Because of Lin Guo's brain hole at that plenary meeting, Zheng Qingmao suddenly opened up, not only finding a way out for the 'redundant' production capacity of his cat subordinates, but also finding a 'fist product' for the hunting team in the shop that had not yet opened on the pedestrian street - although selling rats is a one-shot deal and has a time limit, it can't bear the large demand for it in the short term.

So, starting a few days ago, Zheng Qing, Xiao Xiao and others took advantage of the gap between class and dinner in the afternoon to summon his group of cat subordinates to catch mice.

This time, the young government-funded students are much more relaxed about the conditions for mice. It doesn't matter if he's physically disabled or mentally ill, as long as it's a live mouse, he wants it.

The reason why we don't want dead rats is, on the one hand, limited by poor storage conditions - the small area of the shop on the pedestrian street and the lack of separate cold storage facilities make it very difficult to preserve a bunch of dead mice, and on the other hand, it is also for the sake of price, no matter what time of year, the living is always worth more than the dead.

Although it is a little troublesome to take care of live mice, for example, Zheng Qing and they need to prepare cages, food, and water to measure, and they also need to post a few talismans from time to time to remove distemper or keep the rats calm, but due to the higher price, the income of keeping live rats is relatively higher.

......

In the glade.

The black cat walked around the rat pile, pacing unhurriedly; Dr. Xiao held a notebook and wrote and drew beside it to record today's earnings; the group of cats squatted not far away, looking at the two bigwigs who accepted the 'tribute', hoping that they would be liberated as soon as possible; as for the little foxes, they hid behind the bushes and tree stumps, hoping to find some fun.

There is also Lin Guo, who is holding his little hands behind his back, his eyes jumping from one mouse to another, squinting, looking carefully, not knowing what he is looking at, watching with relish.

"That's right, Captain!" the little wizard suddenly raised his head as if he remembered something, and looked at the black cat: "There's something I've always been curious about...... How do you convince your cat subordinates to give you the rats they catch, rather than their real owners? If I'm not mistaken, so many of the cats here are bought to catch mice. ”

"In the world of cats, you, as a human being, don't guess. The black cat glanced at the little wizard and said slowly in a deep voice, "As for these cats, they can't help their masters catch mice...... If you can't catch mice, their masters will sell them again?"

"A lot of people have cats, they just need an excuse. Xiao Xiao also added a sentence next to him.

Lin Guo nodded as if he didn't understand, and didn't continue the topic, but changed to another question:

"Then how do you get your cats to stack the rats they catch so neatly...... I've never seen a cat and mouse catch so clean!"

In Lin Guo's impression, cats and mice often bite their prey beyond recognition, and some soft-hearted people will inevitably use their claws to open a few transparent holes in their prey.

And like the prey captured by Zheng Qing's cats, he had never seen it clean from top to bottom, without any damage, and neatly sleeping and stacked together.

"Hey!" the black cat suddenly squatted on the ground, raised his paws, and wiped his nose proudly: "This belongs to our core competitiveness...... If the mouse is clawed with missing arms and tails, and is full of holes, how can any customer be willing to buy it. ”

"As for the method, on the one hand, these cats are smart. I just gave a few simple gestures, and they all learned how to stun the mouse with their paws and how to tie the rat's tail out of a bow. ”

"On the other hand, it was also good luck that there was a 'comatose cat' in this group of cats...... Ah, the Egyptian cat crouching behind the forest cat, it inherited the blessing that the Egyptian pharaoh gave to his pets in an unknown generation, and the mice that were slapped by his paws would fall into a coma. ”

"Of course, so far, we've only found its abilities useful for mice...... Maybe the Nile rats were rampant, so the Egyptian pharaohs specially developed this 'special cat breed'?"

Speaking of this, Zheng Qing paused, pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head, adding, "Maybe we can try other small animals, such as the eight-eyed spider, the red chain snake, or the corpse beetle...... I remember that there was also a subspecies of the ghouli-eating beetle in Egypt, and it was very widespread back then, so maybe the cat's abilities would be useful to those bugs as well. ”

After Zheng Qing finished speaking, before Lin Guo could speak, a slightly sharp voice suddenly inserted next to him.

"Listen to this, you also plan to collect some corpse beetles?" Jingdong's head came out from behind Lin Guo's shoes, looked at Zheng Qing, and interjected to ask, "Live or dead?"

"Of course it's alive!" the black cat replied subconsciously, and then was stunned for a moment, looking up at the little mouse in clothes: "Oh? You're still there, I thought you had just left." ”

"You have so many rats here, how can I go back empty-handed!" Jingdong flicked his tail, and his tone was slightly anxious: "If I exchange your mice for a corpse beetle, will you change it?"

"Necro beetle?" the black cat narrowed its eyes slightly.

In addition to rats, the 'anomalous species' that invaded the campus this time also included spiders, snakes, corpse-eating beetles, and many other small animals. Nine Colleges were assigned to clean up rats, while Alpha Academy was assigned to clean up corpse beetles.

Although it seems that ghoul beetles are much cleaner and easier to catch than mice, for many aristocratic wizards with cleanliness habits, especially psychological cleanliness, it is better to let them catch corpse beetles than to eat frog liver raw.

After all, eating frog liver can still brighten your eyes, and catching corpse-eating beetles is a completely 'unlucky' thing, and for many wizards with a certain amount of historical baggage, this matter is a bit taboo.

"Can you provide a corpse beetle?" Xiao Xiao, who was counting the number of rats, suddenly stopped the quill in his hand and looked at Jingle Bell's ear: "I mean a lot...... Many, many ghoul beetles?"

"Of course!" Ding Dong patted his chest without hesitation: "Fried corpse beetles are our favorite snacks, and anyone who doesn't have seven or eight hundred insects at home is embarrassed to invite others to come to the door!"

The black cat couldn't help but glance at Dr. Xiao.

The eyes of a man and a cat suddenly lit up.

That's right!

Cats aren't very good at catching ghoul beetles or eight-eyed spiders, but mice are good at it!

In the past, because the rats they caught were all wild rats with low intelligence, it was naturally inconvenient to instruct them to catch insects. Although it can be controlled with magic, both the cost of time and magic can become very high and extremely uneconomical.

But now it's different.

The 'Clothed Rat Clan' led by Jingle Ears – that's what the Black Cat just gave them – are rats and intelligent beings, and with them helping to catch ghoul beetles, D&K's business could easily expand to Alpha Academy!