Although wearing clothes, a rat is a rat after all.

After coming out of the office building, the big black mouse left the spacious, quiet and uncrowded road, but had to pick the corner, the roadside, and the gutter under the bushes and grass, so that the black cat following it had to shrink again so that it did not lose its tracks.

It wasn't until the end, after the mouse stopped and got into a small tree hole under a big tree, Zheng Qing raised his head, only to find that he had just been following for most of the day, only running from the office building to the rockery on the shore of Linzhong Lake - in terms of spatial distance, the distance between the two is less than a thousand meters, and along the corridor in the school, five minutes is enough to run a round trip.

But the damn rat took him around in a big circle, almost half a circle around Linzhong Lake!

If it weren't for the fact that he had been fed with the dried fish of Xin Fatzi's little fish before going out, Zheng Qing was very suspicious that he would not be able to help but pounce on it, kill the fat mouse first and then eat it, and then kill and eat it again.

Squatting at the mouth of the tree hole angrily, the figure of the black cat silently rose to a height of one meter - Zheng Qing had already decided, as long as the mouse dared to come up again, he would definitely pull it over with a big ear scraper and tell it why the flowers were so red!

As for whether the big mouse wearing clothes and carrying a schoolbag could be the form of a wizard after transformation, the young public scholarship student did not care. Because there have been many judicial interpretations of the relevant situation in the "Wizarding Code", although the transformed wizard still enjoys the relevant wizard rights, it is only for the relationship between other wizards and small animals, and the relationship between the two small animals needs to consider the weight of 'animal instinct' in the biological chain.

For example, if one wizard becomes a rabbit and the other becomes a tiger, and the two voluntarily share the same secret room, the rabbit is injured or even murdered by a hungry tiger, and the wizard represented by the tiger is only liable for civil damages at most. This is because it is an instinct for tigers to eat rabbits when they are hungry, and the risks involved should be considered when rabbits agree to be with tigers.

If one wizard turns into a rabbit and another wizard murders the rabbit by any means, including magic, the wizard will be liable for the maximum second-degree murder charge in addition to the large murder tax and related civil liability.

Therefore, for Zheng Qing, it is not a big deal to beat a big mouse running around casually outdoors.

After all, cat and mouse are gifted cat rights.

The hole in the tree where the rat burrowed was at the foot of a tall oak tree. In the First University, in addition to the weeping willow and the tung tree, oak is the most planted tree species by wizards. This plant has a long legend and history in many places, including Europa and Ameria, and the Druiths in particular worshipped it as a sacred object.

The hollow is low and narrow, only about ten centimeters in diameter, and is hidden behind a lush cluster of four-season greens. The hole is surrounded by a ring of fine, dark brown nodules, which are scars left by the destruction of the bark. Looking inside along the entrance of the cave, it was dark, there was no light, and no sound could be heard.

Although he was able to continue to get smaller, Zheng Qing didn't plan to go in to catch the black mouse himself - after all, he was a cat turned from a wizard, his curiosity was still limited, and he didn't have Shi Lezhi, if there was a big nest of mice in the depths of the tree hole, wouldn't he send the cat into the mouse's mouth!

Zheng Qing doesn't like to eat mice, but he doesn't want to be eaten by rats either. From the outside, the tree hole is not very big, and if the space inside is very small, the advantage of his transformation will be useless.

In this way, the black cat honestly squatted at the mouth of the tree hole and began to wait for the mouse. In order to prevent the rat from being frightened, he also shifted slightly, avoiding the oak directly in front of him, and hid on the oblique side of the tree hole. In this way, as long as the tip of the mouse's nose pops out, Zheng Qing can see it clearly, and then pounce on it.

As a cat, Zheng Qing is very patient.

From the moment he lay down and stared at the hollow of the tree, the black cat remained motionless. If it weren't for the time limit of the transformation, he felt like he could have squatted in front of the tree hollow all day.

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour.

The night is getting darker, and the wind blowing on the lake is much cooler than warm. The black cat, lying quietly among the bushes, almost completely hid its figure in the background of the night. If it weren't for the sparkling eyes that occasionally flickered, Zheng Qing believed that even if someone from the school patrol walked in front of him, they wouldn't have noticed that there was a big cat lying here.

Perhaps because of the weakening of the sense of existence, as Zheng Qing was silent for a longer time, the originally quiet lakeside slowly became more vibrant.

A toddler turtle crawled slowly along the grass by the lake, although Zheng Qing didn't know why the big grass turtle living on the east bank of the lake ran to the west of the lake, but it didn't affect him to stare at the turtle's every move - when he was bored, everything was interesting.

At the very least, watching this big grass turtle crawl is much more interesting than watching the kappa basking in the moon.

Of course, in addition to the turtle and kappa, there are squirrels and chipmunks jumping around looking for nuts among the branches above Zheng Qing's head, a small white cat climbing up and down on the rockery not far away, and a group of big red birds napping on the lake farther away. In addition, in the night sky, several black bats glided silently, flashing over the aquatic plants from time to time, competing with the tree spirits for the lights and fireflies that were slowly becoming sluggish.

As the weather gets colder, there are fewer small insects on the lakeshore in terms of number and variety than they were a few months ago, which has led to a large number of insectivores that do not yet want to sleep and have to compete for limited food. The school has also taken this into account, so the school working committee has recently added the task of putting food for these small animals in the work arrangement of the patrol team.

A dark shadow flickered in the corner of his eye, and the black cat, which was originally looking around, immediately cheered up and turned his attention back to the entrance of the tree hole. Something seemed to be coming out of it just now. It's just that after staring at it for a long time, there was still no movement at the entrance of the tree hole, so that Zheng Qing wanted to put his paws in and touch it for a moment to see what the big mouse was doing.

But he eventually gave up on this risky idea, relaxed his mind again, and continued to fight for patience.

At the edge of the lakeshore, there were a few faint lights flickering, slowly walking towards this side.

It was the air death lantern held by the school's night patrolmen, and Zheng Qing had also carried them along the lake. As the light slowly approached, and the faint sound of talking gradually came from the breeze, Zheng Qing subconsciously shrank his figure and hid behind the oak.

He was now in a position next to the path that the patrolmen had to take, and in front of him there was only a narrow wooden chair except for a few bushes.