While the two black-robed wizards at a secret location on the edge of the Silent Forest discussed whether the breach in the Magic Array at the Forest Goods Market in Beta Town North District could be widened, the You Zui Hunter Team stationed at the breach was discussing a related subject.
"This is obvious... those Huodou were the ones who broke through the Magic Array." Fatty Xin stuck to his opinion about who had broken the wall. "Apart from those Huodou, can we find any other culprits at the scene, or anything else that even looks like a culprit?"
Zheng Qing shook his head. There was indeed no sign of any other culprit.
But he did not agree with his journalist classmate's theory that the Huodou had broken through the wall.
"I know you want to get your article out quickly, but you can't just jump to conclusions," the young scholarship student said, trying to salvage what remained of Xin's conscience. "Those little dogs' claws aren't even three inches long fully extended, and their fireballs can't blow apart a concrete block a foot thick. How did you conclude that they broke through the wall?"
Everything he said was true.
From entering the Forest Goods Market to crossing the chaotic battlefield and reaching the breach in the wall, Zheng Qing had watched the Huodou chase the market's vendors in every direction. He had also noticed that, from beginning to end, apart from one unlucky fellow whose hair had been singed off by a Huodou's fireball and a few piles of pelts being set alight, the market had suffered no other damage.
Xiao Xiao agreed with Zheng Qing.
"Those Huodou really don't have that kind of ability." Sitting cross-legged behind the others, Xiao Xiao had lit a small pile of dried yarrow