Monster Hunting High School

The earthworm is also called an ant, which is a type of giant ant. The earthworm on the campus of First University is about the size of a thumb and is green in grass. Its scientific name is ‘green earthworm’ in the wizarding encyclopedia.

Green earthworms like shade and coolness, and are addicted to fish sauce and tree moss. They can be used as medicine to relieve heat poisoning and sores. Some alchemists will also refine them into certain metals to obtain specific magical effects.

Unlike ordinary ants that live in huge colonies, green worms usually live in family units.

Each green worm family consists of one female ant, three to five male ants, and more than ten young ants. From this point of view, green worms have a similar social structure to magical creatures such as werewolves, naga, and centaurs.

This kind of magic bug is active all year round. They hide in underground caves during the day and crawl to the ground in the evening. They mix their saliva with soil and build up a special cylindrical ant hill many inches high: the 'Moon Watching Platform'. After the ant colony is repaired, these green ants will climb onto the platform in order - generally speaking, the mother ants will stay in the center of the platform, while the young ants can only stay on the edge of the platform - they lie there silently, Sucking in the moonlight and the yin energy of the night.

After long-term observation, magical biology researchers have discovered that when these green clams lie on the anthill, they will construct different patterns according to weather conditions and the surrounding environment, and those patterns often have many similarities with the basic talismans studied by wizards. The mystery of this has not been completely solved to this day.

After dawn, these green worms will abandon the ant colony they have built all night and sneak back into the ground. Until the evening of the next day, these giant ants will choose an open and flat piece of grass to continue their long-lasting moon viewing project.

The lawn beside Linzhong Lake is the hardest-hit area for moonworms to watch the moon.

Every ten months, the school janitors need to clean up the traces left by the green clams, and those students who violate the school rules and disciplines on weekdays will be asked by the school janitors to wave their heads and smash the buildings. Look at the moon platform.

The young people are working hard, and the students are working hard too.

When Zheng Qing came to the lawn, he happened to hear a second-year student who was being punished complaining: "These green crickets are so annoying, why can't you apply to the school to get some medicine, sprinkle it on and clean it up. We don't have to work so hard."

The public-funded student couldn't help but curl up his lips - this second-year guy must be new here, and his blatant lazy remarks will definitely be scolded by the old school staff.

Although he also supports the use of medicine.

Sure enough, within a moment, Old Hemingway's rough roar sounded across the lawn: "You bastards! You are not even a wizard from the First University! Green worms are the bait for more than a dozen magical creatures in the lake. , they also helped clean up the moss from the hundreds of old trees by the lake. Even the dirt they left behind was Stendhal’s favorite soil in the botanical garden.”

"Do you have any common sense?!"

The second-year man was obviously frightened by Hemingway's roar. His face turned pale, and he quickly explained with a trembling voice: "I just think these green worms have left too much dirt recently... I heard from my classmates that in the past There are only 300 to 500 soil terraces here every month, and they only need to be cleaned once a week. Now there are more than 100 new ones every day... It feels like the ecology of the lake is a bit out of balance.”

Old Hemingway leaned on his crotch, supported the felt hat on his head, squinted at the lawn in front of him and the calm lake not far away, and his expression improved slightly.

"Recently, there are indeed a lot." The old man nodded: "But it has not reached the point of ecological imbalance. If there are signs of that, the school will notify us... If you can think of this, it's okay."

The last sentence seemed to be a compliment to the old student, but the wording was too vague. After hearing this, the old student didn't know whether to show a little surprise or continue to be panicked. Several expressions were tangled together, making him look like he was constipated.

"Maybe it's because of the spring?"

Zheng Qing happened to walk up to the old man and couldn't help but interrupt and replied: "After the spring thunder sounded, didn't the insects become active?"

"Green worms are different." Old man Hemingway shook his head: "Green worms are monthly magical insects. They break their coats at the beginning of the month, mature and mate in the middle of the month, and die and dissolve at the end of the month. There is no such seasonal concept as spring. They are active all year round. The middle of every month, when the moonlight is brightest, is their spring.”

"That's it." Zheng Qing scratched his chin, feeling that he had gained a little more knowledge.

"Our classmates discussed it and thought it was because of those guys in the lake." The sophomore couldn't help but speak again.

Zheng Qing took a serious look at him and felt that he had a slight resemblance to Dr. Xiao in his aura. The old school worker laughed and did not comment on this new point of view.

"Why?" Zheng Qing asked.

‘Those guys in the lake’ naturally refer to the fish people. But there is a huge difference between the fishmen and the green clams. Even if the fishmen like to eat dried green clams as snacks, it has nothing to do with the large number of green clams - on the contrary, because the fishmen are greedy, the number of green clams will increase. Much less.

"Because green clams like fish sauce." The old student looked at Zheng Qing in surprise, as if wondering why he would ask such a strange question.

Seemingly aware of Zheng Qing's confusion, Hemingway kindly explained: "The so-called 'fish sauce' is a nickname, but it is actually the fish man's feces."

Zheng Qing suddenly realized.

A few days ago, the fish people were marching and demonstrating, and threw a lot of excrement by the lake. If green worms like fish sauce, it makes sense why they have proliferated abnormally recently.

After explaining, Old Hemingway finally realized that there was a gossip standing on the lawn.

"By the way, are you here to help clean up the lawn?" The old man raised his eyebrows and looked at the young public-funded student sideways. The second-year guy next to him had a hopeful expression on his face.

"No." Zheng Qing couldn't help but smile - the old student immediately lowered his head in disappointment - and said to Old Hemingway: "You handed me a note last night and asked me to come to you at noon today."

"Last night?" The old man obviously had some memory problems, squinting and scratching his head.

"It's the night patrol of Linzhong Lake on Saturday night. Because I have other things that may delay the patrol, I applied to adjust the task before." Zheng Qing carefully added.

"Oh, that's the thing." Old Hemingway stretched out his hand: "The application process from the school working committee has been completed, right."

Zheng Qing nodded quickly.

"Well, let's clean up these green ant colonies." The old man waved his hand and assigned Zheng Qing a new task: "Two options, one is to find every opportunity and do whatever you want. Do it for five days before Saturday." Two hours of trivial tasks; the other, you are responsible for cleaning up the ant colonies from here to there, ensuring that the number of ant colonies is within one hundred on Friday night. "

Zheng Qing looked at the range from 'here' to 'there' pointed by the old man and took a breath of cold air.

He estimated that the 'mission area' was half the size of a football field.

"I choose the first one." He made his choice dejectedly.

"I have extra money here!" the sophomore student greeted cheerfully.