"This form."

Ian frowned slightly.

He couldn't help but think of a parasite called 'Collarius fluke'.

It is a parasite that parasitizes snails, causing their eye stalks to bulge and protrude and wriggle to attract these snails to be eaten by birds...... It can manipulate the snail's movements, causing them to go against their nocturnal norms, and go to the high places of leaves during the day to be hunted by other creatures.

Although it is not known what is going on with the parasites in the monitor lizard's body, this abnormal behavior does not conform to the normal behavior pattern of the green armor lizard.

This malignant parasite can obviously affect biological brains.

"It's only been a few minutes? It has been eroded to this point. Although the green armor lizard is not a magical beast, it is indeed easy to be parasitic without the essentia circulation in the body, but the speed is really too fast. ”

Pulling the heavy abyss iron sword from his waist, Ian slowly pressed forward.

The leader of the lizard group let out a wild roar, and the giant beast, which was more than three meters long and weighed more than half a ton, lowered its head and aimed the raised ramming horns above its head at the enemy in front of it.

Then he charged.

Boom, boom, the ground shook. Even if it wasn't a demonic beast, the charge of the green armored lizard was like a brute bull rushing, and with the power transmission effect brought by that sturdy armor, even the overlord of the jungle, the sharp-clawed tiger, would temporarily avoid the edge.

But with the sonorous hum of a long sword, Ian had already raised his sword and swung it.

Before the sword arrived, a stream of visible water essentia had already condensed at the blade, and then turned into a materialized water blade that broke through the air, and shot straight towards the head of the blue-armored lizard with enough force to smash the solid rock.

This water blade is not sharp, after all, there is no special restraint structure, but its power is extremely strong, it is almost like an invisible ramming hammer.

When it slammed into the skull of the green lizard, the skull, which was originally strong enough to crush the reef, disintegrated and shattered like crispy biscuits, and even the spine was deformed by the blast, and the bones were shattered inch by inch.

With this sword alone, Ian didn't even use the earth-attribute essentia that really matched the heavy abyss iron sword to kill the blue-armored lizard he was led by.

- Who said that a water blade can't kill without a blade?

I feel that this kind of water-edged hammer also has some potential for development...... At least for heavily armored enemies.

With this in mind, Ian looked at the lizards again.

Theoretically, when the father of the lizard is killed, his spouse and offspring should scatter and flee...... Even the enemies that the leader can't defeat, they are also pure gifts, and the inheritance instinct in the bloodline will not let them send their lives here.

However, the other five large and small green-armored lizards did not flinch at all after seeing Ian kill the big lizard.

Or rather, they hadn't even noticed the previous fight - they weren't as physically fit as the lizards, so they only started howling now and then locked their eyes on Ian.

Then, just like the big lizard before, one after another, without any coordination, rushed over one after another!

For a moment, the empty cave resounded with the roar of a group of lizards charging.

One monitor lizard after another trampled on the blood of the lizard father, and shook the earth as they attacked the enemy, which was particularly tragic.

And Ian just out of the sword, out of the sword.

That's all, their heads were shattered, and their headless bodies collapsed to the ground, twitching from time to time.

The Ascendant's advantage over ordinary creatures is all-encompassing and crushing - Ian's sword swing is probably heavier than the entire weight of the Green Lizard, and there is no suspense in this battle.

But he didn't relax, but immediately came to the corpse of the lizard, leaned down to observe the broken skulls of the other party, those blue-black insects that were still wriggling.

This is a small insect that is difficult to see with the naked eye, but it is extremely numerous, and when it gathers together, it forms blue-black wriggling dots - these small insects are actually constantly dying and renewing, the blue ones are active, and the black ones are dead corpses.

Originally, the eyes of the green beetle lizard were almost occupied by this blue parasite. It even began to emit faint fluorescence, but as the host died, the parasites also began to lose their activity, causing the eyes and epidermis of the green lizard to turn blue-black.

A silver streamer swept over the bugs.

【Cachexia Parasite: Unnamed (South China Sea Relic Species)】

【First Energy Level: Excellence】

[The malignant parasites that inhabit the underground relics ecosphere of the South China Sea need to live in suitable flowing water and living organisms, mainly attacking the cerebellum, frontal and temporal lobes, and will replace their functions after engulfing. If the host dies or leaves the environment, it will die quickly.]

[Through wound contact parasitism, the eggs cannot break through the mucous membrane, if drunk, as long as there is no wound in the mouth and stomach, it will not be regarded as a terminal host]

【……】

This time the silver chip didn't have a lot of data, although the specific parasite size, energy level, and microscopic modeling were also available, but Ian really needed very little information.

"Unnamed? It seems that I was the first discoverer. ”

Standing up, Ian pondered: "The lizard colony is parasitized, probably because they have wounds in their mouths and stomachs - most wild animals do, so after drinking a lot of water, they are invaded by parasites in the water. ”

"This is a first-level parasite, in other words, it is a sublimation species, and it is indeed easy to deal with ordinary monitor lizards of no energy level...... If it is a sublimator, even the spontaneous flow of essentia in the body can curb the tendency of parasitism. ”

The essentia flowing in the sublimator is a microscopic pure energy state structure that can be coupled with organelles to 'sublimate' the human body - even nanobots cannot be smaller than it, and it is really easy to solve a parasite.

Ian waited patiently for another ten minutes, and after cutting open the body of the monitor lizard with his sword and making sure that most of the parasites in the depths of the flesh and blood were dead, he nodded slightly: "The vitality is not very strong." The main parasitic part is the brain, but there is also a tendency to spread throughout the body...... It's a bit reckless, I should have waited a little longer to see what these parasites look like when they mature. ”

At this moment, the young man's expression was indifferent, he did not feel uncomfortable because of the horror and disgust of this parasite, but had a strong curiosity.

Ian looked up at the blue river.

He looked closer, and found that just as he had thought, all the tiny blue components of the blue river were eggs and the corpses of small worms...... Although there are some mineral components, that is obviously not the main factor!

This whole river is a river of parasites!

"Upstream is supposed to be the nest of these bugs, right?"

Looking up at the upper reaches of the river, Ian pondered, "It seems that the underground ruins are not only ecological, but also very dangerous. ”

If it's just a danger, it doesn't stop Ian. Despite the horror of this parasite, in fact, it doesn't matter to him to go down to the river to bathe.

With a silver chip and an ancient dragon heart core, even if he drinks water full of parasite eggs like a monitor lizard, he will not be infected by this, but can turn them into high-quality protein.

But by the way, there's no need to torture yourself like this – curiosity is a good thing, and you don't have to use it for it.

What really made Ian ponder was the 'parasites' that lingered and flashed in the eyes of the monitor lizard.

It reminded him of a 'plague' that had occurred in the back colony of Southridge six years ago.

"Flashing mosquitoes?"

The young man muttered to himself, his tone was wary: "The flash mosquito disease spread by the indigenous people back then, could it be said that it has something to do with this parasite?" ”