Most of the time, fireworks appear in the night sky as a festive decoration. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

People use those flickering fires and brilliant colors to express their inner joy and joy.

So, under normal circumstances, this kind of fireworks released for celebration will not be the only one. On the contrary, for the sake of excitement and festivity, the fireworks blooming in the sky are the correct footnotes.

And now, the fireworks hanging in the night sky in the distance are only a lone one.

It's the same fireworks, a different charm.

In an instant, across Linzhong Lake, it reflects the bright moon that is gradually sinking in the west.

"Bang!"

A dull sound echoed over the lake.

Awakened many creatures from their dreams.

The tree spirits stared at each other and squeaked discontentedly. For them, tonight's Linzhong Lake is a little too noisy.

The kappa were much more relaxed. They grab the fat bugs, bite off their heads, and suck on the last bites of dessert before dawn as they cooin something with their friends.

The old fishman who had just returned to the bottom of the lake stared at the red fireworks hanging in the air through the muddy water, shook his head, stopped the impulse of the tribesmen to inquire, and just ordered the tribesmen to help push the boats on the lake to move faster.

More than a dozen boats slid across the water and headed straight for the place where the incident occurred.

They were supposed to belong to tonight's third patrol, which was mainly responsible for patrolling from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m.

Now because of the call of this firework, it has entered the working state in advance.

When the old man of Verne took Zheng Qing and Lin Guo to the bottom of the fireworks, there were already many figures dressed in black and gray robes.

"Why do you give a warning!" the old man strode with a wooden cane, and his voice was very serious.

May's muffled bark rang out in the crowd.

Onlookers silently split a path for the old man to pass.

Zheng Qing dragged Lin Guo to follow.

In the crowd, he saw many familiar faces.

Professor Yi in the divination class, Assistant Teacher Hilda in the practical class, and his interviewer Thomas, as well as some other members of the escort team who used to appear on the special plane, and many gray-robed school workers who often meet on campus.

Everyone was silent, with serious expressions on their faces, as if the next moment an army of demons would rush into the campus.

This made the young government-funded students a little uneasy.

"It's not the same as last week. Professor Yi's voice slowly lowered and faded into obscurity, but his lips still squirmed rapidly, clearly saying something.

Zheng Qing didn't bother to guess the professor's lip language.

He is very self-aware. Since these adults don't want you to know something, it's hard for you to know something right under their noses.

Squeezed through the crowd, in front of him were several busy figures kneeling on the ground with their backs to him.

Zheng Qing stood on tiptoe and crossed these broad backs, and the sight in front of him made his stomach churn.

Then he immediately reached out and covered the eyes of the little wizard beside him.

"Don't get in the way, I'm not a child!" Lin Guo struggled sullenly.

Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment, saw Professor Yi nodding not far away, and then let go of the hand that was blocking Lin Guo's eyes, and let the little wizard squeeze forward.

"Wow. Lin Guo didn't show a trace of fear, but instead made a sound similar to the joy of seeing a hunter.

This made Zheng Qing a little ashamed.

He had just caught his first glimpse of the crowd and almost threw up.

......

A thin figure lay on the lawn with its arms outstretched, dying.

It's a kappa.

To be precise, this is a shriveled kappa.

Its skin seemed to have been dried in the desert for thousands of years, shriveled and tight, and it looked like it had no moisture.

The essence in the jade plate on its head was almost exhausted, and it was only because of the abundance of moonlight tonight that the dish would not dry up completely. That's the only reason it's still lingering.

But the most shocking thing was that the kappa looked as if it had been eaten by something from the chest and abdomen, leaving nothing but a pile of white bones and blackened and discolored internal organs.

"I heard this is the missing kappa......"

"Fortunately, he is not dead, and the school has hundreds of ways to find the murderer. ”

"Unlucky, if you encounter this kind of thing while patrolling, you will definitely have to submit a 3,000-word patrol report next week!"

Several students from the patrol were biting their ears and sighing repeatedly.

Zheng Qing pricked up his ears, scavenging the information around him, suppressing the discomfort in his heart, and carefully looking at the dry kappa. He always felt familiar to him about the gnawed bones of the kappa.

"Is it magic?" asked the old man in a low voice.

"If it's some kind of special ritual, it shouldn't be so crude. Professor Yi shook his head, gently poked the kappa's withered body with tweezers, and whispered, "Do you have any ideas?"

"The bone surface is smooth, there is no tissue residue, and it is very clean...... Osteoporosis, which should belong to the bones of an old kappa in the twilight of his life...... Very strange. The old man Verne's rough fingers slid over the kappa's thigh bones and murmured, "But judging by the face, this is clearly a little guy who is not more than ten years old." ”

The kappa, who was not yet dead, let out a low moan, and it was very dark in the night.

"Is there any difference between magic and nitrate?" Zheng Qing poked Thomas beside him and humbly asked.

Thomas glanced back at him, blinking, as if trying to figure out how to answer the question.

"As my good student, shouldn't I consult my teacher first when I have a problem?" Hilda came out from behind the two, put her arm on the shoulders of Zheng Qing and Thomas, and lowered her voice to teach, "Turn your head." ”

Zheng Qing obediently turned his head to the other side, and then was immediately frightened and almost screamed.

Hilda's hand resting on his shoulder hung a small, inconspicuous pendant.

It was a withered head.

"This is the corpse of magic nitrate...... Part of the corpse. Hilda's slick voice whispered in his ears, like a demon's whisper, creepy: "Delicate, small, without the slightest feeling of blood, but full of art and exotic culture...... The little kappa lying on the grass was more like a poor ghost who had been half gnawed off by a group of piranhas. ”

"The bones of piranhas don't get so polished after they eat them. Thomas said in a deep voice, "Besides, I've never heard of a piranha attacking a kappa. ”

Zheng Qing didn't listen to Thomas.

All his attention was focused on the magically nitrated head in Hilda's hand in front of his right shoulder.

Perhaps because of the magic refining, the skull had shrunk to the size of a walnut, and the purple skin on it was crumpled and crumpled, almost completely obscuring its features.

The long gray hair was neatly combed and tightly bound with a silver bar.

The end of her long hair, with a clasp, hung from Hilda's wrist.

Face to face, eye to eye, forehead to forehead.

This dry head stared at Zheng Qing in a daze, making the young public student break out in a cold sweat.