Chapter 120: A Splash of Dung
Now that he has stayed away from the whirlpool of trouble on the shore of Linzhong Lake, Zheng Qing and his friends naturally have a tacit understanding and will no longer discuss this matter. Everyone parted ways in a hidden lawn in the back garden of the school and left.
Nothing was said all night.
At noon the next day, Xin Fatzi went to Linzhong Lake for a walk in the name of 'picking up medicine', and only then did he figure out the cause of last night's accident.
It turned out that the reason why the patrol team was furious and provoked fishmen on the shore of Linzhong Lake was because they found a large pile of fishman feces thrown in front of the Shushan Pavilion when they were patrolling. Standing on the stone pillars on both sides of the door, a few strange symbols were painted crookedly with dung.
While subsequent verification confirmed that the symbols did not fluctuate in magic and had no precise meaning - it was probably just someone venting their frustration - the effect of this behavior was very bad.
At that time, the patrol members were in full view, and they could clearly see that there were obvious wet marks extending from Linzhong Lake to the front of the Shushan Pavilion. It's like the traces of fish, people dragging their heavy feet.
Coupled with the recent discord between the fish-man and the school, and the conflict between the fish-man and the patrol, some young and vigorous members of the patrol team were angry and gathered on the shore of the lake to recruit the fishmen to come out and confront each other.
The fishmen who were called out were not easy to get along with, saying that they would be 'autonomous on the reservation', and that they would ask these young wizards to hand over tangible evidence, and that they would not cooperate with each other, and there was a lot of sarcasm between their words. Most of the members of the patrol team were originally punished for violating school rules and discipline, and naturally they were all petty tempers, and after a few words, conflicts naturally occurred.
"In the end, what about the result of the conflict?" Zheng Qing held the divination book in his arms, adding a new 'divination trend line' to his line chart according to what was said in the book, and was curious about the results of last night's turmoil: "I remember that many people in the patrol team were knocked away by the water dragon of the fish-man...... Did anyone get hurt?"
Fat Xin was busy all morning, and when he came back, he talked a lot, and he was already thirsty.
After hearing Zheng Qing's question, he didn't answer immediately, but took the green tea made by the elves, and the cow drank a large cup, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "......Injury? But the fish-people weren't comfortable either. I've heard of a fish-man whose body has been stained with colored paint that can't be washed off by the patrol's magic, and that the fish-man's fins have been torn off. The lights were dark, the scene was chaotic, and no one could tell who made the first move, or who injured whom. ”
"It's not going to be easy on the patrol side, either. In addition to the guys who were knocked off by the water dragon and broke their bones, I also heard that some of the patrol members were vomited by the stinking fish-men, and there was a lot of pickled stuff left on the ground, which disgusted the students passing by!"
The smell of the fish man is unpleasant, and Zheng Qing has seen it on his first day at school.
Looking at the description of the fat man's eyebrows, Zheng Qing seemed to see the messy scene by the lake, and suddenly felt a churning in his stomach.
"Anyway, it's a mess, right? Dylan's head shrank back from the edge of the coffin, and the urn snorted.
The fat man grunted his tea, shrugged his shoulders, and agreed with Dylan's summary.
"Alas," Xiao Xiao hugged Tuan Tuan in his arms, combed it, and sighed: "History likes to joke with people like this." The contradiction between Alpha Academy and Jiuyou Academy is intensifying day by day, and no one would have expected it to intensify from such an unexpected place. ”
Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows, sensing the deep meaning behind Xiao Xiao's words.
"Probably not," he hesitated, "It's just a little personal matter about the Fish-Man Tribe, how can it affect the relationship between the two academies? ”
"No one in Serbia would have imagined that the Lich King's giant palm would tear open the canopy of the hunting ground in the next moment before the alternate hunter in Serbia hunted the 'Beacon Demon' in the 'Super Hunting Ground', and in the same way, when the Grand Wizard Leibniz presented his treatise 'A Brief Description of the Linear Conditions of the Universe' at the World Wizarding Congress in 1895, he would not have imagined that decades later, this article would open up a feast of dimensionalism and become the basis for forbidden spells. ”
Xiao Xiao shook his head, and in a blink of an eye, he threw out two examples to deny Zheng Qing's hesitation: "In this world, everything is connected with each other, and if you can't see it, it doesn't mean that those hidden and dangerous connections don't exist." ”
The doctor's words always provoked deep thought, and the dormitory fell silent for a while.
Xu is combing felt very comfortable, Tuan Tuan lazily stretched his paws in Xiao Xiao's arms, snoring comfortably, and the purring sound was extremely clear in the quiet bedroom, attracting the elves to stop and look.
Zheng Qing also felt that the atmosphere was a little depressing.
He flipped through the textbook in his hand and turned his head to look at Xin Fatzi: "Then again, why did you come back so late? I thought that as a reporter, you would be quick to find out a little news." ”
"Because I'm going to 'pick up medicine'!" Xin Fat Man was displeased, and complained in a long voice: "God is pitiful, those fishmen have smeared too much slime on the lake, making a large area stink...... Before the school investigates the cause of the incident, it is difficult for the school working committee to clean up the 'evidence'. It's crazy. ”
"Are you really going to 'pick up medicine'?" Zheng Qing turned around and looked at the fat man curiously: "I thought it was just an excuse." ”
The so-called 'picking up medicine' is similar to 'picking medicine'. It's just that herbs are generally picked up when medicines are collected, and insects are picked up when medicines are picked up. As one of the most complex ecosystems in the university, Linzhong Lake is home to many unique medicinal herbs, and some students who are strapped for cash can 'use local materials' for their studies after submitting an application to the school.
"Nature can't be fake...... This is the basic principle of our research. At the mention of this, the fat man's round face radiated a proud glow, and he looked quite amused.
"What kind of medicine are you going to pick up?" Xiao Xiao was very interested in this.
Xin Fatzi took it out in his arms, found a small insect cage woven with bamboo strips, and shook it in front of his roommates. Through the narrow gap in the insect cage, Zheng Qing could see that there were two black and swarthy gnats lying inside, grinding their ears and temples, and they seemed to be glued together.
"I had to dig a lot of rocks to find such a pair. He showed off vividly, as if he had caught a faceless monster: "The real wild couple is not the insects on the pedestrian street that are raised together and forcibly paired. Professor Li said that the medicinal properties of those forcibly matched insects are too weak, and the efficacy of the medicine is reduced by a few points. ”