Monster Hunting High School

For wizards, painted skin has two meanings.

One is a rare magic item, and the other is a mysterious magical creature.

The former is made of human skin, animal skin, etc. The cortex is intact, and the hair and seven orifices are no different from those of the living. When using it, you only need to wrap it around the body and roll it on the spot to transform into the creature represented by the painted skin. , very few wizards can tell the difference.

The latter is a kind of ferocious ghost with a green face, teeth as sharp as saws, and a roar like a pig. It likes to eat the hearts of children. It can peel off the victim's skin and transform into the other person. Because it is too fierce, it has been killed by wizards. Hunted to near extinction, even students at First University can only see their remains and specimens in the herbarium.

At the moment, the pet snake hidden in the grass nest is shedding its skin. At a glance, it can be seen that it has nothing to do with the ferocious ghost. Therefore, the "painted skin" mentioned by Dr. Xiao Da can only be the first case.

After hearing Xiao Xiao's judgment, Nicholas's expression suddenly changed.

"Painted skin?! It's impossible." He murmured in a difficult tone: "Is there any misunderstanding here? Do you want to look at it again..."

His fearful attitude is naturally justified.

If this snake slough is, as Xiao Xiao said, a painting skin, then who used this painting skin? Why did he come to First University pretending to be a pet snake? The most important thing is, is the owner of this pet snake, Liu Feifei, aware of this matter? If you were unaware, are you primarily responsible for the accident?

Just a simple thought, many terrible thoughts emerged in his mind, making Nicholas panic and uneasy. His only hope was that Xiao Xiao had just missed it, and the snake slough was just a simple snake slough. Or maybe Xiao Xiao was joking with him.

But Nicholas also knew that Xiao Xiao was not someone who liked to joke, and the matter was so important that he could not just give an impossible answer casually.

Compared with Lao Sheng, who is worried about gains and losses, Xiao Xiao obviously has more things on his mind - for example, why the Exoneration Hunting Team and others have been searching for the faceless monster for a long time but can't find any trace of it; another example, why Liu Feifei's big snake always fails There was never a trace.

A reasonable explanation is that the faceless monster has been wearing the skin of a pet snake, hiding from public view in the form of darkness under the lamp.

It's just that the origin of the faceless monster, when it wore the skin of a pet snake, its purpose of coming to school, etc., these deeper information cannot be inferred based on just a few clues at the moment.

Xiao Xiao can think of this, and Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu naturally want it too.

This is not a good result.

The place fell into deep silence for a moment. Xiao Xiao's discovery added a heavy haze to everyone's hearts. Perhaps only the slightly naive Li Meng hasn't figured out the entanglement behind the painting and behaves a little more lively.

"Painted skin?!" Li Meng's arms holding the stuffed bear suddenly tightened - just after arriving at the grassland, the little white cat had already struggled out of the little witch's arms, and Li Meng had no choice but to hug the stuffed bear again. Velvet bear.

Fortunately, the stuffed bear was also open-minded and didn't mind the little witch abandoning him, and happily returned to her arms. Of course, before being hugged, it still received a cleaning charm to wash away the mud and dust that had just been stained on its body.

"Where did the painted skin come from? Whose painted skin? Isn't this the skin of Sister Feifei's pet snake?" The little witch was dizzy by this sudden fact, but it did not affect her little shrewdness: "This painted skin You haven’t reported it at school! Are there any credits for submitting it to the school working committee?”

The black cat and the white cat looked at each other, and Xiao Xiao and Nicholas also looked at each other.

This is the biggest question right now - whether to report this discovery to the school.

In theory, reporting to the school is the best solution.

First of all, the reason for reporting is very good: the unidentified faceless monster must have some ulterior motives when it sneaks into First University; moreover, this monster hides on campus and threatens all the students of First University, including everyone present. They are all a huge threat. No one knows if this monster has other paintings and whether it will lurk around them and bite them.

Secondly, the school provides very generous rewards for reporting similar discoveries: credits are certain, and sometimes many material rewards may be added, which is not a big temptation for young wizards who are strapped for cash.

Finally, whether it is the school's rules and regulations or the laws prevailing in the wizarding world, wizards are required to have an obligation to assist in the investigation of such incidents. In a world full of magic, this is not something you can just pretend to turn a blind eye and get away with.

It can be said that from any righteousness and justice perspective, everyone should shed this snake.

But from another perspective, there seems to be a reason not to report it.

Furthermore, what happens after the report is made? ——The school working committee gets the snake slough, the school becomes furious, searches everywhere, and may ban the students from hunting, dancing and other activities in the name of safety; if the school catches the monster in a short time, everything will be fine; but If you can't catch it, it will be another trouble.

Zheng Qing still clearly remembers the trouble caused by those little sand bugs last semester.

But because of a few magical creatures that had their time sucked away, the entire school was in a state of panic, and many of the school's big bosses were criticized by a reporter from the Beta Town Post for their personal incompetence.

These are just some little bugs that are not very harmful.

Currently hiding in the school is a faceless monster of unknown strength. It is not one of those sand-toki insects that only steal a little bit of wizard time, but a real monster that can eat people and kill!

More importantly, this snake slough belongs to Liu Feifei's pet.

Not to mention Liu Feifei's status as a government-funded student of the college, the uproar that may arise after her pet is discovered to be a monster. This ownership alone would cause her great trouble, and perhaps even an inspection by Dan Hager.

Not only her, but a series of departments with supervisory responsibilities, including the school pet garden, the school working committee, etc., are also jointly and severally responsible for this matter.

Zheng Qing can almost foresee that Jiuyou Academy will be disgraced in the next period of time. It was really depressing that something like this happened when there was a dispute with the Alpha Academy and the fishman tribe.

"The snake slough belongs to Feifei, and the final right of choice is also hers. Let's take the snake slough back and let her make her own choice." Xiao Xiao finally gave a slightly tactful but not very responsible suggestion.

Nicholas was a little lost and said nothing, allowing Xiao Xiao to collect the snake slough, put it into the deerskin bag, and stuff it into his arms.