Chapter 46: Keeping the hole and waiting for the mouse
Even though they are wearing clothes, a mouse is still a mouse.
After coming out of the office building, the big black mouse refused to walk on the spacious, quiet, and uncrowded road. Instead, it chose corners, roadsides, and ditches under shrubs and grass, causing the black mouse behind it to walk.
The cat had to shrink again so as not to lose its trace.
It was not until finally that the mouse stopped and got into a small tree hole under a big tree. Zheng Qing raised his head and realized that he had been following him for most of the day and only ran from the office building to the rockery beside Linzhong Lake.
——Calculating from the spatial distance, the distance between the two is less than one thousand meters. Following the corridor in the school, it takes five minutes to run back and forth.
But that damn mouse took him in a big circle, almost half a circle around Linzhong Lake!
If he hadn't been fed by Fatty Xin's dried fish before going out, Zheng Qing highly doubted that he would have pounced on the fat rat and killed it first, then ate it, and then killed it and ate it again.
Angrily squatting at the entrance of the tree hole, the figure of the black cat silently grew to a height of one meter - Zheng Qing had decided that as long as the mouse dared to show up again, he would definitely slap it with a big ear and tell it why it was spent.
So red!
As for whether the big rat wearing clothes and carrying a schoolbag might be the transformed form of a certain wizard, the young public-funded student did not pay attention to it. Because there have been many judicial interpretations of relevant situations in the "Wizard Code", after the transformation
Although the wizard still enjoys the relevant wizard rights, it only applies to the relationship between other wizards and small animals; the relationship between two small animals needs to consider the weight of 'animal instinct' in the biological chain.
For example, if a wizard turns into a rabbit and another wizard turns into a tiger, and the two voluntarily stay in the same secret room, and the rabbit is injured or even murdered by the hungry tiger, the wizard represented by the tiger will only be liable for civil damages at most.
.This is because it is instinct for tigers to eat rabbits when they are hungry. When rabbits agree to live with tigers, they should consider the related risks.
And if a wizard turns into a rabbit and another wizard murders the rabbit by any means, including magic, the wizard will be charged with up to second-degree murder in addition to a large murder tax and related civil liability.
Therefore, for Zheng Qing, beating up a big rat running around outdoors is not a big deal.
After all, cats are gifted with catching mice.
The tree hole that the big mouse burrowed into is located at the foot of a tall oak tree. At First University, in addition to weeping willow and plant tree, oak is the most popular tree species planted by wizards. This plant is found in European, American and European countries.
Many places have long legends and histories, especially the Druids, who worshiped this plant as a sacred object.
The tree hole is very low and narrow, only about ten centimeters in diameter. It is hidden behind a lush clump of green perennials. The tree hole is surrounded by a circle of fine, dark brown tumors, which are after the bark of the tree has been damaged.
The scar left behind. Looking inward along the entrance of the hole, it was dark inside with no light and no sound.
Although he can continue to shrink, Zheng Qing does not intend to go in and catch the black mouse himself - after all, he is a wizard turned cat, and his curiosity is still limited, and he does not have Shi Lezhi. If the tree hole is deep,
There is a big nest of mice everywhere, wouldn't he let the cat into the mouse's mouth?
Zheng Qing doesn't like eating rats, but he doesn't want to be eaten by rats. From the outside, the tree hole is not very big. If the space inside is very small, his advantage of deformation will be useless.
Just like that, the black cat squatted at the entrance of the tree hole and began to wait for the mouse. In order to prevent the big mouse from being frightened and afraid to come forward, he also moved his position slightly, avoiding the front of the oak tree and hiding on the diagonal side of the tree hole.
.In this way, as soon as the tip of the mouse's nose pops up, Zheng Qing can see it clearly and pounce on it.
As a cat, Zheng Qing is very patient.
The black cat has been motionless since he lay down and stared at the tree hole. If it weren't for the time limit for his transformation, he felt that he could squat in front of the tree hole all day.
Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour.
The night is getting darker and darker, and the wind blowing from the lake has also changed from warm to cold. The black cat lying quietly among the bushes is almost completely hidden by the background of the night. If it were not for the occasional flicker
With his eyes shining brightly, Zheng Qing believed that even if someone from the school patrol walked up to him, they would not notice a one-meter-tall big cat lying here.
Perhaps it was because his sense of presence was weakening. As Zheng Qing's silence became longer, the originally quiet lakeside gradually became more alive.
A staggering longevity turtle crawled slowly along the grassland by the lake. Although Zheng Qing didn't know why this big turtle living on the east bank of the lake came to the west of the lake, it didn't stop him from staring at the longevity turtle.
Every move - when you are bored, everything is interesting.
At the very least, watching this giant tortoise crawl is much more interesting than watching that kappa bask in the moon.
Of course, in addition to the longevity turtles and kappas, there are also squirrels and chipmunks jumping around in the branches of the trees above Zheng Qing's head in search of nuts. On the rockery not far away, there is also a little white cat climbing up and down.
Farther away, there was a group of big red birds taking a nap on the lake. In addition, in the night sky, a few black bats slid silently, flashing over the water plants from time to time, competing with the tree sperm for those that were slowly becoming dull.
of fireflies.
Because the weather has become colder, the number and types of bugs on the lakeside are much less than a few months ago. This has resulted in a large number of insectivorous creatures that do not want to go dormant and have to compete for limited food. School
Taking this into consideration, the school working committee has recently added the task of placing food for these small animals in the work arrangements for the patrol team.
A dark shadow flickered in the corner of his eye. The black cat, which was looking around, immediately cheered up and turned its attention back to the entrance of the tree hole. Just now, something seemed to be coming out of it. However, after staring for a long time, the tree
There was still no movement at the entrance of the cave, so that for a moment Zheng Qing wanted to put his paws in and feel around to see what the big rat was up to.
But he finally gave up on this risky idea, relaxed his focus again, and continued to be patient.
On the edge of the lake shore, there were a few faint lights swaying, slowly walking towards this side.
Those were the lanterns held by the school night patrolmen. Zheng Qing also held them while walking by the lake. As the lights slowly came closer, faint voices gradually came from the breeze. Zheng Qing
Subconsciously, he shrank his figure and hid behind the oak.
The position he is currently in is right next to the path that the patrol members must pass. Apart from a few bushes, there is only a long and narrow wooden chair in front of him.