Additional Attributes of the Outdoor Association

It is a known fact that the vast majority of students at Jiang University do not drive their family cars to school.

After all, even if their families had the financial means, the parents might not agree to it.

And even if the parents agreed, the students themselves might find it too much of a hassle.

Actually, if you lived in a dorm, a normal daily routine really did not require a car.

For frequently visited places, walking or riding a shared electric scooter was basically the most convenient option.

After all, anyone who knew Jiangcheng's traffic conditions understood.

If the system had not rewarded him with expert-level daily driving skills, Su Bai would not even bother driving; it was too mentally exhausting.

Evolving from a novice to a veteran driver required a lot of trial and error, but fortunately, the considerate Brother System helped Su Bai skip that entire process.

Therefore... if you told Su Bai that all these cars were driven here by students participating in the camping trip, he would not believe it for a second.

That made things very strange. Logically speaking, the main participants in an event organized by the Camping Association should be the university's own students. Even if you included graduate students, the vibe should not be like this.

Damn it, graduate students might actually be even stingier with their money than undergrads. Although grad students received stipends, their mentality was different. Once in grad school, they more or less felt they should break away from their parents and survive independently, whereas undergrads were still in the carefree, full-time partying phase.

Su Bai took a photo of the luxury cars in the parking lot and sent it to Xia Lin.

Crispy White Goose: Xia, what is going on here? Our school's Outdoor Association is really prestigious, huh?

Summer Lin: Haha, generally speaking, quite a few graduated alumni participate in the Outdoor Association's events. These people would drive nice cars here, probably?

Summer Lin: Looking at the photo you took, the cars are mostly in the 56E class. There aren't many flashy sports cars that fit the aesthetics of rich second-generation kids. It feels like they should be alumni. Our outstanding alumni who have established themselves in their industries around the age of thirty usually buy cars in this class.

That made perfect sense!

Hearing Xia Lin's explanation, Su Bai was suddenly enlightened.

As expected of Xia, she really knew a lot.

The so-called 56E class of cars referred to vehicles in the price range represented by the Mercedes-Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series, and Audi A6.

This was actually a rather subtle price point.

From an ordinary person's perspective, even now, after being impacted by new energy vehicles and experiencing price drops, a car in this class still sold for four hundred thousand yuan each. That was enough for a house in many small counties—a genuine luxury car.

However, to the truly wealthy guys who played with cars, this price range was beneath them. After all, it was a level that ordinary people could reach if they entered a good industry, found a good job, and saved up diligently.

Su Bai had once swiped past a video saying that the Mercedes-Benz E-Class was actually the ceiling for ordinary workers with no background.

That statement was actually conservative. If Su Bai did not have the system, he would probably wince at buying a BYD Qin; just paying the annual insurance would cost several thousand yuan.

Because of this, Su Bai would not create some chain of contempt regarding cars just because he had gotten lucky and struck it rich.

He was just a bit puzzled as to why these older alumni were running back to school to do outdoor activities. Logically, these working professionals should have their own circles of travel buddies, right?

When Su Bai occasionally visited the Bang Bang Ka Bang Game Studio, he would listen to President Du talk about the gossip in Jiangcheng's entrepreneurial circles, and it was incredibly spicy.

Adults' colorful gossip mostly happened when they went out traveling.

After all, it was a fresh environment, which was exciting. When traveling, people did not need to worry about work and had plenty of free time.

Just as Su Bai was about to ask Xia Lin about this, she sent another message:

Summer Lin: The Outdoor Association has a nickname. It's called the Matchmaking Association, meaning that many current students or graduates have found their ideal partners through this platform. Hmm, maybe during this camping trip, some successful older female alumni will hit on you.

Crispy White Goose: [White Goose Tilting Head Question Mark]

Crispy White Goose: No way, having Xia as my older sister is enough for me.

Summer Lin: Then isn't your senior Zhou Jialu also an older sister?

Crispy White Goose: It's different. She's a senior student, but you are a bit more mature.

Crispy White Goose: [White Goose Scratching Head]

Summer Lin: Oh, I get it. You think I'm old, right?

Summer Lin: [Smile]

Su Bai immediately felt a bit of a toothache. Look, this was the nature of women. Even though the female confidantes around Su Bai had exceptionally good personalities and were all system-certified S-rank goddesses, they would still get jealous over the weirdest things.

Some of their jealousy was completely baffling, and Su Bai was often amused by the girls' magical little thoughts.

However, through Xia Lin's explanation, Su Bai also understood why the older alumni were so obsessed with flocking to the Outdoor Association.

If you said it was older female alumni wanting to pick up young boy toys, it made some sense, but in reality, that market was quite niche.

Did people really think every so-called older sister was as generous and reliable as Xia Lin?

Regardless of whether they were reliable or not, the truth was that older women who wanted to date young boys were often not generous!

There were far fewer wealthy women willing to spend money than there were wealthy older men willing to throw cash around.

This had been proven by the market.

When a wealthy older guy kept a yoga-pants-wearing young girl, aside from sleeping with her, he just took her out to eat, drink, and have fun. As for what the little girl liked to do in her private time? It did not matter. She could do whatever she wanted, as long as it did not interfere with the older guy's normal life.

Older women were much more troublesome. In many cases, they would agree to sugar-mama a young boy at first, but after a little while, they would start forcing the boy to be ambitious, just like damn parents aggressively pushing their kids to succeed.

What was the point of that?

If the guy wanted to be ambitious, why would he look for you in the first place?

Su Bai astutely deduced that this parking lot full of 56E cars was probably driven by successful middle-aged male alumni. Could it be that they were here to scout for obedient and cute younger female students?

It was not impossible.

After figuring this out, Su Bai's reverence for the Outdoor Association deepened even further.

You have done well, you have done a great job!

Any club that could successfully operate as a matchmaking agency was not simple.

He just did not know the quality of the girls participating in the event and whether they could satisfy the older alumni.

Come to think of it, they should be of higher quality than the women the older alumni encountered in their workplaces.

After all, the college entrance examination was a screening threshold.

You could run into all sorts of monsters and freaks at work. In fact, for students graduating from prestigious universities, the environment during their school years was likely the most innocent. Once they started working, they could never go back. It was hard to say whether these older alumni had the intention of reminiscing about their glorious past years.

On the other hand, someone like me, Su Xiaobai, who was only a freshman, was a bit out of place among this crowd. One look and you could tell I was genuinely here to camp.

Brother Su Bai, so you are attending this lecture too!

As Su Bai was about to walk inside, a familiar voice came from behind.

It was Chu Mingzhe.

Glancing back at Old Chu and the girl beside him, Su Bai thought to himself that this must be his girlfriend Leilei, whom he had heard so much about but never met.

Hmm...

This landmine girl was indeed... very much a landmine girl!