Time rewound a moment.
After the You Zui Hunting Team tightened their formation on Zheng Qing's orders, Jiang Yu naturally appeared at the young wizard's side.
"Do we need to rest for a while?"
The witch pulled off her mask and asked Zheng Qing while vigilantly scanning their surroundings. As she spoke, the furry ears on the hood atop her head twitched slightly, as alert as real cat ears.
When Zheng Qing had chosen cloaks for his teammates, he had suddenly indulged in a bit of mischief—the male wizards' cloaks were all equally plain and dull, while the witch's cloak not only had a ring of white fur around the collar and front opening, but also a pair of pointed white cat ears on its hood. They had no magical effects useful for hunting; they could only sway like real cat ears or fold into the shape of airplane wings to express their owner's different moods.
At that moment, the cat ears were turning slightly from side to side, revealing that the witch beneath the hood was a little nervous.
The captain of the You Zui Hunting Team couldn't help curling his lips into a smile.
"Rest for a moment!"
He signaled to his companions, then softly reminded the witch standing close beside him, "There's something in the forest. I can sense a bit of danger... but I'm not sure what it is yet... Be careful!"
The witch nodded firmly, flipped her wrist, and immediately crushed a Jade Bead, raising a small golden barrier that enclosed her and the young publicly funded student.
Zheng Qing's smile froze.
Wind and snow howled past outside the golden barrier without stirring a single hair. Perhaps it was an illusion, but the young wizard vaguely heard low, intermittent laughter from beyond the barrier, like