Yesterday, with his uncle's financial support, Lu Mingfei spent the entire afternoon at the internet cafe, even treating himself to instant noodles and Quick Energy drinks, living quite comfortably.
He quietly left home this morning and went to the Lijing Hotel alone.
It was the most luxurious hotel in the city, a global chain, five-star.
It was Lu Mingfei's first time entering this hotel, so he couldn't help but look around, wearing a face that clearly hadn't seen much of the world.
It was really damn luxurious, really damn rich!
He found the interview location, outside the conference room on the executive floor.
Quite a few people were already sitting on the 17 chairs, some of whom Lu Mingfei recognized.
Chen Wenwen, Su Xiaoqiang, Zhao Menghua, and Liu Miaomiao were all there.
"Lu Mingfei?"
Everyone who knew him expressed surprise, especially the students from Lu Mingfei's class.
A few days ago, when Kassel College was discussed in the group chat, someone @-ed Lu Mingfei, but he didn't reply, so everyone assumed his plans for studying abroad had fallen through.
They never expected that he had quietly received a reply from Kassel College as well.
Truly... one cannot judge a book by its cover.
Someone sighed inwardly.
Lu Mingfei waved the letter in his hand, grinning, "I'm here for the interview too."
As he raised his hand, his N96 in his pocket was revealed.
Zhao Menghua, with his sharp eyes, saw the phone.
He was shocked, what level was this? Lu Mingfei could also use an N96?
He had just bought an N96 himself and hadn't enjoyed it for more than a few days, and Lu Mingfei actually had one too?
Zhao Menghua felt unbalanced, but for the sake of appearances, he didn't say much, just snorted coldly and turned his face away.
Lu Mingfei filled out the form and sat down in the last chair.
His gaze darted around; the situation was much worse than he had imagined.
Everyone else was an elite; Zhao Menghua's tutor was hired from abroad, Su Xiaoqiang had lived abroad for a year, and Chen Wenwen had carefully prepared her clothes.
Everyone looked like the elite children from those foreign aristocratic schools seen on TV, while he was the only one wearing clothes bought from a street stall.
Lu Mingfei scratched his head and couldn't help but sigh, it seemed his chances weren't high.
A waiter brought tea and pastries, a croissant and a cup of hot milk.
Lu Mingfei ate the bread and drank the hot milk, solving the problem of having no breakfast after sneaking out.
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Then he turned to look at Chen Wenwen.
Before he could strike up a conversation, the door to the adjacent conference room was pushed open.
A tall, slender young man walked out, speaking fluent Chinese and possessing a face that couldn't be more Chinese.
He was wearing a dark green suit, well-fitted, with silver piping on the collar, shiny gold buttons and cuffs, and an emblem embroidered with silver thread on the chest.
It looked like a school uniform, but Lu Mingfei had never seen a school uniform so exquisitely tailored.
"Lu Mingfei, you are first."
Lu Mingfei sprang to his feet, seeing the interviewer beckoning to him, his voice trembling slightly.
"Here!"
As he spoke, his curiosity also surged; strangely, he had never seen the other person, so how did they recognize him at a glance?
Just by the two-inch photo on the application form?
"I am Ye Sheng, your interviewer. Please follow me." The young man showed a kind smile and gestured him in.
Lu Mingfei shuffled his feet and entered with Ye Sheng, the door closing behind them.
The remaining people turned to look at each other, their initial calm gradually replaced by nervousness.
Lu Mingfei entered the conference room.
It was empty inside, with a large conference table that could seat dozens of people, and a sweet-looking girl sitting beside it.
She wore the same uniform as Ye Sheng, but it was a skirt suit, with a rose-red lace scarf tucked into her collar.
"I am Shuhtome Yaji, also an interviewer for this session." The girl stood up and bowed to Lu Mingfei.
"Hello."
Seeing the other person speak in Chinese, Lu Mingfei quickly abandoned his idea of speaking in broken Japanese.
Lest he lower the interviewer's first impression of him.
Old Tang said that first impressions are very important in interviews.
Ye Sheng sat next to Shuhtome Yaji, opened his notebook, and looked at Lu Mingfei.
"Let's begin."
Lu Mingfei nodded, took a deep breath, and began to give himself a pep talk.
Just then, the conference room door was slammed open.
The three people in the conference room were all startled and looked towards the door.
Standing at the doorway was a girl with dark red hair, pure silver four-leaf clover pendants swaying on her earlobes, the embedded Diamond glaring brightly.
She was wearing the same uniform skirt suit as Shuhtome Yaji, but it didn't look as neat as Shuhtome Yaji's.
Her expression was hurried; after closing the door, she came and sat on the other side of Shuhtome Yaji.
"You two continue, I'm just here to see what kind of genius this gaming master is, the one I couldn't beat even with cheats," the girl said in a voice only Ye Sheng and Yaji could hear.
Lu Mingfei looked flustered.
Ye Sheng and Shuhtome Yaji had seemed kind and gentle just now, but this girl who had just burst in looked at him with murderous intent.
He swallowed, not knowing how he had offended this interviewer.
"Excuse me, I'm late. My name is Chen Motong, and I'm also an interviewer for this session." The girl's words were sharp and concise.
Lu Mingfei nodded, looking at Ye Sheng for help.
Ye Sheng timely took over, smiling, "Let's start again."
"First question, do you believe in aliens?"
Lu Mingfei's mouth twitched, his thoughts instantly disrupted by this question.
What kind of question was this?
The normal procedure should be to introduce oneself, or why one applied to their school, right?
Lu Mingfei had rehearsed the answers to these two questions a dozen times yesterday, and even specifically learned a New York accent from Old Tang.
This was bad.
The other party was not playing by the rules.
Lu Mingfei recalled the strange, unorthodox tactics often seen in StarCraft forums, where he was often thrown off his strategy early on by such things.
Fortunately, his skill was superb, saving the situation from collapse, switching mice, and crushing with micro-management.
But the current situation...
He was a pure interview novice.
There was no room for crushing.
Lu Mingfei felt uneasy, but he forced himself to nod calmly, thinking that with such an unconventional question, others probably wouldn't fare any better than him.
His emotions immediately calmed down quite a bit.
"I believe in aliens," he said, enunciating each word.
"Is that so?" Chen Motong stared at Lu Mingfei, leaning slightly forward, tapping the edge of the table, "Why?"
Damn it, they're actually asking why?
Am I supposed to say I'm in the late stages of chuunibyo to answer?
But he had long passed that phase; now, thinking back to the embarrassing things he did back then, he would only blush.
Lu Mingfei looked back at Chen Motong, took a deep breath, and spoke with a startling revelation.
"Because I've seen them in my dreams."
"Hmm, alright, seen them in dreams." Shuhtome Yaji took notes seriously, not treating Lu Mingfei's words as a joke at all.
At the same time, the kind Ye Sheng's expression also became serious, his eyes slightly narrowed as he looked at Lu Mingfei.
"Tell us about it."
Lu Mingfei instantly choked; he hadn't expected them to actually believe him and delve into it seriously.
He had already prepared to be treated as a chuunibyo.
He scratched his hair, the tense atmosphere crushing his creativity, unable to conjure up any fantasy.
After a long silence, he had no choice but to say,
"I've forgotten the specifics."
"I only remember a giant dragon, with seven indistinct things around it, asking me what wish I wanted to be granted."
Lu Mingfei had organically adapted "Dragon Ball."
But he didn't expect the expressions of the three people opposite him to become even more serious.
Shuhtome Yaji accurately extracted the key word from Lu Mingfei's words: dragon.
Seen a dragon in a dream.
It was highly likely to be passive Rune Sight; Lu Mingfei might have already awakened a Rune without even knowing it!