"Where's the news?"
"The one about the Three-pronged Sword... well, to be precise, it was the school notifying the Three-pronged Sword."
"How to say?"
"A hunting team from the school discovered a new illegal laboratory somewhere in the Silent Forest, related to crows." Zheng Qing succinctly conveyed the information he had just received to several companions, seeming to notice Dylan's face.
With a hesitant expression, he raised his hand to calm himself down and added: "...it's not the specious intelligence we received. The news from the school is very reliable. The investigators have confirmed that someone wearing
The wizard in the crow mask has been in and out of that laboratory in the past few days."
The last sentence made several companions' eyes light up.
It seemed that in an instant, the atmosphere in this wilderness became much friendlier, and the scorching sun above also seemed warm and hospitable.
Rumble.
A huge blue figure appeared at the end of the wasteland in the distance, like a hill, running towards them. The sound of heavy footsteps made the ground buzz, and the fine pebbles jumped. As the distance became closer and closer,
As he got closer, the figure became smaller and smaller, until as close as Chi Chi, the figure was no different from an ordinary person.
"Is it done?"
Fatty Xin held a wide-mouthed glass bottle in his arms. The bottle was filled with plump Peruvian red scorpions. They were waving their big pliers, crowding each other, and hugging each other. Even though they were separated by the glass bottle, Zheng Qing
It's like you can hear the rustling sounds of these insects.
"What a harvest." Mr. Vampire Werewolf floated to the side of the fat wizard like a wisp of smoke. He poked his head and took a look into the bottle: "How do you plan to eat them?"
"Of course deep-frying is the best, but you can't fry too much, because it will eat too fast. I prefer one-third fried, one-third charcoal grilled, and the remaining one-third soaked in wine...
...Soak them in green bees, the taste is awesome." Fatty Xin described it with excitement. At the end, he changed the subject: "In addition, the doctor's guess was good. I checked it when I was catching scorpions.
Within tens of miles, these scorpions have become the top of the food chain, and there are no traces of any predators larger than them."
Zheng Qing thoughtfully touched the rune gun hanging on his waist.
"In other words, either, these scorpions are so powerful that they can dominate this wasteland." He glanced at the small grave he kicked out before and shook his head: "Or, the fallen wizard is still hiding in this area.
…”
"What about us now? Leave it and go back to school directly?" Xiao Xiao frowned and looked back at the ruins of the salt mine they had just investigated not far behind him.
On the other side, Dylan had already quietly and quickly explained the current situation to the fat wizard.
"We can't leave." Lan Que, who rarely spoke on weekdays, unexpectedly expressed his attitude. He looked at Zheng Qing resolutely and shook his head slightly.
"You really can't leave!"
The fat wizard who had figured out the situation also started to yell: "Although the doctor burned the corpses bitten by monsters, if we leave directly now, God knows what will happen before the Trident Sword sends the next hunting team over.
How many more crimes will this fallen wizard cause...Although I like the red scorpion, I don’t want it to be the only insect left in this wasteland!"
"But, we don't have time."
Zheng Qing sighed, took out a silver knife, made a small cut on his finger, sprinkled it around, then quickly wrapped a bandage and applied a layer of strong-smelling ointment to the wound.
The red scorpions in the jar seemed to be drunk, waving their giant claws wildly, and the jar made a crackling sound. Outside the jar, under the stones and gravel in the wasteland, there were red figures one by one.
Overcoming the trembling from the depths of my soul, I looked greedily in the same direction.
"If you want to eat, you can catch more," Zheng Qing looked at Fatty Xin calmly and stretched his fingers towards the gray cloth bag: "They are all yours, you can eat half and soak half."
The fat wizard glanced at his captain in surprise.
"Oh, look at this young hunter. Last year, no, when he came to school last year, his eyes were as innocent and panicked as a newborn Bambi (fawn), but now, tsk tsk," he waved exaggeratedly
Holding his arms: "Now his eyes are as cold and heartless as an eagle's."
Along with the fat wizard's waving arms, slender vines protruded from the void like tentacles, rolled up the red scorpions that emerged from the gaps in the wasteland, and quickly retracted them.
"Why 'Bambi' instead of Bonnie, Katie, and Papi?" Zheng Qing tilted his head, with a hint of curiosity in his tone. He took out a small wooden box from the gray cloth bag, opened it, and found a row of
The neatly arranged talisman bullets, under the bright sunshine, a thin but eye-catching red halo appeared on the surface of the talisman bullets.
"First of all, I like dogs, so you can't be Papi; secondly, Katie is a woman, so you don't want to be a female cat; finally, out of good intentions, I didn't let you be a rabbit." The fat wizard answered seriously.
Then, he threw the first jar filled with red scorpion into the watch and took out a larger bottle at the same time.
Zheng Qing chuckled.
"I thought you liked Tuan Tuan more than edamame." His fingertips slid over the rune bullets in the box one by one, and finally selected the one with the dimmest glow, took it out, and stuffed it into the rune gun.
call!
Whoosh!
A tall figure wearing a tattered cloak slowly emerged from the wasteland not far from the young wizards. It had its back hunched, its eyes under the hood flashed with manic red light, and it stared in the direction of Zheng Qing.
The heavy breathing was like a huge bellows that was beating, putting heavy pressure on all sides.
Snapped!
The muzzle of the raised rune gun flashed a dazzling red light, and a thunderbolt sounded in the void. Before the tall figure arched out of the salt-alkali ground, it suddenly collapsed in the blood-red rune bullets and disappeared in mid-air.
It turned into a pile of ashes.
"Time is tight."
The captain of the Exoneration Hunting Team seemed to have been infected by Lan Que's classmate, and he also became precious about words: "Capturing, transferring, and dealing with the aftermath will take a lot of time and energy... There is no way to save it anyway, so let's just destroy it."
Xiao Xiao shrugged and did not express his position.
Dylan gave a thumbs up in appreciation, paused, and added a second thumbs up: "At this moment, you are more like a Starry Sky Academy student than me."
Zheng Qing silently put away the rune gun and hung it back on his waist.
Although this winter vacation hunting was only a little over half a month, it gave him a deeper understanding of the wizarding world. The more he saw, the colder his heart became. Zheng Qing found that he could no longer sympathize with those people as he did at first.
The fallen wizard.
Compassion and empathy seem to be the only two things that have been declining during his rapid growth.
Maybe this is the price of growth.
This chapter has been completed!