The group hurried back to the town of Holy Salt, bringing with them the remains of two packets of lizards.

Back in Holy Salt, Kevin I led them straight to the library.

The Library is one of the most heavily guarded areas in Holy Salt Town, with over a hundred soldiers patrolling throughout the day. These soldiers were very rigorous, and even if Kevin I was familiar with them, they were carefully examined before they were allowed to enter.

"The structure of our Holy Salt Town, as a whole, is a circle with several layers of inner and outer layers. Knowing that Pan Long was an outsider and was not very familiar with the town, Milton explained to him, "The center is of course the Holy Prayer Hall, where more than ten priests are praying at any time, not to mention ordinary people, even the managers of the town, who are not allowed to approach it at ordinary times. ”

"Outside the prayer hall, there is a ring of defense lines for the town office, a library, and a barracks, and a circle outside for hospitals, schools, warehouses, etc., and beyond the third circle, there is a rich area, outside the fourth circle is a middle-class area, and between the fifth circle and the city wall is a civilian area. As for those who can't even afford to buy a house in the civilian area and can only live outside the city walls, strictly speaking, they are not residents of the town of Holy Salt. ”

"In addition to preserving materials, the library is also responsible for mapping and analysing information, and most importantly, the study of disasters. Several scholars here have been studying calamities for many years and have developed many effective ways to combat them. But the biggest problem at the moment is that none of these tools can be widely used and need to be further simplified. ”

Pan Long nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.

He was somewhat impressed by these settings.

Once in the library, Kevin I found a scholar with a white beard and handed him the two packets of wreckage, highlighting the strangeness of the lizard.

When he learned that this lizard was only afraid of sunlight and not salt, the scholar's expression suddenly became very serious, and he asked, "Have you tried burning it with fire?"

"It's about the same as the sun. ”

"It's okay...... I'm going to organize people to carry out the research, and I'll let you know as soon as I get the results. ”

After doing this, Pan Long naturally went back to the hotel, while Milton and Donner were worried about the aftermath of the dead gang.

The Ferret family is not large, and there are not many reliable people. More than 20 people died at once, not only is the pension or something a big problem, but the manpower is also a little stretched.

In this era, as long as you are willing to spend money, it doesn't matter how many people you want to recruit - most of the poor people outside the city walls are willing to work hard and even die to eat well.

However, it is not so easy to find reliable staff.

The people who lost the Ferre family this time were all old people who had followed the family for more than ten years, or even more than a generation, and they were loyal and reliable. It's not easy to get together such a group of people.

But they don't have a choice, vacancies always have to be filled, and many things need to be done after all.

After two or three busy days, another sunny morning, Milton found Pan Long and invited him to visit the valley with him.

"We're ready to set fires. He said, "Interested in seeing the Burning Lizard?"

"Are you sure those lizards will be stupid enough to stay outside and wait to be burned?"

"I've investigated it before, and they're really out there, hiding in the dirt. ”

“...... That's stupid. ”

"It's a beast after all. ”

When I came to the outside of the valley, I saw that there were mountains of firewood here, and there were a lot of fire oil that exuded a pungent smell, and I knew at a glance that I was going to do a big thing.

Under Milton's command, dozens of people were busily throwing firewood into the valley, which had already covered a large area of the ground. From time to time, the ground squirmed slightly, and a half-lizard's head emerged, which then shrank again.

It seems that these guys really think humans are stupid and want to ambush again.

When enough firewood was laid, the torches soaked in fire oil were lit one by one and thrown into the firewood.

Soon, the flames were raging.

At first, the fire was not very big, but after a while, the dead branches and leaves in the valley were gradually ignited, and even the branches and leaves of the trees were dried and ignited, and the fire became more and more fierce and spread everywhere.

In the midst of the flames, countless lizards poured out of the ground and ran everywhere.

The same voice that had been commanding them before rang out again, but this time, it was ineffective.

The lizards, surrounded by flames, were so flustered that they didn't listen to orders at all.

They just scurried around like headless flies, trying to dodge the flames. Many of them, for unknown reasons, began to kill each other frantically, and the killing scenes were so bloody that the faces of those who had just been recruited turned pale, and more than one of them ran to the side and vomited.

Pan Long frowned and asked, "What's going on, shouldn't they just retreat to the cave?"

"The scholar gave us a medicine. "This medicine destroys the lizard's sense of hearing, and we made a lot of it and applied it to those fuelwoods. As it turned out, the results were really good. ”

He smiled happily and was in a good mood to see the lizards' miserable condition.

Pan Long sniffed it carefully, and sure enough, he smelled some clues.

In addition to the smell of burning firewood, the smell of fire oil, and the smell of burnt flesh, there was also a faint smell in the air. The fragrance is very thin and somewhat similar to the fragrance of plants. If he hadn't been reminded by Milton, he wouldn't even have noticed.

But the effect of this medicine is really powerful, as more and more firewood burns, the medicinal power volatilizes more and more, and the whole valley is enveloped in it, and even in that cave, there is a smell of medicine transmitted into it.

As far as the eye can see, all the lizards have gone berserk and are desperate to kill. Pan Long even saw that even inside the cave, there were many lizards tearing and beating.

After a long time, the flames gradually went out, and the valley was charred black.

In the green smoke, one or two lizards that had survived the previous flames could be seen from time to time, still fighting desperately.

Because the smoke obscures the sun, they are not killed by the sun, but seeing how crazy they fight each other, even if they are not killed by the sun, they are actually about the same.

Pan Long was about to walk in, when suddenly his heart moved, picked up a torch, and threw it away. The lighted torch drew an arc in the air and landed at the entrance to the cave.

With the help of firelight, you can see that there are also lizards dead in the cave, and there are a large number of them. But this was nothing, and what really surprised Pan Long was that there were several lizards that were obviously much larger, trying to bite and devour the corpses of these kind.

"They're devouring each other!" Pan Long asked, "Did the scholar anticipate this?"

"No, he just said that the drug might drive the lizards crazy. ”

Pan Long frowned and asked Milton for a potion—a bag wrapped in breathable linen, and the rich smell kept coming from it.

He withstood the scorching heat of the valley, which had not yet completely dissipated, and walked down the slope where a few sparks appeared from time to time, and soon came to the front of the cave.

When I got closer, I could clearly see that the lizards in the cave had stopped fighting and were frantically devouring the corpses of their own kind.

And as he ate, the body of a lizard suddenly cracked, and as the skin and flesh opened, the size became a lot larger.

"Actually able to evolve in this way? Isn't this similar to the legendary Gu cultivation technique?"

In the Yunzhou realm of the Kyushu world, there is a special cultivation method, which is to capture all kinds of poisonous insects and evil beasts, force them to kill each other, devour each other, and in the end, they will grow into strange things called "Gu".

Cultivators can absorb the life essence of the "Gu" through special means, or simply merge themselves with the "Gu", they can seize the power of the "Gu", obtain all kinds of incredible abilities, and even obtain a long lifespan from this.

In the past, this method used to be popular in Yunzhou. Until about four or five hundred years ago, there was a demon god named "Yiwu" who came to Yunzhou. This demon god was very disgusted with Gu arts, and fought many times with the masters of various Gu refining schools, and finally stopped the wind of Gu refining in Yunzhou.

Nowadays, there are still people refining Gu in Yunzhou, but they are all petty fights and no climate. The Gu refined by these people no longer has the power of the past, at best, it is to eat the heart and liver of the negative heart and the like - it is quite terrifying to say, but as long as you don't get into love debts and don't mess up and abandon that set, these have nothing to do with you.

Seeing the ever-evolving scene of these lizards devouring each other in front of him, Pan Long immediately thought of Gu magic.

"Gu magic is not natural, but the result of human control...... Could it be that these lizards are not natural, but artificially made?"

He muttered to himself, walked to the front of the cave, and threw the medicine bag into the depths of the cave.

A moment later, a terrifying sound sounded from the depths of the cave, and countless bites and fights were made so hard that it was impossible to count how many.

Pan Long frowned, and with a move of his hand, he sucked the torch from before into his hand, lit it again in the embers beside him, and then threw it into the cave.

He controlled his power well, and the torch was being thrown next to the medicine bag he had just had. The flame burned the medicine packet, and the fragrance became more and more intense.

With the help of the firelight, he saw that the cave was densely packed, and he didn't know how many lizards there were. There are enough of them to make those who see them feel dense phobias, and they're still tearing and devouring each other like crazy.

At the entrance of the cave, the lizards, who were bewitched by the drug, did not notice that Pan Long, who was almost close at hand, and after eating up the corpses of their own kind nearby, they turned and rushed into the cave.

These lizards have evolved and are much larger than other lizards. Ordinary lizards are defenseless in front of them, almost one at a time.

Pan Long then watched as the lizards evolved again, becoming larger, more athletic, and more importantly, more ferocious.

Later, they were even able to bite an unevolved lizard into their mouths in one bite, chewing and swallowing at the same time, and some lizards were even swallowed alive into their stomachs.

The strange thing is that even if the lizard is swallowed alive, once it enters the stomach, it will immediately be honest, and there is not even the slightest trace of struggle, and I don't know if it is the great digestion ability of those big lizards?

After a few moments, Milton and Donner walked down and walked to Pan Long's side.

When they saw the lizards in the cave, which were already larger than people, their eyes widened like pigeon eggs.

"How...... How is that possible?!" Milton stuttered a little as he even spoke, "This is also ...... Evolved too ...... It's too fast!"

"Calamity, there's no need to speculate with common sense. Pan Long said, "Maybe we can continue to evolve." ”

"Can you still fight like this?" asked Milton.

"Jumping clown, vulnerable!" Donner said confidently.

Pan Long also nodded: "Although most of the big ones can fight, it's one thing to be able to fight, and it's another thing to be able to beat us." No matter how much these lizards evolve, they are still just lizards after all. ”

Milton also calmed down, thought for a moment, and took out a small mirror, reflecting the sunlight into the cave and shining on a large lizard.

The sun fell on its scales, but instead of directly puffy and blistering as at the beginning, smoke came out first. As the smoke rises, the scales slowly fade from blue-black, to lighter and lighter colors, and finally to grayish-white.

Then, the gray color spreads everywhere, and the movement of the big lizard becomes sluggish.

After a few more moments, it finally lay motionless on the ground. The off-white color completely covers its body, making it look like an off-white stone.

After a few more minutes, the "gray-white stone" suddenly collapsed, but there was no flesh and blood in it, but countless silver-gray fragments.

Looks...... It's a bit like silver.

Pan Long was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but ask, "Is this how the silver came from?"

He turned to look at Milton and Donner, both of whom also had a ghostly expression.

Milton frowned and muttered, "After being able to dig the ground, in large quantities, easily killed by the sun, and devouring each other, it can produce silver...... Could it be that this thing is actually used to refine silver ore?"

Pan Long thought for a moment and simply rushed into the cave.

There were no more lizards left in the cave now, and after countless lizards devoured each other, all that remained were a few behemoths. And these behemoths are still fighting each other, and no one notices him at all.

He came to the silver shards scattered by the large lizard, wrapped them in a large cloth, and exited the cave.

Spread out the piece of cloth, the silver pieces glittered in the sunlight and really looked like silver.

Milton did not dare to touch it with his hands, so he quickly made a small fire, and then threw two pieces of wood into the fire.

A moment later, he pulled out two pieces of deformed silver from the fire.

The real thing is that the sterling silver is unmistakable.

Looking at these two pieces of silver, the three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Could it be that these lizards turned out to be miners in the "Calamity"?