Gou studies science in another world

Chapter 197 Evil-born Creatures
Mentor Penrose returned to the safe passage with his escort of knights when it was getting dark.

All Arcanist squads have returned.

The team surrounded the black beetle car and returned to Snake Head Town along the way.

"This is an evil-born creature." After inspecting the tiger bug that Duke brought back, Penrose explained in a serious tone, "The special creature transformed into a special creature that was infected by the breath of the ancient evil has a strong conflict with the spiritual mysteries. .”

"Master, so it has no value on it?" Bronke asked.

"You can't say that. There are many kinds of evil-born creatures. The tiger bug that Duke caught was only the weakest evil-born creature. It didn't have any valuable materials on it. But this doesn't mean that other evil-born creatures will also no value."

"The instructor is right. Based on my observations of fang lichen, this kind of little thing, which is not even considered as an evil-born creature, can provide a little 'spirit-blocking agent' effect after grinding. If it is repeatedly refined, this is the best Cheap anti-spirit medicine." Garba said.

The anti-spirit potion is not a potion, but a special kind of spiritual power. Its function is to fix the spiritual energy and ensure the stability of the spell model without interference.

Assistant Vikas said: "If that's the case, this polluted forest will be a stable source of spirit-blocking agents in the future."

Garba added: "It does have this potential...but it needs to be carefully tested to ensure that it can really be refined repeatedly to meet the standard of a spirit inhibitor."

"That's the purpose of our investigation, isn't it?" Orianna said with a smile, with a sense of pride in her tone.

"Of course, that's the case." Galba responded with a smile.

The ambiguous relationship between the two of them is no longer a secret at the moment.

Penrose squinted at the two people, and said lightly: "I hope that from tomorrow on, everyone can focus on research."

Galba and Orianna turned their heads in embarrassment.

Penrose continued: "Take a good rest tonight. Tomorrow we will move out of Black Snake Manor and camp in the wild until the end of the research. I hope everyone can discover something, summarize it into a paper, and increase their academic qualifications."

After returning to Snake Town, the Black Snake Clan had already prepared a banquet.

None of the other airship research teams came back. Only Penrose's team came back, which shows that the Black Snake family is really unpopular.

The introduction of Bernoulli's trick is really a stink of the stink.

The influence and reputation accumulated by the founder of the family more than 20 years ago, the 3rd Ring Almighty Master Mubia, was almost destroyed.

After dinner.

Duke went around the town and met Zina from the Broken Sword Mercenary Corps, and Sally, the deputy general manager of the farm.

Notified by Duke's entourage, both of them were waiting at Little Sam Shuka's shop.

"grown ups."

"boss."

"Have you eaten already, are you in a hurry?" Duke greeted the two old acquaintances with a smile, and then said to Sally, "It's been a long time. Your complexion is much better than last year's. It also looks more capable.”

Zina has been to Villa No.17 in Beverly Manor several times, and she often sees Duke.

Sally has been busy on the farm and hasn't been to Duke's villa yet, and she hasn't seen her for more than five months.

"Boss, you are still as young as last year, but your majesty and demeanor have made people dare not approach easily." Sally complimented, "Boss James has not been at the farm, and I can only manage the farm as hard as I can. It is tiring, but Got exercise too."

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

Sally said obediently, "I will follow your boss' orders."

Then Duke talked about Sally's two children, who both went to school in Shenjiao City, an elite boarding school.

Thank you very much, Sally.

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

"Shafu and Sharapova, you don't have to worry. The two children are serious about their studies. They will be able to find a decent job in the future with their knowledge. If they can open Sanhai, they will receive key training."

"Thank you, boss. It is the greatest luck for our family to meet you!" Sally's eyes were flushed.

Seeing this, Zina smiled and said, "Your Excellency is of course our most noble person. Coming to Sheshou Town to participate in the Cuihai Valley pioneering war is the most successful decision Broken Sword has made."

"I've already said enough compliments, Captain Zina, from tomorrow onwards, you will lead a team to follow me. Once you find good spiritual materials, you will send people to stockpile them as soon as possible."

"Follow your orders."

Ever since Balza mentioned that fang lichen can be used to refine spirit-blocking agents, Duke understood that this ancient evil infection incident was both a crisis and an opportunity.

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

Fang Lichen can be refined, so it is worthwhile for the Broken Sword Mercenary Group to search and hoard around Cuihai Valley.

Duke added: "When we return to the camp at night, don't forget to ask about the research results of other arcanists."

Zina understood: "Understood, don't worry, my lord, I'm the best at enticing people to inquire about news."

As a card fighter with a false 1st ring, Zina's combat effectiveness is not strong.

She was able to stand out from the crowd of great knights after the death of the former Captain Raymond, and grasp the Broken Sword, relying on her own means of attracting people.

If it wasn't for her excellent means, she wouldn't be able to do the arcane card business.

A 3-ring arcane card is basically the biggest hole card of a mercenary regiment, and it cannot be easily handed over to others for repair.

After talking about the business, we chatted for a while about interesting things that happened in Sheshou Town.

Duke left Little Sam's card repair shop, and the card repair shop went around and returned to Duke's hands, but Duke didn't care much about it anymore.

Leave it to Broken Sword to take care of it casually, and use it as a base for Broken Sword to recover the spirit card.

Nearly all the storefronts and store names have been changed. The pioneering war had a huge impact on Sheshou Town, and it was difficult for ordinary people to resist the invasion of outsiders.

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

Growing up in Yusi, passing through Yusi, Gou Yusi, he has a special feeling for Snake Head Town, and this place is like his root.

Similar to the anchor point of the original heart behind the door of the ring of distortion in the spiritual sea.

It is the anchor point for him to set sail in this world. No matter the distance or time barrier, Snake Town will always affect his life.

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

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

"Youshi Clothing Company?"

Mu Lali, who was accompanying her, said with a smile: "Sir, it's the store opened by aunt and uncle. You's clothing is very durable and popular with mercenaries. I heard from my aunt that the income of this store is other products. Several times the size of the store."

"So that's it." Duke nodded, "Being a mercenary really takes a lot of clothes, so you have to dress more seriously."

Just as he was talking, the door of a shop with the signboard "Land of Tenderness" opened in front of him, and a person Duke looked at familiarly walked out.

"Diranco?" Duke raised an eyebrow.

Dilanco didn't notice Duke, and seemed a little guilty. After walking out of the gate, he turned directly into the alley next to him.

"Sir, is that your acquaintance?"

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

After finishing shopping on the Third Vertical Street, Duke lost the interest to continue shopping, and returned to Black Snake Manor with Mu Lali.

The next day, Penrose continued to lead the team to set off.

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

One is a test vehicle, one is a delivery vehicle, and one is a wash truck.

The van is filled with daily necessities for everyone, and the wash cart is used for daily washing. Even if the arcanists go to camp in the wild, they still need to be able to take a bath and brush their teeth comfortably every day.

In addition, there is a large shuttle in the team.

This is the nanny car that Nutao's family prepared for Kylia.

Originally, Kylia didn't want to be so high-profile and get special treatment, but after being bombarded by the mutated konjac flower yesterday and drenched in mucus, the airship of the Rage family airdropped this large shuttle over that night.

"A large flying shuttle is worth tens of thousands of gold dragons. More money is better." Duke visited the large flying shuttle.

The inside is luxurious to the extreme.

Constant temperature adjustment, automatic water purification, leather sofa, wine bar, independent bathroom... This is a portable apartment.

Of course Duke is envious, but he doesn't know pantothenic acid, because he will have these things sooner or later.

Just a matter of time.

After all, he is only 17 years old, and it has only been more than two years since he traveled through time. He is already very satisfied with his struggle to this point, and he will continue to work hard for the rest.

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

After camping at the location chosen by Penrose, Duke led the escort knights and the Broken Sword mercenary group step by step into the forest.

A whole day passed, except for a large number of fang lichens, Duke did not collect valuable samples.

As for the evil-born creatures, they didn't even catch one.

According to Penrose's mentor, the molted shell of the ancient evil has been dealt with by the arcanist from Moist City, but the remaining residual breath leaked out, so it is not serious, and there will not be many evil-born creatures infected.

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

How strong is the evil thing shedding its shell, and how strong is the ancient evil thing?

Even the moulting of the shell requires the powerful arcane mage of Moisturizing City to be wiped out. Doesn't it mean that a whole ancient evil thing is enough to destroy the world?
However, this information is blocked, and Penrose cannot access it and cannot explain it.

Naturally, Duke could only imagine it, but couldn't get an accurate answer, and he could only guess about the ancient evil.

"No matter how strong it is, since it is an evil thing from ancient times, it means that it died tens of thousands of years ago... Now it is the last word whether you can get some wool." After returning to the camp, he took Zina, go exchange your gains with other arcanists.

I want to see if other arcanists find anything of value.

"A strange infected plant. I can't analyze what kind of plant it was before it was infected." Leader Leadman brought back a sample.

It is a ball that looks like pineapple and jackfruit, and is covered with gray protrusions. It is a plant parasitic on the roots of trees.

The most bizarre point, and also the most speechless point, is that there is another gap in its spherical shell, revealing the pink pulp inside.

It looks like some kind of female organ.

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

"This……"

"You have also discovered it." Leadman's assistant maintained his usual seriousness and vigorous exploration spirit, "It has a strong spiritual affinity effect, and I think it will be an excellent material for making cards. I will bring it tonight. study it later."

"I also think it will be a good material, Daozhu, give it a name."

"There will be a unified name in the future. For the time being, we will refer to it as 'Bulb Crack Fruit'." Leadman casually named it.

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

He said to Zina who was following up: "Remember the appearance of the ball crack fruit. You can stock up on a batch of this thing first. Judging from my experience, it will be a good source of card materials."

"I've already remembered it." Zina replied, and muttered softly, "But it looks too ugly."

"It's so beautiful that it can't be eaten, but it is very likely to become a golden dragon. Thinking about it this way, don't you think it is more pleasing to the eye?"

"Not really, but at least I feel better."

In the end, Duke went to Mentor Penrose again to inquire about the research results, but Penrose didn't find anything: "I'm mainly observing how the breath of evil molts infects plants and evil-born creatures."

"How do you think the infection happened?"

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

"I see, mentor." Duke said goodbye politely.

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

In the evening, Duke finished washing up in the washing car, went for a stroll in the experimental car, and then returned to his tent.

The tent was set up by Vivienne leading people, and the tents of several great knights were surrounded by tents, and the tents of the Broken Sword Mercenary Group surrounded the great knights.

"It's getting late, it's time to train the little chicken." Duke called out the little chicken from the sea of ​​air.

Then decisively merged with the chick, entered the elf form, and then hugged Xiaodou, who was dozing off, to carry out blood training.

Practicing in one body has become an unshakable habit of his.

at this time.

The Dou Qi holographic screen in his field of vision has rapidly expanded from a circular area with a radius of 500 meters to a circular area with a radius of three kilometers.

With the blessing of the little chicken, Duke in the form of an elf can resonate with the plants in a range of three kilometers.Within one kilometer, all the clues can be brought under control, even an ant crawling over a leaf can sense it.

Sea of ​​Qi cultivation together may not have substantial combat power, but when it comes to danger perception, it has a lot to do.

"Plants are my eyes!"

Duke stared at the Dou Qi holographic screen, and saw a 2-ring spiritual plant not far from him.

"It's a large flying shuttle. Kylia, the girl of heaven, is really valued by the family. Not only does she provide a nanny car, but there are also 2 rings of Lingzhi in the nanny car!"

This treatment is really enviable.

"Xiao Yi, stop hanging up the "Rainfall Breathing Method"." Duke issued an order.

After Xiaoyi stopped hanging up, he performed the "Rainfall Breathing Method" himself, feeling everything within a three-kilometer radius.

When he focused on the 2-ring Lingzhi in the large shuttle.

Unexpectedly, he vaguely sensed that beside this spiritual plant, there was a person who was meditating seriously.

"It's Kylia." Duke burst into a sea of ​​anger.

Then, with the 2nd Ring Lingzhi as the transfer, the power of nature continues to radiate, stir, and resonate, and then it is like his third eye.

Watch Kiria.

Gradually, with his observation and the accumulation of breathing resonance, in his perception, the outline of Kylia gradually became clear.

Although he couldn't see the facial features and the color of the clothes on his body clearly, his every move was as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

However, when Kiriya got up to take a bath, after a little distance from Lingzhi, the second ring, this perception became blurred.

Can only perceive a general situation.

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

"call!"

Duke recalled the feeling just now, and said with emotion: "The power of plants should not be underestimated, quietly..."

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

Immediately, he saw a big emerald green tadpole condensed in front of him, it was a chick that had finished merging.

The chick gave Duke an "old-fashioned" look, plunged into Duke's stomach, and went to the sea of ​​​​Qi to recuperate.

Xiaodou yawned and woke up from his sleep.

This concludes the evening practice session.

Duke took a sip of herbal tea from the tea cup by the bed, sat on the bed and meditated for a while, then lay down to sleep.

In the dream that night, Kiria's indistinct appearance in the bath haunted him all night.

……

"Combine!"

Deep in the forest, the Guardian Cavaliers are fighting a 2-ring spirit beast.

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

There will always be surprises on the way of investigation, and at this moment, a 1-ring spirit plant has been obtained.

"The lantern fruit grows vigorously, and the price on the market is 150 golden dragons, which is comparable to my income from repairing a 3-ring arcane card."

Wait for the mercenaries to dig out the lantern fruit.

The escort knights also killed the 2-ring spirit beasts, handed them over to the mercenaries to tie them up, and transported them back for processing and exchanged them for money.

Suddenly.

On the dou qi holographic screen, a red light spot began to jump, and a prompt appeared: "It is suspected that the 3-ring spirit beast interfered with the signal."

The spiritual power of the spirit beast itself can interfere with the natural power, which is reflected in the perception of breath resonance.

Duke was eager to try: "Go, go forward 500 meters, there is a 3-ring spirit beast, let's hunt it down!"

"My lord, please be careful." Vivian reminded, "Please let us open the way."

3-ring spirit beasts are no longer easy to hunt, and most mercenary groups will not kill 3-ring spirit beasts.

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

It was lying on the edge of a bush, its wings fluttering, but it couldn't stand up, let alone fly.

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

The human-footed owl is a three-ringed spirit beast similar to an owl. It gets its name because its feet are very similar to human feet. It is best at running on the ground and branches. As for flying, it can only fly short distances. Ground chicken.

However, this free-ranging chicken's natural solidification arcane has many types and strong power, and its strength is top-notch among the 3-ring spirit beasts.

Vivienne led the guarding 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. Its feathers are covered with fang lichen-like fungi."

The human foot owl is not big, only half the height of a person.

It was lying on the ground, struggling feebly to flap its wings, and being held up by Vivian and others with knight spears, it was even more immobile.

Only then did Duke get closer to check its condition, and soon found a wound wrapped in fang lichen on its abdomen.

"The laceration should have been caused by hunting and fighting, and then it was infected by the fang lichen." Duke quickly gave an order, "Tie it up and take it back. This should be a good experimental sample, just to observe its infection process."

Even spirit beasts with three rings can infect them. The molting pollution of this ancient evil is simply ridiculously strong.

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

On the way back, the human-footed owl was carried by two mercenaries, and Duke walked beside him, observing the human-footed owl's condition all the time.

The human foot owl has never died, but the condition of being infected by the fang lichen is getting worse.

The hair on the body fell down from time to time, and the eyeballs were also red and red.

"It's more and more similar to the deer I killed a few days ago." Duke asked Xiaoyi to play the virtual image of the deer in Linghai.

On the other hand, he was distracted, looking inside Linghai while he was on his way.

Comparing the status of the deer and the human foot owl, as time goes by, the commonalities between the two become more and more.

And, there is another frightening change.

"My lord, don't you think that this human-footed owl's feet are getting thinner and thinner?" Zina walked over and asked curiously.

Duke's expression was serious: "No, not only that, almost all of its body has changed."

"what?"

"It's... degenerating."

"Degenerate?" Zina exclaimed, but did not comprehend the profound meaning.

Duke didn't stop talking, but just followed the team back silently, silently observing the changes in the human foot owl.

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

Assistant Vikas was inspecting the entire campsite. When he saw Duke and his party, he came over and said, "Thank you, Duke. You brought back another owl. Is it an owl infected by evil spirits? Maybe this can be used by the instructor. appetite."

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

"What do you mean?" Assistant Vikas took a closer look, "It seems to be a little different. This owl is much larger in size, and its claws are a bit strange."

"It's a human-footed owl."

"Human-footed owl?" Vikas frowned. "I've seen a real human-footed owl. Human-footed owl doesn't look like this, and the spiritual power on it is weak. It's obviously just an ordinary 0-ring or 1-ring spirit beast. It can't be the 3 rings."

"This is the seriousness of the problem. When I caught it, it was indeed a 3-ring spirit beast - a human-footed owl."

Duke signaled the mercenary to put the human foot owl down, and he directly carried the human foot owl and followed Vikas to the black beetle car.

"How is this possible?" Vikas asked.

"So I'm going to ask the instructor." Duke got into the black beetle car and found the instructor Penrose who was dissecting a rabbit, "Mentor, I brought you back a 3-ring spirit beast-human foot owl, but it seems to have degenerated now." It's just an ordinary owl."

Penrose turned his head, took a serious look at the owl, and then handed over the work in his hands to Vikas: "You continue to dissect and find the difference between it and ordinary hares in its body, don't let go of any details. Pass."

"Uh, okay." Vikas took over the job with some reluctance.

He only intends to be a mentor for dawdling, and doesn't want to study any evil pollution by himself, anyway, there is no room for improvement in cultivation.

Instructor Penrose took the human-footed owl and said calmly: "It is indeed degrading. This degeneration is based on the erosion of spiritual power and the decline of blood. The pika, I've seen it degenerate into a hare."

"This kind of erosion is terrible. Teacher, if human beings are infected, will they also degenerate?" Duke hurriedly asked.

"I don't know, I'm analyzing." Penrox paused, and said with relief, "You and I are both of the blood of ordinary people, how can it decline... But for those blood of nobles, maybe you can find a few big knights to come over for a little while. Do research."

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

Human experiments, like soul experiments, have a rigorous application process, and it is by no means just finding a few people to start the experiment.

Penrose also just mentioned it, and soon devoted himself to the research on human foot owls.

　Ask for a ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)