference room? No, no. This place is good."

The dean of Jiuyou College held his pipe in one hand and waved his other hand, leaning back. A maroon high-backed chair appeared silently behind him, and then his fingertips tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair. An oval conference table and three other chairs suddenly appeared in front of him. The surrounding walls and the floor under his feet also rolled, extended, and deformed at the same time, growing a series of bundled curtains and tall floor-to-ceiling windows.

The originally monotonous and closed 'locker room' instantly turned into a proper meeting room.

Lao Yao extended his hand and gestured: "... Sit down, everyone, sit down. Let's talk briefly about the next arrangements for this project? Where to start? The allocation of the remaining two special configurations?"

Professor Korma and Professor Monteria silently chose the two sides of the oval long table and sat down. So Zheng Qing could only choose the only empty seat left opposite Lao Yao.

Originally he wanted to stand.

After all, everyone present was considered his predecessor, and their ranks were high. A legend and two great wizards, no matter how he looked at it, he had no place to sit at the table. But the high-backed chair behind him kept hitting his knees, forcing him to sit down.

Although it was a bit embarrassing.

But Zheng Qing felt very smart at the moment. While sitting down, he had already begun to think about the information revealed in Lao Yao's words just now.

What is the 'remaining two special configurations'?

Does it mean there were more than two before? Where did the other special configurations go? How should the remaining two be distributed? One for me and one for my senior? Or one for me and one for Professor Monteria? Or if I quit, they would each get one?

In just a blink of an eye, he seemed to have gotten the answer that had been bothering him before.

Lao Yao's words seemed to confirm this point -

"...The school canceled the third 'special configuration' not only because of the defects exposed in the previous test of the Edge Type 1, but also because this configuration is too expensive, and the cost far exceeds the original budget. As for the remaining two, they will be allocated one to the qualified group and one to the Edge College as a control group according to the original plan. We only have one choice left for the qualified, so there is no need to discuss it; for the Edge College, you two can discuss it and see who to choose. Here, I remind you again, no matter who goes, they will need to take a huge risk of life... This is by no means alarmist. I know you are not afraid of sacrifice, but you must always think more about this new college and the students in the college."

"The good news is that the completed Special Configuration No. 1 will be provided to the Edge College group first... Because your school is about to hold the founding ceremony, the trial arrangement will definitely be close to you..."