71: Oh, I'm A-level.

At this moment, a light drizzle fell over Cyber City, but Chen Du, sitting in a flying vehicle, remained untouched.

Chen Du rested his chin on one hand, gazing at the night view outside the window.

As a sleepless city with lights on 24 hours a day, Cyber City always had an astonishingly high flow of people on its streets.

Although it was a core city, in terms of prosperity, it wasn't much higher than Hai City.

It simply had more people, more machines, taller buildings, and everyone dressed relatively more formally.

The flying vehicle was a small, four-seater aircraft, with two seats in the front and two in the back, a relatively efficient commuting tool, but Chen Du rarely used it.

After all, his family's monthly income was just over 10,000, but now he no longer needed to worry about such things.

He had 500,000 in cash on him.

The first-place prize money for the Hundred Cities Championship was 1,000,000, and he gave 500,000 of it to Chen Juncai.

Originally, Chen Du had planned to use all 1,000,000 to purchase Qi and blood medicines.

But now, with an A-level contract, he could obtain Qi and blood medicines worth 10,000,000.

These were products with value but no market availability, so Chen Du naturally didn't need the 1,000,000.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Juncai accepted Chen Du's 500,000.

Chen Du had originally wanted to transfer 900,000, but Chen Juncai kept insisting that when one is away from home, one should always have some money on them.

The father and son then chatted for a while, and Chen Du only then learned that the previous 200,000 was a subsidy Chen Juncai had received from an old injury.

This money had been kept aside and not used to pay off the mortgage.

It was intended for Chen Du and his brother to get married, as according to Liang City customs, a bride price of 100,000 was required.

He actually felt that Chen Du's chances of getting into one of the Eight Famous Schools were not high, but he didn't want his son to have any regrets in life due to money when he was most eager to strive.

But he never expected that Chen Du would actually receive a contract from Qilin Martial Arts University!

That was a top university, superior to the Eight Famous Schools; he had only heard its name when he was studying.

He had never thought about it in detail, as it was too far out of his reach.

And it was even A-level!

Although he didn't know what level A-level represented, he knew that a responsibility worth 10,000,000 was very heavy!

And this was still a sponsorship for more than two months before the Gaokao; who knew how many hundreds of millions it would be after enrollment!

Chen Qun's enrollment in Cyber City would be handled by Chen Juncai in a few days; tuition, accommodation, and food expenses would all be waived.

The 500,000 would be used to focus on cultivating Chen Qun's Life Strength after high school.

...

At 20:30, Chen Du landed on the top floor of a large building.

This was an airfield with approximately 3,000 parking spaces, and the building below.

It was Chen Du's destination for this trip.

Technology Martial Hall (Cyber Branch)!

Following the prompts on his wristband, Chen Du entered the corresponding elevator.

According to the notes beside it, this building had a total of 300 floors, with the lowest being B18 and the highest being 282.

Floors 1 to 50 were a shopping mall.

Above the 50th floor were various departments of the Technology Martial Hall, including Research and Development, Innovation, Marketing, and Shock, among others.

Chen Du's destination for this trip was the "Life Research and Development Department" on the 203rd floor.

Floors above 200 were considered Advanced floors; lower-level employees could not enter without authorization.

Chen Du used the code from his contract to temporarily gain access.

Ding-dong~

"Hmm?"

After exiting the elevator, Chen Du was momentarily surprised; there were a few hundred people here?

Cyber First High School...

Cyber Second High School...

Cyber Third High School...

Chen Du was secretly astonished; he counted, and there were about five high schools here, guessing they were key high schools in Cyber City.

From their appearance, they were all around the same age as him.

In other words, these few hundred people were all third-year high school students.

What was going on?

Were all these people reserve students for the Three Top Academies?

Impossible, right?

According to the two teachers from Qilin Martial Arts University.

The Three Top Academies only admit about 1,000 students a year, totaling only 3,000 across all three.

Moreover, these 3,000 students were recruited from nine different ecological circles.

Although Cyber City was large, it was only one of the seven core cities in the Seventh Ecological Circle.

Chen Du knew that Cyber City was an excellent city, definitely a place brimming with talent.

But it was impossible to have hundreds of reserve students for the Three Top Academies.

Looking at the long queue in front, Chen Du was momentarily at a loss.

Just then, at the very front of the line, a Technology Martial Hall staff member in a white shirt stood up.

"Sorry, students, I know you all want to get into the Eight Famous Schools."

"But just now, on the System, the number of 'Life Energy' portions suddenly decreased by 100."

"Students with numbers in the range of 213 to 312, your portions are gone."

"I apologize for making you all come for nothing."

"Ah!"

"Such bad luck!"

As the staff member's words fell, many similar wails immediately erupted.

However, no one said anything, only blaming themselves for their bad luck, for not coming earlier.

The concept of first-come, first-served was deeply ingrained in Cyber City; there was no such thing as cutting in line.

Eight Famous Schools?

So they were all students preparing for the Eight Famous Schools; Chen Du finally understood.

Then, after confirming that he hadn't come to the wrong floor, he stopped a departing student.

"Hello, student, I'd like to ask, is this where 'Life Index' testing is done?"

"Yes."

The young man replied politely, then said with some helplessness:

"You must be new, you haven't even taken your badge yet, but you heard, the number of Life Energy portions suddenly decreased by 100."

"It was probably taken by some important figure."

"We can only come back when the next batch of goods arrives."

As the young man spoke, Chen Du also saw the badge on his chest.

No. 213, Yang Fan.

If he had been just one spot earlier, he wouldn't have been excluded.

Chen Du smiled and nodded at the words; he didn't want to ask what Life Energy was now, only whether he had come to the wrong place.

"I'd like to know, do students from the Three Great Academies also get tested here?"

Chen Du asked this not to emphasize his status as having a contract with a prestigious school.

Rather, he believed that with his A-level contract, he shouldn't be among the personnel who, as the staff member said, needed to leave.

Yang Fan showed a hint of surprise at his words:

"Big brother, are you a reserve student for the Three Great Academies?"

Seeing Chen Du nod, Yang Fan's attitude became more enthusiastic:

"The tests for the Three Great Academies are at another location, roughly at the end of the corridor."

"Because there are very few students, they chose a spot that doesn't take up much space."

After the young man finished speaking, his lips curled slightly:

"My cousin is too; he has a C-level Letter of Intent!"

"Big brother, what level contract do you have?"

Speaking of his cousin, Yang Fan couldn't help but show a confident smile, as if he himself had received a contract from the Three Great Academies.

He had heard from his cousin that 90% of students at the Three Great Academies had D-level contracts, and an S-level appeared only once every many years.

A-level was also very rare; even combining all Three Great Academies, there weren't many A-level contracts.

B-level was also uncommon, usually students from key classes; in ordinary classes, the strongest was a C-level contract!

"Oh, I'm A-level," Chen Du said casually.

After thanking Yang Fan, he walked in the direction the other had indicated.

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