The nights are so long that it feels like time is not flowing. Especially when you're looking forward to a certain outcome, the sense of longevity grows even deeper.

After Zheng Qing released the task, he originally wanted to go back to sleep, but found that his spirit was always in a state of excitement after having a 'sense of anticipation', and it was difficult to really fall asleep. Until he waited hopefully for more than an hour, the dog never appeared, and the watch hand had silently passed the zero o'clock scale.

The young wizard knew he couldn't wait any longer.

There is a class tomorrow.

It took him two sleep charms to get rid of the cranky thoughts in his mind and fall into a deep sleep.

The effect of magic is always satisfactory, Zheng Qing opened his eyes again, the sky was already bright, there was a faint morning song of birds and birds outside the window, and the thin curtain slowly swayed in the breeze, which was hopeful and refreshing.

Zheng Qing stared at the top of the tent, paused for a few seconds, and when the thoughts in his mind gathered again, he suddenly ripped open the curtain.

The dormitories were empty.

As far as the eye can see, there are no dogs.

There were two snoring sounds of varying severity on the bed of the fat man, and the elves hung outside Zheng Qing's tent in twos and threes, disturbed by the movement of his tearing open tent, making a slight squeaky sound, and several active elves had already flapped their wings and flew to the bathroom, to prepare hot towels and tea for the wizard to get up early.

It was Xiao Xiao who ripped open the account with Zheng Qing.

He rubbed his eyes, yawned heavily, and squinted as he fumbled for his glasses on the desk.

Putting on his glasses, he glanced in the direction of Zheng Qing's bed. The young student had just tucked his head under the bed. It seemed to be looking for something, but it quickly pulled out in displeasure.

Obviously, nothing.

"Like the fat man said yesterday, you expect too much from it. The doctor obviously knew what Zheng Qing was looking for, and muttered under his breath.

The snoring in the fat man's bed suddenly stopped, and then the sound of turning over came from the tent, and the snoring started again.

"It's just a dog, after all. ”

Zheng Qing remembered the last sentence the fat man said yesterday and sighed heavily.

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Wednesday mornings are a history of magic class, and in the afternoon is a philosophy lesson for Yao.

Compared with the simple agreement of the dog, Zheng Qing has more important things to care about—such as the terrifying philosophy professor, and the upcoming final exams and the ever-increasing workload of schoolwork.

Busyness and toiling always make people lose room for cranky thoughts, and when Zheng Qing came back to his senses again, the third day of the sixteenth week had quietly slipped away from him.

Throughout the day, there was not a single dog hiding in the corner to secretly watch his figure.

On Wednesday night, Zheng Qing and his companions dragged their tired bodies out of the library on their way back to the dormitory, and Xiao Xiao brought up the incident.

"You didn't yell at that dog today, did you?"

"I really didn't see it. ”

"Could it be that the mission you arranged yesterday was too dangerous, and it was caught by that strange wizard to make soup?"

"It's my business. The young wizard was in a bad mood at the thought of that terrible possibility, and he paused before whispering, "This is the number one university...... There shouldn't be such a bad wizard. ”

Just like a few perverts occasionally appear in the mortal world, there is always a small group of wizards in the wizarding world who don't like small animals and have a hobby of torturing and killing them.

"It doesn't have to be a wizard...... Have you forgotten the little white cat that gouged out its eye last year?" Xiao Xiao reminded, "That faceless demon may still be hiding in the school." ”

This sentence reminded Zheng Qing of Jiang Yu.

"It was just an accident. He grunted, his steps getting a little heavier.

People who talk about accidents are often prone to accidents. This is not metaphysics, it is a theory that has been seriously discussed in the philosophy of magic class. Zheng Qing soon put this theory into practice.

When the group returned to the dormitory, they had just pushed open the dormitory door when they heard a terrible scream in the room. Zheng Qing was stunned for a second, and hurriedly rushed inside.

I saw the elves floating in the air in unison, fluttering their wings, clustered together, like a pale green cloud. Beneath the clouds, lay a strange black-robed wizard.

The wizard did not lie down of his own volition.

His two wrists, two ankles, collar, and other vital points were each bitten by a dusty dog, and a fat cat crouched on his face, and his tail was clumped together, gagging the wizard's mouth—a scene that would have been terrible to think of, if the wizard had been unfortunate enough to open his mouth, and the fat cat had happened to 'be convenient'.

"What's going on, what's going on?" Zheng Qing asked, walking quickly towards the wizard, already holding a few runes in his hand.

"Poof!" another gray dog suddenly appeared in front of him, squatting, sticking out its tongue happily and waging its tail quickly.

Zheng Qing immediately stopped.

His gaze lingered on the dog and the other six or seven gray figures in front of him for a moment, and finally confirmed that they were all the same dogs, but compared with last night, the figures of the seven or eight dogs in front of him had become a little lighter. It's like the difference between thick ink and light ink.

"Clone?" Fat Xin tried to lean forward, guessing in a low voice.

Zheng Qing didn't seem to hear his speculation, as he realized something even more unusual - the dog didn't run away in front of the strange wizard.

"It's not a doppelganger...... It's more like the shadow of the same dog, briefly shuttling through different time and space. Xiao Xiao said a very awkward word, and he had already picked up his crystal ball in his hand at some point.

The crystal ball shimmered with countless fine rays of light, crisscrossing and crisscrossing like a huge web of light.

After seeing Zheng Qing's inquiring eyes, the doctor pointed to the light net on the crystal ball and explained simply: "In our dormitory, or rather, the small place where the dog appeared, there is a slight disorder in time and space...... This confirms its identity from the side. ”

The bloodline of Mhisha, a guest of the city of Tyndaros, a hunter who can travel through time and space to hunt down prey. Perhaps because the bloodline is too indifferent, its ability to travel through time and space and its hunting instinct have been weakened a lot. But that doesn't diminish that 'identity' in the slightest.

"A herd of dogs," the fat man admired, trying to get closer, but soon several more dusty dogs jumped out of the void and blocked him in front of him, baring their teeth and whining menacingly in their throats.

Xiao Xiao dragged the fat man behind him.

"Theoretically, the infinity of the gap in space-time, even for a second, can be infinitely subdivided. Xiao Xiao lifted his glasses and explained simply: "This also means that it can summon countless 'selves' from the gap between time and space...... As long as magic and spirit can support it. ”