Chapter 51: There Are More Mushrooms in the Dead

It must have been a long time since the more than 100 successors came to the underground city.

Even if they suddenly decided not to come, Nefertari wouldn't blame them for it - as a wise man, she naturally knew that "grace should not be enmity".

And the most important thing right now is to help those three young people.

Let their souls no longer be meaninglessly eroded by nightmares.

"I really don't understand what happened in the nightmare 'Sporocyst Mill'. Just as you don't understand either..."

After all, this nightmare is too dangerous.

Once inside, it's hard to extricate yourself - like a larva that has fallen into a cobweb.

Those who barely survived this nightmare never dared to try again.

- The wise are never reckless.

When she realized that this nightmare could not be purified by her own power, she wouldn't even try - it was a pointless act that put herself at risk.

Not only did Nefertari herself not enter this nightmare, she even stopped Nieusser who wanted to enter this nightmare back then.

Nieuxel back then was not as stable as it is now.

He is still a hot-blooded young man, like a big dog who is happy. I still don't understand that there are some things in this world that cannot be changed by oneself - such a truth.

But Nefertari was not doing nothing.

Although she never entered this nightmare once, she did some research in her spare time.

- She was there just in case.

In the future, if there is any chance to solve this nightmare, or the situation is so urgent that you have to enter the nightmare, you can grasp the situation as quickly as possible. Don't start loading bullets until the enemy is in front of you.

This is called foresight.

"I have already investigated what happened in the Black Mushroom Mill."

Nefertari said to Niussel seriously: "You can tell them these things. Maybe it can help them."

"Tell me,

I will remember. "

Overseer Nieusser nodded.

"As you know... the incident at the Black Mushroom Mill occurred in July seven years ago. Seven months later, it will be seven years now."

Having said this, Nefertari paused slightly.

Speaking of which, "seven" is a lucky number.

Does this also portend anything?

She shook her head lightly and continued: "The miller's name is Ian, and he has a dwarf wife and seven-year-old daughter Alice.

"At that time, there was a strange disease in the city for a while."

Those in the mushroom business suddenly started to develop blisters. At first it was just a red spot, but then it turned into clear blisters and it became unbearably itchy.

And as they continued to come into contact with the mushrooms, the blisters grew larger and more transparent until it became difficult to work. If the blisters are punctured, there is a chance that people around them will get infected with the blisters.

"Seven years ago..."

Niusser thought thoughtfully: "You were in the Bone-devouring Forest at that time, weren't you?"

"Well, it's not too far from here."

Nefertari nodded and asked casually, "And you were still exploring the layer... around the Cinder Barrens?"

Niusser hummed: "Yes, I was lucky at the time. Later, I discovered another mining area, which is the Misero dig site."

"Then you shouldn't know about it. It wasn't well-known at the time. It was a logging area built around the 'Lost Forest' and was temporarily named 'Black Mushroom Mill'. It wasn't quite a serious metropolitan area, so it was There are no wise men and no diggers.

"The lumberjacks realized that they might be infected with some spores...and sent a disease-free messenger to the nearest city - the 'Bone Raising Ground' near the Bone Eating Forest. My teacher was there."

Nefertari said, reaching out and stroking the ritual plate behind him.

Under her drag, a light blue brilliance appeared on the ritual plate. Quickly outlined the locations of the Ash Forest, Bone-Eater Forest, Bone-Raising Ground, and Black Mushroom Mill.

"'Bone Healer' Seti?"

Nieusser reacted immediately.

Nefertari became a wise man at a young age, and it is not unrelated to her teacher, a superhuman of the golden rank.

Seti, as the most powerful idol wizard in the Underground Federation, is also the best healer, and a knowledgeable ritualist, no one wants to offend him.

After all, no one knows when he will suddenly need a doctor to save his life...

Nefertari learned about mysterious rituals from Seti, and also learned some fur medicine by the way. Because she didn't want to become an extraordinary person, she could graduate from Master Seti early and became a wise man by virtue of Seti's relationship.

"……its not right?"

Nieusser quickly noticed the contradiction: "If Master Seti was there, this kind of small problem should be solved quickly."

Since he hadn't heard of it now, this strange disease had occurred in the Black Mushroom Mill before. That means it's a small matter...at least it's settled in the end.

After all, he had never seen a similar disease in so many years.

"That's the problem."

Nefertari said slowly: "This is not a disease, but a curse poison.

"It's a believer of the god of poison and spiders 'Black Widow', the curse poison put into mushrooms."

"...So Master Seti can't solve it?"

"How is that possible. Just to see through and defuse the unknown curse hidden in the 'poison', the teacher needs more time to develop an antidote."

The red-haired woman took a deep breath: "But...the lumberjacks, can't wait.

"Somehow, among them, a statement soon emerged: There is no cure for this strange disease, and the messenger has taken the opportunity to escape... He will not come back.

"There was panic among the loggers. But they quickly noticed that the Ian family did not get sick, also in the mushroom industry.

"They pressed Ian why he didn't get sick. But Ian obviously didn't know, it was because he had not been exposed to poisonous mushrooms. The loggers who finally panicked, quickly came to a conclusion: it was from the Ian family. poison."

"There's no proof, it's a fake connection without a doubt. But they see the Ian family as upset - same workers, but with Ian from a mushroom mill, spending less money and using less effort can make more money.

"In the end, they broke up with the Ian family in the process of 'seeking an explanation' and 'asking for an antidote'. However, the Black Widow believers mixed in with the crowd'

DeWard', but at this moment, he stirred up the others again - to grind the antidote with the liver of the Ian family.

"You know, it's a traditional remedies in the pioneering days. Of course, now we know that it doesn't work... but they don't know anything about it.

"At the time, about a quarter of the lumberjacks agreed to DeWard's instigation. Others felt inappropriate and too radical, but ultimately did not stop the lumberjacks from atrocities - after all, the Ian family and the All of them are unfamiliar.

"They're just watching from a distance.

"Ian's wife is a murderer who escaped from the Principality of Winter... She is a silver-level superhuman criminal. But she was disabled and tortured by frost beasts for a long time. Having passed the spell of 'not to hurt' and 'not to kill', her combat effectiveness is not as good as before. Her profession is 'Giant Killer', and her professional ability is not very helpful for combat; and DeWard is equivalent to Black Widow's The bishop, who murdered thirteen people, has mastered thirteen different toxin-like supernatural abilities.

"After the fight with DeWard, she was defeated but escaped successfully. But watching Ian's liver was cut open and her daughter was sleeping upstairs, she still took a weapon and killed her. While killing DeWard, He also triggered his own curse, lost his power, and finally died of poisoning.

"In the end, their family was pushed into the gear machine used to grind mushrooms. That extremely strong resentment and curse became real, and the endless stream of blood poured out of the machine like a river, waiting for The thugs with the 'antidote' were involved with the onlookers, and were eventually engulfed by the machines.

"The blood-soaked mill was overgrown with mushrooms. And half a day later... the messenger who got lost in the lost forest arrived late with the message that "Master Seti will arrive in three days."

"But it's half a day late...everything is too late."

Nefertari sighed.

In her opinion, Ian's wife is naturally not a good person... But these thugs deserve more.

They are dead.

But what makes her a little tangled is that the "mastermind", "perpetrator", and "bystander" all end up in the same fate... Up to now, even completely innocent passers-by will be involved in a cobweb-like nightmare. , tortured to death.

The mainstream view of nightmare science is that resentment can greatly increase the intensity of nightmares. Because nightmares are the wounds left in the world by dead superhumans, a bloody, "let the world remember my death" last words.

And all Nefertari knew was that this nightmare was still killing innocent people to this day.

From this point of view - this hatred has been fermented so far, and it has been distorted.

The victims of the past are now no different from the perpetrators.

——This [Nightmare] is about to end.