Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 986

Chapter 972 Reproduction and Cultivation

“Just passing by.” Thor looked at the red worm on Jeffrey’s neck that was about to drill into his body, and smiled with satisfaction, “What about you?”

“I passed the selection of the Stargate Council.” Jeffrey touched his nose and tried his best to suppress his inner pride, “Now I was sent out to study. They said that when I finish my studies, they will let me work in the Observatory Tower.”

“Really?” Thor’s eyes were fixed on the short and fat tail of the red worm that was exposed and kept wriggling. “Then congratulations.”

He suddenly raised his left hand, and the skin on the tip of his index finger quickly retreated, revealing a section of white finger bone. Before Jeffrey could react, he lightly touched the tail of the red worm.

Jeffrey only had time to roll his eyes, and his whole body trembled violently as if he had been electrocuted, and then fell straight down.

Thor and Jeffrey were originally standing on the street, but the moment Thor showed his finger bone, the two moved to a high altitude.

Therefore, when Jeffrey fell, his whole body fell towards the ground.

However, a gray translucent tentacle wrapped around his body, making him float in the air.

Even though Jeffrey fell, Thor’s left hand still did not leave the red worm on his neck.

At this moment, the red worm that no one could touch was trembling constantly, as if it had been electrified.

Douglas’s hint was obvious. The place that could quickly give the red worm a large amount of pollution was either the abyss or the starry sky.

But Douglas probably didn’t expect that Thor had the most polluted anchor point in the abyss.

Thor had guessed that the source of pollution used by the Stargate Council to create inactivated red worms was also the anchor point.

Because they and the Tribunal had jointly controlled the no man’s land for a long time, the anchor points generated by each eye of the storm would be taken away by these two organizations.

It was also because of the accumulation of so many years that the Stargate Council could create so many inactivated red worms in such a short time after discovering the red worm.

Slowly, the violently trembling red worm finally stopped moving.

Just in case, Thor did not remove his hand immediately, but waited for a while before letting his skin wrap around the anchor point again.

At this time, Thor changed his right hand to grab the motionless red worm, and a star-shaped eye appeared in the palm of his right hand at the moment of contact with the red worm.

There was no feedback from the touch of Thor’s fingers, but his spirit knew that he had grabbed a light object.

Then, Thor pulled hard, and the red worm, which was only a small red tip, was pulled out by Thor.

Jeffrey, who had lost consciousness, twitched, and black and red blood began to flow out of his seven orifices. A rotten smell also emanated with the black and red blood.

Thor tightened his tentacles and lifted Jeffrey up.

He was dead.

Or rather, when Thor left the observatory and saw Jeffrey, who was excited and said that he was selected by the Star Gate Council, he was already dead.

What was alive was only the inertia of the thinking of a wizard apprentice. The red worm could give the remaining thinking the possibility of continuing, but this continuation would be exhausted sooner or later. At that time, the red worm might leave the original carrier and look for the next target.

A second-level wizard apprentice like Jeffrey could only last for a few months. And a third-level wizard can persist for many years.

“But did the Stargate Council send him out just to wait for him to die?” Thor collected Jeffrey’s body, which even had no soul in it.

“Or do you want to wait for Jeffrey to die, so that the red worms can continue to erode other people?”

The red worms cultivated by the Stargate Council are large and small, but it is obvious that the larger the size, the more useful they are. The red worms that have only grown on Jeffrey for a few months cannot meet the requirements of the Stargate Council.

Thor had just taken Jeffrey away suddenly, which had alarmed the people who were secretly observing Jeffrey. However, when they rushed to the street, they did not see where Thor and Jeffrey had gone. They could only wander around the street in a daze, and some people were obviously going to run back to report the matter.

However, Thor, who was in the sky, clearly saw the panic of several people in the city below.

He did not say anything, and teleported again, returning to Byron.

Byron was measuring the size changes of the red worms on his body in the laboratory at this time. When he found Thor appeared in the room, he just looked up and glanced at him casually, and then lowered his head to continue the experiment.

He was used to Thor, who could teleport, suddenly appearing by his side from time to time.

Thor walked forward and waited until Byron finished measuring before taking out Jeffrey’s body and the newly acquired red worm.

“I have confirmed that the method provided by Douglas is correct.”

Byron glanced at Jeffrey. During his time in the Stargate Council, he had seen too many such corpses.

“This red worm is only a larva.”

Thor nodded. Kismet had also told him this knowledge.

“Red worms grow by completely devouring a wizard and completing a similar process of molting. And this time I also figured out that the wizard who was parasitized was actually dead when he was just parasitized by the red worm.”

The red worm is a special existence with only consciousness. It can imitate the consciousness of the parasitized person, so that people who cannot see the red worm cannot find that the person around them has been replaced by the worm.

“But what I see now are basically adult or larval worms. So have you seen the original form of the red worm?” Thor asked Byron. After all, Byron has been working in the observatory for a long time.

Byron shook his head. “It is said to be in egg form, but we have never seen it. It may be a secret known only to the people most trusted by Speaker Alick.”

“This is a bit difficult.” Thor sat on a chair beside him, looking at Jeffrey’s body. “If we want to consume the black tide pollution, these worms are not enough. But we can’t use the lives of wizards to cultivate red worms like the Stargate Council.”

Thor, who has the inertization formula and the soul-fixing magic array, has always believed that wizards are the main force against the black tide pollution. Only Alick, who is obsessed with escaping, can use the lives of wizards to exchange for worms.

But if a large number of red worms can be commanded and controlled, it can also help wizards fight against the most dangerous pollution sources.

“First, find the young red worms. We need to figure out how the red worms reproduce, so that we can find a way to get enough worms.” Thor said to Byron, “Senior, you should continue to study how to make the red worms continue to grow.”

Byron took a few notebooks from the side of the laboratory table and gave them to Thor, “People who can see the red worms will not be parasitized by the red worms, but the red worms will lie on us. The half-elf taught me to feed the red worms with chaotic consciousness, which can make them bigger and bigger.”

“Chaotic consciousness?” Thor quickly flipped through the notes and immediately understood what Byron meant, “What the half-elf feeds to the worms in your body is the already chaotic elf consciousness in the world wall?”

Byron sighed softly, “Yes, it’s completely chaotic, mixed into a ball, and can’t be separated. But although it is poisonous and dangerous, it is nutritious for worms.”

(End of this chapter)