By the time they reached the stern hold, it was a mess, with a large hole in the bulkhead on the left, and two dwarven mercenaries lying in a pool of blood, one with a different head, and the other dying. Seeing Scardo arrive, the breathless dwarf struggled to raise his deformed arm towards the other and said in a muffled voice.

"It's Polly, that, that dog...... Dog Cub ...... Sneak attack ......"

Before he finished speaking, the other party's trembling arm fell down and there was no more sound. Scardo's 6 subordinates placed here have lost 5 of them in a blink of an eye, and the other one is most likely the "traitor" who killed them, which makes Scardo feel an uncontrollable anger in his chest that needs to be vented.

"Everybody come with me, make sure you catch that crumb. If he dares to resist...... Kill, don't, discuss!"

There is nothing more intolerable than a shameless betrayal, and the dwarves present are already angry, eager to find that traitor and eat flesh and blood immediately! Anyway, the other party is not the owner of the chess piece, and as long as the 13 dwarven mercenaries do not give the other party a chance to sneak attack, it is still very easy to kill him. Therefore, Scardo hopes that neither Weiss nor Kabbalah will intervene, and let their security team "clean up the portal" on their own.

However, when the murderous dwarven mercenaries ran outside along the gaping hole, they saw that Ling Lan had knocked the traitor to the ground. Ling Lan, who didn't look strong, just trampled a dwarf who was known for his strength to the ground with just one foot, and couldn't move, no matter how you look at this picture, it is full of a strong sense of disobedience.

The dwarven mercenaries first shook their hearts for a while, and then rushed up to their senses and tied the traitor Polly into an "iron dumpling" with iron chains. During this process, the other party had been struggling, and his mouth kept letting out a beast-like roar, and the dwarves found that his strength had suddenly increased so much that two or three people couldn't hold down one of his hands, and finally with the help of Ling Lan and Weiss, they tied each other up.

"Is this guy evil? Where did he get so much energy?"

After getting Polly and dragging it back to the Astute's warehouse, all the dwarves were tired and choked, and one of them angrily kicked Polly, a traitor, but the other party opened his mouth like a mad dog and bit it, and his "abnormal" situation couldn't help but make Weiss and the others have a trace of doubt.

"Lao Keng, this guy can't be controlled by some evil magic, right?"

"It's pretty similar, but I don't feel any signs of spelling on him. ”

Kabbalah sensed the distribution of magical elements around the opponent's body, and found no signs of "flow reorganization", which means that either no one cast the spell, or the spell was cast by a "super master", and even the traces could be smoothed out after the spell was completed. At this time, the sharp-eyed Weiss noticed that the other party's "collar" seemed a little unnatural.

"Anyway...... Do you see there's something around his neck?"

Asking for a lamp from the dwarf on the side, Weiss crouched next to the dwarf Polly and shone it with the light, and found that the shadow on the other man's neck was not a collar at all, but a few fleshy gray tentacles, which were tightly wrapped around his neck. As if sensing light, the thing squirmed and contracted downward, and goosebumps fell as it saw it.

Weiss's discovery made a new breakthrough in this strange incident, and everyone took a lot of effort to fix each other's limbs in the shape of "big" on the steel floor of the cargo hold, and then removed the armor behind him.

I saw a huge strange-shaped insect lying on the back of the dwarf Polly, the shape was a bit like a "meat crab" with a long tail, and the back of the insect body had a large number of gray-purple eyes arranged irregularly, which looked very disgusting.

The creature had a number of tentacles on both sides, all of which were tightly entangled in the dwarf's body, and some were even inserted into the flesh. This terrifying discovery couldn't help but make everyone present feel creepy, and they all subconsciously reached out to touch their backs, for fear that such a disgusting big bug would grow on their backs.

"Lao Keng, you are the one we have the most knowledge here, do you know this thing?"

"It's a little familiar, but I can't remember it for a while......"

Looking down at the strange insect, Kabbalah tried to retrieve what he remembered about it, but maybe it was too old, and the age of contact with this thing was too far away, Kabbalah racked his brains and couldn't come up with the name of this thing, but Weiss said in an affirmative tone after carefully observing the bug.

"I think I know this thing. ”

"You know, that's great, it's still a young man's brain, not like some old stuff that doesn't look at it or use it. Scardo, who had already made the trough of Tukabbalah a habit, glanced contemptuously at a certain green bald head beside him, and then motioned for Weiss to speak before the other party was about to attack.

"This thing I saw in a high-risk biology class when I was in school, and it wasn't a long time apart, so I still have an impression. This creature is called the 'Necroacter', and it is the least frequent of the 17 known 'disaster-class' creatures, and it has the ability to parasitize and control creatures, and I think the reason why Polly attacked his teammates was due to its control. ”

"Strange, why don't I remember the teacher talking about this when I was in school?" asked Kabbalah, confused.

"It's an elective course, and it doesn't count as credits. Thinking of the scene of "two or three kittens" in class, Weiss shrugged his shoulders rather helplessly.

"Then I'm going to rip this damn thing off Polly's back right now. ”

"Don't!"

Seeing that Scardo was about to tear the corpse in a hurry, Weiss hurriedly stopped him. He was glad that he had attended such an unpopular class because he was bored when he was in school, and the teacher who gave the lecture was not lazy because of the scarcity of students in the class, so Weiss was still very clear about some of the treatment points of being bent over by the corpse walking insects.

The reason why this insect can control living things is because of its special body. Adult necroacters have many slender tentacles on their abdomen, and the tips of these tentacles are so sharp that they can easily burrow through the flesh, and then use the secreted acid to drill holes in the spine to erode the spinal nerves of the host, and then seize control of the host's body.

Originally, with the dwarf's full-covered armor, the corpse walkers should not be able to bend over them, but this dwarven mercenary named Polly, because of his "big head and thick neck", he dislikes wearing helmets and neck guards very much, as long as he is not in the middle of a battle, the helmet is always pushed back, exposing the entire neck.

Before the incident, Polly and another dwarf were looking for the Astute's voyage, and Scardo did not find it in the safe in the captain's room during the day, so he arranged for Polly and the other dwarf to continue the search. Perhaps it was in this search for the Legend of the Voyage that Polly was attacked by the necrocarps lurking in the shadows.

If you want to remove the necrocarpus from Polly's back, you must have a surgeon use professional means, and if Scardo is allowed to pull it hard, then he will also destroy Polly's spinal nerves at the same time as he rips off the worms. Historically, many victims have been killed on the spot because of the impatience of their peers. In desperation, Scardo could only follow Weis's suggestion and first let the medic inject anesthetics into both the person and the bugs, and all of them were stunned and brought back to the Enterprise.

Today, all employees are facing a dilemma. Although they found the missing Astute outside the Duchy of Nadal, they also lost 6 mercenaries and 4 airship mechanics as a result. If they retreat now, at least two of the seriously wounded could still be saved, but the frustration of finding the Engineer and the Voyager would have to fail, a frustration that made the dwarven mercenaries feel unwilling.

However, this is not an unacceptable result for Weiss, because privately Rikabala has promised him that no matter whether the search and rescue operation is successful or not, he will fulfill his promise afterwards and ask the trading company to help him get a Ramses ID card.

The city, known for its "freedom", is very loyal to issuing "honorary citizenship cards" to various celebrities to increase its glory, and it does not exclude dual citizenship. As long as it is explained that Weiss is a future newcomer of the "Black King", then the trading company will definitely be willing to help with this favor and make friends.

"Wright, I just heard Master Tile Pit say that we're going back. ”

"Oh, have they already decided?"

Seeing that Ling Lan deliberately ran over to inform him, Weiss knew that Kabbalah had already made a decision. If they insist on continuing, no one can guarantee that they will not follow in the footsteps of the previous search and rescue team, and now that a "disaster-level" corpse has been found in the local area, it is even more important to pass on this important news in a timely manner.

"We need to bring back the news of the dead bugs immediately, and you must know that any creature that can be called 'catastrophic' is not a general generation. There have been four recorded outbreaks of the dead in history, none of which have killed less than 10 million, and if there is a fifth outbreak in the area, then we have an obligation to remind other countries to prepare. ”

In fact, there was one thing that Weiss didn't dare to tell Ling Lan now, that is, they might have been "infected". The Necroacters spread a special plague that greatly weakens other creatures to make them more likely to parasitize. But the plague also causes the infected to fester, and even the owner of the chess piece is not immune to this terrible germ, as evidenced by the green jelly-like corpses on the Astute.

"Speaking of which, do you have any plans to continue your journey after Ling Lan goes back?"

"Well, I'm going to go to Xiyanzhou next, I heard that there are quite a few well-known martial artists over there. ”

"Then we might as well ...... together"

Weiss was about to invite Ling Lan one more time, but maybe there was a thing called "Fate" in the dark that hadn't played him enough, so he was just halfway through his sentence when a sharp and piercing siren interrupted him "again".

ps: I uploaded the update at noon, and then I closed the webpage directly without clicking on the release, and now I found out ORZ!