Chapter 2172 - Spectre’s Magic Trick (1/2)

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

Mu Bai avoided the people of the Black Church and safely reached a cave close to the olive grove.

The Tyrant Titans did indeed fancy poppies a lot. It was normal for them to go berserk after eating too many of the opiate flowers. However, as an herbalist, Mu Bai had a feeling that something was not right.

“This must be where Mr. Lin was secretly planting the poppies. How many kilograms of poppies did a two-hundred-meter tall titan have to eat to lose its cool? Mo Fan fought the Cross Mark Demon Titan for so long, yet it didn’t really lose control of itself. It still targeted him after the Corrupted Black Moon appeared. It didn’t attack others indiscriminately…” Mu Bai murmured to himself as he went into the cave.

The cave was soaked in cold seawater, and the poppies were all drowned. The Parthenon Temple and the military obviously had not discovered the place. They might have searched the cave, but they did not link the incident on Green Sprouts Island with the poppies.

Mu Bai took off his jacket and dove into the water.

He soon found some decomposing petals from the poppies in the water. The stems and leaves were piled up at the bottom of the pool. Mu Bai swiftly collected the flowers and seeds that were still intact and carried them to the surface.

Mu Bai placed the flowers and seeds on his palm and analyzed their composition.

The flowers and seeds oozed a clear liquid when Mu Bai applied pressure to them. The liquid permeated Mu Bai’s skin and slowly entered his blood.

A few minutes later, Mu Bai’s face began to redden and heat up. Blue veins surfaced on his body as a strong urge to kill filled his mind, like a thirsty man desperately searching for water!

Mu Bai quickly used his Poison Element to remove the strange substance from his blood. Ten minutes later, he found himself soaked in sweat after he fully recovered.

“What just happened… does this mean the poppies aren’t the only thing that caused the incident?” Mu Bai murmured.

Strong waves kept coming from the distance, obviously caused by the battle between Mo Fan and the Cross Mark Demon Titan. The trees that were soaked in water swayed continuously and created a mist in the area.

The mist was spreading toward the land. A faint outline appeared behind a tree around three hundred meters away from Mu Bai. It was spying on Mu Bai as he was deep in thought.

Mu Bai seemed to notice something. He looked in the direction of the figure, but it had already disappeared, as if it was just his imagination in the strong wind.

Mu Bai was lost in thought for a moment. He stowed the flowers and seeds of the poppies in a transparent bag, deciding to bring them back to conduct thorough experiments on them.

The figure that vanished appeared behind Mu Bai. It no longer looked like some optical illusion occurring because of the wind. It was raising something that resembled a scalpel, and slicing at the back of Mu Bai’s neck!

The figure let out a strange chuckle, as if it was pleased with itself.

It was waiting for fresh blood to jet out from Mu Bai’s neck, but instead a layer of frost suddenly surfaced on his skin there. Not a single drop of blood jetted out.

The figure was startled. It immediately stabbed Mu Bai again.