It must have been a long time before the more than one hundred successors came to the underground city.
Even if they suddenly decide not to come, Nefertari will not blame them for this - as a wise person, she naturally knows that "a favor should not turn into an enemy".
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 'Spore Mill'. Just like you don't understand either..."
After all, this nightmare is too dangerous.
Once inside, it's hard to get out - like a larva caught in a spider's web.
Those who barely survived this nightmare would never dare try it again.
——A wise man never acts recklessly.
When she realized that this nightmare could not be purified by her own strength, she would not even try - it was meaningless and put herself in danger.
Not only did Nefertari never enter this nightmare, she even stopped Nieussel who wanted to enter this nightmare.
At that time, Neusser was not as stable as he is now.
He is still a hot-blooded young man, like a big dog who has fun. He still doesn't understand that there are some things in this world that cannot be changed by his own efforts - such a truth.
But Nefertari didn't do nothing.
Although she had never entered this nightmare once, she had done some research in her spare time.
——She did it just in case.
If there is any chance to solve this nightmare in the future, or if the situation is so urgent that we have to enter the nightmare, we can grasp the situation as quickly as possible. We will not start loading bullets until the enemy is in front of us.
This is called foresight.
"I have already investigated what happened in the black mushroom mill back then."
Nefertari said to Neuser seriously: "You can tell them these things. Maybe you can help them."
"Just tell me, I will remember it."
Supervisor Neuser nodded.
"As you know...the accident at the Black Mushroom Mill happened in July seven years ago. In another seven months, it will be seven years now."
Having said this, Nefertari paused slightly.
Speaking of which, "seven" is a lucky number.
Does this also portend something?
She shook her head slightly and continued: "The miller's name is Ian, and he has a dwarf wife and a seven-year-old daughter, Alice.
"At that time, strange diseases were prevalent in this city for a while."
People who work in the mushroom industry suddenly start to develop blisters on their bodies. At first they are just red spots, but then they turn into clear blisters that become unbearably itchy.
As they continue to come into contact with mushrooms, these blisters will gradually grow in size and become transparent until it is difficult to work. If the blisters are popped, people around them may be infected by the blisters.
"Seven years ago..."
Neuser thoughtfully said: "Were you in the Bone-Eating Forest at that time?"
"Well, it's not that far from here."
Nefertari nodded and asked casually: "And you were still in the exploration layer... around the Coal Barrens?"
Neusser hummed: "Yes, I was very lucky at the time. Later I discovered another mining area, which is the Misero Excavation Site."
"Then you probably don't know this. At that time, this place was not well-known. It was a logging area built around the 'Misty Forest' and was temporarily named 'Black Mushroom Mill'. It was not a serious urban area, so it was
There are no wise men or diggers.
"The lumberjacks realized that they might be infected by some spores... so they sent a disease-free messenger to the nearest city - the 'bone raising ground' near the Bone-Eating Forest. My teacher was
over there."
Nefertari said, reaching out to touch the ritual plate behind him.
Under her drag, a light blue light appeared on the ritual plate. The locations of the Gray Forest, the Bone-Eating Forest, the Bone Raising Ground, and the Black Mushroom Mill were quickly outlined.
“‘Bone Healer’ Seti?”
Neusser reacted immediately.
Nefertari became a wise man at a young age, which has something to do with her teacher, a gold-level transcendent.
As the most powerful idol wizard in the Underground Federation, Seti is also the best healer and knowledgeable ritualist. No one wants to offend him.
After all, no one knows when they will suddenly need help from a doctor...
Nefertari learned knowledge about mysterious rituals from Seti, and also learned some fur medicine skills by the way. Because she did not want to become an extraordinary person, she was able to graduate from Master Seti early and rely on Seti's relationship to become a
A wise man.
"……its not right?"
Neusser quickly noticed some contradiction: "If Master Seti was there, this small problem should be solved quickly."
Since he has never heard of it, this strange disease has appeared in the black mushroom mill before. It means that this is a small matter...at least it was dealt with properly in the end.
After all, he has never seen similar symptoms in all these years.
"That's the problem."
Nefertari said slowly: "This is not a disease, but a poison.
"It is the poison that is put into the mushrooms by followers of the 'Black Widow', the god of poison and spiders."
"...So Master Seti can't solve it?"
"How is it possible? Just to see through and resolve the unknown curse hidden in the 'poison', the teacher needs more time to develop the antidote."
The red-haired woman took a deep breath: "But...the lumberjacks can't wait any longer.
"For some unknown reason, a theory quickly emerged among them: that this strange disease has no cure, and that the messenger had taken the opportunity to escape... and he would not come back again.
"There was panic among the loggers. But they soon noticed that, as part of their profession of exposure to mushrooms, Ian's family did not get sick.
"They asked Ian why he didn't get sick. But Ian obviously didn't know it. It was because he had not been exposed to poisonous mushrooms. The lumberjacks who finally fell into panic quickly came to the conclusion that it was Ian's family who caused the illness.
poison."
"There is no evidence, and it is undoubtedly a false connection. But they were originally unhappy with Ian's family - Ian, who is also a worker, but owns a mushroom mill, spends less money and uses less effort.
You can make more money.
"In the end, while they were 'asking for an explanation' and 'asking for an antidote,' they broke up with Ian's family on bad terms. However, the Black Widow believers who were mixed in the crowd'
Durward', but at this time he once again encouraged others to grind the antidote with the livers of Ian's family.
"You know, this was a traditional remedy back in the pioneer days. Of course, now we know it doesn't work... and they didn't know anything about it.
"At that time, about a quarter of the loggers agreed to Durward's instigation. Although others felt that it was inappropriate and too radical, they ultimately did not stop the loggers' atrocities - after all, the Ian family and the
All of them are unfamiliar.
"They were just watching from a distance.
"Ian's wife is a murderer from the Principality of Winter who escaped from prison... She is a Silver-level Transcendent criminal. But she is disabled and has been tortured by frost beasts for a long time. She made a decision while in prison that year.
After passing the curse of 'not hurting others' and 'not killing people', her combat effectiveness is no longer what it used to be. Her profession is a 'giant killer', and her professional abilities are not of much help in combat; while Derward is equivalent to the Black Widow.
The Bishop, who murdered thirteen people, has mastered thirteen different toxin-like supernatural powers.
"After fighting with Derward, she was defeated but managed to escape. But when she saw Ian being cut open and his liver removed, and her daughter still sleeping upstairs, she still took the weapon and came back. While killing Derward,
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 for grinding mushrooms. The extremely strong resentment and curse turned into reality, and an endless stream of blood poured out from the machine like an endless river, waiting for
The thugs and onlookers who were holding the 'antidote' were involved in it, and were eventually swallowed up by the machine.
"The mill soaked in blood was overgrown with mushrooms. And half a day later... the messenger who got lost in the dense forest arrived belatedly with the message that 'Master Seti will arrive in three days.'
"But it's only half a day late... everything is too late."
Nefertari sighed.
In her opinion, Ian's wife is not a good person...but these thugs deserve their punishment.
They deserved their death.
But what makes her a little confused is that the "mastermind", "perpetrator" and "bystander" all met the same end... Now, even completely innocent passers-by will be involved in a spider web of nightmares.
In the middle, tortured to death.
The mainstream view of nightmare science is that resentment can greatly increase the intensity of nightmares. This is because nightmares are the wounds left by the dead supernatural beings in the world, and are a bloody last words, "Let the world remember my death."
What Nefertari knew was that this nightmare was still killing innocent people to this day.
From this perspective - this hatred has been fermented to this day and has become abnormal.
The victims of the past are now no different from the perpetrators.