Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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After learning about the news of magical creatures from Uther and the others, Leyton couldn't help but run to Sia, asking her to keep an eye out for any good-looking magical creatures.

As a result, Sia and the captain had already gone with the Church of the Earth Mother personnel to the deepest part of the corrupted area to investigate the situation.

"So, you want to raise a magical creature?" Jessica asked with a curious look as she watched Leyton, who had come to inquire about Sia's whereabouts.

"Yes," Leyton nodded.

"But while these magical creatures' Beyonder abilities are strange and varied, they aren't powerful, even very weak. If you can't give them corresponding potions, they won't become your helpers," Jessica analyzed the pros and cons.

"I'm not raising magical creatures to be my helpers. It's the same as people raising cats and dogs as pets. I want to raise one, so I will!" Leyton said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Jessica was stunned for a moment, then shook her head as if she had thought of something. Then, a smile appeared on her face again: "It seems I've been in the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom for too long, and my thinking has unconsciously become biased towards that of a rational scholar."

Then, Jessica solemnly nodded to Leyton in thanks: "Thank you for reminding me, or I wouldn't have noticed this problem. It seems I also need to raise a magical creature to improve my psychological state."

Lecoton was still in a daze: "Uh, I didn't say anything. You figured it out yourself."

"Haha, but your words reminded me. No need to be so polite. My thanks are justified," Jessica said with a chuckle.

"There's a saying that Spectator is the least likely path to lose control, and also the most likely path to lose control. Now, do you know how much of an impact your words just had on me?" Jessica explained with a smile.

From her voice, it could be heard that she was very happy now. Being able to discover some problems in her thinking and then solve them in time can avoid problems that are likely to occur in the future because of them.

"Congratulations!" Leyton nodded and congratulated her with a smile.

"I can't stay here all the time either. I'm going to wander around and see if there are any magical creatures suitable as pets. What kind of small animals do you like? I'll keep an eye out for you too," Jessica said after thinking for a moment.

"Good-looking is fine," Leyton said casually.

"Okay, I'll keep an eye out," Jessica nodded, then turned and strolled elsewhere.

After Jessica left, Leyton also returned to Mr. Kosith and Uther's team. Then, the four of them began to clear out the mutated creatures in the surrounding area along the road.

This area belonged to the outer corrupted area. After yesterday afternoon's round of clearing, and the infighting among the mutated creatures, there weren't many mutated creatures left alive.

On an abandoned street overgrown with vines and weeds, Leyton and the others stood back-to-back in a circle, each guarding a direction, cautiously advancing.

Today's sun was particularly dazzling. In the sunlight, the vines covering the walls of the houses swayed their green leaves, and the thorns wrapped around the gas streetlights were covered in flowers. There wasn't a single insect chirping sound around.

This made Leyton feel like he and the others had come to a green-themed park, not a crisis-ridden mutated area.

"The plants here are growing too luxuriantly," Leyton exclaimed.

"And they're growing very fast. We clearly burned all the plants here yesterday," Kane also said.

"Perhaps it's because the church's attack on the central area yesterday was too great, causing the corruption from that area to spread outwards," Mr. Kosith gave an explanation.

"Corruption isn't a living thing. Does it know how to run?" Kane didn't understand.

"Corruption isn't a living thing, but the things being polluted are alive. They can run," Leyton felt that this possibility was very high after hearing Mr. Kosith's explanation.

"Wouldn't that mean the outer area is more dangerous today than yesterday!" Uther also became a little nervous at this time.

Most of the Church of the Earth Mother personnel stationed in the outer area were wounded. If those mutated creatures were still fleeing to the outer area, it would easily cause casualties.

"It's just a possibility. We still need to observe first," Mr. Kosith stabilized the emotions of the temporary team.

The four continued to cautiously advance among the green street trees. The further they went, the stranger the plants on the ground became.

Leyton had already seen a two-story-high tree with only a trunk and no leaves, as well as a patch of crimson plants that looked like sugar cane, covered in barbs from top to bottom, including the leaves, and a clump of plants that bore fruit like tumbleweeds.

Leyton felt that he probably understood why Kane said they had burned all the plants here yesterday. Looking around, there wasn't a single plant that looked normal.

"Bang!" Mr. Kosith suddenly fired at a ball of plants on the ground that looked like tumbleweeds.

"Wahhh—" A half-man-tall fish monster with hands and feet crawled out from inside. One of its hands was bleeding blue blood, and it looked like it had been injured by Mr. Kosith's shot just now.

The fish monster's appearance was really a bit grotesque. It looked like a fish had been given a pair of webbed hands and feet, as well as a pair of fangs.

After crawling out of the bushes, the fish monster directly charged towards Mr. Kosith, who had just fired the shot. Mr. Kosith didn't dodge or avoid, and fired three more shots in a row, two hitting the monster's body and one hitting its eye. But the fish monster still charged straight at Mr. Kosith as if it felt no pain.

At this time, Leyton and the others who had reacted were also preparing to attack the fish monster, but the fish monster directly brushed past Mr. Kosith and ran quickly into the distance.

When the fish monster passed a gas streetlight wrapped in thorns, it was tightly entangled by the thorns that suddenly came to life.

The fish monster was tripped to the ground, but these thorns didn't intend to let the fish monster go. As if entering a frenzy of growth, they wrapped the fish monster tighter and tighter, and some thorns even burrowed into the fish monster's body.

The fish monster distorted and struggled on the ground, showing great pain, but it didn't make a sound from beginning to end. It seemed that its vocal cords had disappeared during the mutation process. In the end, it was dragged underground by the thorns.

Leyton felt a chill down his spine as he watched this scene. He and the others had just passed by there. But he hadn't noticed anything unusual about the thorns.

"I didn't expect the abilities of the Planter pathway to be so useful here!" Mr. Kosith's voice came from behind.

Leyton immediately turned to look at Uther, who was standing on his left. The other party just smiled.

"It's not that useful. Only a small number of plants can resonate with my Beyonder abilities, allowing me to drive them by consuming spirituality," Uther explained.

Leyton then asked curiously: "Is there any difference between the plants that can resonate with your Beyonder abilities and ordinary plants?"

Uther shook his head: "You can't tell from the surface. To be more specific, this part of the plants can be considered relatively normal types of mutations in this area."

"Relatively normal mutations? Does that mean the impact of the mutations comes from that Classical Alchemist, rather than the Beyonder characteristics of that Sanguine viscount and the Beyonder characteristics on that clown person?" Leyton guessed in his heart.

"Then how do you clean up these mutated plants here? These plants don't look easy to mess with," Leyton thought of the thorns that Uther had controlled just now, and felt goosebumps rising on the skin of his hands.

"These plants can only be dealt with if His Excellency the Bishop and the others have a way. Their roots are buried deep underground. If their roots can't be cleared completely, they will grow back even if they are all burned down," Uther explained.

Leyton didn't ask anything else. He could probably guess what was going on. These plants perfectly embodied the vitality represented by the Planter pathway.

After this little episode, Leyton became even more cautious on the road. If there weren't two Planter pathway Beyonders in the team, Leyton felt that he would have to throw a stone to test every plant he saw.

He didn't know if it was because they had already cleared a round yesterday, or because the mutated Beyonder creatures here followed the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence and fought each other, but Leyton and the others hadn't encountered a single Beyonder animal other than the fish monster they had just met.

"Wait a minute, the air ahead is filled with some hallucinogenic poisonous gas," Uther interrupted the others' advance.

Then, he took out a transparent glass bottle from the package behind him, which contained many, many small red pills. Uther took out four of them and distributed one to each person.

"These are antidote pills. They were just made last night. They can deal with most of the toxins here, but one pill only lasts for twenty minutes. We need to remember the time and take them continuously without interruption," Uther explained.

"No problem," Mr. Kosith and Leyton nodded at the same time.

"Then get ready to go. I can feel several relatively strong life forces inside. Be careful," Uther said as he took out a handful of seeds of some kind of crop from the package and scattered them around.

Leyton held a gun in one hand and pinched a confinement charm in the other. He was behind Mr. Kosith, walking side by side with Kane of the Church of the Earth Mother. The two advanced while paying attention to the movement behind them.

This area had many intertwined vines, like a large spider web.

Since entering this area, Leyton felt like there was a faint gaze watching him, but he couldn't find the other party's location.

After hesitating for a moment, Leyton still took the initiative to use the Secret Vision Eye. The surrounding vision was immediately covered with a thick layer of color blocks. Most of these color blocks were green, with varying shades, mixed with some red and purple color blocks.

Every intertwined vine seemed to have life. In Leyton's Secret Vision Eye vision, they contracted and expanded slowly, and at the same time, these vines were like a whole, and their contraction and expansion rhythms were exactly the same.

Staring at these vines, Leyton seemed to see a pair of blood-red eyes behind these vines, staring at him.

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