High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2750: Chapter 971: The Invitation That Was Never Received

Out of the Trident Sword’s door.

Zheng Qing immediately slowed his pace.

He felt there was a bit of life experience to share with this young brother.

”Be very careful talking about these sensitive topics with the people at Trident Sword.”

He was referring to the words Andrew had just mentioned like ’ethics committee’ and ’experiment safety’: ”Even if your modifications comply with regulations and are formally reported, sometimes you might unknowingly touch some taboo areas. This is a situation that can happen with every innovative move... if you don’t speak, no one checks you; when results emerge, a ’guardian’ will wipe the slate clean for you. But if you do speak, you might arouse some organizations’ curiosity—they don’t necessarily have bad intentions, they just have a look, but then they see the lab’s ’grey areas’—in this case, both parties will feel very uncomfortable. So when conducting experiments, before achieving results, you must do more and speak less... If you can avoid speaking, don’t speak.”

”Just like your three Great Elves?” Lin Guo sat on his Black Mountain Goat, tugged at two horns, and seemed thoughtful.

”Hmm?”

”I’ve heard from the doctor!”

The young Warlock showed a face of ’Why didn’t you tell me earlier’ indignation: ”Among the sprites you raised, three transformed into Great Elves, which caused quite a sensation in the Alchemist circles. To my knowledge, more than one Alchemist Association has sent you invitations, asking you to talk about your Alchemical Life’s evolution path... Actually, I am curious about their current status too, but you know, I’ve been too busy lately...”

”Wait, invitations? I haven’t received any!” Zheng Qing was greatly shocked and couldn’t help interrupting the young Warlock’s chatter, puzzled: ”And I also don’t know how they managed to transform successfully!”

”—You didn’t receive invitations? Then I don’t know.”

The young Warlock shrugged, seemed to recall something, looked around, and moved closer to Zheng Qing, whispering with a shrewd expression: ”Of course, as you said, transformation experiments might involve grey areas, if you don’t want to talk about it...”

”No, that’s not what I meant.”

Zheng Qing looked blankly, not expecting his words to turn into a boomerang hitting back on his face so quickly: ”Those sprites’ transformation was spontaneous, I didn’t conduct any experiments on them...”

His tone was very earnest.

This made Lin Guo a bit hesitant too: ”You really don’t know? But I heard from the doctor— I mean Doctor Du Zemu—part of the inspiration for his plan to remodel Erhei came from your successfully transformed Great Elves...”

Zheng Qing couldn’t help but take another look at the Black Mountain Goat beside him.

”Doctor Du Zemu devised a transformation plan for you?” He recalled the Alchemist who liked washing eyeballs, really unsure what inspiration his sprites provided him: ”Hmm, could you explain it simply?”

”Of course!”

Lin Guo seemed to have heard something delightful, immediately straightened his body, patted the Black Mountain Goat’s head, and began excitedly: ”—The core of Erhei now is a chamber containing liquified biological information of Dahei, located at its heart. Around the chamber are inducing spells and a gravity field, arranged through blood vessels and nerves, forming a magic trap. When the inducing spell is adjusted to the biological information resonance frequency, it can form an active state, and then by closing the inducing spell and activating the gravity field, you can trigger Dahei’s superposition state... Doctor Du Zemu referred to the runes on your sprite’s dormant envelope to modify the inducing spell, which works very well. However, this superposition state is still unstable, so after activation, Erhei has become much more temperamental than before.”

Zheng Qing listened closely, trying hard to comprehend Lin Guo’s words.

Then he sadly realized, he seemed to indeed lack any Alchemy Talent.

In the same year he entered the school, his Alchemy grades could only be around seventy or eighty, struggling to keep up with Professor Tesla’s lectures, while Lin Guo had already entered the school’s key project group.

Just like the explanation just now.

Every word, even every term, he could understand, but put together, he felt he was listening to a foreign language.

”—Sounds like you’re touching the domain of the God of Death.” He could only pick the parts he understood and forcefully interpret: ”But as far as I know, the Alliance is very strict on such experimental limits.”

”This is not resurrection, and has nothing to do with Undead Magic! This is Alchemy!”

The young Warlock gave his captain an accusatory look, patiently explaining: ”You can understand Erhei as a certain ’isotope’ of Dahei... You’re familiar with the wave-particle duality of light, right? Dahei is the wave, Erhei is the particle; now the wave is gone, but I can find a way to maintain the particle’s existence!”

Saying so, he glanced at the Gem Cat poking out from Zheng Qing’s hood, adding: ”Or you could think of Erhei as some sort of avatar of Dahei! Two fish swimming side by side in the same river... but in reality, they’re one fish.”

”Parallel timelines?”

”You could interpret it that way.” Lin Guo nodded very reluctantly.

”Why did you choose this approach to modify the goat?”

”Because the project we’re currently engaged in involves the isomorphic transfer of Legendary traits...” Here, the young Warlock’s voice suddenly stopped, Zheng Qing looked over in surprise, only to see him smile awkwardly: ”Oops, I forgot I’m not supposed to casually mention that...”

Any project involving Legends is never simple.

Zheng Qing understood this very well.

Yet he still couldn’t help glancing a few more times at the Black Mountain Goat, deeply curious about how it was connected to the Legendary project. Then, very abruptly, as he looked at this goat, he inexplicably thought of a ’teaching tool’ from an assignment class.

The little black goat that accompanied him to the cafeteria.

”I should have listened to the Fatty’s advice and given that little goat to you.” He muttered, feeling that without this Alchemical Sheep Doll, perhaps Lin Guo would have been better off.

At that moment, out of a simple sense of ownership, he had obediently returned the little black goat to the School Works Committee.

Now thinking back, that little goat might have been a lifeline from Destiny—had he given it to Lin Guo that day, perhaps he wouldn’t have ended up in this predicament today, or even if he had been ’rammed’, a little goat wouldn’t have made him this miserable.

”What goat? You’re giving me a little goat?” Lin Guo apparently caught the last few words.

”No, nothing, you misheard.”

The Yuzui Hunting Team’s captain sighed, denied three times, while pulling out a pocket watch to check the time: ”—Only ten minutes until the first class, need an Armor Horse Charm?”

”No need, my study time is quite flexible lately.”

Lin Guo shook off his black robe, rather proudly, seeing Zheng Qing tie four Armor Horses on his legs, seemed to recall something, grabbed his sleeve: ”By the way, almost forgot, Captain... Li Meng said you and Sister Jiang Yu have both applied for a Time Converter, can you tell me how to apply? Recently I’ve been feeling like there’s not enough time...”

”There’s never enough time for anyone.”

Zheng Qing lectured earnestly: ”You’re too young, overly sensitive to the time dimension, I don’t recommend you casually dabble with Time Magic so soon... If you’re really curious, you could ask your academy’s dean.”

If memory serves, the current acting dean of Alpha Academy is the retired former dean, Tilda Strange, a rather strict Witch.

Zheng Qing didn’t think that lady would let Lin Guo take such a risk.