The Fat Man's Scream

Lan Que's cautious actions were well within Zheng Qing's expectations.

But Lin Guo's reaction greatly exceeded the young scholarship student's expectations, leaving him thoroughly frustrated—he had originally thought that speculation would scare the little wizard off and make him retreat in the face of difficulty. Instead, it had the opposite effect: those ruins that might have been a cemetery had sparked the little wizard's intense interest.

Yet upon careful thought, Lin Guo's reaction was not all that surprising.

The little wizard had been somewhat afraid before because he was facing the "unknown," which naturally inspired dread. But now that he knew the place ahead might be the "cemetery" rumored about at school, and might contain a few dead zombies, there was nothing much to fear—among wizards, especially young wizards studying at First University, as long as they were not living zombies that had gained sentience, those other dead zombies, muddleheaded and driven only by instinct, were absolutely the best materials for research and experimentation.

Of course, if Lin Guo wanted to capture such material, he first needed to persuade Lan Que.

Perhaps it was because the blue-clad swordsman had been the first to appear before the little wizard during that conflict before school started. Perhaps it was because Lin Guo had lost all his relatives and had no other elders. It might also have had something to do with the little wizard's unusual sense of time. In any case, at some point, Lan Que had taken on a responsibility toward Lin Guo that was practically that of a "guardian."

What he could do and what he could not do, the blue-clad swordsman had laid it all out clearly for the little wizard.

And Lin Guo had obediently followed his arrangements—after all, according to the little wizard's peculiar sense of time,