Chapter 157: The Tide of the Times
The dog helped Zheng Qing catch the 'prey' twice.
The first time was a frog, Zheng Qing kicked a stone and hit a frog, and the dog saw the appearance of the frog. The second time was Professor Trudeau, the dog was magically hung from a tree by the Professor, and he had seen the Professor's appearance.
Therefore, if he wanted the dog to help find the lost black goat, or the faceless demon, Zheng Qing had to let it know what it was looking for.
Early the next morning, when Zheng Qing got up to prepare for the morning class, he lifted the curtain and saw the dog squatting at the head of the bed 'haha' sticking out his tongue. Professor Trudeau was not brought back by it.
He smiled and touched the dog's head and complimented:
"Well done!"
The dog's tail wagged a little more cheerfully.
"Does he treat the dormitory as his home?" the fat man rarely opened his eyes once in the morning, and snorted in a daze, "Does it pay for accommodation?"
Tuan Tuan let out a long snort.
"You can let it help you catch pheasants," Zheng Qingle suggested, and put a talisman on the dog to ward off evil spirits, looked at the green smoke rising from the talisman paper in the morning light, and added: "...... As for where it came from, you need to figure it out for yourself. β
Pheasants naturally could not be native to the island, but within the school limits, it is more likely that they are pets of some students. The fat man didn't intend to cause too much trouble for the sake of a momentary appetite, so the eyelids that had just been hooked by Zheng Qing's suggestion instantly closed again.
"Who are you going to ask it to find first?" Xiao Xiao changed into his practice clothes and took two steps towards the door.
The dog 'poof', vigilantly disappeared from the spot, and reappeared, already squatting behind Zheng Qing.
"It depends. The young student mumbled and tightened his belt. Lin Guo of the Black Goat, Lin Guo is the manager of the Sin Hunting Team, and the Faceless Demon once killed an innocent little white cat, for which Jiang Yu has been having a hard time last semester.
For Zheng Qing, both goals are important and in no particular order.
"Keep up and don't get spotted on the road. He lowered his head, glanced at the dog at his feet, and warned, "The school doesn't like you guys with special bloodlines right now. β
The dog didn't know if he understood, but he still stuck out his tongue and wagged his tail stupidly.
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Today's morning class is not much different from the past.
The same time, the same place, the same energetic scene. The only accident came from an old man, an old wizard who sat on a large blue checkered cotton cloth and smoked a hookah with a bamboo tube.
"The dog is good," the old man spat out a smoke ring and praised as Zheng Qing passed by the cotton cloth: "It's much more energetic than the old dog raised by Verne!"
Zheng Qing looked nervously left and right, but did not find the dog.
He didn't even see it, how did the old wizard find out about the existence of the dog? With a lot of thoughts, Zheng Qing finished his morning class, and he kept thinking about it in his mindβand he always felt that the old wizard was a little familiar.
"Have we seen him somewhere?" Zheng Qing pushed Xiao Xiao with his elbow, Nunu mouthed, and motioned to where the old man was. Poseidon, who had just finished his morning class with him, was spreading his limbs and lying on the grass with his tongue sticking out, like a certain dog.
Xiao Xiao was also wiping the shell of his turtle.
Hearing this, he replied without raising his head: "When we first went to the office building of the school working committee, we couldn't find the door. It is the way pointed out by the old man. β
Zheng Qing was stunned.
"How could he find a trace of a dog? I can't find it myself!"
"What else can you find besides what's under your nose?"
That's a bit heart-wrenching.
But then, Zheng Qing thought a little more carefully.
"He's the old man of the school committee...... He just praised the dog for being good, does it mean that the school committee allows it to stay in school?"
"How do you know without asking?"
Zheng Qing hesitated for a moment, and finally walked up to the old man and sang a fat song: "Hello, is it the dog you just praised?"
As he spoke, he pinched Poseidon's foreleg and held it up in front of the old man to display.
The little fox cocked its tail slightly upwards to cover its buttocks, and then looked at the old man in front of him with an innocent expression.
The old wizard buried half of his face in the bamboo tube, and a series of gurgling bubbles came from the tube.
It took a long time for him to raise his head and spit out a string of evenly sized and interlocking smoke ringsβa sight that made the impression in Zheng Qing's mind more and more vivid.
"It?" the old man gasped, glanced at Poseidon who was held by Zheng Qing, and narrowed his eyes: "Isn't it a fox? I'm talking about a dog...... The hound that has been following you. β
Zheng Qing finally confirmed that the old man could really find the dog.
He fixed his mind and looked left and right, but still did not find the dog. I don't know if it's hidden behind a bush or in the canopy of a tree.
"Do you know where this dog came from?" he asked in a whisper.
The old man smiled.
"There aren't many dogs that can travel through time and space, and there aren't many that are so clingy and sticky. He snorted and gasped, and his words always had a bit of stickiness: "...... You're in luck. If this dog's blood is thicker, the school will not tolerate it, and if it is weaker, it will not have that cleverness. β
This sounds reassuring.
Zheng Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and laughed: "I think I think ...... too The school is so big, how can it be like a puppy. β
The young wizard had completely forgotten that not long ago, he had gone to the office of the school committee to urge them to deal with the dog's affairs.
"The school doesn't care about a puppy. The old man knocked the cigarette ash in the bamboo tube and turned his head to look into the distance: "What the school cares about is the starry sky behind the dog...... It's like that tide. β
"Tide?"
"Black tides are coming from outside Phuket, and there are red tides and white waves surging in Phuket. This is the tide of the times. An unprecedented tide will drown everything. If you don't want to be drowned by this tide, you have to learn to dance on the top of the waves...... Those who are not good in the water are now making boats and rafts, so as not to be hit by the waves and go to the bottom. β
Zheng Qing glanced at Xiao Xiao.
The doctor frowned, his expression very serious.
"What about you?" the young student pondered for a moment, and finally asked, "Would you rather surf or take a boat?"
The old man laughed.
"I'm old," he said, "and I can only sit under the tree, look at the scenery, and listen to the sound of the tide...... You close your eyes and listen carefully...... There was the sound of waves crashing against the reef all around. β
Zheng Qing listened carefully.
All you can hear is the rustling of leaves in the wind, and the shouts and cheers of the young wizards in the Flying Garden.