By this point, anyone who wasn't an idiot had caught on.
How could there be so many coincidences in the world?
At first, they had merely thought some troublemaker was putting Shrek's several deans through the wringer. Now, however, they felt they needed to take these two books seriously.
A scandal at Shrek Academy...
A third-rate little city.
A middle-aged man walking through a dark alley suddenly stopped and silently looked toward the corner ahead.
Then, the middle-aged man smiled, the corners of his mouth stretching all the way to his ears in a horrifying, eerie grin. "As expected of Shrek Academy. You moved surprisingly fast."
A slender calf concealed beneath a moon-white gauze skirt quietly appeared around the corner. Delicate jade-white feet stepped in small embroidered shoes patterned with moons, followed by the emergence of a tall, graceful figure.
The dark alley seemed to brighten the moment the woman appeared, as though a radiant moon had risen within it, making her look like a transcendent fairy descended from the heavens.
Unfortunately, the so-called middle-aged man was not human. To him, Zhang Lexuan's flawless beauty was not even worth as much as the Blue Silver Grass growing everywhere.
Whoosh—
Whoosh...
Several more figures quietly appeared, both men and women, surrounding the middle-aged man from every direction. Unlike Zhang Lexuan, they all wore dark green robes with their faces hidden beneath hoods. On their exposed right hands, each wore a ring bearing a blood-red Shrek Monster Emblem.
Shrek Monitoring Group, Inner Academy disciples.
"Speak. Where did the books you sold come from? What is your purpose? Who is behind you?" Zhang Lexuan asked coldly.
"Don't even think about running. You can't escape. This entire city has been surrounded by us. Give up. Outside, it's all Shrek people."
The middle-aged man remained