Chapter 284: Turning the tables.
As Thor successfully marked the vines with his spirit, everything around him was slowly coming to life.
The vines stretched their roots steadily and continued to penetrate deep into the soil. The moisture in the underground passage began to slowly decrease. A small white mushroom even appeared under Sol's right foot.
"It seems that the elder vine quite recognizes you. I can feel that the Black Castle is recovering quickly." Yura looked up and said, "Okay, let's get out of here. It's too damp here. I feel like this body's My joints are getting hairy."
Sol was still observing the changes around him, and after hearing this, he slowly stepped up to follow Yura.
This vine planted under the Black Castle is truly magical.
When Thor began to move away from the root system, he could feel the rhizome in the soil suddenly grow a very active rhizome, following his footsteps.
Whenever the soles of his feet hit the ground, it was as if they were in contact with the roots below through a shallow layer of soil.
Sol found it very interesting. He raised his right hand and reached towards the wall on one side.
Immediately, he felt that the root system split into two parts, one of which extended upwards quickly and happily. When Sol's palm touched the soil on the side, a small tip suddenly appeared and gave him a gentle "high-five".
"Ouch!" Sol found it interesting and immediately raised his left hand and reached for the wall on the other side.
The underground rhizome split again and grew faster to the inside of the soil where Sol's left hand was touching.
The palm is once again bordered by the root system.
"Ha." Thor finally couldn't help laughing.
Yula, who was walking in front, turned back in confusion, and the doll's head turned directly behind its back, "What are you doing?"
"Uh..." Thor realized that his behavior just now was a bit childish. Especially in the eyes of outsiders, it is even more silly.
"Ahem." He retracted his hands with some embarrassment and secretly rubbed off the dirt on his fingertips. "I'm just feeling the changes in the vines." I'm definitely not playing with the
roots!
Yura looked at Sol suspiciously, and then turned around after a few seconds. Her neck joints made a scraping sound like wood. It seems to have really grown hair.
The two of them walked all the way out of the underground cave, walked out of the wine cellar, and closed the secret door.
At this time, Thor lost contact with the root system underground.
However, after Sol and Yura left, the rhizome that was growing quietly underground suddenly shook hard and weakly.
【Who is he...? Why can just a mental connection... be attached to my entire body? 】
The weak voice no longer had the impatience it had when talking to Sol just now. It contained a slight tremor, just as it showed on the outside.
[Also...who are you? What did that boy leave inside me? ! 】
No one responded.
...
There is something really wrong with the body of the doll that contains Yula's spirit body. And not just simply growing hair. Yula's movements were becoming sluggish.
"I'm going back now. I've requisitioned your coachman." Yula quickened her pace, but her hip joints also began to make strange sounds.
"Winnie, are you okay? Do you need me to do anything?"
"It's okay. There's just something unexpected in this doll's body. I need to go back and clean it up quickly. You don't have to give it away."
Yula finished. , pushed open the Black Castle door, and rushed out like the wind.
Outside the gate, the coachman was still waiting. Just squatting on the ground and looking at the weeds on the roadside.
Suddenly he felt another gust of wind blowing into the car, followed by a sound like phlegm.
"Go back to the tower!"
The coachman was suddenly startled and stood up quickly, only to find that Thor was still standing at the door and had not gotten on the coach.
His expression looked a little confused.
Sol nodded to the coachman and motioned for him to start quickly.
The coachman hurriedly climbed into the car, bowed slightly to Thor, and drove the carriage quickly away from Blackburg Forest.
Now, only Thor himself is left in the entire Black Castle.
He turned around and saw a black tentacle suddenly stretched out from the narrow door of the Black Castle where the eye originally was.
This tentacle looks so familiar.
"Xiaozao?" Sol immediately raised his hand and touched the back of his neck.
A small black tentacle immediately stretched out from inside, and the index finger that entangled Thor immediately released and retracted.
"When did Xiaozai get inside? Wait, isn't it the one that was high-fiving me in the soil just now?"
Thinking of this, Sol quickly returned to the ground.
When he re-entered through the secret door of the wine cellar, he immediately felt that the surrounding environment was different from the previous one.
The air here is still humid, but not as oppressive as it was at the beginning, and the ground has become softer and feels slightly muddy when you step on it.
When Sol walked to the originally strong rhizome, he was shocked to find that it had actually "slimmed down" in just a few minutes!
"Little algae?" Sol called to it.
[No, I'm not, but if you...you mean the black tentacle rooted in my body...I think it is responding to you. 】
As soon as the low voice fell, several black tentacles suddenly grew under the soil around Sol.
He seemed to be back in the abandoned underground laboratory under the wizard's tower. The closed basement has corpses floating on the surface and tentacles as thick as a hug.
Sol lowered his head and raised his foot and stamped again.
The sticky feeling is more obvious, and the soles of your feet will sink slightly when you step on it.
It's really starting to look like a swamp.
"Why did the algae transfer to your body?"
[...Didn't you do this? Just now, when you and I established a spiritual connection... Wuwu...]
Wait, is this big guy crying?
[...Your powerful mental power broke through the range of spiritual connection and took over my entire body. After patrolling the woods and the castle, I retreated. 】
【But you left... the small algae, and now it is desperately absorbing my nutrients. ]
Saul was stunned.
So the painful feeling of confinement he just felt was not caused by the spiritual connection?
It was because he used his mental power to explore the other party thoroughly from head to toe. Before leaving, he left an uninvited guest, who robbed him of his room and food.
[Can you control it? If this continues, my ends will wither and the entire Black Castle will collapse. ]
"Xiao Zao," after a moment of silence, Sol called Xiao Zao.
Slender black tentacles stretched out from the back of his neck, opened his shark-like mouth at Thor, and clicked his teeth.
"Take it easy and don't eat too much. We will stay here for at least ten more days."
Xiao Zao immediately nodded happily, and then shrank back.
Sol said to the root of the vine again, "Is it okay now?"
[...Thank you for your generosity, and finally I apologize for my rudeness when we just met. ]
"It doesn't matter." Thor left the vines in place.
It seems that because of the change of owner, the atmosphere inside the Black Castle is also a little different, and those tall and thin buildings gradually become less deformed.
It's more in line with Sol's aesthetic.
He did not go to Mochi Mochi's room, but casually entered a guest room and sat down on a bed that was as long and slender as a coffin.
"It will take at least ten days to come here by carriage. Then during this period, I will be the only one here."
Sol thought of the bag of Mosheng fruit he finally took out from Mofan Town. .
"Actually, I don't need to go back to the tower. I can completely rebuild a consciousness platform formation here. Now, this is my territory!"
(End of Chapter)