The afternoon meeting was held in a tent.

A total of four people attended the meeting.

Needle gold, purple pedicle, green beard, and cyanobacteria.

Several maps of animal skins are laid on the ground.

One of the largest, is placed in the center.

Needle Gold pointed to the largest map and said, "This is a combination of Zidi and all the maps we have on hand. ”

Several people have their eyes on this picture.

Up north and down south, left west right east.

At the northeastern end of the skin map, an anchor is depicted.

The needle pointed to the anchor mark: "This is the starting point of your exploration team, and it is also the beach where the Pig Kiss ran aground in the early stage." If the situation remains unchanged, there are still fifty or sixty people here, and it is the first mate of the Pig Kiss who is in control. ”

At the southeast end of the skin map, a cross is drawn.

The golden finger of the needle moved to the fork: "This is the place where President Zidi and I landed." On this stretch of beach, there are also three landing dinghys. ”

From the fork and the anchor, a curved course was extended, respectively. On both routes, at intervals, words or drawings are marked.

These two routes represent the routes of the two exploration teams, Purple Di and Cang Whisker, respectively.

However, these two routes did not come together, but came to an abrupt end in the middle of each other. In the center of this large map, there is a large blank space.

Needle Gold took out two more mini-maps and slapped them in the margins of the big map.

One map depicts desert terrain, the other with mountainous landscapes.

The emphasis is on the latter.

On the top of the mountain map, there are depictions of mine caves, spider forests, mountain springs, and other prominent places where monkey-tailed brown bears live.

The two routes represented by the two exploration teams were merged into one at the point of the mountain spring.

The golden finger of the needle moved to the marking point of the mountain spring: "We are here now, and our goal is to return here." ”

He moved his finger to the northeast section of the map, the drawing of the anchor.

There was no objection from everyone.

This island prohibits low-level magic and vindictiveness, and is inhabited by unimaginably ferocious monsters, so it is necessary to unite all the forces that can unite as much as possible to survive together.

External rescue is far away and unpredictable, and it is more reliable to rebuild the ship and set sail again.

It is impossible for a few people to succeed in the construction and operation of a sea vessel.

"The difficulties before us are obvious, two. "The first one is the ferocious beasts along the way. The second is the abnormal terrain here. What do you guys think?"

Cyanoza replied in a deep voice, "Master, if low-level magic and fighting qi are not prohibited here, our strength will be greatly improved. But now to deal with these strange beasts, we can only fight hard with flesh and blood. But no matter what, Huang Zao and I will be your swords, and wherever your eyes go, there will be sword strikes. ”

Cyanobacteria expressed their loyalty, and was very satisfied with this attitude: "Then I will look forward to your performance." ”

Hearing this, Zidi seemed to be keenly aware of something, she looked at the blue-green algae, and her expression was quite confused: "This statement of yours is a bit strange. If low-level magic and vindictive spirit are not prohibited here, then those ferocious monsters will be able to use all kinds of spells. We are strong, but they will also be more threatening than they are now. ”

"According to my guess, it won't be like this, Lady Zidi. "I don't think the monsters on this island can use any kind of spells. ”

"Oh, why do you have such a judgment?" asked Zidi then.

Cangsu didn't answer directly, but looked at the needle: "May I ask my lord, have you found any magic crystals among the corpses of the demonic beasts you have exterminated?"

Needle Gold shook his head: "So far, not a single magic crystal has been found. ”

This is obviously not normal.

Cang Xu nodded: "Although we haven't eliminated silver-level beasts along the way, we have also obtained a lot of bronze and black iron level demonic beast corpses. ”

"But we've never seen the Magic Shard exist. ”

"Why is that?"

"The formation of the magic crystal is that the demonic beast has lived in an environment full of elements for a long time, and as it grows and eats, the magic power in the body continues to accumulate, and finally forms a qualitative change and condenses a magic crystal. The magic crystal not only stores the vast majority of the magic power in the body of the demonic beast, but also can assist the demonic beast to stabilize and mobilize the magical power. ”

"Generally speaking, the more powerful the Demonic Beast, the higher the quality of the Demonic Crystals in the body. ”

Cang Xu's words, Needle Gold and Zi Di did not have any objections. This is inherently common sense.

Then, Cangsu expressed his opinion: "I think that the magic power in the demonic beasts living on the island is chaotic. They don't coordinate their mana and keep their mana stable and orderly. Because of this, the magic beast can't control the magic power in the body, and the magic power is chaotic, so it can't form the magic crystal. ”

Zidi nodded slightly, and shook her head slightly: "The magic power is chaotic, and it is indeed impossible to form a magic crystal." But that's just one of the possibilities that the magic crystal can't create. The key is Mr. Cangsu, how can you tell that the magic in the bodies of these demonic beasts is chaotic?"

This had to make Zidi suspicious.

Zidi herself is a black iron level magician, but she can't use magic here, so she can't investigate the state of magic in the demonic beast's body.

Cangsu is just an ordinary person, not even a magic apprentice. What can he do to measure it?

In the face of Zidi's suspicion and questioning, Cang Xu calmly calmed: "I calculated it." ”

Then, the old scholar threw out a new opinion: "First of all, I think that these magical beasts on the island are not naturally generated. They are all man-made. ”

"Artificial Demonic Beast?!" Needle Gold and Zidi glanced at each other, and they both saw each other's surprised looks.

As for the blue-green algae on the side, I have probably heard Cang Xu's judgment a long time ago, and there is no surprise at all.

"So, how can you tell if these monsters are not naturally created, but artificially created?" asked Needlegold.

Cang Xu slowly explained: "Since entering the island, I have dissected a lot of demonic beasts, and found that although they have their own stable circulation, and their organs and tissues cooperate closely, as if they were born like this, but when you really dig deeper, they are actually unnatural. ”

Zi Di's brows furrowed slightly, pondering Cang Xu's words: "Unnatural?"

"Yes. The old scholar in front of him nodded, his eyes deep, "They all lack the charm of nature." Don't you think these monsters are all pieced together?"

Zidi muttered, "I once handled the corpse of a monkey-tailed brown bear, a silver-level beast that died at the hands of Lord Needle Gold. It has the tail of a monkey, the torso of a bear, and the palms of an orangutan, but the front of its fingers has long, hard, slender iron claws. ”

"At first glance, this monkey-tailed brown bear looks like a patchwork of orangutans, monkeys, and brown bears. But in reality, the skeletal structure inside it is very reasonable. It has two hearts, and the rest of the internal organs also bear its physique perfectly. ”

"I am a low-level mage, and when I was studying, I put the most effort into pharmacy. I've collected a lot of material and know the structure of most creatures. Although it was the first time I had seen such monsters, I thought they were all perfectly physique, not disabled, mutated, or useless body tissue. What's so unnatural about that?"

Needle gold's heart jumped slightly.

Zidi mentions the monkey-tailed brown bear, which reminds him of the mutation of his own hands.

In a desperate situation, his hands suddenly mutated, becoming the claws of a monkey-tailed brown bear, killing the eight-legged spider with a single blow.

Afterwards, his hands were restored to their original shape.

Out of some kind of psychology that he couldn't explain, Needle Jin chose to hide the matter and didn't tell Zidi.

"Zidi is mentioning this matter now, and she is also taking the initiative to show my strength. Needle Gold immediately thought of Zidi's intentions.

Sure enough, the next moment he saw Cyanobacteria's eyes widen and cast a look of admiration at him.

Cyanobacteria praised from the bottom of his heart: "Master, your strength is really strong!"

"Your talent is amazing. Your bravery and achievements will also be widely praised. Cang Xu also echoed, and then looked at Zidi again.

"Lady Zidi, what you said is not wrong at all. I fully trust your judgment that their life forms are indeed very reasonable and stable. ”

"I don't have a mage or exposure to pharmacy, but I've had the privilege of reading a lot of books. Some of these books are the histories of individual families. These histories detail how certain noble families rose to prominence and managed their domains. Their early history of exploration was actually a confrontation with the environment, and the process of combing nature with manpower. ”

These books include the removal of gnolls and thieves, the protection of animal tides, the hunting of wolves near villages, the expulsion of wild boars from crops, and so on. In order to guide the descendants of the family, the sages who compiled these histories left behind many elaborate illustrations, detailing the forms and habits of beasts and monsters, and how to resist and kill them more effectively. ”

"It was because of these things that I benefited a lot, and after some thinking by my stupid mind, I also came to many superficial but interesting conclusions. As a result, it also made me feel the unnaturalness of these fierce beasts on the island. ”

"I've found that wild beasts with horns on their heads are usually herbivores. Their horns are the main weapon used to defend against predators. ”

"And the more ferocious predators, with their longer, sharper teeth, are more muscular, and are good at galloping, especially short bursts. Some of them also have pads under their claws, which makes it easier for them to approach their prey silently. ”

Speaking of this, Cang Xu's words turned slightly.

"Not so long ago, before the yellow algae found us, it was a hill with relatively sparse forests, low temperatures, and occasional snowflakes in the wind. That was the end of our current exploration, where we caught a glimpse of a gold-level beast. ”

"It was an elk with huge bony antlers on its head, like the branches of a tree crisscrossed by them. The elk eats meat and does not eat grass, and it also has a pair of huge snow-white wings on its back. I privately named it the Whitebone Feather Deer. ”

"Although it was only seen in a hurry, I felt that its flesh and bone structure must be reasonable, and it can support its daily activities stably and perfectly. ”

"But it's not natural. You see, its size is not suitable for flying, a pair of huge wings, at most it gives it the ability to glide. It eats carnivorous, survives in nature, and lives on the high end, preying on other animals. But it has horns. The horn is used for defense, and it is not conducive to attacking, it is not conducive to running and hunting, it is not conducive to lurking and hiding. ”

"Let's take the monkey-tailed brown bear that the adults killed. When the monkeys are wagging through the woods, their tails keep their bodies balanced and stabilize their direction as they jump in mid-air. But does the brown bear need it? It's very heavy, what trees can withstand? Does it jump a lot? Does the monkey's tail grow on its body, does it make us feel a little redundant?"

"The biggest difference between the palm of an orangutan, which resembles a human hand, and the claws of many beasts of prey, is that the orangutan has a thumb. This structure helps orangutans grasp branches as they move from tree to tree. But in the hands of the monkey-tailed brown bear, such palms have grown sharp claws. Isn't that redundant?"

"That's what I mean by unnaturalness. ”

Seeing that the few people in front of him were thoughtful, Cangsu continued to talk eloquently.

"The first need of life is to survive. The natural environment is harsh, and the beasts that can survive and reproduce often have amazing survival skills. These abilities are usually given by the organs in their body. ”

"For example, moles. It has hard claws, and its shape makes it easy to burrow. But it's almost invisible. In fact, it doesn't need to be seen, because the soil is dark and has no brilliance. In its place, it is its nose. It has a very keen sense of smell. ”

"This is life in nature. It has its strengths and weaknesses. In its body, its advantages and disadvantages are unified, allowing it to find its most suitable position in the cruel competition for survival with other lives. ”

"But let's look at these monsters on the island, they're too powerful. Their construction is stable, but there are contradictions and conflicts with each other. Their place in nature is not clear-cut. ”

"It's like the monkey-tailed brown bear that Lord Needle Gold killed, it needs a monkey tail, it doesn't. ”

"Or the white-boned deer, does it need wide antlers? The heavy antlers on its head are an obstacle to its predation. ”