49. Start with a school gossip

There are quite a few missions on the official website, including entering an area of the dense forest outside the academy to collect potion materials, pacifying the runaway mandrakes and human-faced trees in the botanical garden, and training dangerous supernatural monsters.

There are also assignments that require students to leave campus and solve extraordinary events in their respective regions.

"On the outskirts of Jingzhou, a major mage burglarized and stole the summer vacation homework of junior high school students."

"There are suspected spellcasters in Tokyo who have faked supernatural phenomena to drive down housing prices in the surrounding area."

"A skeleton in Florida said that although he died, he still had the right to inherit."

"Indecent videos circulating on the Internet can draw people's energy from the air. Suspected succubus haunting. ”

"The price of international bear paws fluctuates sharply, and experts say that there are criminals who illegally breed druids."

"Before the Blueberry Rabbit Company went public, a mysterious person infiltrated the headquarters and scalded the fortune tree with boiling water, which is suspected to be a competitor's curse."

"On multiple short video platforms and photo sharing platforms, some users deliberately recommended dangerous scenic spots, resulting in many people drowning. Suspected water ghosts looking for substitute ghosts. ”

However, there is generally one requirement for these tasks:

Previous experience with related assignments.

Since Russell had no experience with the task, he had to take on a similar task first.

But if he wants to take on a similar task, he needs to have relevant mission experience.

The closed loop has been reached.

"What a strange mechanism." Russell couldn't help but complain.

There are also assignments that do not require prior experience but are not allowed to be attended by new students within one year of enrollment.

After thinking about it for a while, Russell finally decided that it would be better to continue with the task that Black Amber had given before, to approach Nocturne and gain Nocturne's trust.

How to approach her?

Russell thought about it for a while, and planned to start with the topic mentioned by Nocturne before, and gain her trust by recognizing the other party's point of view!

He edited the text message and sent it to Nocturne:

"What are the top 10 weird things you said about campus?"

By the time Russell returned to his dorm, Nocturne had links to several posts on campus forums.

These are all links related to campus weirdos.

Russell read it patiently, wrote down all the strange stories, and took notes.

An hour later, Russell looked at the top 10 weird stories on campus and was quite satisfied.

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, the 3rd, the mysterious missing student. Within the Academy, there are occasional students who mysteriously disappear, and these students will immediately disappear from everyone's memory, and no written record will leave a trace of them. ”

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, 11th, Endless Staircase."

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, the 14th, the haunted female dormitory building of the Higher Academy."

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, 21st, Strange Talk Classroom with Rules."

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, 25th, the terrifying thunder near the library at night."

"Top 10 Strange Tales on Campus, No. 31, the eyes of the sculptures at the school gate sometimes change from looking left to right."

"Top 10 Strange Stories on Campus, the 38th, a bloodthirsty monster covered in blood."

“……”

Russell is not surprised by the fact that there are more than 10 of the top 10 oddities on campus.

In these years, there are less than 6 of the Four Heavenly Kings, which will make people feel that there are few.

…………

The next day, before class in the morning.

Inside Black Amber's private office.

"Nothing to say, it's impossible for ordinary prophecy spells and spirits to spy on a professor's private office."

Russell reported to Professor Black Amber about the situation approaching Nocturne, and after receiving her approval, Russell asked curiously:

"Professor, are all those strange things true?"

"Child, of course, it's all tricky, what's the weird talk." On the desk, the black cat swings its paws.

"This mysterious missing student, who doesn't actually exist?"

"Nonsense, if there really are students who disappear and disappear into everyone's memories and texts, how can there be such a strange story."

"What about the terrible thunder of the night?"

"There's a boy who snores too loudly."

"A bloodthirsty monster covered in blood?"

"The toilet paper has been caught."

"The women's dormitory building in the Higher Education Institute is haunted?"

"It's just haunted. On the night the ghost appeared, he was captured as a pet by a Necromancy and Life student. Third-year students in the higher academy, isn't it just a matter of moving your fingers to clean up a little ghost? ”

"The eyes of the sculptures at the entrance of the school sometimes change from looking to the left to the right?"

"Uncle Golem said it had to turn its eyes when it was tired. Come on, we're a magic academy, why is this kind of thing a weird thing? ”

Russell asked a few strange things, but according to Black Amber's explanation, it was either made up randomly, or it was a trivial matter that was added to the vinegar.

"Thank you, Professor, I don't have any other questions about the House Weirdness."

Black Amber analyzed the information provided by Russell and reminded:

"Nocturne seems to be quite concerned about some of the legends within the Academy."

"Yes." Russell also gave an affirmative reply, analyzing:

"In the first psychic class before, after discovering that there were a large number of ghosts in the classroom, she also deliberately guided the students to think in the direction of 'there are terrible secrets in the academy'.

"I hope to start with that, and gain her trust by providing some clues about the weird story.

"At the moment I already have a direction. There's a weird story that is good for approaching her......"

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