High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 265: Chapter 189: The School Worker Committee’s Emergency Summoning_1

This Friday night, Zheng Qing had an uneasy time.

After Xin Fat Man gave him a ’kind’ tip, he immediately started to write earnestly and ingeniously an apology letter giving enough reasons for not being able to help her revise Talisman Studies in the library tomorrow noon, asking for forgiveness and such.

Watching the blue paper crane flutter away under the moonlight, Zheng Qing finally fell asleep filled with worries.

But his sleep was not peaceful.

Although the Tarot card inlaid with many gemstones was still flickering with fascinating light by his pillow, it didn’t bring any calmness to this young scholarship student.

He started having nightmares again.

First, it was the little kitten with its eyeballs gouged out, followed by Doctor Du Zemu whose eyes were hollow, and then the fishman with horrifyingly white eyeballs, menacingly flapping its dorsal fin in the silent and pitch-black lakeside forest.

Terrible faces of all kinds appeared one after another, disturbing his dreams arbitrarily.

Therefore, he woke up in a cold sweat.

The elves, understanding his needs, hummed a lullaby to help Zheng Qing fall back asleep.

This time, those terrifying faces did not appear.

Zheng Qing arrived at the lakeside.

The moonlight was like water, the lake’s surface sparkling, a familiar scene laid before him.

A large white turtle shell slowly rose from the bottom of the lake, leisurely swimming towards the shore.

It crawled onto the shore, swallowed the moonbeams with satisfaction, comfortably stretched its limbs, laid in the mud, enjoying a mud bath.

Zheng Qing suddenly felt a chill passing over his head.

He looked up and saw a ball of pearl-colored mist falling from the moonlight, landing on the white-shelled longevity turtle.

The longevity turtle seemed not to notice the danger, still squinting its eyes, as if it was asleep.

Occasionally, it moved its mouth, as if dreaming of something beautiful.

Zheng Qing was horrified to find that the turtle shell contaminated by the pearl-colored mist quickly withered and decayed. Its originally hydrated and healthy skin was aging and drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It’s the murderer!

Zheng Qing shouted silently.

The longevity turtle seemed to hear his voice, raised its head, opened its eyes, and slowly crawled towards the location of Zheng Qing.

It crawled out of the mud pond, over the bluestone slab on the shore, across the grass, and passed directly through Zheng Qing’s stiff legs.

As if he were just air.

Zheng Qing quickly turned around, only to find that from the back, the longevity turtle had turned into a Kappa.

The jade disc on the Kappa’s head was already broken, the sparkling moonlight dripped from the disc, scattering all over the ground.

It bent over, crawled to the base of a great willow tree, curled its body up into a ball.

Zheng Qing shivered.

This seemed to be a signal.

The branches of the great willow tree rose without the wind, the leaves on the branches began to turn yellow, wither, and then fall naturally.

A piece of fallen leaf fell lightly into a water puddle by the lake.

The cloudy water level slowly decreased, and the dried leaf slowly expanded, grew wings, stretched out slender limbs, its tentacles sticking out, a grey insect gradually revealed its ferocious face.

It was that kind of corpse-eating insect that could dehydrate!

Zheng Qing looked around in horror, the withered leaves from the great willow tree swallowed up the ample moisture around the lake, expanded, and turned into groups of ferocious insects.

These insects, clicking their mouthparts, threw themselves on the huddled body of the Kappa.

Shouting, Zheng Qing wakes up from the dream once more.

The morning light was already dawning outside the window.

The clear dawn light came through the glass and fell on the desk.

The chirping of birds came in waves, as if they were holding a grand choir.

Among the chaotic noise, an abnormal, faint knocking sound came from the balcony.

Since he couldn’t sleep, Zheng Qing simply crawled up and groped his way onto the balcony in the faint light from the window outside.

The orange cat was squatting on the windowsill, gazing out the window with a serious visage.

Upon hearing the sound, it did not turn its head, but just shook its tail as a greeting.

”You’re up early today.” Zheng Qing yawned heavily, his face full of fatigue.

Tuan Tuan couldn’t help but open his mouth in a big yawn, its chubby face quivering adorably.

Zheng Qing reached out and gently rubbed Tuan Tuan’s tapered fur.

”Meow!” Tuan Tuan let out a low howl and, with a warning look, flicked a claw at the glass window.

”Tap tap tap!”

Zheng Qing blinked, shook his head, and rubbed his face vigorously.

Outside the window, a teal paper crane craned upwards, pecking at the clear barrier in front of it.

”Tap tap tap!”

The fine and peculiar tapping sound echoed from outside the window.

Perhaps sensing Zheng Qing’s presence, the paper crane’s head motion became increasingly frenzied, the tapping sound outside the window growing progressively more urgent.

Maybe the dew of the early morning was too heavy; the paper crane’s wings looked soaked and somewhat limp.

Zheng Qing promptly slid open the window and caught the small creature.

As if understanding its duty was done, the teal paper crane collapsed in his hand the moment it touched Zheng Qing’s fingers, lying still.

After Zheng Qing unfolded the paper crane and quickly scanned the contents of the note, his expression immediately turned gloomy.

When Xiao Xiao climbed out of bed, squinting to find his glasses on the desk, he saw their young scholarship student sitting blankly beside the desk.

In front of him lay a crumpled letter.

”A reply?” Xiao Xiao asked gruffly, swaying as he shuffled towards the bathroom.

When he emerged from the bathroom, he found that Zheng Qing was still sitting dumbfoundedly at his desk, staring at the letter in front of him with a grim expression.

”What’s the matter, is she angry?” Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows: ”I suggested you explain things face-to-face yesterday... Can a crane made of paper convey an apology?”

Zheng Qing raised his head slowly, his face marked with anguish.

”It’s worse than getting angry.” he sighed heavily: ”She didn’t receive my note... It’s still the crane I sent out yesterday.”

”She didn’t receive it?” Doctor Xiao’s face flashed with curiosity: ”That shouldn’t be... Theoretically, improvements made to the paper crane magic by countless wizards ensure against these risks... It’s impossible that it was rejected... Let me see!”

Zheng Qing quickly collected the letter and tucked it deep into his grey cloth bag.

”There’s nothing to see!” He glared at Doctor Xiao irritably, grumbling, ”See, see, see, you’ll go blind from all the seeing!”

”Hmm, hearing curses first thing in the morning, I need to go rinse out my ears.” Xin Fat Man muttered from his six-pillared bed, struggling to get up and lumbering towards the bathroom.

”Suit yourself,” Xiao Xiao shrugged, slipping into his oversized training suit, ”I’m heading off to morning class... you coming?”

”Yes.” Zheng Qing sighed, nodding his agreement.

He made up his mind that after breakfast, he would try to locate Elena in the library or self-study room; if she were there, it’d be best—he concurred with Doctor Xiao’s idea that it was better to apologize face-to-face.

If she was not there, he would continue to send paper cranes—if she dismissed one, he would send two, three, four, perhaps swaying her with his sincerity.

As for going to the girls’ dormitory corridor, Zheng Qing dismissed the idea, recalling the school management regulations and terrible campus rumours.

It was best to stick to the rules.

Those who thought this way, however, often ran into surprises.

Zheng Qing was no different.

As he folded his third paper crane in the dormitory, a crumb monkey with a trail of sparks darted into the male dormitory room 403 and exploded in the cramped space.

The flames and colourful fireworks formed an impressive, glowing statement:

”Lin Zhong Lake Pier, assemble within ten minutes!”

This was an emergency summon from the school patrol committee.

Whether full-time, part-time, or penalized patrol members, on receipt of the summons, all were required to quickly gather at the designated location.

Violators would face severe punishment.