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Chapter 234 The true face of special research projects

Chapter 234 The true face of the special research project

In the corridor of the institute, Locke took out the Big Green Owl Banana from the astral ring. This magical plant only has a pair of banana leaves. The trunk of the tree has shrunk to a part the size and length of a palm. There are many aerial roots similar to the appearance of ginseng tendons, which are exposed to the outside and continue to absorb energy from the air.

 Locke sprinkled some high-grade nutrient solution on the roots of the big green owl banana. When the magic plant is fighting, it often needs to sprinkle some nutrient solution to maintain the state of the magic plant.

  After all, the magic plant is a living body. Although the spiritual power is grafted into its own mana, it also needs some nutrients to nourish its functions.

Then, Locke used flight mimicry: raptor. The leaves of a pair of big green owl banana leaves behind him automatically sensed the changes in the air flow and began to adjust their direction. The wings formed by superimposing the wide banana leaves deformed into the wings of the raptor, pushing the airflow and allowing Locke to fly quickly forward.

 At the same time, Locke controls two tomb spirits and uses the increase in his basic movement speed. The tomb spirits will also increase their basic movement speed when they are not parasitizing others. He continues to control the two tomb spirits to search for enemies in front of him.

 While flying, he held the magic map in his hand and looked at his relative position on the map, avoiding countless enemies and magic traps.

About twenty minutes later, Locke walked through the tunnel of the institute and came to a tunnel that looked ordinary, but was actually full of invisible curse magic traps.

 This tunnel has many animal head hangings hanging upside down.

 Hide powerful curse magic inside those animal head pendants. The most insidious thing is that these curse spells are hidden. When ordinary wizards see this place, they will just think it is an ordinary tunnel.

 But when Locke read the language of Modo, he could accurately discover every magic trap hidden here.

"With my current level of magic, it is too difficult to unlock the magic trap here, almost impossible." Locke was flying in mid-air. "The only way is to use flying plant magic to fly across this corridor. Fortunately, I noticed this corridor when I was in Lilith's cabin, and spent half a day calculating the time required to fly through this corridor."
  "If I predict correctly, this corridor should be used by dark wizards to isolate certain dangerous experimental subjects. I don't know what is behind this corridor. Senior Albert is too unlucky to be randomly teleported here."

 Locke thought for a moment, "With the basic speed of the Big Green Owl Basho, it is still not safe enough. But I have prepared a backup plan."

Locke took out a one-time low-level magic item, a wind bead, from the astral ring. This low-level magic item has limited effects, but it is cheap and requires only 1 magic stone.

 But it just so happens that it can be linked with my own rare magic plant, the Big Green Owl Basho.

 After he crushed the wind elemental bead, a forward breeze suddenly appeared in the corridor of the institute. The blades of the Big Green Owl Basho, which had transformed into the night owl magical creature raptor, once again automatically fine-tuned their angles to adapt to the changes in the airflow and adjust their own aerodynamic structure.

  Then, Locke accumulated strength on the spot for a while, and then suddenly flapped the wings that mimicked the magical raptor. An invisible wave of air appeared behind him, and he himself jumped forward.

 Locke himself turned into an afterimage and passed through this corridor.

At the same time, the eyes of all the beast heads in this corridor lit up with red light, and curse rays shot out from these upside-down beast heads.

 Locke has passed by these curse rays every time, but as long as he is hit once, he will be knocked down immediately, and then all the curse rays will focus on him, and in an instant, he will be cursed to death.

 It's just that as time goes by, Locke's speed does not decrease, but becomes faster and faster.

  He gradually began to distance himself from these curse rays.

 Three minutes later, Locke's forehead was dripping with sweat, and he successfully passed this long corridor.

  Loke took out a bottle of Soul Spring Potion, drank it, and began to recover his mana.

Just now, in order to pass through this magic trap corridor, I burned most of my mana, so my speed became faster and faster, and the curse rays did not catch up with me at all.

 Locke looked at the big green owl Basho behind him and confirmed that Basho was in good condition. There was no damage to the roots, stems, or leaves due to the influx of a large amount of mana in a short period of time.

  "The quality of this synthetic magic plant is good. If it can be mass-produced, I will make a fortune."

  "Becoming a formal wizard requires accumulating a large amount of magic resources. This problem can also be solved. The only prerequisite is that the problem of mass production of a rare magic plant can be solved."

  Locke flew in the air and began to patrol around.

 He flew forward about two hundred meters, and at this time, the true face behind the magic trap corridor was exposed in front of him.

 Locke looked at the isolation rooms shrouded in magic on both sides of the corridor, his expression became serious. "This... Blood Curse Court, these madmen are more outrageous than I thought."

 "The so-called special project experiment is actually something like this."

 I saw that in the high-level isolation rooms shrouded by magic barriers on both sides of the corridor, there were all kinds of wizard apprentices, from third-class wizard apprentices, to second-class wizard apprentices, to first-class wizard apprentices. Some are black wizard apprentices, and some are white wizard apprentices captured from the battlefield.

 These wizard apprentices all have signs of being severely transformed by magic.

  It should be the masterpiece of the senior curser [Rashid Tahrir].

 And their faces and hands have traces of infection from various tiny cursed organisms such as plague nuclei and cursed particles.

 Locke even saw [Rashid Tahrir]'s culture fluid containers in some isolation rooms that were specially used to preserve specific tiny cursed organisms.

  He was flying in the air and looked down and saw that at the bottom of this corridor, there was a dark green river of strong acid, leaving him with no place to stay. I am afraid that this is also a special device for sealing these experimental bodies and experimental materials.

 Happily I can fly.

Locke landed in front of an isolation room with many human-height culture tanks. He read the diagram on the culture tanks in the isolation room. "An attempt to use tiny creatures that are invisible to the naked eye (microscopic domain organisms that are slightly larger than the magical structural components and blood factors) to transform them into tiny cursed creatures, and then spread the blood curse..."

  "The biggest problem with curse magic is that it requires a transmission medium. Ordinary curse magic requires physical contact and damage to spread the curse magic."

  Locke understood. "But plague cores and cursed particles modified by tiny organisms can be used to contact and damage enemies at the same time during the transmission process. Moreover, these two have the ability to replicate and reproduce themselves quickly in a short period of time, as well as the strong adaptability to adapt to various pharmaceuticals."

"The prototypes of these micro-cursed organisms should be those cursed organisms in the Blood Raven Wasteland."

"Formal wizards can already start to study the microscopic field. Therefore, the Blood Curse Tribunal began to try to use the easy spread and strong adaptability of the micro-cursed organisms to spread their blood curse magic."

"The spread ability of blood curse magic is a conceptual chain spread. If combined with the spread ability and adaptability of tiny creatures, then..."

Locke raised his eyebrows, "No wonder this is a special research project of the Blood Curse Tribunal. Once completed, it can indeed change the direction of the Wizarding War."

“However, the Blood Curse Tribunal seems to be having some bad luck. My teacher, Witch Sophia, must kill [Rachid Tahrir] if she wants to leave Lilith’s cabin, which will definitely destroy this special research project.”

  "They worked hard, but in the end it was all in vain."

 Lock looked at the plague cores and cursed children that had been transformed by cursed magic and were preserved in the isolation rooms in front of him, and suddenly an uncontrollable thought came to his mind.

   "What will happen if I use these tiny cursed creatures transformed by cursed magic to cultivate my Emerald Iris Lichen?"

   "The Emerald Iris Lichen has super adaptability, so it may be able to continue to evolve, maybe."

“But the premise is that these tiny cursed creatures need to have the ability to infect plants.” Locke searched around and frowned. "What's going on? None of these tiny cursed creatures in the isolation room can be infected by magic plants. There is a common magic fungus in the magic plant fungus that has been transformed into a cursed creature. It has been modified and castrated to have the ability to infect plants."

   It's [Rashid Tali] Is this what you did to prevent breeders from using these tiny cursed creatures? "

Locke was a little unwilling. He had just found a good research direction, but in the blink of an eye, he had to give up, so he continued to search for possible tiny cursed creatures.

"These tiny cursed creatures seem to have failed transformations. I am afraid that the successful products, or the tiny cursed creatures that are close to success, are still in the core laboratory of the institute. This is just a garbage recycling bin for failed products."

Locke thought: "Maybe if you enter the core laboratory, there will be the tiny cursed creatures I need." 』

 Locke continued to fly forward, and he saw some white wizard apprentices in the isolation room, who were clearly students from his Lilith cabin.

  Some students tried to seek help from Locke.

 But Locke could only frown and leave helplessly, because this group of people were infected with too many tiny cursed creatures that could infect the human body. As soon as they were released, a large number of tiny cursed creatures might infect themselves instantly.

Although I have the Xiong Ling Cui gall potion, there is no need to gamble.

 His main task at the moment is to find Albert as soon as possible.

 As long as Witch Sophia kills [Rashid Tahrir], everyone here can be saved easily, if necessary.

 At the moment, the overall situation is more important. Besides, I am not close to the people in the isolation room and I don’t know them at all.

 Locke flew into the air and was suddenly stunned for a moment. He saw an official wizard in a high-level isolation room in front of him!

 Locke originally thought it was an illusion, but he repeatedly felt that there was an official wizard with vast magical pressure in front of him.

Locke flew over and saw the official wizard sitting on an exquisite chair. Unlike other isolation rooms, this isolation room had some simple furniture. The official wizard was also wearing relatively neat and exquisite clothes.

  This is an official wizard with the appearance of a young woman.

  She looks younger than Sophia the Witch. Of course Locke really thinks this is her age. Wizards have too many ways to maintain their youthful appearance.

 Judging from the aura of this person's soul, she may be over two hundred years old.

 And the real age of Sophia Witch, even now, is not more than thirty years old.

 This official wizard's body below the neck is covered with stone. It seems that she has been cursed by some very powerful curse. Only her head is still flesh and blood.

 She also has some traces of being parasitized by tiny cursed creatures, but it's just not serious.

  "No, Rashid Tahrir actually captured a female official wizard as his experimental subject." There was a subtle change in Locke's face.

 On the one hand, this shows the power of Rashid Tahrir, and on the other hand, it shows that this curse spell research institute is very important to the Blood Curse Tribunal.

 its importance far exceeds that of ordinary curse spell research institutes.

    Loke carefully identified the badge on the clothes of this one-ring witch, and asked in surprise: "The Crow's Roost Brigade?"

   "This seems to be a small wizarding organization that Cord originally entered."

"That wizard organization seems to be an official wizard. If all the official wizards from the Wizard Academy are arrested, then Code..."

Code is a first-level talented wizard seedling who formed a secret society with Patty and himself on the mainland of Corfu.

 At that time, he also learned magic one step ahead of himself.

 In the first half year of learning magic, his progress in learning magic was faster than his own.

  The first-level witch from the Crow's Rest Brigade seemed to have heard Locke's voice. She opened her eyes tiredly, and then looked at Locke in surprise.

   "White Wizard?"

   "Are you the wizard of Lilith's cabin?"

"How is it possible that you can actually pass through Rashid Tahrir's sight and come here. Is this some kind of trick to attack my inner defense?"

 The First Ring Witch seems to be a little afraid to confirm Locke's identity. She is somewhere between belief and disbelief, looking at Locke with scrutiny and suspicion.

 Locke hesitated for a moment, then gave her a simple courtesy. "This official wizard, you don't seem to be an official wizard of the Blood Curse Court."

 "Are you a wizard from the Crow's Roost Brigade? I have a friend named Cord. Where is he now? Is he still safe?"

 The first-level witch of the Crow's Roost Brigade narrowed her eyes slightly, "Corder? Is that the little guy who just joined the brigade?"

  "He should have been killed by people from the Blood Curse Court, or captured, I don't know."

   The First Ring Witch looked at Locke suspiciously. "Because of my greed, I wanted to steal Rashid Tahrir's treasure. As a result, he planted a petrified blood curse on the treasure that would be cursed as long as it was touched."

 "Alas, I myself fell into his hands. No matter who you are, you should run away quickly. Rashid Tahrir...he is not an ordinary wizard. He is a first-level wizard in the gasification stage. His accumulation of curse magic far exceeds my imagination."

   "It's terrible..."

  "Young man, while you still have the ability to escape, try your best to escape. I hope you can escape."

"If you can escape, can you help me search for the survivors of the Crow Roost Brigade, although I don't have anything to trade with you now..."

Locke exchanged a few words with her, and after confirming that he could not help her lift the first-level petrifying blood curse, he decided not to continue the conversation. The most important thing was to find Albert as soon as possible.

 Locke muttered a spell in a low voice, and the big green owl Basho that resembled a raptor behind his back suddenly flapped, inducing airflow and shooting forward.

 This curse spell research institute is more dangerous than I thought. I hope that the teacher really has the ability to kill Rashid Tahrir.