"But Professor Yi refused my request."
Xiao Xiao looked up into the distance. By evening, the sun had already sunk behind the Office Building, and the entire sky glowed with a dusky yellow haze. "Not only did he reject my application, he also suggested that I give up on this unrealistic idea. Professor Yi said that if I didn't want to spend the rest of this semester lying in the School Hospital, I shouldn't try to divine something so dangerous. This wasn't something little wizards like us, who hadn't even graduated yet, could pry into... Besides, he told me to observe the school carefully."
"Observe the school?"
Zheng Qing instinctively looked around—this was dinner time. Students who had yet to eat hurried along, while students who had finished their meals strolled leisurely. Cheek-stuffed squirrels perched on branches, skinny Grass Sprites hid behind bushes, and as the sun set, the sky resembled a cake spread with orange jam, radiating a lazy, peaceful air. Amid such tranquility, he could not spot anything unusual. "...Observe what? Observe where? What was there about the school worth observing?"
"There's nothing worth observing."
Xiao Xiao raised a finger and waved it before Zheng Qing's eyes. "That's what suddenly struck me when I saw those three witches hitting on you while I was eating just now... There really is nothing worth observing, which is why even three witches hitting on one wizard becomes interesting..."
"No abnormalities is the greatest abnormality?" Zheng Qing muttered as he stroked the Black Gemstone Cat, beginning to understand the unfinished meaning behind Doctor's words.
Xiao Xiao sighed softly. "More than a month of this semester has already passed. Don't you think the campus has been unusually peaceful this year? Well, let me emphasize that I mean First University, not you... First University