Chapter 490 – Sources of Pollution

Chapter 490 – Source of Pollution

“Damn!” Saul dropped the human skin in his hand and stepped forward to check Izzy’s condition.

The girl’s skin became wrinkled almost instantly.

It wasn’t because her skin had aged and lost its moisture, but the body beneath her skin was no longer full.

The dried out body could not support the soft skin.

“Click.”

The girl’s charred left hand, which had its skin removed, lost its support and shattered and fell to the ground, suddenly falling into four pieces.

Perhaps the fall of the arm had caused a shock, and the skin on the rest of Izzy’s body cracked to varying degrees.

And underneath that wrinkled skin, all that was revealed was black musculature.

If you wiped it with your hand, black powder would fall down.

Such a person obviously can’t live.

However, Saul had let Komoro keep an eye on Izzy for such a long time, and had completely failed to realize at what point her interior had turned into charcoal.

Even before her skin cracked, Saul had only found traces of being entangled in evil spirits on her body, and had not realized that the contamination had invaded the subcutaneous tissue.

“Rip-“

The small algae had originally curled around Izzy’s waist.

It was covered by clothes there, and the skin could not be seen.

But now, Izzy’s body was slowly sliding down, and a layer of piles began to appear on the part where the kohlrabi was curled.

Saul could imagine that if left unchecked, in a few seconds Izzy’s upper skin would be stripped off like a top.

“Put her down.” Saul sighed softly.

Komoro hurriedly placed the person on the ground.

At the moment of the slight impact between the body and the ground, a large amount of black powder fell out of the cracks in the skin, distributing a human-sized circle of black dust.

“Master?” At this moment, Morton walked in from outside, “I found some residue of evil spirits in the pipes, but there are also some strange friction marks on them.”

He walked in and saw Izzy startled, “This?”

“I took in an evil spirit outside. And the girl in this room is still dead. Maybe I was wrong before. This girl, as well as the others who were turned into charred corpses, didn’t die because of the evil spirit contamination. Quite the contrary, they died first and then turned into evil spirits.”

“In that case, it was other factors that caused their deaths.” Morton analyzed.

“Well, and that transition from life to death is very quick. There was still the scent of a living person on her when I rushed into the room inside. Until she shed her skin and died it was only through a few breaths.”

Moreover, she began to die from the inside. The external epidermis, however, was still intact and exuded residual vitality, causing me to be unable to accurately determine at what point she began to carbonize.”

While speaking, Izzy, who was lying on the ground, suddenly moved.

As she moved, more skin began to tear under the friction, and more black powder fell.

As if coming to life, the girl stiffened and struggled to rise from the ground.

When she opened her eyes, they were surprisingly still intact, only they were dull and looked like two fake eyes.

“Water ……”

A faint voice came out of Izzy’s mouth, and she didn’t notice Saul and Morton in front of her as she turned and slowly walked towards the table.

Saul didn’t stop the girl’s movements either, “She’s starting to malign now. Surprisingly the first thing she does is look for water.”

Morton nodded, “You can tell that despite her malignant spiritualization, she still retains a trace of her conscious memories from before she was born.”

Saul raised his hand, looked at the black powder on his fingertips, and gently twisted it.

“When we last subdued the evil spirit of this building, we saw it trying to open the door. Maybe that evil spirit wasn’t trying to open the door and kill someone at the time ……”

Morton clapped his fists and palms together, “It was looking for water!”

Saul suddenly thought again of the agent that had died a few months ago.

The evil spirit that took him also had black powder on it that fell to the ground. And that evil spirit had taken the man through a water pipe.

At the same time, the agent that was taken away didn’t appear charred, but only had bug legs growing out from under his head.

“It’s basically certain that carbonized evil spirits can’t create new carbonized evil spirits. So every Carbonized Evil Spirit appears because of some other reason. And that reason is all over the city.”

Saul and Morton looked at each other with a slightly unsightly expression. Because they simultaneously thought of something that was also spread all over the city, or even over a wider area.

The large trees underground!
Saul cleaned off the black powder on his palm and rubbed the corner of his forehead.

“This Kismet guy, he even wanted to give me the big tree as a gift.”

Just from the abilities that this big tree had shown so far, Saul was definitely no match for its main body even if he could deal with some of its branches and roots.

“One of the better points for me at the moment, this kind of contamination that causes the interior to scorch and carbonize is not contagious to wizards. However, that big tree’s main body will actively attack sorcerers, and I was attacked the last time I was in the underground waterway and on the outskirts of the countryside, which means he’ll sneak in when no one’s around.”

The great tree that lurked underneath the archaist was not harmless.

And how could Baidon Academy, as a wizard academy that had single-handedly developed Archaeust City into its current size, be completely unaware of the existence of the large underground tree?

Saul now even suspected that the person who planted this large tree as well as cultivated it was Baidong Academy.

And last time, Dean Pound and that female wizard named Bess obviously didn’t tell the truth.

They took out a root and asked Sol if he had collected any other roots, and it was possible that they were just trying to observe how much Sol knew about this great tree, and by the way, to recover the roots that had been left behind in other people’s hands.

While Saul and Morton were speculating about the source of the contamination from the black charred corpses, in a corner of the city, Shia had already converged with the Julie Witch.

After the two communicated covertly, Shia introduced Julie to the basement of the building beside her.

“Where’s your clue?” Julie silently asked Shia with her summoning spell.

“He’s been assigned by me to stay upstairs in this building.”

“Then why did you head for the basement?”

Shia looked back at Julie deeply, “Because the contamination is coming from underground.”

Julie pulled at her chest length hair, “Are you sure? How did you find out?”

“I’ve been observing these charred corpse type evil spirits for a long time. Discovered a characteristic.”

“What?” Julie curiously chimed in.

As a result, Shia raised his hand and put a wooden staff in his hand against Julie’s shoulder to support the person away.

“Don’t you get so close to me, be careful of triggering my automatic attack reaction arc.”

Julie rolled her eyes and took a step back, maintaining a three meter distance from Shia.

“Is this far enough? Speak up!”

“I realized that these charred corpses don’t create new ones after they appear.”

“You mean the contamination on the charred corpses doesn’t spread twice? That’s a good thing.”

“But it also means that the source of contamination that contaminates people into charred corpses is not an evil spirit. At the very least, it’s not this one type of evil spirit. I think it should be something else, even a witch!”

Julie was shocked, “Are you saying that there are demons or witches striking out at ordinary people? And it’s been going on for a long time?”

Julie wasn’t that smart, but she wasn’t that dumb as a witch either.

After Shia’s reminder, she immediately knew that a magical creature or sorcerer that could continue to strike at ordinary people for a long time must be very powerful.

However, Baidong Academy did not have any reaction to this.

Could it be that Baidong Academy didn’t realize it?
It was unlikely.

As the publisher of the sweeper mission, they must have more information in their hands, and it was impossible for them not to have noticed data that even Shia was able to tally up.

Thinking of this Julie tensed up, her fingers pinching her hair unconsciously tightened, a few long white hairs snapped and drifted down her arms.

Then she thought of something else.

“Luckily, this contaminant only strikes out at ordinary people at the moment.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Julie saw Shia turn around and give her a blank look.

“How can you think so comfortably? Now they can strike at ordinary people, in the future they can strike at apprentices, and then in the future they can strike at us!”

Seeing Julie glaring back in exasperation, Shia didn’t bother to say anything else.

“Let’s go, according to the pattern I’ve summarized, my clue person has been marked and is about to be completely contaminated, and based on previous experience, this contamination comes from underground.”

I’m begging for votes in the basement.

(End of chapter)