Chapter 397: The Joy of Victory
Inside the Magnetic Channel.
Gongshu Jin surged forward at high speed while skimming through the EyeNet messages flashing across his ocular husk.
The moment his score update came through, he wasted no time posting on his social feed—bragging about clinching seventh place in the Civil Engineering Competition and winning usage rights for the Xuanhuang Mountain-Suppressing Seal.
In Gongshu Jin’s mind, this was only natural. If you made progress, you had to show it off—loudly. How else would your loan limit increase? How would family bonds deepen? How would you sustain kinship, or maintain ties with your classmates?
Sure enough, the moment his post went live, a flurry of messages followed.
Some congratulated him. Others asked for details. Some wondered if he needed emergency funds. Still others flooded him with promotions—peddling pills, Dao Techniques, or various immortality products at discounted rates.
Even some upper-level locals from the Fourth Floor, who happened to be stuck on the Second Floor, reached out to him.
Gongshu Jin had added a few such seniors to his contacts via the shared “Fourth-Floorers Trapped on Second Floor” alumni groups. But within the Civil Engineering Department, where he lacked an all-department ranking and wasn’t even the top of his class, he’d never been particularly noteworthy among his Fourth-Floor peers.
To receive outreach from them now filled Gongshu Jin with a distinct sense of glee.