Chapter 296: Passing the Word
Pus, pieces of flesh that grow haphazardly, whiskers that writhe like snakes, and twisted limbs that have not yet been formed......
At this moment, Xiuge only felt that the deep-sea creatures he had seen in his dreams in the past had successfully crossed the boundaries of time and space and truly came to him.
The disgusting smell became so strong that even fishermen who lived by the sea all year round could not help but retch, because this was not the smell of normal sea creatures at all, but the stench of rotting corpses.
As the huge strange fish jumped out of the water, the fishing nets that had sunk under the water were also pulled by the huge force, and several sailors who were trying to control the fishing nets could not hold back their strength at all, and fell to the dock one after another, and one of them fell into the water because he could not control his balance.
The specially treated net was still strong, but the wooden dowels on the pier that held the nets in place were finally overwhelmed and broke with a crisp sound.
Seeing that the situation was out of control, Xiuge and Weilin, who had already walked onto the dock, immediately took action.
Caution and caution have always been important principles for Wei Lin, so even though she is extremely curious about these biological samples that have made abnormal noises, she still chooses the safest way to deal with this emergency situation.
The ice-blue magic light and shadow exploded in front of her in an instant, dense and complex lines of magic formed in an instant, and the cold magic engraved in her memory was perfectly unleashed at an astonishing speed, and the extremely cold cold spread rapidly along the wooden dock and the nearby sea, and the clean white frost turned into a sharp knife, and rushed towards the hideous figure in the air.
On the other side, as Xiuge's cane pointed to the ground, the space beside him was immediately torn out by invisible forces into several pitch-black gaps, and then, the touch of Calon surged out from the inside of the gap.
Shuge didn't want to reveal his most hideous face in front of these soldiers and civilians, so he deliberately used the abyssal fog to wrap up his Calon touch.
Thus, to the eyes of the onlookers in the distance, the young male mage seemed to use his magic to summon several shadowed "long snakes", which swept towards the panicked Dawn sailors with great agility, easily bringing them to safety, and the unlucky man who had accidentally fallen into the water was rescued at the same time - two Charon touches pinpointed around his body in the icy waters, and quickly dragged him to the docks.
The deformed giant fish that leaped into the air had already fallen, but the water below its body had been blocked by frost, and with a muffled sound, its entire body smashed on the newly formed ice, but its astonishing weight did not completely break through the ice, but only created a series of cracks on it.
Seeing that Xiuge successfully rescued those panicked sailors, Wei Lin's action strategy immediately began to change, the hoarfrost that had been deliberately bypassing the sailors completely exploded, and the "cold pool" immediately completely turned the waters on the edge of the pier into a world of frost, and a large number of sharp ice thorns gathered together, forming a semi-open cage, imprisoning the big fish circle that was struggling and writhing on the ice in the center.
However, in the next moment, this deformed strange fish showed everyone present that it had a completely different way of acting from ordinary fish.
Several large pustules on its body suddenly exploded, and a large number of tendrils of different thicknesses emerged from these breaches, and they became entangled with each other, forcibly forming temporary limbs, and forcibly supporting the huge body of the strange fish from the ice.
It's just that the ice surface contaminated with sea water is extremely slippery, and this strange fish can't move freely for a while, it struggles desperately in place, and the sharp ice spikes summoned by Wei Lin can't break through its flesh at all, and in the extremely rough impact and struggle of the strange fish, these gathered ice spikes break one after another, and the coldness that tries to climb up the body of the strange fish also quickly melts because of the strange mucus that it constantly secretes.
For a while, Wei Lin had no way to complete the binding and restriction of the target through her "cold pool".
Shuge stared twice at the strange figure that was struggling, and then he came to Wei Lin's side and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to catch it alive?" ”
"The best."
Receiving an affirmative answer, Xiug immediately began to act, and as the Black Sun Scepter shook, more Calon touches appeared, and under Xiuge's deliberate control, their ends extended one after another with sharp long and short blades, and quickly stabbed down from different angles.
Shug's goal was clear, Calron's Touch was not aimed at the body of the strange fish, but at the tendrils that were helping it gain control of its body, and with extremely rapid slashes and slashes, these twisted tissues were cut off one after another, and stinking bodily fluids flowed out of those fractures, and the giant fish fell back to the ice, and began a new round of struggle.
Wei Lin's response was just as swift.
After seeing that Shug had succeeded in curbing the giant fish's struggle, she immediately began to mobilize the frost in the "Cold Pool", and caused the extremely cold ice crystals to begin to shrink towards the middle, this time, instead of forming sharp ice spikes and blades, they overlapped each other, forming four extremely solid walls.
In the face of the predicament, the giant fish did not give up the struggle, it seemed to have infinite physical strength, and it was still constantly fighting against the Calon touch around it, and in the process, Xiuge noticed that this strange fish, which had surpassed the length of normal adults, was actually a parrotfish!
It is a very famous ornamental fish in Van En, especially popular in the Waterland Plateau, where many nobles and large businessmen like to breed parrotfish, and in general, people will prefer bright red parrotfish.
However, parrotfish are supposed to live in warm waters with coral reefs, and the coast of the Duchy of Boult is not cold, but it is definitely not warm, and its hard beaks, which parrots use to nibble on shrimp, crabs, shellfish, and corals, are never easily able to cut off the hard Calon touch.
As a result, two clusters of translucent roots of fate appeared inside the ice wall constructed by Wei Lin, and in the next moment, a strange illusion directly aimed at perception and spirit was immediately applied to the mutant parrotfish, enveloping and enveloping all its senses.
This time, however, the roots of fate, which had never gone wrong, seemed to have lost its effectiveness.
They didn't even succeed in hiding their form in front of the parrotfish, and only two seconds after the illusion was successfully constructed, the extremely ferocious and furious deformed fish sensed their presence, and so, with the twisting of its body, a row of sharp spikes alienated from the fins immediately swept out, and Xiuge only felt a slight tingling in his brain, and the root of fate he had just summoned was actually split in two on the spot.
After that, more pustules on the parrotfish's body began to burst, and new whiskers and twisted limbs grew, but this time, they had taken on the characteristics of sharp claws, and tried to fix their bodies in this way.
Unfortunately, despite the incredible evolution, the parrotfish's power failed to break through the realm of those ferocious magical creatures, and with the rapid cutting of Calon's touch and the shrinking of Viline's cold cage, the parrotfish's range of motion was finally compressed to the extreme, and as Viline clenched her fists hard, the snow and ice gathered nearby rushed up.
After witnessing the monster fish's strong vitality, she was ready to lock this important sample directly inside the cold snow and ice to prevent further mistakes.
As the temperature continued to drop, the parrotfish's struggle began to weaken significantly, and when the frost was about to completely seal the entire "cage", it began a new round of mutations.
On the surface of the parrotfish's body, several extremely hideous cracks suddenly appeared, and the foul-smelling pus and blood continued to flow out of them, and with the opening and closing of these cracks, Xiuge, who was standing on the wooden pier, suddenly felt a buzz in his mind, and the metal disc that had been rotating at a uniform speed seemed to be stuck, and it actually stopped rarely.
In the midst of this brief distraction, a twisted and strange pattern slowly emerged in front of Xiuge's eyes.
He had seen similar "words" countless times in the dream shelter.
This is exactly the kind of living texture that looks like it has been splashed and twisted with ink.
Shuge didn't know these words, but when the writhing lines were "fixed", a clear sentence that could be understood by Xiuge also emerged in the depths of his consciousness.
It seemed to be a question, and it was composed in an eerie and oppressive tone, with extremely strong and distorted emotions.
However, before Xiuge could seriously understand the sentence, he suddenly felt someone shake his body vigorously.
The psychedelic vision quickly faded, and Huge woke up from his trance, the ethereal and strange sounds dissipated from his ears, replaced by the cheers and cheers of the soldiers and fishermen who watched nearby.
"What's wrong with you?"
Xiuge's gaze dropped slightly, and then he saw that Weilin was standing in front of him, she frowned, a hand on her shoulder, nervously observing Xiuge's eyes.
"It's okay...... I'm fine. ”
Xiuge tugged at the corners of his mouth, a little relieved, he shifted his gaze slightly, and then saw that more Dawn Society mages had rushed over, and with the help of the sailors, they were slowly lifting the giant fish that had been frozen into ice by Wei Lin, and it would not be long before the fish was sent to the temporary laboratory next to it, so that the mages and scholars could observe and dissect it.
Xiuge's observation of the strange fish didn't last long, because Wei Lin stopped directly in front of him, and the female mage obviously wouldn't believe what Xiuge had just said, she squinted her eyes and looked Xiuge up and down, and then asked, "You were obviously in a trance just now, and your spirit was shocked, right?" ”
Shuge was about to explain, but Wei Lin let go of her palm, she took a step back, and sighed, "Forget it, I guess it has something to do with your secrets again, right?" ”
However, this time, Xiuge didn't hide the idea, he thought for a moment, and then said, "Before it was completely frozen by you, it seemed to use magic or some other method to convey some words to me...... Unfortunately, I haven't had time to understand them yet. ”
"Huh?"
Hearing Shuge say this, Wei Lin raised her eyebrows in some surprise: "Okay, I thought you would be like before, just find an excuse to fool the past......"
To this, Xiuge was speechless.
Probably because Xiuge himself explained the reason, Wei Lin didn't investigate too deeply this time: "Okay, then when you figure out what the fish said, let's continue to discuss." ”
As she spoke, she raised her hand to the giant fish that was being transported to the other side of the dock, and said, "Let's go along, just in time to ask the soldiers what happened ahead...... I didn't expect a monster of this size to appear on the dockside of the harbor, and in my opinion, Darswell would have to move those heavy machine guns closer to the shoreline. ”
The two of them left the dock one after the other, and as they passed by the onlookers, they could not help but receive a series of cheers, and it seemed that the scene of the two young mages working together to deal with the giant fish in public gave the fishermen who were already in a state of panic a certain encouragement.
However, there was no time to enjoy the praise and cheers of others, and with a hasty wave of his hand, he gave a brief response to the fishermen, and after admonishing them not to go to sea as much as possible, Hug caught up with Willin and shook his head vigorously.
In the back of his mind, the strange words remained.
Taking advantage of the break in the hurry, Xiuge distracted some of his attention and sank into his spiritual world again.
He saw that the twisted and strange patterns were floating in the void above the metal disc, and that the Touch of Calron, which had always liked to hide in his grooves, had emerged from his habitat and gathered beside them, as if sensing something.
And as Xiuge's attention continued to focus, those lines began to change towards sound again.
Finally, a gloomy and strange sound echoed in Xiuge's ears again.
Like an angry curse and a declaration of vengeance from a victim, the voice whispered to Shug, "The despicable insects and ants that hide in the conspiracy...... Are you ready to betray us a second time? ”
(End of chapter)