Almost everyone by the Serpent Road turned their heads in unison. The arrivals were too eye-catching. Amidst the whispers and murmurs of the crowd, only Yang Zhen, the insolent cat, and the saucy chicken continued to writhe their asses while grappling with a math problem.
Yang Zhen was utterly confused. It was a simple geometry problem, yet somehow he couldn't solve it. It felt strangely familiar, as if the problem knew him, but he didn't know the problem.
"Kiddo, are you up for this?" The insolent cat circled around Yang Zhen, a look of puzzlement etched on its face. "What you drew seems right, but I have no idea what this ghoulish glyph is. Is it some kind of mysterious symbol that I've never seen before?"
"I've never seen it either!" The saucy chicken glanced at Yang Zhen's drawing and resumed preening its tail, still in messy disarray from Yang Zhen's rough handling.
Yang Zhen glared at the two of them and said, "Shut up! I, a scholastic genius, will soon crack this nut."
