Volume 4: It's Dark, Please Close Your Eyes Chapter 18 Tonight is another sleepless night
Instructor Zou took a deep breath. He had been holding back on the suspicious issues surrounding Xu Qingyan for too long. When he finally had the chance to talk to Tang Zheng about it, he had so many things to say that he didn't know how to start.
Well, to put it simply, he forgot the words.
"Wait, let me slow down and organize my words." Instructor Zou swallowed twice and thought for a while. He finally figured out how to tell Tang Zheng the whole story, what kind of magic circle he encountered, how powerful the enemies in the magic circle were, how much restraint they had on the human race, and how Xu Qingyan, inexplicably, managed to easily kill an instructor from Jiuhua Palace who was much stronger than him and had already turned into a demon under such an extremely unfavorable situation for the human race. He told all of this in the clearest way.
"Here's what happened..." Instructor Zou just started to speak.
At this time, the joint team of multiple academies that was originally marching towards the Qinling Academy suddenly stopped slowly.
"Everyone take a rest, set up camp and eat on the spot, and set off early tomorrow morning. Instructors from all academies should quickly go to the head of the team to discuss matters." A loud voice spread throughout the entire marching team.
This loud announcement stopped the words that Instructor Zou had just organized in his throat, and he had to swallow them back.
Tang Zheng looked at Instructor Zou, who looked like he was constipated, patted him on the shoulder, and said sympathetically, "It's okay, it's okay. Go and do your work. We'll have plenty of time to talk about this issue."
"Well, that's the only way. Uh, why don't I come to you after dinner? This matter is very urgent and crucial and can't be delayed any longer." Instructor Zou really wanted to make things clear with Tang Zheng right now, but the meeting was a notification for hundreds of academies in the entire team, and it was not convenient to be late. He had to grit his teeth and make an appointment with Tang Zheng first, and then rode to the front of the team with great entanglement.
At this time, Xiaotang and the others also came over and wanted to ask Tang Zheng how to arrange camping tonight.
After chatting for a while, they took out the items for camping from their bags, just like the warriors from other academies, selected some good locations, and set up yurt-like tents.
Not long after Tang Zheng and his companions had set up camp, several instructors from other academies came up along the team's back, took a quick look at Tang Zheng and his companions' tent, and then scattered a circle of purple gold powder around them in a mysterious pattern.
Tang Zheng had already gotten a glimpse of the formation and could tell at a glance that these instructors were setting up a huge temporary defensive formation. This kind of formation was enough to protect the entire team. Not to mention the monsters above three stars, even the human warriors above three stars with strong malice would be discovered by the formation the first time they wanted to do evil and would be quickly killed on the spot.
"What a grand deal." Tang Zheng looked at the instructors from the academy and said with emotion with a smile.
This was obviously an action initiated by the Academy Alliance, and the purpose was to protect all the students from the academies in this team.
"These purple golds shouldn't be too much..." Xiaotang was a little surprised by Tang Zheng's sigh. In her impression, Tang Zheng was a super rich man who never cared about purple gold.
"Uh, Xiaotang, you've been corrupted. How can you always use my standards to judge the world? Besides, the lavish amount I'm impressed by is certainly not the amount of purple gold, but such a large defense array. It requires at least several five-star warriors to preside over it together to fully exert its effect." Tang Zheng explained.
"Is it true that the amount of purple gold used is not enough?" Xiaotang continued to complain.
Tang Zheng felt that he was speechless.
"Actually, this is the situation every year. Although there has never been any problem, the team participating in the academy's martial arts competition carries the hope of the human race after all. Who knows how many four-star, five-star, or even six-star or seven-star powerhouses will be in this team in the future. It's never too careful." Jiang Wuyan took over the conversation with a smile.
"In that case, the strongest instructor leading the team is only about five stars. Isn't he still too weak? If the demon clan sends a six-star warrior to raid us, wouldn't they be able to wipe out so many future high-level warrior seeds in one fell swoop? Wouldn't the demon clan make a fortune?" Xiaotang suddenly remembered the time when they were ambushed by Lan Shaoze's men. If Tang Zheng and Ghost Grandpa hadn't been there, the younger generation of Tang Family Fort would have been wiped out in that battle. Thinking back on it, she couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.
"Six-star demon clan? Impossible. Not to mention six-star, even if it's a five-star demon clan, it would be impossible for it to appear here unless all the frontline soldiers of the Qin family and my Leng family are dead. If it's just a three-star or four-star demon clan that sneaked in here, that would be great, just enough to add a little more demon clan blood to my thunder hammer." Leng Zhan shook his head and said with full of fighting spirit.
"Uh, do you smell any special fragrance?" Tang Zheng sniffed and suddenly asked in a very unrelated tone.
Hearing the voice, Xiaotang wrinkled her little nose and sniffed, then suddenly looked up and laughed, "Master, you must be hungry. No wonder your nose is so sharp that you can smell the fragrance of food from a long distance. Look, the fireman delivering food is coming."
Everyone looked in the direction Xiaotang pointed, and sure enough, they could vaguely see a team of firemen delivering meals. They all looked at Tang Zheng, as it turned out that anyone who could cook good meals had to have a good nose.
Tang Zheng looked forward with some doubt, touched his nose and said: "Well, maybe I am indeed hungry."
"If you're hungry, go eat quickly. Let's go and see who can grab the food first." Xiaotang rushed out, leaving behind a string of cheerful laughter.
"Be reserved, be reserved, Xiaotang. How can we snatch food? We are not African refugees." Tang Zheng taught Xiaotang righteously while standing up calmly, speeding up, and instantly passed Xiaotang.
The others looked at this strange pair of "teacher and student", smiled, shook their heads, and followed them.
Although this meal was not as good as Tang Zheng's, the fact that the academy instructors were able to prepare such a meal with both meat and vegetables, as well as both hot and cold dishes, in the wilderness showed that they had put a lot of thought into it.
After Tang Zheng and his companions finished their meal, they returned to their tents. Xu Qingyan and Tang Zheng were in one tent, Leng Zhan and Jiang Wuyan were in another, and the remaining Meng Fenghua, Xiaotang and Xiao Lingdang were assigned to the largest tent in the middle, while Instructor Zou reserved a tent for him alone.
The setting sun gradually disappeared, and the night completely enveloped the entire tent.
At the beginning, some students who had never camped before were quite excited. They moved back and forth among the tents of their familiar companions, chatting and joking. But soon, perhaps due to the long journey and the rush of the next day's journey, the whole camp gradually became quiet.
Almost all the students went into their respective tents and began to rest.
After checking the safety of the tents, all the instructors returned to the largest tent at the head of the team to discuss tomorrow's itinerary and the safety of the team.
By the time the instructors finished their discussion, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and it was very late.
Instructor Zou ate something quickly and then rode his horse quickly to the camp area assigned to Yisu Academy.
He didn't really listen to much of the discussion just now. He just followed the arrangements made by the instructors from the largest academy. Over the years, there had never been any mistakes in the academy's martial arts competitions. Instructor Zou didn't think he would be so unlucky that something would go wrong in a class that had produced so many talented people from the Yisu Academy.
He was still thinking about the sudden attack on him by the instructor of Jiuhua Academy. Xu Qingyan's identity was always on his mind and he couldn't let it go.
However, during this period of time, he was not too worried about the safety of Tang Zheng and his companions. Even if a traitor with knowledge of demons had infiltrated the joint team of the academy, with such a large-scale defensive formation in place, who would dare to act rashly?
Unless the instructors of the five top academies who are in charge of the defense formation are all demon-savvy and are connected to each other, there is no possibility of any unexpected event.
"Haha, I'm really overthinking it. How could this be possible?" Instructor Zou thought to himself while riding his horse.
Five instructors from the top academies are all in contact with demons? If this really happened, humans should just give up and surrender to the demons...
Instructor Zou was just thinking about this and that, and he had already arrived at the tent area of Yisu Academy. Looking at the empty tent with his name on it, he felt warm in his heart: "These little guys are quite conscientious."
However, he did not enter it into the account, but turned to the other side, to Tang Zheng's tent.
"Tang Zheng, Tang Zheng?" Instructor Zou called softly, but unfortunately, there was no response from inside Tang Zheng's tent.
Instructor Zou's heart moved, and he suddenly lifted the curtain of Tang Zheng's tent. He saw Tang Zheng lying at the door of the tent with his signature lazy smile on his face. His breathing was even and strong, and he seemed to be sleeping soundly and fragrantly.
Sitting next to him, holding a book and looking up at the tent entrance, was Xu Qingyan, who made Instructor Zou worried.
"Instructor Zou, is there something wrong?" Xu Qingyan asked.
"Uh, no, it's okay, um... Tang Zheng is asleep?" Instructor Zou certainly didn't speak frankly and told Xu Qingyan directly, "I've wanted to complain to Tang Zheng for a long time, but I never found the chance. Now let's see if it's the right time..." Helplessly, after hesitating for a word, he looked at Tang Zheng's "lovely" sleeping posture and asked a very nonsense question.
"Well, he just felt very sleepy and went to sleep first. If there is any emergency, I will wake him up?" Xu Qingyan did not care about Instructor Zou's embarrassing situation and said calmly.
"Uh... no need. Let's talk about it tomorrow morning after he wakes up. It's true that everyone is very tired today. You should also go to bed early." Instructor Zou thought to himself, even if I wake him up, it's not convenient for me to tell him since you are here, so he refused firmly.
"Okay, good night." Xu Qingyan nodded, then lowered his head and began to concentrate on the book in his hand.
Instructor Zou glanced at Tang Zheng unwillingly again and found that he indeed showed no signs of waking up, so he had no choice but to retreat silently, suppressing the thousand horses galloping in his heart. He thought, damn it, I have to hold it in for another night, and tonight is destined to be another sleepless night.
