Versatile Mage: Lord of Space

Many soldiers rushed over, leaving Mu Ningxue bewildered.

"This woman is going to die..." Lin Lan said calmly, then slowly walked over.

It wasn't that Lin Lan didn't want to save this woman, but rather that her entire body was composed of jellyfish maggots...

As soon as the short woman reached the shallows, she lost all sign of life.

Mu Ningxue witnessed a shocking scene and stood frozen at the edge of the sea, letting the tide wash over her ankles.

The woman who was alive and well just a moment ago has now become a corpse. She lies greedily on the seawater, her skin pale and purplish, devoid of any color.

Her body stiffened quite quickly. Generally, it takes one or two hours for a person to stiffen after death, but this woman was already stiff.

Several soldiers then arrived. One of them turned the woman over. Her eyes were wide open, her jaw looked like it had been broken off, and bluish blood vessels were densely packed on her pale, translucent skin. She looked exactly like a drowned person who had died with her eyes wide open, and she had been drowned for some time.

"Sigh, another case." The soldier sighed.

“It’s my fault. I didn’t stop her. I thought she was just wandering around the area.” Another Japanese soldier looked full of remorse.

Jellyfish maggots look a lot like horsehair worms, but they are much more terrifying. Currently, few people know the cause of this strange plague.

Lin Lan, having activated a time-travel cheat, naturally knew about it.

Breaking this drowning curse can bring in a large sum of money...

“What I was just observing is this kind of thing, called the Drowning Curse, a kind of plague,” Lin Lan said to Mu Ningxue.

"Is there any solution?"

After a moment's thought, Lin Lan shook her head: "I have a guess, but I still need to prove it."

The solution to the drowning curse is simply to create a vaccine. Lin Lan isn't an expert in this area, but with his own foresight, he can bring Lingling along and perfectly and quickly resolve the drowning curse.

……

"Drowning curse?" Nan Rongni looked at Mu Ningxue with a look of horror on her face.

According to Lin Lan and Mu Ningxue's description, this drowning curse has appeared in this East Sea City for quite some time, and there have actually been quite a few cases of drowning curses. However, because this is a city of naval warfare, many deaths can be explained by demons. In addition, the drowning curse often has no useful signs and leaves no clues. As a result, to this day, no authoritative organization has been able to come forward and give a complete explanation for the drowning curse.

"Aren't the Japanese afraid? If this happened in our country, everyone would be in a panic by now," Jiang Shaoxu said.

"This is Donghai City. Every time the tide rises, mages die at the hands of demons. The probability of this drowning curse occurring is not very high..."

“These are all human lives. How can we ignore them just because we haven’t found many? If it’s some kind of plague, then we’ll be in big trouble. Do you know about the Hangzhou epidemic? At first, people didn’t care, but the incidence rate increased and it even attracted the Silver Dome Lord of the western mountains!” Jiang Yu said earnestly.

"Hangzhou Fortress is so strong that even if a demon-level tribe attacked, it wouldn't have much of an impact. Wasn't the Hangzhou epidemic quickly suppressed? I heard that a young boy found an antidote, I think his name was Wang Xiaojun..."

"You really think it's that simple..."

Jiang Yu then explained the situation in more detail.

News reports almost never cover this kind of thing, but Jiang Yu and the others still knew something about it: "The cause of all this was a councilor who sold fake blood serum, and then this councilor was captured by a person with a very powerful creature."

"Holy crap, the senator was captured by one person, so that person must be a summoner mage with super-level strength, right?" "Really? Holy crap."

"Blood serum can be counterfeited; it shouldn't take a group of highly skilled mages to catch a politician."

Lin Lan remained silent as everyone discussed the Hangzhou plague...

It seems that the top leadership of the country has been concealing various information about itself...

Seeing everyone's alarmed expressions, Jiang Yu snorted coldly: "Epidemics are far more terrifying than curses. Curses often target individual epidemics, but a curse can directly affect the survival of an entire race. If the Japanese government doesn't take this matter seriously, it will be too late to deal with it once it's discovered to be an epidemic."

Mu Ningxue nodded. She had personally witnessed how a woman could go from a vibrant state to that state in just a few seconds. What was most terrifying was the woman's own frenzied state before her death, which was always unsettling.

"They don't handle this kind of thing, so there's no point in talking about it," Guan Yu said dismissively.

"How can there be so many inexplicable diseases in this world? Isn't the tide going to come in tomorrow?"

"Let's focus on tomorrow. This high tide will be very strong. Everyone should replenish the energy of the molds that have already been used, and prepare some emergency medicines. Also, make sure you have all the antidotes. The siren's poison is very strong, so don't be careless," Nan Jue said.

……

As night fell, people began assigning personnel to guard various locations in the neighborhood.

To be honest, Lin Lan's water combat ability is only so-so without using space, ice, etc. He can handle one Great Commander, but it would be difficult to deal with several Sea Monster Great Commanders in the water.

Lightning can travel wildly through water, but sirens have an even greater advantage in water, where their speed, strength, and magical abilities are greatly enhanced.

Therefore, Lin Lan chose to guard a building alone, using the space to separate the water from the demons, so that the sea monsters would have nowhere to hide.

……

On the 20th block, members of the National Government Team stood on the rooftop of a building.

Looking further into the other thirty-one blocks, the number of mages was quite astonishing...

As time went by, the tide rose.

The tidal bore, reaching heights of forty or fifty meters! It makes one feel insignificant, as if countless sea monsters have chanted their praises. Its height easily surpasses the foremost levee, like a giant blue-white tongue threatening to engulf the entire sea city in its belly.

A deafening roar reached everyone's ears, the ground trembled, and their hearts shook as well.

The clouds stretched to the horizon, not a single gap visible, the tide's line reaching straight to the clouds, the visual shock and psychological terror it brought far exceeding human imagination...

Amidst the blue and white tsunami, a black patch and dot could be seen, densely distributed on the rolling tide. From a distance, it was impossible to discern what they were. Only upon reaching Donghai City would one understand that they were the sea monsters who had gleaned deep affection from the ocean tide.

If the ocean tides are like the night sky, then these sea monsters are like a sky full of stars.

Even from a great distance, you can still feel the fear creeping over you.

(End of this chapter)