Disperse!

A little rat in a green vest lay trembling on the ground, its forepaws clutching its head.

In front of it crouched a black cat with a cloud-black back and snow-white belly, staring without blinking. Behind it, a Ragdoll Kitten pressed down hard on its tail with both paws, leaving it unable to move. To either side stood six burly tomcats, glaring hungrily and ready to pounce, as though they might tear it to pieces at any moment.

Beyond the ring of cats stood another ring of wizards.

Dr. Xiao held a notebook and a jade-green Quill Pen, sketching the little rat's image at lightning speed on a sheet of rough paper. Lin Guo sat atop the Black Goat, craning his neck. Wearing Silkworm Skin Gloves, he had already laid out a row of dissection tools beside him, waiting only for his captain's command before stepping forward to slice the little rat into seventeen or eighteen pieces.

At some point, Fatty Xin had picked up his bucket of fried chicken again. Without caring whether it had been tainted by cat hair or cat saliva, he kept eating it with beer, clearly enjoying himself. Lan Que and Zhang Jixin stood at the outermost edge with their arms folded, watching the intent figures within in boredom, completely unable to understand why they were so fascinated by a rat.

Ever since the little rat had failed to escape and been caught by the Ragdoll Cat, this stalemate had lasted nearly five minutes.

Killing it outright was out of the question.

Although the school had established "transformation-free zones" across all of Puji Island because of that "Catch the Rats" mission, strictly forbidding any wizard transformed into a rodent from changing within specified times and locations, that could not completely guarantee that no one would