dmims Chapter 160 Jellyfish Maggots
Chapter 160 Jellyfish Maggots
Chapter 160 Jellyfish Maggots
Back at the hotel, Lu Jie found a computer with a working internet connection, logged into his Hunter Master account, and then contacted Lingling.
Upon hearing about the drowning curse, Lingling's eyes immediately lit up.
"Where are you and Mo Fan now?" Lingling asked hurriedly.
"Tinouania, Portugal, you're not going to fly over here, are you?" Lu Jie asked.
"Why not? Anyway, Grandpa asked me to come to New York for something, and now that it's done, I don't want to go back to school," Lingling said.
Ever since Lu Jie and Mo Fan joined the National Team, she's practically been rotting away in Shanghai. The other senior brothers and sisters in the hunting camp all obeyed Old Man Bao's orders and refused to take her out to do commissioned work.
We can't miss such a great opportunity.
"I've checked, and I have some good news to tell you." Lingling was incredibly efficient and quickly found the information.
"Good news??"
Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue, who were standing nearby, felt that Lingling's words were inappropriate. It was hard for her to associate such a horrifying suicide incident as drowning curse with the word "good news".
"The International Hunters' Union has already issued a bounty for the Drowning Curse, hoping that a hunter can solve this horrific case that has resulted in deaths all over the world," Lingling said.
"Oh, is that so? So, does the good news you mentioned mean we can take on this bounty and make some money?" Mo Fan asked from the side.
After what happened with Pei Li, Mo Fan realized that his own strength was far too weak, and Lu Jie had already left him far behind.
The opponent's mere presence was enough to suppress him; if Lu Jie hadn't been there, he would probably have died at Pei Li's hands.
"Tell me how much the bounty for this Drowning Curse is now," Mo Fan said.
"This isn't a fixed-amount bounty. Do you know what a bounty pool is?" Lingling asked.
"Could it be that all the previous bounty amounts have been added together?" Lu Jie said.
"Smart." Lingling snapped her fingers.
Upon hearing Lu Jie's words, Mo Fan's eyes lit up.
The bounty pool actually contains such a treasure; he could even imagine himself swimming in a pool full of gold coins!
"What's the current bounty amount?" Mo Fan quickly asked.
"There have been 1325 bounties for the Drowning Curse around the world, oh, now it's 1326, the total amount is already 350 million... Wait, I'll be there tonight." Lingling hung up the video call, picked up her backpack and set off immediately.
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Lingling was really enthusiastic about this kind of thing, and she took the fastest flight to Tinoa.
On the plane, she had prepared a lot of information and created an electronic chart of all the people who had been confirmed to have died from the drowning curse, from which she found some patterns.
"One thing is certain: all the people who died were from cities near the sea. There were no cases of drowning curses in lakes, rivers, or major rivers." Lingling was full of energy, as if she had been injected with hormones.
"I remember Lao Lu mentioned something back then, that this Drowning Curse should be some kind of marine parasite, just like the one in the stadium back then," Mo Fan said.
Upon hearing this, Lingling immediately said, "Then why didn't you tell me before?"
"Uh... I just remembered." Mo Fan scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly.
Lingling then looked at Lu Jie, as if to say, "You'd better give me an explanation!"
Lu Jie turned his head away, looking to the side as if I knew nothing.
"You two go out in pairs to visit people who have recently died but didn't end up in the ocean. Maybe you can extract parasites from them," Lingling said.
Following instructions, the four of them set off in pairs to visit people throughout the city, especially those living along the coast.
Soon, Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue made a discovery and notified the three of them to come over immediately.
Not long after, Lu Jie and the other two arrived at Bobby's house.
When Bobby saw a little girl walk in, he hurriedly said, "Little girl, don't come in, you'll be scared!"
Lingling still went inside, her eyes, gleaming with a wisdom beyond her years, staring directly at the bloody scene.
She moved closer, stirring the somewhat viscous blood in the basin with her fingers, then slightly lifted the face of the dead Norko and examined it carefully.
Bobby was stunned, staring at the little girl for a long time before he came to his senses.
"You didn't notify the local police or the Magic Association, did you?"
"Of course not. I notified you as soon as I discovered this situation, and I also used spatial magic to isolate this place to ensure that the smell cannot spread out," Mo Fan said.
Lingling discovered some strange odds and ends, and then collected them in a vacuum bag.
"Let's find a skilled craftsman to dissect him," Lingling said.
"Dissection...? Absolutely not!!" Bobby immediately objected. His brother was already dead, and he never expected his body to be treated like this.
"If you think giving him a dignified burial is more meaningful than finding the real culprit, then you can notify the Magic Association to come over now," Lingling said.
Bobby was stunned, seemingly struggling with his thoughts.
"If you, like us, want to know exactly what killed your brother and younger brother, then do as she says," Mo Fan said earnestly.
"Um..." Lu Jie raised his hand.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm pretty good at dissection. If you don't mind, I'll dissect Norko," Lu Jie said.
Lu Jie then took out dissection tools, which prompted Mo Fan to ask, "Old Lu... do you carry these with you at all times?"
My god, this is terrifying! I never imagined my best friend would have this kind of hobby!
"Ahem, Lingling and I will begin the dissection now." Lu Jie coughed. He couldn't very well say that he was preparing this thing in order to create an alchemical creature.
Soon, the two began the dissection. Suddenly, Lu Jie, with his sharp eyes, noticed something wriggling in the viscous blood.
With quick reflexes, he scooped it up with a strainer.
"What's this?" Mo Fan asked, pointing to the contents of the strainer.
"Don't move it. This thing is very fragile. It will die once it leaves the liquid," Lingling said.
"Rinse it with distilled water," Lingling instructed.
Lu Jie took the bottle containing distilled water and began to pour it. Strangely, as the viscous blood was washed away, the wriggling blood clots seemed to dissolve and disappeared on the filter.
"What happened?"
"Look carefully," Lingling said.
Everyone lowered their heads and examined the filter carefully, and found a small, transparent maggot.
This thing has a body as soft as a jellyfish, but it is more transparent than a jellyfish, almost to the point of being invisible to the naked eye. Its shape is similar to a maggot, and it is a little larger than a thumb.
"It really was you, you jellyfish maggot!!"
(End of this chapter)