Chapter 268: Auxiliary Memory Organs (8/10)
At this moment, in the turbulent underground river, the neighing of giant eels can be faintly heard from behind.
Tenglan giant eel is a unique variety of magical beasts in the South China Sea of Nanling Province, or in other words, it is a magical beast firmly bound to the natives.
Swamp crocodile dragons have subspecies in many other areas, and the rot spider has similar species that roam the rainforests of Canaan Moore, except for the Great Sequoia Forest Tree Sea and the Tenglan Giant Eel, which are unique to the redwood natives and are firmly bound together.
There are two ways for this giant eel to be promoted, one is the discharge similar to the electric eel, and the other is to control the flow of water - it is the one who controls the flow of water that pursues Ian and the others, and it is the male eel who controls the current, and I don't know if they have entered the ruins together.
"That eel seems to be parasitized as well, but it seems to be getting faster? Could it be that the indigenous-related magical beasts are immune to the encroachment of parasites, and instead turn them into breeding clothes? ”
- What bloodline exclusive breeding outfit!
At this moment, Ian couldn't operate on the shark shark to remove the parasite, he could sense that the ironclad shark under him was actually quite painful, but he was forced to move forward with all his might.
But the more you move forward, the faster the blood flows, the easier it is for the parasite to reach the brain, if it weren't for the shark shark almost completed metallization, the extremely high internal temperature curbed the parasite activity, I'm afraid the brain would have been eaten long ago.
But the situation is still not optimistic.
Ian couldn't tell what was going on with the giant eels, but at least it wasn't right for the other party to be so ferocious - the giant eels were in a sense very Buddhist, as evidenced by the fact that they could even accept Harrison's harbor fleet to fish for eels next to O'Dale Reef...... Without the rituals and instructions of the natives, they are usually in a state of doing nothing.
Even if they were hit by a shark in the waist, they couldn't remember it for so long with their intelligence!
The giant eel pursued ferociously, and the shark only accelerated to dodge with instinct, but it was only lucky that it was not blocked in a dead end.
Now commanded by Ian, it quickly ducked into a slightly narrower fork in the road, where a sturdy menhir could jam the river.
But the giant eel did not slow down and hit it head-on.
Rumble!!!
When I landed, the rocks that could have stuck the giant eel were completely shattered in an instant, but the speed was still much reduced.
And then, Ian continued to choose narrow holes, causing the giant eels, which seemed to have lost their minds, to slow down again and again as they hit the hole.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
At the time of the landing, five consecutive shocks that were almost like small earthquakes appeared in the caves, and the sky was filled with mist and dust, and the giant eel was injured and bleeding as a result, and all the rivers where the giant eel passed turned pale blue.
It was still screaming in rage, though it wasn't clear what it was angry about.
Unfortunately, it didn't work, and it didn't take long for Ian to get rid of the giant eel with the shark - he also opened the Silent Ring when he fled, so that even if the other party could hear the sound, there was no way to know which direction they were running in.
That's the difference between a prophet running away and a normal shark escaping!
After some time, when Ian was sure that the giant eel would not be able to catch up, he reassured the shark and let it stay on the side of a river that was relatively spacious, but not too deep.
The river here seems to have been artificially trimmed, and there is even a small stone platform next to it, and the inscription on it has been washed by the flowing water after the overflow of the river for thousands of years, which is already difficult to distinguish, and can only be vaguely seen [3... Central Fast Track ......] these words.
It should be one of the waterway transportation systems inside the Sequoia base back then.
"Oh......"
The shark made a tired and painful sound, and Ian didn't say much, his eyes lit up with a silvery blue halo, ready to go straight to fluoroscopy.
The shark was not in good condition, it was badly injured, missing a fin on one side, no wonder it was not moving easily when it fled before, and it was the hardest hit area of parasites, and dense small worms swam in this wound.
His heart sank, and Ian checked it carefully again, but found that the situation was not as bad as imagined - there were not many parasites in the shark's body, and it also lost blood from its wounds and excreted a large number of parasites, coupled with the high body temperature of metal-based life, although there were indeed brain-eating worms around the internal organs, they were all scalded to death.
"It hurts a little, bear with it."
Patting the shark's skin, Ian reached directly into the shark's body with his hand and dug out a handful of brain-eating larvae...... At this moment, he discovered that these brain-eating insects can actually be like tube jellyfish, multiple individuals can be combined into a large 'ganglion'.
At the wound of the shark, because it could not enter the body, a large number of brain-eating worms even combined into a small brain-shaped cyst.
In other words, his previous judgment of the brain-eating worm was still wrong - this worm was not a brain-eating worm at all, but more like some kind of mollusk.
It's simply a living nerve that will find its own flesh!
And the white cyst in Master Gosai's body at the beginning, if you think about it carefully, should be a small brain-eating worm brain......
After digging out the main lesion, Ian used his essentia to cover some of the eggs deep inside the shark's body, which was indeed painful for the shark, similar to the most primitive method of chemotherapy, but it also understood that it was better than continuing to be parasitized.
"That's pretty much it...... It's a pity that I don't have enough regeneration potions for you...... You suffered. ”
Ian was full of guilt for the shark, after all, he was the one who commanded the shark to ram the giant eel, causing it to be chased all the way and parasitized, and he is now fully responsible for all the injuries of the other party.
At the same time, the frost butterfly lying on top of Ian's head suddenly flew up and staggered to the top of the shark's head, prostrate for a while.
But it is estimated that the shark skin is too rough and the temperature is very high, which is very different from Ian's feeling, so the leprechaun floats back again.
"Oh~"
Seeing this frost butterfly, the shark suddenly felt refreshed, as if it was because of the coolness and felt comfortable.
It's a pity that this coolness is only temporary, and after seeing the frost butterfly leave, it swayed its body with some regret and forcibly showed that it was still very energetic! After feeling it, he fell into a deep sleep.
The ironclad shark was not a real shark, and could breathe even if it stayed in the river, and after watching the shark quickly fall asleep and rest, Ian turned his head to look at another figure near the river, almost dying.
“…… For the sake of you, you saved the shark's life. ”
The young man shook his head slightly, and took out a knife from his waist bag: "There is no anesthetic, bear with it." ”
The pirate captain Andor is still alive - he has been running away from the giant eels since he and the sharks fell into the main river channel, escaping from the giant eels behind them.
Because Ian used Fairy Wings and paid for the shark to accelerate, he was semi-unconscious in the violent vibration, but even so, he still pulled tightly on the shark shark and was not thrown off.
He lost a leg in the previous escape, and he should have been cut off immediately after being parasitized, plus he is also a sublimator, so the current situation is fine.
After Ian removed the lesion, he didn't even notice that there were scattered eggs in the other party's body, which was completely different from the parasitic Master Gosai after being unconscious.
Now, there was a man and a shark in the river unconscious, and Ian was sitting cross-legged on the ground, frowning at the cephalic aggregate in front of him, which had begun to lose its activity.
It's like a snail without a shell, a moving, sticky brain.
"What the hell is this parasite?"
He muttered to himself, guessing at the possibility, "Think about it, it can replace the human brain and connect to the psionic network...... When he was weak, Master Gosai was even forced to link into the psionic network, and he also learned the strange Engineer's Manual. ”
"Could it be ......" Ian raised his eyebrows, he picked up the corpse of the brain eater from the ground, and looked at it seriously: "This thing, in fact, is it some kind of auxiliary memory organ?" ”
"It's just that it becomes ferocious because of some kind of transformation, and even takes the initiative to carry out forced symbiosis...... In the end, the dove occupies the magpie's nest? ”