High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2503: Chapter 724: Lucifer’s Intelligence

The tip of the Black Cat’s tail involuntarily twitched at the mention of the word ”traitor.”

Then it managed to hold back again.

The devils’ cunning and suspicion were laid bare in several Seven Sins meetings, and it had to be extra careful to avoid being publicly unmasked and hung on the Pillar of Fire.

”I do think your caution has some merit.”

Belfinger shook the colorful feathers behind him, paced in small circles in front of the Red Fox, clicked his bird beak, and mused, ”Ever since our last meeting, Zheng Qing’s little group has suddenly become much more vigilant... I had been watching them before, during the time right after the New Year they were actually quite lax. Including Zheng Qing, he didn’t carry the Invisibility Talisman and walked around the campus openly for almost a week... Until after our meeting, he suddenly began carrying the Invisibility Talisman again to class. This change can only be explained by the presence of a traitor.”

The reasoning was rigorous and reasonable.

The seven animals around the conference table fell into deep thought, occasionally casting strange glances to their sides, as if looking through the masks and animal forms to see the real appearance of a traitor.

Black Cat had similar deep thoughts.

Except the other devils were thinking about who was the traitor in this conference room, while it was alert to the information exposed by Belfinger’s analysis—because those who can easily discern the change in Zheng Qing’s small group must be around him, perhaps even very familiar with him.

”We cannot rule out the possibility that their diviner is quite powerful.”

The Blood-colored Bat on the other end of the conference table spoke slowly, breaking the silence in the room: ”As far as I know, Xiao Xiao from Zheng Qing’s small group, nicknamed ’Doctor,’ is a very talented diviner... He might have seen something in the Crystal Ball, thus prompting them to heighten their alertness.”

”Even a real Great Diviner would find it very difficult to see what happens inside our conference room.” Belfinger tilted his head, and queried Lucifer: ”Do you think Xiao Xiao is a Great Diviner?”

The Blood-colored Bat was silent for a few seconds and quietly shook his head.

Belfinger nodded in satisfaction, his parrot-like peacock head rotated like a gyro in a 360-degree spin, sweeping his gaze over everyone in the room: ”When I studied Philosophy of Magic, I read a sentence, ’As two negatives equal a positive in grammar, so in marital morality, two acts of prostitution count as a virtue.’ This is quite logical. By this logic, ’two traitors together turn into a loyalist, and a room with two devils becomes Heaven’... So I counted, there are seven devils in this room, theoretically, one traitor must exist!”

What kind of ridiculous logic is this!

The Black Cat looked in shock at the peacock who made this inference—it had initially thought sloth was sloth because of the codename, but didn’t expect Belfinger to be so negligent in reasoning too!

Is there indeed such logic to determine a traitor!

Just as it was deliberating to correct the error in Belfinger’s inference, the Persian Cat suddenly spoke, catching it off guard.

”What Belfinger said makes a lot of sense.” Lady Leviathan’s voice was as crisp and pleasant as ever, she first lightly complimented the peacock’s bold theory, then shifted: ”But just now, when Beelzebub mentioned ’the application conditions for the Time Converter are very harsh’ and ’none of the present can achieve this,’ I suddenly thought of our Lord Kannai...”

Her beautiful, watery big eyes looked at the Black Cat, seemingly devoid of malice: ”If I remember correctly, our Lord Kannai had mentioned more than once that it works in a related department... I recall the department responsible for reviewing and managing the Time Converter is the related department, isn’t it?”

The other six pairs of eyes turned to the Black Cat squatting in the center of the conference table.

The Black Cat squinted its eyes, ears forming into aeroplanes, restraining the impulse to pounce and give the Persian Cat a good beating. But it knew, compared to dealing with the Persian Cat, more critical at this moment was regaining control of the conversation in this room.

It coughed gently, without mentioning its work in the ”related department.”

”There’s a wizard from the United States named Mark Twain, who said something like this—It’s not the ignorance that puts us in trouble, but the seemingly correct errors.”

The Black Cat sat squarely in the middle of the pile of parchment materials, its tone carried a hint of profundity: ”Just like now. Discussing who is the traitor, who can obtain the Time Converter, etc., these seemingly correct but misleading topics will not help our organization at all. We don’t need to know who the traitor is, we just need to complete the mission...”

As he spoke, he patted a piece of parchment beneath him and raised his voice slightly: ”What is the mission? Collect and organize all information related to Zheng Qing—his schedule, his daily movements, his blood or hair, his profile, etc. Among these tasks, thus far, the only task unfinished is collecting his blood and hair, in addition to some intermittent tracking records...”

The Blood-colored Bat raised his wing.

The Black Cat inexplicably felt this action gave him a very familiar feeling—for no reason, he felt this was the kind of move a Jiuyou student or Edge Academy student would make.

”What is it?” Lord Kannai regathered his thoughts and looked kindly at Lucifer.

Mr. Arrogance neatly folded his wings, his tone grave: ”Regarding collecting Zheng Qing’s hair and blood, I have an unverified lead to share with everyone. According to reliable intelligence, Zheng Qing’s physical quality far exceeds that of a normal wizard, seemingly modified through Alchemy or similar magical enhancement... He can withstand ordinary sharp blades and Explosion charm attacks unharmed. Therefore, gathering his biological information through ordinary means is very challenging.”

The other devils only seemed slightly surprised at these words, they did not appear greatly shocked. After all, it’s not uncommon for wizards to undergo physical modifications; the fact a second-year student possesses the capacity to undergo such modification means many previously gathered pieces of information need to be reverified.

Only the Black Cat, upon hearing Mr. Arrogance’s ’sharing,’ instinctively tensed its muscles.

The series of encounters Thursday afternoon together with Jiang Yu almost immediately came to mind, it didn’t even require Divination, it could fully ascertain the misfortune it experienced back then must be related to Lucifer.

Who exactly is this guy?

The Black Cat raised its paw, seemingly wanting to lift the mask on its face to see more clearly, but eventually restrained this impulse, simply adjusting the petite, egg-shaped mask.

”Very useful intelligence, very useful.”

The Black Cat appreciatively nodded towards Lucifer, looking around, its tone increasingly amicable: ”So, does anyone have any new ideas on how to collect Zheng Qing’s hair or blood?”