Chapter 284: The Host Turns the Table
As Thor's mind successfully marked the vines, everything around him slowly came to life.
The vines stretched their roots obediently and continued to go deeper into the soil. The moisture in the underground passage began to slowly decrease, and a small white mushroom even emerged under Thor's right foot.
"It seems that the elder vines are quite supportive of you. I can feel that the Black Castle is recovering quickly." Youla raised his head and looked upwards. "Okay, let's get out of here. It's too damp here. I think the joints of this body are going to grow hair."
Thor was still observing the changes around him. Upon hearing this, he slowly took a step and caught up with Yura.
This vine planted beneath the Black Castle is truly magical.
As Thor began to move away from the roots, he could feel a very active rhizome suddenly growing out of the soil, following his footsteps.
Every time his feet touched the ground, it was as if they were touching the roots below through a thin layer of soil.
Thor found it very interesting. He raised his right hand and stretched it towards the wall.
Then he immediately felt the root split into two, one of which extended upwards quickly and excitedly. When Thor's palm touched the soil on the side, a small tip suddenly popped out and lightly "high-fived" him.
"Wow!" Thor found it interesting and immediately raised his left hand and reached towards the wall on the other side.
The rhizome underground split again and grew at a faster rate toward the inside of the soil that Thor's left hand touched.
The palm and the root system meet again.
"Heh." Thor finally couldn't help laughing out loud.
Yura, who was walking in front, looked back in confusion, and the puppet's head turned directly to the back, "What are you doing?"
"Uh..." Thor realized that his actions just now were a bit childish. Especially in the eyes of outsiders, it looked like he was just laughing foolishly.
"Ahem." He withdrew his hands somewhat awkwardly, secretly rubbing off the dirt on his fingertips, "I'm just feeling the changes in the vines."
It's definitely not a root system! Yula looked at Thor suspiciously, and turned away after a few seconds. Her neck joints made a sound like wood rubbing. It seemed that she really had hair.
The two men left the underground cave, walked out of the wine cellar and closed the secret door.
At this time, Thor lost contact with the root system underground.
However, after Thor and Yura left, the roots that had been growing quietly underground suddenly trembled weakly and with difficulty.
[Who... is he? Why can he... attach to my entire body with just a mental connection? ]
The faint voice no longer had the impatience it had when it spoke to Thor just now. There was a slight tremor in it, just like its appearance was trembling slightly.
[And... who are you? That boy left something inside me?! ]
No one responded.
…
The doll that contained the spirit of Yula had a real problem. It wasn't just growing hair. Yula's entire movements were becoming slower.
"I'll go back now. I'll hire your driver." Yula quickened her pace, but her hips began to make strange noises.
"Vinnie, are you okay? Is there anything I can do for you?"
"It's okay, it's just that there's something in this doll's body that I didn't expect, and I have to go back and clean it up. You don't have to send it off."
After saying this, Youla pushed open the door of the Black Castle and rushed out like the wind.
Outside the gate, the driver was still waiting, but he was just squatting on the ground, looking at the weeds on the roadside.
Suddenly he felt another gust of wind blowing into the carriage, followed by a sound like phlegm.
"Go back to the tower!"
The driver was startled and stood up quickly, only to find that Thor was still standing at the door and had not gotten in the car.
His expression looked a little bewildered.
Thor nodded to the driver, signaling him to set off quickly.
The driver then hurriedly climbed onto the carriage, bowed slightly to Thor, and drove the carriage quickly out of the Black Castle Forest.
Now, Thor is the only one left in the entire Black Castle.
He turned around and saw a black tentacle suddenly extending from the place where the eyes were originally on the narrow gate of the Black Castle.
This tentacle looks so familiar.
"Xiao Zao?" Thor immediately raised his hand and touched the back of his neck.
A tiny black tentacle immediately stretched out from inside, entangled Thor's index finger, and then immediately let go and retracted.
"When did the algae get in there? Wait, that wasn't the one that was high-fiving me in the soil just now?"
Thinking of this, Thor hurried back to the underground where he had just been.
When he re-entered the wine cellar through the secret door, he immediately felt that the surrounding environment was different from before.
The air here is still humid, but not as stuffy as at the beginning, and the ground has become softer and feels slightly muddy when stepped on.
When Sol walked to the originally thick rhizome, he was shocked to find that it had become thinner in just a few minutes! "Little algae?" Sol called out to it.
[No, I'm not, but if you... you mean the black tentacle that's rooted in my body... I think it's responding to you.]
As soon as the deep voice fell, several black tentacles suddenly grew out from the soil around Thor.
He seemed to be back in the abandoned underground laboratory under the wizard tower, the closed basement with corpses floating on the surface and tentacles that could stretch out as thick as a man's embrace.
Thor lowered his head and raised his foot and stomped it again.
The sticky feeling is more obvious, and the soles of your feet will sink slightly when you step on them.
It really is becoming more and more like a swamp.
"Why did the algae transfer into your body?"
[… This, wasn’t it you who did it? Just now, when you and I established a spiritual connection… wuwu…]
Wait, is this big guy crying?
[…Your powerful mental power broke through the range of the mental connection and took over my entire body. After patrolling the woods and the castle, you retreated.]
[But you left behind... the algae, and now it is desperately absorbing my nutrients. ]
Saul was stunned.
So the painful feeling of confinement he just felt was not caused by the spiritual connection? It was because he used his spiritual power to thoroughly explore the other person from head to toe. Before leaving, he left an uninvited guest behind to steal the room and food.
[Can you control it for a moment? If it continues like this, my extremities will wither and the entire Black Castle will collapse.]
"Xiao Zao," after a moment of silence, Thor called Xiao Zao.
A slender black tentacle stretched out from behind his neck, and he opened his shark-like mouth at Thor, clicking his teeth.
"Take it easy and don't eat too much. We'll be staying here for at least ten more days."
Xiao Zao immediately nodded happily, then shrank back.
Thor said to the root of the vine again, "Is it okay now?"
[…Thank you for your generosity, and finally, I apologize for my rudeness when we just met.]
"It's okay." Thor left the vines where they were.
It seemed that because of the change of owner, the atmosphere inside the Black Castle was a little different, and those tall and thin buildings gradually became less deformed.
It is more in line with Thor's aesthetic.
He did not go to look for Mochimochi's room, but walked into a guest room at random and sat down on a long and thin bed that looked like a coffin.
"It will take at least ten days to get here by carriage. During this time, I will be alone here."
Thor remembered the bag of Mosheng fruit that he had taken out from Mofan Town with great difficulty.
"In fact, there is no need to go back to the tower. I can completely rebuild a consciousness platform array here. Now, this is my territory!"
(End of this chapter)
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