Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 490 The Source of Pollution

"Damn it!" Thor dropped the human skin he was holding and went to check on Itz's condition.

The girl's skin became wrinkled almost instantly.

This is not because her skin has aged and lost moisture, but because the body beneath her skin is no longer plump.

The withered body could not support the tender skin.

"Click".

The girl's charred left hand, stripped of its skin, lost its support and shattered on the ground, instantly breaking into four pieces.

Perhaps due to the shock of the fall, the skin on other parts of Itz's body cracked to varying degrees.

Beneath that wrinkled skin, all that was visible was black muscle texture.

If you wipe it with your hand, black powder will fall off in a rustling sound.

Such a person obviously cannot survive.

However, Thor had Little Algae keep an eye on Itz for so long that he had no idea when her insides turned into charcoal.

Even before her skin cracked, Thor only noticed the signs of being haunted by evil spirits on her body, without realizing that the contamination had already invaded her subcutaneous tissue.

"Rip—"

Xiaozao was originally wrapped around Itz's waist.

The area was covered by clothing, so the skin was not visible.

But now, Itz's body is slowly sliding down, and the parts where the small algae are rolled up are beginning to pile up layer by layer.

Thor could imagine that if left unattended, Itz's upper body skin would be peeled off like a shirt in a few seconds.

"Put her down," Thor sighed softly.

Xiao Zao quickly put the person on the ground.

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

"Master?" Morton walked in from outside. "I found some remnants of evil spirits in the pipes, but there are also some strange friction marks on them."

He walked in and was taken aback when he saw Itz. "What's this?"

"I subdued an evil spirit outside. But the girl in this room is still dead. Perhaps my previous thinking was wrong. This girl, and the others who turned into charred corpses, did not die because of the evil spirit's corruption. On the contrary, they died first and then became evil spirits."

"In that case, other factors caused their deaths," Morton analyzed.

"Yes, and the transition from life to death was very rapid. When I rushed into the inner room, she still had the scent of a living person on her. It only took a few breaths until she shed her skin and died."

Moreover, she died from the inside out. Her outer skin, however, remained intact, radiating a lingering vitality, making it impossible for me to accurately determine when she began to carbonize.

As they were talking, Itz, who was lying on the ground, suddenly moved.

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

The girl seemed to come alive, stiffly and struggling to get up from the ground.

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 from Itz's mouth. She didn't notice Saul and Morton in front of her and turned to walk slowly toward the table.

Thor didn't stop the girl. "She's starting to become evil. The first thing she did was look for water."

Morton nodded. "It's clear that although she has become an evil spirit, she still retains a trace of her consciousness and memories from her previous life."

Thor raised his hand, looked at the black powder on his fingertips, and gently rubbed it.

"When we last subdued the evil spirit in this building, we saw it trying to open a door. Perhaps the evil spirit didn't actually intend to open the door to kill us..."

Morton punched and slapped his fist. "It's looking for water!"

Saul suddenly thought of the real estate agent who had died a few months ago.

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

Meanwhile, the agent who was taken away did not turn into a charred corpse; instead, insect legs grew out of the area under his head.

"It's almost 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 these reasons are widespread throughout the city."

Thor and Morton exchanged a glance, their expressions both looking rather grim.

Because they both thought of something that was also distributed throughout the city, or even over a wider area.

The giant tree underground!

Thor wiped the black powder off his palms and rubbed his temples.

"That guy Kismet actually wants to give me the big tree as a gift."

Judging from the tree's current capabilities, even if Thor can deal with some of its branches and roots, he is definitely no match for its main body.

"The good thing for me right now is that the pollution that causes the inside to turn black and carbonized won't affect the wizard. However, the tree itself will actively attack the wizard. I was attacked in the underground waterways and in the suburbs last time, which means it will attack secretly when no one is around."

This large tree, hidden beneath the earth, is not harmless.

How could Bydon Academy, the wizarding academy that single-handedly developed Archaeology City into its current scale, be completely unaware of the existence of the underground tree?

Saul now even suspects that Bydon College was the one who planted and nurtured the tree.

Dean Pound and that witch named Beth were clearly not telling the truth last time.

They took out a tree root and asked Thor if he had collected any other roots. This was likely just to see how much Thor knew about the tree and, incidentally, to retrieve any roots that had been left in other people's hands.

Just as Thor and Morton were pondering the source of the contamination from the charred black corpses, in a corner of the city, Char had already met up with the wizard Julie.

After a discreet exchange, Char led Julie into the basement of a nearby building.

"Where's your clue?" Julie silently asked Char using a telepathic spell.

"I arranged for him to stay upstairs in this building."

"Then why did you go to the basement?"

Char turned and gave Julie a deep look. "Because the pollution comes from underground."

Julie tugged at her long hair, "Are you sure? How did you find out?"

"I've been observing these charred corpse-like evil spirits for a long time. I've discovered a characteristic."

"What?" Julie leaned closer curiously.

Char, however, used a wooden cane to push Julie away by pressing it against her shoulder.

"Don't get so close to me, or you'll trigger my automatic attack reaction arc."

Julie rolled her eyes, took a step back, and kept a three-meter distance from Xia.

"Is this far enough? Tell me quickly!"

"I discovered that these charred corpses do not create new charred corpses after they appear."

"You mean the contamination on the charred corpse won't spread further? That's a good thing."

"But this also shows that the source of contamination that turns people into charred corpses is not an evil spirit. At least not this kind of evil spirit. I think it must be something else, maybe even a witch!"

Julie was shocked. "You mean there are monsters or wizards attacking ordinary people? And it's been going on for a long time?"

Julie may not be that smart, but she's not that stupid either, as a wizard.

After Xia's reminder, she immediately realized that a monster or wizard who could attack ordinary people for a long time must be extremely powerful.

But Bai Dong Academy did not respond to this.

Could it be that Bai Dong College failed to discover it?

Not too possible.

As the ones who issued the Cleaners' missions, they must have more information. They couldn't possibly have been unaware of the data that Xia was able to compile.

Thinking of this, Julie tensed up. Her fingers, which were gripping her hair, tightened involuntarily, and a few strands of long white hair broke off and fell onto her arm.

Then she thought of something else.

"Fortunately, this source of pollution is currently only targeting ordinary people."

As soon as Julie finished speaking, she saw Xia turn around and glare at her.

"How can you be so complacent? If they can attack ordinary people now, they can attack apprentices in the future, and they can attack us in the future!"

Seeing Julie glare back angrily, Xia didn't bother to say anything more.

"Let's go. According to the pattern I've observed, my lead has been marked and is about to be completely contaminated. Based on past experience, this contamination comes from underground."

I'm asking for monthly votes in the basement!

(End of this chapter)