Chapter 2710: The Concealed Mark
"Pick things up whenever you drop them."
Though his back was to the laboratory door, Mister Thomas seemed to have already seen what had happened. He glanced at the wizard who had just cried out and reminded him, "...In the wizarding world, you never know when a Quill Pen you dropped might turn into a sharp arrow that pierces your heart. Faceless, return the gemstone to him."
Zheng Qing really wanted to mock him. After drawing so much of his blood, how did he still have the nerve to lecture him over dropping a Quill Pen?
But a cat caught in a snake's jaws had no choice but to bow its head.
So he obediently kept silent.
Upon hearing the laboratory owner's command, the rattlesnake, which had been smacking its lips, reluctantly twisted its body and slithered to the foot of the experiment table. It opened its mouth and spat out a Black Gemstone already covered in slime.
Then its shadow stretched, and the rattlesnake abruptly transformed into a delicate-looking Little Witch.
She looked exactly like Zhu Si.
Except there was no crimson mark in the center of her forehead.
"But he dropped it!"
The Little Witch pointed at Zheng Qing and complained indignantly, "I didn't steal it, and I didn't snatch it. What's wrong with picking up something someone else didn't want? No wonder the captain always told me there were no good people on Puji Island!"
Zheng Qing was briefly dazed, then suddenly came to his senses. The Little Witch before him was not Zhu Si, but the Faceless Demon that had impersonated Zhu Si in the Illusory Dream Realm. She was also the little demon that had caused plenty of trouble in the academy after devouring Liu Feifei's snake familiar.
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