High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2777: Chapter 998: The Teaching Assistant Group’s Plan

Hilda pushed open the door and entered the assistant group leader’s office, immediately noticing Zhang Yu holding a piece of letter paper, with an expression as if he was constipated.

”Whose letter is it?” He rarely saw Zhang Yu with such an expression.

The acting leader of the assistant group took a light breath, his usual concise tone drawn out a little: ”—Our target for protection.”

His words were vague, yet it didn’t hinder Hilda from understanding what this answer intended to convey.

Because there was only one protection target for the assistant group at the moment.

”Why did he write you a letter? Resigning? Feeling the pressure of studying is too much to bear, doesn’t want to be an assistant anymore?”

Hilda was surprised, but also felt it was inevitable. He looked up at the pitch-black night outside the window, yet continued speaking without a pause: ”Besides, couldn’t he come to the office directly tomorrow if there’s anything? Doesn’t he still have a cat? Why didn’t he let that cat deliver the message! Hmm, well, resigning, of course, isn’t something easy to say face-to-face, writing a letter is a very reasonable choice... and having the cat deliver the message isn’t respectful either.”

He spoke quickly and densely, and at the end, he nodded with certainty.

As if he was praising his own analysis.

Zhang Yu glanced at him somewhat speechlessly.

”No one is resigning!”

He slightly emphasized his tone, then simply explained: ”Tonight during our shift, wasn’t there a period where he disappeared from our surveillance range...”

The assistant group’s protection time was every day from 4 PM to midnight, with the people from the vice-president’s office taking over during the day, and the school works committee guard team accustomed to night shifts taking over from midnight to 8 AM.

As for the ’disappearance’ Zhang Yu mentioned, it referred to today—more precisely, it was already yesterday past midnight—during the night when the guards of the assistant group were on duty, Zheng Qing, who had turned into a black cat, suddenly disappeared from their observation range after passing a section of stairs.

It caused quite a commotion.

At the time, Zhang Yu not only summoned back most of the assistant group’s members but also applied for high-level authority from the protect legal formation, almost alarming several deans and vice-presidents——fortunately, Zheng Qing’s black gemstone cat was still wandering outside, and from it, they learned about Zheng Qing’s night ’meeting arrangement,’ knowing it was a false alarm.

Mentioning this matter, Hilda immediately felt a surge of resentment.

”Ah, yes, when we see him tomorrow, we must have a good talk about this matter.” He patted the law book hanging from his belt with a not-so-kind expression: ”—I heard from Andrew of the Trident Sword that Zheng is doing big business with the Trident Sword, earning quite a few jade coins each month, so for the expenses incurred by mobilizing the protect legal formation, he should bear some of the costs to learn a lesson.”

”Trident Sword? How is he doing business with Trident Sword again? What kind of business? Is it dangerous? Does it require leaving the school?” The assistant group leader immediately focused on the parts related to the guards.

”Not sure... they said they signed a Silence Contract, only knowing it’s related to talismans.” Hilda only had a partial understanding: ”But Andrew mentioned that he earns hundreds of jade coins every month, more than enough to pay the fine...”

Zhang Yu shook his head slightly.

Apparently not optimistic about Hilda’s suggestion.

”Criticism is allowed, fines... may not get the school’s support.” He cautiously concluded while handing the letter in his hand to the guest at the table: ”After the shift change, I sent him a paper crane, reminding him not to leave the guards’ sight randomly again... and this is his reply.”

Hilda looked at the reply with only two words, finally understanding why the group leader had that expression when he entered earlier.

”Typical of him.”

The practice class teacher could only give such an evaluation.

”—Let’s not talk about this,” Zhang Yu put the letter back and tossed it into the drawer, shaking his head: ”You coming to my office so late isn’t just for a chat, is it?”

Hilda’s expression turned slightly serious again.

He looked out the window once more.

Zhang Yu bent his fingers and lightly knocked on the desk, a faint glow of a spell spread out, like a layer of light film, quickly covering the entire office.

”The protect legal formation hasn’t detected any abnormalities, and all the 100-plus surveillance points we selected in the Silent Forest are normal, all the previously judged high-risk targets clans are safe and have not suffered any attacks.”

Hilda was sparing with words, succinctly reporting the intelligence he brought back from outside, but his tone couldn’t conceal his disappointment.

This time, the ’targets’ he referred to were not Zheng Qing, but those living in the Silent Forest like Horse-Men, Ogres, Shan Xiao, or Dwarf Tribes.

Long before Zheng Qing was taken by Thomas, the assistant group had already discovered a not-so-obvious pattern, that in recent months, every weekend, there was a high probability for malicious events to occur in the Silent Forest.

Initially, the ones attacked were those races with bad relations with wizards, such as the Ogre Tribe or Goblin Tribe; gradually, even the Centaur Tribe closely tied to wizards also met with misfortune.

Coupled with during Spring Hunting, when some students discovered large areas of withered plants, dead birds and beasts, and tar-like tree sap in the Hunting Grounds, all these signs suggested the presence of active black wizards near the school.

Since there wasn’t explicit evidence linking these, the school didn’t handle these incidents as a ’series of cases’, nor did they associate them with the Crow Organization of black wizard Walter.

But within the assistant group, many didn’t see this as mere coincidence—especially with Gan Ning and Thomas successively defecting, becoming ’Crows’—based on various clues and divination conclusions, everyone unanimously believed these attacks were related to the Crows.

The Crows are hastening to carry out their illegal experiments.

There are still Crows in the school!

Thus, the assistant group and part of the young school workers in the school works committee began to work together, laying a Heaven Luo Ground Net in the Silent Forest, ambushing near those sorcery tribes at higher risk of being attacked, trying to capture those black wizards.

However, for two consecutive weeks, they achieved nothing.

”—Could it be that they sensed our ambush?” Hilda, despite his silence, couldn’t help voicing a speculation many had been secretly harboring.

Zhang Yu lowered his eyelids: ”You mean a traitor?”

”Since Thomas... we can’t rule out any possibility.” Hilda’s expression was serious.

The leader of the assistant group shook his head slightly: ”I had already considered this possibility, so the personnel involved were carefully chosen. Can’t say there’s absolutely no traitor, but the possibility is low... Compared with this, I believe more in another possibility: through the last kidnapping, those Crows obtained enough experimental materials, and thus they’ve chosen to lay low for a short time.”

”What about our plan?”

”They’re just lying low, not dead... as long as they are still black wizards, there will eventually be a moment when they can’t control their bloodthirsty impulses.”