During the finals, no one present knew the specific truth about what happened in the Silent Forest. The young wizards were still very suspicious of those ‘crows’, as if they were two to three months old fetuses that had not yet taken shape.
Despite this, having a clear target of 'hate' still made everyone feel much better, and they all began to offer suggestions and discuss how to catch those 'crows'.
"Of course, this matter cannot be accomplished overnight."
At the end of the meeting, the captain of the Exoneration Hunting Team concluded: "I don't expect to wake up tomorrow morning and see someone find out the true identity of those crows... take off the mask, they can be anyone, they can hide wherever they want. Somewhere - a secret camp in the Silent Forest, a shop on the pedestrian street, the cellar of Alpha Fort, the school's laboratory, the hospital, the herb garden, the library, maybe even living next door to us."
"I just hope that during the investigation, everyone will be careful and never act rashly... Don't forget how we slept yesterday!"
This sentence is not only said to others, but also said to himself.
In the evening, Zheng Qing did not go to the library. Instead, he dug out a tube of transformation potion, sniffed the scent on the bottle, and transformed into a black cat again.
Today is Saturday.
There is another event in the evening.
But compared with the previous times, tonight for the first time Black Cat looked forward to seeing the sinner wearing a mask as white as a duck egg.
The night is dark.
The moonlight fell through the few medium-sized dark clouds overhead. The sycamore trees on both sides of the road leading to Linzhong Lake had shed most of their leaves, leaving a mottled leaf blanket on the ground, silvery gray. The black branches are set against the sky, looking like unknown words from the starry sky.
Leaving the main road, the low lawn was as soft as cat skin. A pair of young wizards and witches were hiding behind the bushes, chatting with each other, making unhealthy noises under the moonlight.
The black cat coughed loudly twice.
The bushes swayed wildly, and two black figures disappeared from its sight in a puff of smoke.
It nodded with satisfaction and carefully walked around a small bush of oleander.
Although the branches and leaves of this shrub are often used by wizards to make cardiac tonics, it is also a highly poisonous plant. If you accidentally rub its juice, your skin will first feel paralyzed, then your heart will twitch, and you will die of pain - —Even if this plant dries up, the smoke when burned is highly toxic. Professor Li reminded everyone to pay attention to this more than once in Potions class.
When the black cat came to the cat fruit tree, he unexpectedly found the sinner already squatting on the tree.
And he was still squatting on his 'throne', holding a Persian cat in his arms and touching it unscrupulously. Even from a long distance, the black cat could hear the Persian cat's comfortable purring.
Without saying a word, it opened its mouth and squeezed out a piece of cat jade the size of a grain of rice, aiming at the offender--when he was in a bad mood, he always wanted to find a punching bag, and it was rare that the 'duck egg mask' came to his door without blasting him.
The cat jade exit, the size of a grain of rice, seemed to be slow but was actually urgent, its trajectory was erratic, and it suddenly appeared in front of the sinner.
Feeling guilty, the demon screamed and threw the Persian cat in his arms to the side. He jumped up from the cat fruit tree like a rabbit, changing his steps three times, leaving eight or nine real phantoms in the air in an instant.
Regardless of whether the cat jade is real or illusory, it follows the tracks left by the guilty ones and crushes them one by one.
"Why don't you just stroke your cat?! Are you going to be so crazy!
"The angry voice of the sinner could be heard in the night sky, and further away, the faint shouts of the patrol could be heard.
The black cat raised his head and looked at the sky. In the moonlight, there were faint white lines, which were the hesitations of the school's guardian array.
'Don't come when it's time to come.'
It complained in the bottom of its heart, and with a thought, the rice-sized cat jade shattered silently in the night sky, turning into a gentle night wind and sweeping away in all directions.
The school's protective circle hid its figure again, and the night patrols came and went.
Seeing that everyone in the world seemed to be busy doing useless work, the black cat felt surprisingly much better. He swung his tail and lay lazily on his throne, looking at the many fruits around him.
After a long while, the monk sneaked back under the tree.
Along with him, there was a guy wearing a fox mask. Black Cat guessed that this must be one of the seven sins that would test him tonight.
"Don't leave for a while."
The black cat twitched its ears and spoke unceremoniously first, saying to the offender - quite like "Don't leave after school".
His head tilted back in guilt.
"Don't bully others too much!"
He pointed at the black cat and cursed: "I have tolerated you for a long time... Why don't you just touch your cat? Do you need to hit me with such a terrible magic ball? This is simply too much!"
Listening to him scolding, the black cat felt more and more happy.
It didn't shut up until the offender shut up, and then he said kindly: "It doesn't matter which cat on the tree you want to touch, but you shouldn't touch it where I am... By the way, I have something to discuss with you later... Don't worry, it's not a beating.
you."
The last sentence aroused the sinner's anger again.
But it seemed a bit embarrassing to admit that he couldn't beat a cat. For a moment, he could only stand there angrily, either fighting or not fighting.
Then the black cat turned to look at the wizard wearing a fox mask.
Compared with the 'Seven Sins' we had seen earlier, the wizard wearing the fox mask exuded a 'friendly' temperament from head to toe.
The black cat thought about it for a while before he realized that it was probably because of the fox mask.
The fox mask is in the shape of an inverted triangle and is entirely white. The eyebrows and eyes are curved downwards, and the lips are curved upwards. At a glance, it gives people a feeling of harmony and wealth.
"Mammon."
When the black cat looked at the fox mask, the wizard wearing the fox mask put his hand on his chest, bowed slightly, introduced himself very politely, and seemed extremely enthusiastic: "The winner of the title of Seven Deadly Sins of Greed, I am very happy to participate in this event."
The evening assessment... I wonder if you have any requirements for tonight's assessment?"
"Can you choose by yourself?" The black cat leaned forward with great interest, overlooking the fox below.
"certainly!"
Mammon happily took out an account book. There was a roaring sound, and more than a dozen quills floated around him, showing an impatient momentum: "For the assessment tasks of new members, our 'Mammon' department
It has a very clear and complete product plan, such as equal principal and interest, equal principal, equal principal and equal payment, interest first and then principal, one-time repayment of principal and interest, borrowing and repaying at any time..."
"etc!"
The black cat felt a little unable to keep up with Mammon's rhythm, and his mind was a little racing. For the first time, he doubted whether he was really a cat: "You can borrow and repay at any time...an equal amount of principal...are you a loan shark?"