Doggy's disappearance left the two young wizards somewhat puzzled, but they did not dwell on it too much.
Compared to that, the strange wizard who had secretly climbed the Cat Fruit Tree and tampered with the black cat's throne was far more worrying. After searching the branches and confirming that Doggy was gone, Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu turned their attention to the throne.
Yet after a careful inspection, they were surprised to find that there were no vicious curses or dangerous magic arrays on it as they had expected. Someone had merely smeared it with a layer of cat fruit juice.
Unripe cat fruit was ginger-yellow and one of the ingredients for brewing Soothing Agent; fully ripe cat fruit was purplish-black and highly toxic, capable of rotting through intestines and stomach and corroding the soul.
Cat fruit between unripe and ripe was red.
It was poisonous, though only mildly so; it could be used as medicine, though it had few applications. Overall, cat fruit at this stage was like a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old: lacking the innocence and liveliness of childhood, yet also lacking the polish and worldly sophistication of adulthood, constantly embodying the word "contradiction."
"This little cat fruit juice can at most give whichever cat lies on it diarrhea for a day." Zheng Qing shook the test tube and watched that tiny speck of red slowly bloom in the translucent reagent, utterly baffled. "That guy climbed all the way up and down just to give a cat diarrhea?"
"Not a cat," Jiang Yu corrected.
Then, as if realizing her wording was somewhat awkward, a faint blush rose to her cheeks. After a light cough, she added, "What I mean is... you're a wizard, and he deliberately attacked a student of First University. We should report this to the