High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2142: Chapter 363: Countermeasures

The gray Gouzi came during the night.

Under the instructions of the young cost student, it sniffed around the burlap sack for a long time, hesitantly disappearing into the moonlight. From the hesitant little glance it gave before leaving, Zheng Qing knew he couldn’t place too much hope on it.

”Behold, I am against you, I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame!”

Xin Fat Man recited as if singing, his lilting voice sounding particularly piercing in the night.

”What?” Zheng Qing asked, somewhat bewildered.

At this moment, he was squatting beside Xiao Xiao, eagerly watching his divination, his face smeared with shiny ointment, while Jiang Yu folded paper cranes beside him, communicating with someone unknown.

”That’s the message these attackers left for you.”

The Fat Wizard shook a small piece of parchment in his hand in front of the warlock, waving it: ”Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts... the Old Testament, that grand book.”

Zheng Qing squinted at the crooked line of words on the parchment.

”Huh, are they planning a murder and character assassination?”

The young cost student sneered, then turned to another main hunter of the Absolution: ”Elder, you’ve been looking for quite a while, have you found any clues?”

As the member of the Absolution Hunting Team with the most hunting skills, Zheng Qing still held a glimmer of hope for the red-faced male wizard.

”Hard, hard, hard, the scene is as clean as if a dog licked it.”

Zhang Ji Xin pinched his chin and shook his head repeatedly. He and Xin Fat Man arrived at the scene one after another and had circled the spot where Zheng Qing was beaten up several times, but found nothing. However, after staying with Uncle Zhang Zhi for so long, his perspective expanded significantly: ”But I feel like it was the people from Alpha who did it.”

”Because of that line from the ’Old Testament’?” Xin Fat Man guessed his thinking, habitually rebutting: ”Reasonably, wouldn’t the people from Atlas prefer to quote these classics?”

Zhang Ji Xin glanced at him, with a trace of disdain in his eyes: ”If it were that simple... If few fishman scales were left on the scene, would you think it was the fishmen from Lin Zhong Lake who acted tonight?”

Without waiting for the Fat Wizard to argue, he turned to Zheng Qing, looking thoughtful: ”Everyone knows Sepulano started with gambling, and over the past two years, the Xiang Qi Club almost monopolized this shady business both inside and outside the school... As far as I know, ever since that article in the Bugle came out, someone started offering odds on the possibility of you getting ambushed. During the recent parade, the odds dropped significantly because everyone thought you’d get beaten in the next second... But as the atmosphere calmed, the odds became higher and higher...”

”So, beating me up is not only cathartic but also profitable?” Zheng Qing didn’t know if he should sneer at this moment, but when he opened his mouth, it turned into click-click admiration: ”If I were them, I would act too...”

”Beaten up again?”

An abrupt voice interrupted the young cost student’s praise, as Dylan appeared behind his teammates, yawning: ”In the middle of the night, I just woke up, hadn’t decided whether to get out of the coffin, when I received the emergency gathering notice...”

”What do you mean by again!”

Zheng Qing was immediately annoyed by the newcomer’s words, his tone rather irate.

Blue Bird appeared almost at the same time as Dylan, but merely stood silently in the shadow beneath the tree, like an invisible man, without a single sarcastic remark, making the young cost student sigh inwardly, wondering why there was such a huge difference among people in the same hunting team?

”Weren’t you just, um, beaten up a few days ago?” Mister Blood Werewolf rolled his eyes, glanced at the witch seriously folding paper cranes not far away, and his voice became very small: ”Even though I took the blame for you...”

He didn’t seem to care that it was him who got beaten up at the time now.

However, these words didn’t seem incorrect, did they?

Zheng Qing was momentarily speechless.

After a while, he angrily cursed: ”... Those ravens are such bad luck! Nothing good ever happens when they are around!”

Given that he was pondering about those ravens at the time something happened, he now seemed to have connected his misfortune tonight with those luck-spreading birds.

”Can’t find those guys.”

Xiao Xiao patted the dust off his body, putting away the crystal ball, and handed the roasted turtle shell to Zheng Qing, sounding a bit tired: ”A high-tier diviner disturbed the clues, and those attackers were very clean in their work... The only certainty is that more than one academy is behind it.”

”I could have guessed that without divination too.” Xin Fat Man laughed dryly.

Zheng Qing kept a straight face as he took the turtle shell the doctor handed over. The cracks on the shell were chaotic and disordered, with almost every line being intercepted by other lines—this not only indicated strong interference but also represented deeper, complex connections.

Of course, interpreting the shell patterns wasn’t that simple. Diviners need to capture the spiritual machine of heaven and earth through spells, rituals, and various means. At this moment, Zheng Qing was just giving it a cursory look.

”What are you planning to do?”

Jiang Yu finally finished folding the paper crane and looked at the young cost student fiddling with the turtle shell, reminding: ”This matter seriously violates the First University Management Regulations. As the monitor of Astronomy Class 08-1, I don’t recommend you to make any excessive reactions within the academy... Tomorrow morning, I will request simultaneous investigations from the Professor Joint Meeting, School Works Committee, and Student Union. Before the school investigation results come out, I hope everyone can remain calm.”

”Everyone is very calm.” The Fat Wizard spread his hands, looking as if he had no plans to help Zheng Qing with revenge.

”Sounds a bit cowardly, huh? This kind of behavior would make everyone laugh in Starry Sky Academy.” Dylan shook his head, looking disapproving.

”Can’t be cowardly!” Blue Bird unusually nodded in agreement with Mister Blood Werewolf’s opinion.

”It’s not about being cowardly.” Zhang Ji Xin scratched his head, looking helpless: ”I also want to smash them into small pancakes with a punch each, but the key is we can’t find those bastards now! Shall I ask my brother to investigate privately?”

”Just because we can’t find them doesn’t mean the school can’t!”

Jiang Yu looked around, her tone somewhat stern: ”The school has a Protective Legal Formation, a Great Diviner, experienced professors, and Legendary Wizards. With determination, they can definitely find those guys who did this... According to the regulations, they would at least face school probation... Unfortunately, you’re only lightly injured, otherwise, we would have a chance to get them expelled... If they’re expelled, out the school gate, you wouldn’t have to abide by the relevant regulations.”

She looked at Zheng Qing regretfully, as if it was a great disappointment that he was still able to stand quietly in the original place.

Zheng Qing and Dylan shivered in unison.