Wizard Immortal

Chapter 158 The Reason (Third Update)

In the cold, dark space, a bloody human head lay silently on the ground, its face still bearing an expression of fear.

Hearing the sound of heads falling to the ground in the distance and watching Adir's actions, Bonnie turned around and looked back. A moment of hesitation flashed across her face, but she ultimately did not move.

"These people are beyond saving."

In the distance, seemingly understanding her thoughts, Adir's expression remained as calm and natural as ever, only the black longsword in his right hand was stained with blood, carrying a hint of the stench of blood.

As he spoke, he completely eliminated several people in the dark cell, each sword strike resulting in a direct decapitation, leaving no trace of pain.

Most of these people are disabled, missing either a leg or an arm. Due to prolonged torture, their minds are mostly unstable. In addition, being in this environment full of negative energy for a long time has corroded their flesh and blood. Even if they are rescued, they are unlikely to live for many more days.

When life reaches this point, it's better to give them a painless death than to let them continue to live a miserable existence.

"Cough cough..."

Upon reaching the last dark cell, a soft cough came from ahead, accompanied by a hoarse and weathered voice: "Let me go, I still want to live."

It was a middle-aged man with a somewhat aged face, also bound by ropes, but his body was relatively intact, without missing any arms or legs, only his figure was somewhat thin.

Adir glanced casually at the middle-aged man in front of him, then quickly walked over and slashed down with his longsword in his right hand, creating a fierce gust of wind that accurately struck the middle-aged man.

In an instant, the ropes binding the middle-aged man snapped.

As the original restraints disappeared, his legs went weak, and he almost fell to the ground.

"Thanks."

The man struggled to his feet, a wry smile on his face: "Nice to meet you. I'm Brand, one of the original residents of this town."

His words caught Adir's attention, and he asked with interest, "Are you also a resident of this town?"

"certainly···"

The middle-aged man named Brand smiled bitterly, "But that was before; it's not like that anymore."

"I can tell." Looking at his expression, Adir raised an eyebrow and nodded.

Adir did not sense any unique eerie aura from the other person; he was just a weak, ordinary person with nothing special about him.

Judging from the fact that he was imprisoned in this place, the monsters in this town clearly didn't consider him one of their own.

"Do you know what's going on here?"

He glanced at Brand, the powerful pressure in his eyes making Brand's heart skip a beat. Brand couldn't help but say, "I know a little bit about it. These are all caused by something strange."

Under Adir's gaze, his face was bitter: "I don't know the specifics, I only know that a particularly terrifying anomaly appeared and affected the town's residents, turning perfectly normal people into monsters."

"Then how come you're alright?"

Adir looked at the man with surprise and asked in return with a puzzled expression.

"Maybe... it's because I didn't eat that meat."

Standing there, seemingly recalling some terrifying scene, Brand swallowed hard and looked at Adir to explain, "Back then, something strange suddenly broke out, and everyone in the town contracted a strange disease, dying one after another as if it were contagious."

"Later... someone discovered that as long as you ate the flesh of those who died from the disease, you wouldn't get that strange disease. So the survivors in the town all followed suit, which allowed the remaining people to live..."

At this point, a flicker of fear crossed Brand's eyes: "But as time went on, the survivors in the town began to mutate. Not only did their eyes turn green, but they also became mentally unstable at night, frantically devouring the surrounding corpses... After consuming all the corpses in the town, they even began to attack other residents who hadn't mutated, as well as the wanderers in the wild..."

"At first, they were still able to maintain some sense. Although they would eat corpses and even living people, they would not easily attack people from the same town... But later, the situation became more and more serious. When they could not find any outsiders, one by one, all the original survivors in the town were eaten alive, and in the end, I was the only one left."

He stammered, his whole body trembling as he spoke, as if he had imagined some terrifying scene that filled him with fear.

Seeing his appearance, Adir lost interest in staying there and turned to walk forward.

"Don't go there!"

Seeing Adir's footsteps, Brand's expression changed drastically, his pupils contracted sharply, as if he had realized something, and he quickly warned, "Those monsters are just ahead!"

"Monsters, are they talking about us?"

As soon as the words were spoken, two hoarse figures suddenly emerged from the front, their faces contorted and twisted with a pair of ghastly green eyes, exuding endless malice.

These were the two men from before. For some unknown reason, they had returned and happened to overhear Brand's words. A twisted smile appeared on their faces, and their malevolent, pale green eyes made them look even more terrifying.

"It's over..."

Upon seeing the two people, Brand's legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground with a look of despair on his face, as if he already understood his fate.

bump!!!

It was as if an iron rod had struck a watermelon. In an instant, a person's figure flew backward rapidly, his head shattering open, and bits of flesh and blood splattered all over the ground like water spraying everywhere.

Standing next to this man, another man's entire head was covered in splattered bits of flesh and blood. His originally grotesque and twisted face was stained red with his companion's blood, as if it had been coated with a realistic layer of paint.

Because of the speed, he didn't have time to understand what was happening. He just instinctively looked at Adir, and a pair of pale green eyes recorded the last scene before he lost all consciousness.

A black longsword, accompanied by a sharp sword wind, swiftly slashed down. In the dim space, it suddenly lit up with specks of silver light, and a faint magical power was attached to it, making the longsword even more lethal. It plunged directly into the man's head, splitting him in two.

"Unknown energy detected, the subject's physical attributes are beginning to improve..." The notification from the chip in my mind sounded again.

bump!bump!

With two deep thuds, two tall corpses fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust and producing a dull thud that echoed in the surrounding space.

Upon hearing this voice, Brand and Bonnie, who were watching from the side, finally realized what was happening and looked at Adir with disbelief, almost thinking they were hallucinating.

Meeting their gazes, Adir had no interest in lingering there. He stepped over the corpses and walked forward, creating a gentle breeze.

Behind him, watching Adir's figure, Brand hesitated for a moment, then followed in Adir's footsteps and walked forward.

This town has become a monster's lair. Everyone still active outside has mutated. If he goes out directly and encounters a few monsters, no one will save him. It's better to stay behind Adir.

Beside her, watching the two figures around her, Bonnie wrapped her robe tighter around herself, completely concealing her body, and then followed Adir's retreating figure without hesitation.

At the forefront, Adir walked quietly on the wide road, gazing at the distant light with increasingly sharp eyes.

During the chip inspection, the radiation in front was slowly increasing, accompanied by an inexplicable force field that was becoming increasingly intense.

"Why haven't Fuxi and the others returned yet?"

As they reached the end of the road, a voice came rapidly from ahead and was heard by Adir.

At the end of the road, Bru, dressed in a gray robe, also changed drastically. His originally kind and gentle face became twisted and ferocious, and his eyes turned a ghastly green. He looked no different from the mutants that Adir had dealt with before.

At this moment, he was standing in front of an altar, speaking loudly to several people in front of him.

"Who?"

Suddenly, he whirled around, as if sensing something, and looked directly in the direction of Adir, his eyes filled with the same chilling malice: "Come out!!"

In the corner he was looking at, Adir's gaze turned to the two people behind him.

With his strength, it was impossible for someone like Blue to notice him. What truly caught the other party's attention were the two people following behind him.

However, he had no other plans in the first place, and he was bound to face the other party sooner or later. Now that the other party had discovered his traces, he didn't say anything, and with a quick step, he prepared to walk out.

But a figure beside him walked out even faster than him.

In the corridor, Bonnie, pale-faced and draped in Adir's black robe, walked straight past Adir and out of the corridor, exposing herself to everyone.

At that moment, pairs of pale green eyes stared at her, filled with deep malice and hunger, their gazes fixed on her slender figure, seemingly already itching to make a move.

"Oh, it's my lovely Bonnie."

Standing on the platform, Bru forced a kind expression, which looked awkward against his distorted and ferocious face: "What are you doing here?"

His tone was low and cold, like a blood-red snake that might suddenly strike, silently watching you.

Upon being asked this, Bonnie's face turned deathly pale: "I... just wanted to see... if there was anything I could help with."

"I see."

Looking at Bonnie standing opposite him, Blue's awkward expression remained unchanged: "Perfect timing, I do have a small favor I need your help with."

Hearing this, Bonnie breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Blue's voice ring out again.

"Give me your heart, and your flesh!!"

In an instant, Blue's face contorted into a terrifying grimace, and he lunged at Bonnie, grabbing her by the neck with one hand.

(End of this chapter)