Although these discussions were kept very low, they still clearly reached the ears of Ma Xiaotao and the others.
"What?!"
The fork in Ma Xiaotao's hand fell into the plate with a *clatter*. She stood up abruptly, her pretty Face turning deathly pale.
Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, and the others also looked at each other, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Elder Xuan... was caught last night? And even got a yellow card?
How is this possible?!
"Let's go! We need to find Elder Xuan and ask him clearly!"
Ma Xiaotao didn't even care about eating anymore, leading the group as they rushed angrily toward Xuan Zi's room.
Inside the room.
Xuan Zi was sitting by the table, holding a roast chicken in his hand, but he couldn't take a single bite.
His old Face was full of sorrow, and there were large dark circles under his eyes; he had clearly not slept all night.
*Bang!*
The door was pushed open forcefully, and Ma Xiaotao and the others swarmed in.
"Elder Xuan! Is everything they're saying outside true?"
Ma Xiaotao asked urgently, "Did you really... really go to the Sun Moon Team's side last night? And were given a yellow card?"
Looking at the questioning gazes of the students, Xuan Zi wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
Embarrassing! Too embarrassing!
*Cough, cough...*
Xuan Zi gave two dry coughs, trying to hide his predicament, his gaze shifting erratically:
"That... there indeed was such an incident."
"But! This old man did that because... because..."
Xuan Zi stammered for a long time. He was truly too embarrassed to say he went there to beg, so he could only bite the bullet and bring out that same rotten excuse from last night:
"Because this old man had a few too many drinks last night, my head was a bit foggy, and I took the wrong path! I only ended up there by mistake..."
"Was it really just taking the wrong path?"
Bei Bei frowned, clearly not believing it.
"Elder Xuan, you are a Level 98 Super Douluo. Even if you drank more wine, you wouldn't fail to recognize the way, would you?"
"Yeah, Elder Xuan," Xu Sanshi couldn't help but interject, "And everyone outside is saying you wanted to... wanted to assassinate that Liu Yuan?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy.
Everyone stared intently at Xuan Zi.
Ma Xiaotao took a deep breath and asked in a serious tone:
"Elder Xuan, tell us the truth. You... you didn't really want to make a lethal move against Liu Yuan, did you?"
"Although we at Shrek desire victory and see Liu Yuan as a great enemy, this kind of behavior—assassinating an opponent because we can't beat them—is just... too beneath us! This is fundamentally not the Shrek style!"
"If we win the competition through such means, then what meaning is there to Shrek's glory?"
Looking at the students' suspicious and even slightly disappointed gazes, Xuan Zi felt bitter in his heart.
I am being wronged!
I freaking went there to offer warmth! To offer money! To beg and plead to bring that little ancestor back!
Who the hell wanted to kill him?
But he couldn't say those words.
Saying them would be even more humiliating!
"Nonsense! Pure rubbish!"
Xuan Zi slammed the table and roared in shame-induced anger:
"How could this old man do such a low-down thing?!"
"I said I just took the wrong path! It was just the wrong path! If anyone dares to spread rumors again, I'll tear their mouth apart!"
Seeing Xuan Zi so enraged and flatly denying the assassination attempt, Ma Xiaotao and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn't some dirty assassination plot, it was fine.
As for the excuse of taking the wrong path...
Forget it, let's leave the old man some Face; everyone can just have a tacit understanding.
"Alright, alright, stop asking."
Xuan Zi waved his hand irritably, "Hurry up and go eat! After eating, prepare for the match! Today we Face Crimson Flame Academy, only victory is allowed, no defeat!"
"Yes!"
Seeing this, the group didn't dare ask more and filed out of the room.
...
Just as the Shrek group was getting ready to head to the competition grounds.
Ten thousand miles away at Shrek Academy, in the Sea Gods Pavilion.
Under that massive golden tree, a stooped old man was lying quietly on a lounge chair, resting with his eyes closed.
It was none other than the Dragon God Douluo, Mu En.
Suddenly, a sharp whistling sound of rushing wind broke the silence of the Sea Gods Pavilion.
A guard, clutching a piece of urgent intelligence that had just been sent back, rushed in with a pale Face and covered in sweat.
"Elder Mu! This is bad! Something huge has happened!"
Mu En slowly opened his eyes, a sharp light flashing in his cloudy old eyes, and asked calmly:
"Why so flustered? Where are your manners? What has happened?"
The guard swallowed hard and tremblingly handed over the intelligence:
"This is the message that was just sent back from Star Luo City..."
"Elder Xuan... because he trespassed into the Sun Moon Team's quarters last night, he was... given a yellow card warning by the tournament organizing committee!"
"And... he was nearly disqualified!"
"What?!"
Mu En sat bolt upright, snatched the intelligence, and his eyes quickly scanned the contents.
When he saw the words "infiltrated late at night," "caught by Jing Hongchen," and "yellow card warning," Mu En felt a surge of blood rush to his head.
*Snap!*
The intelligence in Mu En's hand instantly turned to ash, and even the lounge chair beneath him let out a tooth-aching "creak" under the violent trembling.
"Bastard! Muddled! Stupid!"
Mu En was so angry his beard was shaking, and his chest heaved violently; he was clearly truly enraged.
"I sent him to lead the team! Not to be a clown!"
"A dignified Sea Gods Pavilion Elder was actually caught red-handed like a thief! And even got a yellow card?!"
"He has lost all of Shrek's Face!"
*Cough, cough, cough...*
After being angered by Xuan Zi time and time again, Mu En felt like his life was being shortened.
At this moment, he truly wished he could go to Star Luo City immediately and give Xuan Zi a severe beating!
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