Hunting High School

At noon on Friday, after the alchemy class, after lunch, and five minutes before twelve o'clock, Zheng Qing came to the gate of Baicao Garden early to prepare for the last volunteer work of the week.

There are a total of five hours of night patrol at Linzhong Lake, which is divided into three days on average, more than one and a half hours a day.

Forty minutes at noon and forty minutes in the afternoon.

Originally, there were more than 40 minutes of labor content this afternoon, but in order to avoid the need to rest after the practical class, Zheng Qing worked a little harder yesterday afternoon, so after this labor at noon today, the replacement work for the night patrol on Saturday will be completely completed. it's over.

Compared with summer and autumn, the big oak tree at the gate of Baicao Garden has become much more gloomy, the leaves of the oak have dimmed, and the two-tailed squirrels running among the branches have disappeared.

Zheng Qing searched for a while with his neck up, but he still didn't see those lively little guys. He originally prepared a handful of peanuts, intending to supplement them with nutrition.

"I'm just so kind." The wizard thought of the old story of being hit on the head with a nut by a squirrel when he came to Baicao Garden for the first time, and couldn't help but sighed with a good feeling about himself: "This is the legendary repaying grievances with virtue..."

Just after twelve o'clock, the 'temporary school workers' who came to work arrived one after another.

The leader was naturally the old school worker Stendhal, the person in charge of Baicao Garden, and unexpectedly, Mr. Li Qihuang, the professor of Potions, also appeared at the gate of the garden. As for the other people at the scene, they all looked familiar, but most of them couldn't name Zheng Qing, who was probably also a student of Jiuyou College.

On the contrary, those students clearly recognized Zheng Qing's identity, whispering to each other, nodding at Zheng Qing from time to time, showing curious eyes and kind smiles. It seemed to encourage him silently.

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Zheng Qing would rather they patted Own on the shoulder vigorously and greeted him casually.

Against this somewhat awkward atmosphere, he changed into dragonskin overalls and buckskin gloves, and slowly moved to Professor Li and old man Stendhal, waiting for orders.

"Everyone should be clear about today's work."

After the crowd gathered, the old man Stendhal took roll call, and then he began to do publicity beforehand: "They have all taken pharmacy classes and entered the Herb Garden. I won't say much about the precautions."

"Two tasks."

"First, artificial pollination, helping a few herbs in the garden to do pollination. Because there are more bees that have disappeared recently, many herbs are about to pass the flowering period; second, track the bees in the garden and see where they disappeared. Where is it?"

"Students who are in charge of artificial pollination, be careful not to be frightened by passing earth dragons or running rabbits. There are no wild monsters in the garden, they are all herbs, and the most dangerous ones are just a few big-mouthed plants, which are all circled in the glass room. Come on, so don't scare yourselves by trampling on my herbs."

Hearing this slightly teasing warning, the students let out a burst of low laughter.

"Besides, if you find smelly brambles with twigs on the ridges, there is no doubt that they are all weeds. If you clean them up for me, you won't be wrong."

The first time Zheng Qing entered the Baicao Garden was to clean up the thorns. He did not expect to do this kind of thing after so long. Sure enough, there is nothing new under the sun, and the Baicao Garden is probably full of this kind of repetitive work on weekdays.

The old man Stendhal continued to give instructions:

"Students who are responsible for tracking the traces of bees, pay attention to the direction in which they finally disappeared. Remember to look through the hives. Although the previous spot checks did not find a large area of ​​​​Death, this possibility cannot be completely ruled out."

"A total of ten bee colonies belong to different categories. Each of you only needs to be responsible for the investigation of one bee colony. The specific content will be arranged by Professor Li later... Do you have any questions?"

Everyone shook their heads in unison.

The old man looked back at Professor Li.

Professor Li nodded, opened the notepad in his hand, and began to assign tasks by name.

Fortunately, this time Zheng Qing didn't have to worry about damaging the flowers and plants when pollinating, or scratching his fingers when cleaning the thorns. He was assigned by the professor to investigate the disappearance of bees.

"Before assigning tasks, I need to let you understand the situation in detail."

Professor Li led everyone to a bee colony and opened a beehive. In the hive, milky white bee eggs, fat queen bees, and wriggling young bees were all peacefully staying in the own nest.

However, Zheng Qing keenly discovered that in such a large bee colony, there are only a few worker bees working hard to collect honey. According to their capabilities, they are completely unable to meet the needs of the entire bee colony.

"As you can see, most of the workers in this colony have disappeared. This is very unusual."

Professor Li's voice is always so light, and Zheng Qing tried to distinguish every word he said: "Under normal circumstances, worker bees are born here, grow up here, and die here. Gather honey from the flowers of the beehive, and sleep in the cemetery behind the beehive—the worker bees of Death will be transported to the bee cemetery by their own companions.”

"But as in the case of this hive, most of the worker bees go out to collect honey and never return."

"No return to the beehive. No burial in the cemetery. Not even a large number of Death bees in the nearby flower fields."

"This is abnormal." Professor Li sighed lightly and shook his head.

"Could it be some extinct disease?" A tall and thin boy raised his glasses and asked, "For example, acute paralysis of Mediterranean bee colonies. This disease has a high-speed spread and high incidence. Colonies of this disease lose their sense of direction and end up lost in the wild."

"Very sharp." Professor Li nodded appreciatively, but then denied: "The health of the bee colony is monitored in real time by multiple magic arrays, and any bees that are sick will be detected immediately. Because a large-scale epidemic may Including acute paralysis of Mediterranean bee colonies, Assamese honey bee virus, resurgent poplar nectar spores and other diseases, we have repeatedly sorted out these diseases in the early stage, and no similar cases have been found. "

"So these bees were eaten by monsters?" A little Fatty grinned and poked the wriggling larvae in the beehive.

"This means that you didn't listen carefully just now." Professor Li glanced at him, and said slowly: "Uncle Stendhal just mentioned that there is nothing more dangerous in the garden than a big-mouthed grunt... You are very proud of that." You can rest assured."

Little Fatty grinned, put his hands behind his back, and honestly said nothing.

Professor Li turned his attention to other students:

"In fact, according to the information we have now, the disappearance of these bees is very likely to be one of a series of cases of ecological imbalance in Phuket Island...including the silent and early return of the tide at the end of last year, the rat plague, and this year's insect plague and the flood of green gnats wait."

"You only need to record the contents of your investigation in detail, and other matters will be handled by more professional people."

"Before I follow the bee colony, I need to emphasize discipline to you again: first, obey the teacher's orders; second, don't move around; third, obey the teacher's orders and don't move around!"

"start to act!"