Zheng Qing did not get angry with Fatty Xin over his sharp tongue.
If he got angry over every little thing, Zheng Qing would not have time to do anything else all day but fume. Compared with that, discussing the recent unrest at Linzhong Lake with his companions held far more of his attention.
Though it was called unrest, so far the situation as a whole had remained at the stage of trading barbs and shouting slogans. Zheng Qing had heard that some Alpha Academy students had called on the Merfolk Tribe and alpha students to march through campus together, protesting Danhaag Circuit Court's interference in Merfolk Tribe law and Jiuyou Academy's unfair treatment of Alpha.
But those "heard" reports were merely things he had heard. Zheng Qing had yet to see any of it in person.
Come to think of it, the unrest at Linzhong Lake was actually tied to Zheng Qing, Nicholas, and the others in countless ways.
At the start of last semester, when Nicholas had guided the freshmen around the university, Liu Feifei's backpack had fallen into Linzhong Lake, sparking a conflict between the students and the merfolk. Fortunately, the students had outnumbered them, and the troublesome merfolk had been out of the water, so in the end, the merfolk backed down and nothing major came of it.
Later, during another nighttime patrol at Linzhong Lake, Zheng Qing and Lin Guo had followed Old Man Vernal into the woods and stumbled upon a private deal between merfolk and a black-robed wizard. Zheng Qing had even fought the merfolk using his still-unpracticed magic—the merfolk had been Iseni from Andrew's Hunting Team, while the black-robed wizard had been Mike King Ceplano of Alpha Academy.
That second incident had ultimately been interrupted by the mysterious death of a kappa