"Wow~Wow~"

The unknown tree beside Andy shook a few times, and the dense leaves made a rattling and rubbing sound, and several dead leaves fell from mid-air, spinning and falling to the ground.

"Goo~Goo~"

A bird flew out from between the branches and leaves of a tall tree in the distance and made a strange call.

Andy didn't react, but Riye beside him suddenly shuddered, Andy looked at him with some confusion, and Riye scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Ha, my lord, I'm a little too nervous~"

Andy glared at Rye and turned his head back with a sudden change in his face for a few moments.

Fearing that the heads would float on the surface of the water due to the buoyancy, Mogg used a lot of force to plunge the fist-sized head of the wooden spear into the mud at the bottom of the pool.

And Mogg did just that, but what happened after the waterhole was something Andy hadn't expected.

Although the wooden spear did not surface, something else surfaced in the pool!

"Those are...... The corpse of a pirate?!"

After a long immersion in the water, the pirate's exposed body had become swollen, and the purple-brown bruises under the whitening flesh were unusually noticeable.

Andy stood at a distance and took a closer look at the pirate's corpses, and found that they all had a common feature, each with its mouth open.

Mogg looked back a little dazed, he looked at Andy, waiting for Andy's next order.

Andy thought for a moment and beckoned to Mogg, who pulled out all the wooden spears around the waterhole and plunged all the miniature heads into the waterhole as he had just done.

After Mogg had done this, Andy led Rye to the waterhole, where he looked at the few corpses floating on the water, thought for a moment, and had a look of doubt on his face.

These pirates were not killed by the headhunters, as their heads were still intact around their necks.

One of the characteristics of the headhunters is that after they successfully hunt outsiders, they will cut off the heads of these people, and through some special potion or witchcraft, the heads will be made into fist-sized pieces, which will be used as ornaments or sacrificial items.

For the headhunters, the heads of outsiders symbolized power and honor, and if they had killed the pirates, the heads on the pirates' corpses would not have been preserved intact.

So Andy deduces that these pirates should have died from something else.

Andy thought for a moment, plucked a wild fruit from the bushes on the side, flipped it in his hand, and threw it out, smashing it accurately on the head of a pirate corpse.

"Boom"!

The wild fruit bounced off the pirate's face and fell into the pool, causing a ripple on the water's surface.

A strange sound came from the mouth of the smashed pirate's corpse, and a crimson, tongue-like thing came out of the pirate's mouth and "swished" into the pool.

The water churned, and the tongue-like thing shrank back, and the tip of the tongue was still rolling up with the wild fruit just now.

Under Andy's and Riye's surprised gazes, the wild fruit quickly rotted, and a foul smell came out.

The "tongue" shook the residue off the tip of the tongue at the top, pointed at Andy, danced a few times in mid-air, and slowly retracted into the pirate's mouth.

This "tongue" has a very peculiar appearance, with a layer of transparent mucus attached to its surface, and two rows of tiny spikes growing under it, densely packed, I can't count how many there are.

"Captain ......"

Rye looked at Andy, took two steps back a little nervously, and whispered, "What's that?"

Andy patted Mogg on the shoulder, and the two of them also took a few steps back, and Andy was relieved to see that there was nothing unusual in the pool.

"That thing is called the shrunken-headed fish lice, a rare creature, extremely precious, and an alchemical material that alchemists dream of. ”

The fish lice, a parasite-like creature, is known to wizards as the "tongue-eating lice" due to its unique way of living.

Tongue-eating lice are a special type of marine creature that enters the mouth of fish as larvae and feeds on the blood of other animals by parasitic on their tongues.

The whole process is insidious and slow, and does not threaten the life of the parasitic animal.

When the parasitic tongue has shrunk and the larvae of the tongue-eating lice have grown, they will connect their tails to the shrunken "tongue" to replace the tongue of the parasitic animal and live with it.

Some powerful sea beasts can also be parasitized by tongue-eating lice, and once the two reach a symbiotic state, the sea beast will become more powerful as a result.

As a result, tongue lice are also sought after by many people, and some wizards will even train tongue lice specifically to use their special abilities to help them gain more power.

If nothing else, there must have been a lot of tongue-eating lice larvae in that waterhole, and it was from those pirates that they died.

It's just that Andy isn't sure if these tongue-eating lice are raised by the headhunters or whether they exist naturally here.

However, the waterhole is full of headhunters' wooden spears, and even if these tongue-eating lice are not specially bred by the headhunters, they must know about the existence of these tongue-eating lice.

Because Andy was still looking for Captain Philip, he wasn't going to provoke these troublesome guys.

The vitality of these tongue-eating lice is very strong, and even Andy, if he wants to subdue them, it will take some effort.

"Let's go!"

Andy said to Riye, as a cannibal, Riye already had a sense of awe for these strange creatures, after hearing Andy's words, Riye breathed a sigh of relief, followed the traces left by Philip and others, and walked towards the depths of the jungle.

As he leaves, Andy discovers that the bushes by the waterhole show signs of a fight, and some blood stains can be faintly seen on the branches.

Andy seems to have seen the fierce scene of Captain Philip leading the pirates to fight the troublesome tongue lice.

Coupled with the fact that there are many scattered marks of being trampled on the weeds, it can be guessed that in this battle between the pirates and the tongue lice, Captain Philip did not take advantage, but was beaten to the point where he left the corpses of the crew in disarray and fled in a hurry.

"As soon as I entered the jungle, I encountered the legendary tongue-eating lice, what secrets are still hidden on this indigenous island?"

Andy was a little excited, he looked up and looked at the dense foliage that blocked the sun and the blue sky, and an indescribable darkness descended and enveloped the jungle.

A gentle gust of wind blew, the leaves rustled, and the jungle fell into an eerie noise and silence.

Andy took a deep breath and began to look around vigilantly, and the feeling in the dark told him that something was approaching......