For a moment, Zheng Qing could not make sense of what that subtle emotion meant.
But the Teaching Assistant Group's emergency assembly order was no joke.
He had no time to think it over. Pulling up his hood, hanging four Jia Ma Talismans from himself, and taking the hot cocoa the Fatty handed him, he turned into a wisp of green smoke amid a chorus of sighs and vanished from Dormitory 403.
The Teaching Assistant Group's large conference room was located at the end of the third floor of the Office Building.
The last time Zheng Qing had come to this office had been two Sundays ago, on the morning of March 14, for a meeting related to the Petites Mains Mission. Taking his previous, somewhat awkward experience into account, Zheng Qing had not worn Jiuyou Academy's red robe this time, changing instead into a long black robe.
But reality seemed to be playing a joke on him.
After pushing open the door this time, he indeed did not stand out because of his robe's color. The packed conference room was filled with teaching assistants dressed in black robes like his. However, unlike last time, every one of them wore a mask today, making the young teaching assistant once again the center of attention.
The instant he saw those masks, Zheng Qing nearly pulled the Seven Deadly Sins mask from his Gray Cloth Bag and slapped it over his own face. The masks used by the teaching assistants were extremely similar to those worn by Sin Eaters: identical smooth masks with no eyeholes, like peeled hard-boiled eggs. The only difference was that a small Seven-pointed Star had been branded into the corner of a Sin Eater's mask, while the teaching assistants' masks bore different words marked in red cinnabar at