Chapter: 736
"Take a sniff. Isn’t there an odd scent on Quentin? It smells almost exactly the same as the incense," Dustin. said.
"Huh?" Jacob smelled the incense, then walked over to Quentin’s body and took a hard sniff. His expression changed instantly. Just like Dustin had said, the smell on Quentin was exactly the same as the incense in the burner. "They smell the same!"
To determine the truth, many people from the crowd came forward to take a sniff and experienced a shocking revelation. "Humph! So what if they smell the same? What does it prove? It could merely be a coincidence!" Jacob said coldly.
"Of course, the smell cannot prove anything. Actually, what raised my suspicion was not the smell, but Quentin’s body." After a pause, Dustin dropped another bombshell. "You might not believe me when I say this, but Quentin already died long ago. His body was only being controlled using witchcraft!"
The crowd flew into an uproar.
"Outrageous! This is absolutely outrageous! All of us saw with our own eyes that Quentin was alive and well before you killed him. Yet you dare say that he was just a corpse? How absolutely ridiculous!" Jacob’s rage burned to a whole new level, and he wanted to rip Dustin apart.
"Hmmph! Do you take us for fools? What makes you think we would believe your bullshit?!"
"Exactly! You were the one who killed Quentin. We all witnessed it!"
The crowd was furious, and their suspicions towards Dustin grew even stronger. How dare he deny killing Someone and even use such a ludicrous excuse to clear his name? Did he think they were three–year–olds?
"Young ng man, do you know what you’re talking about?" Hector said with a frown. He had tried to give Dustin a chance to explain himself, but his words only grew more outrageous.
"I know you guys don’t believe me, but I have proof." Dustin walked to Quentin’s corpse and ripped Quentin’s clothes off, exposing patches of red lines to the crowd. "Do you see this? This is corpse plaque!" Dustin shocked everybody again.
"Corpse plaque?!" Everybody looked at each other skeptically at hearing those words. On the one hand, they were taken aback by what Dustin said. On the other hand, they were skeptical about whether the corpse plaque was real.
"Hmmph! Is it corpse plaque just because you say so? What if those are just normal bruises?" Jacob said with a frown, still in disbelief.
"I — I can prove that it is really corpse plaque!" At that moment, a bespectacled man suddenly stepped forward and said with a shocked expression, "I used to be a doctor, and I’m very familiar with corpse plaque. What’s more, judging by the corpse plaque on his body, Quentin has been dead for at least twelve hours!" The moment he said that, everyone’s expression changed.
"How could that be?! Quentin was still up and about just now. We all saw it clearly!"
"That’s right! There are so many witnesses. How could it have been a sham?!"
Besides being shocked, many people were skeptical because this revelation was hard to accept. "I was also wondering how a living person could have such serious corpse plaque on his body," the bespectacled man said in astonishment.
"Dustin, what’s going on?" Natasha asked in confusion. She also couldn’t believe that the Quentin she had seen earlier was actually a dead body.
"I already said that Quentin was already dead, but somebody was controlling his body with witchcraft." Dustin continued explaining. "I believe you guys must have heard of the rumors of corpse possession in Iden. This is similar to corpse possession, but the technique of it is far more refined."
"That’s nonsense! How could dark magic like corpse possession exist in this world?!" Jacob demanded.