High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 576: Chapter 245: Speculation_1

The thunderous sound only lasted a short time before it fell silent.

Only the dazzling red light lingered in the half-sky for a long time, unwilling to leave.

The Absolution hunting team quickly climbed a nearby hill, looking into the distance. Through the tall walls of the academy, the dark Silent Forest, as if it had just been awakened, many usually quiet trees raised their long branches, waving vines, whipping the empty sky; the nocturnal birds, flapping their wings, also flocked into the sky, chirping in unison.

Although it looked a little chaotic, Zheng Qing could judge that the place where the red light occurred was not far from the academy.

”Camp explosion.” Interestingly, Blue Bird was the first to voice his opinion.

Camp explosions, also known as ”Camp Howlings,” refers to the hysterical symptoms of a group in a closed environment due to certain causes. This is not a particularly apt analogy, but it seems quite appropriate for the current situation in the Silent Forest—although Blue Bird’s words were very simple, everyone had already gotten used to his way of speaking and easily understood his meaning.

”Is that the point? That’s not the point!” Xin Fat Man swallowed the last mouthful of popcorn with difficulty, turned around, raised his arm high, pointed to the double-headed Minotaur following behind the crowd, and said loudly, ”It is the point! Don’t you think it’s a big problem that it causes such a big accident with one stick?”

The Minotaur was stunned for a moment, its two heads shaking like a rattle drum, the four horns struck against each other, making a clear, crisp sound.

”You don’t really believe that the earthquake and explosion just now were caused by its nasal ring and earrings, do you?” Zheng Qing rolled his eyes and glanced obliquely at the fat man, ”If that’s the case, I need to reconsider your position in the team... The auxiliary hunter of Absolution cannot be an idiot.”

”Is it not?” The expression on Xin Fat Man’s face paused.

”If it’s really that powerful—can casually induce a volcanic eruption feeling on Buji Island—would the Wizard Alliance award it to me as a reward for the Copper Merlin Medal? Even if it’s the Great Merlin Medal, they probably wouldn’t impose such a powerful creature, right?” Zheng Qing panted, his eyebrows about to rise to the middle of his hair, ”Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid?”

”Moo! Moo Moo!” The double-headed Minotaur nodded quickly, strongly agreeing with the budget student’s statement.

”He’s just a bit slow.” Zhang Ji Xin interrupted at the right time, glanced at the fat man, and said so.

”You’re the one who’s slow! You’re slow from head to toe!” The fat man immediately turned his eyes and retorted, ”I was just joking... haha... Who doesn’t know that the sound just now was a volcanic eruption?!”

Zheng Qing was completely speechless.

”That wasn’t a volcanic eruption... He was just using it as a metaphor.” Xiao Xiao finally couldn’t help but sigh and said, ”Before figuring out the situation, keeping silent is the smartest thing... But I think, judging by the noise and the light just now, it’s very likely that one of the school’s labs exploded.”

”And it’s a lab that’s not far away.” Zhang Ji Xin immediately added.

”Bingo! That’s exactly what I thought!” The fat man immediately snapped his fingers in agreement.

His chubby face showed no signs of embarrassment—Zheng Qing suspected very much that it was his thick fat blocking the flush from showing, of course, it could also be because the sky was dark and he couldn’t see clearly.

Upon noticing the subtle gazes around him, the fat man could not pretend not to see, ”I was really joking just now, haha... It seems that tonight’s training plan is likely to be upset. If there’s nothing else, I’m going to find out what happened. Maybe tomorrow morning we can issue an extra paper.”

As he spoke, he stuffed the leftover popcorn back into his watch, laughed loudly, and ran off the hill.

The main hunter of Absolution looked at his back melancholically, but didn’t try to stop him.

Indeed, according to the relevant regulations of the First University, if such an accident occurs in the school, the first task is to enact a night ban—Professors and school workers will drive everyone into the dormitory, and unless it is determined to be completely safe, or special duties such as patrols and investigations are required, no one shall appear on campus after eight o’clock at night.

”Old Yao must be upset by now... Let’s take a moment of silence for him.” Zheng Qing looked at the receding red color in the air and said sincerely.

From the start of the term to now, the grand academy seemed to never be at peace.

If it’s not a kitten being murdered into the second degree at the Lakeside of Bell Lake, it’s because of an early tide of silence causing a small group of Sand Hours to creep into the academy and cause a ruckus. Finally the month of Moon Hunting arrives and just when we thought we could celebrate for a few days, this weekend two academies were involved in a violent fight in the Hunting Ground, and this week a lab exploded—although the lab is not within the academy, Zheng Qing could completely imagine the expression and tone of Professor Yao’s rage.

”If he hadn’t set that flag, maybe something like this wouldn’t have happened.” Xiao Xiao shrugged, concluding in a heartily pessimistic tone of idealism, ”In that case, the dance tonight should be able to last until it’s over... I guess.”

Zheng Qing smacked his lips, expressing doubt about the doctor’s opinion.

The flag the doctor mentioned was the words ’Don’t cause trouble again, or the college will limit all your extracurricular activities’ said by Old Yao after reprimanding everyone in the Curse class on Monday.

”Strictly speaking, we can’t shoulder this blame.” The main hunter of Absolution is obviously very concerned about this point: ”So he has no reason to ban our other extracurricular activities.”

”The problem is that Old Yao is the final decision-maker of the First University this month.” Xiao Xiao looked around and lowered his voice, ”I heard Professor Zhang from the library say that the principal of the school and the other deans all went out on special duties... Right now the biggest head in the school is Old Yao. What do you say, with all these problems, can he keep calm?”

”No wonder last week’s incident was so easily suppressed.” Zheng Qing suddenly realized, then raised his eyebrows, ”The Professor Zhang from the library? The octopus?”

”Polite!” Xiao Xiao glanced at him and emphasized.

”Even if he’s angry, this matter has nothing to do with us, right?” Zhang Ji Xin obviously didn’t think so, ”Old Yao has to be reasonable... He can’t just arbitrarily vent his anger on us because of other accidents.”

”Venting anger is inherently unreasonable.” Lin Guo, who had been silent for a long time, said softly.

He still retained a bit of a shadow about the double-headed Minotaur next to him, so he had been very quiet throughout this time.

Zheng Qing listened to the chitchat of his companions, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose into a smile.

Even though it’s chaotic outside, as long as your own crew is happy, that’s what matters.

As the saying goes, ”Everyone should sweep the snow in front of their own doors, without worrying about the frost on others’ roofs.”

He rubbed his Merlin Medal, and with a flick of his hand put away the double-headed Minotaur that had been squatting beside him, already bored and dozing off.

A clear light flashed, the body of the Minotaur just disappeared on the medal, and immediately a severe dizziness rushed over, filling the young budget student’s brain.

He groaned, and dropped to his knees.