Because of Lin Guo's idea at the plenary meeting of apology, Zheng Qing suddenly had an idea. Not only did he find a way out for the 'excess' production capacity of his cat subordinates, but he also found a way out for the hunting team's unopened shop on the pedestrian street.
The store found a 'hit product' - although selling mice is a one-time deal with a time limit, it couldn't bear the huge demand in the short term.
So, starting from the past few days, Zheng Qing, Xiao Xiao and others took advantage of the time after class in the afternoon and after dinner to eat, and invited his group of cat subordinates to catch mice.
This time, the young public-sponsored student relaxed the conditions for mice a lot. Regardless of physical disability or mental depression, as long as it was a live mouse, he wanted it.
The reason why we don’t want dead mice is, on the one hand, due to poor storage conditions - the street-facing store on the pedestrian street is very small and does not have separate refrigeration facilities. It is very difficult to store a bunch of dead mice; on the other hand, it is also
For the sake of price, no matter what time it is, life is always worth more than death.
Although it is a bit troublesome to take care of live rats, for example, Zheng Qing and the others need to prepare cages, food, and water, and they also need to put up a few talismans from time to time to get rid of the plague or keep the rats calm, but because of the higher price,
The benefits of keeping rats alive are relatively higher.
…
In the forest glade.
The black cat walked leisurely around the pile of rats; Dr. Xiao Da held a notebook and was writing and drawing next to it, recording today's earnings; a group of cats squatted not far away, looking at it eagerly.
The two big guys who were accepting the 'tributes' were looking forward to their early liberation; as for the little foxes, they were hiding in the bushes and tree stumps, hoping to find some fun.
There was also Lin Guo, with his little hands behind his back, his eyes jumping from one mouse to another, squinting, looking carefully, not knowing what he was looking at, but he was looking at it with great interest.
"By the way, Captain!" The little wizard seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly raised his head and looked at the black cat: "There is something I have always been curious about... How did you convince your cat subordinates to hand over the mice they caught?
Give them to you instead of giving them to their real owners? If I remember correctly, the reason why many cats here are bought is to catch mice."
"In the world of cats, as a human being, you should stop guessing." The black cat gave the little wizard an inscrutable look and said slowly in a low voice: "As for these cats, they can't help their masters catch mice...
… If the mice cannot be caught, will their owners sell them again?”
"Many people keep cats, they just need an excuse." Xiao Xiao also added next to him.
Lin Guo nodded as if he understood, and did not continue the topic, but changed to another question:
"Then how did you get your cats to stack the mice they caught so neatly... and tie their tails together! I've never seen a cat catch a mouse so 'cleanly'!"
In Lin Guo's impression, when cats catch mice, they often bite their prey into pieces beyond recognition. Even those who are soft-hearted will inevitably use their sharp claws to make several transparent holes in the prey.
He had never seen the prey captured by Zheng Qing's group of cats, which were clean and without any damage, and neatly stacked together in a coma.
"Hey!" Hearing this, the black cat immediately squatted on the ground, raised his paws, and wiped his nose proudly: "This is our core competitiveness... If a mouse is clawed and missing its arms and tail, it will be covered in bruises.
It’s full of holes, no customer is willing to buy it.”
"As for the method, on the one hand, these cats are very smart. I just gave a few simple instructions, and they all learned how to stun the mouse with their paws and how to tie the mouse's tail into a bow."
"On the other hand, it's also good luck. There is a 'coma cat' among this group of cats... Hey, it's the Egyptian cat squatting diagonally behind the forest cat. It inherited the inflicted disease on its pets by who knows which generation of Egyptian pharaohs?
Blessings, any mouse patted by its paw will fall into drowsiness."
"Of course, so far, we have only found that its ability is useful for rats... Maybe the Nile River was overrun with rats that year, so the Egyptian pharaohs specially developed this 'special cat breed'?"
At this point, Zheng Qing stopped, thought for a moment, and finally shook his head and added: "Maybe we can try other small animals, such as eight-eyed spiders, red chain snakes, or corpse-eating beetles... I remember that in Egypt
There are also subspecies of corpse-eating beetles, which were also very prevalent back then. Maybe this cat’s ability will also be useful to those bugs.”
After Zheng Qing finished speaking, before Lin Guo had time to respond, a slightly sharp voice suddenly intervened from beside him.
"Listen to this, are you also planning to collect some corpse-eating beetles?" Dingdang Er's head popped out from behind Lin Guo's shoes, looked at Zheng Qing, and asked, "Alive or dead?"
"Of course he's alive!" the black cat replied subconsciously, then he was startled and looked up at the little mouse in clothes: "Huh? You're still here, I thought you just left."
"You have so many rats here, how could I go back empty-handed!" Dingdang Er swung his tail and said in a slightly anxious tone: "If I exchange your rats for corpse-eating beetles, will you exchange them?"
"Carrion-eating beetle?" The black cat narrowed his eyes slightly.
In addition to rats, the 'abnormal species' that invaded the campus this time also included spiders, snakes, carrion beetles and many other small animals. Jiuyou College was arranged to clean up the rats, while Alpha College was arranged to clean up the carrion beetles.
Although it seems that corpse-eating beetles are much cleaner than mice and easier to catch, for many aristocratic wizards with mysophobia, especially psychological mysophobia, it is better for them to catch corpse-eating beetles than to eat frog livers raw.
After all, eating frog livers can improve your eyesight, but catching corpse-eating beetles is a completely "unlucky" thing. For many wizards with certain historical baggage, this matter is somewhat taboo.
"Can you provide corpse-eating beetles?" Xiao Xiao, who was counting the number of mice, suddenly stopped the quill in his hand and looked at Dingdang Ears: "I mean a lot of...many, many corpse-eating beetles?"
"Of course!" Dingdang Ears patted his chest without hesitation: "Fried corpse-eating beetles are our favorite snack. Anyone who doesn't have seven or eight hundred bugs at home would be embarrassed to invite others to visit!
"
Black Cat couldn't help but glance at Dr. Xiao Da.
The eyes of one person and one cat suddenly lit up.
Yes!
Cats are not very good at catching carrion beetles or eight-eyed spiders, but mice are good at it!
Because the mice they caught before were all wild mice with low intelligence, it was naturally inconvenient to instruct them to catch bugs. Although they could be controlled with magic, both the time cost and the magic cost would become very high and extremely uneconomical.
But it's different now.
The 'Clothed Rats' headed by Tink Ears - this is the name Black Cat just gave them - are rats and intelligent beings. Let them help catch carrion beetles, and D&K's business will easily expand to Alpha Academy.