High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2662: Chapter 883: The Omen Within Three Months

Yiyun, the heavens reveal signs of fortune and misfortune.

This means that the natural signs can foretell omens of good and bad luck.

Fire meteors are a very typical celestial phenomenon.

In the ”River Diagram,” it is mentioned, ’All meteors are the essence of the Gucheng, and they are the chariots of Tianyi. Meteors as large as jars or tanks travel unseen, named flying stars. If their streaks mark the sky, they are called meteors’ — In short, those descending from above are called meteors, and those ascending from below are called flying stars — the famous ancient astrologer Meng Kangzi said, ’Meteors, lights linked together, as large as melons or peaches, are called mission stars or flying stars, they preside over plotting. Meteors preside over military affairs, and mission stars preside over actions, judged by the constellation they pass.’

If you don’t have a clear concept of the above somewhat obscure descriptions, just remember one sentence —

Meteors preside over war, seeing them is a great misfortune.

Hilda turned her head and, following the direction of Zheng Qing’s finger, just happened to see several meteors streak across the sky. She instinctively lifted her mask and furrowed her eyebrows, her fingers quickly calculating.

”Are those fire meteors?”

Zheng Qing asked a bit uneasily, always feeling an inexplicable sense of deja vu from this scene.

Astrology belongs to advanced divination, and Zheng Qing had no research in this area — he couldn’t even distinguish the names ’meteor,’ ’flying star,’ ’comet,’ or ’mission star’. Among his classmates, perhaps only Xiao Xiao and Jiang Yu might have some understanding of this field.

According to Zheng Qing’s simple understanding, every star in the sky corresponded to a person on earth, and once the star fell, the corresponding person would die.

But the elite registered wizards of the teaching assistant group could obviously see more from those fiery red streaks.

”They’re fire meteors.”

Hilda nodded slightly, the mask resting on her forehead like a comical little hat, her gaze never leaving the piece of sky that had already dimmed again, though her voice didn’t sound all that serious:

”...If a school astrologer were present just now, they might have recorded in their notes — Spring in the fourth month of 2010, on the day of the乙酉, with heavenly virtue, conflicting east, night, the Jade Rabbit unseen, several red stars like pellets appeared at Ji Su, moving with a rumble, shifting to Bi Su, stars falling like rain, this is called ’Po Bi,’ soon after, brilliant fire appeared, the sky had a loud noise like thunder, gradually darkening, seen by all near and far.”

”What is Po Bi?” Zheng Qing tried to understand the description.

Hilda did not shy away from speaking, instead explaining carefully as if in class, ”There is an ancient story about a painter who painted a dragon at the Temple of Peace and Joy but did not dot the eyes, claiming ’if I dot the eyes it will fly away,’ people thought it was wild talk and insisted on dotting them. As soon as he did, thunder and lightning tore the wall, and the dragon with dotted eyes flew away, while those without remained... I know this story is a bit cliché but it’s classic because you can extend the concept of ’Po Bi’ to ’qualitative change’ or ’beyond control’... Fire meteors are not a good omen, but they present a sign of ’Po Bi’ when shifting constellations, you know what that means?”

”What?”

”It means bad things will be worse than we imagine...”

As they spoke, more meteors streaked across the sky.

Zheng Qing finally realized where that damned sense of deja vu came from — When he received the third paper crane from the assistant group earlier, he had a sudden whim, seeing the scene in the small world sandbox of fireworks filling the sky.

Now, he’s ninety percent sure that what he saw back then were those fire meteors.

The problem is, what does the fire meteors have to do with the fireworks in the sandbox mini world? Or, say, is the appearance of these fire meteors related to those crows?

The chaos behind him interrupted Zheng Qing’s chaotic thoughts.

After the fire meteors streaked across the sky, the previously quiet horseman camp quickly boiled over, one group of armored horseman knights after another set out from different camp gates, disappearing into the heavy night, their thundering hooves easily drowning out the barking of the dogs behind the fence, churning campfires nearly dispelling the chilly atmosphere of this Qingming Festival evening.

Earlier, the two assistants with the characters Yi and Bing, who were responsible for the patrol, also hurriedly returned.

Not long after, the Jia Character Wizard also left the camp accompanied by several old horsemen, their expressions very solemn, occasionally glancing at the sky, looking worried.

Zheng Qing didn’t concentrate too much on those old horsemen.

His attention was mostly focused on the small brown horse following beside Captain A — although most fish or cows, horses looked the same face to him, he was very sure at this moment that the small brown horse was Luna Huisu, who had just entered Edge Academy.

How could she be here!

In his daze, Captain A and Luna Huisu had already crossed the camp fence, while those elders of the Horseman Tribe stopped inside the fence, emotionless.

”Powerless to help, unable to offer aid.”

The voice of the gray-maned old horseman leading the group was a bit hoarse, as if their throat was stuffed with grass, but its eyes were very bright, sliding over the other four assistants one by one, nodding almost imperceptibly: ”...The High Priest will visit several Professors at the school to explain the situation once out of retreat.”

Although their words were vague, the general meaning wasn’t hard to understand.

A pure white maned old horseman to its left glanced up at the sky, where the meteors had already disappeared, and not many stars could be seen in the deep night sky; the star signs were very obscure.

Drawing their gaze back, they chanted in a clear voice: ”Meteors have light, their tails seen, where they head there is war and blood, seeing them is ominous, the disaster is due within three months.”

”Please take care of Luna.”

The third elder immediately spoke, leaving no chance for the assistants to question the verse. The third elder was a female, kindly looking at the small brown mare outside the fence, finally nodding, then turning and leaving with the other two elders, quickly disappearing from the assistants’ sight.

Only then did Zheng Qing find the opportunity to speak.

”What’s her story?” He pointed at the small mare idly stamping her hooves nearby.

Captain A briefly explained: ”This is Miss Luna from the Huizong Tribe, studying at Edge Academy, she visited her distant relatives at the Uteya Tribe during the holidays... Due to some unforeseen events, she stayed until the evening, so the Uteya Tribe entrusted us to bring her back to school.”

Zheng Qing did not know that the horsemen and the Huizong Tribe were actually distant relatives.

”What does that verse mean?” Hilda was the second to speak.

”I don’t know.”

Captain A shook his head bluntly: ”The High Priest of the Uteya Tribe is in seclusion, and hasn’t given us any clues... except for that verse that we just heard... as you know, the High Priest will personally visit the school after coming out of seclusion.”

”Didn’t the Divination Group say the clue is here?”

”They are only diviners, not godly pronouncements. Besides, who knows if that verse or those fire meteors are not the real reason we came here tonight?”