36: Chapter 36: Was Song Yiqing's academic record fabricated?

As Song Yiqing thought about it, he grew more and more fond of this ability.

After finishing his attempt, he took out another bottle and started gulping it down.

At the same time, he quickly turned off the livestream temporarily.

Because he needed to have a serious talk with Wu Ren about the situation regarding that eyeball jade.

Seeing him return, the latter quickly stepped forward to greet him.

"Let's talk. What's the deal with this jade? Why are you so eager to get it? What is the actual reason?"

"Fine, I'll tell you right now."

Wu Ren did not hesitate to spill the truth.

Generally speaking, they had accepted a mission to come into the Taklamakan Desert to retrieve something.

At the same time, the other party had even given them a rough map.

The item they needed to retrieve was supposed to be the key to opening a certain place.

Afterwards, Wu Ren talked about legends of immortality and speculated that the boss who issued the bounty was likely pursuing this goal.

"Then what about you? Why are you still here instead of leaving?"

Song Yiqing asked quite directly.

Upon hearing this, Wu Ren replied,

"I want to save my wife, so I want to come with you."

"..."

Song Yiqing had already overheard the conversation between him and Wei Zhiyuan earlier, and what he said now didn't seem to have any problems.

However, he felt that Wu Ren was likely hiding something else.

Saving his wife might be true, but his other real motive was the main reason he wanted to follow him.

However, given the current situation, if he were to ask again, Wu Ren probably wouldn't tell him.

Song Yiqing thought it over carefully and turned to look at Zhang Qilin.

"What do you think?"

"..."

Zhang Qilin didn't speak but simply turned around.

But Song Yiqing understood what he meant: whatever.

Seeing this, Song Yiqing made the final decision.

After all, keeping these three people had its benefits.

Firstly, regarding safety: if they encountered some terrifying prehistoric monsters again,

then the three of them could be used as bait and abandoned.

However, before that, Song Yiqing would definitely get Wu Ren to reveal what he was hiding.

As the livestream resumed, the viewers were extremely curious about what kind of agreement the two parties had reached, as the three men including Wu Ren were now traveling with Song Yiqing and his companion.

[What kind of unspeakable secret is it??]

[No idea! It's killing me, I really want to know, I really want to know!]

[What could it possibly be? What on earth is it?]

[It must have something to do with that eyeball jade, right? But what exactly is that jade for? Does anyone in the know have a clue?]

[Although I don't know what it's for, I see that many exploration teams in other livestream rooms are changing their direction. They are all abandoning the original route of the Flying Tiger Archaeology Team and are heading towards Song Yiqing's current location!]

[The trend has completely changed now. Song Yiqing's exploration team feels more official, but it's a pity he isn't actually official.]

[It seems that even though Song Yiqing is still a drunkard, everyone still feels that Song Yiqing's route is more reliable.]

[That's true, after all, the combat power of Song Yiqing and Brother Zhang is guaranteed. With them leading the way, the people behind basically won't encounter any danger!]

At the same time, following Song Yiqing's killing of the Flying Zombie, various news items surged onto the Weibo trending list once again, attracting a massive amount of traffic for him.

#Song Yiqing's Exploration Team slays Flying Zombie!#

#The journey of the drunkard Song Yiqing#

#Song Yiqing was actually dropped from the direct-entry Archaeological Team?#

Among them, the Weibo trending topic at the very bottom gradually began to attract a great deal of attention.

The person who leaked this information was a student from the Kyoto University of Archaeology.

However, the person had already anonymized their identity.

[I'm here to drop a scoop. As the most outstanding student of this year, Song Yiqing was top-tier in both his general education and major courses at the school. Such a student would definitely have qualified for direct entry into the official Archaeological Team. If he had given up the qualification, there would be nothing to say, but according to my understanding, Song Yiqing didn't give it up; his qualification was misappropriated by someone! In other words, Song Yiqing was forced to give up his direct-entry qualification!! As for why this happened behind the scenes, I don't think I need to say much more.]

Shortly after this post was published, the number of reposts began to exceed hundreds of thousands.

Coupled with more and more self-media marketing accounts frantically reposting it, it further caused this matter to blow up even more fiercely.

[What on earth? So Song Yiqing was 100% going to join the Archaeological Team originally?]

[Wow!! I really didn't expect this matter to have such a development. It's too unbelievable!]

[Good, good, good! It's really hard to imagine that someone could actually stir up trouble regarding this kind of thing.]

Kyoto University of Archaeology,

A meeting was quickly convened, and all the teachers and leaders in the school were called to the scene.

The vice principal sat at the head of the table, looking at everyone present. His expression was very grim.

"Some of you may already know that a very egregious phenomenon has appeared in our school at this stage. Certain individuals, in order to seek their own private interests, have committed very serious errors!!"

Everyone present nodded repeatedly upon hearing this and began to take notes.

Then, the vice principal—Wan Shu—continued,

"I don't want to beat around the bush here. From now on, in this school, it is absolutely forbidden to forge grades in order to get the students you are mentoring directly admitted to the Archaeological Team."

Hearing these words, everyone present felt a bit strange.

Forging grades? Are they talking about Xue Xingye?

So, was he able to get direct entry into the Archaeological Team later because he forged his grades?

Everyone thought to themselves, and at this moment, Wan Shu continued,

"This matter has had a very negative impact, which in turn has led to a large number of posts on the internet questioning our school. Regarding this, we need a formal response. I have already had the response written; you can pass it around to read."

As he spoke, he handed the tablet to the person on his left.

The latter was stunned the moment they took the tablet.

"What?? Song Yiqing's grades are forged?"

"What else?"

Wan Shu looked at him in confusion.

"Who else could it be? If it wasn't for forged grades, why would we cancel his direct-entry qualification? These are all results verified by the investigation team's field research, and there are written records for all of it!"

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