Monster Hunting High School

When Hilda opened the door and walked into the office of the head assistant coach, she saw Zhang Yu clutching a piece of letter paper with a look of constipation on his face.

"Whose letter?" He rarely saw Zhang Yu's expression.

The acting head of the teaching assistant group let out a breath, and even his usually concise tone was prolonged: "——Our protection target."

His words were vague, but it did not prevent Hilda from understanding what the answer wanted to express.

Because the teaching assistant group currently has only one protection goal.

"Why is he writing to you? Resigning? Feeling that the pressure of studying is too great and you can't stand it any longer and don't want to be a teaching assistant?"

Hilda was surprised, but also felt that it should be the case. She raised her head and glanced at the dark night outside the window, but her voice did not pause at all: "Besides, if you have anything to do, can't you just come to the office tomorrow? Doesn't he still have a baby? Cat? Why not let the cat deliver the message! Well, that’s right. It’s not easy to say resignation in person. Writing a letter is a very reasonable choice... and it doesn’t look respectful to you. "

The conversation was fast and dense, and at the end, he nodded quite confidently.

It seems that he is applauding his analysis.

Zhang Yu glanced at him speechlessly.

“No one is resigning!”

He emphasized his tone slightly, and then simply explained: "When we were on duty tonight, didn't he disappear from our monitoring range for a while..."

The assistant teaching team's guarding hours are from 4 pm to early morning every day, and they take over the shift. During the day, they are the people from the vice principal's office, and at night from early morning to 8 am, they are the school working committee's escort team who are used to working the night shift.

As for the 'disappearance' that Zhang Yu mentioned, it was today - to be precise, it was already yesterday after midnight - in the evening, when the guards of the teaching assistant team were on duty, Zheng Qing, who had turned into a black cat, suddenly disappeared after passing a flight of stairs. disappeared from their observation range.

It caused a lot of excitement.

At that time, Zhang Yu not only recalled most of the teaching assistants, but also applied for high-level permissions from the school's guardian array. In the end, he almost alerted several deans and vice-principals. Fortunately, Zheng Qing's black gem cat was still wandering around outside. After learning about Zheng Qing's 'meeting arrangements' for the evening, I realized it was a false alarm.

When this matter was mentioned, Hilda suddenly felt resentful.

"Ah, yes, I have to talk about this matter carefully after I see him tomorrow." He patted the Dharma book hanging on his belt with an unkind look on his face: "——I heard from Andrew of the Three-pronged Sword, Mr. Zheng He does a big deal with the Three-Chased Sword and earns a lot of jade coins every month. He needs to bear some of the cost of mobilizing the protective circle this time so that he can have a longer memory. "

"Three-pronged sword? Why did he start a business with the three-pronged sword again? What kind of business? Is it dangerous? Do I need to leave the school?" The head of the assistant teaching team immediately paid attention to the part related to the guard.

"I don't know... I said I signed a contract of silence. I only know it has something to do with the talisman." Hilda also had a partial understanding of this: "But Andrew said that he can earn several hundred jade coins every month, which is more than enough to pay the fine... "

Zhang Yu shook his head slightly.

Obviously not optimistic about Hilda's suggestion.

"Criticism is okay, fines... may not be supported by the school." He concluded cautiously, and at the same time handed the letter in his hand to the guest at the table: "After the shift, I flew him a paper crane. Remind him not to leave the sight of the guards casually in the future...and this is his reply. "

Hilda looked at the two-word reply and finally understood why the leader had that expression when he just entered the door.

"As expected of him."

The teacher of the practical class can only give such an evaluation.

"——Don't talk about it anymore," Zhang Yu took back the letter, threw it into the drawer, and shook his head: "You probably didn't come to my office so late just to chat."

Hilda's face turned slightly serious.

He glanced out the window again.

Zhang Yu curled his fingers and tapped on the desk. A very faint curse light spread around, like a light film, quickly covering the entire office.

"No abnormalities were found in the guardian array. The more than one hundred monitoring points we selected in the Silent Forest are also normal. All target clans that were pre-judged to be high-risk are safe and sound and have not been attacked in any way."

Hilda cherished her ink as much as gold, and briefly reported the information she brought back from outside the school, but her tone could not hide her disappointment.

This time, the 'target' he was talking about was not Zheng Qing, but the centaurs, ogres, mandrills or dwarf tribes in the silent forest.

Long before Zheng Qing was abducted by Thomas, the teaching assistant team had already discovered a not-so-obvious pattern, that is, in recent months, around weekends, there is a high probability of vicious events occurring in the Silent Forest.

At first, those who were attacked were those races that had a bad relationship with the wizards, such as the ogre tribe or the goblin tribe; gradually, the centaur tribe, which had a close relationship with the wizards, also encountered unexpected events.

In addition, during spring hunting, some students found large areas of withered vegetation, dead birds and animals, and coal-tar-like sap in the hunting grounds. Many signs indicated that there were active dark wizards near the school.

Because there was no clear evidence of connection, the school did not combine these incidents, nor did it link them with the dark wizard Whateley's Crow organization.

But within the teaching assistant group, many people do not think this is a simple coincidence - especially as Gan Ning and Thomas defected and became "crows" one after another - based on various clues and divination conclusions, everyone unanimously believes that these attacks are related to crows.

The crows are stepping up their illegal experiments.

There are still crows in the school!

So, the teaching assistant group and some young school workers of the school committee began to join forces, setting up a dragnet in the Silent Forest, ambushing near those magical races with a higher risk of attack, trying to capture those dark wizards.

But unexpectedly, nothing was found for two consecutive weeks.

"- Could they have noticed our ambush?" Hilda was silent, and couldn't help but say a guess that many people secretly raised.

Zhang Yu lowered his eyelids: "Do you mean a traitor?"

"Since Thomas... we can't rule out any possibility." Hilda looked serious.

The head of the teaching assistant group shook his head slightly: "I have considered this possibility a long time ago, so the participants have been carefully selected. I can't say that there is absolutely no traitor, but this possibility is very low... Compared with this, I believe in another possibility more. Through the last kidnapping case, the crows obtained enough experimental materials, so they chose to hibernate in the short term."

"What about our plan?"

"They are just dormant, not dead... As long as they are still dark wizards, there will be a moment when they can no longer control their bloodthirsty impulses."