While Hugg was busy asking questions to Scholar Legel, the entire Windless Steam's swarm of magical rats began to move on their own.

Under the manipulation and command of the will of the Ernst family, a considerable part of the rat colony has been dispersed, and they will focus on keeping an eye on Legel and his apprentices and assistants, the Dwarven Mission, and the communication instruments used to communicate with the outside world.

These goals were the most critical and important objectives on the entire Windless Ones, which were discussed between Xiuge and the family wills.

Of course, locations such as weapons and magic supplies storage, food freezers, and other locations that could trigger a large-scale chain reaction are always under Xiuge's watch.

However, as Shug had explained in his previous discussions with Viline, he still had no way to figure out the specific plans and purposes of the Black Sun Society on the Windless.

At present, it seems that the "parasitism" affected by the dwarven mission is very limited, and the research on the "skin bugs" that are derived from the mutation of the dwarves' skin has not yet begun, and Shuge and others have no way of even knowing how these creatures may affect the parasitized.

On the Windless, the Black Sun Society once again played to its special advantage - their plans and members were stealthy enough and strange enough to act in the shadows as long as the specific personnel were not exposed, and let those hidden dangers explode at the most opportune time.

Fortunately, although the enemy is dark and the enemy is clear, Xiuge and the others have reached a cooperative relationship with the legal committee that controls the Windless One at great speed this time, and although they cannot clearly lock on to the target, they are able to control all those subtle key points in the most violent and thorough way.

The next thing to do is to conduct a detailed investigation.

In other words, the two sides entered the link of competition for efficiency and patience.

For this form of struggle, not to mention Xiuge, even Wei Lin had long been accustomed to it, so a large number of instructions and orders were transmitted in an orderly manner, and the collaborators and sailors of the Dharma, who were collaborators, did an equally good job in this regard, and after being convinced that Xiuge was an "expert" in the fight against the Black and Japanese Society, they very decisively followed the advice given by Xiuge.

Richard and the other members of the Sword of Dawn were nervous, this was their first "actual combat" in the true sense, and the pressure given to them by this actual combat was really not small, and the vast sea and rough waves outside the Windless One really couldn't give people a sense of security.

Just as the Windless adjusted its course and prepared to head towards the nearest Duchy port, Hug ended his interrogation of Leger's apprentices and assistants.

Compared to Legel, who carried some black material and secrets on his back, his assistants and apprentices knew too little about it.

The slightly suspicious assistant who had been sent by Legel to buy spirits was actually very clean, the son of a fisherman near the sea, who had been an alchemy apprentice for a while, and was a simple man, with no traces of magic or magic on his body.

When Shuge asked about the two bottles, he knew everything, even repeating the process of bargaining with the goblin shopkeeper of the store.

"It is almost certain that the two bottles of wine were selected by Leger's apprentice in the store according to the price, and that the purchase of the wine was actually an improvised thought of Leger...... In other words, there is a great deal of uncertainty about the store he chooses and the wine he gets. ”

"If Legel and his assistant and apprentice are fine, then it is very likely that the problem with these two bottles of wine occurred after the wine was sent out...... In this way, our list of suspicions can be narrowed. ”

Thinking of this, the figures of those dwarves naturally appeared in Xiuge's mind, and the face of the female dwarf Ye Na was particularly clear.

And this hunch of his was confirmed almost immediately.

When Shug arrived at the place where the dwarven mission was, he found that the large cabin they were in was noisy, and the dwarves' characteristic large tongue accents mingled with the voices of other people, making the already restless air even more restless.

"What's going on?"

A member of the Dawn Society, who was also present, immediately replied, "Someone fainted...... It's the dwarf, we're calling the doctor. ”

“……”

Xiuge looked at the messy figures in front of him, his brows furrowed directly, and then he waved his hand vigorously, and the lines of mana immediately built up at an astonishing speed.

Immediately afterward, several invisible magic barriers were erected directly in the crowd like walls, and the magic structure of these walls was very crude, even a little rough and barbaric, but they were extremely effective barriers at the moment.

Therefore, in an instant, the dwarves who were arguing with the sailors and mages were pushed aside by brute force, and then Xiug saw Yena's figure.

The dwarf, who had been alive and kick before, was now lying on the floor in the middle of the cabin, her eyes closed, her face pale, her mouth slightly open, and her body shaking from time to time, and with this shaking, some uneasy muffled grunt came from her mouth.

Shuge was certainly not a qualified physician, and his healing methods had always relied heavily on healing magic and his own powerful magical perception.

Locate problems through perception, remove or destroy hidden dangers, and then use healing magic to infuse a large amount of life force......

This is a treatment that is quite characteristic of Xiu Ge.

Shuge came to Yena's side, and the magic perception once again enveloped the female dwarf, and this time, under Shuge's deliberate control, his magic began to penetrate directly into Yena's body.

Soon, he noticed something strange that he hadn't noticed before.

Maybe it was because the parasites that had been transformed from the dwarf's skin had given him a preconceived delusion, or maybe it was the strange thing that existed in the female dwarf's body that had some special power that had concealed itself so well that Shug didn't even notice it when he first made a quick check.

Yes, in the midst of this ongoing depth perception, Xiuge suddenly discovered that some kind of power that was extremely similar to the nature of the "Color of Life" was evenly spread in the depths of the body of the female dwarf Yena, and they were constantly flowing with the blood and deeply integrating with Yena's muscles and bones.

Perhaps this fusion had progressed to a critical juncture, or perhaps it was the intrusive magical perception of Xiuge that stimulated them, and just as Xiuge was about to further observe their nature, this strange existence suddenly began to take a new shape.

They begin to shrink inward at an alarming rate.

And this contraction caused the female dwarf Ye Na's body to undergo extremely terrifying changes.

"Ye Na! Ye Na! ”

In the dwarven mission on the side, it was clear that someone had a very good relationship with Yena, and the dwarf cried out in horror: "Mel! What the hell is wrong with her body! ”

No one answered him.

Because now everyone could see that the dwarf's limbs began to wither rapidly, like the rhizomes of plants that had lost water, Ye Na's limbs shrunk twice in just a few seconds, and her otherwise healthy skin became shriveled and terrifying.

Shog had intended to use healing magic to delay this terrifying and deadly process, but before he could build a model of the magic, the contraction had already progressed to its final stage.

I saw that those strange powers that were very similar to the "Color of Life" condensed into the depths of her torso with the vitality that originally belonged to the female dwarf in just a few seconds, and directly gathered between her internal organs and flesh and blood into an embryonic "ball", which made the female dwarf's body tremble violently.

The process was obviously extremely painful, and the female dwarf let out two screams, but then her face became natural and soft, even revealing a creepy smile.

The Destiny Roots, who have a deep understanding of hallucinations, illusions, and psychic manipulation, pass on their judgment to Shug at this moment, believing that the female dwarf is apparently in a state of subtle mental manipulation, in which she may not be aware of her physical problems at all, nor will she feel any pain.

The vitality that originally belonged to the dwarf became the nutrient of the "embryo" at this moment, so as the shriveling continued to spread, a huge bulge bulged from the body of the female dwarf Ye Na, and this change also set off some storms in Xiuge's spiritual world.

"All the men disperse and take up arms."

Xiuge's voice was still steady, and although he had received the alarm, he did not feel any alarming threat from this terrifying mutation.

At the moment of his command, the tooth of the hound, which had changed its form, appeared in the palm of his right hand, and the Black Sun Scepter in his left hand was directly attached to the rich magical power, which made the staff that could be used as a magical medium directly turn into a weapon that could inflict fatal damage on the target.

Just like the cliché scenes that Shug had seen before he came to Van Ron, the embryo that had been parasitic in the female dwarf's body since some time was fully grown, completely tore the flesh and skin of its host, but in the process, it did not cause much pain to the host.

The mental control seemed to be some kind of "compassion", which caused the poor female dwarf to die smiling in psychedelic and warm dreams, while a grotesque half-human-sized shadow with blood, broken bones, and debris swayed to her feet in her cracked body.

Many of those present began to vomit, not because of the blood, but because of the method and form in which the strange creature was born.

The creature looked like some kind of giant shrimp, its curled body, its blood-stained shell faintly psychedelic over, several narrow limbs extending from its abdomen, and a large number of soft tendrils hanging down the front of its body.

Probably because it had just been born, it couldn't even stand still, and the limbs that stepped on the dwarf's flesh staggered, as if it was about to fall to the ground in the next second.

"Sneer......"

Shuge heard it, and the court hound inside the metal disc suddenly exhaled viciously.

A somewhat complicated emotion was transmitted, and Shug found that the court hound had no interest in hunting the target in front of him, but at the same time it did not let its guard down on it...... even showed some disgust and resistance.

Born from the power of the "Color of Life", the strange shrimp stood firm, two eyes connected by flesh and whiskers slowly lifted from the sides of its body, and the complex gaze that was different from ordinary creatures cast around, sweeping over those nervous faces, sweeping over the guns that could shoot fatal bullets at any time, but in the end, it still fell on Xiuge's body.

Xiu Ge can't directly judge the creation in front of him at the moment, but one thing he can be sure of is that this strange life shaped by the human body as a hotbed and based on the "color of life" is not the same as a mutilated creation like the Descendants of the Abyss.

On its body, Xiuge sensed a special aura similar to that of newborns of other animals.

Even the two eyeballs connected to the flesh and whiskers reveal curiosity and exploration of the outside world.

Compared to Xiuge, who was in a state of absolute calm, the onlookers, especially the dwarves, were troubled by complex emotions such as panic, grief and anger, and Bardosa, as the leader of the dwarven mission, held an extraordinarily thick crystallized gun tightly, and his muzzle was aimed at the strange figure standing in the flesh and blood of his companion in front of him, but his fingers trembled slightly.

The dwarves were mostly aggressive, and they all liked to go out to be mercenaries, and they were all people who had seen blood, and they should not have been frightened by what they saw.

But for some reason, Badosa found that when he looked directly at the strange figure, especially at its "flowing" psychedelic carapace, the fear and tension in his heart began to amplify uncontrollably, and his fingers, which were firmly on the trigger, trembled slightly.

"What's going on?"

Badosa asked himself a question, but he didn't get an answer, he wanted to look away from the strange color, but whenever he had a similar thought, he couldn't help but look at the back covered with a smooth carapace.

The strange colors that flowed were amazingly attractive to most of the people present.

And the only one who hasn't been disturbed by this luster is Xiuge alone.

After experiencing a series of disasters caused by the Descendants of the Abyss, Xiuge had become wary of the peculiarities of such ancient creations, and with his keen and meticulous perception, he realized that at this time, the entire people in the cabin, whether they were dwarves, sailors, or members of the Dawn Society, seemed to be affected by the power of this "prawn......

(End of chapter)