Extreme Almightiest Young Master

Chapter 179: The Three of Us Go

Ah...

It’s so worrisome, I came to Yuegang full of confidence, intending to spread the fame of Yingbo University, but who would have thought that the first exchange project would stump me? How should I handle this situation? I can’t let the universities in Yuegang look down on us, but now that things have come to this, I really don’t have much confidence left. Isn’t this intentionally embarrassing the mainland universities? Who could have expected Yuegang University to pose such a topic? I guess no school would specifically bring students with expertise in obscure and minor languages, so this is not only embarrassing for Yingbo University but also for all the well-known mainland universities. No one could have foreseen such a result!

But what can be done about it now? Worry...

Leng Mei was also a bit surprised to see this topic, but in a twinkling of an eye, she wasn’t worried at all. Isn’t this situation just tailor-made for Lin Feng? His otherworldly language skills would be wasted if not showcased here. He had astounded me to death at first; what would it be like for this group of so-called experts and scholars? I believe they would all be struck dead by Lin Feng. These people are so full of themselves, but upon encountering someone like Lin Feng, they won’t even know how they died.

This occasion might indeed be an opportunity, a chance for Yingbo University to stand out. And all of this could only be realized by Lin Feng. I remember Lin Feng once told me that he is proficient in about ten or so languages, can speak about thirty-plus, and has a basic understanding of roughly over fifty, not counting dialects. What concept is that! It could be said that he could speak and write all the languages one would normally come across, and with that ability, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to travel the world!

Tomorrow’s exchange meeting will be the stage for Lin Feng to shine, the stage for Yingbo University to stand out. There will definitely not be a second person at the entire venue who can compare to Lin Feng. This is absolute strength. With Lin Feng there, what could have been an embarrassing exchange meeting will completely turn around. I reckon that tomorrow will surely surprise those from Yuegang University so much their eyes will pop out. They thought to put the mainland universities in an awkward spot to make them a backdrop, but tomorrow they will learn what it means to shoot themselves in the foot.

Lin Feng, everything tomorrow depends on you. I have full confidence in you. You will surely dazzle everyone and make Yingbo University gain prominence!

Lin Feng also found this topic very strange. What exactly is Yuegang University’s intention? This is clearly a trap for the mainland universities. With such a choice of topics, what are these mainland schools to do? Who would bring students with such niche language expertise to participate in an exchange meeting of this caliber? Who could have predicted such a topic?

But the facts are as they are, and the attitude of the organizers becomes even more intriguing. Knowing the situation well, they still resolutely chose this topic, which shows that Yuegang University doesn’t consider the mainland universities as equals at all, purely intending to use them as a foil. Otherwise, they definitely could not have chosen such a topic.

The three students my school brought for the language exchange are all simply exceptionally good in a single, very common language, which is obviously inappropriate for such an exchange meeting. Unless something unexpected happens, it seems that Leng Mei and I will represent Yingbo University at tomorrow’s exchange meeting. So what should we do tomorrow?

"Tomorrow, I will go to the exchange meeting with Lin Feng; the other students shouldn’t go." After thinking for a while and weighing the options, Leng Mei decided that it was best for her and Lin Feng to go. For such an occasion, even Leng Mei, once known as a language prodigy, was somewhat worried. How could she let students who only knew one language participate? It was better to have Lin Feng go, which would give her peace of mind. His foreign language skills were even far superior to her own. If she took the students along, and they were unable to answer questions from the other side, it would be more embarrassing than not bringing them at all.

"Sister Leng, just the two of you going? I’ll come too," Ding Wan’er said upon hearing Leng Mei’s decision, agreeing that it was the right call. However, she was still a bit worried about letting Leng Mei and Lin Feng face such a complex scenario alone. With so many people participating in the exchange, if there was a difficult question they couldn’t answer, and they couldn’t save face, it would be a huge embarrassment. This would tarnish Yingbo University’s reputation; they had to be careful!

"That’s fine; you should come too. After all, you are the president of Yingbo University, and you should attend. What do you think, Lin Feng?" Leng Mei understood that Ding Wan’er was worried about her and Lin Feng handling the complex situation. Although Girl Ding’s presence might not be useful since Lin Feng knew the languages she knew, as the president of Yingbo University, there was no reason not to attend. Moreover, with her by their side, they wouldn’t feel as awkward pairing up with Lin Feng.

"Yeah, the three of us going will be enough," Lin Feng agreed with Leng Mei. In such an event, having more people was indeed unnecessary. Actually, just having Leng Mei and himself would have been enough, and adding Ding Wan’er was also fine. Faced with this situation, the original plan to have Leng Mei bring along three students for tomorrow’s exchange meeting had to be shelved. It was up to him to partner with Leng Mei and bring glory to Yingbo University.

"Alright, if we successfully win honor for the university tomorrow, let’s go for a big meal," Ding Wan’er said, delighted with the decision on who would attend the exchange meeting. She wanted to lighten the tense mood and encourage Lin Feng and Leng Mei.

At the same time, the representatives from the other universities also saw the choice of topics and were similarly furious.

"Why would Yuegang University do this? If they choose such a topic, what are we other mainland universities supposed to do, just tag along and play their game?"

"Isn’t this toying with us? If you’re going to choose such a topic, you should have told us earlier. Now you notify us like this, how are we supposed to proceed?"

"What is Yuegang University implying? Do they think we mainland universities are easy to bully?"

"Who could have anticipated that they’d come up with such a proposition, announcing it the evening before the exchange when it’s too late to change participants? Isn’t this deliberately intended to make us look foolish?"

"What if they present some obscure language tomorrow? We’d be utterly embarrassed!"

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The leaders of other mainland universities had not expected such a situation. They thought that the exchange with Yuegang University would be similar to those with other regions, having summoned their most outstanding students in every field to compete for their schools’ pride. The same was true for the students involved in this language exchange; they were certainly brilliant, but that brilliance was confined to proficiency in a single language. With so many languages in the world, the prospect of facing an obscure one put their schools in an awkward position. If they were to embarrass themselves, what then? It would be the face of these institutions at stake!

But tomorrow’s topics had already been decided, and there was no way to change anything. What were they to do in the exchange meeting tomorrow? Surely they couldn’t just lead their students into the venue to disgrace themselves? If word got out that their schools had made a fool of themselves at Yuegang University, indeed, that responsibility was not something they could bear.

Alas... what to do tomorrow? They had thought they could have a nice visit to Yuegang, but with this situation now who could be in the mood to go shopping? Their first concern should be how to explain to their schools. If they didn’t handle this well, they might go to Yuegang only to lose their jobs instead of face. How could they not worry!

The next morning, the Yuegang University Conference Center was bustling. Over 2,000 participants from well-known universities across the country, along with all the university delegations from Yuegang, were there for an unprecedentedly grand language exchange discussion meeting.

As the host, Yuegang University had the home-field advantage, sending out a dozen people, each capable of at least one or two rare languages. It was clear to the discerning eye that their intent was to flaunt their strength and defeat the mainland schools, thus elevating Yuegang University’s reputation. Teams from other Yuegang universities gathered, forming nearly a two-hundred-person strong contingent facing the mainland schools attending the celebration.

"Hello everyone, I am Chen Bing from Yuehai University. Now, I will introduce a legend about Yuehai in Arabic." Chen Bing from Yuehai University was the first to inaugurate the exchange, looking down at the dense crowd below with confidence and pride. Arabic was the language he had studied for nearly ten years, achieving nearly ambassadorial proficiency! However, its scope of use globally was still quite limited, and it was for this reason that the school had included him in this language exchange team – to rightfully bring glory to Yuegang University.

Looking at the pressing crowd opposite him, it was clear that not being nervous was an outright lie. But then, thinking about how, after today, he could finally be proud and puff his chest out a little, pride in defeating the other mainland university delegations swelled within him. It was a tremendous honor, and the thought alone made him extremely happy! This was a live broadcast, after all. If he could make an impression here, even international television programs would feature it, truly making his name well-known. Opportunities like this were rare, so there had to be no mistakes. He had to properly school these mainland universities on what true Arabic proficiency was and what the most authentic pronunciation sounded like!

The most important thing was to outwit them and make them speechless. Hopefully, no one among them would speak Arabic, which would allow him to stand out even more, achieving his goal to bring higher honor to Yuegang University and gain greater personal fame.

With these thoughts in mind, Chen Bing began to read Yuegang’s history in Arabic with an elegant voice.