The Silent Contract forbade the contracting parties from revealing anything related to the contract to third parties.
But it did not prevent third parties from obtaining information through other channels.
Zheng Qing had brought Fatty Xin to visit Colmar with precisely this in mind—of course, his indirect disclosure to the fat wizard was more about hoping to use Xin's resources through the school paper and other investigative channels to confirm whether the incident in the Silent Forest was truly connected to the Ravens. According to the Teaching Assistant Group's current investigative direction, they believed the tragedy in the Silent Forest had been a random incident caused by an individual Dark Wizard losing control, without considering the possibility of organized crime at all.
And within the Teaching Assistant Group, his voice carried little weight. If he wanted to investigate something according to his own wishes, he could only seek another way.
Pushing the school paper into cooperating with the North District Wizards was one such way, because he had considerable influence over both channels.
"What do you want?" The fawning look on Fatty Xin's face vanished at once. His two tiny eyes squeezed out from the heavy folds of fat, revealing a glint of shrewdness.
As a gourmand, he understood better than anyone that there was no such thing as a free meal.
Zheng Qing nodded in satisfaction and raised one finger. "I want you to help investigate those Ravens..."
Before he could finish, the Fat Wizard interrupted him.
"The school paper cannot investigate an organization that has already been jointly declared extinct by the Alliance and the school without any leads whatsoever... Even if we investigate, we won't commit many useful resources to it."
He noticed Zheng Qing was about to speak and seemed to guess what he wanted to