High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 526: Chapter 195 Truant Publicly Funded Student_1

Zheng Qing couldn’t quite remember when he left the Bifrost Evolution Lab.

He vaguely remembered Su Shijun talking a lot about early childhood education afterward and introducing him to a few of her maids, especially the one who had taken him to the lab.

”...In the future, I’ll have Su Man staying at the Beta Town Greenhill Mansion frequently. If there’s anything, you can go to her for advice.” Before leaving, Su Shijun pointed at the maid and said to Zheng Qing: ”After all, I’m still a senior councillor of the Under the Moon Council, so I can’t always stay in this lab.”

Zheng Qing has also forgotten his response.

He felt like he was in a dream, a dream that was absurd but very real.

He said goodbye to Su Shijun as if he was sleepwalking, left the gigantic lab as if he was sleepwalking, and wandered around the campus in a daze, all afternoon.

The afternoon sun was still brilliant.

Perhaps the dizziness was intensified due to losing his shadow’s protection, or he was worried about being discovered by his suspicious classmates, or just simply because Zheng Qing felt like he was dreaming.

Anyway, throughout the afternoon, the young public-funded student was shaking around the campus, and he didn’t even attend the Tuesday afternoon astronomy class.

He wasn’t found until the moon rose and the stars were densely scattered by the members of the Absolution hunting team, with Poseidon’s help, in a grove by the side of Bell Lake - by then, he was fast asleep, leaning against a thick ginkgo tree.

”Wake up! Why are you sleeping here?!” Xin Fat Man tugging at Zheng Qing’s robe, yanking him awake while shouting, ”Why didn’t you attend the astronomy class this afternoon? Or rather, you didn’t show up?! Do you know what Lady Emma looks like when she finds out someone is skipping class?... I bet you’re the only man in the whole First University who dares to skip Lady Emma’s class!”

”It’s ’male student’.” Xiao Xiao corrected from the side, adding, ”In addition to Lady Emma, he also stood up Professor Yi... When he left early this morning everyone heard the professor saying he wanted you to come to his office for a make-up class after this afternoon. It looks like he didn’t go.”

With constant nagging from people around his ears, Zheng Qing finally opened his eyes groggily.

”What are you doing, not even allowing people to sleep.” The cost student muttered, taking out a tree elf curled up in his chest from his arms, hanging it on a nearby tree branch, then stretching lazily and letting out a big yawn.

”Why are you all making a fuss while not sleeping at this late hour.” He looked around at the few figures around him with half-closed eyes.

Thanks to the dim moonlight, the young cost student quickly recognized who these figures were.

Xiao Xiao, Xin, Zhang Ji Xin, Dylan, Blue Bird, and Lin Guo - it seemed that, except for the absent Monk Shi Yuan, all the members of the Absolution Knight Group were here.

After hearing the cost student’s inexplicable question, the young wizards around him looked at each other with a hint of subtlety in their eyes.

”Do you reckon he got dazzled by Su Daxu? Why do I feel like there’s...” Xin Fat Man poked his own head and asked Xiao Xiao in a low voice, ”...something wrong with him.”

”I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that he was bitten by a bug in the forest and became delirious.” Xiao Xiao, holding her notebook, said very seriously.

”Right, very likely... Didn’t your academy have an infestation of Sand Hour bugs not too long ago?” Dylan was nodding her head from the side, ”We even fumigated the place on our magic cube side. The school did say that the Silent Tide returned earlier this year than previous years, so it’s inevitable that some strange bugs would sneak in.”

Perhaps it was because of the moonlight, or maybe it was due to jet lag, Mr. Wolfman seemed very spirited now.

There even seemed to be a bit of color on his face.

On the contrary, the gradually waking cost student had a rather pale face, as if it was smeared with a layer of silver powder.

The words ’Su Daxu’ from Xin Fat Man acted like a key and opened the floodgate of his memory.

The maid, institute, parrot, huge lab, stolen shadow, narrow office, Poseidon enclosed in a glass cabinet, the serious-faced witch... and the inexplicable identity.

Everything he had experienced at noon seemed to be reopening like image flowers in front of him, with all the scenarios flashing by.

As this happened, the fingers tucked inside his chest touched a long piece of paper.

Zheng Qing hesitated for a few seconds and fished out the piece of paper.

It was clear that this piece of paper seemed to have been read many times, with its surfaces all crumpled up and even curled up at the ends.

Unfolding the paper, it had one small line of text written in elegantly flowery script.

In the faint moonlight, Zheng Qing made clear what the line read: s

”54 Manor, West Beta Town.”

”Snap!” He clenched his fist tightly, gripping that piece of paper deep in his palm, his face turned even paler.

He remembered now, this was the address of the Greenhill Mansion, and it was also where Su Shijun had arranged for him to go once a week. Of course, he needed to bring Poseidon along.

”What happened?” Xiao Xiao noticed the cost student’s uneasiness and immediately asked.

Zheng Qing opened his mouth but didn’t say a word.

He felt his throat was slightly dry.

He had absolutely no intention of letting anyone else in on what happened at the institute.

Even if not considering a certain someone who might get angry, or the surging and unruly public opinion in the newspaper, even just the personal risk of disclosing this relationship was enough to make one’s hair stand on end.

Zheng Qing clearly remembered that as soon as Su Shijun mentioned she had a child at the meeting, Li Meng, the cruel little girl, instantly thought of so many ways to persecute one person - he absolutely didn’t want these tortures happen to him.

”What did you say about the astronomy class you were just talking about?” He tried to squeeze out a fragment of his usual smile, looked at Xiao Xiao, and asked loudly, ”I skipped class? Gosh... I guess I must have slept through it in the afternoon!”

”What did you do this afternoon?” Xin Fat Man crossed his arms and scrutinized him with his eyes.

”What else could I be doing!” Zheng Qing dodged his gaze somewhat flusteredly, looking around saying vaguely, ”Just looking around to see where the feng shui is good...”

”Choosing a feng shui treasure land for yourself in advance?” Xiao Xiao sharply cut off his sentence.

”Indeed, that was the idea.” Zheng Qing looked at her earnestly - at least on this point, he hadn’t lied.

This reply stunned everyone around him.

”We couldn’t find you all day today, everyone was very worried... The institute said you went home at noon.” Lin Guo timidly broke the silence: ”But even until the evening, there was no sign of you...”

”So, we came out to see if you really got dragged into Bell Lake by a fishman.” Zhang Ji Xin patted Zheng Qing’s shoulder, laughed and added, ”Of course, we also used it as an opportunity to practice our hunting squad’s formation... We can’t always just do our strategizing on paper.”