89: Are you kidding me? A level 45 substitute?

However, the Consultant didn't react immediately, waiting for Zuo Dao to confirm first.

After sniffing the air, Zuo Dao looked at Zhou Hao and asked with a half-smile:

"Buddy, do you know water hemlock?"

Zhou Hao was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, I've been refining this poison recently."

He misunderstood their meaning and continued, "What, do you need this poison for something? I can go back to my dorm and get it for you?"

"…"

Zuo Dao didn't speak. After a few seconds, he lowered his head and glanced at Zhou Hao's fingers again, then shook his head at the Consultant.

The Consultant immediately confirmed his earlier thought.

Zhou Hao was indeed not the one who administered the poison, but he had made water hemlock... "Alright, let him go back first," Zuo Dao said to Li Yi.

Li Yi was startled, then understood, and his gaze towards Zhou Hao was no longer as sharp as before. "It's nothing, you can go back."

Zhou Hao didn't want to stay there any longer, so without asking anything, he quickly turned and ran back to the hall.

After he left, Li Yi looked back at the Consultant and the others: "It wasn't him?"

Zuo Dao nodded and explained:

"Water hemlock leaves traces on the poisoner's hands that are difficult to remove in a short time, so he couldn't be the one."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Consultant and Jiang Banxia exchanged glances, both showing thoughtful expressions.

Jiang Banxia asked, "Could it be..."

The Consultant shrugged: "It should be that person. He probably saw me that day, and might have really intended to silence me."

"What are you talking about? What exactly happened?"

Li Yi asked, "This matter concerns me now too. Can you tell me? Maybe I can help."

The Consultant looked at Li Yi, thought for a moment, and decided to trust him.

He briefly told Li Yi about the Star Bell Tower incident from yesterday.

To his surprise, Li Yi's expression changed upon hearing this, and he quickly said:

"Star Bell Tower? Dean Jin specifically mentioned before we came that no one is allowed to approach the Star Bell Tower, and anyone found violating this will be expelled!"

"That serious?!"

Zuo Dao was surprised, completely forgetting that he himself had been to the Star Bell Tower.

Oh, no, he really did forget... The Consultant glanced at Zuo Dao, then looked back at Li Yi and asked, "That Zhou Hao just now said he could go back to his dorm to get that poison?"

"Water hemlock," Zuo Dao added from the side.

The other two nodded.

The Consultant pondered for a moment, then asked again:

"If Zhou Hao didn't administer the poison, then... who can freely enter and exit your dorm, and also steal his poison?"

Li Yi answered almost without thinking, "Only our competition participants can enter the dorm, but they are all currently..."

Li Yi was about to say that everyone was in the hall attending the banquet, but halfway through, his expression suddenly changed.

Seeing his expression, the Consultant frowned, and Jiang Banxia on the side also seemed to realize something.

"There's one more person!"

Several people suddenly shouted in unison.

At Shuoshu Academy, besides Li Yi and the other five, there was also a substitute who had never appeared!

"Is that person inside now?" the Consultant quickly asked, looking at Li Yi.

Li Yi pondered for a moment, then shook his head, saying with a somewhat grim expression, "I saw him at first, but when I went in to look for Zhou Hao just now, I found he wasn't at the banquet!"

"Damn it!" The Consultant couldn't help but curse, "He must be at the Star Bell Tower!"

Yesterday, when he was helping the Slime level up at the Star Bell Tower, he disturbed that person.

Today was Shuoshu Academy's last day here; he definitely wouldn't miss this opportunity!

The others also thought of this and immediately prepared to follow the Consultant to the Star Bell Tower.

After a few steps, the Consultant stopped Zuo Dao and Jiang Banxia behind him again.

Zuo Dao had no direct combat power, and someone was needed to inform Dean Jiang about this matter.

"You two go find Dean Jiang first and have him bring people to the Star Bell Tower. Li Yi and I will go find that person!"

After the Consultant finished speaking, he didn't give them a chance to refute. He exchanged a glance with Li Yi and quickly headed towards the Star Bell Tower.

Jiang Banxia originally wanted to stop the Consultant, but the situation was urgent, and she didn't have time to act petulant. She could only let out a soft huff and turn back with Zuo Dao to find people.

The distance from here to the Star Bell Tower was not far, and it didn't take long for the Consultant and Li Yi to reach it.

It was night, and moonlight spilled down, illuminating the towering Star Bell Tower and the low-lying herb garden.

But the Star Bell Tower, which should have been tightly shut, now had a gap, clearly indicating someone had entered!

"As expected!"

The Consultant mumbled, while Li Yi quickly said, "Consultant, hurry! I'm worried something might happen!"

Li Yi was right. After getting closer, the Consultant also felt a strange aura.

It was like a mixed scent of blood and magic!

Exactly like when that giant hand monster of Zhou Huan appeared!

He remembered Dean Jiang saying before that the hand monster was an evil demon sealed here.

Although Jiang Cen hadn't said what would happen if it was released, there was no need to guess that it wouldn't be anything good!

The Consultant nodded and quickly entered the bell tower.

The two ran through the main entrance of the Star Bell Tower, where the peculiar aura grew even stronger.

At the same time, spatial distortion fluctuations continuously came from above the bell tower!

The Consultant and Li Yi exchanged glances, having no time to speak, and quickly ran up the stairs.

The higher they went, the more pronounced the sense of spatial distortion became!

The Consultant and Li Yi rushed to the top floor of the bell tower and immediately saw a short-haired boy wearing a Shuoshu Academy uniform standing behind the huge clock face in front of them.

He had his back to the Consultant and the others, and in front of him was a huge red magic array.

The magic array floated in the air, forming a red hexagram pattern!

It was exactly how the giant hand monster looked when it was released back then!

And at this very moment, bloodstains were continuously dripping from the magic array.

"Jia Heng, what are you doing?!"

Li Yi saw the person and immediately shouted sternly.

The Consultant, meanwhile, silently used his system's ability to scan the person.

But upon seeing the information displayed by the system, the Consultant's heart leaped in shock!

[Name: Jia Heng.]

[Race: Unknown.]

[Awakened Class: Illusionist.]

[Level: 45.]

[Faction: Unknown.]

[System Evaluation: Dangerous individual. Absolutely do not approach him without precautions!]

A Level 45 Illusionist??

How could such a person be a substitute player?!

And an unknown faction?! Even his race is unknown?!