"Puff, puff, puff......"

This heavy and rhythmic is actually the sound of turtledove's heartbeat, although the "universal serum" in his body greatly enhances his tolerance to excessive adrenaline, so that he can maintain a state of rage for a long time, but the "universal serum" does not allow him to have endless physical strength, after the previous toss, turtledove is already a little exhausted.

And not only that, the special bacteria that exist in the turtledove's body due to the "universal serum" are reproducing frantically at this moment, and their reproduction is based on absorbing nutrients from the turtledove's blood, so the turtledove at this time is more tired than ever.

What's more, tolerance is tolerance, the turtledove's heart has been beating at high speed for a long time under the action of adrenaline, even if the self-healing ability brought by the "universal serum" at the same time can make the heart muscle speed up self-repair, but at this time, it is also a bit of a strong crossbow The end of the taste.

All in all, the turtledove seems to be more and more brave at first glance, but in fact, his body can no longer withstand more tosses, but the current situation does not allow it, otherwise the turtledove will have to sleep upside down for a few days and nights.

The situation with the bugs is also not encouraging.

Her physical fitness is not as good as the turtledove, just now in order to save the turtledove, she was slapped by the monster again, and her left arm was scratched on the spot with three deep wounds that can be seen, fortunately it was only an injury to the arm, with the "universal serum" cover, the injury on the small worm's arm was quickly effectively controlled.

But then again, the self-healing ability provided by the "universal serum" still consumes a lot of energy from the human body itself, so the worm that stops bleeding from the wound is still very weak, and even walking has to be supported by a turtledove.

However, at this moment, the remaining dozen or so monsters gathered in one place, bypassing the turtledoves and small insects, and then retreated to both sides of the aisle, as if waiting for something to arrive.

It turned out that the main owner appeared.

……

"What's that? Octopus, octopus? ”

Xiao Worm couldn't believe her eyes, she could also see clearly in the dark, the "main master" who appeared far behind the dozen or so monsters looked like a big red octopus, and its huge size occupied most of the wide aisle.

The bright red tentacles were much more than ordinary octopuses, almost a dozen, and their bodies were covered with white circular markings the size of copper coins, and as its body slowly moved, the smell of blood came to its face one after another.

What is this? ――To the insect's surprise, there was a strange-looking "flower" growing on the body of the big octopus.

The flowers are five-petaled, flesh-red, each petal is huge, and very thick, covering almost most of the body of the large octopus, and there is a large honey trough with a round mouth in the center of the flower, which contains many crystalline liquids secreted by the flowers themselves, and the stamens of the roots stand upright.

"This, this, this ......" The turtledove, who could see clearly what was coming from in front of him, was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and he stretched out his fingers and kept poking at the big octopus with a flower on its back, "What the hell is this?" ”

……

"Rafflesia, it should be a rafflesia on its back."

The insect suddenly remembered a rather peculiar plant he had once seen, called Rafflesia, an herbaceous parasitic plant that parasitized on the roots, stems, or branches of other plants, and did not possess chlorophyll, so it did not have the ability to survive alone.

The reason why Rafflesia is called "peculiar" by small insects is that it has a mycelium-like organ that can absorb nutrients from the host, and it is precisely by virtue of this organ that it can invade the host's body and provide itself with an endless stream of nutrients, and the Rafflesia that cannot be photosynthesized with chlorophyll can reproduce to this day.

But the Rafflesia known to the worm has always had only plants as its host, and the worm has never heard of any species of Rafflesia that can parasitize on animals, and there is no doubt that the big octopus is definitely an animal and not a plant, so how did this Rafflesia grow on its back?

The little worm and the turtledove looked at each other, one of them knew a little about the Rafflesia, and the other didn't understand the situation in front of them at all, and they looked at each other with big eyes, but they didn't see the reason.

The turtledove suddenly sniffed and said to the little worm, "Have you smelled it, the smell we smelled earlier seems to be stronger." ”

Just before the turtledove said such a sentence, the little insect next to him shook his body inexplicably, and almost fell to the ground, fortunately the turtledove was still in a state of rage, and he hurriedly stepped forward to help the little worm.

"It's a mental attack," the little worm blinked twice, regained consciousness, and then stretched out her tongue to show the turtledove, which had a little tooth mark on it that she had just bitten out, "As soon as I smelled that smell, I immediately felt that I was in a misty environment, thanks to my quick enough reaction, I immediately bit my tongue when I noticed that something was wrong, and finally missed." ”

Pushing away the turtledove that was holding her, the little worm barely managed to stand on her feet with her own strength, she didn't want to be a burden to anyone at such a time.

……

As soon as the big octopus with a strange flower appeared behind it, all the monsters gathered around it, hugging it as if it was some kind of star idol, and the eyes of these monsters all showed a sense of humility and respect, but in the depths of their eyes, the little worm also sensed more things.

"Do you remember the tide callers we saw in the abandoned city?" The little worm was talking to the turtledove, and his eyes were looking at the flower behind the big octopus, "Although the tide caller is largely detached from the characteristics of an octopus, we might as well consider it a kind of octopus monster for the time being." ”

"If I remember correctly, the Tide Caller was re-awakening many corpses and treating them as puppets at their mercy, if you look at the monsters around this big octopus in front of you, is there any difference between them and those puppets?"

"No, these monsters are obviously unwilling to submit to this big octopus, this can be seen from their eyes, but unfortunately they are powerless to resist the spirit attack of the big octopus, I heard that the tide caller is not only able to 'awaken' corpses, it can even exercise mind control on wanderers, now you should understand what I am saying."

"That's right, I'm saying that this big octopus is clearly a weakened version of the Tide Caller."