By the time the talisman script class ended, it was already nine o'clock at night.
Zheng Qing was hungry again.
He pulled out the salted meat sandwich he had left over from the afternoon from the Gray Cloth Bag and gnawed on it as he hurried along a shortcut toward Gu Diao Street in Beta Town North District, grumbling inwardly about the terrible road conditions.
Before this year, Beta Town North District had been a genuine "sunken district" on Puji Island. Let alone infrastructure, there were not even many clean, tidy streets. But with the emergence of the North District Wizards, the sunken district had become the frog district, and its depressed areas were slowly being leveled out—though at an extremely slow pace.
Then Edge Academy appeared out of nowhere, and the North District suddenly showed signs of becoming Beta Town's core area. It was said that after Edge Academy was established, the school would add several corridors connecting to the North District to make travel easier for students, but there was still no sign of those corridors.
It was overcast tonight, with no moon.
Zheng Qing tugged at the wide hood over his head, concealing his face more thoroughly.
The few guiding light spheres summoned by "The Little Stars Shine" drifted before the young wizard like playful Firefly Beetles, speeding up and slowing down unpredictably. Perhaps because it was late at night, there were very few pedestrians on the street, but Zheng Qing still cautiously hugged his Bronze Spellbook while activating a protective talisman.
Not only that, he had also summoned Maodou.
"Is Dongdong asleep?" the young teaching assistant asked Doggy vaguely through a mouthful of sandwich, his eyes vigilantly sweeping the surroundings as the dog darted around his feet.
Ever since he had assigned Doggy to protect Dongdong,