Capítulo 2076: Chapter 297: Today Is Saturday (Congratulations to @Love Ah Ah Ah on Your Wedding!)
Zheng Qing felt he had never slept so peacefully.
So much so that when he realized he was awake, he still lingered, reminiscing the comfort of monts before, reluctant to open his eyes.
Until Zhang Ji Xin’s wail ca to his ears.
“It’s over?!!” The red-faced male wizard’s voice was like thunder, shaking the whole room: “How could it be! It had just begun!”
If it’s over, it’s over, no need to yell like that.
The young bursary student complained in his heart, while a sluggish thought slowly popped out—a mont, Zhang Ji Xin seems not to be in the sa dorm as , why is he yelling nearby? Is Absolution having a eting? How co I didn’t know?
“Quiet!”
A stern yet familiar voice sounded not far away: “This is the school hospital, not your dorm! Do not disturb other students’ rest!”
Oh, school hospital, no wonder the voice sounds familiar, it must be Lady Bella… person…
Zheng Qing suddenly opened his eyes and sat up with a start, startling the little sprite that was watering the flowers on the bedside table, causing it to fall right into the bouquet.
The warlock woodenly stared at the white walls ahead, his gaze sowhat unfocused.
Absolution, edge, school hunting party, finals, flying tigers, galloping giants, quiet riverside, the small bug that landed in the hand, bit by bit, mories of reality were being stuffed back into his brain.
“Awake?”
Doctor Xiao’s voice ca from beside him: “Sowhat unfortunate timing, Jiang Da Headmaster just left… look, the flowers your beside were just brought by her.”
Zheng Qing turned his stiff neck to look at the bouquet, it was a bunch of carnations, daffodils, and calla lilies, with an inconspicuous rose hiding among the carnations.
He tugged at the corner of his mouth, then looked around.
This was a large ward, cramd with eight hospital beds, with a dozen sprites bustling around the room with dicine boxes, clear water, and warm towels. Lady Bella stood at the ward door, holding a dical record in her arms, noticed the rising warlock, and repeated the content she had said hundreds of tis:
“No noise or horseplay in the ward! Rest after taking your dicine! If you feel hungry, you can go downstairs to go through the discharge procedures at once!”
Zheng Qing touched his stomach, feeling no appetite at all.
He turned to look at Xiao Xiao: “What happened?”
The doctor leaned on the headboard, holding a black notebook, writing furiously. Without raising his head, he lazily replied: “As you can see, the competition is over, and we’ve ended up in the hospital…”
“Wait,” Zheng Qing interrupted the sowhat jumpy answer, rubbed his forehead: “I still don’t quite understand… how did it just end?”
“Right! Right!” A voice imdiately echoed in the room, it was Zhang Ji Xin, evidently, he too hadn’t accepted this reality: “It had just begun… how did it end?!”
“We fell asleep on the field.”
From the other side ca a voice full of despair, Xin Fat Man tilted his head, staring blankly out the window, his face ashen: “…After the final ended, the Hunting Committee found us by the Silent River… they said there was an old ‘Sleepy Shovel Tree’ nearby where we slept, the scent its leaves emit can make one drowsy for a long ti… waiting to wake naturally is more beneficial than forcing awakening…”
Zheng Qing tried hard to sort out his thoughts.
“Sleepy Shovel Tree?” He muttered the unfamiliar term: “Is that tree still by the river?”
“Two male Deer Complexes fighting for the Sleepy Shovel Tree ruined it,” Xiao Xiao put down his pen and looked up, adjusting his glasses, adding: “…the scene was a ss, with Deer Complex blood, dung, hair, and Sleepy Shovel Tree branches and leaves everywhere… the tree has been excavated protectively, sent to the Hundred Herb Gardens.”
“The more you say, the more confused I get,” Zheng Qing rubbed his temples, vaguely feeling a long-lost headache: “Deer Complex is not an animal? How does their mating have anything to do with a tree?”
“Deer Complexes are drowsy, the Sleepy Shovel is an excellent sleep aid, a male Deer Complex in mating season with a Sleepy Shovel Tree is more likely to attract female Deer Complexes.”
“So,” Zheng Qing summarized: “In the cove we landed, there grew a tree that makes people sleep, causing us to fall asleep on the field… then that tree was ruined because of two deer fighting… are the two deer still alive?”
“They are Deer Complexes, not deer.”
Xiao Xiao corrected, tapping the notebook with his feather pen: “One died on the spot, and by the ti the Hunting Committee personnel arrived, the body had already been made into minced at by the Horseman Tribe passing by; the other disappeared into the Silent Forest… very likely won’t be found… even if it can be found, for safety and protection considerations, the school also doesn’t advise us to capture it.”
“What a coincidence?” Zheng Qing took a small breath.
“Just such coincidence.” Xiao Xiao said silently.
“What ti is it now?” Another unfortunate soul woke up, it was Nicholas, who looked around blankly, not seeing the figure of Liu Fei Fei.
“Seven thirty on a Saturday morning,” Lady Bella instructed the sprites to hand Nicholas a glass of clear water: “You are quite lucky, sleeping by the river for so long, yet not being skinned by the passing Fish Wives… other than a few bites from wild mosquitoes and mild leaf poisoning, your body is very healthy, not a scar on you.”
Another peculiar place, Zheng Qing silently noted it down, planning to bring it up when the Absolution team was present.
Then he suddenly rembered sothing, looking at Xiao Xiao: “Those wearing raven masks…”
“Have already been reported to the Hunting Committee,” Absolution’s diviner shook a piece of paper in his hand: “Received the receipt this morning, the Hunting Committee says they found no unidentified wizards as ntioned in submissions from the Fringe Hunting Team… speculate illegal hunters might have entered certain areas… the information has been handed to The Trident and Beta Town Administration Committee, illegal hunting is their jurisdiction.”
Handled flawlessly indeed, Zheng Qing muttered in his heart.
Two sprites flapped their wings, floating in front of Zheng Qing, one holding a warm towel, the other holding a glass of water and a dicine box, the young wizard obediently wiped his face and took his dicine.
When returning the cup to the sprite, he suddenly rembered the unfinished sentence Xiao Xiao had before he fell asleep: “By the way, what did you an by ‘Turning’ what?”
“Turning Over On The Pillow, a small evil curse that causes insomnia,”
Absolution’s diviner drooped his face, replied annoyedly: “It’s a bit stronger than ‘Wakeful Sleep’ and ‘Tossing and Turning’… why would you think to use ‘Calm Thinking’ on the Calm Heart Talisman? Concerned we wouldn’t fall asleep fast enough?”
The young bursary student felt instant embarrassnt: “It happened suddenly… didn’t have any more suitable talismans on hand.”
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