The sun is high

Under the explanation of Scholar Legere, these strange creatures removed from the dwarves gradually revealed their true side to everyone present.

Although they were mutated based on the skin of terrestrial creatures, under the influence of certain forces, they already had the ability to survive in the ocean at the beginning of their birth. However, with the female dwarf Yena Unlike the giant crayfish that evolved inside their bodies, these "skinworms" don't seem to have that exaggerated IQ.

Their every move seems to be more primitive instinct.

After Scholar Lege's explanation, Shuge came to the "skin bug" as a sample. After that, he took out an alchemy container wrapped and bound by layers of magic power from his pocket.

Inside the container, the strange creature that mutated from the cyanobacteria shrimp was slowly suspended in the solution.

Xiuge wanted to see what impact the power from the deformed crayfish would have on the "skinworms".

After everyone retreated to a relatively safe position, Xiuge began to slowly remove the magic power exerted on the container. As this move progressed, the "skin bugs" that were originally moving freely in the water tank soon began to appear. reacted.

It seemed to feel something, and its behavior began to become restless, but due to the interference of the protective magic attached to the sink, it was never able to confirm the specific target.

So Xiuge took the initiative to remove the isolation magic on the sink for it.

This time it was an instant success.

At the moment when the isolation disappeared, this weird creature suddenly stopped its movements. It turned around, its paper-like body curled up slightly, and the two "small dots" on its back that seemed to be eyes were facing Xiuge. direction.

The next second, as if it had received some kind of instruction, the "skin bug" began to attack the wall of the tank in front of it.

"Pah! Pah!"

After all, this weird bug has not fully grown. The power it erupts is extremely limited, and there is no way to damage the water tank with solidification magic attached to it. Therefore, it can only rely on its own power to continuously slap and collide with the transparent obstacle.

But in the process, everyone successfully felt the strong desire to attack it showed.

In order to successfully destroy the obstacles in front of it, it even tried to twist its black tentacles together to form a "drill", but this behavior was ultimately meaningless.

Seeing this scene, Xiuge's expression gradually darkened. He turned around and ordered the mage on the side to bring other collected crayfish blood. Soon, a small half cup of phantom blood mixed with some incomplete pieces was delivered. In front of Xiuge.

This time, the "skin bug" reaction became even more intense.

Before Shuge could completely remove the magic sealed on the blood container, the "skin bugs" in the water tank had already entered a state of extreme madness under the influence of the blood, and their body shapes even began to undergo specific evolutions.

In order to improve its combat effectiveness as much as possible, it actually began to give up its original body shape. In front of everyone, the smaller half of this weird bug's body began to wither and collapse rapidly, while the other half of its body that survived It expanded rapidly, and the tentacles that were originally as soft as hair began to fuse.

After the initial entanglement, these tentacles finally completed their transformation into limbs, and at the ends of these limbs, Xiuge even saw the familiar hook structure, and as it waved these limbs, inside the water tank attached to the magic There was a harsh sound immediately.

After witnessing these changes with his own eyes, Xiuge immediately chose to use magic power to seal the blood, so the "skin bug" inside the tank immediately became much calmer, but at this time it seemed to have confirmed its specific goal, so It is still relentlessly impacting the water tank in front of you, but its intensity is slightly weaker than before.

At this moment, many messages related to the "color of life" and these weird blood collided fiercely in Xiuge's mind. Xiuge recalled the behavior of the obviously intelligent deformed crayfish before it died, and then Looking at the "newborn" in the container in his hand, which had grown again with the help of cyanobacteria shrimp, but wanted to commit suicide for the first time, his face quickly darkened.

Combined with the reaction of the "skin bug" in front of him to the blood and the power in it, a somewhat terrifying conclusion quickly formed in Xiuge's mind.

"No wonder it actively seeks death..."

Xiuge's words were squeezed out from between his teeth. He turned to Wei Lin and other mages and scholars and said: "That crayfish, that monster born with the female dwarf Yena as its mother... it The meaning of existence may be death, and its death is a terrible signal to some things in the ocean."

A mage couldn't understand, so he shook his head and asked: "Signal? What does it mean?"

"It's like the magic signal released by a spy or spy who sneaks into the enemy's position on the battlefield."

Shuge whispered: "I mean... the kind of signal used to notify one's compatriots and comrades, telling them where to bombard and where to launch concentrated attacks."

"You mean...that shrimp, that monster is using its own death to send a message to its fellow humans?"

"It can be said like this."

Xiuge nodded: "There is some kind of power in this blood that we don't understand enough. Like the monsters in Salem City before, they all come from that long lost era... If I'm not wrong, this kind of Power can be neutral, or it can be given to will, or it can evolve under the control of a specific will in ways that we cannot understand."

"The final result of evolution is to form a huge 'ethnic group' or 'community'."

"I think I understand Mr. Shuge... What you want to say is that the strange shrimp and these weird bugs, although their shapes and types are completely different, are related by similar forces, just like Are those ants the same as bees?”

Scholar Legere reacted very quickly. Although the words spoken by Shuge sounded very unreasonable, he still understood the meaning in time.

The scholar, who studies marine magical creatures, raised his fist and smashed his palm hard: "And this means that when the monster exploded into a ball of flesh in the cabin, it had already used its own body to His blood and that power marked our Windless One with a mark?"

Xiuge nodded: "And it is a very, very conspicuous mark."

The mage of the Law Committee in charge of the affairs of the Windless One gritted his teeth: "But we have sealed off the scene immediately and set up protective rituals. Maybe this so-called signal was not sent out successfully?"

"That power is not the magic we are familiar with."

Xiuge ruthlessly broke the mage's luck: "The isolation and protection we built based on magic power may not be able to completely block the transmission of this signal. Any leakage of any information may make those We are targeted by potential trackers and predators."

"But so what?"

The elf scholar who was invited shook his head and said: "Although the Windless One we are riding on is not an armored ship, it is strong and safe enough. What's more, we are escorted by other ships, and the weapons on board have also experienced passed the test of previous wars.”

The elf scholar looked at Shuge and said seriously: "Mr. Shuge, I can understand the tremendous pressure you endured when fighting those monsters in Salem City, but now we are operating as a team equipped with sophisticated weapons. "

"You should know that since the emergence of large ships such as armored ships, there have been few rumors of magical creatures in the ocean and so-called 'sea monsters' attacking ships in Van En."

Having said this, the elf scholar shrugged indifferently: "Even if there is really a dangerous creature, can it still withstand the bombardment of those high-power crystal naval guns or ship-borne bombs?"

"What you say makes sense, but do you really know what happened in Salem City?"

Shuge's eyes fell on the face of this elf scholar. At this moment, the plain elf who had been quite confident just now felt an invisible and huge pressure inexplicably. He instinctively wanted to avoid the other person's sight. , but his dignity as a social elite allowed him to persist.

So he heard Shuge say: "Oh, Salem City... I actually want to ask, why did it become a scorched city when we have mastered so many powerful weapons? Those who died there were not It’s just the refugees trapped in the city, but there are also soldiers carrying sophisticated equipment and pilots of airships.”

After refuting the elf scholar's point of view, Shuge turned to look at the person in charge of the Legal Committee: "Inform the situation here, as before, try to keep it confidential...notify our escort ships, and strengthen the response Observations of the surrounding sea surface.”

"The detection secrets on all ships can also be used."

Wei Lin added on the side: "Although they consume the magic crystals seriously, we have now adjusted our course. Even if there is no problem, we can reach the shore before the magic crystals are completely consumed."

…

At night, the Windless One and all its escort ships were put on alert. All passengers on the Windless One were asked not to leave the cabin easily, and heavily armed sailors also officially began patrolling the interior of the ship.

The windows of all cabins are now specially treated. In addition to closing the curtains, they are also imbued with magical rituals that can block out the light inside.

The cabin that was previously stained by the blood of the deformed crayfish has been "disinfected" in the most thorough manner, and all objects in it have been isolated by layers of magical rituals.

Every fifteen minutes or so, a slight magical hum will spread outward from the center of the moving fleet. This is the shock caused by the secret instrument used for large-scale detection.

Through this, the mage responsible for operating the secret ritual can expand his magic perception to an extremely exaggerated level and promptly confirm abnormalities that appear near the fleet.

In this thick night, the fleet continued to break through the wind and waves and headed in the predetermined direction.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Meyer and others, who were originally handling matters at the Dawn Society's residence, suddenly received an emergency notice from the laboratory.

The deformed parrotfish caught by Shuge and Weilin near the pier and named "Sample No. 1" suddenly woke up from its previous slumber. It behaved extremely violently and showed some new traits. Variety.

When Meyer and others rushed to the laboratory, all the researchers and mages related to the matter were already present.

People saw that the parrotfish imprisoned in the huge alchemy tank seemed to have entered a new stage at this time - the tendrils and tissues that originally grew from its body surface now seemed to have completely lost their vitality. .

Meyer and others saw that those strange structures were falling off the body of the giant parrotfish, and the disgusting scales and minced meat soon spread a thick layer on the bottom of the tank, and as the The parrotfish trembled subconsciously, and more flesh and blood peeled off from its body and sank to the bottom of the water.

"What's going on with it? Is it going to die?"

Meyer frowned and carefully observed the body of the parrotfish, and then he discovered that the new scars on the giant fish seemed to show no signs of healing.

Meyer knew that in the past period of time, Dawn Society researchers had removed tissues of various sizes from this giant fish countless times, but these actions failed to cause fatal damage to it. Wounds of varying sizes tend to heal in a very short period of time, and even grow new structures and pieces of flesh.

But now, this amazing vitality seems to have disappeared from it.

Daswell's eyes stayed on the residue and debris accumulated at the bottom of the sink. He stared at these strange-shaped disgusting debris, but his brows gradually furrowed.

He saw that among the fragments, there seemed to be some strange liquid slowly floating out. It was not blood or turbid pus, but an abnormal and special color.

It looks like a flowing rainbow.

Others also noticed this special situation, but before these surprised researchers could take any further action, the colors flowing from the minced meat began to quickly gather inside the tank.

Soon, a group of colorful shadows that was constantly changing its shape was completely formed in the water tank. It floated slowly, as if it were a whole made up of countless tiny points of light.

As for the huge strange fish that once served as its carrier, it completely lost all vitality in the process. The body that once had numerous deformed structures eventually became mottled, and it slowly sank toward the bottom of the tank. Go and lie with the broken pieces.