The idea of a zoo had Yu Jin totally fired up.
The more he thought about it, the more doable it seemed!
And what excited him even more was—
Little cats and dogs were classified by the system as 'Tier Four Mutated Beast Kings'.
If it were tigers, lions, crocodiles, wouldn't those be Tier Five, Tier Six, maybe even Tier Seven and Tier Eight?
The only hassle was—
What kind of actions would the system count as 'contain/suppress/scare off' those Mutated Beast Kings?
"I wonder if those lions at the zoo let people pet them…"
"If I could pet them myself, that should basically count."
"If they don't let me…"
"Then I'll force a pet!"
"Come on, I'm a Tier Three Evolver—even with restrictions, I should at least be able to handle a tiger or lion, right?"
Yu Jin was working through his game plan, hurriedly grabbing breakfast at the hotel.
When he checked out, the front desk manager even made a special trip to peek into Yu Jin's room.
Saw that this time, the door was completely untouched, and the manager sighed regretfully.
Just as Yu Jin was about to leave, though—
He still waved him off, calling, "Come back often, alright!"
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...
Yu Jin didn't rush straight to the wildlife park after leaving the hotel.
It was barely past seven, and while eating breakfast, Yu Jin had checked on his phone—Jiangcheng Wildlife Park didn't open until ten.
"Plenty of time to write up the club activity application and submit it for school review."
"Might as well go to a class—haven't been for two days, hope the teacher didn't take attendance."
Yu Jin formulated his plan.
Compared to the spontaneous 'zoo trip,' organizing an Environmental Protection Club event to clean up the polluted river was way more important to him.
After all, the system's 'territory' module was basically spelling everything out for him.
Yu Jin was one hundred percent certain—
The club activity to clean the polluted river was bound to bring him seriously juicy rewards.
The hotel wasn't far from campus, just separated by a single street.
There was a gold shop on the street—too bad it wasn't open yet, or Yu Jin would've immediately cashed in the gold brick he bought from the Points Mall last night.
It was Wednesday, morning rush hour, tons of cars and people crowding the campus gates.
Even though it was a university, there were plenty of students who commuted or lived off campus—most of them were local Jiang City students.
Yu Jin kept his head down and headed straight for the campus gate.
"Yu Jin!"
Just as he reached the gate, someone called out to him.
He paused and turned.
"Senior Sister Yin?"
The always-elegant Yin Yao was striding over, legs for days…no, she was practically running toward Yu Jin.
Yu Jin glanced behind her and noticed—
The campus gate was packed, with a whole row of black sedans parked out front.
Each sedan had black-suited, white-gloved bodyguards flanking it, who were all standing at attention, eyes fixed on Yin Yao's back.
Soon enough—
Yin Yao reached Yu Jin.
At the same time—
All kinds of eyes from every direction were now locked onto the two of them at the gate.
Especially—
Jiangcheng University students who'd already seen the gossip posts about the two on the campus forum last night. They were now wide-eyed and many quietly whipped out their phones to snap pics.
"Morning."
Yu Jin greeted Yin Yao.
"Morning."
Yin Yao replied, taking a moment to catch her breath before asking:
"Are you free today?"
"I want to ask you out—"
She hadn't finished her sentence before Yu Jin cut her off:
"Nope, not going."
Yin Yao froze.
The gossip-hungry students who pretended to walk by but secretly had their ears on full alert, froze too.
Even the gray-haired old gatekeeper under the security booth froze.
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Buxue Building.
Lecture Hall 103.
Yu Jin dashed in at 7:59—literally seconds before the bell rang.
Right behind him was Yin Yao, tailing him step for step.
Yu Jin didn't pay any attention to the senior sister who'd followed him all the way from the gate, and headed for the back row without a word.
"Old Yu, over here!"
"Saved your spot!"
Old Cui waved.
Yu Jin plopped right down.
Moments later—
Yin Yao also came over and sat next to Yu Jin.
This scene—
Had Old Cui and the others staring wide-eyed, especially Brother Gang, who was practically burying his face, afraid to look at Yu Jin.
He thought—
He'd sold out his bro last night, and that Yin Yao was here to settle scores with Yu Jin.
But then—
The next second—
The conversation between the two stunned Old Cui and Brother Gang, and even Yu Fei—who was head down in his workbook at the far end—couldn't help but look up.
Yu Jin: "Why'd you call me out in public? You trying to make sure everyone gets the wrong idea about us?"
Yin Yao: "I, I didn't mean to say it like that."
Yu Jin: "Accidental, huh?"
Yin Yao: "Yeah, accidental."
Yu Jin: "Looks to me like you were accidentally on purpose."
Yin Yao: "..."
Old Cui and company were totally gobsmacked!
Damn?
This is what they call riding the gravy train, right?
If you want to talk about family status—
This is the family emperor right here!
They had no clue what exactly happened, but…
Just listen to Yu Jin's attitude, and then to Senior Sister Yin's tone of admitting fault!
In that instant, Old Cui and company looked at Yu Jin in a whole new light—by the end, he was basically a living sage to them!
Meanwhile—
Yu Jin ignored the senior sister.
No idea what got into her today, showing up and immediately trying to schedule something.
He had serious business to deal with.
The class bell rang.
Yu Jin borrowed paper and pen from Old Cui and started scribbling away.
Applying for a major club activity was a headache. Not only did you have to list all participants, but also confirm the date, location, and even prep for emergency situations.
Yu Jin wanted all hundred members of the Environmental Protection Club to join, but he'd still need to double-check who could actually make it.
Thinking about that, he took out his phone and sent out a message to the big club group, tagging everyone.
The message explained that the Environmental Protection Club was planning a major event—cleaning up trash from the polluted river—and to sign up if interested.
To his surprise—
The club members responded so enthusiastically, it stunned Yu Jin.
"What's going on?"
"Cleaning up the polluted river is real dirty work—how is everyone so hyped?"
What Yu Jin didn't know was—
This group of new members weren't being brave or energetic—they were…doing it for academic credit!
The two points for innovation and entrepreneurship didn't get added just for joining; they'd only be credited at the end of the semester.
In other words—
Being a member now didn't guarantee credits.
Only if you were a member at semester's end, you'd qualify for those points!
Because of that—
Even for dirty, exhausting jobs like cleaning the polluted river, these freshmen were tripping over themselves to sign up, worried the club president might boot them from the group.
And that would mean those guaranteed credits are gone!
"Dang, everyone's here!"
"I thought if half showed up that'd be decent."
Yu Jin beamed at the crazy signup list in the club group.
No doubt about it—the more who joined, the richer the system rewards!
"Members confirmed, location set, next up is time."
Yu Jin filled out [103] in the application's attendance section and stared at the calendar, deep in thought.
"It's Wednesday, with classes Thursday and Friday—earliest we could actually do it is Saturday."
"And if you factor in application approval and formal process, we'd be lucky if we could pull it off next Saturday…"
Yu Jin muttered, not happy with this outcome.
The longer it took, the slower the reward came, and the later he'd turn 'Happy Hero'.
"When do you want it?"
Yin Yao suddenly asked.
She'd been watching Yu Jin's every move, knowing he was writing up the club activity application.
In her opinion, Yu Jin should be pouring his time into the Wasteland game, but…
Wanting to lock in Yu Jin's support for the future, she'd respect all his choices and lend a hand.
"When do I want it?"
"I wish I could go fix that river tomorrow!"
Yin Yao nodded thoughtfully.
"Alright, tomorrow it is."
Yu Jin: "?"