The door to the study room was slowly pushed open with a creaking sound.
A breeze passed through the hall, sweeping away the remaining burnt odor in the room.
The curtain hanging in front of the window swayed slightly.
"Creak", the study door was closed again, leaving the uneasy breath outside.
The old servant Constantine slowly walked into the study carrying an exquisite silver tea set.
After serving hot sweet tea to the two guests, he finally couldn't help sniffing.
"Master." He glanced at the doctor doubtfully, but hesitated to speak.
"It's okay." Dr. Duzem waved his hand comfortingly, indicating that he could leave.
The old servant hesitated for a moment, bowed respectfully, and then left.
The young red-robed wizards were still immersed in the shock caused by the flame just now.
In order to survive, a bug can transform into a piece of dry skin, go through countless hardships, and finally be swallowed up by the sea of fire on the day of resurrection.
This feeling of powerlessness makes people feel an inexplicable sadness.
Zheng Qing took a sip of tea, and the rich sweet aroma and hot taste made him gasp slightly.
"So, as you last saw, although scarabs like dryness and sunshine, they are most afraid of flames. I have to say that this is a huge paradox." The doctor slightly stirred the food in the bowl with a glass rod.
Can Hui concluded in a weird tone: "However, the wizarding world is always full of paradoxes of this kind...or contradictions."
"Thank you very much for your teaching." Jiang Yu put down the tea cup and nodded slightly in thanks.
"You're welcome, I think you will use this knowledge sooner or later." The doctor twitched his lips, with a satisfied smile on his face: "My little cuties..."
As he spoke, he tapped the heavy fish tank on the wall with a glass rod.
The corpse-eating beetles that originally clung to the skull fled in all directions amidst the crisp knocking sounds, drilling into the gaps deeper in the fish tank. But in that small space, such efforts were obviously fruitless.
"They told me that a group of uninvited guests came to the school."
"Uninvited guest?" Zheng Qing asked doubtfully.
"A group?" Jiang Yu raised her eyebrows.
"Each group of corpse-eating beetles has its own very strong sense of territory." Dr. Duzem put down the glass rod, opened his arms, and gestured: "Within this range, any foreign intruder will make them feel uneasy... Just like now
so."
Zheng Qing turned his head and looked carefully at the glass fish tank.
The corpse-eating beetles that had been disturbed by the noise and fled in all directions formed a ball again and lay on the skull.
"If they just come out of the Silent Forest and pass by the campus to hunt for wild food, they won't be so nervous." Dr. Duzem put down his arms and looked at the bugs solemnly: "It can make these natural predators feel uneasy, hug them
Those trembling in groups can only be intruders from outside the island."
"Intruders from outside the island." Zheng Qing licked his lips and asked hesitantly: "Could it be a demon?"
"Monster?" The doctor shook his head repeatedly and apologized: "Maybe I didn't explain it clearly just now. For corpse-eating beetles, any living thing is food...except themselves. So whether it is the great wizard, the Siren King, or others
Any strange creatures will only arouse their appetite."
"The intruders they see will only be corpse-eating beetles of the same species." the doctor concluded.
"Are these bugs picky eaters?" Jiang Yu was silent for a moment and asked, "For example, they only eat the eyeballs of animals."
Zheng Qing looked at her carefully and sighed secretly in his heart.
"No." The doctor very decisively denied this possibility: "For these bugs, except for bones, all other parts of the living body are edible."
"Is there any creature that kills an animal and then removes its eyeballs?" Zheng Qing added and asked: "Are there such animals on the island, such as in school laboratories, or deep in the Silent Forest?"
Jiang Yu pursed her lips and glanced at him gratefully.
"There are indeed very few creatures with this special hobby." Dr. Duzem was stunned, thought for a moment, and shook his head: "To be precise, there is only one species I know of, 'Horus', which is a group of people who give up their lives for power.
Fallen wizards with normal life are an outlier even among demons. Because they have been staring at the darkness all year round, they have lost their eyesight, so they can only regain light by devouring the eyeballs of animals. Horus likes the spiritual eyeballs the most, and the wizards'
Eyeballs are the best. If you don’t have them, eyeballs from smaller animals with greater intelligence, such as black cats, white foxes, and yellow dogs, are also good choices.”
Zheng Qing listened silently, feeling that he was becoming more and more mentally resistant to these strange creatures.
At least it won't creep out easily anymore.
"Is there such a creature in the school?" Zheng Qing asked, looking at Jiang Yu uneasily.
"School?" The doctor's lips twisted, revealing a sarcastic smile: "How could those old people who hold tradition as the golden rule allow such a dirty creature to leave a trace of breath on campus. Even in a dark prison,
There will be no trace of these degenerates... For the wizards in the school, the only destination for such monsters is nothingness."
"Is there any other possibility?" Jiang Yu asked: "It's a creature that specializes in removing eyeballs."
"Of course." Dr. Duzem blinked: "Wizards are creatures that specialize in removing eyeballs... They like to gouge out the eyes of monsters in the laboratory."
Zheng Qing smiled dryly.
He felt that this doctor was really not suitable for telling jokes.
"Having said that." The doctor looked at the two young people in front of him seriously: "If you encounter a large group of scarabs in the near future, it will be difficult to escape their pursuit by simply running away. At this time, flames are more powerful than any spell.
More effective."
Jiang Yu sighed slightly and did not continue to speak.
There was a strange silence in the study room for a while.
Zheng Qing could only hear the ticking sound of the clock.
He looked around and saw a dark wooden clock embedded in the wall on one side of the study.
Under the silver-white dial, the brass pendulum swings left and right unhurriedly according to its own rhythm, and the swinging sound sounds precise and mechanical.
Nothing seems to be able to block its movement.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!..."
Whether it was the dehydrated beetle that turned into ashes or the later 'Horus' that specialized in eating eyeballs, these terrifying creatures originally made Zheng Qing's heart tremble when he heard them, but unexpectedly, a continuous sound of bells suddenly sounded in his ears.
ring.
He was really shocked.
"Oh! Oops." Dr. Duzem exclaimed in annoyance from behind: "It's time!"
Zheng Qing looked at the wall clock again, and happened to see a big rooster with a blue comb emerging from the small wooden house on top of the wall clock. It had just flapped its wings a few times.
"It's time to eat! It's time to eat! Doctor, it's time for you to eat!" The rooster finished fluttering its wings, opened its mouth, and began to howl at the top of its lungs: "It's twelve o'clock for dinner! Doctor, it's time for you to eat!"
"Shut up, you idiot!" Dr. Duzem rarely showed a look of embarrassment.
He grabbed a piece of paper from the messy desk, crumpled it, balled it up, and smashed it against the rooster on the wall.
The paper ball hit the chicken's head accurately.
The rooster crowed and retracted into the small wooden house on top of the clock.