Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 91 Do you like me?

"Serika?"

Murphy called out, but Selica did not respond, and her pulse and breathing were extremely weak.

This time, without having to remove her clothes, Murphy could see that the dark gray aura had climbed onto her face and was still spreading upwards, as if something was about to devour her entire body.

At the same time, Murphy also noticed the diary that Selica was holding in her arms.

After quickly flipping through the document, Murphy roughly understood.

Selica found the spell for the Seed of the Mind and used it to destroy the Seed of the Mind that sustained Joachim's existence, causing him to vanish.

However, her act of tampering with the Seed of Joachim's Mind also aroused the restlessness of her own curse. This "parasite" may have sensed the threat, accelerating the spread of the plague and worsening Selika's condition.

Murphy tried giving her several intravenous injections of antibiotics, but it didn't seem to help much. Her own resistance had been weakened too much, and external medications alone were unlikely to be effective.

She needs to receive specific T-cell therapy as soon as possible.

But Murphy found that he couldn't seem to find a way to treat Selica.

On the one hand, she was cursed and could not leave the village until the plague was cured.

On the other hand, the only way to lift the curse without treating the plague within her is to reverse the seed of the mind that she has been infected with.

But the diary clearly states that reversing the curse of the living's mind seed could very well destroy her brain.

Murphy had prepared enough materials to create specific T cells, but now those materials are destroyed.

So all the roads were blocked, and she had no way to leave alive.

Murphy himself is now free to leave; his diary records a method to break through the barrier.

However, breaking through the barrier directly won't work either.

The Mind Seed, which is fused with the plague, is too dangerous. If it breaks the barrier and the plague spreads, everyone will turn into zombies. Murphy, the boss of the Umbrella Corporation, truly lives up to his name.

Before the barrier can be broken, this terrible plague must be eradicated first.

This means burning all the zombies, even the entire village, and then using the Seed of the Mind spell on the remaining ghosts to destroy their spirits and completely eliminate the threat.

And then there's Selica, whose plague also needs to be dealt with—either by completely curing her or by burning her alive.

Murphy hesitated for a moment, then Apparated to the spot where he had dropped the briefcase, picked it up, and then released a few paper cranes to notify Alex outside to immediately prepare the antibody beads and send them in so that he could prepare T cells.

He set up an alarm spell at the agreed handover point so that he would know as soon as Alex brought the goods in.

However, whether Alex prepares the materials or he creates the final T cells, it will take time.

Given Celica's current condition, it's uncertain whether she can hold on until then.

Seeing the girl's increasingly ashen face, Murphy frowned, thought for a moment, picked her up, Apparated to the sky above the village, and then Apparated again, appearing in front of the church in the center of the village.

He blew up the church doors and stormed inside.

A zombie resembling a priest was about to reprimand someone when Murphy threw him out the window with a Wadiva.

He sealed the entire church with a transfiguration spell and then used a guiding spell to find the door to the basement.

Soon, he discovered the magic that created the barrier mentioned in the diary.

It turned out to be a small piece of fur from some unknown creature.

It was placed on an ancient stone base, but its lower corner always remained one centimeter away from the base, floating in mid-air.

Intense magical energy emanated from the fur, connecting with the countless runes engraved on the stone base to form a powerful magical ritual.

Murphy's magical knowledge was quite good. After studying it for a while, he discovered that part of the magical ritual had been altered. Its original purpose was to prevent creatures from the outside from entering the barrier, but it had been changed so that creatures inside the barrier could not leave.

To disrupt this magical ritual, all you need to do is destroy the base.

Murphy set Celica aside and waited for Alex's message.

Half an hour passed, and the materials still hadn't arrived. Selica woke up first, her face growing increasingly ashen, her body burning with fever, as if she might die at any moment. Yet, her spirits seemed unusually high.

She saw Murphy pacing around the room and called out, "Mr. Murphy."

"You're awake? How are you feeling?"

"I'm a little tired," Celica said, catching her breath. "My chest feels tight, I have no energy, and I'm a bit cold."

Murphy thought for a moment, then took a blanket from his suitcase, draped it over her, and comforted her, "I gave you a few injections, you should be better soon."

Selica gave a weak smile. "Mr. Murphy, you're lying again."

"I didn't lie to you this time, as long as..." Murphy said, then paused when he saw the other person's expression, "It's my fault, I didn't think things through, I didn't expect the materials to be destroyed."

Selica shook her head. "I'm just glad you came to save me."

As she spoke, as if remembering something, she handed over the notebook in her arms, saying, "I found Joachim's diary, which records the method to break the barrier. Mr. Murphy, you can leave now."

Murphy stared at her for a long while before taking the diary. Without opening it, he asked, "Serica, do you like me?"

Selica was shocked, her face flushing red. Already running a fever, she nearly fainted. With a great effort, she managed to glance at Murphy's face. "W-why did you ask that?"

Murphy didn't say anything.

Selica hesitated for a while before stammering, "Yes, a little. I don't really like him that much, just a little bit. I just feel that Mr. Murphy is different from other people."

"Hmm." Murphy didn't deny what the other person said, and he didn't seem happy, but fortunately, he didn't seem embarrassed either.

Selica quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but then couldn't help feeling a sense of loss.

This should be considered a rejection.

"Actually, I'm nothing special. I'm just an ordinary person, not as powerful or as good as you imagine. Everything you've seen is just a coincidence. I just happened to encounter that almost impossible probability."

What Murphy was referring to was actually the matter of time travel.

He remembered that dream again. If he hadn't traveled through time, then everything in the dream should have been his original life.

Ultimately, he was just one of the masses, neither particularly intelligent nor particularly powerful.

"You can just refuse me directly; there's no need to make yourself sound so pathetic." Celica seemed a little unhappy. "This only makes me feel worse."

Murphy sighed a little, then asked again, "So what do you like about me?"

(End of this chapter)