Chapter 4319 — Instructions for Huang Xiaotao
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Wei Zhao gently put an arm around her. After a moment of silence, he said slowly, "Don't worry. Once you think it through, it's really not that big a deal. When you go up later, just follow the normal procedure—no need to hide anything, no need to resist. If they choose you, that's good news, and I'll be happy for you. If you don't get chosen in the end, it doesn't matter either."
"Really?" Huang Xiaotao blinked, still a little worried. Deep down she feared being parted from Wei Zhao; if they were separated forever, she truly didn't know what she would do.
"Mm. I'm here for everything. It'll be fine," Wei Zhao said with a smile and a nod, then took a deep breath.
"Oh." Only then did Huang Xiaotao relax. Wei Zhao's abilities defied common sense; since he said there was no problem, then there definitely was no problem.
Little did she know that while Wei Zhao could handle other dangerous situations with ease thanks to his various trump cards, this particular situation was the one he truly had no confidence in. He'd said what he said only to comfort Huang Xiaotao.
After thinking it over and over, the only way now was to grit his teeth and go through with it. The only thing Wei Zhao could count on at this point was his cheat ability to conceal his strength.
Once he got up there, he would deliberately suppress his power and do his best to compress his spiritual-root attributes down to a single one. That way, he shouldn't be chosen by Morning Star Academy.
But whether his cheat could actually fool the stone tablet specially used to test spiritual-root attributes—Wei Zhao had no confidence at all. If it worked, wonderful; if it failed, then there really would be nothing he could do.
Of course, this was a choice forced upon him by circumstance—a last resort. When he had nothing else to rely on, Wei Zhao could only stake everything on this. Whether it succeeded was entirely up to heaven.
In the current situation, aside from being forced to take part in the selection, Wei Zhao also had to face an additional problem: Huang Xiaotao's test number came after his!
What was even more maddening was that he and Huang Xiaotao weren't sitting all that far back, and Morning Star Academy didn't arrange the selection order simply by first-come-first-served. Instead, they divided people into zones and then randomized the order within each zone—this way they could avoid people deliberately shoving forward to cut in line and causing a disturbance.
As it happened, the next zone drawn was the one where Wei Zhao and Huang Xiaotao were sitting. And because they had to line up in advance, several academy staff members responsible for maintaining selection order had already walked up and stood not far from the two of them, gesturing for Wei Zhao to join the line ahead.
That meant even if Wei Zhao wanted to swap test numbers with Huang Xiaotao on the spot, it had become a hopeless fantasy!
After all, this was a selection of nearly ten thousand people, and Morning Star Academy's control over order on-site was extremely strict. Even withdrawing midway wasn't allowed—cutting in line or anything of the sort was even more out of the question.
With everyone watching, at least five or six academy staff members around them were keeping constant watch on the queue. If Wei Zhao rashly tried to swap with Huang Xiaotao, who knew what kind of uproar it would cause! (To be continued)