Zheng Qing had known early on that Thursday's old almanac did not look favorable.
Nothing was auspicious; everything was to be avoided.
So all day long, he had remained tense and extra cautious.
But perhaps because he was being too cautious, he felt that everyone's looks toward him were rather strange today—Li Meng, for instance, had kept staring at him during class at Edge Academy that afternoon, muttering to herself as if she were delirious. Then there was Jiang Yu, who had also seemed odd during Clone Transformation class, as though she were always avoiding his gaze. And Old Yao, while teaching him, had worn an extremely subtle expression, as if he wanted to say something but kept holding back.
The feeling was depressing.
Worse still, there seemed to be something wrong with his ears.
Ever since Thomas had captured him for experiments last time, perhaps because he had listened to too much nonsense from that former teaching assistant, he had occasionally suffered from tinnitus lately.
At the beginning, he had thought there were mosquitoes nearby.
But the timing was wrong, and even after hanging a Miasma Warding Talisman, he still occasionally heard that sound. After a while, Zheng Qing realized that he had tinnitus.
This greatly puzzled him.
A qualified wizard was supposed to be highly sensitive to his own health. He had scarcely missed any morning classes lately, and when he practiced boxing, his body had not shown the slightest discomfort. What was more, after "eating" that Spirit Seed from the crows during winter break, his physical body had been greatly strengthened. There was no reason for his ears to develop problems instead.
Yet when he thought of that Copper Bean, the young wizard's expression could not help darkening. He suspected that the bean's negative effects had arrived.