The sun is high

Xiuge's understanding of the "color of life" and the life forms derived from it, as well as the "ethnic group" composed of these lives and creations, is still very limited.

Even after Theseus gave enough hints and descriptions, he could not use his imagination to directly describe these special existences that once almost dominated Van En.

Xiuge had no idea that just a few days after he boarded the Windless One, they would appear so directly in front of him, and show their uniqueness that was completely different from other ancient creations.

The moment the giant "strange shrimp" broke open the female dwarf's body and emerged from it, the Destiny Roots group residing in Shuge's spiritual world reacted extremely strongly to it.

In this strange creature, the root tribe captured a characteristic that is slightly similar to their own.

After the debate between these highly intelligent roots, they determined that this creature born under the influence of the "Color of Life", like themselves, also has the ability to influence and interfere with other living beings around it.

"Compared to us, it may be better at controlling the minds and spirits of its prey..."

The leader of Gensu's tribe said to Shuge on behalf of his own tribe: "Our tribe has experienced a long migration, from the coast to the inland swamps... Perhaps at the beginning, we also had a similar origin to it."

"In terms of mental interference, it is more powerful than us...that seems to be its innate instinct."

Xiuge, who was reminded by the root of destiny, frowned slightly. At this moment, the two eyes of the strange shrimp looked towards Xiuge, and the eyes of the two sides collided wonderfully.

Xiuge saw that within the two round eyeballs, a rich psychedelic color emerged at this moment, as if a high concentration of "color of life" was flowing inside the transparent crystal.

He felt a little flustered for no reason, and then a series of negative emotions such as nervousness, panic, and nausea poured out like a mudslide.

And as all these bad emotions emerged, Xiuge began to involuntarily develop a strong hostility towards the strange existence in front of him. His palm shook slightly, and then he had the urge to shoot it directly with the hound's teeth.

However, this state only lasted for a moment.

Ever since Xiuge had not really become a spellcaster, the huge metal disc that was the basis of his power had been his most solid spiritual fortress and line of defense. But now, facing that sign, it was extremely clear and there was no cover-up at all. Due to the interference and intrusion, the huge disc, which itself was shrouded in fog, reacted again.

High-speed and orderly rotation began.

Large and small precision mechanical structures become active. They continuously repeat their work according to specific rules. The magic power flowing in the gaps and patterns of the disc becomes dazzling light and shadow with this rotation. .

Before the interference force from the "Color of Life" could officially set foot on this spiritual territory, it was crushed and destroyed by the high-speed rotating disc. The soft tentacles with psychedelic colors turned into countless residues on the spot, falling towards He entered the spiritual ocean below the disc, and was swallowed up and assimilated by Xiuge's already extremely tenacious spiritual power.

Some kind of piercing whine came from the body of the strange shrimp wearing a carapace. Shuge's brows widened. Then everyone saw that one of the eyes of the strange creature in front of them suddenly burst open, and a thick liquid burst out. It burst out from it and sprayed on the surrounding ground.

Such a scene should be disgusting.

However, when the liquid fell on the floor of the cabin, it added a strange flowing sheen to the originally dark brown carpet, and a strange smell began to escape in the air, and this smell was mixed with the corpse of the female dwarf. Among the bloody smell, there was a faint sweet smell.

At this moment, the strange shrimp once again made a strange sharp sound. Then, it raised its fragile-looking limbs and staggered out of the cracked body of the female dwarf, and He took a step toward the crowd of onlookers.

However, before it could stand firm, it fell to the ground with a series of crisp sounds, and its originally curled body stretched out, making it look more like a deformed ocean crayfish.

Xiuge was already ready to attack, but the abnormal behavior of the creature in front of him made him hesitate. Coupled with the abnormal negative emotions exposed in the previous mental attack, Xiuge instead forced himself to press the button. His urge to kill on the spot.

This thing is really too fragile.

Such a life form obviously does not have any ability to fight or fight. Apart from the seemingly slightly hard carapace, Xiuge could not even see any physical structure related to offense and defense on its body.

Thinking of the Roots of Destiny and the court hound's judgment and attitude towards the target in front of him, Shuge realized that he probably couldn't treat it the same way he would treat an ordinary enemy.

"Something is abnormal..."

Shuge realized the problem and immediately adopted a completely different strategy.

He directly withdrew the Hound's Fang in his hand and quickly mobilized his magic power.

This time, Shuge's surging magic power was not to cast any destructive magic, but to start constructing a magic ritual around the fragile "newborn" in front of him - before figuring out the existence meaning and specific intention of the thing in front of him, He was not prepared to harm the other person's life, but took the lead in using protective and controlling magic to imprison and bind him.

However, just as the first layer of the basic protective ritual was being formed, the deformed crayfish that collapsed on the ground seemed to notice something, so it rolled and bounced violently, and its body directly hit the invisible trap set by Shuge. Barrier, this rough action caused one of its limbs to be broken on the spot, and more blood with strange colors flowed out...

This crazy behavior seemed to be a clear signal.

Those onlookers who were in a state of tension and had been holding weapons suddenly got some hint at this moment. The string that had been tight in their brains suddenly broke. Out of instinct, several people were close to the deformed crayfish. The dwarves and sailors who were closer followed the whispers in their heads and pulled the trigger.

A variety of crystal bullets of different types and powers immediately bombarded the ground of the cabin where the crayfish was from different directions. Loud noises reverberated inside the cabin, triggering a series of commotions.

This situation completely exceeded Shuge's expectations, and in a series of gunshots, Shuge had just completed the construction, and the basic ceremony that was still in an invisible and transparent state immediately suffered the most direct impact!

Because he was already aware of the danger of the creation in front of him in the spiritual realm, the first thing Xiuge constructed was the magic for spiritual isolation. There was nothing worthy of praise in terms of its resistance to actual impact.

Several sailors who fired under mental interference were not able to cause too much damage to the magic ritual constructed by Shuge - because they were on a cruise ship, the new imitation firearms they carried were not equipped with powerful crystals. bullet.

The purpose of this is mainly to prevent significant damage to important parts and structures on the ship due to continuous shooting in accidental situations.

Similarly, these bullets that could not trigger high-power magic explosions did not cause much damage to Shuge's magic ritual, but then, the bullets fired by two mentally disturbed dwarves brought completely different effects.

These dwarves, who have always ignored the rules of the human world and are extremely hostile to these restrictive requirements, will certainly not be so cooperative with the so-called boarding inspection.

They used various little tricks to hide from the investigators of the Legal Affairs Commission, and carried these high-power crystal bullets with them, which were obviously illegal.

Now, they hit Xiuge's magic ceremony hard.

At the moment when the magic explosion occurred, Xiuge had a profound understanding of the sentence "If you fail to succeed, you will fail" for the first time.

Whether it was the magic ritual he had just completed or the regular magic models he was constructing, they were all destroyed by this disorderly and chaotic explosion. After this fragile barrier was torn down, the man exuding inexplicable spiritual influence The deformed crayfish were naturally exposed to deadly firepower.

It's fragile.

Even those ordinary metal bullets are enough to kill it.

Relying on his reaction speed, Xiuge retreated several meters almost instantly, avoiding the center of the fatal explosion. However, the crayfish lying on the ground was torn into pieces and residue on the spot. This strange The newborn has just begun to observe the world, and then meets a tragic death in this bizarre way.

Almost in an instant, the weird interference that had been exerted on people's hearts completely disappeared. Those people who were originally prepared to continue shooting under the emotions of fear and hatred woke up to the loud noise of the magic explosion.

Then they saw that the body of the female dwarf Yena and the deformed crayfish were now completely "mixed" together, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other. The grotesque and miserable pieces and a large amount of blood with an unspeakable color were spread wantonly. All around, there was a strange smell in the air.

The internal structural quality of the Windless Cruiser is still trustworthy. The explosion caused by the crystal bullet only destroyed the carpet on the ground and left a huge black mark on the alchemy-treated ground. However, it is now repaired But Ge couldn't be happy at all. The death of the deformed crayfish couldn't bring him any sense of relief. Instead, it cast a layer of gloom in his heart.

Now Xiuge didn't want to talk nonsense with anyone. He "caught" all the members of the dwarf envoy one by one, and re-conducted the most detailed and violent magic inspection on them. After confirming that there were no more conflicts with Ye After discovering the hidden dangers similar to Na's, he signaled the mages of the Legal Committee to separate and manage all those who may have come into contact with the blood residue, including individual members of the Dawn Society.

After successfully clearing the place, he, Wei Lin and other mages who quickly sensed it, quickly used multiple different rituals to isolate the cabin.

In this mess, only the news brought by Wei Lin gave Shuge some comfort.

Weilin looked at the remains and blood scattered on the ground, which were being carefully collected by the other mages with their hands, and frowned: "I have already processed the removed 'skin worms'... I put them away. Entering a similar environment, there are at least four different isolation and protection rituals, but I am not sure of the specific effects."

The River Valley-level mage from the Legal Committee was also present. He looked worriedly at a broken carapace in the distance that had fallen into strange blood, and asked in an extremely uncertain tone: "No matter what, so far, this The 'monsters' on the ship have all been... controlled or eliminated, so there shouldn't be any other problems next, right?"

"Sorry, I don't think so."

Shuge shook his head and gave an extremely cold reply: "Let's not discuss those bugs that are caused by skin mutations. The 'monster' that just died gave me a very bad feeling. "

"It's a newborn, and it's a newborn with intelligence."

Shuge whispered: "Before it became like this, it looked at me. At that time, it tried to exert influence on me, interfere with my judgment, and invade my sanity... But it failed. After that, it took this extreme and bizarre action.”

Hearing this, Wei Lin already understood what Shuge wanted to say, so an expression of disbelief and surprise immediately appeared on her face, while the mage from the Legal Committee reacted a little slower, and he subconsciously asked :"What's the meaning?"

"It means that as a newborn with wisdom, it not only did not try hard to survive, but chose to die in this situation... It controlled those soldiers and dwarves who were mentally weak, and used the weapons in their hands to kill them. He turned into a pile of flesh and blood.”

After expressing his judgment, Xiuge sighed heavily: "This is too abnormal... It is actively seeking death, and what's even weirder is that after it discovered that I was trying to protect it, it changed its shape. I have to be more determined, as if, as if..."

Xiuge, who has always had a rich vocabulary, was inexplicably at a loss for words at this moment.

So Wei Lin, who was next to her, added: "You mean... mission?"

"Yes, that's the mission."

Xiuge nodded: "Its resolute and persistent performance is just like those victims who are burdened with certain missions and desperately want to promote the plan..."

Upon hearing these words, all the mages present fell into silence due to shock.

The cold and weird atmosphere seems to be spreading with the sweet smell of blood in the air...