Versatile Mage: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 69: First Meeting Lingling
The four of them went to investigate separately. They found that drowning curses had appeared in several places near water in the city of Tenoaya. Now they needed to find a material that was "sick".

Bai Jue walked through the alleys. The streets and alleys in this seaside area were scattered and stacked, and it was like a maze once you walked in. It was easy to get lost if you were not a local, but this was not a problem for him.

His footsteps lightly stepped on the stairs, and the sound echoed melodiously in the narrow corridor. He took in the surrounding sound information bit by bit, and a map of the entire area formed in his mind.

There were many women nearby talking about the drowning curse, so he decided to investigate here first.

"Another case has appeared. It's really scary..."

After capturing the key information, Bai Jue changed his route. Unconsciously, he had walked onto a stone bridge. This stone bridge crossed the foundation on this side and led to the villa complex on the other side of the mountain. There was a shallow beach under the bridge. The sea water was rising and flooding the shallow beach, turning the sand under the stone bridge into a small river...

Outside the stone bridge is a beach that doesn't look clean and is very narrow. The ocean is blocked by the villa halfway up the mountain, and only a very limited corner of the ocean can be seen.

An old man sitting on the stone bridge and smoking sighed heavily, his eyes fixed on the black bag in the shallows. The key message just now was exactly what he murmured.

There was someone on the shallows, a fire mage in red clothes. In front of the fire mage was a high pile of wood, and on the pile of wood there was something wrapped in a black bag.

Someone tore open the black bag, and a well-dressed man was revealed inside. The man showed no signs of life and was lying upright on the wooden frame.

The fire mage completed the star track and ignited the pile of wood with a golden flame. The entire pile of wood immediately burst into flames and quickly engulfed the young man lying on it.

Looks like I'm a little late...

"Old man, do you know how many times this cremation has happened recently?"

The old man turned around and saw the high-level wizard badge hanging on Bai Jue's chest. He was slightly shocked and told this energetic wizard everything he knew.

"This is already the fourth cremation held here this month. If you count all the ones I've seen, there have been more than a dozen. Rather than dying of illness, it's more like suicide. No, no, it's a curse..."

"Because they all rushed to the beach like crazy, immersed themselves in the sea water, suffocated and dried up to death..."

Based on the places where the old man had seen the drowning curse occur, Bai Jue circled an area in the coastal residential area and began to check it one by one.

At this time, the cell phone rang. It was a message from Mo Fan. He found a person suffering from the drowning curse who drowned himself in blood at home!
"It's quite efficient..."

……

Because of Mo Fan's information, Mu Ningxue and Jiang Yu both came to the scene where the drowning curse broke out. A foul smell was spreading. It was hard to imagine that such an unpleasant smell would come from such a fresh and clean courtyard.

"This drowning curse... is so scary!" Jiang Yu muttered when he saw the scene in the house. He was originally just curious about the jellyfish maggots, but ended up feeling quite shocked.

There was a man in the room, who was obviously locked up, but he was already dead. His wrists were cut open, and a large amount of blood flowed out. The blood was collected in an iron basin, and the man's entire face was immersed in it, drowning in the blood.

Perhaps, it is no longer possible to tell whether he died from excessive blood loss or drowning. In any case, his body was just as pale and wilted, and the cause of death was completely consistent with the drowning curse!

The owner of the house was crying bitterly. When Mo Fan saw them coming, he nodded and whispered to them about the current situation.

The owner of the house was also in a miserable state. About three months ago, his brother also died from the drowning curse. That was to say, two people in his family had died from the drowning curse!
"Normally, he would have run to the beach and drowned. Unfortunately, Bobby locked him up at home, preventing his brother from getting wet. As a result, his brother completed the drowning ritual in this way. This kind of mental torture and control is truly horrible." Mo Fan sighed. The more things he came into contact with, the more mysterious and dangerous this world seemed to him.

"Generally speaking, the probability of jellyfish maggots successfully parasitizing the human body is not high. To have two drowning curses on one family is a misfortune for the family." Bai Jue arrived at this time and carefully examined the condition of the deceased.

He was extremely weak when he was alive, like a person who had not eaten much for more than ten days. Now after his death, he is like an empty shell.

"Jiang Yu, aren't you curious about what jellyfish maggots look like? Take this filter."

Jiang Yu did as Bai Jue said, holding the filter. Bai Jue then began to pour the basin of blood onto the filter. The sticky blood flowed through the gaps in the filter, and soon something could be seen wriggling on the filter.

This thing looks like a blood clot, but it is a bit soft, and it seems that with a little force, it can be squeezed through under the filter.

Mu Ningxue and Mo Fan came over and asked, "Is this blood clot a jellyfish maggot?"

Bai Jue rinsed it with water, and the squirming blood clot seemed to melt and disappeared on the filter. However, everyone was a magician, and if they concentrated their attention, they could naturally see the transparent little maggot on the original position of the filter.

The body of this thing is as soft as a jellyfish, but it is more transparent than the jellyfish, almost invisible to the naked eye, and its shape is similar to a maggot, probably a little bigger than a thumb.

Bai Jue used telekinesis to manipulate the flow of water to wrap up the jellyfish maggots. These creatures were very fragile and would easily die once they left the liquid substance.

The jellyfish maggots were so transparent when placed on the filter that they were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. Now that they entered the water, they completely merged with the flowing water. However, under Bai Jue's mind, their position was still clearly visible.

"This tiny thing can devour a sea monster like the Sea Mammoth without leaving any bone marrow?" Jiang Yu opened his mouth wide. The contrast was too great!

"It's hard to say. We need to see the specific situation, but the jellyfish maggots that can devour the sea mammoth in your mouth must be a gifted one in this race!" The voice of a strange little girl sounded, and it sounded quite nice.

"Lingling? How come you're here so quickly?" Mo Fan was a little bit incredulous when he saw the person coming. They had just contacted each other yesterday at noon, so how come she was here this morning?

"If I hadn't come quickly, the drowning curse would have been solved by this big brother!" Lingling's little face was flushed, and she was panting while dragging her luggage. It seemed that she had just got off the plane and rushed over in a hurry.

“Hello, big brother. I’m Mo Fan’s hunter partner Leng Lingling. Just call me Lingling. This is the first time I’ve seen such a fresh jellyfish maggot. Can you let me take a look?”

(End of this chapter)