Chapter 490 Source of Pollution
"Damn it!" Thor threw away the human skin in his hand and stepped forward to check on Izzy's condition.
The girl's skin became wrinkled almost instantly.
It's not that her skin has aged and lost moisture, but that the body beneath her skin is no longer plump.
The shriveled body cannot support the tender skin.
“Click.”
The girl's left hand, which had lost its support due to its charred and skinned body, shattered and fell to the ground, instantly breaking into four pieces.
Perhaps the falling of his arm caused a shock, and the skin on other parts of Izzy's body cracked to varying degrees.
And underneath the wrinkled skin, all that was exposed was black texture.
When you wipe it with your hand, black powder will fall down.
Such a person obviously cannot survive.
But Thor had let Xiaozao keep an eye on Izzy for such a long time, and he didn't notice when her insides turned into charcoal.
Even before her skin cracked, Thor only found signs of being haunted by evil spirits, and did not realize that the pollution had invaded the subcutaneous tissue.
“Tear——”
Xiaozao originally had her arms around Izzy's waist.
That area is covered by clothes and no skin can be seen.
But now, Izzy's body was slowly sliding down, and the part that was rolled up by the algae began to accumulate layer by layer.
Thor could imagine that if left alone, in a few seconds, Izzy's upper body skin would be peeled off like a shirt.
"Put her down." Thor sighed.
Xiaozao quickly put the person on the ground.
At the moment when the body lightly hit the ground, a large amount of black powder fell out from the cracks in the skin, forming a human-shaped black dust circle.
"Master?" At this time, Morton walked in from outside, "I found some remnants of evil spirits in the pipe, and there are also some strange friction marks on it."
He walked in and saw Izzy and was shocked, "What is this?"
"I subdued an evil spirit outside. But the girl in this room is still dead. Maybe my previous thoughts were wrong. This girl, and the others who turned into charred corpses, did not die because of the evil spirit's contamination. On the contrary, they died first and then turned into evil spirits."
"In that case, other factors caused their deaths," Morton analyzed.
"Yes, and the transition from life to death was very fast. When I rushed into the room, she was still breathing like a living person. It only took her a few breaths until she shed her skin and died."
Moreover, she died from the inside. However, her outer skin was still intact, emitting residual vitality, which made it impossible for me to accurately determine when she began to carbonize.
As he was speaking, Izzy, who was lying on the ground, suddenly moved.
As she moved, more skin began to tear from the friction and more black powder fell.
The girl seemed to come alive, and she crawled up from the ground stiffly and strugglingly.
When she opened her eyes, her eyeballs were still intact, but her eyes were lifeless and looked like two fake eyes.
"water……"
A faint voice came out of Izzy's mouth. She didn't notice Sol and Morton in front of her, turned around and walked slowly towards the table.
Thor did not stop the girl's actions. "She is now beginning to transform into a demon. The first thing she did was to look for water."
Morton nodded. "It can be seen that although she has become a demon, she still retains a trace of her conscious memory from her life."
Thor raised his hand, looked at the black powder on his fingertips, and twisted it gently.
"The last time we subdued the evil spirit in this building, we saw it trying to open the door. Maybe the evil spirit didn't want to open the door and kill people at that time..."
Morton clapped his fists together, "It's looking for water!"
Thor suddenly thought of the agent who died a few months ago.
The evil spirit that took him away also had black powder on the ground. The evil spirit took him away through a water pipe.
At the same time, the agent who was taken away did not appear to be charred, but had worm legs growing under his head.
"It is basically certain that carbonized evil spirits cannot create new carbonized evil spirits. Therefore, the appearance of each carbonized evil spirit is due to other reasons. And this reason is spread throughout the city."
Thor and Morton looked at each other, both with unhappy expressions.
Because they both thought of something that was also distributed throughout the city, or even over a larger area.
The big tree under the ground! Thor cleaned the black powder off his palms and rubbed his forehead.
"Kismet, this guy, actually wanted to give me the tree as a gift."
Judging from the capabilities currently demonstrated by this big tree, even if Thor can deal with some of its branches and roots, he is definitely no match for its body.
"The good thing for me right now is that this pollution that will cause the inside to be charred and carbonized will not be transmitted to wizards. However, the tree itself will actively attack wizards. I was attacked last time in the underground sewer and in the suburbs. This means that it will secretly attack when no one is around."
This huge tree hidden under the archaeological site is not harmless.
And as the wizarding academy that developed the ancient city of Archaster into its current size, how could it be completely unaware of the existence of the giant tree underground?
Thor now even suspects that the person who planted this big tree and nurtured it was Baidong College.
And last time, Dean Pound and the witch named Bess obviously did not tell the truth.
They took out a tree root and asked Thor if he had collected other roots. This might be just to observe how much Thor knew about the big tree, and to recover the roots left in other people's hands.
Just as Thor and Morton were trying to figure out the source of the pollution from the black charred corpses, in a corner of the city, Char had already reunited with Wizard Julie.
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After the two communicated secretly, Xia led Julie into the basement of the building next to them.
"Where are your clues?" Julie asked Xia silently using the communication technique.
"I arranged for him to stay upstairs in this building."
"Then why did you go down to the basement?"
Xia looked back at Julie and said, "Because the pollution comes from underground."
Julie pulled at her hair in front of her chest, "Are you sure? How did you find out?"
"I have been observing these evil spirits of the charred corpses for a long time. I discovered a characteristic."
"What?" Julie leaned forward curiously.
But Xia raised his hand and used a wooden stick to push Julie's shoulders away.
"Don't get so close to me, be careful to trigger my automatic attack reaction arc."
Julie rolled her eyes and took a step back, keeping a distance of three meters between herself and Char.
"Is this far enough? Tell me!"
"I found that these charred corpses will not create new charred corpses after they appear."
"You mean the contamination from the charred corpse won't spread a second time? That's a good thing."
"But it also shows that the source of the pollution that turned people into charred corpses was not an evil spirit. At least not this kind of evil spirit. I think it should be something else, even a wizard!"
Julie was shocked. "You mean there are monsters or wizards attacking ordinary people? And it has been going on for a long time?"
Although Julie is not that smart, she is not that dumb for a wizard.
After Char's reminder, she immediately knew that a monster or wizard that could attack ordinary people for a long time must be very powerful.
But Baidong College did not respond to this.
Could it be that Baidong College didn't find out? Not likely.
As the issuer of the sweeper mission, they must have more information in their hands. It is impossible for them not to notice the data that Char can compile.
Thinking of this, Julie became nervous. The fingers that were pinching her hair tightened unconsciously, and a few strands of her long white hair broke and fell onto her arms.
Then something occurred to her.
"Fortunately, this source of pollution currently only targets ordinary people."
As soon as she finished speaking, Julie saw Xia turning around and giving her a blank look.
"How can you be so comfortable? Now they can attack ordinary people, in the future they can attack apprentices, and in the future they can attack us!"
Seeing Julie glaring back at him angrily, Xia didn't bother to say anything else.
"Let's go. According to the rules I have summarized, my clue has been marked and will be completely contaminated. According to previous experience, this contamination comes from underground."
I'm asking for monthly tickets in the basement
(End of this chapter)
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