Witch Special

All the blood rats remained underground, which was both good news and bad news. While Lin Zhenxi didn't have to worry about these bloodthirsty rats stirring up a bloody storm and implicating her, burdening her with endless sins, simply eliminating them had become unrealistic. Even when Lin Zhenxi looked at the red dots within the glazed altar, she felt a deep sense of powerlessness. She truly couldn't think of any good way to lure these blood rats out of the depths of the earth and kill them. While they couldn't come up, Lin Zhenxi couldn't get down either.

As for hoping they would simply sink underground, never to see the light of day again, who could guarantee that? Lin Zhenxi didn't like to rely on uncertainty for her future. The causal connection wouldn't weaken with the passage of time. Whether it was a week, a month, or a year, as long as the blood rats left the underground water system and came to the surface to kill someone, Lin Zhenxi's sins would increase. Lin Zhenxi wasn't even sure if this kind of causal connection would extend beyond the world. Even if she left this world and returned to the main world, she might still be unable to break free from the causal connection with the blood rats.

Cause and effect are the cornerstones of the world, no less important and profound than the two fundamental elements of time and space. Lin Zhenxi can only see the causal lines through her magical eyes, and her understanding is limited. She can neither interfere nor modify them, and can only provide limited guidance. In the avenue of cause and effect, she is still a complete novice.

Fortunately, they were not driving on the road, otherwise Lin Zhenxi would probably have been labeled a road killer.

No matter what, Lin Zhenxi couldn't just leave the blood rats she had created and released unchecked. If things went wrong, the impact on her future would be immeasurable. So, despite the numerous challenges and the headache of just looking at them, Lin Zhenxi could only stare at the glass altar, biting her lower lip as she racked her brains to figure out how to pull those blood rats out of the ground and finish them off.

Ultimately, that watery monster was to blame. If it hadn't swept away all the blood rats and thrown them into the underground river, Lin Zhenxi wouldn't be having such a headache right now.

Since it was the cause of the trouble, is it possible to pull it over and redeem itself? In an environment like the groundwater system, there is probably nothing more handy than that ball of water.

If the blood rats hadn't dispersed yet, this method might have worked. But now the blood rats had been scattered by the current. How could that water monster alone possibly find all the blood rats?

But... Lin Zhenxi suddenly felt like there was a way around this. If one Water Monster wasn't enough, what about dozens? What about hundreds? Lin Zhenxi already knew the exact location of the Blood Rats; it was just that they were inaccessible and constantly on the move. If Lin Zhenxi sent a similar number of Water Monsters or similar creatures into the underground water system to capture the Blood Rats, or even used the Water Monsters as carriers for mind bombs, having them hold the mind bombs and detonate them near the Blood Rats, he could kill the Blood Rats directly underground.

That's right, this idea is good and worth trying! Lin Zhenxi became excited and began to think about how to capture the water monster.

Lin Zhenxi had never seen a monster made entirely of flowing water before. She had only seen similar creatures before: slimes. Slimes are a vast clan, with a wide variety of members, depending on their composition. There are slime slimes, mud slimes, flesh slimes, lava slimes, frost slimes, mercury slimes... In short, anything that can flow has the potential to become a slime. However, slimes lack the flexibility of the Water Monster. They are like a ball of water transformed into spirits, capable of taking on seven or eight different forms in the blink of an eye. They are far superior to the silly, wriggling slimes.

Summoning a large number of slimes to track down the blood rats is an inferior solution to the problem. A better solution is to capture the water monster, study its composition mechanism, and then artificially create a large number of creatures of the same kind and release them into the underground water system.

In any case, creatures of this type almost all share one thing in common: their powerful regenerative abilities and divisibility. As long as their core remains intact, no matter how much damage their bodies sustain, they won't be significantly affected, and they can self-recover at an extremely fast rate. Therefore, if they could obtain the core of the Water Monster and create replicas of it, they could mass-produce Water Monsters.

Well, the first thing to do is to find the location of the water monster and catch it!

However, before that, the task of releasing slimes to capture blood rats could also be carried out simultaneously. It would simply involve summoning a large number of slimes and throwing them into the underground water veins. As long as they were given a goal, with their simple minds, they would dedicate their lives to carrying out the mission Lin Zhenxi had given them. They would never give up until they achieved their goal, even if it meant dying along the way.

Although slimes move very slowly on land, their shapeshifting structure makes them much more mobile underwater. Compared to blood rats, which struggle futilely, carried about by the current, slimes at least have the advantage of being able to change their direction underwater. So even if they set out much later than the blood rats, with precise navigation, they can still catch up.

Thanks to the power of the Liuli Altar, even the extremely complex underground water system can clearly show the flow direction. This is truly the most practical of the many magics taught to Lin Zhenxi by his great witch teacher.

The process of summoning aquatic slimes is unremarkable. Simply drawing a magic circle summons a swarm from another world, and then Lin Zhenxi has to sign temporary familiar contracts with these wild slimes on the spot. Slimes are very simple magical creatures. Although there are legends of people who have fought slimes for 300 years and become invincible, the reality is that slimes are just sandbags for novice adventurers to get used to the feel of their weapons at the entrance of the Novice Village. At most, they might cause a little trouble in the jungle environment. Fighting such unchallenging enemies, even if you fight ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or even a million of them, will not gain much experience against them.

Through a temporary familiar contract, the sealed mind bombs were inserted into the slimes' magic cores. The next step was to find the upper reaches of an underground river and release the slimes. Lin Zhenxi traced the extensive underground water system upstream, finally finding its source where it converged on the surface. It was a lake near City Z, sandwiched between two old mountains. It covered a considerable area. If the monster crisis hadn't occurred, given the lake's water storage capacity and the surrounding lush pines and cypresses, it could have been a scenic reservoir.

Unfortunately, when the monsters came, humans retreated on a large scale and could only hide in numbered big cities, living in constant fear. All these facilities on the outskirts of the city were abandoned.

In other words, it is precisely because of human escape that the natural environment has returned to its original state without human intervention.

But then again, perhaps this is the true nature of the world. I've never heard of a monster being born that leaves the land barren and barren. All monsters target humans, with surprisingly little regard for the wild and natural environment. You could live happily as a free mountain king, so why go to a city protected by heroes to seek death?

It seems that there is an invisible big hand controlling these monsters, twisting their wills and forcing them to become enemies of humans.

Could this be the will of the world? It's not impossible...

There might be weirdos in the city, but those ghostly creatures are rare in the wilderness. The biggest danger might be the mountain king. Without human interference, the area outside the city has completely transformed into a primeval forest. Both predators and prey have trained themselves to excel, as those who are not up to standard have been eliminated.

Anyway, Lin Zhenxi stood by the lake for a while, and apart from the occasional splashes of water caused by fish, he didn't see any living creatures.

Lin Zhenxi hadn't come to see the scenery, so after breathing in the rich negative oxygen ions of the primeval forest for a while, he pulled out his wand and drew a circle, breaking through the sealed space containing the slimes containing the mind bombs. He then dumped hundreds of slimes into the lake. The sight of those viscous, jelly-like objects wriggling into the lake looked like Lin Zhenxi was dumping some untreated hazardous chemical waste.

Then a weird guy jumped out.

"I am the waterweed monster in the lake. I mutated because someone dumped untreated garbage into the lake. Now I'm here to seek revenge on humans!" This humanoid creature, whose body was covered in black waterweed and had a strong fishy smell, loudly announced its whereabouts before it even landed on the ground.

Lin Zhenxi was stunned. It was the first time she witnessed the birth of a monster.

Besides, this place had been abandoned for who knows how many years. Maybe I was the only one here in the past five years. It hadn't come out earlier or later, but just when I started dumping the slime into the lake, it jumped out. No matter how I thought about it, it had something to do with Lin Zhenxi.

No way, the emergence of strange people is directly related to human behavior that damages the environment? This is a major discovery, but what is the principle behind this?

Lin Zhenxi became excited because he discovered something new that he had never seen before.