First came the dream, then the bolide, the gatha, the disappearance, the death, and then the black sap.
Bad omens come one after another, seemingly unrelated to each other, but each one is vaguely related to a certain word, making people upset and unable to sleep.
At night, Zheng Qing was lying on the bed, looking at the twinkling stars in the black background through the small patch of night sky exposed on the balcony, as if he saw silent, watching eyes. Even if he closed his eyes, he could still feel it.
Seeing those cold eyes, turning around, like a ray of light on the back, makes people more and more anxious.
He was holding the nightmare doll in his hands, thinking wildly and worriedly, and he didn't even know when he fell asleep.
But when he woke up, the head of the rag doll in his hand was still peacefully resting on its neck, which made him feel a little better. As the saying goes, a day's plan begins in the morning. If you are in a good mood in the morning, you will not be in a bad mood throughout the day.
Too bad.
Xiao Xiao, who does morning classes with Zheng Qing every day, was the first to notice his good mood.
"Is there anything you're happy about?"
After finishing morning classes, on the way to the teaching building, the doctor pinched his fingers curiously: "I feel like you are in an unusually happy mood today... Is it Jiang Yu? Councilor Su? Or the three great elves?"
His words were very clear.
Zheng Qing's face suddenly dropped.
"Why can't I find the source of those black sap?" He asked in a stiff tone.
Xiao Xiao curled his lips.
"Because I'm too familiar with you." He shrugged and explained rather boringly: "If it's that kind of thing, you should be eager to show it off to me before morning class... Only about those witches, you can
Cover it up and entertain yourself.”
Zheng Qing was a little unsure whether it was a good word or a bad word.
But he felt that he still needed to prove his innocence.
"It has nothing to do with them."
The boy emphasized very deliberately, and after a pause, he came up with an appropriate answer: "It's just that I'm in a good mood... I don't know if you've ever had that feeling - walking on a sunny day, and being surrounded by a beautiful little girl
I tripped over a precious stone—that’s probably how I feel now.”
Xiao Xiao raised his head and glanced at the sky, then looked at his feet.
The sun couldn't be said to be bright today, and there were no gems underfoot. Instead, there were a few sneaky grasshoppers peeking out from the bushes, as if they were expecting something delicious to fall on a passing student.
"That's just a metaphor!"
Zheng Qing obviously noticed the doctor's gaze and was speechless: "You can understand that you need to take the midterm exam, but I don't, so I am very happy... that kind of happiness, do you understand?"
Just as there is nothing that excites people in the stars more than the blood stains on the fighting ring, there is no metaphor that makes people understand it more clearly than an exam.
"Ah, yes, you don't need to take the midterm exam."
Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses and glanced at the wizard beside him: "Although I don't know what to be happy about... maybe you should adapt to this difference earlier."
Mention the word 'difference'.
Zheng Qing immediately felt melancholy.
The ‘sense of fragmentation’ brought about by early graduation is becoming increasingly clear.
He was in class at night when his classmates had a rest; he was in class when his classmates were participating in the spring hunt; and he was still in class when his classmates were preparing for the midterm exam.
Although everyone is in the same school, the same classroom, and even the same dormitory, these two months have given him a strong feeling of parallel worlds.
Perhaps sensing that the wizard was upset, the black gem cat emerged from his sleeve, crawled along the sleeve of his robe and onto his shoulder, and then bit his ear.
"Don't make trouble."
Zheng Qing tilted his head to avoid the black gem cat's licking, and couldn't help but rub his ears - he didn't know if it was an illusion, but when the black gem cat came closer, he felt a slight bulging feeling in his ear holes.
But that feeling was fleeting and disappeared without a trace after he rubbed his ears.
"When we can be happy, let's seize the time to be happy." After coming back to his senses, the young teaching assistant muttered, remembering those thoughts before going to bed last night: "... bad omens come one after another. You are a fortune teller, you
You should know better than me what signs such as bolides, dreams, and black sap mean."
The diviner of the Forgiveness Hunting Team slowed down and took a serious look at him.
"What do you want to do?" he asked simply.
Zheng Qing waved his sleeves and slapped the branches of the Nagano bushes on the roadside with some frustration: "...I don't know. I don't have any clear ideas at the moment. But I feel that things can't go on like this. When I formed the group of forgiveness,
At that time, I didn’t have any long-term ideas..."
"If you don't have an idea, don't think about it."
Xiao Xiao interrupted his captain's stream of consciousness answer and rarely gave a clear suggestion: "If you feel aimless and can't find the goal, don't think about the goal... focus on what's one meter in front of you.
Distance and focus on the only thing that is real and within your reach.”
"Is it within reach?" Zheng Qing scanned the area within one meter to the left and right.
Just like Xiao Xiao did a few minutes ago.
"I'm referring to your early graduation."
The short wizard rubbed his forehead, feeling that Zheng Qing's childish behavior was like a child: "For a fortune teller, you can see countless bad signs every day. But finding signs does not mean that you can find evil.
…Because evil will always exist and will never disappear. They will only dormant for a short time, just like corpse-eating beetles hiding under the humus layer of the forest in winter. After their awakening, they will be full of vitality when the thunder shakes and the sun and rain fall.
...The same is true for those crows. Every move they make leaves a bad omen on the timeline. We don't need to pay too much attention to them... From another angle, your rune gun will blow off the head of one more crow.
, can you help you graduate from school early?"
"What does this have to do with my graduation?" Zheng Qing felt that Xiao Xiao's rhetoric was a bit jumpy.
Xiao Xiao spread his hands.
"So, what do those crows have to do with you? You don't need to care about them, just like you don't need to care about spring hunting and midterm exams."
Having said this, he took off his glasses, squinted at the foggy sun, and suddenly sighed: "The reason why I say so much is that I actually have some bad intuitions..."
"What intuition?" Zheng Qing suddenly felt uneasy - doctors rarely say such things.
"Your persistence will make you face a crazy dark wizard as powerful as Whateley. That's not hunting monsters, it's seeking death." Xiao Xiao put on his glasses straightly, not looking at Zheng Qing, but
Looking at the road ahead: "Of course, I know that my light persuasion has a high probability of having no effect... According to the development trend of destiny and the mysterious principle of aggregation, you and those crows will only continue to intersect in the future until the destiny is met.
Results appear.”
This chapter has been completed!