novelzi Chapter 144: Still No Mei Gongzi
Chapter 144: Still No Mei Gongzi
Chapter 144: Still No Mei Gongzi
Du Bai quietly went to Tang San's room before Tang San could even inquire about the situation.
"Little Tang, do you know? Their training results are far from ours! Hehe," Du Bai said mischievously as he closed the door.
"Oh? How did the senior brothers and sisters' training go?" Tang San asked.
Du Bai explained, "They only killed a few low-order demonic beasts, the strongest just fourth-order. Not a single fifth-order. Far worse than us, I'd say. And I heard they even alarmed a group of demonic beasts. If it weren't for the teachers' intervention, they might have been completely wiped out. They couldn't even reach the designated destination or see the target demonic beast."
Tang San remarked, "Why do I feel like you're enjoying their misfortune?"
Du Bai immediately straightened his face, "I'm not~ I won't admit it~ How could I take pleasure in their misfortune? Even though everyone used to say I was just a mascot with no real use, I wouldn't be happy at their bad luck~"
"Alright, go back. The teachers are probably not in a good mood either, so don't show them this bad side of you," Tang San said somewhat helplessly.
Tang San had already guessed that the results of this second training batch wouldn't be as good as theirs. His power and Wu Bingji's were far greater than these children's, and his combat experience was far beyond theirs. Failure in their first external training was to be expected. However, if they could learn from this experience, they would surely gain something, and it wasn't all bad.
The training summary came the next day. Naturally, the students from the second batch who had gone for the training were severely criticized.
Listening to their recount of the entire process, Tang San thought that it wasn't actually that bad. Sadly, the difference compared to his batch was indeed stark.
They hadn't gained much or found the targeted demonic beasts. The students hadn't improved much after this outing either, but they had experienced quite a few scares. However, this was a real battle experience, and they did gain something from it. In Tang San's view, this was already a good outcome.
The third batch would continue—it was only fair to give everyone a chance. The only difference for the third batch was that these six students knew they would be accompanied by teachers. This gave them a sense of security, which would surely affect their training results. But that couldn't be helped now; they needed to try multiple approaches.
Tang San had been keeping a low profile recently, earnestly completing the training and assignments set by the teachers, studying hard, and improving every day. He occasionally forged, and then creeped around the schools in succession.
To the teachers in the academy, he said he was going to the blacksmith's shop, which Zhang Haoxuan could vouch for, so no one asked further questions. Thus, he naturally had more time to go out.
However, Tang San was quite frustrated that he had gained no new information after staking out at several schools in succession.
He even began to doubt whether Mei Gongzi's mother had lied to him and Mei Gongzi wasn't actually attending school. But, judging from her mother's expression, it didn't seem likely, and there was no need to deceive a child like himself.
Today, it was the last of the middle schools he was guarding. Could it be that he had to go on to guard the elementary schools? That would take him a ridiculous amount of time!
If nothing else works, I'll just wait at Mei Gongzi's tea shop. She has to return there eventually, right? As long as she does, I'll definitely see her there.
No! Still no sign of her!
Even as the sky completely darkened, he still did not see the person he longed to meet. Tang San was truly disappointed.
Let's go back.
With dejection in his eyes, he headed back to the academy town.
Tang San kept pondering all the possibilities in his mind. Where exactly could Mei Gongzi be studying? He had staked out all twelve middle schools, and although he had only visited the last one once, given his keen observation skills, he was fairly sure that another visit would do him no good
In other words, either Mei Gongzi was attending an elementary school, or Mei Gongzi's mother had deceived him, and she was not studying at any academy but was doing something else or had gone somewhere else.
In the past month, he had visited the tea shop several times, yet he had never seen Mei Gongzi there.
Could there be any other possibility?
As Tang San pondered, he had already begun climbing the mountain. He was entering the vicinity of Kali Academy.
As he climbed upward, suddenly, his spirit jolted slightly, and a marvelous feeling enveloped his heart. His eyes grew warm, and this warmth seemed to carry a hint of strange excitement. Indeed, his emotions were involuntarily stirred.
What's happening? The Discerning Eye of Heaven?
Undoubtedly, this was a change brought about by the Discerning Eye of Heaven, and it was not a premonition of a crisis.
The Celestial Fox Vision could observe fate, but it was only after reaching the fourth order that it could, to some extent, control and guide fate.
1. The original here names the hybrid “Tiger Wolf Transformation,” but this is the only place it shows up. Every other mention of it in future chapters calls it Wind Tiger Transformation. Hence, we replaced the original Wind Tiger Transformation in ch125 with Winged Tiger Transformation and this one with Wind Tiger in order to maintain consistency. ☜