Chapter 71: Chapter 28: White Queen II
"Don’t be afraid, little one."
The White Queen chuckled lightly and stood up. Her figure was extremely slender; lying down, you wouldn’t feel it, but standing, she seemed to be over two meters tall.
Her smile was quite captivating, making one feel close to her involuntarily. As her voice rang out, Su Ziyu’s mood gradually calmed, yet his hand still rested on the hilt of his sword.
"Ah." The White Queen, gracefully stretching, had an almost perfect figure that attracted the eye. She glanced at Su Ziyu and said, "It seems you know quite a bit!"
The sense of crisis brought by Superhuman Perception gradually subsided.
However, Su Ziyu’s expression remained wary, as he slowly asked: "Are you polluted too?"
She had a similar aura to the Winter Witch.
The smell of decay.
"Yes." The White Queen gently raised her hand, conjuring a chair out of thin air before her. She nodded calmly and said, "Indeed. I am polluted too."
"But this level of pollution cannot affect me."
She was very confident.
The White Queen in front of him was different from the rumors; she was said to be noble, beautiful, gentle, and kind—almost a perfect incarnation of femininity. But now, the White Queen Su Ziyu saw was proud, confident, powerful, and a bit mischievous, even teasing him upon their first meeting, releasing a somewhat dark aura.
With Perception Enhancement, he was sensitive to this aura!
"You don’t believe it?" The White Queen suddenly giggled, her red lips parted slightly, "You look like a Spiritualist."
"Why not open your eyes and see?"
Su Ziyu hesitated a bit, but then a glimmer appeared in his eyes.
—"Spiritual Vision!"
A sharp pain erupted directly in Su Ziyu’s spirit, causing him to groan involuntarily, and then he looked at the White Queen in front of him.
He.
He saw a being akin to a divine deity.
Behind the charming silhouette of the White Queen was a female giant seated on an icy throne, looking almost identical to the White Queen, except she was twenty to thirty meters tall just by sitting down, her body cloaked in white Spiritual Light. This goddess-like giant looked forward, her body mostly covered in ice, yet still emitted strands of dark, decayed aura.
The giant’s gaze dropped to Su Ziyu, her voice calm, "You seem not to have looked at yourself yet. Why not take a look at yourself?"
As the words fell.
Su Ziyu’s vision spun wildly, and by the time he gathered himself, he was staring at his expressionless self.
Behind him was another self.
He had an extraordinarily tall stature, nearly five meters, with muscles bulging robustly, filled with an astounding explosive power. The Su Ziyu in front of him had a cold, grim expression, and crimson pupils focused ahead. His hair had transformed into thick, long braids; one hand had become a massive gray-white bone blade, while the other was three slightly writhing dark green tentacles constantly changing form. On his spine vertebrae, two slightly bulging tumorous growths could be seen, and as Su Ziyu observed him, this mutated Su Ziyu also glanced back at himself, after which the tumors on his back broke open; two sharp bone spurs extended sinuously from his back, forming a pair of fearsome wing-like bone spurs.
"What the hell!"
"This isn’t me!..."
Su Ziyu breathed heavily, his Spiritual Vision already dissipating due to mental instability.
He gazed at his own hands, muttering, "Pollution level."
"I’ve also been corrupted by flesh."
In the Spiritual Vision state, the phantom behind Su Ziyu seemed like a super-mutated version of himself, even more terrifying than a super-mutant!
No wonder the Winter Witch found his attitude a bit odd at first.
She must have seen it early on!
"Hehe! You see, you’re polluted too." The White Queen returned to her throne, lazily propping her chin with her fair hand, her expression playful, "Are you not yourself after all?"
He didn’t feel anything abnormal.
Indeed.
The corruption of flesh in him had not yet erupted, and the pollution level had not reached the degree necessary to transform into such a super-mutant form. In the Wasteland World, Su Ziyu had only injected two Antiradiation Potions, one when fleeing the Southern Cross with Pasha, and the other before leaving the Wasteland World.
There were major issues with those Antiradiation Potions!
The other self Su Ziyu saw in his Spiritual Vision was entirely a cold monstrous figure.
"What are you trying to say?" Calming down, Su Ziyu raised his eyes to stare directly at the White Queen, no longer swayed by her startling beauty, and asked intensely.
The expression of the White Queen gradually turned solemn.
She sat up, facing Su Ziyu’s gaze, "The proud witches of the Land of the Elf have actually sent you here looking for help. The situation is far worse than I imagined."
"To resolve all these troubles."
"You must trust me unconditionally!"
"Rather than letting you discover I’m also polluted. I’d better tell you voluntarily."
Is it so?
By the way, telling me that I’m polluted too?
A woman with a deep mind.
Indeed, when you cut open something white, it’s black inside.
The White Queen here isn’t as simple as the rumors suggest. She’s a really formidable woman, much harder to deal with than the Winter Witch.
"How were you polluted?" The pollution Su Ziyu faced was due to injecting Antiradiation Potions, but as for why the Winter Witch turned out that way, he only had a vague guess.
He continued asking, "Did the Winter Witch and a Great Elf visit you back then?"
"How were they polluted?"
Upon hearing this, the White Queen was silent for a moment, then softly replied, "Golden Apples."
Indeed!
The strange changes that happened to the Winter Witch were related to Golden Apples.
"Do you know why I can still remain lucid?" The White Queen stood up, slowly opening a box beside her.
Golden Apple.
A legendary Golden Apple appeared before Su Ziyu, exuding an unparalleled fragrant allure, making one covetously wish to sink their teeth into it.
The White Queen gently moved the box aside.
Lo and behold!
The Golden Apple before him had a bite taken out of it, and where it had been bitten, like black mud, the juice dripped slowly down.
"Want a taste?" The White Queen smiled enticingly.
Was this woman crazy?
Su Ziyu quickly shook his head. The longer he conversed with the White Queen, the more he realized the hint of madness hidden beneath her beautiful façade.
No wonder Rebecca had such a complex expression when he entered.
"We found three Golden Apples in the ruins of the Old World." The White Queen sighed as she gently closed the box, continuing slowly, "One is with me, one was taken to the Land of the Elf, and the last was seized by the Dragon Witch."
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