Chapter 52: Quan Cheng Cup
Chapter 52: Quan Cheng Cup
October 7th.
On this day, Li Wu brought Duddu and Hao Zhijian, who was still limping from yesterday’s brutal beating, to the Quan Cheng First Summoner Training Ground.
Yes, the Quan Cheng First Summoner Training Ground is the largest training ground in Quan Cheng and also the venue for the High School League.
Of course, Li Wu didn’t come today to participate in the High School League.
The official start of the league is not until March next year, which is still a long way off.
However, they did indeed come for the sake of a competition.
To build up the atmosphere for the league and to foster more summoner talent in Quan Cheng, the city holds an annual Quan Cheng Cup competition every year.
This competition is essentially a simplified warm-up match for the High School League.
The rules and procedures of the Quan Cheng Cup are largely based on the High School League, with the only difference being the removal of the individual events. Everything else remains the same.
The participants are mostly third-year high school students from the current academic year.
Under such a high degree of replication, the Quan Cheng Cup can effectively help contestants better adapt to the competition environment, allowing them to perform better when the official High School League begins.
Of course, it's also a profitable activity. It’s said that each Quan Cheng Cup brings in substantial profits for the organizers.
However, this has nothing to do with Li Wu.
For Li Wu and his team, the competition itself is what matters.
Li Wu takes this competition very seriously and brought everyone over early in the morning.
Not only that, as the team’s natural leader, Li Wu is also very mindful of his teammates' morale. He started with a speech, hoping to convey the importance of the Quan Cheng Cup through his words.
“We don’t have any teachers or coaches. Although we have Uncle Li, he’s not skilled in team competitions.
This puts us at a natural disadvantage in terms of teamwork and strategy.
So, the Quan Cheng Cup is very important for us.”
“Whether our team can perform well in the High School League next year depends on how much we can improve through the Quan Cheng Cup. So, everyone, give it your best!
Also, it’s important to note that we shouldn’t bring up any grudges with the Advanced Class students.
Our primary goal is to win the competition, not to embarrass anyone. If we need to do that, it’s not now, right?”
Li Wu emphasized the importance of experience and practice, downplaying his interest in the competition’s prize money.
His two teammates reacted differently to Li Wu’s speech.
Duddu, of course, was entirely focused on Li Wu. Her eyes were fixed on him, and she nodded enthusiastically, clapping her little hands in support.
As for Hao Zhijian, well, he wasn’t paying attention to Li Wu at all, which made Li Wu quite unhappy. He had been talking for a long time, and the person who should have been listening wasn’t paying attention. Li Wu was about to give him a slap but held back, considering they were in public and to give the wealthy buddy some face.
Li Wu, trying to control his temper, leaned in and asked, “What are you looking at?”
Hao Zhijian was startled by Li Wu’s sudden voice. He instinctively covered the back of his head, only to realize that Li Wu hadn’t hit him.
For a moment, he felt a bit surprised and touched.
He then pointed in the direction he had been looking. Li Wu followed his finger and squinted his eyes.
He saw a group of teenagers dressed in the same uniforms gathering nearby. Most of them were familiar to Li Wu; he had first seen them over a month ago at Number 3 Stadium. Yes, they were mostly students from the Advanced Class of Sanzhong High School.
As Lu Wu caught sight of them, they too had noticed Lu Wu's group. The entire Elite Class turned their attention to Lu Wu and his team, their eyes fixed upon them.
For over a month, the Elite Class students had been tormented by Ye Qingxue, all because of Lu Wu.
This had inadvertently fostered an atmosphere of hostility towards Lu Wu.
It could be said that Lu Wu had become the public enemy of the Elite Class.
In this situation, the Elite Class students' gazes towards Lu Wu were especially fierce, startling even Hao Zhijian.
Despite his usual bold claims of defeating the Elite Class, he now trembled with fear under their intense stares.
At least he had the courage to glare back, but Dudu, on the other hand, was more timid.
With her naturally smaller courage, she instinctively hid behind Lu Wu, hoping to use his not-so-broad physique to shield her plump self. She felt so embarrassed! Meanwhile, Lu Wu felt a bit innocent.
He couldn't understand why the Elite Class students looked at him with such hostility. He felt there might be some misunderstanding between him and the Elite Class students.
Of course, the main reason was that Little Skeleton's equipment hadn't been crafted yet, and Lu Wu's cultivation journey was still in its early stages. He didn't have the confidence to easily defeat them.
Due to his lack of confidence in overwhelming them, Lu Wu felt that the misunderstanding between him and the Elite Class should be resolved. After all, they were classmates and should be more amicable.
To clear up this misunderstanding, Lu Wu decided to take the initiative.
With this in mind, Lu Wu revealed a smile to the Elite Class, one filled with warmth and friendliness. He even waved at them.
Lu Wu's smile was not something to be taken lightly.
This smile on his ordinary face made his ordinariness even more apparent. The charm of his 'ordinariness' caused the few girls in the Elite Class, who were already not as fierce, to lose their stern gazes. They blushed one by one.
The male students beside them, upon seeing this, glared even more fiercely, each wishing to rush over and beat Lu Wu up.
This jerk was going too far, flirting with their goddess right in front of them. He was despicable!
Lu Wu had initially wanted to go over and chat, even touch their summoned beasts, but seeing this situation, he could only give up.
"Sigh, these Elite Class students are really unfriendly. Forget it, let's not bother with them. Let's go inside!"
Feeling wronged, Lu Wu lowered his hand and led his team into the training ground.
Registration for the Quan Cheng Cup was done online.
It had started a week ago, and Lu Wu's team had registered early. They were here today to participate in the preliminary rounds.
However, because they were being watched by the Elite Class students, Dudu and Hao Zhijian felt nervous and tense.
Seeing this, Lu Wu quickly reassured them, "Don't be nervous. In these kinds of competitions, there's always some behind-the-scenes manipulation. The organizers will definitely separate the seeds from the rest and provide the seeded teams with some fish teams to practice against."
"So, rest assured. Our first opponent won't be too strong!"
Upon hearing Lu Wu's words, Dudu's tension eased significantly. At that moment, Hao Zhijian muttered beside her, "But what if the organizers consider us as fish?"
Just as he finished speaking, the organizers sent a text message to Lu Wu's team with the preliminary round information.
Upon reading this message, two of the three team members' faces turned pale...
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