In the face of Dylan's questioning, Xiao Xiao did not sell it, but closed the booklet in his hand and began to explain patiently: "If you think about it with normal thinking, it naturally has nothing to do with mice." ”

"But we are facing a winter hunt organized by the school, and you should know that the winter hunt in 2003 ......"

"No, we don't know. Zheng Qing immediately interjected.

Xiao Xiao glanced at him, his speed of speech did not change in the slightest, and continued: "...... In that winter hunt, there was a demon hunting team responsible for cleaning up an area in the upper reaches of Linzhong Lake, and according to the description in the manual issued by the hunting committee, it should be a group of water foxes assigned to the demon hunting team...... What do you think of when you hear the water fox?"

"Fox in the water. Zheng Qing replied honestly.

Not surprisingly, his answer was unanimously despised by all the hunters present.

"It should be 'Zhu Gui nou'," Zhang Jixin hesitated, seeing Zheng Qing's confused expression, he hurriedly explained: "This animal is introduced in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, Dongshan Classic", "Three hundred miles to the south, it is called Geng Mountain, Fu grass and trees, many waters, and many big snakes." There is a beast, its shape is like a fox and fish wings, its name is called Zhu Xiong, its song is self-proclaiming, and its country is afraid when it is seen. ’...... The red deer looks very much like a fox, but it has fins, and in some places in the south, it is also called a water fox. ”

"Tsk," Zheng Qing listened to Zhang Jixin's explanation, and sighed: "I can't see it, I can't see it, you guy, who is full of muscles, can actually recite such a large paragraph of text...... Come on, let me check, don't be possessed by something unclean. Anyway, he is also the main hunter of our hunting team, in case you leave early, the pressure on others will be too great!"

As he spoke, the young public-funded student took out a few evil charms from the gray cloth bag, and made a gesture to shoot Zhang Jixin's body.

Of course, this is just a joke between peers. Elder Zhang stretched his face slightly, and the public scholarship student honestly retracted his paws.

"You're the main hunter this time, I'm just a little hunter. Zhang Jixin complained: "Moreover, the total number of words in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" cannot be compared with the "Wizard Encyclopedia" or "Wizard Code...... My brother said that if you want to be a good hunter, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is one of the most basic requirements. I don't even know the most representative creatures in the wizarding world, so what kind of hunter is it!"

These words were quite impassioned.

It's just that these remarks also pulled the topic that was originally a little off the rails a little further. Xiao Xiao, who was presiding over the discussion, had to cough heavily a few times to bring everyone's attention back to it.

"Don't talk about it!, you should be self-absorbed after the winter hunt with feelings!" As he spoke, he glanced at Zheng Qing and Zhang Jixin viciously, and continued the previous topic: "You can think of 'Zhu Xiong', and people with demonic hunting teams will naturally think of it, and they even think of beavers other than Zhu Wei, so the hunting plans and tools they prepared in advance are all aimed at creatures like Zhu Xiong...... It's just that no one has calculated that the 'water foxes' in that booklet are actually a group of 'snakes'. ”

"As you know, Zhu Qi's talent for creating panic is biased towards illusion and psychic attacks, and his ability to innuendo is especially good at harming people with anger...... Because of the improper response, all the hunters of the Demon Qi Hunting Team that year were vomited with poisonous gas by that group of dragons, and when they ended, each of them was covered in rotten sores and was extremely miserable. ”

"Damn!" Dylan couldn't help but exclaim.

"Is that sand insinuation? Why? What's wrong?" Zheng Qing knew about the strange insect 'snake', but he couldn't associate it with the name water fox for a while.

"Another name for the snake is 'water fox', and there are places where they are called 'short foxes'," Xiao Xiao explained: "In the Encyclopedia of the Wizarding World, the snake is listed in the genus Fox along with creatures such as Chenghuang, Xiaoye wolf, and Zhu Xiong. It's just that although it is a fox genus, the difference between a snake and an ordinary fox is greater than the difference between a golden snub-nosed monkey and a great wizard, and it is difficult for ordinary people to think of that kind of small bug. ”

"So, you mean, the 'raccoons' on the pamphlet given to us by the hunting committee this time are definitely not the 'raccoons' we thought they were?" Zheng Qing finally began to draw inferences.

"What do you think?" Xiao Xiao asked rhetorically, "If it was really a group of orangutans, with our search ability, we would have found them a long time ago...... And so far they have not been found, and those raccoons are certainly not orangutans. ”

"What would that be? Fat Xin scratched his chin with some distress, turned his head, and looked at the snow-covered forest outside the guardian circle uneasily.

The cold north wind slowly swept through the treetops and snow, rolling up a few dead leaves and snowflakes, bringing out a string of whining sounds, setting off the background of this small piece of world more and more eerie.

The fat man couldn't help but shudder, and quickly twisted his head back.

In this room, Dr. Xiao has already begun to make a new deduction: "Since we can't understand it with normal thinking, we must go back to the source and start with the word 'raccoon'." ”

"The word '狌' is pronounced as xing, the same as 'ape', and the first is pronounced as sheng, which is the same as '鼪'. ”

"The words of the ape, which are easy to understand, are they big monkeys, I will not explain them here...... And if you choose a shrew, then many clues can be connected. ”

As we all know, the weasel refers to the weasel, that is, the weasel, and the ancients liked to eat rats and resemble wolves, so they called them rat wolves. Coincidentally, due to the early return of silence this year, a large-scale rat infestation broke out near the school, and even the clothed rat tribe that was originally hidden in the underground world has begun to emerge recently. ”

"Hunters follow the trail of their prey. ”

"The rat is here, will the rat wolf be far away?"

"In other words, the third kind of raccoon you are talking about, is it not pronounced 'orangutan', but 'shengsheng'?" Zheng Qing was a little stunned, and had a little headache: "If that's the case, the third kind of raccoon we should be looking for is a rat wolf, why did you let you find a mouse?"

"Because if you find a mouse, you find our prey. This time, it was Zhang Jixin who answered him: "The rat wolves that can survive in the Silent Forest are not their stupid relatives in the outside world...... In winter, raising the rats for food rations is a basic operation. So, if we can find the big rat holes, there is a good chance that we will be able to find those 'raccoons'. ”

Xiao Xiao didn't speak, just nodded silently.

Zheng Qing smacked his lips and put the Colt python in his hand back on his waist: "According to your analysis, then we will be busy later...... Just a few turns, there are not many burrows that can hold wild boars or orangutans, but there are quite a few burrows that can hold mice!"