The Cannon Fodder Doesn't Want to Return to the Rich Family (Translated)

Chapter 49

Chapter 49

It has been over half a month since Old Master Jiang's birthday party. Recently, the students at Huiying High School have shifted their focus to the Monroe competition.

Considering the success of last year's competition, Monroe Club decided to host the second season of the Monroe Online Quiz Contest.

Teacher Qin from Monroe, who appeared at Huiying High School previously, was there to motivate the principal to encourage students to participate in the competition.

This season's competition rules have seen some changes from the last. This season, participating students need to log into the Monroe Quiz APP within the specified competition time, turn on their cameras, and participate in a live quiz.

The competition is divided into eight rounds. In each round, students must answer multiple-choice questions within the given time. Monroe officials will continuously eliminate students based on their performance until the final champion is determined.

The reason for using live quizzes this season is partly due to Lu Yao's performance in the finals of the previous season. His speed and calm demeanor during the final were astonishing and impressed many viewers.

During the finals, many people strongly suggested to the officials that the live audio format be changed to video, as they were very curious about Lu Yao's real appearance. This opinion was also supported by the other nine finalists, including Jiang Bai.

However, Lu Yao preferred to keep a low profile, collect his prize, and leave, so he declined the suggestion made by the officials midway through the competition. This year, Monroe staff learned from last year's experience and decided to use live video from the start to create more buzz for the competition.

In addition, due to the success of last year's event, the competition's official personnel secured more prize money from Monroe headquarters, increasing the champion's prize from last year's 200,000 yuan to 1 million yuan.

One million yuan may not seem very attractive to the students of Huiying High School, but for most families, it is undoubtedly a significant amount. Therefore, this year's Monroe competition is already generating high levels of excitement from the first round of preliminaries.

Since the competition uses a live quiz format, besides a main live stream room in the APP that shows the overall performance of all participants, netizens can also click on individual participants' cameras in the main live stream to view their performance up close.

The competition is now in its fourth round, and many top students have even attracted a following online.

Among them, one person has become particularly popular online as the "White Rich Beautiful Academic Star"—that person is Xia Yue.

The principal of Huiying High School had predicted from the start that this Monroe competition would generate a lot of online buzz. To further boost the school's reputation, he actively encouraged students to sign up.

He was especially keen to motivate Lu Yao and Jiang Bai. In his view, if these two participated, Huiying High School would naturally secure both the first and second places. Unfortunately, despite his efforts, both Lu Yao and Jiang Bai remained unmoved. Fortunately, Xia Yue from their school signed up for the competition.

Although Xia Yue did not participate in the competition in her previous life, her memory from that life indicated that as the competition progressed, it would become a highly followed online quiz contest. The previous year's champion was an ordinary-looking boy who, due to his exceptional performance, was highly praised and even regarded as a "study deity" by many netizens.

Xia Yue thought that since she had already used her vitality to advance her quiz tool with the system, with the help of this tool, winning the championship should be easy.

The system behind Xia Yue also saw the potential of the competition's popularity. It hoped that Xia Yue could gain fame through the competition, which would, in turn, help it strengthen itself. Although the system hidden in Lu Yao had not yet taken any action, it needed to be well-prepared to act decisively later.

Xia Yue and the system agreed on participating in this Monroe competition.

With her good looks and excellent quiz performance, combined with her background from the renowned and somewhat mysterious Huiying High School, Xia Yue quickly gained a following online and became a well-known academic celebrity.

Even some students at school, impressed by her performance in the competition, began to change their previous negative impressions of her. As a result, Xia Yue regained her popularity at school, even surpassing her previous level of fame.

In contrast to the widespread attention on the Monroe competition, Lu Yao and Jiang Bai were not concerned at all.

After school one day, as Lu Yao was packing up to go home, Jiang Bai suddenly said, "Lu Yao, didn't you say your plant's fertilizer was running out? I know a flower shop that just got a new batch of high-quality fertilizer. Shall we go pick some out together?"

Jiang Bai's mention reminded Lu Yao that the fertilizer for the Marguerite flower in his room had indeed run out a few days ago, so it was time to buy some new fertilizer.

Hearing that Lu Yao and Jiang Bai were going out together again, Lu Qi, sitting in the back row with his long legs stretched out, grumbled unhappily.

Recently, it has been very annoying to see these two—Lu Yao and Jiang Bai—always together. If he didn't have a club activity at the basketball club later, Lu Qi would definitely have followed them.

What Lu Qi didn't expect was that he would later deeply regret not going with them at that moment.

Lu Yao and Jiang Bai were using Jiang Bai's family's car, as the flower shop they were heading to was in a remote area where Jiang Bai's car couldn't go directly to the shop. Jiang Bai asked the driver to find a nearby parking spot and wait there.

After Lu Yao and Jiang Bai successfully bought the fertilizer they needed, as they walked a little distance from the shop, Lu Yao suddenly sensed movement behind them.

He subtly nudged Jiang Bai's hand, causing Jiang Bai to look at him in confusion.

Just as Lu Yao was about to use lip movements to indicate something was wrong behind them, someone suddenly grabbed both of their shoulders.

Feeling the cold barrel of a gun pressed against his lower back, even the usually calm Lu Yao's pupils twitched.

Lu Yao pressed his lips together and forced himself to stay calm.

He exchanged a look with Jiang Bai, knowing their immediate priority was to avoid provoking the assailants and try to understand their intentions.

Lu Yao's voice was steady: "What do you want?"

From the current situation, it was clear there were at least two criminals behind them.

"Young Master Lu, we don't want anything special. We just want to make some quick cash."

Hearing that the assailants didn't use voice changers and even addressed him by his identity, Lu Yao felt a pang of worry.

He looked at Jiang Bai with guilt, feeling that he was dragging Jiang Bai into trouble.

Seeing the concern in Lu Yao's eyes, Jiang Bai gave him a reassuring smile.

"Take them away."

After another unfamiliar man's voice was heard, Lu Yao had a drug-soaked handkerchief pressed against his nose and soon lost consciousness.

Once they were unconscious, two thugs wearing baseball caps quickly helped them into a waiting van.

The van sped away immediately.