Chapter 791: Half-Undead
The uninvited guest appeared to be a room-sized giant crab with a bony shell and two giant claws covered in chelera.
Lin An could sense the existence of the other party's life, but when the shell had been eroded by negative energy, it was not surprising that this big guy would soon become an undead.
I don't know how it got here, but this big guy wasn't supposed to be summoned from near death, probably by coincidence through the loophole in the maze outside.
Lin An could feel the pain of its struggle between biological instinct and death, and it even retained its eating instinct - of course, the food it fancied was undoubtedly Lin An himself.
Lin An released a Guardian Ring, and the big sea crab had not yet entered the radiance range of the Guardian Ring, and immediately avoided it as if it were electrocuted.
The space under the sea surface is huge, and the ubiquitous seawater has the effect of blocking energy fluctuations, and the divine fluctuations have been repeatedly eroded by the layers of seawater containing negative energy, and it will reach the limit if it is ten zhang long, which allows Lin An to let go of the spell, not as restrained as on the shore, worried that the divine power fluctuations full of positive energy will spread out and alarm the undead in the place of death.
Lin An sank to the bottom of the sea for more than ten zhang, the water pressure was already very huge, coupled with the erosion of the divine power by the negative energy in the seawater, the maintenance time of the Guardian Ring was only one-tenth of the normal situation, Lin An had to continue to input strength, and the light of the Guardian Ring was at the bottom of the dark sea, like a bright light bulb.
Probably because of this, the big sea crab was marked, and it always followed Lin An's vicinity, but it didn't dare to approach.
Lin An ignored this big guy and patrolled the bottom of the sea.
There are also many huge skeletons scattered on the bottom of the sea, which are corroded by the seawater, similar to the bone mountains on the island, and most of them are indistinguishable from the prototypes, and the bottom of the sea is covered with thick ashes, which gush up with the occasional flooding water.
"It stands to reason that if he is bound by his contract and cannot go deep into the interior of the place of death, there is no more suitable place to hide things on the outside than the bottom of the sea, not to mention that if this is his backhand, it will not hide in a place where no one can find it, otherwise it will be meaningless......"
Lin An went into the water not without purpose, and muttered to himself.
She recalled that the undead servants subdued by the undead archmage, the strongest was the Earth Walking Dragon, there was no real bone dragon or even a dragon soul, and she believed in her own judgment even more in her heart.
But after looking for a long time at the bottom of the sea, there are turbid and dark seawater everywhere, and occasionally a few big bony fish or muddy spirits seem to be soaked in the seawater, and swim near Lin An unconsciously, only adding a little more death and horror to the bottom of the sea.
Lin An searched for a long time along the seabed near the coastline, but did not find what she was looking for, but picked up a few crystal nuclei from the seabed that fell after the death of the demonic beast.
Most of the undead in the land of death are old and dead, and I don't know how long they have been out of the body, it is undoubtedly impossible to maintain the level before death, most of them are two or three polar crystal nuclei, and most of the energy in them has been lost.
The coastline of the Land of Death is too long, and Lin An's patrol is very fast, and her search can be said to be purposeful or purposeless:
There is a purpose, she is ninety percent sure in her heart, and that goal should be there; The purposelessness was that she didn't know what it was—colors, shapes, and so on.
After quickly cruising about a quarter of the seabed of the place of death, and making up for a few undead transformation techniques halfway, Lin An had little time left, and she couldn't help but feel a little anxious:
"Strange, isn't it really here? It stands to reason that if he is really there, he will not hide things too deeply, but it should be obvious that he will attract people who come to him! ”
Lin An stopped, thinking about which link he had gone wrong, and his perception was touched again. Lin An was used to it, and knew that it was the big guy who regarded her as food again, and he was not worried that it would dare to come up.
After thinking for a long time, I didn't have a clue, and my wandering gaze inadvertently met a pair of gray eyeballs.
Lin An was almost startled, only to realize that it was the rod-shaped eyes of the big sea crab.
Due to Lin An's stop, the big sea crab had unconsciously gotten a lot closer, but it still instinctively didn't dare to attack, and the two club-shaped eyes moved, and the color of greed flashed on the gray eyes that had been eroded by negative energy.
"It seems that before this big guy was transformed into an undead, his spiritual intelligence was not low, but unfortunately, looking at its ossified Cheng Dù, the undead has been completed for the most part, and sooner or later it will be completely transformed......"
This thought flashed meaninglessly in his mind, and Lin An's heart suddenly moved:
Vulnerability of the Lost Lock...... Sea creatures from outside swim in...... Seabed...... Undead Transformation ...... Clues to the guide......
"That's right! Why didn't I expect such an obvious clue, there is no doubt that it must have been left by the necromancer archmage - he deliberately left the most obvious clue in the most conspicuous place, and only those who deliberately went to find it would think of it! ”
Lin An suddenly came to his senses and had to admit that this clue was both hidden and conspicuous.
If she hadn't been completely sure of her speculation before, she was now sure that it must have existed—thanks to the necromancer's retribution.
Thinking about the cause and effect, Lin An immediately took out the oak branch, and a healing magic technique immediately fell on the big sea crab.
The sea crab didn't understand how this humanoid creature who had been ignoring it suddenly reacted, but the damage to it caused by the vitality contained in the healing magic was painful.
It rolled in pain, turning the bottom of the sea into a muddy mess, and without bothering to fight back, it immediately ran frantically into the distance.
Lin An chased after him, and from time to time he put a magic spell to spur the big sea crab to run faster, and the big sea crab took Lin An straight to the bottom of the sea full of gray and white coral in the southeast of an island that he had never been to, and frantically smashed through several thick coral rocks and hid in the gap.
Lin An stopped chasing the coral group when he was close to it.
Seeing the various undead fish, giant tortoises, shrimps, and giant jellyfish that infested near the coral rocks, which were mutated and gray and white bones, and whose bodies were half undead and half creatures, I knew that I had found the right place.
These half-undead and half-biological underwater creatures must be distributed on the seabed near the coastline, and it is not an accident that she can meet the big sea crab, but an inevitability - as long as there are alien creatures going to the sea, most of them will be targeted by these half-undead sea creatures distributed on the bottom of the sea in the place of death, and the difference only depends on whether the person who comes is like Lin An, purposefully looking for the secret behind the half-undead.
If Lin An guessed correctly, there must be some mysterious lock loophole leading to the outside, which would lead to the influx of so many undersea creatures, and then mutate and undead under some influence, making them look like they are now wearing bone armor.
There are a lot of muddy half-undead sea creatures swimming here, and in order not to poke the hornet's nest, Lin An put away the oak branches when he approached this coral group.
The closer you get, the more obvious the fluctuations in the depths of the coral rock, like a huge radiation source, and any creature that is close to this place will unconsciously transform into a half-undead, or even an undead, like the sea creatures near the coral rock.
In Lin An's perception, the coral rock was like a huge sea anemone, and countless rich negative energy was like black tentacles, stretching in all directions.
"Tsk, although I had long expected that the undead archmage would not really hand over the final research results to the Holy See, but the effect is really a bit terrifying, I don't know what is so powerful, if you throw it into a densely populated city, in less than half a day, you can turn all the people in a city into undead!"
This is still the effect of the seawater, if it is taken to the ground, the mutation effect on living beings will probably make those nuclear radiation leaks in the previous life ashamed of themselves.
Entering the depths of the coral rock, there were fewer active half-undead fish, and Lin An could no longer care about anything else, so he applied several layers of protection to himself, and the guardian ring that blocked negative energy made the divine power leak out like flowing water.
"It's a test of strength...... Or is it a possibility that someone from the Holy See will find this place? ”
Lin An thought as he quickly went deep along the gap between the corals.
The negative energy was already as thick as ink, making it impossible to see the way forward, but the perception became clearer and clearer as the distance got closer, and she had clearly perceived the location of the thing that was radiating negative energy and constantly transforming the undead.
"It's a big mussel? This senior is really imaginative! ”
When he finally saw the body, Lin An was still taken aback:
In the hollow in the center of the coral rock, a sea mussel the size of a palace is stuck in the coral rock, and the mussel shell is densely attached to the shell, and even the coral rock is attached to the giant shell of the sea mussel.
Through the slightly open gap, Lin An could see the dense array patterns on the inner wall of the mussel shell, and there seemed to be something inside the mussel shell.
The most terrifying thing is that Lin An suddenly realized that the sea mussel was also alive, or it itself was also semi-undead, and this thick coral rock-like thing was essentially a bony shell mutated by the sea mussel after being semi-undead.
In other words, Lin An had actually run into the body of a half-undead, but the sea mussel was much larger than those other half-undead sea creatures, which was unimaginable.
"What is this, showmanship?" Lin An couldn't help but complain, secretly shocked in his heart.
However, from her point of view, the semi-undead transformation circle left by the necromancer attached to the inner wall of the sea mussel is indeed suspected of showing off his skills-
It is not difficult to live, it is not difficult to die, but it is difficult to live and die half-life, so that death and life coexist in one and maintain this state for a long time.
The essence of negative energy is corrosion and destruction, but the transformation of the semi-undead in front of you completely reverses the mage's consistent concept, just like someone suddenly tells you that water is actually fire, completely subverting the worldview!
In addition to the forbidden realm of directly creating a zào life, the effect seen in front of him seems to have reached the peak of the undead system that Lin An could imagine.
Even with Lin An's imagination, he didn't expect that the reason why he saw all the half-undead was not that the transformation was incomplete, but the purpose and effect of the circle itself, which was a hundred times more difficult than transforming a city's creatures into undead!
(To be continued) RS