Lord of Mysterious Wizard

Chapter 166: Chapter 166: Bone Whistle and Soap Bubble

Huff!

Huff huff!

A stench akin to years without a bath mixed with other foul odors drifted with the light breeze in the tunnel, spreading continuously and getting closer. The footsteps were disorganized and rapid. Suddenly, within Tang Qi’s special vision, the first beast shadow abruptly appeared.

Mutated Dwarf!

Identical to the abnormality that Tang Qi had just killed with a punch.

The only difference, perhaps, was… this one was a female.

Indeed, even in the darkness, Tang Qi could see its very obvious sexual characteristics.

Of course, this scene was not the slightest bit enticing.

On the contrary, it gave one a hair-raising feeling.

Its abruptly gaping mouth revealed crisscrossing sharp teeth; its eyes had degenerated to only show the whites, but its sense of smell seemed extremely keen. Before the second beast shadow appeared, it let out an excited roar and then pounced toward Tang Qi.

In midair, the second beast shadow appeared, a male.

And then, just like the former, it also ran frantically and pounced.

The third, the fourth, the fifth… Within Tang Qi’s field of vision, it was completely filled with these Mutated Dwarfs with ferocious and stinking figures.

There were many of them, hunting in packs like hyenas.

Even though Tang Qi knew that the Melting Furnace Power completely restrained them, combined with the immense strength brought by Fog Body and Chaga Fighting Technique, Tang Qi could easily smash all of these Mutated Dwarfs to death with punches and kicks, one by one.

But Tang Qi, didn’t intend to do so.

Because these abnormalities, were simply too stinky.

“Hmph!”

A cold hum was uttered, and Tang Qi’s eyes, originally glimmering with a faint golden light, suddenly transformed into an intense red light.

Red!

For the first time, Tang Qi used a group Skill.

Though these anomalies’ eyes had degenerated to only the whites, when this ultimate red light flared, they seemed to sense something and looked over in unison.

The next moment, a world entangled with ultimate red and golden light flames pulled them all in.

The scene inside the tunnel was these monsters all frozen still for an instant.

Afterwards, without warning, they began to slaughter each other.

Despite being from the same species, they attacked one another in madness. Their grey-white skin that could resist the bites of Tusked Lizards was unable to stop the sharp teeth of their own kind, and soon Tang Qi’s view was filled with a grotesque and abnormal sight.

Blood and severed limbs were splattering, yet these anomalies remained silent.

It was like a silent play, with the sound forcibly cut off.

Tang Qi silently gauged the drain on his spiritual power, within an acceptable range.

Perhaps because these were only low-level anomalies, controlling them was not as exhausting as launching a Judgement.

As time passed, the stench in the tunnel grew even more nauseating.

Soon, in front of Tang Qi, only two Mutated Dwarfs remained standing.

They seemed taller and older than the other dwarves, a male and a female, each with a hand plunged into the other’s heart.

A special Information Fragment flowed through the depths of Tang Qi’s eyes.

“Extraordinary Creatures: A human couple contaminated by an unknown radiation force, they rapidly produced a group, now extinct…”

With this fragment’s emergence, Tang Qi immediately understood.

An uncomfortable truth: A couple who strayed here mutated, and then in a short span, produced these Mutated Dwarfs.

“Hm?”

Tang Qi was about to endure the stench and go to collect Resentful Souls.

But at that moment, he spotted flickering ghost lights from the corner of his eye.

The source was an object hanging around the neck of the male Mutated Dwarf.

Tang Qi immediately fogged over, first collecting the heads of Resentful Souls, and then reached out to take the object.

A Bone Whistle!

No longer than two thumbs, it seemed to be made from the bones of some kind of wild animal or bird, colored withered yellow with bite marks from various teeth alongside three small holes.

Tang Qi’s eyes flashed, and an Information Fragment immediately swept across his mind.

“Curios: Mutated Bone Whistle, a mysterious artifact imbued with unknown radiative forces, it possesses the power to mutate humans…”

“Huh~”

Just as Tang Qi examined the fragment, a gentle breeze blew over.

The Bone Whistle in his hand sounded.

An unsettling and dizzying noise burrowed into Tang Qi’s ears.

Immediately after, Tang Qi watched in astonishment as his body began to mutate. His skin turned ashen white, his hair fell out in clumps, his mouth protruded, and his hands and feet turned into sharp claws… He was mutating.

“Boom”

Without allowing the abnormality to continue, Golden Light Flames erupted fiercely from within Tang Qi.

All illusions dissipated with a “hissing” sound.

Upon looking again, he was still himself, just that the Bone Whistle in his hand had immediately fallen silent.

With a cold snort, Tang Qi pocketed the now-cowed Bone Whistle.

Continuing forward with the Tusked Lizard, in the current region where even that woman and the Heart Polluter could not stop him, Tang Qi naturally had no intention of retreating.

However, with a certain plan in mind, Tang Qi no longer advanced so conspicuously.

He concealed his form, led by a “guide.”

Swiftly weaving through the subterranean passageways, he encountered numerous Mutated Monsters along the way.

Just as the Heart Polluter described, the “density of creatures” here was somewhat beyond imagination.

Although most were low-level anomalies, the kind Tang Qi could easily crush with a flick of his hand.

But there were also groups of strange creatures like Mutated Dwarves, whose collective combat strength was considerable.

During the journey, Tang Qi found a large number of skeletons.

There were old and new, with the new undoubtedly belonging to humans or wild beasts that had wandered in by mistake.

The old ones had various time spans.

What surprised Tang Qi the most was that he discovered some less valuable curios.

These curios were usually found next to the ancient skeletons or not too far away. No matter their original form, they had since decayed beyond recognition, and their Extraordinary Power seemed to have been exhausted in the fight against another terrifying force.

Subtly, Tang Qi’s heart gave rise to some speculations.

The so-called “Treasure,” was perhaps just…

“Roar~”

As Tang Qi pondered, suddenly there came a roar from the Tusked Lizard up ahead.

But this time, it wasn’t fighting with other abnormalities.

What Tang Qi sensed was an immense restlessness and… Fear.

Tang Qi drifted forward, quickly positioning himself behind the agitated Tusked Lizard.

Its source of fear stood in front — a sheer cliff, an Abyss.

The end of the passage was severed, leading to a pitch-black Abyss that descended into untold depths beneath the ground. As Tang Qi stood firm, wave after wave of malice surged up from below the Abyss, as if it would never cease.

“Thump~Thump Thump”

Tang Qi’s heartbeat rapidly accelerated.

A foreboding sense of unprecedented crisis burst forth at that moment.

“Not good!”

Just as Tang Qi subconsciously uttered these words, a strange noise emanated from below the Abyss.

“Plop~”

Something resembling a soap bubble emerged from below the Abyss. That was a layer of thin film sparkling with rainbow colors, beautiful, mysterious, filled with dreamy hues that made one unable to resist being immersed within it, forgetting everything else.

“Go!”

Without a moment’s hesitation, Tang Qi turned and transformed into a Fog Arrow, squeezing out the last bit of his strength as he fled towards the exit of the cave.