Chapter 158 The androgynous Rove
With Lockhart hospitalized again, the young wizards' disappointment with the new professor came to a head.
Even his most loyal fans can't find a reason to support him.
Hermione has also decided that Lockhart is a liar, but when it comes to the bet with Rove, the little girl is still stubborn and refuses to admit defeat.
Rove is not in a hurry, he should take time to train this kind of "rebellious girl" and be patient.
Saturday is coming soon,
Rove became more and more busy.
Early in the morning, he took Shirley and Hermione to Hagrid's cabin to deal with the problem of carnivorous slugs.
This was something he had agreed with Hagrid during the summer vacation.
Neville didn't follow, he was punished by Snape to clean the Potions classroom tonight, and he was discussing with Hannah what to do now.
Passing through a large grass field, several people came to Hagrid's cabin. The walls of the house still had traces of being burned black by the fire dragon Noble, which looked very miserable.
Fang Ya was lying at the door, playing with a little goblin.
The goblin was thrown back and forth with Fang biting its head, and the little guy kept screaming, "Let me go! Let me go!"
Seeing Rove and the others coming, Yaya dug a hole and buried the goblin in the ground, then trotted towards them.
As an assistant, Shirley takes care of the magical creatures in the black leather case on a daily basis, and there are all kinds of snacks in her shape-shifting lizard purse.
The girl took out the freeze-dried chicken, sobbed contentedly, and wagged her tail enthusiastically.
Of these guys, Yaya likes the human named Shirley the most, and always gives him snacks; he hates the guy named Rove the most, he likes to pull his tail, and he is not allowed to eat the feces of the Moon Crazy Beast.
After Hagrid heard the movement outside the house, he strode out. He said happily:
"You guys are finally here. If you don't come, my cabbage will be destroyed!"
"I brought the carnivorous slug insecticide." Rove patted his box, and he smiled: "Let's go, lead the way."
Hegera left and was still eating the freeze-dried Fangya. The goblin pulled itself out of the ground like pulling a carrot, and when he looked up, he saw "freeze-dried food bestowed by nature".
The goblin picked up the freeze-dry and ran towards his den, Fang Fang growled angrily, but was still dragged by Hagrid towards the vegetable patch.
"Where did those flesh-eating slugs come from?" Hermione asked curiously, "Didn't they not exist last year?"
"Maybe the students at Hogwarts raised it as pets, and found that the flesh-eating slug grew bigger, so they secretly threw it away." Rove speculated.
Of course, there is also a kind of life-release party, no matter what kind of creature, regardless of whether it is an invasive species, it will be "self-moved" to release it.
"Then it can't flood so fast, can it?" Hermione wondered.
"They can lay more than 500 eggs in one summer." Shirley saw that when Rove made the insecticide, she specifically checked the information, and she said softly:
"Those eggs only need more than two weeks to hatch successfully, and they will be able to reproduce in less than two months."
"That's right." Rove nodded and said, "Even if there is only one slug, they can reproduce with one another."
Slugs are hermaphroditic creatures that can be "self-produced and sold", and it can be said that in order to adapt to the world, they have made abnormal efforts.
When I passed the pumpkin patch, there were twelve big pumpkins, each half as tall as a person.
"It's not bad looking, isn't it?" said Hagrid gleefully. "It's for the Halloween party...it'll be as big as a house by then."
"Hagrid, how did you grow these pumpkins?" Shirley asked earnestly.
She cultivated a vegetable field in Rove's box, but the growth was average.
Hermione observed it and guessed, "Maybe it's the expansion spell?"
"That's right." Hagrid smiled and said, "The effect is not bad."
Passing through the pumpkin field, the group came to the cabbage field, and the ground was covered with slimy, silver-white crawling marks.
Most of those cabbages were withered and yellow, and many were eaten down to their roots.
"They all hid in the ground and only came out at night. I sprinkled a lot of salt on the ground, but the effect was mediocre." Hagrid said, throwing a piece of dried meat to the ground.
Soon, a group of slugs emerged from the soil. They were only half the size of their teeth, like worms, with a row of small teeth growing in their mouths, each of which was as sharp as a needle, chewing the jerky crazily.
The trypophobia-like scene was horrifying to watch, and Fang Fang jumped into Hagrid's arms in fright.
Rove looked at the group of slugs, and suddenly there was a "ding" in his brain.
[Wild slug detected, trigger side mission 1:]
Capture a carnivorous slug, bonus magic:
【Tongue Mucic Acid】
[Consume mana to create corrosive saliva that can dissolve infested objects]
[Submission 2]
100% domestication of carnivorous slugs, bonus magic:
【hermaphrodite】
[It can give birth to both female and male organs at the same time like a carnivorous slug for self-breeding]
"..."
Rove almost didn't collapse, the system can always come up with rewards that make his eyes go blank!
If this task is really completed, then you will really become a male mother in the future!
Seeing the strange expression on the boy's face, Shirley whispered, "Rove, what's wrong with you?"
Rove exhaled lightly, he shook his head and said, "I'm fine."
He can't tell Shirley that he has a chance to be worthy of her sister, right?
Wait... From the perspective of transgender cognition, can he go to the women's bathhouse in the future?
Rove put aside his wild thoughts, opened the box, took out a large bottle of black potion, handed it to Hagrid and said:
"This is a carnivorous slug insecticide made from the venom secreted by giant snails. It can be sprayed on cabbage every evening, and it will have a very good control effect."
Hagrid took the insecticide and was going to try it tonight.
"I still have to catch a few slugs," Rove said.
He wasn't for the heaven-defying magic of hermaphroditism, but was planning to bring back the carnivorous slugs and multiply them in large numbers.
Both the basilisk and the fire dragon had too much food, and Rove couldn't bear it, so he had to find some cheap food instead.
Snakes eat snails and slugs, and carnivorous slugs reproduce quickly and are the best food!
With a flick of his wrist, Rove threw a few seeds forward, and he said softly:
"The vines grow!"
Countless vines quickly grew from those seeds, rolling forward like a swimming snake. The flesh-eating slug felt the danger, and spit out saliva as thick as mercury from its mouth.
The vines were instantly corroded and made a sizzling sound.
A slug suddenly rushed out of the ground and bit Rove's ankle. He didn't jump up instinctively, but put his foot into the slug's mouth full of sharp teeth.
Step down!
"Thick skin!"
Rove's skin turned silver-gray, like dragon scales, and the slug's teeth and saliva couldn't break the skin's defenses at all. He directly stepped the slug back to the ground.
The slug passed out immediately.
Rove smiled and said:
"Successful capture!"
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