High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 766: Chapter 114 Dr. Xiao’s Award-winning Q&A_1

The diamond that Xiao Xiao tossed out was very tiny, no bigger than the tip of a needle. If singled out, it wouldn’t look much different from ordinary glass debris; it held no decorative significance.

But now, when it falls into the claws of Dangdang Ears, it’s a different story. According to a mouse’s ten-centimeter height, compared to a human’s one hundred and seventy centimeters, a needle-tip-sized diamond in human eyes would have to enlarge by fifteen to sixteen times to match the size in a mouse’s perspective.

Of course, even if it enlarged by fifteen or sixteen times, it would only change from the size of a needle tip to the size of a grain of rice, still not particularly significant.

However, a rice-sized diamond was already very valuable to the Mouse King.

Is this for me? Thank you so much! You’re indeed a wonderful person! I’ve always heard that the young handsomes from First University are good-hearted men. Today, it indeed lives up to its reputation, truly it’s better witnessed than heard about!”

While clutching the diamond, Dangdang Ears’ eyes sparkled, and he spat out a series of flattering words, almost making the black cat that heard and glanced over think that the mouse had been possessed by an unscrupulous merchant.

”Oh! A diamond?!”

The black cat twisted her body and ran a few steps closer to the human and the mouse upon seeing the object in the mouse’s paw. She looked at them in astonishment, asking, ”Doctor, when did you become so extravagant? Gratifying with such a large diamond... If you have spare money, you should buy a handsome suit, so you don’t lose face next time you go out with Mister Sima!”

Upon hearing the remarks, Xiao Xiao’s face darkened, and he quietly turned his back to the black cat without saying a word.

Compared to the Doctor, Dangdang Ears’ reaction was significantly more dramatic.

The clothed mouse tensed up upon seeing the black cat approaching, with his body slightly crouched, as if prepared to run at any moment. And upon the black cat’s appearance, he swiftly hid the diamond under his pelvis― Zheng Qing was genuinely curious as to what kind of object the mouse’s pelvis could fit so many things in!

”Hey, Doctor, you haven’t said where you got that little diamond.” The black cat, thinking of the upcoming Christmas and gifts she needed to prepare, kept asking persistently, ”Do you have extra? Are there any bigger? Could you spare me a few? I plan to wrap them as a Christmas gift.”

”Gift?” Xiao Xiao finally turned around, looking at the black cat with a puzzled expression, ”Didn’t your cat gang offer you a large piece of honey-colored Cat’s Eye Stone just a few days ago? I remember you saying you were going to use that stone as a gift.”

”Only if there aren’t better choices!” The black cat pressed her paw, her ears prickled up, and her expression suddenly became serious, ”As the saying goes, ’A diamond is forever, a carat continues’. Who would choose a Cat’s Eye Stone if they could use diamonds as Christmas gifts!”

The saying does sound right.

However, the young cost student’s plan was doomed to fail.

”I do have spare diamonds, but there aren’t any larger ones.” Xiao Xiao said, rummaging in his pocket for a while, and then took out a small bag. He tilted the bag a little to expose a small pile of diamond fragments, ”These were swept out from the crucible when I was helping Professor Li clean the lab a few days ago. We got almost half a half-pound... After we finished, the professor gave a small handful to each of the students who helped.”

”All like this, basically the size of a needle tip... It becomes slightly more colorful hen put together. If singled out, it would look no different from ordinary glass debris.”

”There’s not much use.”

At this time, Lin Guo, who had been acting as the background, suddenly said, ”I don’t know if it’s useful or not. But if I were you, I would re-bag those little ’glass debris’ and tuck them back in my waist pouch... Can’t you see that the mouse’s eyes have turned red?”

Upon hearing this, the black cat was startled.

When she looked back at Dangdang Ears, she finally realized that Lin Guo’s earlier words were an exaggeration. Right, this is the First University. There’s no way that red-eyed animals could randomly pop up... Of course, while his words were an exaggeration, they also reflected the current situation accurately.

At this moment, the clothed Mouse King’s eyes were bulging wide open, panting heavily, fixing his gaze on the small pile of diamond debris in Doctor Xiao’s hand. It seemed that he was prepared to pounce and snatch it any moment.

Therefore, it wasn’t inappropriate to say his eyes had turned red.

Xiao Xiao apparently noted Dangdang Ears’ abnormal demeanor. However, he didn’t follow Lin Guo’s suggestion to pour the small pile of diamond fragments back into the bag and tuck them back into his waist pouch. Instead, he picked out a tiny piece with his fingernail and dangled it in front of the Mouse King.

”Do you want it?” Doctor Xiao adjusted his glasses, his face layered with a gentle smile.

Looking at his expression, the black cat couldn’t help but raise her hackles a little. She quietly retreated a step or two, standing in front of her cat gang before she finally felt a little relieved.

Dangdang Ears’ long pointy nose twitched violently, his small eyes bulging out, and his neck seeming to be installed with a rotating shaft, slowly moving along with Xiao Xiao’s dangling fingertip.

”Do you want it?” Xiao Xiao repeated his question.

The mouse nodded with force, it was so vigorous that it made people worry that the next second its huge head would jolt off from its slender neck.

”Answer a few of my questions and I will give it to you.” Xiao Xiao flashed a satisfied face, leisurely flipped open his notebook, skimmed through a few questions, and added, ”If you answer well, you will get one for each answer.”

Dangdang Ears suddenly straightened his body, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, then opened them again, a determined face even appearing on his slitted face.

”You ask!” The mouse politely bowed slightly.

The black cat found that ever since the ’bribe’ appeared, the mouse had become more and more polite. He not only knew how to bow at the right moment, but also used honorific language in his speech.

”Um, the first question... you mentioned earlier ’how my clan does things...’. Does this mean that there are many mice who can talk like you and form a clan?” Xiao Xiao’s first question made Zheng Qing’s ears perk up.

Dangdang Ears’ small eyes blinked hard, blinking again and again, blink after blink.

Not until Zheng Qing felt it was going to blink its little eyeballs out did it seem to finally prepare its drafts.

”We indeed form a clan, and there are many clan mice.” The clothed mouse answered Xiao Xiao’s first question bluntly. Although it gave a clear answer, the wording was very vague, making it hard for people to accurately gauge the size of this extraordinary mouse clan.

Xiao Xiao obviously wasn’t satisfied with this answer, but he just paused for a moment and posed his second question―and of course, because the answer wasn’t good enough, the diamond perched on his fingernail did not fall down.

The particular clothed Mouse King could only stare anxiously as the beautiful luster the little stone emitted under the sun.

”The second question, who is the ’elderly ancestor’ you mentioned earlier?”