Sherlock walked out of the illusion door to find Alice thoughtfully teleporting herself to the teaching area, as he had said that this part of the area had not been checked.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and began to patrol the place with the oil lamp again, the silence in the academy was in extremely strong contrast with the blizzard outside, and in such a motionless building, this scene actually made people feel inexplicably reassured.

Wow, wow, kick.

Sherlock's leather shoes rattled, and suddenly, the oil lamp flickered, which made his nerves, which he had managed to relax tense again, and two walking reflections appeared in front of him.

Or is it a statue of the sun god, or is it an undead demon?

He lifted the oil lamp to let the light shine farther, and it was only then that Sherlock could see that the two figures on the opposite side were Abel and Margaret.

This also caused the two to discover him, and Abel hurriedly walked up with Margaret, shook his body and asked, "Where have you been?" You're almost all over here. ”

Sherlock laughed and explained embarrassedly, "I got lost on the Floating Island and ran into a demon bird, but fortunately Professor Alice saved me in the end. ”

Abel asked incredulously, "Aunt Alice?" How did you meet her. ”

"She seems to be collecting large pine cones for the squirrels, and I should thank her so much, and Professor Alice's hot drink is very good!"

When Abel heard this, he understood what had happened, and turned to Margaret and said, "Call everyone back, just say that Sherlock is fine, and tell them not to go to the Floating Island." ”

Margaret quickly trotted to inform the others.

Abel patted him on the shoulder: "You can make them worry about it." ”

Sherlock sincerely apologizes, and then brings up the statue of the sun god on the floating island, complaining about who made such a scary prank.

Alice didn't tell her where the statues came from, not wanting to cause panic among the people in the academy.

He lamented that the teaching area had not been inspected yet, so he could only talk for a while, but Abel said that a group of people had looked around, and now the teaching area definitely does not need to be checked.

In addition, Abel agreed with Sherlock about the statue at the beginning: "Aunt Alice must have done it, who else but her." ”

Sherlock shook his head, indicating that he had asked the professor and that she hadn't done it.

"Then we can only ask the academy later."

But just as Abel had finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that when everyone was looking for Sherlock, he had also seen many statues of the sun god in the academy, and if he remembered correctly, there was one nearby.

He pointed to the statue a few meters away from the two and asked, "Is this the prank you are talking about?" ”

Sherlock fixed his eyes and saw that it was the statue of the sun god, "That's right, it's this thing, I really don't know who put so much." They will sneak up on you and scare me when you find out. ”

Abel felt that it was not so simple, he walked to the statue and took a closer look, and said casually: "About eight years ago, my father dealt with an aberrant in Norman, called the Demon Stone Statue, which seems to be somewhat similar to what you described. ”

His fingers scratched his chin, and then let go of his irrelevant associations: "That's it, I guess someone knows about this and learned to do it, according to what you said, this thing doesn't seem to be aggressive." ”

Sherlock affirmed, saying that if this thing was aggressive, then he would never be able to get out of the floating island, after all, the statue was already very close to him at that time.

Abel nodded again and led him back to the academy's library, where the male cadets were camped.

When the crowd saw him return with Sherlock, they shouted loudly and dissatisfied, "Sherlock, you are really uneasy. ”

Although it was noisy, everyone's nerves relaxed, because many people feared that Sherlock had met the aberrant who had broken through the cultivation laboratory and might be dead, although he did meet the demon bird.

The students put the oil lamps in the center of the hall, making it slightly bright, and after such a fright, everyone couldn't sleep for a while.

A trainee who also participated in the hunter training sat on the ground, playing with the cards in his hand, but he was very relieved, and in the face of everyone's questions, he explained: "I said earlier, if you have seen his performance in the face of distortions like me, you will be as relieved as I am." ”

Sherlock reluctantly says that this is actually due to Professor Alice.

The student playing cards looked up and said, "That lady who sold us a bunch of strange books at an expensive price?" opened her eyes, she can still be so capable. Then he handed out another pile of cards and asked him and Abel, "Anyway, it's boring, do you want to play cards together?" ”

Sherlock nodded indifferently, "Of course, I don't want to stay there. He then looked at Abel and asked him if he wanted to go along.

Abel took the pile of cards, which was not much different from the usual poker, except that the pattern became a variety of monster diagrams, and the bigger the number, the more terrifying the monster was drawn.

The student said: "The rules are very simple, each person draws ten cards, and the size is compared according to the number combination. ”

Abel readily agreed: "It doesn't sound that difficult, count me in." ”

In this way, the three of them sat together and played a game of cards by the light of the many oil lamps.

The people around the library also relaxed, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere in the library became much better.

After a game of cards played for a while, the Hunter Cadet handed over the penultimate card and said with a smile: "Demon Bird A, you lost, Sherlock, I know your last hand must be pitiful." ”

Sherlock looked at the last card he was about to hand out and got stuck in his hand, shouted that he was not reconciled, and then handed over one copper riel to someone.

"Look at you, Abel, and dispel his arrogance."

But Able smiled heartily and showed his three cards, the biggest being the wolf king, indicating that he had no choice but to throw the cards back to the pile, and also handed over 1 copper riel.

Willing to gamble and lose: "Count yourself lucky." ”

The Hunter Cadet took Copper Ruil and said that it was only a little short, which was a pity.

Seeing this, Sherlock joked, "Bastard, we didn't agree to join in at first. ”

The Hunter Cadet laughed and said he hadn't forced him to participate with a musket in his head, and he began to sort out the deck.

Abel took advantage of the brief gap before the start of the next round to look around, and wondered, "I think there should be more people than this." ”

The Hunter Cadet sorted out the cards, muttered for a moment and replied, "Some people have gone a little far to find Sherlock, Miss Margaret should be calling them back, I can only hope that no unlucky people will go to the Floating Island to find Sherlock." ”

Sherlock remembered the path that was covered by heavy snow, and reassured everyone: "Even if someone goes, they will walk to the airflow platform at most, and the road is blocked by heavy snow, and if you can't get in, we can rest assured." ”

The Hunter Cadet nodded, then there was no problem, and said that the cards were re-dealt and the second game officially began.

Just as Abel was about to inspect his hand, Margaret rushed in with an anxious expression, and the hunter trainee saw this and said, "It's broken, you can tell that something is wrong by looking at her expression." ”

Sure enough, Margaret hurriedly said: "There are a few statues that seem to be mischievous and trapping a few people, everyone come and help, it's so cold outside and something will happen later!" ”

Sherlock and Abel stood up at once and asked in unison, "Is it a statue of the sun god?" ”

"Yes, that's right."

The relaxed atmosphere of the library came to an abrupt end, and everyone hurriedly put on their thick clothes and walked outside the academy, where they found several students who had been caught by the statue of the sun god at the bottom of the air flow leading to the floating island.

They also fell into a state of hypothermia, and their lips lost their blood.

Sherlock stepped forward and tried to break the statue's hand, but found that it seemed to be as hard as steel.

The snow was falling, and everyone was shivering in the biting cold wind as they held up oil lamps to make ideas.

The hunter cadet smashed the butt of the musket a few times, and the statue was stunned, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This year's prank is really excessive. ”

The trapped student begged for help weakly: "Hurry up and find a way, Mr. Bruce, I am about to freeze to death, this group of statues grabbed me at once while I was not paying attention, and they refused to let go." ”

The hunter cadet named Mr. Bruce let the people next to him disperse first, then took a few steps back and raised his musket and said, "Don't worry, unlucky, I won't be crooked." ”

Boom!

The projectile hit the statue but it bounced off at once, and it seemed that it was not even possible to use a musket.

Bruce looked at Abel and said slowly, "It's up to you, Abel, don't let them freeze to death like this." ”

"I'll give it a try."

After speaking, Abel opened his hands and drove the sun's wave particle ability, jumped into the wave state and began to impact the statue.

Margaret watched the statue gradually crack and shouted, "It seems to have an effect." ”

Eventually, under Abel's last shuttle, the surface of the statue shattered!

But in the blink of an eye, what was actually peeled off was the body of a demon stone statue with a face full of tiny mouthparts and dense fangs.

The students screamed in fright, and the trapped guys fainted suddenly.

Bruce and Sherlock, who were next to them, did not hesitate and raised their muskets almost at the same time to shoot at the demon statue.

Perhaps the statues were still in their infancy, and the demon statues were shot to death after a few screams.

Bruce said fearfully, "Such a dangerous prank makes me a little disbelieving that this is a prank." ”

Margaret held Abel, who was in a weakened state, and said weakly, "I don't think this is a prank at all, who would use the demon stone statue for this purpose?" ”

Margaret looked at the crowd and persuaded her, "Anyway, let's go back to the camping site first, everyone is frightened outside." Mr. Sherlock, please help you and Mr. Bruce to help a few of you who have passed out. ”

In this way, the students braved the wind and snow to return to the camp, and for safety reasons, everyone moved to the library regardless of gender.

The tent stretched from the library to the hallway, and Bruce found more oil lamps to illuminate it, and began to gather capable students to start guarding the surroundings: "Extraordinary, trainee hunter, or anyone who has ever fought monsters, please come to me." ”。

Eight people were eventually screened, including Abel and Sherlock.

He confessed: "Our camp tent is set up outside the corridor to protect the safety of the other students, and we must be wary of any Sun God statue!" ”

"No problem, Bruce."

Margaret on the side counted the number of people again, and this time there was no shortage of one, she finally relieved her heart, and her face was no longer pale.

After careful care, the rescued trainees slowly recovered and expressed their gratitude to everyone.

Today's incident was the first in the history of the Academy, and Sherlock wanted to report it to the Academy as soon as possible, but the heavy snow blocked all roads, and the pager could not send out a signal for some reason.

He turned to Abel and asked Abel if he could call Professor Alice, and Abel said that he could not do anything in this situation.

He said with a solemn expression: "Then it seems that the next duty day can only rely on ourselves." ”

And there are only eight people who can be used, and Margaret is half of them, which can be said to be a heavy blow to everyone's mood.

But things got better, and a phantasmagoric door opened outside the library, and Alice came out of it and said softly, "Meet again, Sherlock, by the way, I heard my name called?" ”

There is salvation, Margaret said.