High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 577: Chapter 246 Doctor’s Inference_1

”Hmm,”

Zheng Qing grunted and his legs went soft, and he was about to fall to the ground.

The Blue Bird standing behind him quickly reached out and grabbed his cloak, and soon Zhang Ji Xin and Xiao Xiao also reacted and assisted him.

”Magic power overdrawn? Mental exhaustion? Physical exhaustion?” The head Hunter of Absolution took out a row of different colored ampoule bottles from his pocket, examining them in the light. While he selected one, he asked Zheng Qing, ”Thankfully, Fatty gave me these potions this afternoon, otherwise we would have to take you to the school hospital right now.”

”No need for the hospital.” The young scholarship student shook his head vigorously, dazedly adding: ”Just a bit dizzy and a slight headache...”

”Is it a recurrence of your chronic headache?!” Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses and lowered his head to flip open a notebook, checking the recent timetable of the hunting team, and couldn’t help but frown, ”This won’t do, the competition is tomorrow... I remember you took an extra dose of transformation potion from Professor Li a few days ago, do you want to use it now?”

”No, it’s not a headache.” Zheng Qing scratched his scalp, blinking hard to stay awake, ”This feeling is a bit strange... it’s completely different from the headaches I had before.”

It was like the feeling of dizziness and headache after a long time of studying, which made his thinking seem to be in chaos - or to put it more clearly, it was like a computer crash.

”Is there a difference between headaches?” Zhang Ji Xin twisted his neck in confusion. In his heart, all pain was the same concept, which made it hard for him to understand the subtle differences described by Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing didn’t respond, but sat with his head raised, gazing into the distance with vacant eyes.

Just a moment ago, countless fragmented images flooded into his mind. Many familiar scenes from novels, comic books, movies, and even games that he remembered clearly surfaced - Zheng Qing had never realized that he had seen so much!

Although the plots were somewhat similar, the character images and actions were very detailed and realistic.

”What is all this?!” He pursed his brows, trying to capture the fleeting images in his head and pondered: ”Drawing tyrants’ plasma in Raccoon Town, grinding the spirits’ bones in the Caribbean, capturing CP9 from One Piece for comparative analysis of biological form changes, snatching the giant mushroom potion from Super Mario... What do these things have to do with me? Virtual Reality? Illusory World? Dreams?”

”It feels like my thinking has collapsed.” The young scholarship student finally raised his head, making a peculiarly ugly smirk, ”I think I’d better go to the school hospital honestly... I don’t know if it’s because of the summoning spell I just used, now my mind is in chaos, my memories are in disorder, everything is a mess.”

The rest of Absolution, who had been worriedly watching Zheng Qing all this time, finally breathed a sigh of relief when he clearly stated his condition.

”You scared me,” Zhang Ji Xin sighed as he rubbed his fists, ”Just now your eyes were glazed over, and you were humming and hawing. I thought you were having an epileptic seizure and I was about to slap you.”

”It’s good that you’re okay, it’s good that you’re okay.” Lin Guo waved his hand like a little adult, ordering, ”Let’s go to the school hospital now... Luckily, Blue Bird is here. He’s familiar with the people at the hospital from Starry Sky Academy, he can arrange a bed for us.”

Zheng Qing looked at the ’facepalm’ expression on Blue Bird and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

”No need to go to the school hospital.” Xiao Xiao, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, interrupting the discussion.

He raised his head, gave Zheng Qing a strange look, then lowered it again. After doing this several times, he finally said affirmatively, ”No need to go to the school hospital... Maybe I know the reason for the chaotic memories in your head. Or perhaps, I know where the accident happened tonight.”

In an instant, the hilltop fell silent.

All eyes focused on the professor.

”Your shadow has returned.” Xiao Xiao did not beat around the bush, but reached out and pointed directly at Zheng Qing’s feet.

The young scholarship student lowered his head and slowly raised his eyebrows.

The shadow that had been stolen by Su Shijun in the Dimensional Evolution Laboratory a few days ago was now calmly lying under his feet, as if it had never disappeared.

As if sensing the scholarship student’s gaze, the shadow swiftly wiggled its ’butt’, almost like it was celebrating.

Zheng Qing was startled and immediately raised his head to look around.

Everyone was discussing Xiao Xiao’s speculation, and nobody seemed to notice this detail.

Zheng Qing sighed quietly.

He looked up at the moon hanging in the sky, then back at his shadow which had returned to a state of stillness, and started laughing bitterly.

Perhaps it’s my eyes playing tricks on me, he consoled himself.

Even if there was a problem, it would have to wait until after the New Hunters’ Competition. The New Hunters’ Competition is tomorrow, and Zheng Qing would not allow the Absolution Hunting Team to waste their hard work due to his own problems.

”Xin ran fast.” Blue Bird suddenly blurted out this sentence.

It took everyone a moment to realize that he was teasing the ’Fatty’ for running too fast and thus missing out on tonight’s big news. But since Blue Bird was usually serious and unsmiling, people didn’t know how to continue the conversation when they heard him joking.

The atmosphere dew down for a moment.

Until the young wizard brought the conversation back on track.

”It seems a lot more substantial.” Lin Guo pinched his chin, squatted on the ground, poking at Zheng Qing’s shadow, and said as if in deep thought.

”That’s because the moon is at its zenith... and light travels in straight lines.” Xiao Xiao rolled his eyes, shaking his head in explanation.

”You mean, the laboratory that blew up tonight was Su Daxu’s Dimensional Evolution Laboratory?” Zhang Ji Xin rubbed his scalp with the realization finally dawning on him - but he still looked incredulous, ”If I remember correctly, there were at least hundreds of registered wizard-level senior researchers in there, and also a newly promoted Great Wizard! This can’t be real!”

”The Academy had a protection array comprising tens of thousands of magic circles, as well as thousands of registered wizards... Yet it was still invaded and thrown into chaos by a bunch of bugs, wasn’t it?” With the memory of the recent Sand Hour bug incident on his mind, Zheng Qing couldn’t help but retort.

While Xiao Xiao, holding his notebook, turned around to look again in the direction where the red light had just risen, and said something rather obscure, ”There are no good experiments in labs that can’t explode.”

This idea wasn’t exactly harmonious.

Even if it did make sense.

”The Dimensional Evolution experiment is indeed a good one.” Zheng Qing nodded reluctantly, summarizing, ”So you mean, because that lab exploded, the shadow of mine that was trapped in those two-dimensional worlds escaped... and stuffed all its experiences in those two-dimensional worlds into my brain?”

”That is a very valuable asset.” Xiao Xiao turned back and looked at the confused scholarship student, sighing regretfully, ”It’s a bit wasted to give it to you.”