I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 37 - 0 Stormy

Chapter 37: 037 Stormy

Chapter 37: 037 Stormy

“Return my eyes, return~ my~ eyes, retur~~~n my~~~ eye~~~”

The clear singing voice woke Lin An up on time.

But this time, it wasn’t covered by a nightgown; instead, a hand reached out and rubbed its hair.

“!!!” Ugly Head’s sinister and fearsome expression turned to one of resistance, “Eh? Eh~ Eh! What are you doing~”

Lin An carefully observed the blood on his hand slowly seeping into his palm and squinted his eyes to feel it.

Amidst the darkness, a bright red bloodstain quickly appeared, with a strange reddish-purple halo, particularly unique.

But this bloodstain clearly resonated with him better than Chen Xinmi’s or Zhou Xiaoxiao’s spiritual essence. In that dark realm, it simply gathered momentarily, then dispersed into mist, merging into his body’s surroundings and absorbed by his own body.

“So, is this the reason why it had never been discovered before?”

“This thing, I’m particularly well-suited to absorb it?”

Oh, it seemed so. Lin An recalled the awakening ceremony where Ugly Head’s blood nurtured his parched earth. Although he didn’t understand what that earth represented, his own body perhaps?

It was really quite magical.

When Lin An activated the ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes’, he inexplicably noticed that Zhou Xiaoxiao’s leech secretion was no less potent than Chen Xinmi’s dark golden spiritual blood.

Clearly, Chen Xinmi was a powerful witch who turned the tables to hunt Witch Hunter Knights, while Zhou Xiaoxiao was still a wizard apprentice unable to find a casting medium.

So there’s no distinction of high or low, noble or humble in spiritual essence?

No qualitative difference?

Lin An quietly noted down his conjecture and clicked his tongue at Ugly Head.

“What are you doing~” Ugly Head shrank back, its large eye sockets focusing on Lin An, opening its mouth to reveal black teeth and a black tongue, “You… don’t touch me!”

Lin An just rubbed its head again, “I just find it very magical. Despite such a powerful spiritual liquid, why are you able to produce it incessantly, and somehow, you don’t seem to weaken from it.”

He raised his eyebrows at the head, “Do you know where the blood you shed comes from?”

The head shook, and the blood splattered everywhere along with its hair, “I don’t know!”

Lin An fell into contemplation.

The dark golden blood he had coincidentally obtained from Chen Xinmi was now down to a small amount, while the head before him could continuously drip it out.

However, he couldn’t accumulate the head’s blood in that dark realm.

Neither could he bring it to the company to assist him in memorizing the contents of those books.

It wasn’t only because carrying a basketball to the company was weird, but also because Lin An didn’t want to flaunt such a unique thing in front of his boss.

But it would be too wasteful to let it fling blood water from its hair all over the house.

After some thought, Lin An went to the shelf above his computer desk and rummaged through it. The shelf was full of random stuff, many simply thrown on it.

He quickly pulled out a mesh of what seemed to be made of plastic.

“What are you going to do?” Ugly Head had an ominous feeling.

“Heh heh, stay still, little goodie,” Lin An approached with large strides, pressed down the head that was trying to roll back under the bed, and shook the mesh in his hand, trapping the head inside it.

It was a net bag specifically designed to hold basketballs. As a freebie, the quality seemed average.

But Lin An quickly saw the blood dripping from the head’s hair soaking the net.

“Let’s see if we can make ‘something eroded by spiritual energy’ and use it as my casting medium. Then, I can perform the witchcraft that enhances brain functions and swiftly memorize the tasks Professor Cao left me, winning his approval.”

Lin An smiled as he looked at the head, “You wouldn’t mind helping me, would you?”

The head just twisted inside the net, “Eh, I must say, I seem quite suited to being inside this, much more comfortable than under the bed.”

Because you’re a basketball!

Lin An simply hung the net holding the basketball on the wall.

“Return my eyes, return~ my…” The head hummed a few times, then yawned contentedly, murmuring, “Oh, I finally feel like I can rest for a while.”

Saying this, it actually started to snore and fell asleep.

It fell asleep!

Lin An was taken aback by this scene and fell silent for a while before softly saying, “After work, I’ll go to the mall and buy a better quality net for you.”

The head didn’t speak, but countless streams of blood flowed down from its forehead, seeping through the edge of the net.

Lin An decided not to disturb it anymore and quietly brushed his teeth and washed his face, changed into his clothes, and went to work with his laptop bag on his back.

When he arrived at the company in the morning, Lin An habitually went to the old office area to clock in, but the receptionist reminded him that his information had already been removed from the card reader there.

Lin An politely exchanged a few words with her before leaving through the company’s main entrance and walking around a wall to reach the new office area.

The new day started, and the new office area seemed especially lively.

There was an additional girl at the reception, who seemed to recognize him, crisply calling out ‘Mr. Lin,’ which made people around look over.

Those people seemed to be here for interviews, quietly waiting on the right-hand corridor, occasionally glancing towards the conference room in the distance.

“The interviews start at 8 o’clock sharp.”

The receptionist told a person who hurried over, then came around from the reception, walked up to Lin An spiritedly, and whispered, “You can call me Xiao Wen. The boss said that HR will primarily handle the interviews, but the tech department is also welcome to send someone if they’re free, as their opinions will be carefully considered.”

Lin An was startled for a moment, “Tech department?”

He looked around, assuming these were applicants for design and planning, as there didn’t seem to be a tech department in the company.

As the receptionist looked at him, he ended up pointing to himself confusedly, “Me?”

The girl nodded vigorously, “Mm-hmm.”

Sigh~

I don’t understand a damn thing.

Lin An knew his limitations and looked over the applicants; it seemed any one of them had better skills than he did. After all, he was originally a programmer, and his knowledge of design was only skin deep.

He didn’t say anything, just nodded to the girl and politely noted her name before heading to the office.

The little boss seemed to have arrived quite early today, currently standing with his arms akimbo, contentedly watching the applicants from afar, seemingly already imagining the company’s prosperous future.

“Actually, it’s quite stressful, suddenly having to support so many more people. The monthly expenses are astronomical.”

He greeted Lin An into the office, glanced outside the door, and then excitedly said, “At dawn, Mr. Cao and the others went crazy!”

Lin An’s expression changed, but he looked on puzzledly.

“A Sorcerer Zombie! That is, the creature I told you about before, it actually appeared in our city!” the little boss said in a mystical tone, “That thing seems to be incredibly powerful. Mr. Cao and the others have been looking everywhere for hours, but couldn’t find any trace of it.”

He gestured the shape of a huge circle, “A gigantic eye, with platinum-colored eyelids, adorned with many wing-like patterns, only showing itself briefly in our city.”

“But afterward, no one could find it.”

Ah, this…

Lin An gripped the strap of his computer bag tightly, “Maybe it was a mistake?”

“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” The little boss waved his hand forcefully, “Are you kidding? The Witch Hunter Knights seeing a Sorcerer Zombie wrongly? If those words reach Mr. Cao and the others, they’d blow a gasket.”

“I see…” Lin An shrugged his shoulders, “It sounds like a pretty serious matter.”

The little boss clicked his tongue, “A Sorcerer Zombie appearing on Lu Jiao’s turf without being killed or driven into the Spirit Realm, if in the end the ‘Southern Empire Witch-Hunting Knights Alliance’ has to send people to help, it would make others think that Lu Jiao can’t hold down this region.”

He shook his head with a sigh, “After my dad passed away, the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order hasn’t chosen a new leader. Mr. Cao seems to have the most support, but he always says he’s all bravery with no strategy, feels like he can’t shoulder the future of Lu Jiao.”

“Everyone has their own thoughts, and Lu Jiao’s current issues are indeed serious, and now we’ve run into such a situation,” the little boss didn’t seem to care about the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order.

Leaderless and in the face of a formidable enemy, plus a powerful witch lurking in the shadows ready to pounce, colleagues eagerly watching, ready to exploit the situation…

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Lu Jiao was indeed starting to look somewhat shaky.

But Lin An couldn’t say anything; after all, he couldn’t reveal that the supposed Sorcerer Zombie was just his own witchcraft, nor could he disclose that the powerful witch was Suxin Software’s female boss Chen Xinmi, with a Witches’ Assembly behind her, all aware he was a Wizard…

“…”