"Recently, some students reported that the prices offered by the school when buying back prey harvested from the Training Ground were too low. They suspected that staff in the logistics department had tampered with things, so they repeatedly lodged complaints with the school... Are any students from our class involved?"
Professor Yao held a pipe in one hand and pressed the other against the lectern, surveying the room like a great cat standing on a cliff and prowling its territory.
The young wizards below all looked around at one another, equally curious. Judging by their expressions alone, there was no way to tell who had secretly filed a report with the school's Disciplinary Department.
Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows.
He truly had not heard about this. The You Zui Hunting Team had its own shop, D&K, and its own sales channels. Whether it was the winter hunt last year, resisting the Black Tide this year, or their adventures in the Illusory Dream Realm and Black Prison, all of the hunting team members' spoils were handed over to D&K for processing.
First, cutting out the school—the biggest "middleman"—meant slightly higher profits. Second, it was to make Ding Ding Finance and Pest Control Company's merchandise more varied, so its shelves would not look quite so bare.
Because of this, Fox Five, who was in charge of the shop, had complained to the boss more than once that their hunting gains were too miscellaneous, making D&K look like a little general store and seriously damaging its taste.
After a moment of silence, a faint buzzing rose in the classroom, as though a swarm of bees had tiptoed into the Hundred Herbs Garden.
"There's something like that?" Zheng Qing poked Fatty Xin in the back with his brush handle. "Honestly, you ought to be