High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 109: Chapter 33: State-Funded Students and Tail-Carriages_1

The milky white gas gently glided into his mouth, wrapped around the liquid as green as blue glaze.

A faint sour sensation spread in his mouth.

It slightly felt like apple vinegar.

This was Zheng Qing’s first impression.

The refreshing liquid continued to slowly slide down his tongue, unexpectedly bringing a warm and mellow sensation; the tip of the tongue where the liquid passed gradually developed a somewhat astringent taste. Zheng Qing felt as if the back of his tongue was soaking in a hot spring while the tip was dancing on an ice cube.

This was what it felt like to be between ice and fire. This thought came to Zheng Qing in a daze.

The refreshing sensation continued to slide down into his stomach, and then it felt like a burned-out fuse triggering a fierce impact. Zheng Qing felt a surge of heat spreading in his stomach. It returned to his mouth through the esophagus, spreading the hint of bitterness behind that astringent sensation.

He opened his mouth and exhaled. Then, Zheng Qing took another deep breath immediately.

It was as if he had eaten a spoonful of mustard or chugged a large glass of cold cola. He felt a slight prickling sensation spreading throughout his nasal cavity. There was no actual pain, just a very pleasant stimulation.

”You should feel six sensations in your mouth with a sip of this drink: coolness, mild sourness, warmth, slight astringency, fiery passion, and mild bitterness. Also, the first exhale after drinking should elicit a string of beehive-like aftertaste in order to be perfect,” Duan Xiao Jian said, squinting, his throat quivering. After a moment, he slowly exhaled.

He opened his eyes and said solemnly to Zheng Qing, ”Mist Liquor brings you bodily pleasure, but Greeen Bee touches your soul more.”

Duan Xiao Jian was a skinny boy. Perhaps because of years of reading, his back was a bit bent. Whether sitting or standing, he always looked as if he was bending down to look for something. This gave him a consistently creepy vibe.

”We are not muggles, we are wizards. We won’t merely pursue some kind of bodily pleasure like muggles.” Duan Xiao Jian’s body straightened a lot, perhaps because he was slightly drunk. His tone became very serious as he elaborated, ”The body and soul are inseparable. If you drink, your body may feel good, but your soul may feel lost. Green Bee, made with Mist Liquor, can not only pleasure your body but also cleanse your soul.”

Zheng Qing, who was still immersed in the intoxicating sense brought by the cocktail, kept nodding to the lengthy discourse by the guy in front of him.

”Just like the Baihua Brew from your Kunlun Mountain, it can also bring this effect,” Duan Xiao Jian suddenly added.

Zheng Qing immediately raised his head.

The thin boy in front of him was casually swirling his drink, seemingly contemplating the number of vortexes that could be created in the Mist Liquor in the glass.

Zheng Qing rubbed his temples, feeling somewhat headache.

”I’m really not a descendant of Kunlun.” He sighed, a figure emerged in his mind, so he gathered his spirits and asked, ”Do you know Thomas? The assistant at the first university, Thomas! He was my interviewer, he knows I didn’t come down from the mountain!”

Duan Xiao Jian shook his head.

Zheng Qing drooped his head in disappointment.

”Nicholas must know.” Duan Xiao Jian seemed to just remember, and stood up to look around, ”He has been in the school for so long, he must know the assistant you were talking about.”

”Nicholas? He’s here too?” Zheng Qing shook his somewhat swollen head, feeling a little delirious, ”What is he here for? He’s not from our class, right?”

As he spoke, he moved his nose closer to his glass, trying to inhale the Mist Liquor covering the Green Bee.

”Liu Fei Fei brought him. I saw them both when I came in.” Initially craning his neck to search for Nicholas, Duan Xiao Jian suddenly lowered his head, leaned over to Zheng Qing’s ear, and whispered, ”I think there’s something between those two!”

The startling news made Zheng Qing’s hand tremble and he inhaled the Green Bee that was in his glass into his nostrils. He started coughing violently.

”Don’t get too excited, I also think it’s impossible!” Duan Xiao Jian patted his back to comfort him, ”Maybe I’m just drunk and they happened to come into the shop together... They hardly ever speak in class, they hardly know each other, how could they... Hahaha.”

”They knew each other before you did.” Zheng Qing blew his nose, pulled out a paper towel from the table to wipe it, and muttered.

”What?” Duan Xiao Jian seemed quite surprised.

”They knew each other as soon as they entered the school!” Perhaps he had coughed too harshly just now, Zheng Qing’s voice had become more hoarse: ”Nicholas was our guide. He led us around the school... during the conflict with the Fishman near Bell Lake, Nicholas once helped Liu Fei Fei.”

”Oh, my God...” Duan Xiao Jian rose to his feet again, searching around with even more effort: ”It seems I have discovered something astonishing.”

Indeed it was astonishing.

This year’s top publicly-funded student and the student who had failed twice were in a relationship.

If this was told, I’m afraid it would drop jaws.

In his daze, he looked around.

Not far away, Zhang Ji Xin seemed to have eaten something, he was leaning against the bar in a daze, exhaling a ring of smoke. A little further away, a group of girls gathered together, drinking from high glasses filled with mist liquor, chattering and giggling. Around a table in the corner of the hall, several classmates were shouting about something. Some people were even dancing a strange dance unabashedly in the hall.

Everything was so familiar, everything was so similar.

A strong sense of deja vu made Zheng Qing almost forget that he was now attending a Wizard University called First University. At this moment, Zheng Qing finally felt something settle down in his heart, reconnecting his life.

Although the connection in clothing was not so clear. Zheng Qing looked at the wizards in front of him wearing robes, curved hems, broad dresses, and all kinds of clothes, and thought quietly.

Then, in his mind emerged the image of the red big wave curls not long ago.

Elena’s dress was very close to the world of his original life.

He couldn’t help but lift his head, looking for that tall girl in the crowd. Not far away, Elena was shuffling her tarot cards noisily among a group of girls, seemingly doing fortune-telling for them.

Zheng Qing stared at a strand of her long hair hanging down her cheek, falling onto her fair shoulder and found himself lost again.

Elena seemed to have seen something and glanced at him.

He quickly turned his head away, pretending to be casual, and took a big gulp of cocktail.

Every time he saw a beautiful girl, he acted like this, so useless.

Zheng Qing complained silently in his heart.

As the liquid entered his stomach, the warm sensation in his mouth gradually spread throughout his body.

Zheng Qing rubbed his somewhat numb cheek hard, but the dizzy feeling became more serious.

”Hey!” A vague voice said from a faraway place: ”Drunk already?!”

Zheng Qing felt a pair of strong hands massaging his back, and he immediately felt much better.

No wonder it’s the First University, their hangover cure is so refreshing. Zheng Qing lay limp on the table while his thoughts wildly spread. Maybe he should learn some skills so that he won’t worry about finding a job after graduation.

After resting for a while, even though his dizziness was almost gone, he still felt uncomfortable, especially the bitter taste in his mouth, which lingered.

”How about a piece of candy to take the edge off?” Zhang Ji Xin appeared from nowhere, standing in front of Zheng Qing with a glass of wine, and kindly took out a hard candy with concern.

Zheng Qing gratefully accepted it, tore open the red candy paper, and immediately threw it into his mouth.