Just when the publicly funded students were looking up and lost in thought, in a secluded corner of the campus, Shushan Hall, the Gypsy Witch was staring at a dry branch outside the window in a daze.
There is not a single leaf on the winter branches, and there are no noisy birds and tree sperm. The gray-white bark trembles randomly in the white sunlight and is blown by the cold wind.
Just like the confused mood of a witch.
She was hesitating whether to go to the pedestrian street.
Today is Saturday. The Forgiveness Hunting Team - or Zheng Qing - opened a new small shop on the pedestrian street of Beta Town. It seems to sell some simple talismans, potions and small animals such as mice and insects.
This is not some secret information, any wizard who cares about the campus trends will know it.
Because this incident not only caused a lot of noise in Astronomy Class 08-1 of Jiuyou Academy, but also caused a lot of discussion in Jiuyou Academy and even several other colleges.
On the one hand, the protagonist of this matter is the "upstart" of Jiuyou Academy this year, a super-funded student who won the Merlin Medal as a first-year student; a freshman who has only been in school for half a year can save enough by relying on his self-organized hunting team.
Capital opened a store on the pedestrian street of Beta Town. From any point of view, this is not a simple matter.
On the other hand, the school has never given a very clear statement on whether students at First University can do business outside of class. In the opinion of most people, including professors at the school and parents outside the school, the main task of students in school is
Study. Although some practical projects are not excluded, the content of study should never include doing business outside school.
However, because the school has always encouraged students to work-study, and the difference between doing business and working-study is very subtle, both the school and the students have been discussing the behavior of Zheng Qing and others.
Fortunately, Zheng Qing is a publicly funded student with the Merlin Medal, and his academic performance is not bad, so he has not felt any real pressure from the school for the time being.
That's too far.
Irina knew about Zheng Qing's opening of a store very early.
The young public-funded student mentioned this matter more than once in his paper crane correspondence with her.
The invitation to the opening had been sent to the witch a few weeks ago, and Elena believed that she must be one of the first few to get the invitation. But this was also the main reason for her hesitation.
Because she has been avoiding any contact with young publicly funded students recently.
The reason why she did this was because she felt that things were a little beyond her control.
Elena first met Zheng Qing, not because of his status as a publicly funded student. It is true that from any point of view, being a publicly funded student of the First University is a shining sign. For the vast majority of witches in the school,
They all have a natural attraction.
But what witches value more is the wizard's attainments in talismans.
She needs this attainment very much.
Whether it is to crack the complex and profound seal deep in the school, to find the reason for the continuous decline of the Gypsy Witches, or just to complete her studies at First University, she needs to master a lot of talisman knowledge.
It requires a lot, more knowledge of talismans than a registered wizard can master. [… @Novel is better and updated faster]
So far, the only wizard that the witch has come into contact with who has this knowledge and does not have any prejudice or doubts about her is Zheng Qing - it is not that she has not thought about going to Wandering Bar to seek help from some dark wizards.
, but regardless of the expensive fees or doubtful abilities of those wizards, the huge risks of dealing with dark wizards made her give up this idea early.
Why go far away when you have a friend who can help you?
Yes, my friend.
Elena really regarded Zheng Qing as a friend.
But she has not, nor will she, completely open her heart to the wizard and confess everything about herself.
it's out of the question.
In addition to the huge risks involved in what she is doing and the need to keep it strictly confidential, Gypsy witches' natural rejection of sincerity is also a very important factor - as a group of wizards rich in mediums and diviners, Gypsy witches are very good at communicating with
They deal with dark creatures such as devils, and therefore, they are gradually infected by those lower-level creatures.
For example, clever words and charming words.
To describe it in popular terms, he is good-looking and good at rhetoric.
Being good at here does not simply refer to lying. Lying is certainly a manifestation of being good at using rhetoric, but in addition, being good at communicating with others, being convincing, inciting emotions, leaving traps in communication, and many other means are also good at
The way language is used.
Elena didn't feel that she had lied to Zheng Qing.
She only selectively told him part of the truth, and what she said was all true!
The reason why the witch felt that things were beyond her control was because she felt that her relationship with the wizard had gone beyond the boundaries of ordinary friends and was slipping in a direction that made her feel uneasy. She was a real gypsy witch.
A direction that will not be touched upon arbitrarily.
Moreover, with more contact, the sliding speed seems to become faster and faster.
This made her feel a little scared.
"We are just good friends." She comforted herself in her heart, and then she couldn't help but think of a day when heavy snow fell, the calm lake surface, the cold lips, and her face turned a little pale.
"He's just helping me...we're just helping each other." She said to herself as if to cheer herself up.
The wizard helped her learn talismans, what about her?
The witch was silent for a moment, remembering a certain dirty reptile she found in school. For some special reasons, the witch discovered the identity of the cobra on the first day she saw it.
"That snake must have ill intentions towards him... I'll help him watch his back!" Elena thought, and her heart suddenly felt a little more relaxed - as for reminding the public-funded students to pay attention to the snake, there was no need to think about it.
On the one hand, after being reminded, she lost this unfounded reason to help; on the other hand, she did not know how to explain her findings to the wizard, and was unable to cope with the subsequent school investigation.
So, just watch his back.
Thinking of this, the witch turned her head and looked out the bright window.
Outside the window, by the lake.
A tall and strong fish-man had just broken the thin ice on the lake and climbed up from the shore. It carried a huge fish skin bag on its shoulders and walked slowly but firmly towards the pedestrian street.
The gypsy witch knows the fish-man. It seems to be called Iseni, and he is a young member of the Linzhong Lake fish-man tribe.
She remembered that Zheng Qing once mentioned this fish-man to her when he told her the story of the freshman competition. It seemed that they helped each other in the hunting ground and were still comrades in arms.
"Everyone has gone." She sighed deeply and closed the notes in front of her. After clarifying her inner thoughts, she became less resistant to contact with Zheng Qing.
After standing up, she hesitated for a few seconds and finally took out a small bottle from her handbag.
The bottle is not big, only a few inches tall. The bottle is made of transparent glass, with no logos, patterns, or marks on it.
In the bottle, there is a small half bottle of pink liquid, which has been bubbling with tiny bubbles.
The witch held the small bottle and stared at the liquid inside for a long time.
"The last time," she murmured to herself, as if to cheer herself up: "Never next time..."
As she spoke, she gently pressed the sprayer on the bottle cap.
Under the influence of air pressure, the pink liquid jumped down the straw into the sprayer, and then turned into fine droplets, falling on the ends of the witch's hair and the corners of her robe.