The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

586: To Guess Correctly

The vice principal went to open the door, but not before scratching his beard irritably twice.
Outside, Jier stood standing with a bad look on his face.
This of course confused the vice principal.

“School is already out for the day; even a vice principal needs rest.
Student Jier, I must point out to you, your lack of consideration for others is unacceptable behavior,” said the vice principal as he huffed his beard out twice.

Jier angrily handed the note over.

The vice principal glared at Jier but didn’t say a word until after he read it.

“You came to me in such a huff over this?” The assistant principal looked at Jier speechlessly, but unfortunately his white beard made it hard to see his expression clearly.

“I finally got a clue that might be useful.
Assistant Principal, isn’t your reaction a little too subdued?” Jier said unhappily.
He glared accusingly and a bit suspiciously at the assistant principal.

He had already discovered the assistant principal wasn’t in a hurry to find Little Bun, which was really at odds with how much the assistant principal favored Little Bun.

The assistant principal’s abnormal attitude puzzled Jier.
It felt like the assistant principal was hiding something very important from all the students.

“I told you that Xiao Ye is safe but all of you still had to go out and search with so much fanfare.
This is just asking for extra work.” The old man had already tried to tell the students, but not only did they not listen, but they even looked at him like he was cruel and merciless.

This group of students didn’t understand how to respect for their old and wise elders.
They were surely going to be unlucky.

“Isn’t it because you’ve been unclear? Now we don’t even know where Xiao Ye is, whether his life is in danger or not, and we don’t know what the kidnapper intends to do.

You tell us not to worry and to not go searching for Xiao Ye, but how is that even possible?!

If you want us to be at ease, then you should at least tell us why you are so sure Xiao Ye is fine!”

Jier had wanted to ask for a long time now why the assistant principal was so sure Xiao Ye was fine.
How did he know Xiao Ye would come back on his own after he was done playing outside? What a joke! Him, come back by himself?!

“Okay, okay, Student Jier, you just do what Xiao Ye said in the letter.
It is getting late and I don’t want to keep you, so you go on back to bed early now you hear? That’s all.
Goodnight and goodbye!” The assistant principal didn’t wait for Jier to respond before shoving him out the door and closing it firmly behind him.

Jier scowled at the stinky old man and reluctantly returned to his dorm.

“What happened? What did the assistant principal say?” Jier’s roommates immediately surrounded him and asked before he could even step all the way through the door.

“He says that as long as we do as Xiao Ye says in the letter, everything should be fine.
There’s no need to be worried.” Jier snorted.

“How can that be? Xiao Ye tells us not to look for him and we should really do that? He’s barely two for goodness sake!”

“And who knows if the note was really from Xiao Ye? Maybe someone left it to deliberately fool us!”

“Yes! Very possible!”

“Okay! That’s enough.” Jier raised his hand up and made a stop gesture, then he said, “I am at least 90% certain this note is from Xiao Ye.” Besides Xiao Ye, no one could have written such ugly words.
It was more accurate to say the words were undecipherable scribbles than words.

Jier didn’t think it was possible for anyone else to imitate Xiao Ye’s handwriting.

“Haven’t you guys wondered? Xiao Ye is just a baby, how did he put the note in Jier’s room?” Ink, who had been standing behind the others spoke out suddenly.

He raised an important point that couldn’t be ignored.

Yes, how did Xiao Ye, who was a baby, manage to not only write the note but to deliver it by himself?!

Don’t kid around.
This wasn’t something a baby could do.
If he could, then he had to be a god baby or something.

“You’re right! It’s impossible for Xiao Ye to run back to school and leave the note in Jier’s room.”

“It’s true.
How old is Xiao Ye? How could he deliver the note and leave school without disturbing anyone? He’s such a small child.
No way he could have done it!”

Jier’s roommates discussed it for a long time but no one could come up with a reliable and believable answer.

“I know!” Ink shouted.

His sudden outburst startled everyone, especially Jier, who had been wondering if he had overlooked something.
Ink’s shout scattered away the idea that was just forming in his head.

“What did you think of?” Everyone looked to Ink.

Ink immediately said, “You guys forgot about Little White.
With Little White around, it would be strange for Xiao Ye to be kidnapped.
Xiao Ye followed the kidnappers on purpose.
He must have sent Little White with the message.”

Ink’s face was full of pride once he finished his conjecture.
Upon turning around to look at everyone, he found they were staring at him wide-eyed.

“What?” Ink took two steps back.
Their eyes were strange and a little scary.

“It’s nothing.
It’s just we suddenly discovered you’re smart.” It wasn’t until Ink mentioned it that they thought of the problem none of them saw.

Xiao Ye had the Shengmu,[notes] and another unknown beast baby that could talk around him.
With these kinds of guardians to protect him, it was unreasonable for him to disappear without a trace.
Something was fishy.

“The baby beast is probably not by Xiao Ye’s side.
It is very elusive, much like Xiao Wu’s contracted spirit, Lydia.
No one knows where to find it unless it wants to be found.”