Debuff

"Right, Xiao Xiao also invited some professors."

"Old Yao, Professor Li, Professor Yi, Professor Emma—he sent invitations to all of them. But Fatty Xin said the professors had been very busy lately. They'd even turned down quite a few interviews from the school paper reporters, so they probably weren't very likely to come."

"The teaching assistants shouldn't be a problem... We invited Thomas and Hilda. You should know them both pretty well."

"I'd originally wanted to invite a few of the older school workers to stop by too, but they seemed even busier than the professors. You couldn't find them anywhere these days... You know Old Man Vernal, who used to live in the cabin by Linzhong Lakefront, right? The old school worker whose laugh was really loud, and who kept an old Shar-Pei hunting dog called May. When I first joined the Patrol Team on night patrols, Old Man Vernal was the one leading us. A while ago, it seemed the school transferred him somewhere else. Someone from the Patrol Team said they'd seen him ferrying people across the Silent River, but I don't know whether that was true or not."

"I wanted to invite him too, but I looked several times and couldn't find him... Even that old dog had vanished without a trace."

The young government-funded student counted on his fingers as he eagerly rattled off all the preparations for the You Zui Hunting Team's new shop opening to Jiang Yu, paying no attention at all to whether the witch was interested in the trivial things he was talking about.

After finishing with the guest list, Zheng Qing began describing his shop's one-year development plan and its four-year long-term vision. Then he launched into a detailed comparison of his shop's products against similar goods on Pedestrian Street,