Chapter 46: The Silk Thread
Although the lizard's four finger claws are not as good as a human hand, they also have their own unique characteristics.
Some flexibility is sacrificed, but it's not so much that you can't even pick up ordinary tools.
A pale green fluorescence flickered in the darkness, and the moment the corpse made contact with the book, a halo exploded, and the aftermath hit the wall in a diffuse manner. Alexei couldn't avoid it, he immediately sensed that the reverberating shockwave was attacking both sides of the shield, and the magic power in his body was rapidly evacuated, in order to prevent him from falling into the predicament of demon addiction again, Alexei, who didn't dare to stay on the scene for a long time, pinched the staff and rolled in front of the half-open door.
Hurriedly squeezed out of the crack in the door, and the first day of the first day escaped, and in the rushing blood, the speed of the mana deceleration quickly returned to the normal level. Alexei seized the opportunity to breathe calmly, and when he looked back, the entire room was already passing through like a violent wind, and countless fragments were dancing with the corpses in the air and clutching the books. Most of the glass cabinets were broken, and all that remained was the cracks on the surface.
"It's a curse, but it's not like a curse. ”
Alexei carefully experienced the impact he had just received, and the mana consumption reflected on the shield told Alexey that the explosive aura was not so simple, and it contained more than just impact, but something else, something terrible.
However, now that he has escaped from the storm, it will be difficult for Alex to return to the eye of the storm with Alexey's existing mana reserves.
Fortunately, his eyes still have the effect of clarity, and in order to observe the process of the corpse servant touching the book, Alexei did not choose to remove the clarity, so Alexey's naked eye was lucky to catch some silk threads that quickly multiplied after the green light shone and were invisible to ordinary people.
They seemed to be living creatures, dividing and growing rapidly, crawling along everything in the room that could be relied on, squirming like a green worm without a head.
Disgusting, and intensive.
He was busy running away just now, and Alexei didn't have a chance to observe carefully. Now that security was in place, the mage became interested in the silk threads that suddenly appeared, from the book's response to the touch.
He observed that the greenish silk threads on the surface of the body exhibited an irregular movement most of the time. They are a group and love to come together, but they clearly do not have a unified will as a leader.
Moreover, they seem to be only expansion, and have no penchant for stationing and ruling in the areas they have already occupied.
Alexei noticed that when the discorded threads were chosen to attach to a smooth metal floor, leaving small pits, their colonies would expand roughly twice as quickly, and the faster they expanded.
Two, four, four......
The differentiation of these threads is usually completed in a dozen seconds, and Alexei did not find any examples of threads dying due to reproduction, which reminded Alexei of a plague of locusts on the continent, and the two do have some characteristics that are very similar - large numbers, strong destructive power, and fast speed.
You must know that although the pits on the metal ground climbed by the green silk thread are very shallow, from the perspective of ordinary people, it is about the extent of a frosted metal surface, but although this seems to be no big deal, it only needs a little thought, combined with the hardness of the metal, it is very scary.
In addition, there is a layer of light-reflecting substance on their body surface, and after corroding away some of the metal, it has differentiated, and with the above points, Alexei can conclude that the silk thread bites the metal and eats, and if it touches the human body, Alexei shuddered just by imagining it.
"What kind of monster did I unleash?"
With some regret in his heart, Alexei swung his staff to seal a wall of ice through the gap in the gate, and walked in the other direction of the passage without looking back.
As he kept imagining the catastrophe that the silk thread might cause, Alexey's pace quickened.
We must find a way to stop the threads at once.
Realizing that something was wrong, he was desperate to find a few living creatures, or some other organic matter, to test the reaction of silk threads to substances other than metal.
If the thread is not a threat to the living, then everyone is happy, and Alexei can use it for other purposes with confidence. But if the silk threads can still create a chain of feeding and reproduction on the living creatures, then he will have to find a way to destroy the entire building immediately.
"I'm a butcher, but I have no interest in destroying the world. ”
"What I desire is knowledge, a challenge that the world can bring me, not just death. ”
"There's no point in that, there's no fun. ”
At the end of the passage is an enclosed door with a red light bulb in the middle of the frame. Alexei raised his staff and slammed it a few times, but the gate didn't move.
"I don't know if lockpicking doesn't work for doors that don't have locks. ”
Alexei hurriedly walked back and forth twice, and the terrifying breeding speed of the silk thread would soon spread to the gate sealed by the ice wall, and the time to stop the calamity from happening was limited, and his magic power was limited.
"No matter what, it's just a small spell consumption. ”
Alexei, who was in a hurry, made up his mind and pointed the head of his staff at the door - "snort", the metal door panel slowly opened to both sides, and the light bulb in the middle of the door frame briefly changed from red to green.
"It worked!"
The mage hurriedly walked inside, only to find that the outside door was not the wide world he had imagined, but a small cubicle that was narrower and more compact than the interior.
"Damn. ”
Wasting his magic but not getting the result he wanted, Alexei was just about to lift his leg and step out of the door again, when he stepped out of one leg, he thought for a while, and then felt that the existence of the cubicle must have a reason. After discovering that the place was surrounded by luminous metal, Alexei looked up and saw that a fan was spinning at a low speed that caught the mage's attention.
"Exit!"
Alexey's eyes lit up, and he smashed the metal mesh in front of the fan with a cane, and then used the tail of the cane to push the fan on, and a skylight appeared above the compartment that could be used for one person to enter and exit.
The mage sprang up to the skylight in a few steps, and a steel rope stretched in front of him, reaching so high that he could not see the top, and the sky was dark at the end of his vision.
This small problem is not too difficult for a mage, but a small thing that can be done with a spider technique is too expensive to use the levitation technique.
A word popped out between Alex's teeth, and the soles of his palms and feet quickly condensed a layer of viscous yellowish transparent oil from the magic power. He climbed along the tightrope extremely fast, and it only took a minute and a half to reach a height of 100 meters......
Suddenly!
There seemed to be some strange movement under his feet, and the steel rope he was holding was suddenly lifted by some kind of force, which was extremely fast, Alexei had to hold the steel cable under strong pressure, and the hair on his head was squeezed and stuck to the skin, but just when he thought this was the end, there was a sudden sense of crisis that made Alexey's heart beat wildly, and he subconsciously looked up......
!!
A silver-white floor slab was only ten meters away from him!!