Chapter 618

Jie Ming didn't rush to move either.

He opened the private channel of the magic net terminal, called up the map, and carefully studied the suspected areas marked by Auston.

The map was marked with hundreds of red dots, scattered in every corner of the plane.

He needed to choose a suitable entry point.

There couldn't be too many wizards; after all, there are many eyes, and no one will be polite when grabbing war loot.

If there are many wizards, the possibility of obtaining war loot will drop significantly.

Also, he couldn't choose those too remote places.

If the weirdness phenomenon is really that dangerous, going deep into unknown areas alone, even he has to weigh it.

Jie Ming's fingers slid on the map, and his gaze finally locked on a position.

That red dot was marked on the edge of a forest, quite a distance from the nearest other red dot.

The map remarks indicated that abnormal villager death phenomena had occurred in that area recently.

"Just here."

Jie Ming put away the map, his figure turned into a streamer, and disappeared into the sky.

Along the way, to prevent the flight speed from being too fast and having too much impact on the plane, Jie Ming maintained a relatively low uniform flight speed.

He ensured that he was flying slowly at twenty times the speed of sound at high altitude, his figure dragging a faint streamer under the amber sky.

However, although this miniature glazed garden plane was exquisite like a toy, its actual area was not small.

From the teleportation platform where he was to the target area, at his current speed, it would take about twenty minutes.

This time was enough for him to do many things... for example, observing competitors.

Spiritual power spread out silently, extending in all directions with him as the center.

The blessing of spiritual power by the Void Refinement perfection true body was astonishing.

Before the promotion, although his spiritual power coverage range had far exceeded that of wizards of the same rank, there was still a clear sense of boundary.

Now, that invisible perception power was more like a body of water constantly spreading outward, without a clear boundary, only a concentration that gradually diluted.

Although in the overly "diluted" periphery, the ability to explore information would also decrease, it was already enough to serve as an emergency or alarm.

In this "body of water," he could clearly perceive the existence of other spiritual bodies.

There were eight coming in his direction.

Jie Ming frowned slightly.

Although this number was slightly large, exploring a region with so many wizards was still within the range he could accept.

After all, there were hundreds of suspected areas marked on the map.

Although there were even ten or twenty wizards rushing to some red dots, there were more locations with only a single-digit number of wizards.

In terms of quantity, the number of wizards heading to this point was in the upper-middle range, the competitive pressure was not small, but the safety was naturally higher.

Jie Ming reviewed the remark information of that red dot on the magic net terminal while flying.

Auston's management androids had been stationed in that area, and information collected by them would be updated in real-time on the terminal.

He opened the information page.

【Point Number: 017】

【Management Android: Old Herman】

【Latest Information Update: Three hours ago standard time】

Eyewitness Report Summary:

Within the last two weeks, persistent abnormal phenomena have occurred in this town and surrounding villages.

Multiple residents reported finding something that shouldn't exist in their kitchen seasoning bottles—an index finger.

The descriptions of all eyewitnesses were highly consistent: pale skin, covered in age spots, and the fingernail gaps always presented an unnaturally wet state.

It wouldn't appear in an obvious position, but was hidden inside the seasoning bottle, especially the salt jar.

Only when someone opened the salt jar to take salt would they find an extra finger that shouldn't exist in the jar.

This finger wouldn't actively attack, wouldn't move (at least not in front of the eyewitnesses), but it would always stay there.

Even if it was taken out with tweezers and thrown into fire or water, or simply replaced with a new salt jar, it would reappear the next time someone opened the salt jar.

Death Case Summary:

Currently confirmed death toll: 47 people.

Common point of all deceased: consumed food cooked in a kitchen where the index finger appeared within 24 hours before death.

Common symptoms of the deceased: the food tasted "salty to the point of bitterness," but testing the sodium content in the food found it did not exceed the standard.

Within hours of consumption, symptoms of severe thirst and dehydration appeared, then developed into systemic edema, and finally died of acute renal failure.

Conventional medical means (including low-level healing wizard spells) could not alleviate or reverse the symptoms.

Management Remarks:

"This is not ordinary salt poisoning. I checked the bodies of those deceased; their kidneys were 'pickled' from the cellular level. It's like their bodies were immersed in a large amount of salt, forcibly turning into salted meat."

"That finger is very 'playful.' It didn't kill everyone in the town at the first time, but came one family at a time. It only affected one kitchen each time, only letting that family eat food that was salty to the point of being fatal. After that family died out, it would move to the next family."

"I think it's enjoying this process."

Jie Ming closed the information page, his expression unchanged, but his eyes sank a few points.

Forty-seven lives.

In this garden plane carefully cared for by a level-eight Great Wizard, ordinary people lived a life without contention.

Then one day, opening the salt jar, finding an index finger that shouldn't exist, they were frightened.

After finally resolving the fright, the whole family sat together to eat, feeling that today's dish was a bit salty, but didn't take it to heart.

A few hours later, thirst, dehydration, edema, death.

And that finger would watch all this quietly, and then move to the next family.

"Playful."

The evaluation of this weirdness phenomenon by the management android appeared in Jie Ming's mind.

Looking at it now, this word was used precisely to the point of being uncomfortable.

He continued to fly forward.

Twenty minutes later, Jie Ming landed on a small hill on the edge of the town.

Looking down from a high place, this town was bigger than he imagined.

Scattered buildings were distributed on both sides of a small river, stone roads connected every household, smoke rose from the chimneys, and children were chasing and playing in the alleys in the distance.

Everything looked normal.

But Jie Ming's spiritual power had already captured a subtle "wrongness" in the air.

That was a feeling that was hard to describe...

It was like a drop of ink mixed into clear water; the amount was small, not enough to change the color of the water, but you knew it was there.

He turned around and looked at the figures landing one after another behind him.

Eight people.

Six men and two women, judging from the energy fluctuations, all level-six wizards.

Their clothing was different; some wore exquisite wizard robes, some wore tight clothes convenient for action, and one wore an outfit that looked like a laboratory white coat, probably just coming out of the laboratory.

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