Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Mutant Scarab

"That thing is an egg." As soon as Ling's answer was finished, the woman suddenly let go of the palm covering her chest and turned into a state of holding the ground with her hands, and then she roared desperately as if she was enchanted, while her hands kept scratching on the ground, and the state was extremely crazy. I stretched out my hand and motioned for Ling and the demons to step back, hiding from a distance to see what was going on with that woman.

Now that the woman's body has been stripped of everything, the only thing left is the golden gem, so if it wasn't for her own reasons, it must have something to do with the gem. Just now Ling said that the gem was not a stone, but an egg, and referring to the current situation, I immediately thought of a possibility. "That thing isn't going to hatch, is it?" "It looks like it."

As we were discussing, we saw a sudden lump on the woman's back, and then we heard a click of broken bones, and the woman's back was lifted up, and two golden crust-like elytra stretched out. Immediately after the appearance of the elytra, the woman's chest made a bone breaking sound, and a long leg that was clearly an arthropod protruded from her ribcage, followed by a second and third long leg. After stretching out eight in a row, the woman suddenly threw her head forward again, and then opened her mouth desperately. Suddenly, with a disgusting muscle tearing sound, the woman's mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated shape, and then a pair of large pincer-like mouthparts protruded from the woman's mouth, and then the woman's entire face was completely shattered, and the head of a worm came out from behind her head and face, and let out a sharp and piercing scream. "Damn, this thing is disgusting, isn't it?" A youkai said, "Even though we're youkai, it's rare to see something like this!" I turned to Ling and asked, "What the hell is this?" Do you know each other? "I'm sure I've never seen this shape before, but it feels very familiar in terms of energy fluctuations." Familiar? Remember where you encountered it? "It's kind of like the energy fluctuations of Kohopura."

"Kohopura? That scarab beetle in Egypt? "I turned back to look at the woman again in surprise, oh no, it wasn't human anymore, but a disgusting bug with eight long legs, a pair of elytra on its back, and human debris all over its body." This should be a larva. Ling said: "Although the energy fluctuations are almost identical, the fluctuations of this bug are very weak, and they are not at the same level as Kohopura. I thought for a moment and said, "Whether it's okay or not, catch it for me first." ”

"Understood." Ling casually threw out a black ribbon-like energy net, and instantly tied the insect strongly. Originally, Ling and I thought that this net would definitely not be able to trap it, and in the end, we would definitely have to fight again to restrain this guy, who knew that this thing looked so scary when it was born, but in fact it had no combat power at all, and an energy net completely subdued it!

After packing and tying up that bug a few more times, I handed over the task of destroying the temple to the many demons behind me, anyway, the guards are gone, what else can a broken house do? In addition to the temple in front of 7 eyes, I assigned the other Russian targets to the demons, and then activated the Ring of Love. Rose shaves and communication with Yi is very confused. "You did the destruction so quickly?" "No, I've made some new discoveries here, and I need to go to Egypt." What are you going to Egypt for? ”

"We've killed a player here, and that guy actually has a scarab egg in his chest, and we're going to go to Egypt and ask what's going on with Kohopura. I always feel like there's a big article in there. "But what if it's a harassment mission?" "Aren't there more than 200 monsters? I've shown them how to do it, and they'll take care of the rest. "Okay, then you can come back. Oh, you contacted me to get me to summon you back, right? "Yes, there's no teleportation array here, it's too slow to fly back!" "Wait a minute."

After activating the teleportation function of the Ring of Love, I was quickly summoned back to Rose's side. It's much easier to get to Isenger, from here to use the transnational teleportation array to teleport to Tianyu City, and then borrow the teleportation array of neighboring countries to cross a country, and cross the border with birds on the way, although it is a bit troublesome, but the speed is not bad, and it soon enters the territory of Egypt.

As soon as I arrived in Egypt, I found a city to borrow a teleportation array and teleported directly to the temple of Anubis, but it was empty now. Anubis belongs to the god of the underworld, and he will definitely not be willing to go out and wander around during the day, but I am in a hurry now, and I don't have time to wait until night. "Anubis! Anubis! Hey, I heard a squeak! "Are you noisy and shouting, and I think this is a vegetable market?" The phantom of Anubis suddenly appeared above my head, and the loudness almost deafened me.

"Damn, it's a big voice!" I gave a middle finger to Anubis in the sky, and then said with a straight face, "Okay, where are you doing some business?" Take me there, I want to see Kohopura.

"Wait." As soon as Anubis's voice died down, a stone door suddenly opened on the side of the temple, and a soldier of the Reaper's Legion stepped out of it, and motioned for me to follow him. Surprisingly, the soldiers didn't take me into the temple, but walked to a halt in the desert outside the temple, and the sand under the feet of the two of us began to swirl and sink downward, soon turning into a huge quicksand pit. I knew it was a teleportation channel created by Anubis's mana, so I didn't struggle, just put the mask down to prevent it from eating sand. As my whole body was completely immersed in quicksand, I suddenly felt empty under my feet, and my whole body entered a state of weightlessness. However, my reaction was unusually fast, and I automatically adjusted my balance almost in a fraction of a second, and finally landed on the ground with a sound sound. "You guy still hate as much as you used to." Anubis seemed very upset to see that I didn't get to the point where I landed safely, but I knew that this guy had a bad personality.

His willingness to joke with you shows that he values you, and if Anubis really wants to kill someone, he won't talk to you, and will just fight. "I don't have time to joke with you, do you know where Kohopura is?" I asked. "What are you looking for him?" Anubis didn't answer my question directly.

He didn't answer me, and I didn't answer him, and just threw out the scarab larva that was bundled like a rice dumpling. Anubis is a genuine god, and his sense of energy is naturally much stronger than ours, not to mention that he is relatively close to Kohopura, and he is naturally more familiar with it after being together for a long time.

"What does this thing have the scent of Kohopura?"

"If I knew, I wouldn't be here!"

"Where did you catch this?" Anubis asked, circling the larva. "Can you get Kohopura first and then ask?"

"Bin, you wait for a while." Anubis finally realized that this matter was more important, "He snapped his fingers, summoned a servant of the god of the gods, and told him to take me and the larva to his mansion first, and he himself quickly disappeared into the darkness.

I followed the servants of the gods to Anubis' dwelling, and soon Anubis returned with Kohopura, followed by one or two, a wise man with an owl's head, and Ma'at, an angelic goddess of truth.

As soon as Kohopura entered the hall where I was waiting, he rushed directly to the larva, and the minnow saw him stretch out his hand, and the Cambodian array wrapped around the larva disappeared along with him. The freed larvae reacted very quickly, jumped up as soon as the restraints were released, and then screamed at us but did not dare to step forward. The people present except for me are all righteous gods, and their own breath is so strong that the larvae dare not approach at all, as for me, it was kidnapped by me before, and no matter how stupid it is, it knows that it is not my opponent.

After freeing the larva, Kohopra immediately began to approach the larva carefully, and the larva seemed to be very afraid of him, and when he approached, he kept screaming and retreating, but because he was now surrounded by us, there was nowhere to retreat, and finally Kohopura managed to get close to the larva.

"Quiet kid, keep quiet ......!" Kohopura whispered like a child, reaching out to try to stroke the larva's head. At first, the larva showed a little submissiveness, but just as Cohopura was about to touch it, it suddenly opened its huge mouthparts and bit down on Cohopura's hand.

Kohopura is a real god, and the larvae in front of him are at most more than three hundred levels, and there are ghosts that can bite him. Although the larvae bit Kohopla's hand and shook its head desperately from side to side to tear off a piece of meat, it was a pity that the carapace on Kohopla's body was not good-looking, and it didn't succeed after biting it for a long time, but Cohopura waited for a while and then took the initiative to stand up and catch the larvae in his hand. "Lord Linhopura, did you find anything?" Instead of answering my question, Kohopura asked rhetorically, "Are you discovering it?" "In a Russian city." "Russia?"

"Yes. I was fighting an enemy, and I stripped her of all her equipment with some special gear, and finally found an oval, golden object on her chest. At the time, I thought it was a gem, but then my pet Ling sensed that there were life fluctuations on it, and guessed that it might be an egg. Then the person who fought with us suddenly expressed a lot of pain, and then the egg in her body suddenly hatched for some unknown reason. When it broke through the other person's body and came out, my pet noticed that it had the same aura as you, so I caught it here. Don't know what you think about this? ”

After listening to what I said, Kohopura pondered for a while before speaking, "This little guy is a good fellow of our scarab clan, but ......! "But what?" "But it doesn't scrape normal individuals."

After listening to Kohopura's words, I became even more confused. "What do you mean by an abnormal individual?"

Kohopura asked the servants of Anubis to move a table out, and with a wave of his hand, five scarabs immediately appeared on the table. "You see, these are the members of our Scarab clan on the table. Chief among them is this. Kohope stretched out his hand and picked up a scarab beetle that looked like a shell with a black watch. This is the largest population of the scarab beetle family, it doesn't have much intelligence itself, and its attack power is also average, and its only specialty is amazing fecundity and super adaptability to the environment, and it can survive in various extreme environments. A few days ago, more than ninety percent of our clan were such low-level scarabs. After saying this, Kohopura put the black scarab beetle back, and then Tian put the remaining four scarab beetles in front of us, red, green, gold, and blue. Compared with the wild scarab beetle just now, this is actually the scarab family member that we really recognize. Although the color of the body surface is different, they are actually the same species, and the color of the body surface is only a characteristic that grows out after being affected by the external environment. Unlike the black variety, these scarab beetles possess low-level intelligence, behave like low-level magical beasts, have basic judgment, have memory, and know how to think about simple questions. Its ornate shell closes completely when it sleeps, making it easy to confuse it with gemstones of all colors if you are not careful. "I know all of this, but what's the deal with the one I caught?" I urged. "According to your description, the golden gem you saw earlier should not be an egg, but this golden scarab beetle. "But ...... they?"

"I know they look very different." "No matter what color the scarab beetle is, its body surface should be covered with a smooth, solid-colored carapace, without any spots or color changes on the surface. But look at the one that Purple Sun caught. Not only is its gauge covered with hard burrs, but it has no carapace at all except for the elytra on its back, and you see, its body is obviously very elongated and extremely uneven, which is completely different from the scarab's oval, streamlined body. "Isn't this a scarab?"

"No, that's what I'm weird about." "Although the appearance is very different, this one is a real scarab, because it has the holy crest core of our scarab clan in its body, and this cannot be faked. ”

I frowned and asked, "If this is just a real scarab, then why did he grow so big?" "So far, there are only two sizes of scarabs I've seen, one is Kohopura himself, his size is basically the size of a person, and other than him, the other scarabs I've seen are only between the size of a steamed bun and the size of a quail egg. The one I caught could only blow up the woman and kill her, and it was quite large, not as big as Kohopura, but not much smaller than the size of an adult man. It's really rare to see such a large Kohopura. Kohopura heard my question and explained, "That's not a problem.

Normally, wild black scarabs have a lifespan of about ten years, but this refers to their active lifespan, and if they are trapped in a confined environment and cannot obtain food, they will go into a dormant state. Once dormant, the scarab will have a lifespan of nearly 10,000 years, and will continue to calculate its lifespan at a normal rate unless it is awakened again. These colored scarabs are a bit higher than the wild black scarabs, and their lifespan depends on their own efforts. Under normal circumstances, these official scarabs can live for fifty to one hundred years as long as they do not encounter too many problems, and of course, the dormant period is not counted. If you are lucky, or if you work hard enough, you can cultivate to the state of a second-order scarab beetle before you die, and you can gain an extra fifty years of life. At the second order, the scarab beetle will gain a relatively high intelligence, and it will also increase to the size of a watermelon. Because of the relatively high intelligence obtained, its cultivation speed will increase significantly, and if it can cultivate to the third order in the extra fifty years, its size and lifespan will further increase. Theoretically, as long as the scarab continues to cultivate, the scarab beetle can be immortal. "That means that the scarab beetle that is relatively large is actually a zĂ i, right?" Kohopura nodded and said, "As long as you level up, the scarab will grow, but there is one thing that is very strange. "Hugh?"

"Looking at the size of this little guy you captured, his strength is at least above the seventh order. However, the little guy in front of him only has the strength between the first and second orders, and the intelligence level seems to be even lower than the first order, as if he has degenerated into the state of a wild black scarab. Anyway, this guy is just very abnormal, and he feels like a freak with a deformed development. Hearing Kohopura say this, I tentatively asked, "Do you think it's possible that someone is trying to artificially cultivate a high-level scarab?" ”

"I don't know, but I don't think so." Kohopura explained, "Although the scarab beetle can be upgraded indefinitely, it takes too long, which of you adventurers has the patience to spend decades training them?" Besides, the scarab beetle's strong combat power depends on quantity rather than quality, the scarab beetle before the fifth order may not even be able to defeat a three-hundred-level demonic beast, if it wants to be used in battle, it must at least be promoted to the seventh level, and it is better to have that energy than to catch a dragon and come back to cultivate. "So, it's not artificially cultivated, right?" I asked. "No, I think it should be artificially cultivated." Tetu, who had not spoken, said suddenly. "Why?"

"There are two reasons for this." Tetu said, "First. Although the scarab beetle is not easy to cultivate, it is not suitable for the development of hilarious combat power, but we are not sure if the other party has other uses. After all, the ability of the scarab beetle is not just for fighting! Second. Ziri said that this juvenile scarab beetle was found in Russia, but the scarab beetle is our specialty here, and there is no other place except Egypt. If it's an adult, it's okay to say, how did a juvenile scarab beetle run from Egypt to Russia? ”