Monster Hunting High School

Similar to sand bugs and sloth bugs, earworms are also very troublesome magical bugs.

They like to stay in the ears of wizards, steal their little magic power, and repeatedly 'appreciate' the sounds that wizards find pleasant - including music, stories, the sound of chanting spells, and even poetry recitation - described in the language of magic , that is, patients suffering from earworms will have an 'earworm' phenomenon in which music automatically replays in their brains.

In other words, this is a bug that likes to sing karaoke in the ears of wizards.

If you listen to ghost stories before going to bed or listen to music for a long time, you may attract earworms. They seem to appear out of thin air, and no one knows where they came from. According to existing research, it is speculated that earworms are similar to sand and lazy insects, and they are all a kind of dimensional life.

There is no authoritative conclusion yet on whether they are half-dimensional, 1.5-dimensional, or two-dimensional. The only thing that can be confirmed is that they are by no means ordinary three-dimensional life forms.

Unlike other insects such as Sandeki, earworms only reveal their physical form when in a dormant state.

This means that even if you realize you have earworms, there's a good chance you won't find any trace of them. Even professional therapists often only use "involuntary musical phenomena" to determine whether a patient has an earworm.

The main reason why wizards don't care about this little bug is because the earworm is a very 'migratory' bug. They rarely stay within a wizard's ear for more than a lunar cycle. Often by the time a wizard realizes that he or she has attracted earworms, they are already planning to leave.

More importantly, the sounds that earworms appreciate or repeat are often also very popular with wizards.

For example, ordinary people may only listen to a beautiful melody once, but a wizard with an earworm can listen to it repeatedly for a long time; another example is an elegant spell chanting, which for students can be listened to repeatedly by high-level wizards. Mantra chanting is very helpful in mastering this mantra.

Having said that, no matter how good the music is, it can become boring if you listen to it too much.

People who are especially sensitive to earworms are prone to symptoms such as fatigue, drowsiness, dreaminess, and food accumulation after being infected with earworms. Although it does not last for a long time, it is still harmful to underage wizards.

"——Mengmeng has been very sensitive to earworms and lazy bugs since she was a child, and the related symptoms are more intense. The elders in the family believe that this is related to her identity as a spiritual witch, and there is no way to avoid it, so every time after attracting insects, she must Deal with it as soon as possible.”

Jiang Yu briefly explained to Zheng Qing the reason for Li Meng's laziness.

But Zheng Qing only had one thought in his mind.

"What a lazy and good physique."

He subconsciously complimented her. This sentence was definitely sincere, but he didn't know if it was an illusion. He felt that after he said this, the little witch who was lying weakly on the table gave him a vicious look.

But immediately, she returned to her listless look.

"Do you think she might be pretending to be ill?" Zheng Qing was not used to her faults.

Jiang Yu couldn't help but smile.

"She's not so stupid now."

She pinched Li Meng's little face, leaned into Zheng Qing's ear, and lowered her voice slightly: "... When she was a child, after she knew that she had a body that easily attracts insects, she often pretended to be sick for a while. The elders in the family also noticed it. , but didn’t expose it. It’s just that every time she pretended to be sick, she would prepare very bitter herbs... I also drank them once. If I could choose, I would rather memorize a hundred spells. I don’t want to drink that kind of thing anymore. I think she thinks so too, because she has been attracting insects less often... This is probably the second time this year. She had attracted lazy insects once during the Jingzhe period. "

"Is the anti-worming medicine you mixed for her also very bitter?"

"It's not that...she has learned to be smart now. Even if she pretends to be sick, she won't pretend to be sick, but will actively attract one or two earworms or lazy people. Don't ask me how she did it, I think it must be spiritual Wu’s talent. Sometimes I think that based on her academic performance, she might be able to develop well in the field of mysticism in the future..."

The two chatted happily, not noticing the passage of time at all.

Until the little stick figure behind the door screamed.

"Hey! That guy in the front row who's hooking up with the lady!"

It waved its hemp-like arms and jumped up and down on the white paper: "The Potions Professor has arrived at the corner of the corridor. Aren't you going to go back to your seat?"

The originally noisy classroom suddenly fell silent.

Everyone else's eyes all fell on a certain wizard.

Zheng Qing blinked.

Jiang Yu, who had been chatting with him, had sat back down at some point and was pretentiously preparing the "Standard Potion" at hand, while the half-dead Li Meng showed him a malicious face.

The wizard tugged at the corner of his mouth with a stiff expression, trying to keep a steady pace in the eyes of everyone's teasing. However, when passing by the podium, he couldn't help but glance at the chalk in the box, wondering whether he should take one and put it behind the door. The noisy guy smeared it into a blank sheet of paper.

But time doesn't allow it now.

Almost at the same time that Zheng Qing sat down, Li Qihuang's slightly rickety figure appeared at the door of the classroom. He floated through the aisle like a puff of green smoke, but he did not go to the podium as usual. Instead, he whispered something to Jiang Yu in the front row where Zheng Qing had just been.

For the first time, Zheng Qing hated that his seat was so far back.

He stretched his neck like a slow turtle, trying to hear clearly what the professor was telling Jiang Yu. At the same time, he hesitated whether to remove the clone transformation spell - the black gem cat was still on the witch's table, and it must have heard it. After removing the clone transformation spell, Zheng Qing would be able to receive the clone's memory.

It's just that the professor didn't seem to have finished speaking, and now he could only listen to half of it, which seemed even more frustrating; besides, he wasn't sure whether Jiang Yu liked his almost 'eavesdropping' behavior.

Just when boys are worried about gains and losses.

The Potions Master helped him solve the problem.

"Come on, everyone, come closer and come here."

Professor Li waved to the young wizards in the classroom, his voice as soft as ever: "——Classmate Li Meng picked up an earworm, which is a rare insect. Originally, I planned to take you to see the sand in this class. Tang, there are also worms on the tangerine trees in the Baicao Garden... But since there are better choices, let’s adjust the teaching schedule a little, and let’s take a look at the ear worms first.”

Just like that, Zheng Qing, who had just sat down for less than a minute, had to get up again and walk to the front row of the classroom.

But even though he was seated far back, his reaction was the fastest.

Almost the first one to reach the front row.

It caused a burst of laughter behind him.