Chapter 77 School Starts 02
His mind seemed to come to a standstill after Vice President Tong said, "We've found news about them."
It was like a person who had been trekking in the desert for a long time was finally told that an oasis was just behind the door. His dried-up spirit was lifted and he couldn't help but take a step forward.
Vice Dean Tong saw that he was almost about to push the door open and encouraged him gently, "Dean Kong is not someone who cares about etiquette. Go in."
Jiang Yuelu had not thought about etiquette at first, but he was not used to this body yet, so he walked slowly. The door felt like cold metal, and appeared at the end of the corridor, like an isolated island. He quickly pushed it open, and a room appeared before him.
An extremely ordinary office.
Yes. He had thought there would be at least some collections. The dean of a wizarding academy would always collect some strange things, right? But no. There were no giant tortoise shells from ancient times, no mysterious charms on the walls, no grooves on the ground, and no strange pets.
The floor had brown textures, the wooden table and bookcase were the same dark grey, the sofa on one side was a relatively brighter off-white, and on it there were yellow-green pillows and a blanket decorated with small corns, and in the corner, Jiang Yuelu even saw a small raspberry-colored Trojan horse.
He would believe if you told him this was a kindergarten classroom.
Very warm, childlike and colorful... Is this the dean's independent office in the wizarding academy?
Hearing someone coming in, the man sitting on the wooden swivel chair turned around. He had a rough appearance, with a scar running from his forehead to his cheek, making his face look very threatening - if there wasn't a grimacing rabbit toy sitting on his shoulder.
“You’re here.”
The man's voice sounded particularly deep.
"I'm Kong Zhuning, the dean of the academy."
His voice was very hoarse, and the scar on his face was shaking violently when he spoke. However, there was a fluffy rabbit sitting on his shoulder.
Jiang Yuelu couldn't take her eyes off his shoulder.
Dean Kong glanced at his left shoulder and said helplessly, "I lost a bet with my daughter yesterday, and she asked me to carry her little toy with me for a week."
For him with his broad shoulders, it was indeed a very small toy.
"When my wife is busy, she will bring her to my place. The wooden horse is also her toy. Oh, yes, and the blanket." Dean Kong folded the little corn blanket carefully, sat on the sofa, and motioned him to sit anywhere. "I hope you will feel more comfortable here."
"Would you like some tea?"
"No need." Jiang Yuelu got straight to the point, "I want to know where Yan Fei and the others are now."
Dean Kong did not stop opening the drawer to look for tea leaves. "Well, I know you came here for this. But it will take some time. You can sit down and listen to me slowly while drinking tea."
Jiang Yuelu thought about it and decided to sit opposite him.
Watch him make tea.
There are some people in this world whose fingers are born to be used for martial arts, and Dean Kong is one of them. At the moment, he is using his powerful fingers to carefully open the tea bag, which is still attached with a cute pink and purple label. Finally, he puts the tea bag into two cups on the table.
Thankfully, the cup was relatively normal.
"I hope it's to your taste." He held it out.
Jiang Yuelu took it in his hand and saw the pig head and tail on the front and back of the cup. The corners of his mouth twitched subtly. He drank two sips and put it down. "Can you tell me now?"
"Letting you drink tea is not a deal..." Dean Kong said helplessly: "Forget it."
"I wanted to tell you when you walked in, but they always say that my communication style is too rough and simple." He put down his teacup and relaxed. "In that case, I don't need to beat around the bush."
"Yan Fei, Yan Lu, Yan Yin."
"Our college has never admitted these three people."
These two sentences tightened his heartbeat, and his speech speed became faster: "Impossible. The admission letter left at the scene is exactly the same as the one I received!"
"That's what we found strange." Dean Kong said calmly, "At first we suspected that you were lying, or that someone had misled your memory, so during this exam we sent students with excellent dream-entering abilities to examine you while you were asleep, and found no problems."
"You are really cautious." He said sarcastically.
But Dean Kong didn't care.
"In fact, the preservation of dreams is like human memory, which is always fresh and unforgettable in the first few seconds. How much of a fire that lasted a year can be left after the polishing of time, and how much can be restored? We don't have much hope for this, because if we want to observe the admission letter up close, we need a dream that is exactly the same as the past."
"Surprisingly, in your dream, that fire was still burning."
“The houses, lawns, gardens, screams… all the details are so realistic that it doesn’t even feel like a dream, but like you’ve returned to the past and are truly there.”
Dean Kong looked at him sympathetically. "Have you been having this dream for the past year or so?"
Jiang Yuelu stared at him. "For me, that was a real thing, Dean Kong. Your college burned my family to death without any reason. They called it admission, but in fact they sent them to dangerous examination halls one after another to fight for their lives. Don't make it sound like it was just a dream."
"Even if this is a long-lasting nightmare, you brought it to me personally, understand?"
The Confucius Institute looked at him for a long time.
"Are you deaf? I told you that we didn't admit them. We chose you."
"Another person sent them the notification letter under the name of the college. This person knew the college very well. He knew the specific procedures and how to operate it. More importantly, he also got the real notification letter."
What does it have to do with me?
What does it have to do with Yan Fei and the others?
Jiang Yuelu sneered: "Could it be that there is a traitor in your academy?"
“That’s right.”
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
Dean Kong smiled and said, "Also, don't keep referring to your college. After all, you are now a member of the college. I am not as easy to talk to as the other two deans. I am a rough man. I hope you understand this."
"If you want to be beaten, I can't stand this tight clothes."
Jiang Yuelu didn't say anything.
His silence was the biggest concession.
Dean Kong did not continue the topic. He remembered Vice Dean Tong's reminder to act tactfully. After thinking for a moment, he handed the cup of water on the table to Jiang Yuelu and said, "Drink more hot water."
Jiang Yuelu: "Thank you, but no thanks."
Dean Kong had no choice but to let him go.
"There is a traitor in the academy who has been on the run for many years. He is now in Ghost City. He is a colleague of Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue whom you just met."
"However, calling them colleagues is actually overestimating Ji Hongcha and Qin Xue."
"You must have heard of the name of the 'Twelve Chaotic Witches'?"
Jiang Yuelu nodded.
"For a long time, wizards were stronger than ghosts. Even with the advent of the era of human rule and the gradual weakening of the power of gods, the two could barely reach a balance. But with the defeat of wizards in a melee a hundred years ago, the balance was broken."
Dean Kong looked at him with a long gaze.
"…There was no academy at that time. There were only a group of old, weak and sick people left. They had to sign a treaty with the evil spirits in a shameful way."
"You can't enter the ghost city without permission."
"Witches can't just catch and kill ghosts at will."
…
"There are probably more than a thousand unreasonable regulations like this."
"According to what they said, when we see evil spirits killing, burning, looting, and robbing people, we can only pretend not to see it. However, the original purpose of wizards' existence, in addition to communicating with gods, is to eliminate evil spirits and evil spirits. In the words of Vice Dean Tong, they have completely wiped out half of our existence."
The scar on Dean Kong's face clearly records his dangerous experience fighting against evil spirits, but he never thinks the scar is ugly. It is the medal of his heroic battle.
As a wizard who is good at exorcising demons and monsters and is blessed by the gods, how can he not strangle the evil ghosts?
His face fell: "That's not enough."
"I don't know since when, these wandering souls scattered in the wild realized that only by gathering together can they become stronger. They know how to occupy the top of the mountain and become kings on their own."
"After a long bloody battle, those who climb up the sea of blood and the mountain of corpses will become the strongest evil ghosts and can be honored as the ghost kings. After a long bloody battle, the ghost world gradually established a pattern of twelve great ghosts who can be called 'kings'. They each have their own residences and named themselves ghost capitals, so they are also called the twelve capital masters."
"In Ghost City, the rule of 'the strong come first' is followed. The strong will be sent to the top, while the weak will be stepped on. Among the twelve city masters, there are also strict echelons and levels according to their strength. Qin Xue and Ji Hongcha, whom you met, died in Snow Village ten years ago. Later, they entered Ghost City by mistake and joined forces to defeat the last two at the bottom, and then sat on the position of city master."
"We don't know where the Ghost City is. And because of the oath we made, we can't go there to look for it, nor can we enter the Ghost City, otherwise we will be retaliated by the curse. But we can always feel that the dark and evil power is getting stronger."
Dean Kong lowered his head.
"…Because the power of the gods is growing weaker and weaker."
"But ten years ago, this impregnable ghost city suddenly had a crack, and a bounty was issued for the two city lords who had defected—"
Jiang Yuelu read out the names of the two ghosts.
"Qin Xue and Ji Hongcha."
"That's right. We don't know what they did to be hunted down by the other city masters, but if we can catch them first, we can definitely use this opportunity to pry open the impregnable Ghost City. We have been looking for them for a long time, but we didn't expect them to be hiding in the examination room... That was originally an examination system developed by Vice Dean Tong to help students master the knowledge."
"After discovering Qin Xue, several of us deans immediately decided that we couldn't let Ji Hongcha go. Fortunately, they stayed in Iron Town for too long and left a lot of traces. With these traces, we quickly tracked down Ji Hongcha's location and quickly organized people to enter Shugao Girls' High School... You also know what happened after that."
"After being parasitized by the evil spirit, the examination room is no longer under the control of Vice President Tong. The people in Iron Town have become real people, and the simulated suffering has become real. It is difficult for us to judge what will happen to you after entering the girls' high school. Ji Hongcha will replace Fu Mengru, which is also something we did not expect."
Dean Kong looked at him with relief, "But you did a good job."
Jiang Yuelu was not overwhelmed by his praise, his thoughts were still very clear, "You said so much, but you still didn't mention my brother and sister."
"I wonder where the hell they are?"
"I won't waste my time talking nonsense, Jiang Yuelu."
"The traitor I mentioned defected to Ghost City during the chaos a hundred years ago and became the city lord. If they disappeared after getting the real notice, neither in the academy nor in the world, and if wizards can't see where they are no matter what, then there should be only one place."
"I see."
Jiang Yuelu finally relaxed his tense hands. He got a definite answer, although the future was still uncertain.
"They are in the ghost city."
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