Although they had noticed the academy's internal conflicts showing signs of escalating as early as last weekend, the speed at which they fermented still exceeded the expectations of the You Zui Hunting Team's hunters.
On Saturday morning, not long after the black cat slipped out through the window, Fatty Xin was awakened by a paper crane that glowed with fire and exploded as it flew. The red paper crane squeezed into the dormitory through the crack in the window the black cat had left open, shrieking as it circled above the fat boy's head like a skyrocket. A string of red bubbles trailed behind it, with one bursting every two or three seconds.
"Pop!" "Pop!" "Pop!"
Even through the covers, the increasingly loud explosions could not be blocked out. Fat Cat Tuantuan let out two angry cries, extended his sharp claws, and viciously dug them into the fat boy's heel.
Beset from both inside and out, the fat boy finally had no choice but to stop sleeping. He laboriously raised an arm, rubbed the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, then grabbed the paper crane by the wing and groggily unfolded the note. Squinting one eye against the brilliant sunlight outside the window, he read it.
There were only six scrawled characters and two enormous exclamation marks on the letter:
"Something happened! Linzhong Lake!"
The handwriting belonged to Minister Linda of the School Newspaper Editorial Department, Fatty Xin's direct superior. After mumbling sleepily for a moment, the fat boy abruptly came fully awake. With agility no fat boy ought to possess, he sprang from his bed and shouted:
"Get up! Something happened outside!!"
No one in the dormitory paid him any attention. Only Fat Cat Tuantuan was startled by the fat boy's actions. After snarling angrily