With Lockhart hospitalized again, the young wizards' disappointment with the new professor reached its peak.
Even his most loyal fans can't find reasons to support him.
Hermione had also decided that Lockhart was a liar, but when it came to the bet with Rolf, the little girl was still stubborn and refused to admit defeat.
Luofu is not in a hurry. This kind of "rebellious girl" should be trained slowly and patiently.
Saturday is coming soon,
Luo Fu became busier and busier.
Early in the morning, he took Shirley and Hermione to Hagrid's cabin to prepare for dealing with the problem of carnivorous slugs.
This is something I made an appointment with Hagrid during the summer vacation.
Neville didn't come with him. He was punished by Snape to clean the potions classroom tonight, and he was discussing with Hannah what to do.
After crossing a large piece of grass, a few people came to Hagrid's cabin. The walls of the house still had traces of being burned black by Norbert the Fire Dragon, and they looked very miserable.
Yaya was lying at the door, playing with a little goblin.
The goblin's head was bitten by the teeth and tossed around. The little guy kept screaming: "Let me go! Let me go!"
Seeing Luo Fu and others coming, Yaya dug a hole and buried the goblin underground, then trotted towards them.
As an assistant, Shirley takes care of the magical creatures in the black suitcase on a daily basis. Her lizard-shaped wallet always contains various snacks.
The girl took out the freeze-dried chicken, and Yaya whimpered with satisfaction, wagging her tail enthusiastically towards her.
Of these guys, Yaya likes the human named Shirley the most and always gives him snacks; the guy named Luofu hates the most because he likes to pull his tail and doesn't allow him to eat the feces of the Moon Chi Beast.
After Hagrid heard the noise outside the house, he strode out and said happily:
"You guys are finally here. If you don't come, my cabbages will be destroyed!"
"I brought carnivorous slug insecticide." Luofu patted his box and smiled: "Let's go, lead the way."
Hegra left and was still eating the freeze-dried teeth. The goblin pulled himself out of the ground like a carrot. When he looked up, he saw "the freeze-dried food given by nature".
The goblin picked up the freeze-dried food and ran towards his den. Fang Ya roared angrily, but was still dragged towards the vegetable patch by Hagrid.
"Where did those carnivorous slugs come from?" Hermione asked curiously: "Didn't they exist last year?"
"Perhaps the students at Hogwarts kept them as pets and discovered that the carnivorous slugs were getting bigger and bigger, so they secretly threw them away," Rove guessed.
Of course, there is also a kind of release party. No matter what kind of creature it is, no matter whether it is an invasive species or not, they just "move themselves" to release it.
"Then it can't spread so quickly, right?" Hermione asked doubtfully.
"They can lay more than five hundred eggs in one summer." When Shirley saw Luo Fu making pesticides, she checked the information and said softly:
"It only takes more than two weeks for those eggs to hatch successfully, and it takes less than two months to become capable of reproduction."
"That's right." Luo Fu nodded and said, "Even if there is only one slug, they can reproduce together."
Slugs are hermaphroditic creatures that can "produce and sell themselves". It can be said that they have made extraordinary efforts to adapt to the world.
When passing by the pumpkin patch, there were twelve large pumpkins, each half as tall as a person.
"It looks pretty good, doesn't it?" Hagrid said happily: "It's for the Halloween party... It should be as big as the house by then."
"Hagrid, how did you cultivate these pumpkins?" Shirley asked seriously.
She cultivated a vegetable patch in Luofu's box, but the growth was mediocre.
Hermione observed it and guessed: "Maybe it's the expansion curse?"
"That's right." Hagrid smiled and said, "The effect is not bad."
After passing through the pumpkin patch, the group came to the cabbage patch. The ground was covered with sticky silver-white crawling marks.
Most of the cabbages were withered and yellow, and many of them had been eaten away until only the roots were left.
"They all hid underground and only come out at night. I sprinkled a lot of salt on the ground, but the effect was average." Hagrid said, throwing a piece of dried meat towards the ground.
Soon, a group of slugs emerged from the soil. They were only half the size of teeth, like worms, and had a row of small teeth in their mouths, each one as sharp as a needle, chewing the meat like crazy.
The intensive phobia-like scene was so terrifying that Yaya jumped into Hagrid's arms in fright.
Luofu looked at the group of slugs, and there was a sudden "ding" in his brain.
[Wild slugs detected, triggering side mission 1:]
Capture carnivorous slugs, reward magic:
[Mucosic acid in tongue and teeth]
[Consume magic power to create corrosive saliva that can dissolve infected objects]
[Side mission 2]
100% domestication of carnivorous slugs, bonus magic:
【Hermaphrodite】
[Can give birth to female and male organs at the same time like a carnivorous slug for self-reproduction]
"..."
Luo Fu almost collapsed, the system always produced rewards that made his eyesight darken!
If you really complete the task, you will really become a male mother!
Seeing the strange look on the young man's face, Shirley whispered: "Rolf, what's wrong with you?"
Luofu let out a breath, shook his head and said, "I'm fine."
He can't tell Shirley that he has a chance to match her sisters, right?
Wait...if we look at it from the perspective of transgender cognition, can he go to women's bathhouses in the future?
Rolf put aside his random thoughts, opened the box, took out a large bottle of black potion, handed it to Hagrid and said:
"This is a carnivorous slug insecticide made from the venom secreted by the color-changing giant snail. Spray it on the cabbage every evening and it will have a very good control effect."
Hagrid took the insecticide and planned to try it tonight.
"I still have to catch a few slugs," said Rolf.
He was not going for the heaven-defying magic of hermaphroditism, but was planning to bring carnivorous slugs back to breed in large numbers.
The appetites of the Basilisk and the Fire Dragon were too big, and Rolf couldn't bear it anymore, so he had to find some cheap food to replace them.
Snakes eat snails and slugs, and carnivorous slugs reproduce quickly and are the best food!
With a flick of his wrist, Luofu spread a few seeds forward and said softly:
"The vines grow!"
Those seeds quickly grew into countless vines that rolled forward like snakes. The carnivorous slugs sensed danger and sprayed saliva as thick as mercury from their mouths.
The vines were instantly corroded and made a sizzling sound.
A slug suddenly burst out of the ground and bit Rolf's ankle. Instead of shrinking and jumping up according to instinct, he kicked his foot into the slug's mouth full of sharp teeth.
Step down!
“Thick skin!”
Rolf's skin turned silver-gray, like dragon scales, and the slug's teeth and saliva could not break the skin's defense. He directly stepped on the slug back to the ground.