There is still a very limited understanding of the "color of life" and the life forms derived from it, as well as the "races" composed of these beings and creations.

Even after Theseus had given enough hints and descriptions, he could not directly depict these special beings who had almost dominated Vane with his imagination.

Shug had no idea that only a few days after he boarded the Windless, they would appear so directly in front of him, and show a peculiarity that set them apart from other ancient creations.

At the moment when the huge "strange shrimp" broke through the female dwarf's body and drilled out of it, the Destiny Root Beard Clan who lived in Xiuge's spiritual world reacted extremely strongly to it.

In this strange creature, the Rootbeard Race has captured a trait that bears a slight resemblance to themselves.

After arguing with these highly intelligent roots, they concluded that this creation, which was born under the influence of the "color of life", had the same ability to influence and interfere with other beings around it.

"It may be better at controlling the minds and minds of its prey than we are......"

On behalf of his kindred, the leader of the Rootbeard said to Shug, "Our people have gone through a long migration, from the coast to the swamps inland...... Perhaps in the beginning, we had a similar origin. ”

"It is more powerful than we are in terms of spiritual interference...... That seems to be its innate instinct. ”

Xiuge, who was reminded by the root of fate, frowned slightly, and at this moment, the two eyes of the strange shrimp looked towards Xiuge, and the sights of the two sides collided wonderfully.

Xiuge saw that inside the two round eyeballs, a strong psychedelic color appeared at this moment, as if there was a high concentration of "life color" flowing inside the transparent crystal.

He felt a little flustered for no reason, and then a series of negative emotions such as nervousness, panic, and nausea poured over him like a mudslide.

And with the emergence of these bad emotions, Xiuge began to involuntarily develop a strong hostility towards the strange existence in front of him, his palm shook slightly, and then he actually had the urge to shoot directly at it with the teeth of the hound.

However, this state of affairs only lasted for a moment.

The huge metal disc that was the foundation of his power had been his most solid spiritual fortress and line of defense since he had even become a spellcaster, and now, in the face of the extremely clear signs, and without any concealed interference and invasion, the huge disc itself was covered with a heavy fog and reacted again.

The high-speed and orderly rotation began.

Delicate mechanical structures, large and small, come to life, repeating their work according to specific rules, and the magic that flows through the cracks and patterns of the disc becomes a dazzling light and shadow with this rotation.

Before the interfering power of the "Color of Life" could officially set foot in this spiritual territory, it had been crushed and destroyed by the high-speed rotating disc, and the soft tentacles with psychedelic colors turned into countless residues on the spot, falling to the spiritual ocean below the disc, and were swallowed and assimilated by Xiuge's already extremely tenacious spiritual power.

Some kind of piercing wail came from the carapace of the strange shrimp, and Xiuge's brow furrowed, and then everyone saw that one of the eyeballs of the strange creature in front of him suddenly burst open, and a thick liquid burst out of it, spraying the ground around it.

Such a scene should have been disgusting.

However, when the liquid landed on the floor of the cabin, it added that strange flowing luster to the original dark brown carpet, and an unfamiliar smell began to escape in the air, and this smell was mixed with the bloody smell of the female dwarf's corpse, and it even faintly emitted a faint sweet smell.

At that moment, the shrimp made another peculiar screeching sound, and then, lifting its fragile looking limbs, it staggered out of the dismembered corpse of the female dwarf, and took a step towards the crowd of onlookers.

However, before it could gain its footing, it fell to the ground in a series of crunch sounds, and its curled body stretched out, making it look more like a misshapen marine crayfish.

Xiuge was already ready to attack, but the abnormal performance of the creation in front of him made him hesitate a little, coupled with the abnormal negative emotions exposed in the mental invasion before, Xiuge forcibly pressed the urge to kill him on the spot.

It's just too fragile.

Such a life form obviously did not possess any ability to fight and fight, and apart from the seemingly slightly harder carapace, Shug could not even see the body structure related to attack and defense in its body.

Thinking about the Root of Fate and the judgment and attitude of the court hounds towards the target in front of him, Xiug realized that he probably couldn't treat it the same way he would treat an ordinary enemy.

"Something is wrong......"

Realizing the problem, Xiuge immediately adopted a radically different strategy.

He directly withdrew the Hound Fang in his hand and quickly mobilized his magic power.

This time, Xiug's surging magic power was not to cast any lethal magic, but to begin to construct a magical ritual around the fragile "newborn" in front of him - before figuring out the meaning and specific intention of the object in front of him, he was not prepared to harm the other party's life, but took the lead in using protective and controlling magic to imprison and bind it.

However, just as the first layer of the basic protective ritual was formed, the deformed crow that collapsed on the ground seemed to sense something, so it tossed and bounced violently, and its body directly collided with the invisible barrier set up by Xiuge, and this rough movement caused one of its limbs to break off on the spot, so that more blood with strange colors flowed out......

This madness seems to be a clear signal.

The onlookers, who had been in a state of tension and had been holding their weapons, had a hint at the moment, that the string that had been straining in their heads suddenly broke, and out of instinct, several dwarves and sailors who were close to the deformed crow actually complied with the whispers in their heads and pulled the trigger directly.

A variety of crystalline bullets of different types and powers bombarded the floor of the cabin where the shrimp was located from different directions, and a loud noise echoed inside the cabin, causing a series of riots.

This situation completely exceeded Xiuge's expectations, and in the midst of a series of gunfires, Xiuge had just completed the construction, and the basic ritual that was still in an invisible and transparent state immediately suffered the most direct impact!

Aware of the danger of the creation in front of him in the spiritual realm, Xiuge immediately constructed the magic used to isolate the spirit, and it did not have anything to praise in terms of resisting the actual impact.

Several of the sailors who shot under mental distraction did not do much damage to the magical ritual constructed by Shuge - because they were on a cruise ship, the new replica firearms they were carrying were not equipped with powerful crystallized bullets.

The main purpose of this is to prevent significant damage to the vital parts and structures on board the vessel in the event of an accident due to continuous firing.

Again, the bullets that were unable to cause a high-powered magical explosion did not cause much damage to Shug's magical ritual, but the bullets fired by the two mentally disturbed dwarves immediately afterwards had a very different effect.

These dwarves, who have always ignored the rules of the human world and are extremely hostile to these rules, will certainly not be so cooperative with the so-called boarding inspection.

They used all sorts of small tricks to evade the investigators of the Judicial Commission, and carried these high-powered crystallized bullets with them, which were clearly in violation.

Now, they slammed into Xiuge's magical ritual.

At the moment of the explosion of magical power, for the first time, Xiuge developed a deep understanding of the sentence "There is not enough to achieve and more to lose".

Whether it was the magic ritual he had just completed, or the regular magic model he was building, they were all wiped out in the chaotic and chaotic impact of the explosion, and after this thin and brittle barrier was torn down, the deformed crow that exuded inexplicable spiritual influence was naturally exposed to the deadly fire.

It's fragile.

Even those ordinary metal bullets were enough to kill it.

With his own reaction speed, Xiuge withdrew several meters almost instantly, avoiding the center of the deadly explosion, but the shrimp lying on the ground was torn to pieces and debris on the spot, and this strange newborn had just begun to observe the world, and in this bizarre way, it ushered in a tragic death.

Almost instantly, the strange distractions that had been inflicted on people's minds were completely gone, and those who had been ready to continue shooting in horror and disgust came to their senses with the loud sound of the magic explosion.

Then they saw that the corpse of the dwarf Ye Na and the deformed crayfish were now completely "mixed", and they could not be separated from each other, and strange and miserable pieces and a large amount of unspeakable blood were scattered around them, and a strange smell was permeated in the air.

The structural quality of the interior of the Windless Cruise ship is still trustworthy, and the explosion caused by the crystallized bullet only destroyed the carpet laid on the ground and left a huge black mark on the alchemized ground, but now Xiuge is not happy at all, the death of the deformed crow shrimp did not bring him a sense of relief at all, but instead cast a haze on his heart.

Now Xiuge didn't want to talk nonsense with anyone, he "arrested" all the members of the Dwarven Mission one by one, and re-examined them with the most detailed and violent magic power, and after confirming that there were no more hidden dangers similar to Ye Na, he instructed the mages of the Law Council to separate all the people who might have touched those blood residues just now, including individual members of the Dawn Society.

After successfully clearing the venue, he, along with Wei Lin and the rest of the mages who were in a hurry, quickly used multiple different rituals to isolate the cabin.

In the midst of this mess, only the news brought by Wei Lin gave Xiuge some comfort.

Wei Lin looked at the wreckage and blood scattered all over the place, which were being carefully collected by the rest of the mages using the hands of the mages, and frowned, "I have already dealt with those 'skin worms' that have been removed...... I've placed them in similar environments, at least four different isolation and protection rituals, but I'm not sure how effective they were. ”

The River Valley-level mage from the Law Council was also present, and he looked worriedly at a broken carapace that had fallen into strange blood in the distance, and asked in an extremely uncertain tone, "Anyway, so far, the 'monsters' on this ship have been ...... If you control it or clean it up, there shouldn't be any other problems in the future, right? ”

"I'm sorry, I don't think so."

Xiuge shook his head and gave an extremely cold reply: "Let's not discuss those bugs made of skin mutations for the time being, this 'monster' that just died, it gave me a very bad feeling. ”

"It's a newborn, and it's a newborn with intelligence."

"It looked at me before it became like this," said Shug, "and at that moment it tried to influence me, interfere with my judgment, invade my sanity...... But it failed, and after that, it took this extreme and bizarre move. ”

Hearing this, Wei Lin already understood what Xiuge was trying to say, so a look of disbelief immediately appeared on her face, while the mage of the Dharma Council reacted a little slowly, and he subconsciously asked, "What do you mean?" ”

This means that as a newborn with wisdom, it not only did not work hard to survive, but chose to die in this situation...... It took control of the weaker soldiers and dwarves, using their weapons to turn itself into a pile of flesh and blood. ”

After expressing his judgment, Xiuge sighed heavily: "This is too abnormal...... It was actively begging for death, and even more strangely, it became more determined when it found out that I was trying to protect it, as if, as if it were ......"

Xiuge, who has always mastered a rich vocabulary, is inexplicably short of words at this moment.

So Wei Lin, who was next to her, opened her mouth and added, "You mean...... Mission? ”

"Yes, it's the mission."

Xiuge nodded: "Its resolute and persistent performance is almost like those sacrifices who are saddled with some mission and desperate to push forward the plan......"

Hearing these words, all the mages present fell silent in shock.

The cold and eerie atmosphere seemed to be spreading with the sweet smell of blood in the air......

(End of chapter)