The First University has three school-wide hunting activities every year.
Spring hunting in April, ‘Campus Cup’ hunting month in October, and winter hunting in the end of the year and December.
This time arrangement coincides with the ancient tradition of the "Four Season Hunting" in the wizarding world - spring search, summer seedlings, autumn shinings, winter hunting - the school did not arrange hunting in summer because that period coincided with the summer vacation.
But not all three hunts will be held as scheduled every year.
Just like last year, the First University canceled the spring hunt for no reason.
Of course, everyone knows the reason today. A few weeks after the hunting in spring last year, it was a major incident in the black prison. It can be speculated that most of the school’s attention was focused on the black prison during that period, so naturally there was no energy to take care of the hunting games of young wizards.
Although there was no spring hunt, not long after, with a large-scale lich war breaking out in the black prison far away in another world, a harassing army organized by the demon coalition also appeared on Bouge Island, which made the young wizards who had just felt lost and got addicted to hunting.
Back to this year.
Originally, according to most people's ideas.
There was no spring hunt last year, and this year it should not be cancelled anyway.
But the temporary ban on weekend night of the seventh week - although that ban lasted just over five minutes - put a shadow on the hearts of many young wizards of the First University.
After all, hunting is about entering the silent forest.
And now, everyone knows that something must have happened in the forest.
With the experience of "expectation-disappointment" last year, no one dares to boast that this year's spring hunt will be held as scheduled. After all, it is not as extensive as the "Campus Cup" hunting competition, nor is it as winter hunting to reduce part of the power of the silence tide next year, and it is necessary to hold it every year.
Just like Shanglinyuan Spring Safari, the spring hunting at the First University has gradually become an activity of social and practical assessment in today's society, and the focus of spring hunting varies from college to different colleges.
Alfa Academy pays more attention to the social function of spring hunting, and there are also a series of dance parties, paintings, music, food and other activities accompanying spring hunting every year;
Atlas Academy attaches more importance to the sense of ritual of spring hunting, from divination to prayer, to ‘Great Search Ceremony’;
Students from Jiuyou Academy care about the harvest of spring hunting most, including selling money for hunting goods and practical scores obtained during spring hunting;
The young wizards at Starry Sky Academy do not care about the miscellaneous things. As long as there are demons fighting with them, they will be very satisfied.
No matter what the differences in the focus of spring hunting are among the schools, in the school's opinion, this project has a strong "elective course nature", which means that it is okay to have it or not. If the sky is clear and everything is harmonious, then everyone will naturally be happy to hold the spring hunt; if there is a little dissonance, there is no much pressure not to hold the spring hunt.
Among all the members of the 403 dormitory, perhaps only Zheng Qing had the lowest expectation of Chunshou.
In order to escape the zombie bride arranged by the family for him, Dylan has been crazily attending various sororities all these days, trying to find the bride that suits him best before the family starts. Xiao Xiao needs a proper opportunity to ease his relationship with Sima Yangyun; the fat wizard has not confirmed his relationship with his senior Linda for a long time, and it is the time to mix oil in honey.
Relatively speaking, only Zheng Qing did not have any ‘social needs’.
On the one hand, he had just participated in the Shanglin Yuan Spring Shou held outside the school not long ago, and he caused a lot of trouble without expectation, and even caused a little Mama from the Hui tribe to enter the Fringe Academy. For him, no extra socialization was the life he needed the most.
Furthermore, his academic pressure this semester is too great. With more than two consecutive weeks of vacation, if he wastes two days of weekends this week due to spring hunting, he is very doubtful whether he can still achieve his established graduation goal.
Having said that, after the Sunday evening shift meeting, Zheng Qing still took the initiative to go to the teaching assistant team office to find out what happened.
In addition to the reason why Fatty Xin asked, the intuition told him that the temporary ban issued by the teaching assistant team tonight was related to the crow.
When Zheng Qing came to the office building, the whole building was brightly lit.
The wizards wearing black robes and gray robes were in a hurry, but there was surprisingly no noise. Even the green budgies in charge of reception in the first floor lobby rarely stopped making noise, and stood on the branches with their wings together, like sculptures.
Zheng Qing had a teaching assistant badge hanging on his chest.
Unobstructed, we arrived at the assistants' office.
The small house was now full of crowds, and a low and fierce argument could be heard in the crowd. When he tried to squeeze into the middle of the crowd, he was dragged out with one hand after a few steps.
"What are you here to join in the fun?" Thomas dragged Zheng Qing outside the office with a serious look on his face.
Zheng Qing hesitated for a few seconds.
"I am also a member of the teaching assistant team." He pointed to the badge on his chest - a very obvious depressed expression appeared on Thomas's face. It was obvious that he had completely forgotten Zheng Qing's new identity.
Zheng Qing did not give him more reaction time, and threw away his confusion tonight: "What happened in the silent forest? Why didn't anyone notify me? Am I not an assistant to the school? Is there anything I can do?"
"Don't do anything is your biggest task."
Thomas pressed his hand on Zheng Qing's shoulder, thought about it, and finally chose the simplest question and answered: "In addition, you are of course the school assistant. But at the same time, you are also a student. When the student's identity conflicts with the responsibilities of the teaching assistant, we will assume that you are a student first... So, we did not notify you tonight."
“What the hell happened?”
Zheng Qing kept asking questions and reminded him: "You also know that it is difficult for the First University to have secrets... and in my capacity, I told me that it is not illegal and silent contract."
Thomas scratched his head in distress, looked back at the still crowded office, and finally sighed and pushed the witch out.
“There’s something happened to the Uteya tribe.”
He said quickly with a whispering voice: "All the horsemen in the entire tribe, from elders, to warriors, to cubs, all the horsemen, disappeared... No, it wasn't gone, the divination group told us very surely that they had encountered misfortune."
It’s not long before the Qingming Festival today.
The moment Thomas mentioned the three words "Uteya", he immediately recalled the solid camp in the silent forest, the huge bonfires, the enthusiastic dogs, and the running agile horse warriors and the old and wise horse elders.
Then he remembered the fire meteor that night that flashed across the night sky.