Mentor Penrose returned to safety with his team of Escort Knights when it was dark.

All of the Arcane squads have returned.

The team swarmed around the black beetle cart and returned to Serpent's Head Town along the way it came.

"It's a Wicked Creature." After examining the tiger insects brought back by Duke, Penrose explained in a serious tone, "The breath of the ancient evil is infected, and the special creatures that have been transformed into them have a strong conflict with the spiritual arcane. ”

"Mentor, so it's worthless?" Bronk asked.

"It can't be said that there are many kinds of evil spawn creatures, and this tiger insect caught by Duke is only the weakest evil spawn creature, and there are no valuable materials on it. But that doesn't mean that other evil creatures will be worthless. ”

"The mentor is right, based on my observation of fanged lichens, this kind of small thing, which is not even a demon creature, can provide a little bit of the effect of 'spirit blocker' after grinding, and if it is refined repeatedly, this is the cheapest spirit blocker." Garba said.

A Soul Blocker is not a potion, but a special spiritual force that immobilizes psionic energy and ensures that the stability of the spell model is not disturbed.

"If that's the case, this polluted forest is a stable source of future inhibitors. ”

Garba added: "There is indeed that potential...... But careful experimentation is needed to make sure that it can really be refined repeatedly to meet the standards of a restrictive agent. ”

"That's what we're here for, isn't it?" Oriana smiled, and there was a hint of pride in her tone.

"Of course, that's it." Garba responded with a smile.

The ambiguous relationship between the two is no longer much of a betrayal at the moment.

Penrose glanced at the two of them and said lightly: "I hope that from tomorrow onwards, everyone can focus on research." ”

Garba and Oriana turned their heads away in embarrassment.

Penrose continued: "Have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we will move out of the Black Snake Manor and set up camp in the wilderness until the end of the investigation. I hope that everyone can find something, summarize it into a paper, and increase their academic qualifications. ”

After returning to Snakehead Town, the Black Snake family has prepared a banquet.

Several other airship research teams did not come back, only Penrose's team came back, which shows that the Black Snake family is really unpopular.

The introduction of Bernoulli is really a stinking thing.

The influence and reputation accumulated by the founder of the family more than 20 years ago, the 3-ring arcane mage Mubia, was almost destroyed.

After the dinner.

Duke goes around town and meets Xena from the Broken Sword Mercenary Regiment and Sally, the farm's deputy general manager.

Informed by Duke's entourage, both of them waited at Little Samschuka's shop.

"Your Excellency."

"Boss."

"You've eaten, are you in a hurry?" Duke greeted the two old acquaintances with a smile, and said to Sally, "It's been a long time, but your complexion is much better now than last year, and your whole person looks more capable." ”

Xena has been to Beverly Manor Villa Seventeen a few times, and has seen Duke frequently.

Sally had been busy on the farm and had not been to Duke's cottage for more than five months.

"Boss, you are still as young as last year, but your majesty is no longer easy to approach." Sally complimented, "Boss James has been away from the farm, and I can only try my best to run the farm, which is tiring, but it has also been exercised." ”

"It's good to get exercise, James and I have a big plan for the future of the farm, and I need you to continue to help me when the time comes."

Sally complied, "I do everything you want, boss. ”

Duke then talked about Sally's two children, both of whom went to school in Shenjiao City, and went to an elite boarding school.

Sally was so busy with a thousand thanks.

For her, success in her career is far less important than the academics of her two children.

"Shav and Shawa, you don't have to worry, the two children are very serious about their studies, and they can find a decent job in the future by relying on their knowledge.

"Thank you boss, it's really our family's greatest luck to meet you!" Sally's eyes were red.

Seeing this, Zina smiled and said, "My lord is of course our greatest nobleman, and coming to Snake Head Town to participate in the Cuihai Valley Exploration War is the most successful decision we have made with Broken Sword. ”

"Enough compliments have been said, Captain Zina, from tomorrow onwards, you will lead a team of people to follow me, and once you have researched good spiritual materials, you will send people to hoard them as soon as possible."

"Do as you ask."

From the moment Balza said that fanged lichen could refine a spirit blocker, Duke understood that this ancient evil infection incident was both a crisis and an opportunity.

He is also using a spirit blocker, and the price on the market is not cheap.

If the fanged lichen can be refined, then it is worth the Broken Sword mercenary group to loot and hoard around the Cuihai Valley.

Duke added, "When we return to camp in the evening, don't forget to inquire about the results of the other arcane mages' research. ”

Zina understood: "Understand, don't worry, my lord, this set of enveloping people to inquire about the news is what I am best at." ”

As a card warrior of the pseudo-1 ring, Xena's own combat effectiveness is not strong.

After the death of her former Captain Raymond, she was able to stand out from the crowd of great knights and master the broken sword, relying on her own means to win people over.

If she hadn't done it for her skills, she wouldn't have been able to do the business of Arcane cards.

A 3-ring arcane card is basically the biggest hole card of a mercenary group, and it can't be easily handed over to someone else to repair.

After chatting about business, I talked about the interesting things that happened in Serpent's Head Town for a while.

Duke left Little Sam's shop, which went around and around and still returned to Duke's possession, but Duke didn't care much about it anymore.

Just give it to Broken Sword to take care of it, as a base for Broken Sword to recover spirit cards.

The surrounding storefronts, the names of the shops have almost changed, and the impact of the Pioneer War on Sheshou Town is quite huge, and it is difficult for ordinary people to resist the invasion of outsiders.

"It doesn't feel familiar anymore." Duke sighed.

Growing up in Si, crossing Yusi, and going to Si, he has a special affection for Snakehead Town, which is like his roots.

Similar to the anchor point behind the door of the Twisted Ring in the Spirit Sea.

It is the anchor point for him to set sail in this world, regardless of distance and time, Snakehead Town will always affect his life.

Before I knew it, I walked to the third vertical street.

As soon as Duke looked up, he saw a familiar sign hanging in a shop not far from the mercenary mission center.

"You's Clothing Company?"

Mu Lali, who accompanied her, said with a smile: "Sir, it's my aunt and uncle who opened a shop, and You's clothing is very durable and wearable, and it is very popular with mercenaries." I heard my aunt say that the income of this store is several times that of other stores. ”

"I see." Duke nodded, "Being a mercenary is really expensive, you have to dress leather. ”

As he was talking, the door of a shop with a sign of "Gentle Country" in front of him opened, and out came a familiar person who Duke looked at.

"Dilanco?" Duke raised an eyebrow.

Di Lanco didn't notice Duke, he seemed to be a little thief, and after walking out of the door, he turned directly into the side alley.

"Sir, is that an acquaintance of yours?"

"Well, a former Shuka teacher." Duke responded indifferently.

After shopping the third vertical street, Duke lost the interest of continuing to wander and returned to the Black Snake Manor with Mulali.

The next day, Penrose continued to lead the group.

This time, it was no longer one black beetle cart that followed the team, but three black beetle carts, which were the special cars of Penrose Mage Tower.

One is an experimental vehicle, one is a transport truck, and one is a washing car.

The trucks were loaded with the daily necessities of the people, the washcarts were used for daily washing, and the mages had to bathe and brush their teeth comfortably every day even if they went to camp in the wilderness.

There is also a large shuttle in the team.

This is the nanny car that the Nu Tao family prepared for Kiria.

Originally, Kyria didn't want to be so high-profile and engage in special treatment, but after experiencing the explosion of the mutant konjac flower yesterday and being drenched in slime, the airship of the Angry Waves family dropped this large shuttle over that night.

"A large shuttle is worth tens of thousands of gold dragons, and a lot of money is good." Duke took a tour of the large shuttle.

Inside it is luxurious to the extreme.

Thermostat, automatic water purification, leather sofa, bar counter, independent bathroom...... This is a portable apartment.

Duke was envious, of course, but not pantothenic, because he would have these things sooner or later.

It's just a matter of time.

After all, he is only seventeen years old, and he has only crossed over for more than two years, and he is already very satisfied with the struggle to the point where he is now, and he will continue to work hard for the rest.

Without the presence of Sanfis, the team was a little dull.

When they arrived at the location chosen by Penrose and set up camp, Duke walked into the forest with the Knights and the Broken Sword mercenary group.

Throughout the day, Duke did not collect any valuable samples other than large quantities of fanged lichens.

For the evil creatures, I didn't catch one.

According to Mentor Penrose, the molting of the ancient evil creatures has been solved by the arcane mages who came from Runwu City, and only some residual breath is leaking, so it is not serious, and there will not be many evil creatures infected.

However, Duke always felt that it was not so simple, and the residual breath of the molting of evil creatures could cause such a large area of pollution.

How strong is the evil thing, and how strong is the ancient evil thing?

Even the molting shell has to dispatch the powerful arcane mage of the Moist Thing City to destroy it, doesn't it mean that a complete ancient evil thing is enough to destroy the world?

However, this information was blocked, and Penrose could not reach it and could not explain it.

Naturally, Duke can only imagine it, and he can't get an accurate answer, and he can only guess about the ancient evils.

"No matter how strong it is, since it is an evil creature in ancient times, it means that it has died tens of thousands of years earlier...... Whether you can pick up some wool now is the last word. When he returned to camp, he took Xena with him to exchange with the other mages.

I want to see if other arcane mages have found anything valuable.

"A strange infected plant, I can't tell what it was before it was infected." Leadman brought back a sample.

It is a round ball with gray protrusions similar to pineapple and jackfruit, and it is a plant that parasitizes on the roots of trees.

The most bizarre point, and the most speechless point, is that there is a crack in its spherical shell, revealing the pink flesh inside.

It looks like some kind of female organ.

Duke studied the plant with great interest, experimenting with psionic energy into it, and found that it was easy to infuse psionic energy, and it was a bit too easy.

"This ......"

"You found out too." "It has a strong psionic affinity, and I think it will be an excellent material for making card materials, and I will study it at night." ”

"I think it's going to be good material, Tosuke, give it a name."

"In the future, there will be a unified name, and for the time being, it will be referred to as 'ball cracked fruit'." Liedman casually made up a name.

Duke briefly discussed it for a moment, then got up and left.

Said to Zina, who followed up: "Write down the appearance of the ball cracked fruit, this thing can be stocked up on a batch first, judging by my experience, it will be a good source of card materials." ”

"I've memorized it." Xena replied, muttering quietly, "But it's too unsightly." ”

"It's so beautiful that it can't be eaten as a meal, but it's very likely to turn into a golden dragon, so if you think about it like this, will you think it's much more pleasing to the eye?"

"Not really, but at least I'm more comfortable."

In the end, Duke went to Penrose's mentor again to inquire about the results of his research, but Penrose did not find anything: "I am mainly observing the breath of evil creatures, how to infect plants, and how to infect evil creatures. ”

"How do you think the infection happened?"

"It's going to take more time to observe, and I can't answer you for the time being."

"I see, Mentor." Duke politely took his leave.

Today's harvest is not much, but the discovery of a ball cracking fruit is enough for the Broken Sword Mercenary Group to be one step ahead of the business opportunity.

In the evening, Duke finished washing up in the washer, went for a walk around the lab car, and then returned to his tent.

The tent was set up by Vivian and others, and the tents of several big knights were clustered around, and the tents of the Broken Sword Mercenary Regiment surrounded the big knights.

"It's not too early, it's time to cultivate the chicken." Duke shouted the chick out of the sea of air.

Then he decisively merged with the chick, entered the elf form, and then hugged the small pocket that had dozed off and carried out blood refining.

Cultivating together is already a habit that he can't shake.

At this time.

The Douqi Holographic Screen in his field of vision had rapidly expanded from a circular area with a radius of five hundred meters to a circular area with a radius of three kilometers.

With the blessing of the chicks, Duke in the form of an elf has reached a three-kilometer range of breathing and resonance with plants. Within a kilometer, it can be controlled by all the clues, and an ant can feel it when it climbs over the leaves.

Qi Sea cultivation may not have substantial combat effectiveness, but when it comes to danger perception, there is a lot to be done.

"Plants are my eyes!"

Duke stared at the Douqi holographic screen and saw that not far from him, there was the existence of a 2-ring spirit plant.

"It's a large shuttle, Kilia, the lady of the sky, is really valued by the family, not only providing a nanny car, but also 2 rings of spiritual plants in the nanny car to comb the aura!"

This treatment is really enviable.

"Xiaoyi, stop hanging up the "Rain Falling Breathing Method"." Duke gives the order.

After Xiaoyi stopped hanging up, he personally performed the "Rain Falling Breathing Method" and felt everything within a radius of three kilometers.

When he focused his attention on the 2-ringed spirit plant in the large shuttle.

I vaguely sensed that there was a person on the side of this spiritual plant who was meditating seriously.

"It's Kiria." Duke surged his own sea of qi.

Then with the 2-ring spirit plant as the relay, the power of nature continued to radiate outward, stirring, resonating, and then like his third eye.

Observe Kiria.

Gradually, as he observed, as the resonance of his breath accumulated, in his perception, the outline of Kiriya gradually became clear.

Although I can't see the facial features and the color of the clothes on my body clearly, my every move is as if I saw it with my own eyes.

However, when Kiriya got up and was about to take a bath, after being a little far away from the 2-ring spirit plant, this perception blurred.

Only a general situation can be perceived.

The faint appearance made Duke's breathing gradually rapid, and then quickly fell from this special state of perception.

"Whew!"

Duke reflected on what he had just felt and exclaimed: "The power of plants is really not to be underestimated, and it is silent......"

A tearing sensation hit, and Duke gritted his teeth and held on.

Immediately, I saw a large tadpole with a turquoise color condensed in front of me, and it was a chick that had finished merging.

The chick gave Duke a "old pervert" look, plunged into Duke's belly, and went to recuperate in the sea of gas.

Xiaodou yawned and woke up from his sleep.

This is the end of the evening session.

Duke took a sip of herbal tea from the teacup at the head of the bed, sat on the bed and pondered silently for a while before lying down to sleep.

In the dream that night, Kyria's faint appearance when she took a bath haunted him for a night.

……

"Formation!"

Deep in the forest, the Guardian Knights are fighting a 2-ringed spirit beast.

Duke whistled happily and commanded a few mercenaries to dig up a 1-ring spirit plant-lantern fruit and wrap it.

There will always be surprises on the way to research, and at this moment, a 1-ring spirit plant is in hand.

"Lantern fruit, growing strongly, the price on the market is 150 golden dragons, which is comparable to the income of me repairing a 3-ring arcane card."

Wait for the mercenaries to dig up the lantern fruit.

The Guardian Knights also killed the 2-ring spirit beast, handed it over to the mercenaries to tie it up, and transported it back to deal with it in exchange for money.

Suddenly.

On the Douqi holographic screen, a red point of light began to beat, and a prompt appeared: "Suspected 3-ring spirit beast interference signal." ”

The spiritual power of the spirit animal itself can interfere with the power of nature, so that it can be manifested in the perception of breath resonance.

Duke suddenly jumped up and wanted to try: "Go, five hundred meters ahead, there are 3-ring spirit beasts, let's go hunt it!" ”

"Be careful, adults." Vivien reminded, "Please let us get out of the way." ”

The 3-ring spirit beast is no longer something that can be hunted at leisure, and most mercenary groups will not kill the 3-ring spirit beast.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that this 3-ringed spirit beast didn't need to be hunted at all.

It lay on the edge of a bush, its wings fluttering, but it could not stand up, let alone fly again.

"It's a man's foot, my lord." Zina quickly recognized the identity of this spirit beast, "In the past, when we encountered a human foot owl, we ran for our lives directly, but this human foot owl seems to have been poisoned......"

The human foot owl is a three-ringed spirit animal similar to an owl, because a pair of feet are very similar to human feet, hence the name, it is best at running on the ground and branches, as for flying, it can only fly short distances, it is considered a free-walking chicken.

However, this ground-walking chicken's natural solidification arcane is multi-typed and powerful, and its strength is first-class among the 3-ring spirit beasts.

Vivien led the Knights and quickly stepped forward to check the condition of the human foot owl.

Then he said, "My lord, the human foot owl seems to be infected, and its feathers are covered with fangs and lichen-like fungi. ”

The human foot owl is not large, only half a human height.

It lay on the ground, struggling to flap its wings weakly, and as it was held up by Vivien and the others with a knight's spear, it couldn't move.

Duke then took a closer look at it, and soon found a wound in its abdomen covered in fanged lichen.

"The laceration was probably caused during a hunting and fighting, and then it was infected by a fanged lichen." Duke quickly gave the order, "Tie it up and bring it back, this should be a good test specimen to observe its infection." ”

Even a 3-ring spirit beast can be infected, and the molting and polluting power of this ancient evil creature is simply ridiculously strong.

With a human foot owl, today's research is not in vain.

On the way back, the Humanfoot Owl was carried by two mercenaries, and Duke followed alongside, observing the Human's Footowl at all times.

The human foot owl never lost its breath, but the condition of being infected by fangs and lichen became worse and worse.

The hair on his body fell down from time to time, and his eyes were red and red.

"It's getting more and more similar to the muntjac I killed a few days ago." Duke asks Xiaoyi to play a virtual image of the muntjac in the sea of spirits.

He was distracted and used for two purposes, while hurrying, he looked inward at the spiritual sea.

Comparing the state of the muntjac and the human foot owl, the commonalities between the two have become more and more common as time goes by.

And, there's another frightening change.

"My lord, don't you think that this human foot owl is getting thinner and thinner?" Xena walked over and said curiously.

Duke had a serious expression: "No, not only that, but almost all of its bodies have changed. ”

"Huh?"

"It's ...... Degenerate. ”

"Degraded?" Xena exclaimed, not grasping the profound meaning.

Duke didn't stop talking, but silently followed the team back and silently observed the changes in the human foot.

When it was dark, the team rushed back to their new camp.

Guiding Vikas was patrolling the entire camp, and when he saw Duke and his party, he walked over: "Good work, Duke. You brought back an owl, an owl infected by evil spirits, maybe this will satisfy the guru's appetite. ”

"Vikas, take a closer look, is it just an owl?" Duke said.

"What do you mean?" Vikas took a closer look, "It seems that there is something different, this owl is much larger, and its claws are a little strange. ”

"It's a man-legged owl."

"Foot owl?" Vikas frowned, "I've seen a real human foot owl, the human foot owl doesn't look like this, and the spiritual power on its body is weak, obviously it's just an ordinary 0-ring or 1-ring spirit beast, it can never be a 3-ring." ”

"That's the severity of the problem, when I grabbed it, it was indeed a 3-ringed spirit beast - a human-legged owl."

Duke motioned for the mercenary to put the Humanfoot Owl down, and he carried the Humanfoot Owl directly and followed Vikas to the Black Beetle Car.

"How is this possible?" Vikas asked.

"So I'm going to ask the mentor." Duke entered the black beetle cart and found Mentor Penrose, who was dissecting a rabbit, "Mentor, I brought you a three-ringed spirit beast, the Human's Foot Owl, but it seems to have degenerated into a normal owl now. ”

Penrose turned his head, took a serious look at the owl, and then handed over his work to Vikas: "You continue to dissect it, find the parts of its body that are different from ordinary hares, and do not let go of any details." ”

"Uh, okay." Vikas reluctantly took over the job.

He only planned to be a guide for a chaotic life, and he didn't want to personally study any evil qi pollution, and there was no room for improvement in cultivation anyway.

Mentor Penrose took the human foot owl and said indifferently: "It is indeed degrading, and this degradation is based on the erosion of spiritual power, resulting in the decline of the bloodline. The rabbit before was also a two-ringed spirit animal, the tusked pika, and I saw it degenerate into a hare. ”

"This erosion is terrible, Master, if humans are infected, will they also degenerate?" Duke hurriedly asked.

"I don't know, I'm analyzing." Penroston paused and said with relief, "You and I are the blood of ordinary people, how can we decline...... However, those noble bloodlines may be able to find a few big knights to come over and study them a little. ”

"Uh......" Duke didn't answer.

Human experiments, like soul experiments, have a rigorous application process, and it is by no means just a few people who can start experiments.

Penrose only mentioned it, and soon devoted himself to the study of the human foot owl.

Ask for tickets~

(End of chapter)