High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 704: Chapter 52 Analysis by Old Yao_1

The Fizzell Magic Pharmacy Company is the largest potion manufacturer in the wizard world.

In many respects, the potions produced by this company naturally bear the ’qualified’ seal. Therefore, when Zheng Qing submitted the potion instruction manual and other materials to Old Yao, he emphasized this point, implying that the potions he used were safe and there was no need to consider factors in this regard.

Old Yao slightly raised his eyebrows and gave a noncommittal nod, but did not immediately comment on the safety of the potion used by Zheng Qing.

”The specific results need to be verified in the lab and reported before they can be determined.” Professor Yao took the materials and glanced at them with drooping eyelids, casually placed the materials aside, and raised his head again to look at Zheng Qing, ”However, since it’s something from Fizzell, there is a high probability that the problem is not with the potion... Of course, it doesn’t rule out the possibility that the potion really lost its effectiveness and abnormalities occurred.”

This remark takes into account all possibilities, prompting the young state-funded student to nod continuously.

But the professor’s next sentence left him startled.

”Do you still have the ampoule bottles you used before? I’ll take them to Old Li’s lab and try to extract the residue inside to see if there’s any discovery.” Old Yao asked casually, ”Including other transformation potions... According to Fizzell’s tradition, they wouldn’t sell these potions by the piece. How many do you have? Bring them all for checking.”

Zheng Qing touched his grey cloth bag and immediately let out a wail in his heart.

He originally thought that after Old Yao found out he used foreign potions, he would be reprimanded and deducted a few credit points at most. He didn’t expect that the professor actually had the idea of confiscating these potions - these weren’t just one or two gold beans, but handfuls of jade coins!

”The other, other potions are, are in the dormitory.” Zheng Qing stammered a lie, his cheeks flushing.

He wasn’t good at lying.

Clearly, the professor also noticed this and laughed helplessly.

”Then give them to me when you find them.” Old Yao shot a subtle glance at the grey cloth bag tightly held in Zheng Qing’s hand, watched him with a half-smiling expression, and said: ”The school won’t embezzle these little things from you ... this’ll be separated from the punishment you will receive for violating school rules. Each to its own.”

The young state-funded student, hearing these words, felt heat rushing to his head.

Fortunately, Old Yao didn’t dwell on his embarrassment, instead, he changed the subject back to Zheng Qing’s ’abnormal transmutation’ , ”...As for your condition after the transmutation this time, I might have some ideas.”

Zheng Qing suddenly looked up, surprised at Old Yao.

Although he knew that consulting the professor would most likely provide satisfactory answers, it was still a matter of probability after all. And, according to Xiao Xiao’s previous speculation, perhaps the professors would need to conduct a detailed investigation before giving a definitive answer.

Unlike now, Zheng Qing had just raised the question, and Old Yao said that he already had an idea—a conclusion that came too quickly, making the young wizard feel for a moment that the professor might just be perfunctory.

”You just said that after your transformation, you were still a black cat, but you could shrink or grow, and you could talk, right?” Old Yao, puffing on his pipe, let out two weak puffs of white smoke repeating Zheng Qing’s previous description, and then paused, hinting, ”A big black cat, that can talk... didn’t anything come to your mind?”

Zheng Qing looked at the two streams of smoke gushing out from the professor’s nostrils, slowly wafting back like two long whiskers, reminiscent of a carp spirit emerging from the water, so he didn’t react to Old Yao’s question immediately.

Until the professor reminded him for the second time, the young state-funded student came back to his senses, paused, and immediately responded, ”The big black cat I encountered in the freshman competition?”

”To be precise, the big black cat that ran out of you.” Old Yao nodded and then shook his head, adding, ”Or, you should know that the black cat is in some way or another related to the certain shadow that escaped from you.”

”What does this have to do with my transformation spell?” Zheng Qing’s head was a mess, and for a moment he felt that he couldn’t make sense of the logic, ”You mean, because of the influence of that black cat, every black cat I turn into in the future can go bigger or smaller, and can also talk? This is illogical! I mean, this doesn’t comply with the rules of ’Mendel’s Paradox’!”

”Rules? Whose rules?” Old Yao, instead of being angry at the young wizard’s slightly disrespectful question, asked back with interest following Zheng Qing’s line of thought.

Zheng Qing was stunned and immediately answered, ”Of course, the objective rules that reflect the development and evolution of magic under certain conditions as proven by practice and facts... If it is a decree, a law, it means that it belongs to the unchangeable truth!”

”Truth.” Old Yao chewed on this word, and it was a long while before he mused, ”In this world, there are no eternal rules, nor are there unchangeable truths... Like you said, so-called laws need to be true ’under certain conditions.’”

”Wasn’t I ’under certain conditions’ the last time I transformed?” Zheng Qing was a little lost, he felt that whether it was using potions or other aspects, he strictly followed the instructions from the professors, and there should not be anything illegal.

”Indeed so,” Old Yao nodded his head: ”But this just proves that ’the law has been broken’, not neglecting the correctness of the law.”

This logic was a bit complex, and Zheng Qing wrinkled his brows, thought for a long time, but he still didn’t quite understand.

”Can laws also be broken?” He finally chose a doubt that he could vaguely understand to ask again.

”Of course they can!” Old Yao let out a hearty laugh, which made the smoke barrier around him tremble, while he squinted his eyes in laughter, almost becoming a slit: ”The world can be destroyed, so what laws can’t be broken?”

Very good, very powerful.

This explanation almost has a rogue air, ready to toss the table at any disagreement.

The young state-funded student was muttering to himself and asked cautiously: ”So what do you think, what’s the reason for my case?”

”Nothing else, the Forbidden curse ear.” Old Yao casually gave the young wizard a terrifying answer, but still explained it in a nonchalant tone: ”As far as I know, the most effective method to change the law in the wizard world at present is Forbidden Curse.”

”And your shadow, perhaps, once contacted the Forbidden curse in some dimension.”

”As the deepest and most mysterious magic in the wizard world, the Forbidden curse has a more profound influence than meme... If your shadow has encountered such an existence, then you being infected by your shadow and possessing a bit ’characteristics of the forbidden curse’ could be considered as not so incomprehensible.”