Chapter 138: Demonized Hornet
It's actually a nice place, and it's not as desolate as you imagined. ”
Jia Yi looked at the canyon covered with sand willows, which was more vibrant than he imagined, and the vegetation was more abundant than the Gobi Desert, he stretched out his hand and sensed that there should be a pond in the valley, and the water vapor here was very abundant.
He rode Xiaoqing behind Kim, next to Legonier, who was at the front with a hammer to clear the way.
Jin complained while smashing open the branches blocking the road: "Jiayi, why should I go ahead, you are still riding a cow, I am not as tall as these weeds." ”
As he spoke, Kim kicked a scorpion away. Jia Yi is condescending, and Jin is not as tall as Xiaoqing's corbel.
There is a lot of vegetation here, and there are even more poisonous insects, snakes and rats living in it, so it is no wonder that there are no people here, and when the rainy season comes, it will be flooded.
"Didn't you come with a mount??," Jia Yi was a little curious, and the elf said that it was not easy to run down from the plateau with the two short legs of the dwarves.
It's a pity that Xiaoqing is reluctant to carry others, and if Jin sits on Xiaoqing's back, he can only hit Xiaoqing's back with a hammer, and the little short hand is too short. Elves never lack mounts, they should be called animal companions, they can summon animal companions to travel at any time, but there is no suitable animal in this desert for the time being.
"Of course not, I have a mount on the plateau, but it is inconvenient when I come down to the plateau, so I am stored at the outpost. ”
As Kim spoke, he vigorously brushed away the branch in front of him. Although he was dissatisfied, whoever called him here was a warrior in armor, as an MT, of course he should be in front, although he never knew what MT was.
Fortunately, after all, it is a desert, and even if there is more vegetation, there is not much to go, but the further inside, there are more and more sand willow thorns and the like, and he even saw Cistanche, if they didn't come here for something, he couldn't help but come down and dig a little and take it away.
Jin suddenly saw a flash of golden light in front of him, and immediately took a step back, and with a wave of his hammer, he smashed a flying insect to the ground not far away, he took a step closer curiously, and called: "How can there be bees here?" And it grows so big, there is not even a flower here. ”
Kaichi walked over and saw the insect that had been smashed to the ground by Kim, and if it hadn't been for Kim's words, he wouldn't have known that it was a bee that had just been smashed by Kim. The bee struggled on the ground, staggering and slowly flying.
Kaichi stretched out his tentacles to catch the bee and bring it to him.
"It's not a bee, it's a wasp, it's just how it's so big? Do you know Legonier?"
Kaichi looked at the hornet brought back by his tentacles, the fist-sized wasp was the first time he had seen it, its whole body was golden, like a layer of brass casting, shining with a metallic luster. It was nothing big to be smashed by Jin's hammer just now, and now he was still struggling in his tentacles, his wings buzzing, and a breeze was fanned, like a small electric fan.
Just now, Jin's strength, even the real copper casting should be smashed and deformed, but the wasp didn't seem to be affected too much.
Legonir leaned over and looked at it: "I don't know, this shouldn't be a natural occurrence, it's the product of your mage's transformation." ”
He looked at the hornet with some disgust, and even his tone was not very good for Kaichi. For elves, mage's modified creatures are one of their most disgusting things. The mage's transformed magical creatures lacked natural predators, and could easily disrupt the balance of nature, which was why he hated this hornet that was clearly a demonic creature.
Jiayi smashed the hornet vigorously and threw it to the ground, and a slight fishy sweet smell emanated from the hornet's belly: "Let's go in and take a look, this may have been transformed by the person who performed the blood sacrifice." It's not just us mages who transform magical creatures, but also the druid's animal companions. ”
With a small rebuttal, they continued to walk inside, there was also a problem with his words, the druid's animal companions were not that strong in reproduction, but Legonir also knew that he should not be angry with Kaichi, so he did not continue to speak.
They moved towards the inside step by step, and a lot of white bones slowly appeared on the ground, and there was a sweet smell of corruption, which made people feel a little dizzy after smelling it.
Jia Yi applied a bubble head technique to everyone to filter the air, and at the same time added a protective spell: "Be careful, something doesn't feel right here." ”
Legonier twitched his nose and pointed to the front left: "Over there, the smell is coming from there." ”
Elven facial features are very keen, especially elven rangers, more than ordinary hunting dogs. The bubble head technique filters out the sweet and greasy taste, and there is a sweet smell from the base, which makes people smell a little refreshed.
There were fine bones on the ground, and as they got closer, in addition to the sweet and greasy taste, it was mixed with the smell of blood and rust, plus a slightly rotten smell, which was not very disgusting when mixed together, but it made people feel a little uncomfortable.
It wasn't a foul smell, but it gave you a visceral sense of disgust. In order to avoid losing his vigilance, Jiayi's bubble head technique does not isolate all the smells, but only filters the dust in the air, so that most of the natural toxins that are transmitted through the air can be filtered.
At the same time, they also heard a buzzing sound, and as the buzzing sound became louder, they saw that there was an extra tree in front of them, which was nearly 20 meters high, and as thick as four or five people hugging each other, and they didn't know how it grew so big in the desert.
There were no leaves on the trees, but they were full of large flowers, each the size of a basin, from which they smelled the sweet and rusty smell of rot. Above the trunk of the tree, there was a layer of something wriggling rapidly, and if you looked closely, it was a fist-sized hornet.
Under the tree, dead or dying animals lay on the ground, sand lizards, gerbils, black vultures, and even wolves, and white roots grew from the ground, inserted into the animal's body, sucking the animal's blood.
On the ground, demonized wasps walked over the corpses of these animals, cutting off pieces of flesh with sharp axes, and then carrying them to the hollows in the trunks of trees.
There was a smell of blood and sweetness coming out of the hollow, and when mixed with other flavors, it made people feel slightly dizzy. Jiayi increased the air filtration of the bubble head technique, and this feeling dissipated.
"Deathflower, is this symbiosis with these demonized wasps?" Legonier looked at the hornets on the trunk, still a little disgusted.
Kaichi observed it carefully and shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not symbiosis, but plunder, these demonized wasps are robbing the nutrients of the Death Flower, most of the beasts under these trees are attracted by the flowers of the Death Flower, the flowers of the Death Flower can exude a slight smell of corruption, attracting scavengers to come, when they come over and eat the flowers of the Death Flower or stay in the fragrance for too long, they will be paralyzed here." Originally, these paralyzed animals were supposed to be turned into nutrients for the Death Flower, but now these wasps have obviously robbed these nutrients, and have also hollowed out the trunk of the Death Flower to make a honeycomb. This is not symbiosis, it is a parasitism. ”
When Kaichi saw that some of the animals under the tree were still alive and could move, the giant wasp pricked the needles in the butts into the animals' bodies, and then tore pieces of flesh from their bodies while they were alive and brought them back to the hive.
He had even seen human corpses under the trees, but the bones were clearly not recent, they must have been a long time ago.
"These should have been transformed by killer bees, and their attack power is stronger. ”
Jiayi and they took a few steps closer, and the hornets that were still in the trees suddenly seemed to explode their nests, and they all flew out suddenly, and then flew towards Jiayi and them, and Jiayi replaced all the shields on their bodies with stance shields, and then rolled up a gust of wind, and the wind brought the white bones on the ground to roll up the flying hornets, and spun violently in the air, and then fell to the ground with a thunderbolt.
Approaching the trunk of the tree, Kim jumped up and slammed his hammer down the trunk, smashing a huge hole in it with a click, and the trunk was like rotten wood, which was destroyed with a little force. There was a sweet smell mixed with a little fishy smell from the cave, and a translucent liquid like ruby red flowed out, and many white and fat bugs wriggled in it.
These are supposed to be the larvae of a wasp, each of which is the size of a large green worm, about the length of an index finger and the thickness of a thumb, and looks white and fat.
It's just that Jin is a little too hard, and the honey that flows out is mixed with a lot of wood chips, and many larvae are smashed in it, and the red slurry is mixed with clumps of white pulp, which doesn't look very beautiful.
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