Chapter 539: The Heart of the Fire Beak
"How's it going, is the fire beak dead?" Lu Li asked quickly through the walkie-talkie. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In order to ensure that his teammates could still communicate with each other despite being dispersed, he purchased a set of HF-band radios and installed them on the Hummer.
Using a powerful radio device as a relay station, even under the premise that the signal transmission is least ideal, the voice of the person using the walkie-talkie on the other side can still be clearly heard within a radius of 30 kilometers with the car as the center.
I have to say that this is an unimaginable huge progress for a different world where communication basically relies on roaring.
He even plans to wait for the generator to be operational, and then buy a higher-powered radio to completely cover Kempera and its surroundings, and establish a simple long-range communication network.
"Wait, Captain, I'll have to get closer to make sure. Diodorus hurriedly replied, followed by raising his shield and proceeding cautiously.
Just as he was about to poke the "corpse" with his axe, the fire beak suddenly craned its neck and bit down on the shield, while spewing hot orange flames from its mouth.
"Be careful!" Apollonius reminded his brother loudly.
Thankfully, Diodorus reacted quickly and immediately retracted his head behind the shield while using his talent, Water Elemental Attachment.
Moment!
The surface of the shield was covered with a layer of dark blue water, and this water flow seemed to be endowed with vitality, and quickly opened to form an arc-shaped protection, successfully blocking the flames from a distance of more than ten centimeters from him.
Seeing that her teammates were attacked, Meow Lori, who reacted the fastest, immediately pulled out her long knife and jumped, and the whole person disappeared into the shadows in an instant.
Next Second......
She walked directly through more than ten meters away, and suddenly appeared behind the fire beak, and cut off the opponent's thick neck with a knife in her hand.
Burst!
The dark red blood spurted out two or three meters away, and it lasted for several seconds before it slowly stopped, and the drive that lost its head fell down with a thud, completely turning into a corpse that could not move.
Diodorus, who almost suffered a big loss, shook off the huge head that bit the shield, spat hard, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn! What a cunning bastard who wants to fool us by playing dead." ”
"Judging by its previous performance, it must have a high IQ, so it's not surprising that it would play dead. It was strange to me, how could it be that it was still alive after being hit head-on by the captain?" Agnes questioned, frowning.
The dwarf touched the bushy beard on his chin and nodded approvingly, "That's right! You know, even if I use the hardening talent, I can't guarantee that I will survive a single shot, let alone a mutated toucan. ”
"Hah! It's not easy! Let's see if the wound is clear?"
Apollonius, apparently a man of action, quickly approached the headless corpse and first examined the area where it had been fired, revealing that the bullet hole was only three fingers thick.
But when he turned the body around, there was an expression of disbelief on his face: "Oh oh my! Can any of you tell me what the is this?"
I saw that where the 20-millimeter bullet penetrated, a large number of muscles, blood vessels, and internal organs were devastated, forming a cavity almost larger than a human head.
Normally, a creature would be killed 100% on the spot if it was injured like this, and it would not even have time to scream.
What is unbelievable is that the blood vessels and tissues in the fire beak stop bleeding on their own in just a few seconds, and the exposed heart part actually emits a bright red light, like a dazzling gem.
What's even more interesting is that with the red light constantly flickering, the heart is also beating all the time, even if the body is dead, there is still no intention of stopping.
Meow Lori, who was very curious, stretched out a finger and gently poked the surface of her heart, and immediately shouted: "Meow? It's hard! This thing is as hard as crystal!"
"Captain, this thing is a bit weird, do we need to cut it down and bring it back?" asked Diodorus over the intercom.
"Of course, not only the heart, but also the head, and if I'm not mistaken, Firebeak's head seems to be worth fifteen hundred gold coins. Lu Li gave the order without thinking.
He couldn't wait to figure out what gave an ordinary beast the power of a dungeon monster......
With the death of the fire beak, the remaining toucans completely lost their organizational ability and scurried around completely like headless flies, and after a while, they were killed by the militia and mercenaries in a joint effort, among which Crete also stood up at the critical moment and killed six or seven guys who almost broke through the blockade with extremely dazzling flame sword skills.
This time, he did not give the other party the slightest chance to release chemical weapons, to be precise, he did not even give a chance to react, and he was crushed by strength from beginning to end.
Just as the town sent representatives to count the corpses and count how much commission each combatant should receive, Diodorus finally brought back the hardened heart.
Lu Li held a magnifying glass, under the illumination of the headlights, carefully observed the surface and internal structure, and also did a few small tests, and found that this thing was completely composed of thousands of tiny crystal fragments, and the fragments were only connected by capillaries and muscles, which were enough to withstand very large external pressure.
In addition to this, in the process of beating, it also absorbs the magic that permeates the surrounding air and stores it.
Judging from the suture marks of the connection between the heart and the blood vessels, it is obvious that this thing has been artificially replaced to replace the original heart function.
Perhaps the fundamental reason why the fire beak is able to shoot flames is that it has such a powerful heart.
Just as he was about to try to dig open his heart and see what else was amazing inside, an old man in a robe who looked to be in his sixties came up and saluted very politely: "Good evening, honorable adventurers. I'm Mayor Pochi of Toucan, and thank you so much for helping us out of Firebeak at a critical time. Inside this bag are 2,000 Deep Lake City Gold Coins, so please accept them as a token of our appreciation. ”
"Mr. Mayor, can I take the liberty of asking, when did the fire beak start to rage around the town?" Lu Li didn't even look at the bag full of gold coins on the ground, and directly asked what he was most interested in.
"Uh...... I don't know exactly when, but the first time the bounties were offered was about 100 years ago. The mayor replied after a moment of contemplation.
Lu Li raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then asked again: "How many years does an ordinary toucan live?"
"About forty to fifty years, some of them live to sixty years, but toucans over fifty years old will lose their hunting ability, and even if they do not die of illness, they will starve to death......"