Chapter 227 Master Atal

"This sounds like a joke." Zheng Qing was deeply suspicious of the doctor's 'rumor'.

"Life is originally a combination of countless jokes." Xiao Xiao shrugged indifferently.

Jiang Yu interrupted the dispute between the two.

"If I remember correctly," she expressed her point of view cautiously: "The original sentence that the doctor just mentioned should come from a certain poem in Apennine, 'In the world, only time, beauty and wine cannot be let down. 'Bar."

Zheng Qing smiled and patted Xiao Xiao on the shoulder.

The little wizard shook his shoulders and shook off the young public student's paw.

"It's not what I said," he said nonchalantly: "Even if I borrow the words of the Speaker, I just paraphrased them to you."

During the chat, the speed of the pumpkin car slowly decreased.

Zheng Qing looked out the window.

The car has arrived at a group of gray buildings. It is surrounded by tall columns, ancient pointed roofs, criss-crossing plank roads between small buildings, smoke-belching chimneys and cobblestone lanes. Like other places in Usa, cats’ meows and comfortable purrs can be heard everywhere in this gray building complex.

The pumpkin cart stopped at the entrance of the museum.

As several guests got off the bus, the tabby cat gave the witch a friendly tug on the brim of his hat, then flicked his whip, urging the ancestors to start their journey again. It seems to dislike the atmosphere here.

The noise made the noisy meowing cats around him quiet for a while. Zheng Qing noticed the spying amber eyes in the shadows, with curiosity and a bit of exploration and vigilance.

He couldn't help but smile, his tail slipped out from under his robe, and he waved in a friendly manner.

There were suddenly more cats watching them, and their eyes were eager to try. There were even a few bold kittens that had slipped out of the shadows and were not far away from the young wizard, staring at the black tail. Pacing back and forth carefully.

Jiang Yu bent down, holding a handful of dried fish in his hand, and the small white ears in his dark hair trembled slightly, trying to express goodwill to the master of the city.

The kittens seemed quite moved, but they were always patrolling and refused to come near.

"They recognize life."

A sharp and harsh noise, like the opening and closing of a rusty door, sounded inside the museum door and reached the ears of several young wizards, making those who heard it couldn't help but shudder.

Zheng Qing followed the sound and found that the person speaking was a cat.

An old cat that looks very old and has no hair on its body. It has a pair of large eyes with dark pupils. The eyeballs occupy almost a quarter of the face, making it look very strange. Its skin is pale, covered with wrinkles and scars of varying depths, and it is holding a dead stick in its hand - it looks quite like the shape of an old mark.

Old and scary, this is the first impression that comes to the mind of the young public-funded student.

The old cat leaned on a cane and moved slowly. Finally, he stood behind the threshold of the museum and stopped. He looked at several strange wizards. His eyes lingered on Zheng Qing's tail and Jiang Yu's ears for a moment, and finally Move away? It continued in its extremely unpleasant voice: "...is something wrong?"

"We are students from the First University and have made an appointment to meet with the Great Elder Atal of the temple." Xiao Xiao politely handed in a post with the imprints of several young wizards branded with the college emblem.

As the most powerful center of power in the wizarding world? The First University has a high reputation among many forces in many worlds. The same is true for dreamland.

"First University... It's been a long time since a wizard over there came." The old cat squinted his eyes slightly - which made the proportions of his facial features more coordinated and his face less scary - and he looked at the post carefully. The school emblem, college emblem and mark finally nodded and said in its ugly voice:

"Then you come in... follow me closely? Don't move around casually."

Similar to the museum at Daiichi University? The space inside this museum also looks empty and tall. Exhibits of various shapes are placed in glass cabinets, silent in the faint white light, without the noise of the exhibits in the First University Museum.

Of course, it's also possible that they have become a little more well-behaved because there are outsiders now.

There were no visitors in the museum. But when Zheng Qing and his party passed through the third gate, a gray short-haired cat came out of the corner. It held a brown outline creature in its mouth - that little thing was A last ditch effort to survive.

Seeing the old cat, the gray cat immediately fell on the floor and let go of Zu Ge.

Zu Ge was so overjoyed that he had no time to pat his chest and wanted to run to a safe place. However, the old hairless cat had sharp eyes and sharp claws. The withered staff in its claws quickly pierced Zu Ge's neck. on, nailing it in place.

"Don't let your prey escape."

The old cat nodded slightly at the gray cat and warned in a hoarse voice, then continued to walk forward, muttering in a low voice as he walked: "These dirty, sneaky guys...are good for nothing...a waste." Precious space…”

Zheng Qing was not sure whether it was cursing those ancestors or whether it was dissatisfied with the gray cat.

The temple is located in the deepest part of the museum.

There was a spacious hall located there - Zheng Qing speculated that this hall should belong to a high tower.

The reason why I use ‘should’ is because Zheng Qing did not see the appearance of this building. But inside, he could see the circular hall, the high dome, and the wooden ladders surrounded by green vines.

Atal, the great elder of the temple, sat behind an ivory desk at the end of the hall on the first floor.

It is said that when the great elder was very young, his family ran an inn. The little boy who once prayed to the unknown existence under the moon lived in the inn of Atal's family at that time; later, Atal also stayed in the inn at dusk. At that time, he saw all the cats in Ursa gathered under the tree of the cursed couple's house, forming two columns in a circle around the broken house, pacing slowly and solemnly, as if they were performing some unheard-of act. animal rituals.

Of course, that was all a long, long time ago.

This old man is now almost four hundred years old.

But he still has clear eyes, sharp thinking and clear memory.

Xiao Xiao hoped to get enough guidance from this old man who was familiar with fantasy dream situations and had a good relationship with First University. At the very least, let them have a clear understanding of the challenges they are about to face - if the old man happens to have met Zhu Si, or knows the whereabouts of a certain faceless demon, that would be even better.

When the young wizards followed the old cat to the ivory desk, Master Atal was staring at a rapidly spinning top on the table in trance.