Although the school has a winter vacation approaching the Spring Festival, this has not affected the influence of the merchants in the wizarding world in the Beta Town. The daily street traffic is still continuous, but unlike the usual situation where the number of students is mainly the flow of tourists, during this period, the guests in the town mainly come from major markets outside the island.
Only in this way, most of the students left Bouji Island. During the days when the school restrained the guardian array, there would be a little more outsiders in Beta Town.
No.97 Pedestrian Street, Beta Town is a small grocery store.
The store name is a bit strange, called D&K - Dingding Finance and Insecticide Company - From the name, we can see that this is not a serious grocery store, but it is a store that lacks its main business and seems to be able to do anything, but can't do anything very well.
The guests who came to Buji Island through countless approval procedures would not focus on such small shops.
Therefore, compared with other shops on the pedestrian street, D&K has fewer customers, and even the business of divination mother-in-law at No. 96 next door is much better than this store.
Perhaps the only thing this store is worth curious about now is the two rat men hired by the store.
A unique family of legendary wizards.
In the second floor loft of D&K.
Zheng Qing curled up on the sofa, listening to the common "surprise" and "curiosity" after the wind chimes at the door downstairs occasionally rang, staring blankly at the location where the coffee table was originally located - now it is occupied by a pitch-black coffin - this period of time is mid-month, and Dylan was not suitable for participating in the hunting team operation. Although for various reasons, he was not forced to take a vacation, but the necessary rest after taking the Moon-Watching Potion every day should not be careless at all.
In addition, yesterday, he was busy all night with the huge moon, and now he has to adjust it no matter what.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, several other hunters from the Yuzui Hunting Team also had a day's leisure time.
At this moment, Fatty Xin was lying on another sofa opposite the coffin, with a slow hypnotic smell, which unexpectedly did not seem annoying. Blue Bird sat cross-legged on a futon, holding his long sword that seemed like a lover, quietly huddled in the shadow of the corner of the room; Xiao Xiao was holding a book of the autobiography of Boyd Rust, a famous British wizard in the late 19th century, reading it with relish.
From time to time, the sound of pages turning can be heard in the room.
Zheng Qing felt that this sound was more annoying than Fatty Xin's snoring.
"Can't you sleep for a while?"
Finally, he couldn't help but suppress his nameless anxiety in his heart, kicked Dr. Xiao, who was curled up on the other side of the sofa, and whispered: "You've quarreled my eyes!"
The thick autobiography moved a little down a little, revealing a pair of wide black-framed glasses.
Xiao Xiao stared at his captain with expressionless expression. After a while, he put away the book in his hand and sat up a little, which made Zheng Qing feel a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the doctor's next words confirmed his expectations.
"Talk?" Xiao Xiao held his glasses.
"Not kidding." The wizard responded.
He was just a little depressed about the conversation with Colma at the Kinis hut this morning, especially the last words the witch said before leaving, which seemed to be silly saying, which made him feel a little more uneasy.
Just bear this kind of pressure by yourself.
"I can guess it if you don't say it."
Xiao Xiao's head slowly sank and hid it back behind the thick autobiography, but the small book could not stop his faint voice: "Before you came back yesterday, I had a brief chat with my senior sister... She asked me at that time, do you know what the most dangerous creature in the silent forest is?"
Zheng Qing became a little interested.
"crow?"
He forced himself to pull the corner of his mouth and replied half-jokingly.
Xiao Xiao did not laugh, but turned another page of the book. His voice rang out after the page was turned, so he seemed a little light: "...Not a crow, not a black wizard, not a fire dragon, not a giant, not a hydra, not a marching ants, not an ancient locust wood that grew for a thousand years, nor a dead soul that lived in the locust wood for three hundred years... The senior sister said that the most dangerous creature in the silent forest was mushroom."
This is indeed an unexpected answer.
"mushroom?"
"Yes, mushrooms, a life that can be small, large, weak, and strong. It does not rely on dragon flame or sharp teeth to survive, but on compromise, coexistence and control... They can depend on any creature and live on their body surface; they can also bury their spores at the bottom of the humus layer when the dry season comes; they can also release a breath full of psychedelic effects, change the mind of the wizard, and fascinate the wizard."
“It doesn’t sound that dangerous.”
"That's because you forget that survival requires reproduction, and reproduction requires eating. No matter how confusing the mushrooms show, it will eventually slowly corrode its host, and then eat them and digest them... those crows are the mushrooms on Bouge Island."
"Very interesting insights." Zheng Qing murmured: "But such things happen every moment in the silent forest, just to survive the fittest."
“That’s the biggest problem.”
Xiao Xiao's glasses were revealed from the back of the book again, and he looked at the young public-funded student with serious eyes: "We are wizards, not magic creatures in the silent forest, and should not fall to the point where the laws of nature are applied... Those mushrooms are parasitic in school, hidden among students and professors, as if the puppet masters manipulate puppets, restraining cheap emotions in front of the public... They start to slowly devour us from the inside to the outside, one organ after another, decomposing, digesting, absorbing, replacing, using their derived tissues to replace the original structure of the host... They will not let the host die easily... But before the last moment, the host's body from the inside out, and even its consciousness will be replaced by the mushroom's mycelium. At that time, the host was even worse than a puppet... because the puppet is at least its body is its own."
The snoring in the attic stopped at some point.
The blue nipples sitting in the corner of the wall also tilted their ears.
Zheng Qing glanced at the coffin that had slightly opened a crack and laughed dryly: "It's exaggerating, it's exaggerating... What do senior sister talks to you about these things? Do you want us to pick mushrooms?"
"No."
Xiao Xiao put down the book and sighed heavily: "She said we still can't tell which mushrooms are highly toxic and which mushrooms are safe. We suggest that we learn for a while in school before considering the matter of picking mushrooms."
What a bad rhetoric.
"This sounds like an alternative encouragement." The captain of Yusin Hunting Team knew very well how competitive his team members were and couldn't help but mutter.