High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 739: Chapter 87 Failed Communication_1

The night granted it a coat of black, making it impossible for me to find it.

Jiang Xiaomao crouched on a wooden bench in the Lakefront Corridor, gazing sorrowfully into the ink-dark night and darkly muttering a phrase from a poem she had revised herself.

However, she was currently a cat and even if she was feeling poetic, she wouldn’t really recite it out loud - a cat’s meow in the middle of the night could easily attract some unclean things that like darkness, especially in a gathering place of wizards.

As a legitimate member of the Zhongshan Jiang family, she understood this common knowledge.

Though she couldn’t meow, it didn’t impede her from raising her ears to catch every different sound in the night. Compared to the summer, the campus in winter was much quieter—the light splashing sounds from the water must be two fishmen play fighting at the bottom of the lake; the melodious and low wailing from the forest must be the symphony of the night wind and tree branches; the crisp footsteps and whispering in the distant corridor must be the staff responsible for night patrol from the maintenance committee.

Speaking of the voices of the patrol staff, the little white cat shivered slightly in her ears and there was a hint of something strange in her eyes. The proverb was indeed right,”Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives”, not long ago she was thinking of someone in her heart and in a blink of an eye, she heard his voice.

She didn’t know why, though delighted, she still felt irritated for some unknown reason.

Regardless of her feelings, if she had the help of two wizards, maybe she could find the large black cat quickly.

The little cat tilted her head, peeking over the pillars down the deep corridor.

Suddenly, two familiar figures slowly emerged in her vision: the young scholarship student walking in front with a wooden stick, and the prodigy Alpha riding a black ram behind him.

Seeing Lin Guo, who was wrapped in a fine-flannel cape, Jiang Xiaomao squinted her eyes, a hint of amusing mockery appearing on her face. She vaguely remembered this Alpha prodigy once fainted out of fright during a night patrol due to a kappa monster. He was really a laughing stock to Li Meng for a long time.

I wonder if he will be scared by a little cat.

At that thought, the little white cat immediately stood up lightly, twisted her waist, and disappeared silently into the pitch-black night.

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...

”...I say, captain, did you somehow commit a crime this morning and now someone has come to block your way?”

”But I only remember you had a well-behaved puppet cat next to you.”

”Was there also a little white cat? I don’t remember at all...”

Lin Guo squatted in front of the little white cat, hugging his knees with one hand, and pinching his chin with the other, staring at the motionless little white cat and saying with a contemplative voice to Zheng Qing, ”Anyway, this must be related to you... Otherwise, why would a little cat stand in front of us in the middle of the night? With that kind of look...”

What kind of look?!

The young scholarship student felt a vein throbbing on his forehead—he didn’t know why a silly little cat wasn’t staying comfy in the house, but instead chose to block his way in the freezing cold. He only understood how to turn into a cat with transformation potions, he wasn’t an actual cat, how could he understand the complex psychological activities of a real cat?

Although Lin Guo spoke vaguely, it wasn’t hard to understand his meaning. He thought Zheng Qing acted unruly when pretending to be the Cat King in the morning, so he ended up being chased down by the little white cat at night.

After taking a few deep breaths and letting them out slowly, Zheng Qing tried to calm down his frustration invoked by the little wizard, gritted his teeth, and said through clenched teeth: ”I don’t have a little white cat!”

Not only did he not have a little white cat, but he didn’t even know this little white cat!

As for why the cat is blocking the road, who knows why—if it’s widely known that cats are creatures with various mental disorders such as schizophrenia, delusions, mania, etc., it is probable that a cat may do something incomprehensible when these disorders all erupt at once.

”Maybe it is interested in your Colt Python.” After his gaze alternated between the scholarship student and the little white cat several times, Lin Guo finally found a clue from the little cat’s gaze. ”Where did you get that Charm Gun?”

Charm Gun?! Zheng Qing touched the magic weapon hanging at his waist and unknowingly raised his eyebrows.

”This is a gift from a friend!” The young scholarship student replied stubbornly, quickly stashing the charm gun back into the grey cloth bag, effectively curbing any further ideas from Lin Guo with his actions.

”What a pity...” Sensing Zheng Qing’s determined attitude, the young wizard murmured softly, but did not continue saying anything else.

The kitten might have also come to the conclusion that it was pointless to continue this standoff.

As a result, it stood up, and in a peculiar rhythm and direction, started to walk around the two patrolmen.

One lap, two laps, three laps.

Once it finished one round, Xiao Bai, the white kitten, raised its head to look at the two male wizards.

No reaction at all.

So, it patiently began its second round.

Upon looking up, it found the two wizards still staring blankly.

”Meow!” Frustrated, Xiao Bai swiftly flicked its tail and roared at the wizards- only, since it was quite small and young, its roar didn’t sound intimidating in the least. Instead, it was oddly ’cute’.

Luckily, the two young wizards weren’t beyond redemption.

”I think... is it trying to tell us something?” Zheng Qing followed the path Xiao Bai had just taken in circles, his eyes following its trail hesitantly, as he mused.

”Tell us what?” Lin Guo scratched his pet goat absentmindedly, responding in a bored tone. Although they had been blocked by Xiao Bai in the middle of their patrol, he wasn’t bothered in the slightest. On one hand, in a way, Xiao Bai’s blocking of the path was somewhat related to their night patrol jurisdiction. On the other hand, as their patrol area was tiny and didn’t span a large distance, no one would notice if they occasionally slacked off like this.

”Just now, the path it took in circles... Was that a Yu Step? I recall that a Yu Step can convey certain messages?” Zheng Qing’s voice was full of uncertainty-albeit he had studied something related, he wasn’t professionally trained and could only guess vaguely. His accuracy wasn’t much better than blindly pulling out a fortune slip.

”Maybe you should fly a paper crane to fetch the doctor.” Young Lin Guo sighed, ”I’m not the expert here, so I can’t help you much... Even a cat knows the Yu Step now, it’s quite scary.”

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...

Jiang Xiaomao had circled the two wizards many times until she felt dizzy, and they still had dumbfounded expressions, angering her to the point of wanting to scratch their faces until they bled.

Even though they were scholarship students and prodigies! How could they not even understand the basic Yu Step for message delivery!

But if they couldn’t understand, that was it, even if she were to scratch their faces bloody, she would only dirty her claws, and it wouldn’t contribute anything to solving the current impasse.

In the end, Xiao Bai finally gave up on trying to convince the two wizards to accompany her in finding a certain Big Black cat. She turned around, her ears and tail drooping as she trudged dejectedly back into the night.

Behind her sounded the dialogue of two oblivious male wizards:

”I feel like that cat seemed rather disappointed with us.”

”You’re imagining things... How can a cat feel disappointed? At most they might get bored.”

”If a cat can do the Yu Step, then expressing disappointment isn’t something one shouldn’t be able to understand, right?”

”Um, let’s check the library tomorrow. I remember there being an explanatory book on the Yu Step in the Book Mountain Library.”

”Oh no! We should’ve memorized the cat’s steps earlier...”