Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 727

Chapter 717 Caterpillar

Just as Thor continued to go deeper into the ancient city of Stene, which had become a dusty ruin, Keli, who was left in the deserted town by him, suddenly raised her head from the magic book.

“I seem to hear someone talking.” The two strands of red hair beside Keli’s ears were raised, like an antenna receiving signals.

Agu, who was sitting next to Keli and answering her questions from time to time, paused slightly, “Ann just walked around the town. It has indeed been a long time since anyone has lived here. Is there anyone else coming to rest?”

An, who had been on guard on the roof, jumped down.

She used her mental power to sense the surroundings again, but found nothing.

“Miss Keli, can you tell where the sound came from?”

Keli listened for a while, her long red hair falling down, “There is no sound now, but the sound just now sounded not far from us.”

This is even more strange, because An has been monitoring the surroundings.

If Keli heard the sound of someone talking directly with her ears, then there is no reason why she and Agu couldn’t hear it?

But they did not detect any mental power fluctuations at all.

Keli is not even at the second level yet. Logically, her strength should not be as good as An’s. Her major does not involve spiritual bodies, but she heard the noises that An and Agu did not hear.

However, An did not think that Keli was hallucinating just because he did not find anything.

She directly turned her lower body into a spider, climbed up the wall, and flew over the eaves and walls, thoroughly checking the small courtyard where they temporarily stayed.

However, she still found nothing.

“Strange.” An returned to the original place in confusion, looking at the surrounding walls and the houses on both sides, “Still nothing. Could it be that someone sneaked up and left?”

Keli was a little embarrassed. She grabbed her hair and said hesitantly, “Maybe I heard it wrong.”

She looked down at the magic book spread out on her thighs, “Maybe it was affected by this book.”

Agu hurriedly said, “Miss Keli, you should take a rest. If you are really affected by this book, you should recover your mental strength as soon as possible to avoid being affected more deeply. If not, you also need to recover your energy to deal with other abnormal situations.”

Keli closed the book reluctantly.

This book compiled the knowledge about Kuroshio pollution studied by Sol and Byron, and the laboratory-level inertization formula was also included.

Keli was greatly shocked and quickly became addicted to it.

If it weren’t for Sol’s strict restriction on her reading time to prevent her mental body from being abnormal, Keli would have read for days and nights without closing her eyes.

“In fact, I only read for less than ten minutes today…”

“…When I have money…”

Keli’s voice stopped abruptly.

Even Agu and An stood up and looked around with a vigilant look.

Yes, the voice just now appeared again.

The voice was clearer.

And this time, Agu and An also heard it.

“This voice is indeed very close.” An squinted her eyes, and her sight finally fell on the house behind them.

“…I will also go to Archaster, but not now…”

The voice became clearer and clearer.

An gestured to the others, and then slowly approached the house behind her.

There was still a voice coming from inside.

“…If I leave now, who will take care of you…”

An could already hear the voice of a boy through the window, estimated to be less than 16 years old.

She looked solemn and ready to fight at any time.

When she was checking just now, she had clearly checked every house in this courtyard.

There was clearly no one inside!

But how come a little boy appeared now?

Especially after having clearly heard several sentences, An still couldn’t find the mental power that should belong to the boy.

It was as if there was only sound but no one inside.

But when An’s head was about to touch the window, she vaguely saw two figures.

However, both figures were a little strange.

Keli released her protective development and walked to An’s side.

“Open it and you’ll know.” Keli also found something unusual.

She had a serious expression, but still pushed the window open.

After the window was pushed open, An and Agu instantly tightened their non-existent muscles.

There were indeed two people behind the window.

But these two people… turned out to be caterpillars with human heads!

Both caterpillars were as thick as a man’s forearm.

There were circles of black spots on their fat white bodies. Small and very sharp spike-like hairs covered their entire bodies, only stopping near the neck.

Also here, the white worm gradually turned into dark skin, and finally evolved into a boy’s head.

The boy’s neck and face were not big, about the same size as the worm’s body, as if his head had drilled out of the worm’s body.

Keli’s action of pushing the door did not disturb the boy, or the boy caterpillar, nor did it alarm the listener opposite him.

An old man with gray hair and wrinkles on his face also grew on a caterpillar.

The boy caterpillar was still talking.

“…Don’t persuade me. I’ll do some more work and prepare food for you for the winter, and then I’ll go to the city to make money…”

Keli pursed her lips and looked at An beside her.

Then, she gently closed the window.

“Is it an illusion?” Keli whispered.

Before finding the abnormal existence, they had been talking in normal voices.

But Keli, who was shocked by the scene just now and had goose bumps all over her body, subconsciously communicated in the lowest voice.

It was as if she was afraid that the human-headed caterpillar in the house would hear their conversation and then crawl out little by little in a cricket pupa.

“Not like.” An’s face was also very ugly, “but their mental power fluctuations are very weak, like two ordinary civilians.”

“If their heads were not growing on the caterpillar’s neck, the old and the young would be just like ordinary people.”

Such two weird existences, but they only emit the fluctuations of ordinary people.

This is hard to believe.

“No matter what, let’s leave this yard first.” Agu also lowered his voice like Keli.

The three of them tiptoed and quietly left the yard where they had just landed.

Behind them, there was still a faint sound of conversation.

It was not until they closed the gate of the small yard that the sound was completely blocked.

Keli touched her arm, “Wait a while, let’s go over and take a look.”

An looked at Keli in disbelief, “We don’t need to go in again, right?”

Now that I think about it, this small yard is very strange. As a warrior who protects Keli, An naturally doesn’t want Keli to return to the small yard whose details he doesn’t know.

“They didn’t show any aggression. The elemental particles here are not very active.” Keli thought of the inertization formula she had just seen in the book, and couldn’t wait to try it herself.

However, after a while, they opened the gate again, only to find that the yard became empty again, without any sound of conversation.

As a pioneer, An was still the first to go in.

She went straight to the innermost room. This time, when she opened the window, she didn’t see the caterpillar with a human face.

“It’s gone.” An stared blankly into the room.

The room was covered in dust.

There was no trace of the dragging that a caterpillar would have when it moved.

(End of this chapter)