Hundred Herbs Garden had been closed.
After seeing the small bluish-yellow flower in Zheng Qing's hand, Professor Li merely conducted a brief investigation at the scene before quickly making that decision. However, he did not announce the garden's closure to the young wizards directly. He merely told everyone that their punitive work for the day was over, then drove them all out of Hundred Herbs Garden.
Old Man Stad had no objections to this either.
Soon afterward, the School Labor Committee dispatched a more professional work crew, along with many wizards in black robes, to take over Zheng Qing and the others' work and move into the garden. They also activated layers of distinctly colored barriers, completely isolating the garden from the outside world.
This was one of the main reasons Zheng Qing concluded that Hundred Herbs Garden had been closed.
With Hundred Herbs Garden closed, the investigation into the bees' disappearance naturally came to an abrupt and inconclusive end.
As for that bluish-yellow flower bud, Professor Li Qihuang took it away immediately. Not only that, as the "flower picker," Zheng Qing was kept in a temporary office beside the garden under the professor's arrangements and supervision for quite some time, where he washed his hands with several differently colored liquids.
Zheng Qing felt as though he had scrubbed off more than one layer of skin.
The other wizards and school workers who had worked in Hundred Herbs Garden had not gotten off much easier either. Though they had not undergone Potions cleansing like Zheng Qing, they had still been "disinfected" repeatedly before being allowed to leave.
Zheng Qing was the last student to leave.
It was already afternoon class time by then, and Zheng Qing's hands were still numb and discolored from the potions' irritation. His mood felt similarly