Volume IV Chapter 8 Intelligence Analysis
For a situation that he couldn't understand, Shi Leiyin didn't plan to think alone. Originally, he told the library the known information to let the head of the Chamber of Commerce and his think tank help him analyze the situation together. Therefore, Shi Leiyin simply said that his previous experiments and results were not omitted, and at the same time expressed his guesses and doubts.
A new creature, temporarily named Blade Worm. The name comes from their diamond-shaped limbs, with sharp toes like sharp blades. Moreover, these bladed insects will only use the limbs in front of them to perform slash-like attacks. or on one or both feet, and does not use their body structure to pounce or other attacks. As for the name, Shi Leiyin originally wanted to add a title like dark or dark, after all, the shell of these bladed insects is black, supplemented by red lines and a pair of long red diamond-shaped compound eyes. The eyes are very different from the creature that hatched from the blood cocoon. The creature hatched from the Blood Cocoon, although it also had red compound eyes, was ordinary oval in shape. However, thinking that in addition to the similar shells and similar atmospheres on their bodies, only the red sphere-like object is left to classify the two into the same category. However, the red orb of the bloodcoon creature is located at the back of the head, and although exposed, it is protected by a crown and elytra. The red sphere of the blade insect is neatly located in the center of the lower part of the body, and according to the body structure of the insect, it is close to the junction of the chest and abdomen.
From the battle between the Blade Worm and the Labyrinth's infected monsters, it can be seen that the red orb should be one of the key points of this new creature. Although the attack of snake monsters rarely causes damage to the red orb, the occasional hit attack will cause the blade worm's movement to stop for a short time, and if the attack is powerful enough, it will be knocked back or even killed instantly.
That's right, although the Blade Worm seems to be powerful and dangerous, its overall strength is equivalent to that of a demonic beast of about seven or eight levels. If it weren't for the considerable advantage of the body structure, the bladed insects that invaded the third layer of the labyrinth with less than a hundred heads would not be able to fight back and forth with the snake demonic beasts that far outnumbered them. And even so, the number of blade insects was rapidly decreasing under the onslaught of snake demonic beasts, which had been significantly raised by a notch due to infection. If Shi Leiyin had come a little later, I am afraid that he would not have seen this battle.
Because the opponent is a snake monster, most of the blade insects are not so much killed as devoured. Although there are occasional giant pythons that are too greedy and are broken out by the other party because they swallow too many sharp blade worms, the bladed worms that are basically swallowed into the belly of the snake do not reappear. Only those Bladeworms that have been killed by corrosive venom or smashed into red balls in their abdomen will be left with corpses for a short time. That's right, it's only a short time to leave the corpse, and after the blade worm dies, the corpse will quickly weather, and the weathered corpse will turn into a very faint black smoke, and then quickly dissipate. Although Shi Leiyin couldn't confirm what those black gases were through the screen, even if he thought about them with his tentacles, he could guess that they must be negative black gases.
Shi Leiyin also noticed that the black qi on the head of the snake demonic beast that devoured the blade insect would be more intense. However, the change of snake monsters that poison or kill blade insects is much smaller. If the black gas transformed from the corpse of the blade insect is exposed to the air, it will be weakened to a certain extent, and it is likely that it will not be able to maintain its automatic dissipation in a short period of time without possession. This can effectively prevent being infected by black gas when facing this kind of new creatures in the future.
In addition to the doubts that the Blade Worm will fight against the upper half of the same kind of Warcraft that can be called infected. Shi Leiyin had other questions, why the infected snake demonic beasts were so slow to alienate. In other words, in addition to his own clone, in the situation I have seen so far, the most seriously infected poisonous python that has devoured more than ten sharp blade insects has only become extremely dense in the black qi on its head, and the red electric light flashes frequently, but it has not yet entered the transformation of the branch form.
At the same time, the corpses of the demonic beasts killed by the Blade Worm also did not appear to be rapidly transformed. In fact, there was also a situation where the Blade Worm had killed too many snake monsters that had been infected, and black gas began to appear on their heads.
"Isn't this bladeworm the same as the creature formed by the negative black gas, but it just happens to invade at the same time?" said Shi Leiyin, assuming a situation, and asked Thirteen. The other party is an expert in handling intelligence, and it is better to ask her than to ask about the library.
"From your intelligence, we can deduce two possibilities" Thirteen glanced at Ku, and after getting permission from the other party's eyes, he spoke directly.
"The first is what you said, it's a multi-racial invasion, two creatures that are originally hostile invade this world at the same time, so they will fight each other. I'm not optimistic about this claim, though, although we haven't actually observed the so-called blood-colored orbs. But my men have reported that adventurers in the labyrinth have observed similar species of objects crawling out of bladeworms. So I'm more inclined to the second possibility, which is that the negative black gas you are talking about is a special kind of catalytic substance. ”
Thirteen walked forward to Ku's side and reached out and dragged a display screen - it has to be said that the magic technology of the Golden Keis Chamber of Commerce far surpasses that of humans, and the display screen projected by these practical magic can not only be dragged at will, but also can be arbitrarily enlarged and reduced. Human society is in a state of science and technology similar to the Middle Ages, but this general control room gives Shi Leiyin a sense of the future world.
Thirteen zooms in on several static images in succession. In addition to the footage of the battle between the Blade Worm and the Snake Demon Beast that is currently going on, there are also some images from other levels of the labyrinth. There is even a picture of Shi Leiyin's form after the killing.
From the screen, it can be seen that the third layer of the maze is only the area where the blade worm still exists, and before that, the first to fifth floors of the labyrinth all appeared in the blade worm. And the time of appearance is very close to the time when Shi Leiyin's clone transformed into a blood cocoon.
"The strength of the blade insects in each layer has a different difference, but they are generally equivalent to the top part of the primordial monsters in that layer. According to Shi Leiyin's information, the transformed creatures will increase their energy ability by one to three levels, which is more in line with the level of the bladed worm that appears. ”
"In addition, the area where the most bladed insects appear is not the third layer, but the first and second floors and the outside of the labyrinth, but due to the presence of a large number of adventurers and the extremely low level, these bladed insects have been quickly eliminated. Judging from the times, it may be easier for low-level creatures to be transformed into creatures like Blade Worms. ”
"As for this, it's one of the bases for my judgment that it is a catalytic substance" Thirteen moved a picture to the forefront, which also showed a blade worm, but this bladeworm was slightly different from the other blade worms - a golden horn on the diamond-shaped head, which looked very incongruous, as if the horn was additional"