An Unexpected Visitor

Today was Saturday. Zheng Qing had originally planned to head to the soon-to-open D&K with the other hunters from the You Zui Hunting Team after finishing his morning classes, to continue tidying and organizing the place. But because of the gloomy conversation in the dormitory over breakfast, the young publicly funded student ultimately decided to make a slight change to his schedule.

He decided to first take the little sprites to the Institute of Abnormal Life for a routine examination with Dr. Duzem. In his view, whether the potion the Doctor had previously prepared was about to lose its effectiveness or not, as long as the little sprites' examination results remained normal, there was still room to turn things around.

Although it was the most bustling commercial street outside the academy, it was Saturday morning, and most students who had worked hard all week were still curled up in their dormitories, sleeping soundly to make up for the energy they had drained over the previous five days—especially since it was winter now. Outside, the air was freezing and the north wind howled, while indoors it was warm as spring and wonderfully relaxing. Wrapped in bed, playing chess with the Duke of Zhou, or exiling oneself into the cold wind to shiver—there was no need to choose.

So when Zheng Qing walked along the Pedestrian Street carrying the little sprites' paper house, there were only a handful of people in sight. Even the occasional student passing by hurried along with their head lowered and ears covered, seemingly wishing they could wrap every inch of exposed skin, save for their eyes, in thick fur.

Because he had a poor-quality Warmth Talisman hanging from him, Zheng Qing was not dressed particularly heavily. He still wore Jiuyou Academy's robe, only with a dark red