Chapter 236: Spawning
Zhang Han didn't have time to ask Gu Dong's question, his body slid without hesitation, and he fell obliquely from the top of the high tree, and the Hongjian technique unfolded silently, passing through the bushes like a night bat, following the trail of the black-bodied humanoid.
At the same time, strengthen the pursuit of the realm of consciousness and firmly lock its every move.
Lin Shenyue is tall, and the black-bodyed humanoid wings seem to be able to glide only with strength, so the speed of escape is not too fast, but he is very familiar with the mountainous terrain, a few ups and downs, a few ups and downs, flashed over a rugged mountain beam, and actually avoided the tracking of the realm from Zhang Han's flank, and then suddenly increased his speed, and rolled over the other side of the mountain along the steep ridge.
Zhang Han hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to continue the pursuit, and for the sake of safety, Zhang Han used the Hidden Demon Technique to cross the ridge and continue forward.
Passing through a barren shrub, the terrain changed sharply, as if entering a different wilderness mountain, everywhere wet night mist filled, under the reflection of the moonlight, gloomy and cold, moss and wild mushrooms were everywhere.
In a tall and humid mushroom forest, the figure of the black-bodied human figure flashed, disappearing like a ghost in the dense and tall mushroom bushes. It quickly disappeared, and even its smell could not be smelled again, and the realm of consciousness searched dozens of kilometers in a radius, but found nothing.
Zhang Han had never seen such tall mushrooms, each one several feet high, like a towering tree, uneven, and under the faint blue moonlight, it was like countless monster sentinels lined up, densely packed with no boundaries.
"Gollum boy, did you think it would be a myeloid eater?" I asked Gollum in a low voice.
Gollum rubbed his eyes sleepily: "I'm sorry, I fell asleep just now, I didn't see it, there doesn't seem to be a record of the marrow eater in my previous memory." ”
Zhang Han almost tilted his nose out of breath: "At such an important moment, you actually fell asleep?"
Gollum pouted, "Do you think I'm willing?" I don't know why, since entering these gloomy valleys, I've been dozing off very easily, and I fall asleep without paying attention. ”
Zhang Han was a little surprised: "No, is it because of the water and soil?"
Gollum shook his head and said, "No way, we micro-spirits won't have anything to adapt to, unless it's because we have met a nemesis." ”
Zhang Han jumped on the top of a huge mushroom, and searched and captured inch by inch in the surrounding mushroom forest, but did not find anything abnormal, and there was a dead silence in the mushroom forest, not even the chirping of insect stings.
Could it be that the black-body humanoid is a mushroom demon?
Zhang Han unleashed the Hidden Demon Technique, carefully sneaking along the tops of giant mushrooms, slowly going deeper. Gollum stretched out its sensitive nose and sniffed around, but the smell of the black-bodied humanoid figure sank into the sea like a stone, and completely disappeared into the mushroom forest.
After carefully searching for a fragrant plant, there was a slight wheezing sound from the depths of the mushroom forest, Zhang Han was happy in his heart, I have caught you! The body turned into a gaseous state, and quietly searched for the sound, and at the bottom of a tall mushroom root, a humanoid monster covered with black hair was crawling and gasping.
In the moonlight, it looked very real: broad-faced, bared teeth, long, slender limbs, a curled lion's tail between the groins, wings covering the upper body, and dark blue eyes like two burning ghost fires. Such a monster that is not human, beast is not beast, and fowl is not a bird, and it makes people feel bad when they look at it.
The most strange thing is its abdomen, which is high and bulging, swollen and incomparably swollen, like a pregnant woman waiting to give birth.
The tall mushroom is surrounded by a circle of grass and branches and leaves, like a simple nest, and there are several skeletons of human and demon bones lying horizontally around the cover, and the scene is a bit eerie.
It didn't seem to have any alert reaction to Zhang Han's whereabouts, and it couldn't perceive Zhang Han's consciousness capture, obviously it wasn't the black-body humanoid monster with weird demonic power that it tracked just now, but the two of them were almost no different in shape, they should be the same kind.
It seems that it should be a female, could this be a myeloid eater? Zhang Han was suspicious, and just wanted to get closer, when suddenly there was a commotion in the nearby mushroom forest, and several black-bodied monsters like it flashed out of the tall mushrooms near and far, each of which carried the corpse of a fierce beast that was still dripping with blood on its shoulders.
The black-bodied monster placed the body of the beast next to the nest of the female black-body monster waiting to give birth, and the female monster gasped and stretched out her claws, grabbed the body of a horse-headed fish-patterned beast, tore open its chest, and violently opened its mouth to swallow the huge bright red heart of the horse-headed fish-patterned beast whole, and then dissected its skull, sucking the brains inside.
Gu Dong said firmly in a secret voice: "Zhang Long, this must be the myeloid eater, the early myeloid eater relied on sucking the brain marrow and heart of humans and demons to enhance their development and maturity, they could not find people and demons to suck them, and they could only rely on the corpses of beasts to maintain them." ”
Zhang Han was puzzled: "Are you really sure it's a marrow eater? Doesn't it mean that they only spread to the area of Qilian Mountain? This is too fast, right?"
"Have you forgotten that the most powerful thing about the myeloid eaters is their reproduction speed?" According to the records of ancient books, a female myeloid eater can give birth to five to six cubs a day, the question is what are you going to do now?"
Zhang Han said in his heart: "Since they are marrow eaters, then you can use them now, this first skill of demon eradication, of course, is mine." ”
As he spoke, the female myeloid eater had already sucked up all the corpses of several fierce beasts, and her body immediately changed rapidly, her bulging belly trembled, and the female myeloid eater screamed in pain, and suddenly stretched out her claws to tear open her belly, and with a bang, five or six huge blood eggs jumped out of its belly, like rolling down five or six big pumpkins.
Zhang Han's original desire to do it was pressed again, and he really wanted to see what was going on with the offspring of the marrow-eating grotesque.
Several male marrow eaters gathered around the nest had surprised faces, and their expressions were as if they had seen the birth of their own son, screaming and dancing.
Five or six bloody eggs melted almost in the wind, the egg shells burst in waves, and a few palm-sized wet black boys struggled out of them, shaking the wet liquid on their bodies, standing up straight, opening their mouths to show a row of tiny bared teeth, and craned their necks to wait to be fed.
Then something even more incredible happened, as several male myeloid eaters picked up a cub and stretched out their necks to let the cubs bite and suck their own blood.
After a while, the cubs' bodies changed dramatically, gradually developing from the size of a palm to two feet, two and a half feet, and three feet......
By the time the cubs landed, they had swelled to half the size of a male myeloid eater.
Zhang Han felt a chill down his spine when he saw it, with such a terrifying ability to develop and reproduce, it was no wonder that the people and demons in the Xuanjing Continent were afraid of them, and everyone wanted to surround them.
Zhang Han quietly pulled out the elf sword, and before he could make a move, a fragrant breeze came from behind him, and a slender figure sneaked to his side.
Zhang Han looked back and saw that it was Chu Danchen.
Zhang Han said in his heart, it turned out that she was not idle, she had been following here, and the strange movement of the marrow eater did not escape her eyes, but my knowledge world actually found no trace of her, which is really ashamed.
At that moment, Zhang Han's thoughts were a little wandering, both surprised and delighted, being able to fight side by side with Chu Danchen was something he had always dreamed of.
"Don't worry, they're going to concentrate this way. Chu Danchen held down the elf sword in Zhang Han's hand, and said to Zhang Han in a low voice.
"How did you find them?" Zhang Han whispered to her curiously, her hair was fragrant and very pleasant to smell.
Chu Danchen snorted, frowned and said in a low voice: "This commander is the commander of the inspection post, you left the guard without permission, of course I went around to take a look." ”
Zhang Han was happy in his heart: "It turned out that the commander came to track me down, but I didn't expect to see a miracle, it's not simple." ”
Fix your eyes and look at the marrow eater below, sure enough, before the tea time, more than a dozen marrow eater monsters appeared one after another around, some male and female, some burly and strong, and some with big bellies. Two of the tails have degenerated to the point that their palms are short, and the wings behind them are fuller and longer, and they have become more human-like.
Zhang Han was very curious in his heart, these two myeloid eaters are obviously different from the others, could they be the marrow eaters who have evolved to the middle stage or the demon stage?
More than twenty myeloid eaters sat around the nest, holding hands, looking up at the moonlight in the sky, breathing together, and after a while, the air exhaled from their mouths became stronger and stronger, and the air around them swirled, condensing into a whirlpool above their heads, and the moonlight fell obliquely, like wisps of crystal yarn were condensed into solids, and then decomposed and inhaled into their respective noses.
"Can the Great Commander see what kind of cultivation method they have?" Zhang Han asked Chu Danchen beside him in a curious low voice.
"Don't you see? They are sucking the essence of the moon, the marrow eater is the most greedy demon in the Xuanjing Continent, the spirit of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, they will not let go at all, as long as they can enhance their demonic power and body evolution, they can eat everything. Chu Danchen replied in a low voice a little impatiently.