High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2693 - 914: War with the Fence Fairies

"...The Beta Town Post naturally doesn’t truly want to seek justice for that Horseman Tribe."Xiao Xiao quickly finished reading the report and reached the same conclusion as Zheng Qing, although his focus was slightly different: "They’re merely continuing to exert pressure from various dimensions—school security, Alliance order, ’The Code’ authority, and even the educational objectives of several First University academies, fairness and justice, etc.—their aim is nothing short of getting the school to accept ’The Code,’ to accept Danghag and the Trident Sword, to accept deeper Alliance involvement. I must admit, they’ve chosen a good time. Just as the article title suggests, during the ’power transition’ phase, this kind of pressure might yield them unexpected returns."

Zheng Qing was no longer the naive newcomer to the wizard world.

Thus he wouldn’t utter nonsense like ’We really adhere to ’The Code’ now.’

Yet he still harbored resentment towards the school’s indecisiveness in handling the crow issue.

"If the professors cleaned up the school earlier, they wouldn’t give others the chance to exert pressure." He muttered, rubbing his palm as if trying to extract that piece of bronze bean: "I just don’t believe, with legendary wizard strength, they can’t catch a few stealthy crows!"

He ultimately retained some rationality, refraining from uttering more dangerous, excessive words.

Xiao Xiao folded the newspaper into a mouse, urging it to crawl around the table.

"Sima told me a piece of history some time ago."

The diviner of the Yuzui Hunting Team used a feather pen to whip the paper mouse’s behind, watching it scurry frantically, then slowly continued: "In 1968, First University went to war with the Berle-Hillyer fairy..."

"Berle-Hillyer fairy?" Zheng Qing chewed on this somewhat unfamiliar term, feeling he had heard it somewhere before.

"It’s the Fence Fairy." Xin Fat Man reminded: "Nicknamed ’bug,’ those little monsters caused quite a big fuss during the freshman hunt race, didn’t they?"

Zheng Qing suddenly remembered.

Back then, a group of Fence Fairies ran wild on the stands, ultimately leading to the young wizards of Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy getting into a scuffle, greatly angering Old Yao.

"Are those things worth using the word ’war’?" He couldn’t quite understand.

Xiao Xiao ignored his sarcasm and continued: "...The School Works Committee and Professor Joint Meeting at First University issued a joint order because the Berle-Hillyer fairy were recklessly spitting around the campus, spoiling magical plants, hunting squirrels, pigeons, and green sprites... they were utterly awful, so they had to be exterminated. Thus, all the young wizards at school were mobilized, sparing no magic power, talisman, or poison, to hunt every Fence Fairy they saw... in just a month, they hunted nearly thirty thousand Fence Fairies, even sweeping the depths of Silent Forest, the fairy corpses almost piled into a small mountain there.

The atmosphere of Buji Island cleared in an instant, without those ugly, stinky creatures, everyone was very happy, even the Beta Town Post exceptionally praised the school’s action.

But you also know the biological chain theory in magical zoology... when the Fence Fairies disappeared from Buji Island’s food chain, the first to overflow were the locusts, as they were the main food of the Fence Fairies; then came the corpse-eating beetles fed by fairy carcasses; followed by ogres...

You have to know, ogres don’t care whether Fence Fairies are dead or alive, nor do they mind the stench of their meat; initially, ogres found it hard to catch these nimble, skilled creatures, but now the wizards directly piled tons of food at their doorstep... stuffed ogres breed wildly, and as the size of the ogre tribe grows, they’ll hunt more prey...

Thus, the next half year saw an explosion in the number of locusts, corpse-eating beetles, and ogres. Locusts devour plants, ogres devour animals, and corpse-eating beetles devour corpses. The entire ecological system of Buji Island faced the risk of collapse.

All just to make the school a bit cleaner, yet causing such severe consequences.

What more for those crows?

If the school rashly eradicates illegal labs represented by crows—leaving aside how many wizards at the school are involved with these labs—what result do you think will occur?"

He pinched the paper mouse’s neck, stopping it from further crawling around the table, then looked inquisitively at Zheng Qing and Xin Fat Man.

The Fat Wizard pinched his chin, seemingly contemplative: "According to simple logic, whoever initiates this topic will completely push the crows into another faction’s embrace... these crows have significant influence, greatly affecting the balance of internal school power."

His analysis was somewhat vague.

But the meaning was clear.

Zheng Qing frowned, shaking his head—he clearly remembered Old Yao had said the crows were under Principal Ruoyu’s responsibility, thus he couldn’t interfere—this meant those crows shouldn’t be capable of being a Fence-Sitting Faction.

But he couldn’t share these words with his companions.

"According to your words, the school is in cahoots with those crows?" He smirked.

Xiao Xiao shook his head: "I didn’t mean that... the school isn’t in cahoots with Fence Fairies, nor is it with crows. The school is only in cahoots with ’Order’."

The sudden appearance of this word from the doctor startled Zheng Qing’s inner thoughts.

But when he glanced furtively, he found Xiao Xiao’s expression unchanged, as cold as ever—indeed, he seemed more interested in that paper mouse at the moment.

"Thanks to the doctor’s brilliant analysis," the Fat Wizard clapped earnestly twice, face eager: "I wonder if you have time to organize your insights and write a commentator’s article?"

Xiao Xiao yawned widely.

Zheng Qing muttered, inspired by the doctor’s analysis, expressing his thoughts: "History, biological chains, order... a school is a place to convey teachings and solve doubts, it should be a very simple place... why is it so complicated now? Does the core of power have to be the core of authority? They really should read ’Entering First University’! The entire school, the entire educational system... it’s not some individuals, it’s the entire rules of the wizard world that are sick..."

The Fat Wizard couldn’t bear his continued grumbling, checked the time: "Isn’t the elder just chatting a few words with his brother?"

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Five minutes until class meeting.

Zhang Ji Xin hurriedly arrived at the classroom, with a serious expression.

Before Zheng Qing and the others could inquire, he immediately set up a barrier that blocked sound and sight, and took out a small glass bottle from his robe sleeve, placing it on the table among them.

The bottle contained a black, viscous, kerosene-like liquid.