Chapter 1699

Nicole began to size Ryder up. Suddenly, she felt the seat beside her moving. Her eyes darted sideways and she immediately saw Preston and Edwin. "Nicole! You're here too?" Preston asked, feeling quite excited when he saw Nicole. The school's computer competition was usually conducted through the simple process of drafting a few unlucky souls in class to make up the numbers. It was only until the city-level competition, in which the wheat had been separated from the chaff, that the pros would duke it out. However, for Nicole's identity and level of skill, participating in a national competition in a developing country was truly a disservice to her talents. Nicole too wore a helpless look on her face. "Yeah, no one in class registered for this." That was why the teacher had picked her. "But your class has quite a few capable folks, right?" Preston glanced at the general direction of Bradley, Wayne and Jack. The mention of this reminded her that she was still a little mad at Bra