The [Wind and Thunder King] could not believe her ears, and wanted even less to believe what her eyes would see next.
"Are you trying to turn the Third Zone into a vegetable market?"
"Quit talking. Since you're here, make yourself useful. This task is yours."
Wan Lan took the bright green liquid from Ye Buyu and shoved it into the bewildered [Wind and Thunder King]'s hands.
"We're all cucumbers now, so we can't do this ourselves. We'll have to leave it to you. Disguise yourself as me and spread panic in Hold Up the Heavens' name."
Looking down at the liquid in her hands, then at the six cucumbers before her, the [Wind and Thunder King]'s brain short-circuited.
"So I'm a magician?"
Magician, my ass. Su Wuwei laughed speechlessly.
"Accept your fate. Stop fighting it."
Incomprehensible.
Hold Up the Heavens' way of doing things was getting harder and harder to understand. Logic had been devoured, common sense sucked dry. All that remained was an absurd sense of abstraction.
Holding the potion, the [Wind and Thunder King] stood there for half a minute. Through a long daze and a jumble of thoughts, she rebuilt her worldview, then disguised herself as a member of Hold Up the Heavens and began spreading poison everywhere.
What else could I do? The boss gave the order. Could I refuse?
She kept comforting herself. Whatever. It's still better than always either using Self-Detonation or being on my way to using Self-Detonation.
What more could I ask for?
As the storm swept through, one group of Calamities after another suffered.
For the Calamities, already badly wounded and terrified, this only made things worse.
"Who exactly are you? Why have you turned my subordinates into this?!"
A group of cucumbers roared indignantly...
The [Wind and Thunder King]