It wasn't an apple that hit Newton.

"Don't you like it? I prepared it especially for you." The man said, snapping his fingers.

Snapped!

Then the symphony and cheers that had been lingering in his ears came to an abrupt end, and even the red stage beneath his feet disappeared, leaving only an endless void.

This amazing scene amazed Li Cheng, who then couldn't help but complain, "If you're so powerful, why didn't you give me a couple more cheat codes when I transmigrated?"

The man shrugged: "You didn't want it anyway."

Li Cheng was shocked: "Can this still be kept?"

"Of course... no." The man gave an unsurprising answer.

"........"

Li Cheng was silent for a moment, then asked, "So what happened next? Why did Edward want to kill his father? And was his poisoning discovered?"

The man listened patiently to his string of questions, then slowly uttered two words: "Guess."

"......"

This is outrageous, absolutely outrageous... Li Cheng couldn't find the right words to describe the man in front of him, so he could only give him a look of utter contempt.

The man stared at Li Cheng's disdain and smiled faintly: "The truth is no longer relevant."

Li Cheng shook his head: "But it means something to me."

The man said, "You're not Albert."

Seeing Li Cheng fall silent, the man clapped his hands: "Alright, cheer up. Just like I promised, you can go home now."

go home.......

Li Cheng repeated the two words.

Compared to his lonely home on Earth, he now longed to return to his London home, where at least many familiar faces resided: Newton, Freya, Anne, Lavoisier, Joanna, Veronica, Roy, Stoller, Holly...

What's more, he has a mortal enemy—a true mortal enemy, the kind of feeling of having his heart pierced by a sharp sword, a feeling he will probably never forget in his next life.

Let's discuss it.

Li Cheng looked at the man in front of him, whose origins he did not know. At first, he was a little disgusted by the feeling of having someone above him, but now he didn't care anymore.

He asked earnestly, "Can I go back to that world?"

The man seemed to have expected this and didn't show too much surprise: "Are you sure? This is your only chance."

Li Cheng nodded seriously: "I'm sure."

The man smiled, then raised his hand as if to snap his fingers: "So..."

"Wait a minute!" Li Cheng suddenly interrupted again.

"What is it now?"

The man stopped what he was doing, this time genuinely puzzled.

"Of course we can't just go back like this."

Li Cheng said with a matter-of-fact expression, "It's that one, you know, right? The promised reward—do you know how difficult it is for an ordinary person in another world? They can't even smoothly advance through a technology tree. At least they should be given a set of blueprints and data, right?"

"...Hehe, you're the first person to try and bargain with me."

The man shook his head, then snapped his fingers: "Then, as you wish."

Chapter 147 The Useless Wizard

in the afternoon.

Suburbs of London.

In a deserted little forest, a brown-haired girl is wielding her shovel, trying to dig a hole in the hardened ground. Beside her, on the ground, lies a red-haired man.

The brown-haired girl was named Susie. She was an ordinary farmer's daughter from a nearby village. If there was anything different about her, it was that she was bolder than girls her age.

Now, although Susie didn't recognize the person lying on the ground, she found a small silver pocket watch and a few coins in his pocket, and out of the bare minimum of sympathy and gratitude, she decided to dig a hole for him.

"Thank me, Lady Susie. Most people would have run away in fear, but I can bury you for you. The only price is some coins that are useless to you. This ground is so hard. It's exhausting."

As Susie muttered to herself, she unconsciously glanced at the red-haired man on the ground.

Just then, the fingers of the corpse that should have been dead long ago suddenly twitched.

?

Susie paused in her digging, and asked blankly, "Did I just see wrong?"

Even though she was usually quite brave, she felt a little panicked. But when she looked up at the sky, the bright sun gave the farmer's daughter a bit more courage—in legends, vampires and zombies cannot move in the sunlight.

After careful deduction, Susie mustered her courage and went closer to examine the condition of the corpse.

The red-haired man in front of them had stiff limbs and a cold, bloodless face, making it impossible for him to move.

"I was wrong after all."

Susie breathed a sigh of relief and planned to go back and continue digging the hole, quickly bury it, and leave.

But just as she was about to look away, the red-haired man suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, revealing a pair of dark eyes that stared blankly at the sky.

"what!!!!!!!"

Susie's heart was pounding with shock, and the limbs that were supporting her body lost all strength at that moment. She collapsed onto the ground and lay back into the hole she had just dug.

------

Li Cheng slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was the sparse canopy of oak trees and the faint sunlight filtering through.

After blinking and adjusting to the light, he slowly sat up and began to look around.

The surrounding area was a small grove of oak trees, with few signs of human activity. However, there was a brown-haired girl lying inexplicably in a pit nearby—judging from the shovel stuck in the ground, she must have dug the pit herself.

"..."

Li Cheng was taken aback: "I've only ever heard of people playing like this on the beach, I didn't know you could do it in the mud too?"

Susie, who had been paralyzed with fear, had just managed to sit up from the pit when she saw the corpse in front of her not only open its eyes but also sit up and speak. She stared in shock, exclaiming, "You...you...you...you are a vampire? Or a werewolf?"

Li Cheng countered, "Aren't there any options for humans?"

"How can a human die and come back to life?!"

Susie shouted.

"But I am indeed human."

As Li Cheng spoke, he subconsciously lowered his head, unbuttoned his shirt, and saw that there was only a smooth patch of skin on his left chest. He nodded in satisfaction: "See, everything is normal."

In fact, his current condition can hardly be described as normal. Although his wounds have healed and his heart is beating again, his clothes are already tattered, and his face and hands are covered in mud—in fact, if it weren't for some mysterious reason, he would have rotted away long ago.

However, looking at Li Cheng in front of her, Susie seemed to understand something, her eyes shining as she said, "I know, you must be a wizard, right? I've heard that many wizards still consider themselves human, and you consider yourself human too, right?"

After overcoming her initial shock and discovering that the mysterious person in front of her seemed to have no ill intentions and even joked around, Susie regained her courage.

"I'm not a wizard... Oh well, think what you want."

Li Cheng abandoned the attempt to explain and instead tried to clarify the current situation: "Can I ask you a few questions? I can pay you."

As he spoke, he reached into his pocket. Ever since he had a few accidents caused by not having money with him, he now puts some money in his pocket before going out, and he also habitually stuffs two gold coins into the case of his pocket watch, so that he will always have some money.

However, today I still reached into my pocket and found nothing. There was nothing in my pocket, neither my wallet nor my pocket watch.

"..."

Li Cheng put his hands in his pockets, momentarily at a loss for what to do next—had he encountered some strange curse? A strange curse that meant he could never take out money whenever he needed it.

Seeing the wizard's embarrassment as he reached into his pocket, Susie seemed to understand something. She chuckled and pulled out some things from her own pocket, offering them to him with both hands: "Wizard, this is your money and pocket watch."

So, I was robbed of my body before?

Li Cheng took the wallet and pocket watch with a wry smile. He then opened the wallet, took out half of the banknotes, and handed them to Susie: "First of all, I am not a wizard, and secondly, this is your share of the payment."

Although the money was less than before, Susie was more interested in the wizard in front of her, so she happily took the money: "Then ask away, I'll tell you everything I know."

Li Cheng nodded: "What's the date today?"

"November 12."

Susie thought for a moment and then added, "It is 1666 now."

Li Cheng was just about to lament how more than a month had passed when he heard the girl's last sentence and immediately lost his mood for lamentation: "The last sentence is superfluous—the second question, has anything major happened recently?"

Susie nodded quite seriously: "Quite a lot."

Li Cheng immediately became serious, preparing to listen attentively.

Susie began counting on her fingers: "My second uncle's ewe gave birth to another litter of lambs, but they probably won't survive the winter; the lord's mill is broken and needs repairs, but it's too expensive, so the lord has decided to do it himself; my family had a good harvest this year, and my mother is planning to have another one..."

"Stop, stop, stop, stop!"

Li Cheng quickly interrupted, "Do you know anything bigger? Like what major event happened in London, or if His Majesty the King has been acting strangely lately?"

"I don't know, why would I care about that?"

Susie shook her head, her expression very sincere.

These simple words left Li Cheng speechless for a moment, but thinking about it, it made sense. Without television or cell phones, who would want to go to so much trouble to inquire about what was happening outside? They might as well go for a swim in the river and maybe catch a fish to add to their meal... For a country girl, catching a fish was much more practical than being a king.

Having realized this, Li Cheng turned to asking some more practical questions: "Do you know how far it is from here to London? How long does it take to get there?"

The question still stumped Susie: "It seems quite far? I heard from my second uncle that it would take a whole day to walk there."

one day?

If you work 8 hours a day, that's about 40 kilometers... Wow, that'll take up most of the day just for running back to your corpse. Although most people don't actually have the chance to run back to their corpses.

Li Cheng glanced at the darkening sky, knowing he probably wouldn't be able to go to London today, so he set his sights on the thick-skinned girl he had met: "Ahem, let me introduce myself first. My name is... um, Sherlock Holmes."

It turns out that name is probably unusable now. Being resurrected from the dead is no fun. If Edward were to see him alive and kicking in London, his first reaction would be to be scared half to death, and then he would call the church to send him to the stake.

The reason for impersonating Sherlock Holmes is twofold: firstly, Conan Doyle wasn't even a fertilized egg at this point, so there was no copyright issue; secondly, he was also a part-time detective, and using the name of his ancestor was auspicious, even though the ancestor hadn't been born yet...

"Hello, Sherlock Holmes, my name is Susie."

Susie shook her head happily—she finally knew the wizard's name; she had forgotten to ask before.

"I already said I'm not... Never mind, it doesn't matter what you think, just don't shout anything."

Li Cheng gave up on correcting Susie's stubborn idea and instead asked, "Can I stay at your house for a day? Don't worry, I'll pay for the room."