Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1950 Tooth Decay Spreads

Wow, it's so beautiful.

Upon entering the cave, the pale blue plants inside were completely frozen. Their leaves, resembling handprints, seemed to be struggling, and each flower bud shimmered with a pale yellow halo. Even in Millie's favorite frozen environment, they instinctively shone, as if deliberately attracting outsiders to explore the cave.

"Beauty always hides danger. It's rather peculiar that this plant hasn't completely gone into dormancy even with my current level three wizard elemental strength."

As he spoke, Green stretched out his palm and gently touched the ice flower with the tip of his index finger.

With a "ding," a crisp sound wave resonated, and the ice flower fragments shattered with a "crashing" sound. However, under Green's perfect control of elemental energy, it only unsealed the flower bud that his fingertip had touched.

hiss!

The beautiful flower bud, which had just been frozen, was now thawed. Its petals bloomed like a chrysanthemum, revealing a pale pink interior that was actually a deep, fleshy red. Then, a stinky sock was revealed at the heart of the flower, releasing a hazy, foul odor.

The Grimm elemental energy shield flashed, isolating these strange auras.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

One by one, the incredibly elastic black beetles slammed into the energy shield like bullets, leaving dents and indentations on it. Their jumping power was truly formidable.

Only after the energy shield blocked the black insects could Grimm inside the shield see their appearance clearly.

It appears to be some kind of crude metal beetle imbued with mysterious power. Apart from a pair of enormous, blood-red mandibles that constantly open and close, it has a single eye containing tens of thousands of commas that sway like countless tadpoles, making it quite eerie.

"kindness……"

Just then, Millie let out a painful groan not far away. It turned out that Millie, who was relatively weak at the moment, had been accidentally burrowed into her body by a black beetle and melted. Immediately afterwards, a rope-like pattern appeared on the skin of Millie's arm, as if some kind of garbage had been used to exchange for Millie's flesh and blood.

"Be careful!"

Green collected the black beetles from the elemental energy shield into experimental beakers. These black beetles seemed to only work on energy bodies and had no special ability on matter. Apart from their initial charged attack being extremely amazing, they had no other special characteristics. He then walked towards Millie and looked at the flesh on Millie's arm that had been replaced by hemp rope.

It was indeed a piece of hemp rope, and it was very old and worn.

"It's sucking my blood and flesh for sustenance!"

Aside from the initial discomfort, Millie felt nothing else. She frowned slightly and looked solemnly at the mysterious plant. The smelly sock at the flower's stamen was still wriggling, as if it was about to spray out something terrible.

But both Green and Millie could clearly sense that the strange plant under the ice had obviously been revived and was constantly trying to break free from Green's ice.

"Draining your flesh and blood for sustenance is the surface; it should be said that this mysterious and illusory world is instinctively assimilating us. At our current level of life, we are far too weak to cause rejection by the rules within this illusory world, nor can we hinder the operation of its rules in any way. It is using its unparalleled size to assimilate us into a part of its body."

Seemingly feeling his explanation was insufficient, Green continued, "Just as you are constantly absorbing the meager elemental energy here to maintain your bodily functions, these illusory worlds, large and small, are also constantly absorbing rule factors from the outside as their means of survival and continuation. And we, the outsiders, are these factors. In the process of its operation, it gradually transforms us into the waste, garbage, and abandoned remnants of the rules of this illusory world."

Millie's bright eyes sparkled as she heard Green's explanation.

"One element, one life, and one world."

After making this remark, Millie had to expend even more energy to recover her physical condition and regenerate flesh and blood in her subsequent actions.

After spending a full day studying the plant cave filled with blue vines and flowers, Green and Millie finally began to explore further.

Gradually, accompanied by a buzzing sound, hundreds and thousands of sunflower seed shells gathered together like headless flies, flying and bumping around haphazardly, making a cacophony of noise.

Green caught a sunflower seed shell with his bare hands.

At this moment, Green and Millie continued to move forward along the cave. However, the cave was noticeably narrower and lower than usual, so Green and Millie had to bend over to move forward. The cave walls, which should have been made of black stone, had turned into mud here, emitting a foul stench. There were also some plastic bottles and other garbage in the mud.

Inside the sunflower seed shell was a white baby tooth, the only thing worth studying, which reminded Green of the tooth fairy tale rules in the wizarding world.

Millie approached, peering behind Green and looking at the tooth extracted from the sunflower seed shell.

Already accustomed to each other's breathing, Millie pressed her full chest against Green's shoulder, her warm breath brushing against his cheek. Looking at the tooth Green had pulled from the sunflower seed shell, she said in a low voice, "A cavity?"

This tooth has obvious signs of damage.

"kindness."

Green nodded.

"Unlike the toothless children blessed by the Tooth Fairy, these are adult cavities, which are thrown away as useless garbage. If there are cavities from eating sunflower seeds, there should also be cavities from eating candy."

After thorough research, Green confirmed that these illusory creatures posed no threat and then led Millie boldly from the narrow cavern into this relatively spacious cavern.

hum!

Suddenly, the cave fell eerily quiet.

The sunflower seed shells that were originally bumping around in groups seemed to be frozen in ice, floating quietly in mid-air. Although they had no eyes, they gave the impression that they were watching Green and Millie, floating motionless in the air.

"Green, are you sure it's okay?"

This sight made Millie hesitate slightly before asking again.

"It has been almost completely confirmed that they contain no mystical elements, and absolutely not..."

Green had only spoken halfway when tens of thousands of broken sunflower seed shells emitted extremely strange screams, "Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp," and then, with astonishing speed, they scurried into any hole they saw and desperately fled.

Given the size of these melon seed shells, they could easily go anywhere in these holes of all sizes. In just a breath, these originally aimless, whirring melon seeds disappeared without a trace after randomly bumping around.

"Well?"

Green rubbed his temples, annoyed. "These little things... it seems we need to explore somewhere else. I'm afraid that after all this commotion, the monsters in this floating garbage mountain have been fully awakened."

As Green was speaking, a rumbling sound came from the cave behind him. Judging from the direction, it was not hard to tell that it was the vibration of the huge cigarette butt from before.

"Who are you? Where do you come from?"

Suddenly, a shadowy vulture in the shadow of the stone wall opened its eyes wide, revealing two almonds.

The presence of the aura went from nonexistent to suddenly appearing in just a moment.

It seems that the rest of the shadow vulture's body is in another world, except for its eyes. It can only be perceived and connected to this world when it opens its eyes, and disappears when it closes its eyes.

Therefore, Green and Millie were completely unaware of it.

"Huh!?"

Green couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, while Millie looked as if she were facing a formidable enemy. Green could clearly feel her body tense up as the ice phoenix wings on her back suddenly protected her and Green at the same time.

"And what are you? What a strange existence you have. Although your life level is not high, it is quite peculiar."

Green murmured to himself, even somewhat tempted, unable to suppress the urge to break free from his restraints and capture this strange creature specimen first. Millie clearly sensed Green's thoughts, gently placed an arm on his shoulder, and slowly shook her head.

Meanwhile, the Shadow Vulture, seemingly fearless, stepped out of the shadows and looked intently at Green and Millie.

"This is my favorite garbage world, and also my hunting ground. Many alien creatures fall into the garbage mountain and are either digested or become part of it. This is my food source. However, you are fundamentally different from other food sources. I won't fall for your tricks, hehehehehe..."

After saying that, the shadow vulture closed its almond-shaped eyes again, and its presence vanished once more, as if it had never existed.

Rumble, rumble, rumble...

The caves inside the garbage mountain were complex, and the tremors came from all directions. The target was undoubtedly where Green and Millie were!

"I'll lead the way."

Green put aside his previous strange encounter with the Shadow Vulture and was speaking as if it were the most natural thing in the world when Millie said, "Wait a minute, let's use some occult magic to leave."

Mysticism and witchcraft are relatively weak areas in Green's research on truth, Millie said, as she began to silently recite witchcraft incantations. At the same time, she took out some strange materials and wrote and drew on the cliff face of the cave, which was very strange and mysterious.

However, given Millie's current abilities, casting this spell was clearly very difficult, and the ice phoenix wings behind her had shrunk considerably.

(End of this chapter)