Under the explanation of Scholar Legel, these strange creatures removed from the dwarves gradually revealed their true colors to everyone present.

Although they are based on the skin of land creatures, under the influence of certain forces, they already have the ability to survive in the ocean from the beginning of their birth, but unlike the giant crayfish that evolved from the body of the female dwarf Yena, these "skin bugs" do not seem to have that exaggerated intelligence.

Their every move seems to be more of a primitive instinct.

After Legle's explanation, Hug came to the "skin worm" as a sample, and after that, he took out an alchemy container from his pocket that was wrapped and bound by layers of magical power.

Inside the container, the strange creature that had been mutated from the blue-green algae shrimp was slowly suspended in the solution.

Xiuge wanted to see what effect the power from the deformed crow would have on the "skin bugs".

After the group retreated to a relatively safe position, Xiuge began to slowly remove the magic power applied to the container, and as this move progressed, the "skin bugs" that were originally roaming freely in the sink quickly reacted.

It seemed to sense something, and its behavior began to become agitated, but it was unable to identify a specific target due to the interference of the protective magic attached to the sink.

Therefore, Xiuge took the initiative to remove the isolation magic on the sink for it.

The results were immediate.

At the moment when the isolation disappeared, the strange creature suddenly stopped its movements, and it turned around, its body like paper curled slightly, and the two "dots" on its back that seemed to be eyes looked in the direction of Xiug.

In the next second, as if receiving some kind of command, the "skin bug" began to attack the sink wall in front of it.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

This strange insect has not fully grown after all, and the power it bursts out is extremely limited, and there is no way to damage the sink with solidified magic attached, so it can only rely on its own strength, constantly flapping and crashing against the transparent obstacle.

But in the process, all succeeded in feeling the strong desire to attack.

In order to successfully destroy the obstacle in front of it, it even tried to kink its black tentacles together and form a "drill", but such an act did not make the slightest sense.

Seeing this scene, Xiuge's expression gradually sank, he turned his head and instructed the mage on the side to bring the blood of the other collected crayfish, and soon, a small half cup of illusory blood mixed with some fragments was sent to Xiuge.

At this point, the reaction of the "skin bug" became even stronger.

Before Xiuge could completely remove the magic that was locked in the blood container, the "skin worms" in the sink had already entered a state of extreme madness under the influence of this blood, and their physical form even began to evolve concretely.

In order to be able to improve its combat effectiveness as much as possible, it actually began to give up its original body form directly, and in front of everyone, the small half of the body of this strange insect began to wither and collapse rapidly, while the other half of its remaining body expanded rapidly, and the tentacles that were originally as soft as hair began to merge.

After the initial entanglement, the tentacles finally completed their transformation into limbs, and at the ends of these limbs, Shug even saw the familiar structure of hooks, and as it swung the limbs, a screeching sound was immediately heard from the enchanted sink.

After witnessing these changes, Xiuge immediately chose to use magic to seal the blood, so the "skin bug" inside the sink immediately became a lot more stable, but at this time it seemed to have confirmed its specific goal, so it still continued to attack the sink in front of it, but the strength was slightly weaker than before.

At this moment, a lot of information related to the "color of life" and these strange blood collided fiercely in Xiuge's mind, Xiuge recalled the deformed crow shrimp that obviously had wisdom before he died, and looked at the container in his hand The "newborn" who regrew through the cyanobacteria shrimp, but wanted to kill himself at the first time, his face quickly became gloomy.

Combined with the reaction of the "skin worm" in front of him to this blood and the power in it, a somewhat terrifying conclusion quickly formed in Xiuge's brain.

"No wonder it actively seeks death......"

Xiuge's words squeezed between his teeth, and he turned to Wei Lin and the other mages and scholars and said, "That crayfish, that monster born with the female dwarf Ye Na as its mother...... The meaning of its existence may be death, and its death is a terrible signal for something in the ocean. ”

One of the mages didn't understand, so he shook his head and asked, "Signals?" What do you mean? ”

"It's like a magic signal from a spy or agent who infiltrates an enemy position on the battlefield."

"I mean," said Shug, "I mean...... The kind of signal used to inform one's compatriots and comrades-in-arms where to shell and where to launch a concentrated attack. ”

"You mean...... The shrimp, the monster using its death to inform its kindred? ”

"So to speak."

Xiuge nodded: "There is something in this blood that we don't know enough about, and it comes from that lost ancient era, just like the monsters in Salem City before...... If I'm not mistaken, this power can be either neutral or endowed with a will, or it can evolve in a way that we cannot comprehend under the manipulation of a particular will. ”

"And the end result of evolution is to form a huge 'race' or 'community'."

"I think I understand Mr. Schugg...... What you're trying to say is that the strange shrimp and these weird bugs, although they have completely different forms and species, are connected by similar forces, just like those ants and bees? ”

Scholar Legel reacted very quickly, and although the words that came out of Hug's mouth sounded very unreasonable, he understood the meaning in time.

The scholar, who studies magical creatures of the sea, raised his fist and slammed his palm hard: "And that means that when that monster blew itself into a mass of flesh in the cabin, it had already used its own blood and that power to mark our Windless One?" ”

Xiuge nodded: "And it is a very, very conspicuous mark. ”

The legal committee mage in charge of the affairs of the Windless One gritted his teeth: "But we have already cordoned off the scene and set up a protective ceremony in the first place, maybe this so-called signal has not been successfully sent?" ”

"That power isn't the magic we're familiar with."

Shug ruthlessly broke the mage's luck mentality: "It's very likely that the isolation and protection we have built based on magic will not be able to completely block the transmission of this signal, and any leakage of information may allow potential trackers and hunters to lock us in." ”

"But so what?"

The elven scholar who was invited shook his head and said, "Although the Windless One we are on is not an armored ship, it is also strong and safe enough, not to mention that we have other ships to escort us, and the weapons on board have also been tested in previous wars. ”

The elven scholar looked at Xiug and said seriously, "Mr. Xiuge, I can understand the tremendous pressure you are under when fighting those monsters in the city of Seren, but now we are acting as a team equipped with excellent weapons. ”

"You should know that since the advent of large ships such as armored ships, there have been few rumors of magical creatures in the ocean and so-called 'sea monsters' attacking ships."

Speaking of this, the elven scholar shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively: "Even if there really is any dangerous creature, can it still withstand the bombardment of those high-powered crystalline ship cannons or shipborne bombs?" ”

"You have a lot of point, but do you really know what's going on in Selen?"

Xiuge's gaze fell on the elven scholar's face, and at this moment, the plain elf, who had just been quite confident, inexplicably felt an invisible huge pressure, he instinctively wanted to avoid the other party's gaze, but his dignity as a social elite made him persevere.

Then he heard Shug say, "Oh, the city of Seren...... I'm actually curious to ask, why did it become a scorched city when we had so many powerful weapons at our disposal? It was not only the refugees trapped in the city who died, but also the well-equipped soldiers and the pilots of the empty boats. ”

After refuting the elven scholar's opinion, Xiuge turned his head to look at the person in charge of the legal committee: "Inform the situation here, as before, try to keep it as secret...... Inform our frigates to increase their observation of the surrounding seas. ”

"All of the ship's detectors can be used as well."

Wei Lin added, "Although they are very depleting to the magic crystals, we have now adjusted our course, and even if there are no problems, we will be able to land before the magic crystals are completely consumed." ”

……

During the night, the Windless and all of its frigates were put on alert, all passengers on the Windless were asked not to leave their cabins easily, and heavily armed sailors began to patrol the ship's interior.

The windows of all the cabins are now specially treated, and in addition to closing the curtains, they are also subjected to magical rituals that block the light from within.

The chamber, previously stained with the blood of the deformed crayfish, has been "disinfected" to the fullest extent possible, and all the contents are isolated from each other by layers of magical rituals.

Every fifteen minutes or so, a slight hum of magic spreads outward from the center of the moving fleet, a shock created by the Arcane Instrument used for large-area detection.

In this way, the mage in charge of controlling the ritual was able to expand his magical perception to an extremely exaggerated level, and confirm the anomalies that appeared near the fleet in time.

In this thick night, the fleet continued to break through the wind and waves, and moved in the predetermined direction.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Mayer and the others, who were originally handling affairs in the Dawn Society's residence, suddenly received an urgent notice from the laboratory.

The misshapen parrotfish caught by Shog and Willin near the docks and named "Sample One" suddenly awoke from its previous slumber, and it was extremely irritable and showed some new changes.

When Meyer and the others arrived at the laboratory, all the researchers and mages involved in the matter had already arrived.

The parrotfish, which had been imprisoned in a huge alchemy tank, seemed to have entered a new phase at this time—the tendrils and tissues that had grown from its body now seemed to have completely lost its vitality.

Meyer and the others saw that the strangely shaped structures were falling off the body of the huge parrotfish, and the disgusting scales and minced flesh soon spread a thick layer at the bottom of the tank, and as the parrotfish subconsciously quivered, more flesh peeled off its body and sank to the bottom.

"What's going on with it? Are you going to die? ”

Meyer frowned, carefully observing the parrotfish's body, and then he noticed that the new wounds on the giant fish did not seem to be healing.

Meyer knew that over the past few years, Dawn Society researchers had taken tissue of various sizes from the giant fish, but none of these actions had caused fatal damage to it, and the wounds of various sizes often healed in a very short period of time, and even grew new structures and flesh.

But now, this amazing vitality seems to have disappeared from its body.

Darthwell's gaze rested on the debris and debris piled up at the bottom of the sink, his brow furrowing as he stared at the grotesquely shaped, disgusting fragments.

He saw that in the middle of these fragments, there seemed to be some strange liquid slowly floating out, it was not blood, nor some cloudy pus, but an unusual special color.

It looks like a flowing rainbow.

Others noticed the peculiarity, but before the astonished researchers could make any further moves, the colors that flowed from the minced meat began to converge rapidly inside the sink.

Soon, a colorful shadow of ever-changing shapes took shape in the sink, and it floated slowly, as if it were a whole composed of countless small points of light.

As for the giant monster fish that had once been its carrier, it completely lost all vitality in the process, and the body that had once nurtured countless deformed structures finally became mottled, and it slowly sank towards the bottom of the tank, lying with the broken pieces.

(End of chapter)