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The old caretaker let out one single, terrible scream, and then his body went slack, fainting dead away.
His eyeball had been gouged out alive. It rolled in Zhongsun Mou’s spoon, intact and whole.
Zhongsun Mou casually picked up a cup, poured water over the eyeball to rinse it clean, and only then held it up to the light for a closer look.
“As expected, it’s this.” With the tip of the spoon, he pried out a tiny creature from the eyeball, something like a little red worm. The moment it hit the tabletop, it began to wriggle. “An eye mite.”
The parasite itself posed no danger to humans. The old man likely had not even known it had been planted in him. However, it was a medium that allowed the user to share the host’s field of vision.
Because the eye mite was a living parasite rather than a divine technique or magical spell, the earlier inspection had turned up nothing. The only reason Zhongsun Mou caught it was that the mite adjusted its coloration when the lighting changed abruptly. That tiny reaction had given it away.
There was no question as to who had tampered with the caretaker’s eyes.
It was Mr. Mai.
This meant that Mr. Mai could see whatever the caretaker saw without needing to show his face at all.
Zhongsun Mou stared at the eye mite and, instead of...
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