High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 580: Chapter 249 Master Baoyangzi _1

”How does it look?” Dean Yao asked quietly.

”It’s as you thought,” a white-haired wizard answered quietly, ”But it’s not as bad as you imagined.”

”Is not that bad? If my feeling is correct, it’s collapsing, isn’t it... I remember very clearly the paper Old Chen published years ago proving that collapsing is also a kind of convergence.”

”That’s why, your philosophy of magic has always been stronger than mine—you can stay at school to continue teaching—but you’re worse than me in practice.” The old wizard smiled and continued, ”The solution to the wave equation is a wave function, but the wave function itself is a combination of countless transformations. Your feeling is essentially a kind of observation, with uniqueness, the so-called existence, it’s the only...from the philosophical perspective, your understanding isn’t wrong, it might indeed be in a state of collapse.”

”Do you mean that the collapse is due to my feelings, hence the resulting consequences?”

”Precisely. It seems troubles are born out of your undue concern.”

”Oh!” Professor Yao sighed deeply and shoved the pipe in his mouth: ”In that case, it looks like I might be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Damn it, the troubles of the past month are even worse than the whole of last year.”

”Despite that, I don’t think you should let your guard down.” The wizard standing beside Professor Yao, who had the look of youth despite his white hair, said in a low voice.

Although his hair and long beard were white, the old wizard’s face was extraordinarily ruddy, and he was very agile.

He leaned on his cane, took two steps at a time, arrived next to the Four Symbols Barrier, and poked it with his cane, creating a person-sized hole. Then, bent down and went straight in.

”Hey, hey? You can’t...” The middle-aged, grey-robed janitor saw someone approaching the barrier, and just as he was about to stop them, he witnessed the old wizard breaking the barrier, immediately crying out as if his tail had been stepped on. ”How did it just break?”

He was asking himself as well as others.

Seeing the astonished look of the middle-aged janitor, Dean Yao kindly reassured him: ”Don’t worry, don’t worry... Master Baoyangzi is a senior consultant at the school. He has enough experience and ability to tackle the situation inside.”

As he spoke, not waiting for the janitor to respond, Dean Yao turned to look at several other wizards who had appeared with him:

”Xiao An, continue communicating with the office monitoring the protection formation, and report the most recent monitoring results at any time. Also, let me know as soon as the investigation team’s analysis report is released... If manpower is insufficient, send a message to the duty officer of the professors’ joint meeting so that they can assign a few researchers from the institute to help.”

”Yes.” A plump wizard nodded slightly and vanished on the spot.

”Professor Charles, you replace me in charge of the periphery arrangements.” Dean Yao continued to instruct, ”I glanced through, earlier work was very well done. It can be continued as per the janitorial committee’s disposure proposal...”

Charles O’Brien, the vice principal of Alpha Academy, was a tall, silver-haired wizard.

As a senior registered wizard, or more precisely, a ’qualified’ grand wizard, he had not, unlike other academy principals and vice-principals, been urgently drafted for ’public duties,’ but had stayed on campus as the deputy of Professor Yao, assuming the day-to-day affairs of the Joint Professor’s Meeting.

Upon hearing Dean Yao’s instructions, the elder of the O’Brien family, nodded with dignity. He touched the protein stone ring on his finger and gave a glance to the janitors beside him.

As a direct subordinate of Vice Principal Shi Hui, he had always been at odds with the janitors under Vice Principal Ruoyu.

Of course, in such special circumstances as today, as a wizard of noble birth and esteemed status from a distinguished clan, he had enough wisdom to deal with those in grey robes—as long as they knew their place.

” ...and these two, they are with Master Baoyangzi,” Here, Dean Yao paused to take the pipe from his mouth, pointing at empty air, ”They have their own tasks, let them work on their own.”

The two unknown wizards who were pointed out had their faces hidden under hoods. Upon hearing Dean Yao’s instructions, they only nodded slightly without saying anything.

Professor Charles glanced at the two silent strangers without making a sound.

He was not like the naive young people who were curious about everything. As an elder who had weathered numerous storms, he detected a whiff of danger from these unknown wizards.

Rich experience told him, the less he knew, the safer he was, and the less interaction he had with these people, the safer he was.

”Alright, Dean Yao.” Professor Charles responded softly.

”Zhang Yu, Thomas, you two come with me.” Dean Yao turned to look at the assistants not far away.

The two assistants stepped forward in response, silently following Dean Yao. Following the hole that the wizard up front had made, they went into the accident scene.

Behind them, Professor Charles and the Janitorial Committee continued to organize the accident handling scene efficiently and orderly.

However, the grey-robed man who had previously ordered the barrier construction was still preoccupied with what happened earlier.

”How did it just break?” As the middle-aged janitor was arranging the follow-up tasks, he still kept murmuring, appearing extremely confused. ”Isn’t the Four Symbols Barrier the strongest barrier that only a forbidden curse can break? How did it just break?”

...

Leaving the still puzzled janitor outside the barrier...

At the accident scene, when Zhang Yu and Thomas entered the barrier following Professor Yao, what’s appeared before the trio was the building that was slowly melting.

At this moment, the surrounding red light had just twisted the building into a chimera, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. It spit flames from its mouth that flickered against the outer layer of red light, revealing unexpected harmony through the distortion.

”It’s a bit late, but still just in time.” The wizard who arrived first had his back towards them, his voice extraordinarily loud. ”Dean Yao, help me set up the array, I’ll go in and see... If the issue can be solved without destroying this spell, that’s the best outcome.”

”Hmph, no one is vying with you for this.” Dean Yao snorted, waving his pipe, his tone exuding annoyance. ”Provided the little fox inside doesn’t cause trouble... And those precious researchers.”

”I can guarantee that...” The elder wizard stepped into the red light amidst the echo of his voice and disappeared.

When he reappeared, he was in front of the fox holding the light orb.

The black-robed researchers around seemed to have seen something incredible, each of them looking more excited, pointing at the old man and loudly exclaiming something.

However, outside the red light, the two assistants could not hear the slightest sound at all.

This kind of deaf waiting was extremely tough.