Chapter 972 Reproduction and Cultivation
"Just passing by." Thor looked at the red worm on Jeffrey's neck that was about to drill into his body and smiled with satisfaction, "What about you?"
"I passed the selection of the Stargate Council." Jeffrey touched his nose and tried his best to suppress his inner pride. "Now I am sent out to study. They said that after I finish my studies, they will let me work in the Observatory Tower."
"Really?" Thor's eyes were fixed on the red worm's short, fat tail that was sticking out and still wriggling. "Congratulations."
He suddenly raised his left hand, and the skin on the tip of his index finger quickly receded, revealing a piece of white finger bone, which lightly touched the tail of the red worm before Jeffrey could react.
Jeffrey only had time to roll his eyes before his whole body trembled violently as if he had been electrocuted, and then he fell straight down.
Thor and Jeffrey were originally standing on the street, but the moment Thor showed his finger bones, the two of them moved to high altitude.
So when Jeffrey fell, his whole body fell towards the ground.
However, a gray translucent tentacle wrapped around his body, causing him to float in the air.
Even after Jeffrey fell, Thor's left hand never left the red worm on his neck.
At this moment, the red worm that no one could touch was shaking constantly, as if it had been electrified.
Douglas's hint was very clear. The places that could quickly inflict a large amount of pollution on the red worms were either the abyss or the starry sky.
But Douglas probably couldn't have imagined that Thor had the most polluting anchor in the abyss.
Thor had guessed that the source of pollution used by the Stargate Council to create the inactivated red worms was also the anchor point.
Because they and the Tribunal have jointly controlled the No Man's Land for a long time, the anchor points generated by each eye of the storm will be taken away by these two organizations.
It is also because of so many years of accumulation that the Stargate Council was able to produce so many inactivated red worms in such a short time after discovering the red worms.
Slowly, the violently trembling red worm finally stopped moving.
Just in case, Thor did not remove his hand immediately, but waited a moment longer before letting his skin wrap around the anchor again.
At this time, Thor changed his right hand to grab the motionless red worm, and a star-like eye appeared on the palm of his right hand the moment it touched the red worm.
There was no feedback from the touch of Thor's fingers, but his spirit knew clearly that he had grasped something light.
Then, Thor pulled hard, and the red worm, with only a small red tip left, was pulled out by Thor.
Jeffrey, who had lost consciousness, twitched and dark red blood began to flow out of his seven orifices. A rotten smell also emanated from the dark red blood.
Thor tightened his tentacles, lifting Jeffrey up.
He is dead.
In other words, he was already dead when Thor left the observatory and saw Jeffrey excitedly saying that he was chosen by the Stargate Council.
What is alive is only the inertia of the thinking of a wizard apprentice. The red worm can give the remaining thinking the possibility of continuing, but this continuation will be consumed sooner or later. At that time, the red worm may leave the original carrier and look for the next target.
A second-level wizard apprentice like Jeffrey can only last a few months, while a third-level wizard can last for many years.
"But did the Stargate Council send him out just to wait for him to die?" Thor put away Jeffrey's body, which did not even have his soul.
"Or do you want to wait until Jeffrey dies and let the red worms continue to erode other people?"
The red worms cultivated by the Stargate Council were of different sizes, but it was clear that the larger the size, the more useful it was. The red worms that had only grown on Jeffrey for a few months could not meet the requirements of the Stargate Council.
Saul's sudden move to take Jeffrey away had already alerted the people who were secretly watching Jeffrey. However, when they rushed to the street, they did not see where Saul and Jeffrey had gone. They could only wander around the street in a daze, and some of them were obviously going to run back to report the incident.
But Thor, who was high in the sky, clearly saw the panic of several people in the city below.
He didn't say anything, and teleported again, back to Byron.
Byron was measuring the size changes of the red worms on his body in the laboratory at this time. When he found Thor appeared in the room, he just looked up at him casually and then lowered his head to continue the experiment.
He had gotten used to Thor, who could teleport, suddenly appearing around him from time to time.
Thor walked forward and waited until Byron finished the measurement before taking out Jeffrey's body and the newly acquired red worm.
"I have confirmed that the method provided by Douglas is correct."
Byron turned his head to glance at Jeffrey. During his time in the Stargate Council, he had seen too many corpses like this.
"This red worm is only a larva."
Thor nodded. Kismet had also told him this knowledge.
"The red worms grow by completely devouring a wizard, similar to shedding their shells. And this time I also figured out that the wizards who were parasitized were actually dead when they were just parasitized by the red worms."
The red worm is a special creature with only consciousness. It can imitate the consciousness of the person it is parasitizing, so that people who cannot see the red worm cannot even realize that the person around them has been replaced by the worm.
"But what I see now are basically adult or larvae of the worms. Have you ever seen the original form of the red worm?" Thor asked Byron. After all, Byron had been working in the observatory tower for a long time.
Byron shook his head. "It is said to be in egg form, but we have never seen it. It may be a secret known only to the people most trusted by Speaker Alick."
"This is a bit difficult." Thor sat on a chair nearby, looking at Jeffrey's body. "These worms are not enough to consume the black tide pollution. But we can't use the lives of wizards to cultivate red worms like the Stargate Council."
Thor, who possesses the inertization formula and the soul-fixing magic circle, has always believed that wizards are the main force in fighting against the black tide pollution. Only Alick, who is only thinking about escaping, can exchange the lives of wizards for insects.
However, if a large number of red worms can be commanded and controlled, it can also help wizards fight against the most dangerous sources of pollution.
"First, find the young red worms. We need to figure out how they reproduce so that we can find a way to get enough of them." Thor said to Byron, "Senior, you should continue to study how to make the red worms continue to grow."
Byron took a few notebooks from the lab table and gave them to Thor. "People who can see the red worms will not be parasitized by them, but the red worms will crawl on us. The half-elf taught me that feeding the red worms with chaotic consciousness will make them bigger and bigger."
"Chaotic consciousness?" Thor quickly flipped through his notes and immediately understood what Byron meant. "The thing the half-elf fed to the bugs in your body is the chaotic consciousness of the elves in the world wall?"
Byron sighed softly, "Yes, it's completely messed up, tangled up into a ball, the kind that can't be separated. But although it's poisonous and dangerous, it's nutritious for insects."
(End of this chapter)
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