D&K

Behind the cat group, in an open space not far away.

There had originally been only five Little Rats huddled together there, trembling.

Now, the ground was packed with these sharp-snouted, round-eared, gray-skinned, long-tailed rodents.

Every two made a pair, their tails knotted together and their heads pointed in the same direction, laid out neatly on the ground like little radishes for sale at a morning market stall. Unlike the five of their kind that had still been trembling before, however, these newly arrived rats all had their eyes tightly shut and lay perfectly still.

If not for their nostrils faintly fluttering and the whiskers at the corners of their mouths occasionally twitching, proving that they were still alive, the scene would have looked chillingly like the horrors that had once taken place at Auschwitz.

"This batch is of somewhat poor quality." Dr. Xiao hugged his notebook as he crouched before the pile of rats. From time to time, he used the feather on his Quill Pen to turn them over, checking their teeth and tails, then scribbled notes in his black notebook.

"It's enough... The school's rats have practically been hunted to extinction by them. I think gathering this many was already very difficult." The black cat paced slowly around the pile, speaking casually. "In fact, even if the shop had extra cages, my cat group couldn't provide any more rats... Unless you're willing to substitute squirrels or hamsters. There are still plenty of those little things."

Squirrels or hamsters definitely would not do. Xiao Xiao knew that perfectly well.

The shop the You Zui Hunting Team planned to open on Pedestrian Street was not a pet shop. According to the proposal Zheng Qing had raised at the previous full Knight Order meeting, their shop should belong to the