Chapter 34: Parasites
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"What is this?" The Children of the Night were shocked when they saw what I had summoned, and thirty-nine snow demons lined up, which was indeed a strange and spectacular sight!
"These are snow goblins, ice dark creatures, absolute fire brigades!" I turned and nodded to the Snow Demons, and all of them immediately began to cast spells in front of the burning woods, using a very advanced combined magic - Ice and Snow. The biggest advantage of this magic is that the attack range is super large, but the 39 snow demons seem to be a little reluctant to use this magic, and the power of the magic seems to have dropped significantly, but it is enough to extinguish the fire.
Seeing that the fire froze instantly, even the smoke in the sky was frozen into black snowflakes and fell to the earth again, and for a while, the whole forest was covered with black goose feather snow, which was absolutely unforgettable!
"Look!" The Children of the Night call out to me as they point to the trunk of the tree.
Only then did I notice that the original trunk of the tree was almost burned out, but the pale green crystals were standing there with a faint light, and it seemed that this so-called crystallization was not afraid of fire at all. Now most of the forest is full of these strange crystals, standing there one by one, and there is no tree trunk at all!
"It's all over the place now, take whatever you want!" The Children of the Night teased.
"I didn't expect this to happen, I knew that I wouldn't have to cut down the tree so hard, and I could just burn it down."
"Then put all this stuff away now, shall we?"
"Okay!"
The current half of the burned forest is completely full of whole crystals standing there, and I just need to skim them off one by one. Again, since we didn't know exactly how much we needed, we simply took it from long to short until Nightshade couldn't carry it at all.
After packing up the crystals, we hurried back, so far we have only consumed more than 3 hours, it seems that the time given by the necromancer is still very generous. When we got back to the cemetery, we saw Dekkon standing there stupidly.
"You're back so soon?" Decon seemed a little incredulous when he saw us, but when he saw the hill-like crystallization on the back of the night shadow behind us, he was immediately stupid. "Oh my God! So much! Too...... That's great! Now my real yàn can be done! ”
"And this!" I gave the ore to Dekken as well. "I don't know how much you'll need, so I'm taking these, I don't know if it's enough?"
Seeing that I poured out nearly 5 tons of ore, Deken's jaw fell straight down. He dragged his chin up with his bony hand and said, "How did you get so much?" ”
I shine my bracelet. "It's Clark's, don't you remember?"
Dekkon immediately came to his senses: "You said that Clarke's infinite space wrist chakra!" He actually gave you all this thing! What exactly is your relationship? ”
"I'm his brother-in-law!"
"No wonder!" Dekkon looked at the ore on the ground, and wanted to put it on himself, but thinking that there were too many things, he said to me, "You put these things away first, and then come with me!" ”
"Okay!" I quickly put the ore away and followed him out.
Dekkon didn't actually take us very far, his destination was the cemetery we saw at the beginning, there is also a tombstone of Deken, and this tombstone is actually the place where Deken lives now, no more than 200 meters away from the treasure point we found! Dekkon said as he walked, "I actually lived in the town, and then I accidentally let me know that the loyal bones I needed were buried here, so I often came here to study, but you also know that the distance between this place and the village is too far, so I simply settled here." ”
"Home?"
"Home, of course! I'm a necromancer, where else do I live if I don't live in a cemetery? ”
"That's right!" I actually forgot about jì! A necromancer is basically a kind of dead person, and it is understandable to live in the purpose.
"That's it!" Dekkon stopped abruptly, his own tombstone at his feet. I saw him tap his name, and the entire tombstone suddenly moved backwards, revealing a one-meter-square hole, and below the hole was a long staircase leading directly to the deep underground. "Come in! The last one closes the door! ”
Following Decken into the passage under the tomb, the Child of the Night was the last to enter and close the door. When the door closed, a row of magical flames suddenly lit up in the underground passage, and the originally dark basement was instantly illuminated, although the light was still relatively dim, but it had no effect on seeing things!
"What is this?" Suddenly, I saw a lot of small insects crawling on the walls, which looked very similar to my tank, but the largest of them was only an inch long, and there was no comparison with a tank with a length of 100 meters in its full form!
Dekkon grabbed one and showed me its belly, the little thing had a pair of pincers on its mouth that were very large for its size, and its six calves were all grown into scythes, and it looked very aggressive. When I finished reading it, he put the little thing back on the wall. "This thing is called the Dark Pincer Worm, a level 5 creature, and it's usually very quiet, but if their owner, that is, me, uses magic to direct them to attack, these things can eat a mammoth in an instant! Despite their small size, they have a huge appetite and can eat entire cities and even stones if needed! Level 5 is weak, but the number can make up for the lack of level. ”
"All such horrible things, huh?" The Children of the Night also heard our conversation.
"Do all necromancers have this skill?" I'm also worried about this skill, if all necromancers know this skill, then it's okay, these insects don't have anything to eat, even if I take the dragon, as long as they are caught, there are still no bones left, so many of my magic pets are estimated that only Tank and Xiaofeng are not afraid of them. The tank is too hard for them to chew, Xiaofeng's whole body is full of fire, and they can't rely on it at all.
Deken's words relieved my doubts, and he pulled the collar of his shirt down to show me the back of his neck. I saw a ruby-like thing almost embedded in his skin. "See?"
"See!" I reached out and touched the little thing, the surface was very smooth, and the ice felt very good, but I seemed to vaguely feel that there was a slit in the middle of the red thing. "What is this? Control zhì their rubies? ”
Deken said, "You take your hand away, and I'll let it open the shell for you." ”
As soon as I took my hand away, I saw that the "ruby" actually opened in the middle. The Children of the Night and I were stupid all at once, it wasn't a ruby at all. It's a beetle, and the shiny red part is nothing more than the elytra of this beetle. After opening the elytra, we can see a beetle with a huge belly below, of course, the so-called huge is only relative to the size of the beetle itself. The Beetle's abdomen was not completely on the outside, and I could clearly see that part of the Beetle's abdomen was deeply inserted into Deken's body, and it felt like the insect had completely become a part of Deken.
"This is the thing that controls those bugs?" The Children of the Night finally recovered from their surprise.
The Beetle's elytra closed again, and it turned into a beautiful "ruby" again, and Decken touched the shell to make sure it was closed, and then he pulled his clothes back up. "This is the female worm, very beautiful, isn't it?"
"Female?"
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"Yes! How so? The female worm is somewhat similar to the queen bee in the hive, and all the members of the whole group are the offspring of this female worm, which means that these small dark dry worms are the children of this female worm. However, only this female worm can reproduce in this group, and the other insects are neutral, that is, they are neither male nor female. When the female needs to reproduce, there will be a lot of males left, and when the male grows up, he will mate with the female, and then the female can continue to reproduce for a year, but the male will die immediately after the mating ends. ”
"And what if the mother worm dies?" The Nightchild asks a strange question.
"The mother worm and the host, that is, me, are one, and if the female worm dies, then I must be dead! If the mother dies, the entire population will immediately disband, and each insect will mutate into a mother. These mutated females will quickly find a suitable host in all directions, and as soon as one of these females finds a new host, the colony can be repopulated immediately. ”
I sighed, "A race that is too terrible to be destroyed!" ”
"How?" Both the Nightchildren and Dekkon were drawn to my words.
"The whole race is equivalent to a living being, any one of its individuals is very important to become a race, and any individual in the group can be discarded. To destroy this race is to destroy all the individuals of this race, but this is almost impossible, according to chaos theory, the success rate of completely destroying a race is lower than the probability of being hit by a meteorite while walking on the road! Therefore, it is impossible for this group to be exterminated, and as long as they are not exterminated, they can regenerate into a race. And if many of the scattered females find a host, then the population is actually getting bigger and bigger! ”
"This won't happen!" Decon interrupted me. "Once the first female worm to find a host is finished, the other females will immediately turn back into soldier worms and gather towards it. A group will be restored! I don't know how they know who was the first to parasitize on such a large scale, but it seems that they have this ability. And their mother's method of controlling them is also similar to telepathy, no matter how far away it is, what is in the way, the mother worm always has a way to contact her children. ”
"It's all in your skin, doesn't it hurt?" The Children of the Night seem to be jealous of this.
"When you parasitize, you will feel a little itchy, but when the parasitism ends, you don't feel it, it's like you've grown a little more, and you've completely become a part of your body! After the mother worm is parasitic, it will insert its central nervous duct into the host's spine, and then the mother worm will establish the most direct neural connection with you, and it can feel your thoughts directly, so give the command to think about it, and it is one with you. ”
I was curious and asked, "Doesn't it have intelligence?" ”
"So far, no intellectual response has been found, and the behavior is very simple. The mother will only instinctively look for a host, and once found, the mother will be completely silent, and will do nothing but reproduce. As for the larvae, don't worry about it, if you don't summon them, they will move on their own, but they generally don't stay too far away from you, so that they can come out at any time to protect the mother. They are not actually protecting you, they are protecting the mother, but because the death of the host will directly lead to the death of the mother, these things will also protect you very thoroughly. In order to protect you and the mother worm, they will attack the enemy at the cost of their lives, the worm doesn't seem to have the concept of itself, because they don't know what they call themselves, so they don't have the sense of selfishness, so they will show Xiàn is particularly brave! ”
"I want one when you say that!" I tentatively said to Deken, everyone knows that this thing is powerful, and giving others is tantamount to causing trouble for yourself, so I'm not sure if this Deken will give it to me, besides, it seems that the female worm is not easy to replicate when I heard what I said just now, so he has a female worm or not!
"You want?" To my surprise, this Dekken was even more excited than I was. "I've been thinking about the situation of the female worm for a long time, but I haven't been able to find the right person! Because the power of forced parasitism is very low, and I myself was dizzy when I was parasitized, I still don't know how this thing is parasitic! ”
"Isn't it? Do you take me as a real product? ”
"What's this! You don't want this thing to be parasitic, multiple people to see what the process has! He suddenly looked at the Children of the Night with a twinkle in his eyes. Would you like one too? ”
"No need!" The Children of the Night shook their hands in fear. "The thought of this thing growing on me makes me sick!"
I also persuaded him: "It's nothing, anyway, I don't feel it after parasitism." Besides, this thing looks like an extra ruby on the back of its neck from the outside, what's so disgusting? ”
"But it's not a ruby! It's still a disgusting bug inside! ”
"What do you care what's in it? When a person's stomach is opened, the contents are more disgusting than insects! ”
"No, I'm still uncomfortable! You're going to have to do it yourself! "The Children of the Night are still resolute not to do it.
Dekkon dragged me to the end of the passage, where there was a stone chamber with anatomical drawings and the like hanging on the walls, and a stone bed covered in blood. Dekkon took out a glassware from the workbench by the door, and then carefully pulled out a red female worm from inside. "Go to bed and lie on your stomach!"
I was nervous when I looked at the blood on the bed. "Forget it, I'll still stand!"
"Oh well! Get your armor off first! "The collar of the dragon suit is very high, and there is no way to see the neck, so there is no way to put the female worm on it without taking it off.
I put my armor in the storage compartment and found a stone bench to sit down. "That's it!" My heart began to beat as if I had been given an injection by my family doctor when I was a child!
Deken walked behind me and pinched the mother worm with one hand and said, "You have to be careful not to resist when parasitizing, the female worm is actually very fragile, and your sense of resistance is likely to kill it." I'm just two female worms, and if I kill them, I'm gone! Another thing is that the mother worm and you will invade your nervous system, blood circulation system, and magic system. You can choose which system to open up to it, or give it all three. But be warned, the system you open will no longer be able to recover. The energy used by the mother to control the larvae after parasitism comes from you, but in order not to overburden you and die, it will only absorb your excess power, which is recovery. If you open the blood circulation system, then you will not have to automatically return blood in the future, if you are injured, you can only recover with medicine, and your health will not recover a little. Similarly, if the mana cycle is enabled, your mana will no longer have the ability to restore. As for the spiritual power, it must be opened, otherwise the parasitism will not be able to proceed. However, mental openness will not affect your abilities.
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