"Received," Xiao Ying said.
Los Angeles Foreign Language School.
Today, class 3 of the second year unexpectedly welcomed two new transfer students, a boy and a girl.
The boy was named Qi Duo, and the girl was named Zhang Lanjin, and they knew each other.
However, students in Los Angeles had already grown accustomed to the arrival of transfer students and no longer found them surprising.
What was unexpected, though, was that these two did not transfer from other places, but from Luo Yi High School.
Luo Yi High School is the best high school in Los Angeles City. Initially, Qing Chen's entry scores were high enough that he should have gone there.
But because there were too many good students there, Luo Yi High had no plans to offer him a tuition waiver, so Qing Chen chose Los Angeles Foreign Language School instead.
It was the place with the highest quality of student intake in the city and also the place most likely to produce the top scorer of the city.
If during family gatherings for the holidays someone mentioned their child at got into Luo Yi High, they'd need to open a bottle of Maotai to celebrate, to match the level of the surprise.
It's said that people aspire to climb higher, so why would good students transfer to a worse school?
Some asked them if they had been expelled from Luo Yi High, but they said they hadn't been.
After these two transfer students arrived, they didn't take time to familiarize themselves with the environment but instead immediately started asking around the school if there were any well-known Time Travelers.
The answer they got was that the class next to Liu Dezhu's was almost entirely composed of Time Travelers...
Qing Chen, observing their inquiries, suddenly realized that these two students were probably here for the Time Travelers as well.
"Brother Chen, I heard from a middle-school classmate that the Time Travelers at Luo Yi High School have formed an organization called 'Freemasonry,' which includes over eighty people, including all the Time Travelers and transfer students at Luo Yi High. It's considered a quite prestigious organization among the city's school-based Time Travelers," Nan Gengchen whispered. "Could these two be from Freemasonry?"
"They must be," Qing Chen said.
"Then what are they doing at Los Angeles Foreign Language School?" Nan Gengchen wondered.
"Every organization sets out on a path of expansion after its establishment, and only a few sober minds can curb this desire," Qing Chen said. "These students are touted as the most intelligent in Los Angeles, so it's normal for them to want to unite all the high-school Time Travelers. In this way, a vast Freemasonry organization emerges, a large student Time Travel organization."
Nan Gengchen curiously said, "Should we also recruit some classmates to expand a bit? That Freemasonry definitely can't be as formidable as 'Daytime,' right?"
After all, 'Daytime' in both the Inner and Outer Worlds, was no match for ordinary Time Travelers, not to mention that Qing Chen's status as the 'Future Imperial Instructor' alone was something many Time Travelers looked up to throughout their lives.
Qing Chen shook his head: "We are not expanding, at least we do not need these students to fill our organization. We need people like Luo Wanya, those who have been tested by crisis events and will not lose their composure in critical moments."
"Makes sense, better to have none than have bad ones," Nan Gengchen nodded.
Qing Chen said, "Ask your middle school classmate to see if he knows what Freemasonry's plans are."
Nan Gengchen sent a message to his middle-school classmate via WeChat. After receiving a reply, he looked up at Qing Chen and said, "Brother Chen, you really guessed right. Freemasonry has split off more than twenty students who can persuade their parents, and they've transferred to various high schools to set up local Freemasonry branches to expand their scale. Freemasonry also has a managing committee, and the chairman is a senior named Nangong Yuanyu, who is also a top student, who has always been the top of his grade in his second year, and has already secured a sponsored admission to Tsinghua University, so he has plenty of time."
"Let them go," Qing Chen said.
These students maintained a kind of enthusiasm and optimism that adults lack, establishing their organization as if founding a school student council.
Qing Chen had no ground to judge whether their action was good or bad, but it definitely lacked subtlety.
Qing Chen suddenly felt something was amiss. Assuming that the chairman of Freemasonry, Nangong Yuanyu, was a high-IQ top student, how could he not understand the importance of being low-profile?
If he did know, then why would he openly recruit members, making such a basic mistake?
This made Qing Chen sceptical.
During the first break, Qi Duo and Zhang Lanjin, the two transfer students, went directly to the neighboring class and found that group of wealthy transfer students.
Qing Chen and Nan Gengchen also went to the hallway to see what these two were planning to do.
They heard the male student, Qi Duo, say to a wealthy classmate, "Would you consider joining our Freemasonry? Freemasonry now has over ninety high-school members. In the Outer World, we can exchange information, and in the Inner World, we can look out for each other. Moreover, we also organize inter-school Time Traveler networking events in the Outer World from time to time and organize everyone to explore the world in the Inner World, increasing the chances of survival in the Inner World."
The wealthy classmate was curious: "Explore the world in the Inner World? What do you mean, what are you planning to do?"
Qi Duo patiently explained, "For instance, we're planning to organize a trip soon to leave City 18 and explore the wilderness beyond. Not only that, but we're also planning to take a tour around the periphery of Taboo Land 002, to see that legendary giant tree. But don't worry, we won't venture inside Taboo Land and put everyone in danger."