High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 405: Chapter 74: News on the Newspaper_1

”After multiple consultations and discussions by various departments of the school, the opening ceremony of the school hunting party is set for Thursday afternoon next week.”

”The classes you missed will be rescheduled for Saturday morning.”

”The relevant schedules have been distributed to all offices, and everyone can execute everything according to the plan.”

Old Yao held the files in his hand and announced the most authoritative information about the school hunting party.

The classroom was in an uproar.

If it was merely taking up class time to hold the school hunting party, many people would undoubtedly raise their hands in approval. However, infringing on everyone’s rest time to ’pay’ for the ’encroachment’ beforehand, this measure was obviously somewhat infuriating.

”Professor, didn’t the student council say the time was set for Friday afternoon?”

”Professor, why can’t the opening ceremony be held on Saturday or Sunday?”

”Professor, can I ask for leave? I have an important experiment on Thursday afternoon...”

”Professor, I have a dentist appointment on Saturday morning...”

The class was in an uproar, with everyone throwing out various weird reasons. It seemed they intended to drown Old Yao with saliva.

However, Professor Yao had obviously foreseen this situation. He just watched the students eagerly raising their hands and yelling, without saying a word.

Zheng Qing shrugged, neither agreeing or disagreeing with this matter. His schedule on Thursday afternoon was a life class, which was an extremely relaxed general education class. It made no difference whether it was on Thursday or Saturday.

The only thing to worry about was the practical class on Friday afternoon. He didn’t know if anyone would be injured in class and thus miss the make-up plan on Saturday morning.

After a long time, the turbulent atmosphere in the class gradually calmed down.

”If you continue to maintain this restless state, we will have to reconsider our agreement from the first lesson.” Old Yao’s words immediately quieted the atmosphere in the class.

Zheng Qing had to think for a long time to remember that Professor Yao had promised to invite Su Shijun, the senator of the Moonfall Council, to meet everyone at the first lesson. The condition was that the Astronomy Class 08-1 needed to maintain good classroom order within a month.

Because no one had mentioned it for a long time, Zheng Qing had almost completely forgotten about this agreement.

However, under the professor’s reminder, many people immediately remembered it.

The impact of the number one beauty in the wizard world was indeed extraordinary, and in less than a minute, the atmosphere in the class was already much more moderate and orderly again.

Old Yao nodded in satisfaction and slowly explained, ”Due to the arrangement of some school work, the school is not quite suitable to hold the opening ceremony before Wednesday... According to the calculations of the Divination Research Institute, next Saturday is ’good for breaking houses and destroying fences, but all other things should not be taken’, while ’no good’ for next Sunday. Leaving a day of leeway before and after, the school finally set the date to next Thursday afternoon... it will be no more delays.”

”Correspondingly, for the practice class on Friday afternoon, the school has already notified all the teaching assistants that no excessively dangerous practice content will be arranged for everyone...”

...

On the podium, Old Yao was patiently and meticulously making all kinds of work arrangements.

Under the podium, in a corner of the class, the boys were bored and doing their things.

Zheng Qing was folding his paper cranes with many ideas, a green paper crane was to say goodnight to the Gypsy witches, a red paper crane was a reply to the club union, and a white one, was the application form submitted to the school labor committee—if he wanted to patrol with Poseidon on Saturday, he had to submit an application form every week.

Xiao Xiao was engrossed in her notebook. Except for eating and sleeping, she seemed to spend all her time in that notebook. Zheng Qing once curiously looked at it. Apart from the dense notes, there didn’t seem to be any special magic that quickly made him lose interest.

Zhang Ji Xin was sitting in the shadow of the curtain, quietly flipping through the newspaper.

Of course, not everyone lacked a sense of collective honor. Xin Fat Man and Duan Xiao Jian, along with other boys, sat up straight, listening seriously to the professor’s chatter on the podium, occasionally nodding thoughtfully, apparently acknowledging the spirit of Old Yao’s speech.

As to how much of their reactions were for the school hunting party, and how much were for Su Shijun, only heaven knows.

After folding all the paper cranes, Zheng Qing collected them into a grey cloth bag, planning to release them one by one after the class meeting. Then he raised his head, noticing the newspaper under Zhang Ji Xin’s hand.

”Give me a sheet.” He muttered quietly, poking the broad back of the red-faced boy with the handle of his brush.

Zhang Ji Xin frowned and sat up a little straighter.

Soon after, accompanied by a subtle swooshing sound, a piece of newspaper, rolled into the shape of a caterpillar, slowly made its way up the leg of the desk into the younger public fee student’s hand.

Zheng Qing looked up, carefully unfolded the ’caterpillar’ while keeping an eye on the commotion on stage.

It was an issue of the Beta Town Post.

The front-page headline was a piece of news unfamiliar to Zheng Qing: ”Elder of Bi Luo Star Stays at Alpha Castle, Reported to Supervise New Experiment at Alchemy Research Institute.”

In the adjacent picture, an amiable, rotund old man smiled and waved to the readers. Beside him stood several tall magicians with stern faces, cloaked in black robes.

If it weren’t for the eight mechanical arms flailing around behind this fat old man, Zheng Qing might have mistaken him for a canteen chef.

Skipping the front page, Zheng Qing skimmed through the other sections:

”Spokesperson for the Werewolf Elders’ Council confirms Rhein Wolf King’s visit to Thorn Ancient Castle next Wednesday...”

”Shu Mountain and the Vatican sign an agreement to provide an additional twenty-one Dakyan Sword Arrays within the year...”

”Return of the Zen Sect’s great spirit, fragrance spreading a hundred miles, energy overwhelming the bull...”

”Abe Family accuses Kunlun of restricting the export of advanced talismans, in violation of international trade law...”

”Sam’s Pass cuts interest rates for the third time this year, international medicinal materials prices soar for the ninth consecutive day...”

”Dust settles on double-reverse final ruling, Anyi could be the biggest winner...”

”Effects of white-collar activities becoming increasingly severe, Great Wizard Council passes the new reservation land bill...”

”Witch Bailing’s Kolkata concert receives Ganges Water baptism...”

”Chinese Blood Family publishes a book detailing a 300-year history of hardships...”

”Rental spots in Four Seasons Pavilion available, for details please consult Flying Crane...”

The rest were all advertisements. After a quick glance, most of the content seemed incomprehensibly distant from this university, as though the news felt like stories from a novel, creating a palpable sense of disconnection.

The young publicly-funded student decided not to continue and turned back to the front page, to the news related to his university.

”This Wednesday, a large delegation led by the third elder, eleventh elder, eighteenth elder, and twenty-third elder of Bi Luo Star arrived in London and were warmly welcomed by the Under the Moon Parliament... An extensive and profound exchange took place on the issue of technology transfer of 1,352 types of Alchemy products traded between Bi Luo Star and the Wizard Alliance...”

”Later in the day, the eleventh and twenty-third elders of Bi Luo Star visited the Rhine Werewolf King’s tent and the Thorn Ancient... The eighteenth elder of Bi Luo Star was invited to visit the Dark Blue Castle on local time October 11, and made a keynote speech entitled ’The Growing Friendship between Bi Luo and Other Nations’ (turn to page three)...”

”In Bi Luo Star, famous for its alchemical magic, there are currently twenty-seven elders (their ranks equivalent to the Great Wizards of the Wizard Alliance) who are the culmination of Bi Luo Star’s alchemy... The third elder visiting this time is particularly good at designing and constructing large alchemical products... According to the schedule, the third elder of Bi Luo Star will visit the First University next Wednesday, and will participate in the inaugural ceremony of the school hunting party (turn to page five)...”

”Critics believe that after the attack on the school’s charter plane by the demon Nikita, the First University will not tolerate such serious incidents... Some great wizards believe that the exchange between Alpha College and Alchemy Research Institute and the third elder may effectively improve the security of the First University’s charter planes (turn to page seven)...”

”Affected by this news, the Alchemy-related concept stocks all rose sharply at the close of the Four Seasons Pavilion stock market on the 10th... Martin Tuo Alchemy Company’s stock price has hit the upper limit for the third time (turn to the ninth page)... Witch Union Moonfall Airline Company also gets out of its bearish trend for nearly a month, and may attract institutional buying in the short term..”

”At present, the First University has not made any responses to the above information...”