The explosion outside the wall had long dissipated.
The red light in the sky had faded, and the sky was brighter again. The birds calmed down in the sound of the school workers' soothing spells, landed on the treetops and began to comb their feathers, as if they were back to the beginning of the exam.
"The last five minutes left!"
On the podium, the black-robed teaching assistant in charge of the invigilator raised his voice and loudly reminded the young wizards in the examination room: "Because the previous accident did not have an irreversible impact on the examination room, this exam will not be extended... Everyone hurry up and check the name and number, and write a few words for the questions you don't know. Don't be blank! This is the most sincere advice given to you by someone who has experienced it!"
The slightly humorous rhetoric caused the young wizards in the audience to chuckle.
Zheng Qing was absent-mindedly checking the test paper, but he thought in his mind what was happening outside the wall - was there a big monster causing trouble, or was a crazy dragon rushing out of the silent forest, or was a laboratory experimenting with new magic?
He couldn't wait to hand in the test paper and talk to Xiao Xiao or Fatty Xin to discuss this matter.
But after the test papers were collected, the invigilators did not allow the young wizard to leave the examination room.
"According to the latest notice issued by the joint meeting of the school working committee and professors, all students located in the teaching building, laboratory building and other areas of the First University will be silent after receiving the notice and are not allowed to move around at will, waiting for further notice."
After reading this notice, the black-robed teaching assistant on the stage looked around. Unexpectedly, the examination room was in an uproar. Many people were yelling, "I want to eat," "I need to prepare for the next exam," "I need to go to the toilet," and so on. He had to cast a loud curse on himself to suppress the gradually boiling atmosphere in the classroom: "Everyone has to endure it for a few more minutes... I really need to go to the toilet, follow the elf and go back quickly. Don't sneak out of the teaching building. The consequences of violating the joint notice are more serious than you think!"
There is a little intimidation inside and outside.
Zheng Qing did not go to the bathroom, but sat in the seat and pinched his fingers to calculate, but soon, he gave up this effort. On the one hand, his divination ability was mediocre, and on the other hand, he had not obtained many divination elements, and could not deduce any effective content.
The silence of the school lasted for a long time.
It was not until the evening when it was already dark, and it was almost an hour before the end of the exam that the silent order was lifted. During this period, Zheng Qing saw more than once a team of school workers wearing gray robes passing down the teaching building, holding up the magic books in his hands, releasing one light green spell after another, as if cleaning up something.
"...It is said that an accident occurred in an illegal laboratory hidden in the silent forest, causing pollution leakage. A mutant soul-returning poplar released a large number of polluted spores. Just in case, the school arranged for school workers to completely clean up the campus several times."
In the evening, after Fat Xin returned to the dormitory, he brought the latest news he received from the editorial department: "Of course, the accident did not cause casualties, only a small number of magical creatures were affected... and it has also been dealt with by the school's 'harmless'."
Behind the lightly 'harmless' is a bunch of ashes fluttering in the wind.
Zheng Qing pinched the Dharma book in his hand and cursed in a low voice: "The damn 'illegal laboratory'... How many illegal laboratories are there in the silent forest? Why do you feel like one digging and another popping up!"
The edges and corners of the copper-plate book hurt his palms, making him unable to help hissing and breathing.
“Very much.”
Xiao Xiao was half lying on the bed, holding an alchemy lecture notes in his arms, closing his eyes, as if he was asleep, and his voice was a little lazy: "The time when the first illegal laboratory was established was no longer available, but according to the records of "Arriving in the First University", the school had a record of destroying illegal experimental bases more than two hundred years ago... Occasionally, students were expelled from the school for conducting illegal experiments... These cannot stop some bold young wizards from sneaking into the silent forest and establishing their own "secret bases". Many illegal laboratories were declared abandoned as their owners left school, and new people continued to enter the forest. I guess there must be more than one hundred illegal laboratories outside the school."
"One hundred? Who do you look down on?" The fat wizard sneered, but did not give accurate numbers. Instead, he changed the subject: "But speaking, the laboratory where the accident happened today has something to do with us."
Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Dr. Xiao, who was half lying on the bed, opened his eyes and pushed his glasses. Even Dylan, who had not yet gotten up, lifted the lid of the coffin, revealing half of his pale little face.
"It has something to do with us?" Dylan's eyes fell on Zheng Qing at the first time: "Brother Zha, is it an illegal laboratory set up by a secret organization such as the 'Seven Deadly Sins'?"
"No..." Zheng Qing was a little uncertain.
"No, no, no, it has nothing to do with the seven deadly sins." The fat wizard took out a parchment scroll from his arms, spread it out carefully, and showed the pattern on it to the three roommates.
A lifelike black crow feather was painted on the parchment paper. As the paper trembled slightly, the feather seemed to be a living thing, as if it would blow away with the wind in the next second.
"Crow?" Zheng Qing narrowed his eyes.
"Has the school caught them?" Xiao Xiao cheered up and sat up from the bed.
"No, even this feather fell on the scene of the accident." The fat wizard curled his lips and mocked in a spicy tone:
"Compared with not catching the wizard inflicting the accident, successfully hosting monsters who escaped from the illegal laboratory is obviously a victory that can be proved... The school's bureaucracy is only commendable in this regard. Even if the situation is speechless, they can always find a way to prove their success."
This topic is obviously beyond the scope of discussion tonight.
Dylan, who was lying on the edge of the coffin, cleared his throat and interrupted: "Do you think it's difficult in the afternoon potion class exam? Do I need to recite the difference between foxgloves and fox gloves? Or recite the relationship between foxgloves?"
"We shouldn't ask this kind of question. Do you know what it means to confirm the signature before entering the examination room?" The fat wizard held a small comb, hummed and combed Tuantuan's hair, turned his head to look at Zheng Qing's location: "It's Brother Zha, he often violated... Huh? Where is Brother Zha? Wasn't he here just now? When did he go out?"
"Did you hear the door ring?"
"No."
Chapter completed!