FVN #301 - Last question
#301 - Last question
“Lu Jing, Xia Huai, passed the sixth question!”
As a teaching assistant's voice rang out, Lu Jing also passed the sixth question in a daze.
Anyway, he just followed Xia Huai throughout this question, did nothing, and became a salted fish pendant who only needed to cheer for the大佬 (dalao).
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I saw the girl showing great power all the way, breaking through nine spells in a row, during which she also picked up a pen to complete two talismans, repaired and activated a formation, and finally successfully resisted the enemy and successfully passed the level.
This was originally something that should have been done by two people together, but she actually took care of it all by herself.
It was not until this time that Lu Jing realized that Xia Huai had quietly mastered no less than ten kinds of spells, and also had a good understanding of formations and talismans. You must know that she is one of the only two newcomers in this class who have not yet established a foundation.
As for the remaining one, of course, it was Lu Jing himself.
However, unlike Lu Jing, who had been standing still, although the girl was more than a month later than other students, her cultivation speed was frighteningly fast, making several teaching assistants, including Professor Zheng, who taught her secret power, shine, and even began to secretly compete for disciples.
Aside from idle talk, after the two passed the level, the teaching assistant gave Lu Jing and Xia Huai each a volume of books, and said, "The last question is to investigate the case. Some time ago, the Sitian Jian received a secret report that strange things happened in the capital city."
“However, recently, because there are too many cases, the supervisors cannot spare their hands. The department has also done some basic investigations and preliminarily deduced that the threat this time should be very low, at least so far, no human life has been lost."
“Therefore, Shaojian Guo took the initiative to hand this matter over to you to solve it, as the last and most important test question in this small competition."
“Investigate carefully. Whoever finishes investigating this case first will be the first place in this small competition. There are no restrictions on the means, but you know the rules. You must not reveal your identity to outsiders. Unless it is absolutely necessary, you must not let ordinary people know that you know magic."
“What if they don’t know it’s magic?” Xia Huai asked.
“Then there’s no problem.” The teaching assistant nodded and said, “Magic is meant to be used. We just don’t want ordinary people to know about the existence of secret power and cause unnecessary chaos in the world. Also…”
The teaching assistant paused, “Although the department’s threat assessment for this case is only low-grade, and it is not yet certain whether there are any strange creatures at work, you’d better not take it lightly. Danger never warns in advance before it arrives."
“The department is not without similar precedents. A case that seems to be a small threat and only low-grade, as the investigation deepens, was eventually upgraded to top-grade. That incident eventually caused the Sitian Jian to lose many supervisors…”
Seeing that Lu Jing and Xia Huai's expressions gradually became serious, the teaching assistant smiled again.
“Don’t be too nervous. I’m telling you this just to remind you. Usually, it may take hundreds of years to encounter such a bizarre case. Most of the time, the threat assessment within the department is still very accurate."
“After all, the Sitian Jian has always been very cautious about this matter. Everything you need to know about this case is recorded in the files. In short, good luck to you.”
After the teaching assistant finished speaking, Lu Jing and Xia Huai each found a quiet place and began to read the files in their hands.
This is indeed a case that seems to be too small to be smaller, and Lu Jing doesn't even know if it can be called a case.
Because if it were submitted to the government, the government officials and yamen runners would probably think that the person reporting the crime was sick.
The cause of the matter is this: Li Er, a villager in Li’s Village in the western suburbs of the capital, raised an ox. With this ox, his own land was cultivated very fertile, the crops grew better than other people’s, and he sold more money. Sometimes, he would also drive the ox to plow the land for other people, earning an extra income.
For this reason, he built a new house and married a wife, so this ox was very important to him. He had always cherished this ox, calling it Brother Ox, feeding Brother Ox fully, and sometimes even sleeping with Brother Ox.
As a result, one morning he woke up and found that the ox was gone. He was very anxious and hurried out to look for it. He searched for three consecutive days, but still could not find his treasure ox, but later he found a pair of horns outside the backyard of Butcher Zhang’s house.
Li Er recognized that the pair of horns belonged to his own ox, so he hugged the pair of horns and cried loudly.
The nearby villagers were alarmed and all gathered around. After inquiring about what happened, everyone knocked on the door of Butcher Zhang’s house. However, Butcher Zhang said that he had not killed any ox recently.
It wasn’t until Li Er took out the horns that he had to change his words, saying that although he had killed the ox, he had not killed Li Er’s ox, and he refused to compensate Li Er for the ox money.
But unexpectedly, after a few more days, Yuanwai Miao from the neighboring village also came to report to the government in a panic, saying that his newly bought fighting cock had been eaten. The yamen runner asked Yuanwai Miao who had eaten his chicken.
Yuanwai Miao hesitated and only said that it was too dark at night and he didn’t see clearly. Later, when asked urgently, he said it was a fox, a very big fox. However, no one had ever seen a fox near Li’s Village, and the walls of Yuanwai Miao’s house were very high, and it didn’t look like a fox could climb over them.
The yamen runners naturally didn’t believe it, so in the end, Yuanwai Miao could only tell the truth, saying that he had met a beggar woman on the road. He saw that the woman was beautiful and had evil thoughts in his heart, so he tricked her into his house.
He asked the maid to bathe the woman and change her clothes, planning to consummate the marriage while it was hot that night, but he didn’t expect that at night, when the moon rose, Yuanwai Miao drank a little wine and happily pushed open the door, only to see chicken feathers and chicken blood all over the floor, and the bride was still biting the fighting cock’s neck in her mouth.
Seeing this scene, Yuanwai Miao and his little brother immediately wilted and sat down on the ground in fright. When the woman saw him coming, she picked up the fighting cock, jumped out of the window lightly, and dragged nine fluffy white tails behind her.
Before leaving, she did not forget to look back at Yuanwai Miao, as if thanking him for his hospitality, and Yuanwai Miao was also very promising and passed out directly.