A Brazilian rainforest black-tailed scorpion crept cautiously among the dead leaves, motionless. The thick scorpion tail was raised high, and the sharp tail spines shimmered in the sunlight with a blinding chill.

Three rats in cyan vests held wooden forks in their paws, forming a triangular formation, with their slender tails coiled around their waists, staring at their prey in front of them with burning eyes.

The confrontation lasted a few seconds.

The black-tailed scorpion's tail shook slightly, and the rat standing due north squeaked, holding a wooden fork and poking at the black-tailed scorpion. The scorpion tail stabbed the northern rat like lightning, but the rat just shook a shot, rolled on the spot, and dodged.

At the same time, two rats standing in the southeast and southwest corners seized the opportunity and rushed up, one forking the middle of the black-tailed scorpion's tail and the other forking the black-tailed scorpion's head, pressing it in place.

After a few seconds of frantic struggle, the black-tailed scorpion was poked in the head with a fork by the first mouse that arrived, and finally died. The whole process lasted less than half a minute.

After cutting off the black-tailed scorpion's tail, collecting its claws, and packing the loot into the small bag it was carrying behind its back, the three rats held their forks and rushed to the next opponent, a black centipede a foot long.

The black cat squatted on the tree, staring intently at the chaotic battlefield below, sighing in his heart.

Yes, the battlefield.

The battle between the rat and the scorpion he had just seen was not a special case. In the clearing not far from the black cat, there is a battlefield where fierce battles are being fought. Battles similar to those three rats and black-tailed scorpions abound on this battlefield.

It's just that unlike the well-trained rat tribes in Tsing Yi, who fight more and fight less, their opponents are a group of black bugs that behave chaotically and fight in a disorderly manner, including centipedes, scorpions, toads, and so on. So although there are a lot of bugs, and they seem to be endless, they are always suppressed by the sparse number of rats, and they are dizzy.

After only a few minutes of observation, the black cat came to its senses, and the following scene should be related to the 'five poisons breed after the black tide' mentioned by Professor Li in the Potions class some time ago. The insects that the rats hunt are the five poisons in the common sense concept of wizards.

As for why these rats couldn't get along with the five poisonous insects, Zheng Qing really knew a little bit of the inside story.

The last time Dingdong Ear reported to Zheng Qing through Fox Five that it had seen a faceless monster, Zheng Qing took Jiang Yu to find out the situation. At that time, Dingdong ears were catching these poisonous insects. It's just that compared to the insects seen in the Silent Forest today, the number and number of poisonous insects caught by Ding Dong Ear on campus that night were much smaller.

Maybe it was because those insects had just crawled out of the burrows at that time, and they hadn't had time to replenish their nutrition, and of course, it was also because the school's guardian formation had a suppressive effect on these poisonous insects, so they didn't grow much.

In short, the message that Dingdong Ear gave to Zheng Qing at that time was 'an order issued by their ancestors to let them clean up the poisonous insects breeding on the island, and the time lasted until after the Dragon Boat Festival'.

Today is the Forbidden Demon Festival, and the calendar has just turned to the end of March, and there are almost two months left before the Dragon Boat Festival at the end of May. If calculated according to the special situation of May this year, there are almost three months left before the Dragon Boat Festival.

That's enough for these dressed rats to keep busy for a while.

Afterwards, Zheng Qing had discussed this issue with Xiao Xiao, and had several guesses about why the Rat Immortal ordered its descendants to capture poisonous insects. Among them, Xiao Xiao's speculation is the most reliable.

According to Xiao Xiao's rhetoric, what these clothed rat clans fought with poisonous insects was actually a 'proxy war'.

Standing behind the Clothed Rat Clan is, undoubtedly, the First University. As the Clothed Rat Clan, whose home is under the control of the school, and whose whole clan lives under the supervision of the school, they need to show their position and role to the school from time to time.

Behind the poisonous insects are other forces that are not against the school, including but not limited to the Dark Council, the resistance of the New World, some unfriendly forces of the Council under the Moon, and the resistance of the world consciousness suppressed by the wizards.

According to many materials consulted by Xiao Xiao, including the annual flooding of the Kuroshio and the breeding of poisonous insects after the Kuroshio, although it is mainly natural factors, there are several invisible hands behind these natural factors every year.

To use an inappropriate analogy, Syria's internal contradictions may lead to a less intense civil war. However, under the interference of some external forces, it has expanded and turned into a meat grinder that destroys the country and destroys the city.

As for the reason for the rivalry between the two sides, it is nothing more than for a 'general trend' and 'luck clock'.

In addition, Xiao Xiao also has a rather dark speculation.

The school asked the rat clan to clean up the poisonous insects, on the one hand, it was cleaning up the five poisons that were breeding, and on the other hand, it was not controlling the number of rats. As we all know, rats are not weak in their ability to reproduce. If these creatures with a certain amount of intelligence, a certain organization, and a certain magical power are allowed to reproduce unscrupulously, I am afraid that it will not be long before the whole world will be occupied by rats.

A similar case is the method used by the blood clan to pollute the blood servants.

The Wizarding Alliance has strictly restricted the number, method, and time of blood contamination by the Blood Clan through the Code, and at the same time, the Council under the Moon has also made relevant restrictions. Under the control of the double valve, the contamination of the blood clan was limited to a very small circle, ensuring the safety of the Baiding world.

Now.

Looking at these tsing clothes rats charging bravely, the black cat couldn't help but think of the jingle ears and dingdong ears that he dealt with the most, and remembered the last time they met, they asked for accounts, and couldn't help shaking their beards.

Speaking of the account, it is also a confused account.

A few weeks ago, when Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu were discussing problems on campus, Dingdong Ear once provided him with a charging message, saying that there was a faceless monster in the school. At that time, Zheng Qing asked to find the monster and confirm the authenticity of the information before paying, and Dingdong had no objection. As a result, the search continued for many days, but nothing was found.

It stands to reason that Zheng Qing can completely skip paying. But Ding Dong Ear claims that the pet snake that lost its painted skin is the Faceless Monster it once mentioned, and the school has confirmed the existence of the monster on the side, and Zheng Qing should pay for it.

Zheng Qing didn't have much of a problem with this, but Fox Five Hank, who was in charge of the D&K shop's ledger, refused to pay for Dingdong Ear's complete performance of the contract - as the owner, Zheng Qing still supported the professional advice of professionals.

In this way, the two sides began a long tussle.

Every day after working in the small shop, the Ear Brothers would sit in front of the store holding a small piece of paper and ask for a bonus. Fox Five often turns a blind eye to this. Zheng Qing always planned to settle the matter and make payments, but was sternly rejected by the fox in charge of the accounts. So he simply stopped going to the store these days, out of sight and out of mind.

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