Several mastiff-sized four-legged monster brains emerge from the darkness, with a 3-foot-long tendril dangling from the front of their bodies, and one of the "monster brains" chewing a dead giant rat in its split lips, like us humans chewing on the sweet juice of sugar cane.

Whether it is the brain or other bodily fluids, they all quickly flow into the opponent's esophagus through the annular mouthparts, and the corpse of the giant rat is quickly sucked into dry and woody scraps.

The "weird brains" have long and slender legs like coral, but they are very agile and can jump and dash quickly. At any time, they can swarm like a pack of jackals, quickly attack and eat the remains of their victims.

Blood is their sweet juice, and giant rat brains are nothing more than their snack snack.

They are the larvae of the "Mind Eater", known to scholars as the Soul Sucking Beast (ustilagor), and they are also the watchdogs of the Mind Flayer, as well as the source of their sweet and delicious "brain soup".

They all look like four-legged brains.

The body of the Mind Eater has a hard, protective shell in the shape of a walnut, and its legs are shaped like canine beasts, with joints and claws. Spirit-sucking beasts have softer, damp bodies, and are often covered in a gray layer of fungus, and grown adults can use psychic abilities to change their size at any time, making it easy for enemies to misjudge their hand-to-hand combat abilities.

In battle.

The Spirit Sucker attacks with its flexible tendrils, which secrete a strong alkaline substance that inflicts chemical toxin damage on its targets, and is accompanied by a mild poisoning reaction.

The fungal vegetation on its body interferes with and prevents psychic attacks, protects the spirit sucker from dehydration, and resists brain parasites that accompany external attacks, and makes the creature immune to fungal attacks and any parasites.

The adult form tends to use psionic energy to attack, and can also jump on enemies like hyenas, rake and grab their bodies, and use their tiger-like claws to tear them apart and blur their flesh and bones.

Furthermore.

They also possess "psionic senses" with a radius of about 60 feet.

This sense organ is an innate constant-like spell effect, which is the same as the perception ability of Chen Xuyuan's [Soul Vision].

It is a beneficial mutation produced by the Seven Spirits,

It allows the recipient to have a sense of the five senses beyond the physical body (e.g., "psionic dark vision").

However, the innate "psionic sense" ability is often not as comprehensive as the "seven spirits" function that Lao Chen can exercise.

However, it is also because it is not through practice and conscious change of the structure of the soul.

So it's inherently like an instinct for them to eat and drink.

This sensory organ can be seen as a separate soul organ, so it can function normally even when it is blind, deaf, or otherwise damaged by the senses.

It's great for preventing a sneak attack at any time.

They are only disgusted by light rather than afraid of it, which is the same reaction as otaku otaku who stay in a dimly lit room for a long time, and then suddenly look up at the sun when they go out, and feel dizzy and hot.

Mind Eaters will generally hunt and sneak closer, trying to sneak up on each other.

After killing a sapient sapient biotype, they will sometimes use shrinkage techniques to enter their body and then devour their brains, taking their original location.

They can read the victim's mind after devouring the brain, and then activate their body, using the body to confuse others and find other minds that can be attacked and devoured.

Thus.

The Mind Eater is by no means a beast without a brain, but a semi-intelligent being.

After seeing a few "Mind Eaters" on each side, they faintly wrapped around them.

The four thieves froze, and a few drops of cold sweat broke out nervously on their faces, like small herbivores stared at by predators, not daring to move any further.

One of the more clever ones, his right hand slowly put into the hidden pocket on his chest, holding a life-saving [stealth] scroll, ready to sell his three kidnappers "companions" to escape alone.

Meantime.

The leader of the thieves in the lead motioned to his companions, untied the pockets containing the "goods" and put them on the ground, all of them drew their sidearms of different lengths, and cautiously gathered them into a back-to-back defensive circle.

Followed by.

He spoke in a somewhat hurried tone, and shouted in a suppressed tone: "Lost Heart King~! Lost Heart King!! we have delivered the goods to you." ”

The clever rat-eyed thief shouted three times in a row.

It's been a long time.

Only then did I see a commotion from the "Mind Eater", the 3-foot-long tendrils extending from the cracked "mouth", and the rhythm of the left and right swings was fast, as if it had met the owner's husky.

They moved their legs and feet in fear, and quickly moved to the side.

A gray-black monster in a smooth linen robe, floating out of the deep darkness without touching the ground, feels like a messenger of death who has come from hell to harvest souls.

The Mind Flayer fell silently to the ground, standing about 6 feet tall and with a tall, stiff collar that exposed its skin an unsightly purplish red and covered in reflective slime. Its head resembles that of an octopus, with white eyes (pupils not visible) and four tentacles around its mouth, and its mouth is a round, toothy hole that resembles the mouthparts of a lamprey.

On his chest hung a delicate skull rally shrunken by spell, which was often a symbol of death and despair for the prey on their recipes.

On each of the creature's "hands" with its sleeves exposed, there were only three reddish fingers of about the same length and a thumb.

The other party used the four wrinkled fingers that did not look like human beings, like the concubines wearing golden finger sleeves in the Qing court drama, and elegantly flicked them into the air.

The bag containing the "goods" seemed to have been cast by a [wizard's hand], and the whole thing floated up from the ground, and the rope at the mouth of the bag automatically untied, and the whole bag slid down, revealing a person.

This person has a wide mouth, looks like a rough man who fights horses and shepherds on the grassland, and has calluses on his hands, so he should be a practitioner.

The cargo is not light, so it's no wonder that the four thieves have to take turns to fight to the end.

"It's a little thing, hiss...... Don't bother with the 'King of Obsession'. You give me the goods. Hiss......" The octopus-billed weirdo hissed at the end of his mouth like a customary tongue, and the corners of his mouth slowly shook like the tentacles of a beard.

But it wasn't actually meant to speak, just a habitual action similar to that of human teeth grinding, but the clear Pan-continental lingua franca accent still sounded in the minds of the four thieves at the same time.

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