"It was like last time. It was clear that the time had not come yet so the building door was not open, but he still insisted on saying 'there is no behind you', which made people think twice."
"Did you understand what I just said?"
After leaving Feiyuan, Zheng Qing kept complaining that the old man's words were obscure and difficult to understand, and at the same time hoped that Xiao Xiao could solve the mystery of the old man's dish for him: "The old man said that the black tide outside the island... the black tide of silence has already
Let’s get over it. Is he talking about the black tide next year?”
"It's the old gentleman," Xiao Xiao first corrected Zheng Qing's inappropriate choice of words, and then replied cautiously: "As for the tide he mentioned, I don't think it is a real tide... but the general trend. The mighty general trend of the world.
"
"The world... is the general trend?" Zheng Qing hesitated for a few seconds, and finally waved his hand: "Well, since it is such a big problem, let's not think about it... It's great to just live our own little life honestly.
"
"We are different." Xiao Xiao glanced at the young public-funded student and complained: "As the saying goes, 'cats and dogs in groups, children in pairs' are the winners in life. You are now only half the distance from becoming a winner in life, so naturally you want to
Live your own little life. And we losers who don’t even have a dog need the tide of the times to realize our dreams..."
Zheng Qing thought seriously for a few seconds.
He has a pack of cats, a pack dog, and a little fox.
So, I only have one son left!
He muttered to himself in his heart, and his spirits suddenly lifted a little. Based on this calculation, he was only a quarter of the way away from winning in life.
"What are you muttering in your heart?" Xiao Xiao seemed to hear Zheng Qing's thoughts and asked.
"There is a mouse there, have you seen it?" Zheng Qing pretended not to hear the doctor's question. Instead, he pointed to a sycamore tree not far away and shouted: "Wearing a red vest...it's very rare! You
Do you think Tinker Ears knows them?"
Xiao Xiao looked in the direction of Zheng Qing's finger.
Under the plane tree, a mouse wearing a red vest looked back at them, then turned around, got behind the tree, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
…
…
The mouse wearing a red vest got into the tree hole and ran all the way. Soon it reached a fork in the road.
There were two branches at that intersection. One branch was narrower, similar to the width of the one below it; the other branch was wider and could accommodate two big mice walking side by side.
The mouse in the red vest stopped for a moment at the intersection.
Soon, a rustling sound came from the narrow fork in the road. In an instant, another larger mouse wearing a red vest jumped out and nodded to the first mouse.
No squeak.
The two mice, one behind the other, silently jumped into the wider fork in the road.
that's all.
One fork in the road, two forks in the road, three forks in the road.
As more and more forks are passed by, the rat track below becomes wider and wider, and more and more rats are running in the rat track. The vests on their bodies are no longer limited to red, but appear in cyan, and even
Yellow vest. But the first mouse wearing a red vest was lost in all kinds of vests and disappeared.
The raging swarms of rats were like a tide, surging in the caves in all directions. Their rapid footsteps were intertwined, more detailed and grander than the torrential rain in summer.
Above the heads of these caves.
The ground is far away from these mice.
Located in a small shop at the end of the pedestrian street in Beta Town.
The yellow raccoon dog was squatting on the highest bookshelf of Sanyou Bookstore, tilting his ears and lowering his head, listening to the sound of the surging rat tide in the ground. His pupils were slightly narrowed, exuding an orange brilliance in the morning light.
Somewhat profound.
Although the bookstore is closed, it is not empty inside.
In addition to the yellow raccoon dog, there is another uninvited customer in the store.
Lao Yao chewed his pipe and sat cross-legged on the thick carpet. The long black robe on his body was like a shadow, spreading from the corner of the room to the center of the room, and then stopped abruptly under the sunlight from the window.
There was a tea tray in front of him.
There is a small dish of red sauce, a few peanuts, a small red clay teapot, and a square-mouthed teacup on the plate. Silver-white water mist pours out from the spout of the teapot, like a winding snake walking up to the sky.
road.
Lao Yao picked up a peanut with chopsticks, threw it into a small plate, rolled it, dipped it in some sauce, then stuffed it into his mouth, chewing slowly, his voice became a little muddy under the influence of the sauce:
"...Lei Zhe and Augustus both agreed to retire and hold a general election in advance. This made the disputes between Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy a lot less during this period... Those children focused on the general election.
.They have not yet fallen to the point of using external conflicts to create electoral bias."
"Of course it's a good thing. It makes the pressure on the school a little easier. You know? I haven't had a good day's rest since that tree bloomed...either fighting myself or fighting for the school. But this
It’s not the worst.”
"The worst thing is that we clearly know that there is Xiang Liu's spy in the school - or on Buji Island - but we still can't pull it out. It's like cutting off the old one from Xiang Liu's old siren head.
A new one pops up. It always finds the right collaborator among us..."
The yellow raccoon twitched its ears and glanced sideways at Lao Yao.
His eyes were full of ridicule.
Lao Yao turned a blind eye, picked up another peanut, and dipped it in the sauce:
"...I'm here today not just to complain. I just want to analyze the current situation with you."
"The current situation is that the school is short of manpower. The Xuanhuang Fruit is about to land in ten and a half days, and we have no idea where Xiang Liu will attack from. My old connections there don't even know about this.
It’s true. Of course, their words are not very credible.”
"So the professors' joint meeting decided two days ago to further reduce the number of troops and deploy most of the forces in the black prison to prevent any sudden attacks...and this will weaken the school, especially the school's peripheral defenses."
"You know, we can't count on the other side..."
As he said that, Lao Yao pointed with his chopsticks at the Wandering Bar diagonally opposite Sanyou Bookstore, paused, and then added: "We can't count on that old guy to help with defense. Thank God if he doesn't cause trouble... It just so happens that your recent period
Time is spent in the town again. So, can you take care of the town... Don't worry about the school, the protective circle is still very stable."
The yellow raccoon finally withdrew his eyes from the empty floor.
It fell on Lao Yao.
"It's none of my business." Its beard drooped down, and it was obviously in a bad mood.