High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2795: Chapter 1016: False Alarm

Su Shijun had reasons to be angry.

It was now Hai Time—around ten o’clock at night—the period when she was most inspired and her research efficiency was highest. Just a few minutes ago, she finished reading the two-dimensional evolution report of laboratory specimen 3795, saw some delightful numbers, and a few wonderful ideas popped into her mind.

Then she received the ’sharp explosion’ from her own clone.

The Big Fox’s message felt ominous—her husband was playing with divination at the Fishman Tribe’s Market, and it seemed like he played himself to death! Now, he was completely motionless!

If it were the Mortal World, where the dead cannot be resurrected, Councillor Su might record her inspirations before rushing to the scene. But in the Wizard World, as long as a wizard’s rank is high enough and their actions swift, snatching one or two souls back from the God of Death is nothing unusual.

The premise is ’speed must be fast’.

Thus, Su Shijun was forced to leave behind a pile of work, drop a heap of researchers and her precious inspirations, and use her dual privileges as the head of the key laboratory and a Moonlight Assembly Upper Member to tear open a spatial rift with the help of the school’s Protect Legal Formation, directly arriving at the incident site.

But as soon as she landed, she noticed the situation wasn’t quite as the Big Fox described.

Firstly, Zheng Qing wasn’t dead.

Though he was indeed motionless and his breath was faint, the Big Wizard’s understanding of life far surpassed that of ordinary wizards. She could clearly see the magic power flowing steadily and smoothly around Zheng Qing, which is not a state a dead person could maintain. More importantly, Zheng Qing’s black Gem Cat was still lively and bouncing around, not at all like an avatar whose main body was dying.

Secondly, there were those cat faces.

The school’s special treatment of someone seemed right to her, but she didn’t expect it to reach the point of bold protection arrangements—was it because of the approaching graduation?—the key point is, these guards hadn’t fulfilled their responsibilities, which was infuriating.

Finally, it was this Old Fishman.

She didn’t believe this Old Fishman, well-versed in divination skill, didn’t understand Zheng Qing’s connection with her, just like she didn’t believe this Old Fishman couldn’t see Zheng Qing’s unusual causal lines, and didn’t believe the Old Fishman was unaware of the dangers of spirit divination.

Diviner’s spiritual sense is usually sharp; it shouldn’t allow him to do such dangerous things.

This is the direct cause of this accident.

Thus, she finally focused her gaze on the Old Fishman.

The Big Wizard’s substantial gaze weighed heavily on the Old Fishman, making it tremble incessantly.

Unlike the Upper Member who arrived in Yin Ye, among everyone on the scene, if anyone felt most regretful, aggrieved, and panic-stricken, it was undoubtedly the Fishman Tribe’s Old Priest.

Although it wasn’t aware of Zheng Qing’s true identity, as a skilled diviner with a god—with which even a wild deity glanced upon—it could still weigh the importance of this young wizard somewhat.

That was also why it ultimately agreed to Zheng Qing’s request.

With almost no risk to bear, it could earn a jade coin and possibly gain a young wizard world luminary as an ally for the Fishman Tribe; there was no more profitable business.

After all, everyone comes to the Market to do business, right?

But despite thorough calculations, the risk in its spiritual sense was only at a ’slight nausea’ level; during the ritual, it suddenly surged to a terrifying life-or-death level. The discrepancy almost made it suspect that someone replaced the brain under the octopus skull—or a more ’reasonable’ assumption that Yagneg was coveting the young fresh body, attempting to occupy and replace.

It suddenly couldn’t determine which situation was worse.

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Not to mention the aggrieved and panicked Fishman Tribe Old Priest.

At the Market’s exit, those customers who were noisy and quarrelsome due to the market’s closure had all fallen silent with the tidal flow of the Big Wizard’s presence—even if they didn’t know the identity of this suddenly arriving Big Wizard—the gravity of reality compelled them to quiet down again.

Although at the First University, being a Big Wizard might not be particularly astonishing, it doesn’t mean that wizards outside the school have this psychological advantage.

Ordinary wizards cannot ignore this essential life difference.

Especially given the current situation, the Master of Buji Island, the First University, seemed to stand behind this Big Wizard, making it even less likely for anyone to face the consequences.

Swoosh!

Swoosh, swoosh!

Following Su Shijun, several figures appeared in the tent again—making the already small fish skin tent particularly cramped—and all these newcomers wore cat face masks without exception. However, it could be discerned from their different robe colors that some cat faces belonged to the School Works Committee, and others belonged to the school hospital.

Dressed in white robes, the healers immediately surged to the unconscious person under the stone chair, beginning emergency rescue operations.

”Su Councilor, please be patient.”

Another cat-faced wizard wearing a grey robe spoke; his voice was somewhat old, perhaps this was the only reason he came forward: ”Regarding this accident, the school will thoroughly investigate, and will not let any violators of regulations get away.”

Here, his wording was very clever, only using ’violation’ in a tone both light and heavy, clearly giving a preliminary judgment of the incident in his mind.

”——And you,” the grey-robed wizard turned to his subordinates, instructing: ”Send two people, escort these students back to school.”

”We are involved; until the matter is thoroughly investigated, I won’t leave,” Jiang Yu suddenly spoke up, catching the grey-robed wizard off guard. To him, he was taking certain risks to get these youngsters out, but why did the little girl’s tone sound like she was dissatisfied?

In contrast, Xiao Xiao’s statement was much more tactful.

”Assisting in investigations is our expertise,” he discreetly glanced at the one lying motionless under the stone chair, quickly retracting his gaze and lowering his head: ”...We can also be of some help here.”

”You...” The grey-robed elder was rendered speechless.

”You’ll only be in the way here, go back,” Su Shijun’s eyes fixed on those healers not far away; her tone lost the fire it had when she first entered but was still somewhat sharp: ”——He is not in grave danger. If any assistance is needed in the future investigations, the school will notify you.”

Jiang Yu wanted to say something but suddenly felt a tug on her robe.

She looked down, and the black Gem Cat, White Jade Cat, and even Poseidon all shook their heads at her uniformly, clearly reminding her that stubbornly staying wouldn’t yield any good outcome now.

The cyan Big Fox quietly squatted to the side, like a statue.

In the whole tent, perhaps only Furry Bean ran the fastest—it disappeared into the fish skin tent as soon as Su Shijun entered. The speed was so swift that no one noticed its departure.