Chapter 132: The Rat
Faced with Dylan's doubts, Xiao Xiao did not keep it a secret, but closed the booklet in his hand and began to patiently explain: "If you consider it with normal ideas, it will naturally have nothing to do with the mouse."
"But we are facing the winter hunt organized by the school. You should know that the winter hunt in 2003..."
"No, we don't know." Zheng Qing immediately said.
Xiao Xiao glanced at him, his speech speed did not change at all, and continued: "...That winter hunt, a demonic energy hunting team was responsible for cleaning up an area upstream of Linzhong Lake. According to the description in the manual issued by the Hunting Committee, the one assigned to the demonic energy hunting team should be a group of water foxes... What did you think of when you heard the water foxes?"
"The fox in the water." Zheng Qing answered honestly.
As expected, his answer was unanimously despised by all the hunters present.
"It should be 'Zhunou'," Zhang Jixin hesitated, and saw Zheng Qing's confused expression, and quickly explained: "The "Shan Hai Jing·Dongshan Jing" introduced this animal, 'It is three hundred miles south, called Gengshan, and the plants are full of water and green, and there are many big snakes. There are beasts, which are like foxes and fish wings. It is called Zhuhunou. Its whispers naturally, and when it sees it, it will be frightened.'... Zhuhunou looks very much like a fox, but it has fish fins. In some places to the south, it is also called water fox."
"Tsk tsk," Zheng Qing exclaimed as Zhang Jixin's explanation: "I can't tell, you, a guy with a muscle in your head, can even recite such a large passage of text... Come on, let me check it out quickly, don't be possessed by something unclean. After all, it is also the main hunter of our hunting team. If you leave the field early, the pressure on others will be too great!"
As he said that, the young public servant still took out a few evil-removing talismans from the gray cloth bag and pretended to take a photo of Zhang Jixin.
Of course, this was just a joke between the companions. Elder Zhang stretched his face a little longer, and the public student honestly took back his paws.
"You are the main hunter this time, I am just a small hunter." Zhang Jixin complained: "And, there are only a few words in total in "Shan Hai Jing" and it cannot be compared with "The Great Wizard Encyclopedia" or "The Wizard Code"... My brother said that if you want to become an excellent hunter, "Shan Hai Jing" is a basic requirement. Even the most representative creatures in the wizarding world do not recognize them, so what kind of hunters are they!"
These words were quite passionate.
However, these words also furthered the topic of "being out of line". Xiao Xiao, who was presenting the discussion, had to cough a few times and regain everyone's attention.
"Let's talk! You'll be intoxicated by yourself after the thoughts of the winter hunting!" As he said that, he glanced at Zheng Qing and Zhang Jixin fiercely and continued the previous topic: "You can think of 'Zhu Yu', and people with the demon hunting team naturally want to do it too. They even thought of shui raccoons other than shui raccoons, so the hunting plans and tools they prepared in advance were all aimed at creatures like Zhu Yu... but it was a matter of sacred calculations, but no one calculated that the 'water fox' in that book was actually a group of 'wolf'."
"You know, Zhu Qi's talent creates panic, tends to illusion and mental attacks; and the ability of the demon is not only insidious, but also insidious, is especially good at harming people with energy... Because of the improper response, all the hunters of the demon hunting team were vomited with poisonous gas by the demonic energy. When they ended up, each of them was covered in rotten sores, which was extremely miserable."
"Damn it! It's such a trick!" Dylan couldn't help but scream.
"Is the insidious creature that is invisible? Why? Why is it so pitiable?" Zheng Qing knew about the strange insect "infamily", but he was unable to associate it with the name Water Fox for a while.
"The nickname of the genus is 'water fox', and there are places where they are called 'short fox'," Xiao Xiao explained: "In the Encyclopedia of the Wizarding World, genus, genus, genus, wolf, Zhu, etc. are included in the genus. However, although it is a fox, the difference between a fox and an ordinary fox is greater than that between a golden monkey and a great wizard. It is difficult for ordinary people to think of that kind of small insect."
"So, what you mean is that the "典" in the booklet given to us by the hunting committee this time are definitely not the "典" we think?" Zheng Qing finally began to learn from it.
"What do you think?" Xiao Xiao asked back: "If it were really a group of orangutans, with our search ability, we would have found them long ago... But we have not found them until now, those orangutans must be not orangutans."
"What would that be?" Fatty Xin scratched his chin with some distress, turned his head, and looked uneasy at the snow-covered forest outside the guardian magic circle.
The cold north wind slowly rolled over the treetops, the snow, rolled up a few dead leaves and a few snowflakes, bringing out a series of whimpering sounds, setting off the background of this small world even more gloomy and terrifying.
The fat man couldn't help but tremble and quickly turned his head back.
In this case, Dr. Xiao Da has begun to make a new deduction: "Since we cannot understand it with normal thinking, we must trace the root of it and start with the word '结'."
"The word '生' is pronounced as xing, the same as '生'; the word sheng is pronounced as '银'."
"The words of the Xing are easy to understand. Is it a big monkey? I won't explain it here... and if you choose a shrew, then many clues can be linked together."
"Everyone knows that the shrew refers to the weasel, that is, the weasel. The ancients liked to eat rats and looked like wolves, so they called it the rat. It happened that because of the silence that this year was early, a large-scale rat damage broke out near the school, and even the dressed rat tribe who were originally hiding in the underground world began to emerge recently."
"Hunters follow the trail of their prey."
"The rat is here, will the alike still be far away?"
"In other words, the third type of 黄花花 you mentioned is not pronounced '玉', but pronounced '玉'?" Zheng Qing was a little surprised and had a headache: "If this is the case, the third type of 黄花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花花�
"Because we found the mice, we found our prey." This time, the answer was Zhang Jixin: "The alike who can survive in the silent forest is not their stupid relatives in the outside world... Raising mice as food rations in winter is a basic operation. So, if we can find large rat holes, we will probably find those 'selves'."
Xiao Xiao didn't say anything, just nodded silently.
Zheng Qing smacked his lips and hung the Colt python in his hand back to his waist: "According to your analysis, some of us are busy behind us... I just turned a few times and there are not many caves that can hold wild boars or orangutans, but there are quite a few caves that can hold rats!"
Chapter completed!