Chapter 196 Exploded a whole body of slime
knight escorts, followers, and assistants. Duke took the airship this time, and like other arcane mages, brought the entire team to serve himself.
Levin was also brought here. The airship would land in Snakehead Town, just in time for Levin to go to Xiaohewan Farm to play.
He himself planned to live in a villa on the farm.
There are also the spiritual plants he left behind, a 1-ring spiritual plant - monkey earrings, and a batch of 0-ring spiritual plants.
Of course, if the Black Snake family kindly invites him to live in the Black Snake Manor, he will not refuse. After all, there is more spiritual energy there.
"We're here." Guide Vikas was holding a red wine glass, feeling a bit like revisiting his old place. "A new adventure is about to begin."
This time there was not just one airship, the Loop, from Penrose Master Tower, but five. A team of airships came to Cuihai Valley for investigation.
The Black Snake family held a grand banquet in the manor and invited all arcane mages to attend.
After the banquet was over, the Arcane mages all said their goodbyes and left. They did not choose to stay at Black Snake Manor, but instead found their own accommodation outside.
Only Duke stayed and invited Mentor Penrose and others to stay at Black Snake Manor.
"The war to open up the Cuihai Valley put our Black Snake family in an embarrassing situation in the Black Dragon River. Many arcane mages think that our cooperation with the Bernoulli Mage Tower is an act of betrayal." Muhans Black Snake, while chatting with Duke , said with resentment.
Duke didn't answer.
Muhans continued: "In fact, this is simply a slap in the face. Information about the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley was leaked. No one in this city could step forward and launch a pioneering war. Bernoulli's Master Tower took the lead. Instead, it was blamed. For us."
"It's just temporary. When the Bernoulli family integrates into the Black Dragon River, everything will return to the past." Duke comforted.
"Perhaps, but thanks to your efforts to stay, Lord Penrose would never have stayed at Black Snake Manor otherwise, let alone the beautiful girl from the Nutao family." "I'll try my best."
Duke said with a smile.
Being born in Snakehead Town limited Duke's relationship with the Black Snake family. It was too late to cut him off, and there was no need to cut him off.
Being strong yourself is the last word.
"By the way, Uncle Muhans, what changes happened in Cuihai Valley that led the United Tower to personally call on the arcane mages to come and investigate?" "Let's have a cup of tea first to
relieve the hangover, and I will tell you in detail."
Mu As the patriarch of the Black Snake family, Hans was naturally aware of the recent changes in Cuihai Valley, and immediately told Duke in detail.
"At the beginning, everyone withdrew from Cuihai Valley. Then when the mercenaries returned, they found that there was something different in Well No. 3. The originally green camp suddenly became colorful. ."
After a pause, Muhans frowned and said: "It's lichen, a kind of lichen with an evil aura, which can grow sharp teeth. Once you step on this kind of lichen by mistake, your feet will be broken or even broken. Many mercenaries lost their legs because of this."
The colorful fang lichen spread from the camp in Well No. 3 and has spread to most areas of Cuihai Valley.
It makes people hard to guard against.
"In addition to lichens, there are more things with evil auras. Although these things are not very strong, they are very unappetizing. I have seen some mercenaries infected with evil auras, and their wounds rotted and smelled. There are some mycelium inside."
Muhans said with a look of disgust: "It's disgusting. The arcane treatment is not effective. It has to be killed by physical means." "
In other words, this is a fungus-like fungus. Infection?" Duke asked.
"The high priest looked at it and didn't think it was a simple fungus. It might be a contaminant of some evil thing."
"Evil thing..." Duke narrowed his eyes.
He believed that things like fang lichen were definitely related to the forbidden land sealed under Well No. 3. It was most likely caused by the shedding of ancient evil things that polluted the outside world.
However, a gag order has been signed regarding the forbidden area, so Duke cannot explain it clearly.
He could only continue to listen to Muhans describe the various strange things that appeared in the forest and the disgusting experiences that the mercenaries encountered.
Just chatting.
Penrose's entourage came over and called for Duke to come over and assemble.
"Go ahead. Be careful when you enter the forest. Don't rush in." Muhans warned.
"Understood."
Duke rushed to assemble. After everyone was gathered, Penrose directly led the team towards the third safe passage leading to Cuihai Valley.
Levin went to the farm, Mulali stayed at Black Snake Manor, and his entourage was also left at the farm.
Duke only took Vivian and other six knights to protect him, and he was not shabby at all compared to other arcane mages.
certainly.
It cannot be compared with Kiria Furious Waves. In addition to five first-level knights, she also has two second-level fantasy beast knights.
This is the "Guardian Knight" selected by the great nobles for their potential descendants to protect the descendants so that they can more securely enter the spiritual arcana.
"What a luxury, having a 2-level fantasy beast knight as a guard..." Duke looked at Kylia not far away and sighed in his heart, "But it also shows that the knights are really in decline. The 2-level fantasy beast knights are all They can only serve as guards. It is said that more established nobles will even choose 3-level high-level fantasy beast knights as guardian knights."
Fortunately, the dragon knight is just a legend, otherwise the real arcane mage might choose the dragon knight as his descendant. Protector Knight.
"This era is the era of spiritual arcane magic and the era of arcane mages."
Concentrating his thoughts, Duke followed the team closely. Such a mixed team of arcane mages and knights felt very safe.
Safety channel No. 3 has been repaired by mercenaries.
On the wide weedy road, within a few hundred meters, except for a few weed leaves, there was nothing taller than a calf.
Among the team, there was also a Black Beetle car following as a mobile laboratory.
Occasionally, you can see black beetle vehicles on the road, pulling huge corpses of spiritual beasts, or tightly wrapped spiritual plants, and other strange things.
"Stop here and start the investigation from here." Instructor Penrose announced the start of the investigation when the team reached the foot of the mountain.
Opposite the mountains ahead is Cuihai Valley.
This can only be regarded as the outskirts of Cuihai Valley, and the mysterious changes in Cuihai Valley have extended to this area and are expanding outward every day.
Duke had accumulated a lot of jungle experience when he was dormant in the countryside, so he quickly led his escort knights into the jungle next to the safe passage.
Xiaoyi hangs up the "Rainfall Breathing Method" and is able to control everything within a radius of 500 meters.
immediately.
The Dou Qi holographic screen in the field of vision outlines a map.
On the map, gray represents normal areas, while colors represent abnormal areas. For example, red represents spiritual beasts and green represents spiritual plants.
But at this time, there was a large area of black on the map.
"Master, the breathing resonance in these areas is abnormal, and there is a special breath suppressing the natural power emitted by the plants." One of them was
black, right at Duke's feet.
He squatted down and saw a layer of light yellow and light pink fungus lichen growing on the ground, which was completely different from the surrounding surface.
It's a bit like the slime mold often used in experiments.
"Is this the fang lichen that Hans mentioned?" Duke put on his gloves, squatted down, and activated the fighting spirit armor after thinking about it.
However, the fighting spirit armor at this moment was not spread over the whole body, but concentrated on the hands and arms.
Then he stabbed the fang lichen with a dagger. The next moment, the fang lichen seemed to come alive. It quickly expanded from the stabbed position into a large mouth full of fangs and bit Duke's hand.
Duke faced the fangs and opened his mouth and punched him.
The fighting spirit armor was covered with fists, and the fang lichen's mouth was directly smashed into a big hole as big as the head: "Disgusting thing." The
juice splashed everywhere.
They were all blocked by Duke's fighting spirit armor.
"Sir, what is this thing? It's actually a living thing?" The female knight Teasi, following Duke, frowned and asked, "I have never seen such a strange thing before when I ventured into the forest. , a living thing like moss."
"Who knows, go and get the collection test tube for me." Duke ordered.
The knights acted as his research assistants and quickly collected the test tubes. Duke took some of the fanged lichen that he had smashed on the ground and stuffed it in with tweezers. Then he tightened the lid of the test tube and put in a piece of spirit. In a package carried by a horse.
Soon he found fang lichens of various colors nearby. A small piece of fang lichen could not grow fangs and big mouths, but only a large piece of fang lichen could grow fangs and big mouths.
He collected some samples of various fang lichens.
"These things make me feel angry." The great knight Damon waved his knight sword and slashed at the fang lichen on the ground.
Fighting swords are radiating with radiance, and lichen slime is flying everywhere.
"Damon, stop it, it's disgusting to have mucus on your body." Another great knight, Affleck, frowned and scolded.
Vivian said solemnly: "Follow me, please protect me!"
"Copy that, Captain." Damon took back his knight sword and muttered, "The smell of these fanged lichens makes me uncomfortable."
" I can feel that the breath it exudes has an evil smell." Zoe, the female knight, sniffed her nose and said, "It smells like a spiritual beast that has been dead for more than ten days, and the body has rotted. Smelling it too much makes people feel uncomfortable. I feel uncomfortable all over."
Matt, the last great knight, held the knight's sword and looked around, not participating in the discussion.
Three female knights, Vivian, Tejasi, and Zoe; three male knights, Damon, Affleck, and Matt.
These are Duke's six escort knights.
He ignored the discussion of the great knights and simply said hello: "Follow me all, there are new things ahead that need to be collected."
Then he quickly walked forward.
Matt and Damon quickly rushed in front of Duke, using the knight's sword as a machete to cut through thorns and weeds and create a path for him.
Continuing two hundred meters deeper, Duke reached the small black dot displayed on the Dou Qi holographic screen.
Just now, Xiaoyi detected a special area ahead through breath resonance. The breath fluctuation was similar to that of Fang Lichen, but slightly different, so he set it to a beating black spot.
at this time.
The little black spots had been exposed in Duke's eyes.
It was a huge weird flower that grew on the trunk of a dead tree. It had no leaves, only a stem in the form of a slime mold similar to the Tooth Lichen, and its roots were deeply rooted in the trunk.
"This flower is so big!" Damon choked out an adjective, "And it also smells very bad." "It
looks very much like a konjac flower. Some konjac flowers smell bad, but this one should be contaminated by fang lichen." Du Ke stimulated the weird konjac flower with a stick, and the next moment the konjac flower exploded with a bang.
The arcane shield was activated instantly and stood in front of Duke, absorbing most of the mucus produced by the explosion.
Only a small amount of it splashed onto the armors of the two great knights, Damon and Matt. The strong smell made them vomit on the spot.
Although Vivian and other high knights scattered around were not splashed, the smell still made them want to gag.
Duke, who was on the front line, didn't react at all.
Because Xiaoyi had already activated the "Fighting Qi Armor" at the first moment of the explosion, covering his whole body, especially his face.
The fighting spirit completely blocks out the stench.
"Everyone, please be careful and cover your mouth and nose as much as possible. These weird plants may be infectious. But if you go back and circulate your fighting energy a few more times, and there are no obvious wounds on your body, you will basically be fine." People gathered in Cuihai
Valley The mercenaries have already explored these weird things, and they are not fatal yet.
At most, the wound will become ulcerated and infected, requiring flesh cutting and amputation.
Because the explosion was so complete that even the dead trees were broken and the trunks were blown into pieces. Duke could only scrape a little mucus from the ground as a sample.
Then he headed deeper into the forest.
In the Dou Qi holographic screen, there were a few more small black dots in front of him that Xiaoyi could not identify, waiting for him to personally investigate and sample them.
"Sir, what's the use of studying these things? I feel like they have no effect except disgusting." Teyasi watched Duke rush towards a new strange plant and couldn't help but ask his own doubts, "They are different from spiritual beasts and spiritual beasts." Plants are completely irrelevant."
Duke replied calmly as he walked: "Any new thing has its inherent value, it depends on whether you can discover it."
Walking closer.
It was another big tree with yellow leaves, and a small mutated konjac flower grew on the trunk. Duke immediately approached it cautiously.
With a simple touch, the small mutated konjac flower did not explode.
The reason why the mutated konjac flower exploded before was probably a sign of maturity, and the explosion was used to spread seeds or spores.
"Bring me the oversized collection test tube."
"Sir, here we come."
Duke directly dug out the entire mutated konjac flower from the trunk of the big tree, and stuffed it into the oversized tube along with the surrounding rotten wood. No. collection test tube.
At this moment, there was sudden movement in the bushes nearby.
Vivian immediately led the knights to search the bushes, and came back a moment later carrying a dying beast with a knight's spear.
"Sir, it's a muntjac," Vivian said. "It seems to have been infected by something like these fanged lichens. It was lying in the bushes twitching. It's not dead yet, but it's almost there." Duke knelt down and said
, Examine this infected muntjac.
The muntjak had a huge cutting wound on its hind leg, as if it had been injured by a mercenary and then infected by something like fanged lichen.
The hind legs are already covered with fang lichens of different colors, like a large mass of squirming slime mold.
His eyes were red, his hair was falling off, and his skin was rotten to varying degrees.
Waves of stench came out.
"How disgusting!" Damon wanted to gag again.
Duke frowned. This infected muntjac reminded him of something - a zombie, a zombie muntjac infected by a fungus.
"Give it a good time." Duke had no interest in research.
He is not a life scholar, and he likes to study these special life forms the most. This time he followed Penrose for investigation, mostly to feel the atmosphere.
At the same time, we also want to see if we can find new spiritual materials to improve the effect of card production, or reduce the cost of card production.
Damon heard this and beheaded the zombie muntjac with one sword.
At this moment, a fangy mouth suddenly sprouted from the zombie muntjac's hind legs, and it bit Damon. When Damon saw this, he stomped directly on the fang's mouth with his feet wearing spiritual gold iron boots.
Poof!
The thick juice splashed everywhere, and the deer's hind legs were stamped into a pulp.
"Damon, you are so disgusting." Zoe and Tejasi cursed in unison.
Vivian also looked at Damon speechlessly: "Why bother and spoil the fun."
"Sorry, I owe you a foot." Damon raised his hand to apologize, then stomped his feet hard to shake off the thick juice splashed on his legs. .
Duke, who was walking forward, suddenly paused.
Xiaoyi was giving him feedback: "Master, in the area three hundred meters ahead, a special aura was found, which greatly interferes with the breathing resonance." At the same time
, a purple light lit up and flashed crazily on the Dou Qi holographic screen.
This purple light spot is not stationary, but is moving quickly, getting closer and closer to Duke's location.
"Be careful, something is coming!" Duke scolded.
Vivian immediately ordered: "Assemble, protect your lord!"
The knights changed their previous laziness and maintained high alert. They slowly approached Duke and protected Duke in the center.
Duke himself was on high alert and had the sand eagle in his hands.
In a moment, the purple light spot on the Dou Qi holographic screen moved to the vicinity of Duke. At this time, a tiger-like monster quietly pounced in the area ahead.
The knights quickly stepped forward and blocked the tiger monster with their shields.
Bang!
The tiger monster was knocked away by the shield and rolled on the ground.
Only then did Duke see clearly what it was. It looked like a tiger but not a tiger. It just had the general outline of a tiger, but in fact it looked like a huge insect squeezed out of the tiger's body. It was a very weird combination.
There is no fur, only skin similar to that of a caterpillar. Although the colors are colorful, there is no beauty, only deformity and ugliness.
And it has a strong pungent smell.
It's not an olfactory pungency, but a psychological pungency that makes Du Linghai, blood sea, and air sea produce a strong sense of discomfort.
"Evil aura..." Duke held the sand eagle and stood there silently examining it.
The great knights had eliminated two of them three times and pinned the ugly tiger-like bug to the ground with their shields and spears.
"Sir, are you going to kill me?" Affleck asked.
"Let me take a look first." Duke walked closer and carefully looked at this weird "tiger insect". He had a guess in his mind that this should be caused by the contamination caused by the shedding of ancient evil things. He didn't know if the original body was real. It's a tiger.
The tiger insect was pressed by the shield and opened his mouth angrily, but he could no longer make any sound, as if his vocal cords were rotten.
There was only the sound of puffing and puffing.
Hiss.
Duke reached out directly, pulled out one of the tentacles on the tiger insect's head, and then injected spiritual energy to explore the situation inside.
He found that the spiritual energy was so obscure and difficult to operate at all,
"This is not a spiritual material, it is even a 'super spirit body'!" Duke quickly made a judgment in his mind. Spirituality is everywhere, and basically there is no spiritual power. If there is a penetrating object, this kind of thing will be called a supreme spirit body.
There are very few records of the Absolute Spiritual Body.
After some arcane mages researched it, they believed that the Absolute Spiritual Body was not a thing from this world, but might be an extraterrestrial object carried by meteorites.
Spirituality cannot penetrate, it is like a spiritual black hole.
The tiger insect is not such an absolute spiritual black hole, but it is difficult to penetrate spirituality. Duke's spiritual energy can only be probed on the surface of the tentacles.
He also tried to penetrate the psychic energy from the broken wound. He also penetrated to the superficial level, but was blocked by the obscure feeling, making it difficult to penetrate even further.
"Tie it up and take it back!" Duke immediately ordered.
"Yes, sir!" The knights took out chains and tied the tiger insect into a ball.
This tiger insect is not very strong, it is equivalent to a 1st ring spirit beast, and it does not know arcane magic. It can only be tossed around in front of the great knights.
The journey forward was very slow, but the journey back was very fast. In less than half an hour, we walked out of the jungle and returned to safety channel No. 3.
The Black Beetle experimental vehicle is still parked on the roadside.
The other arcane mages who were investigating had not returned yet, so Duke directly asked people to put the collected experimental samples on the Black Beetle truck, and the tiger insect was also dragged over.
"Ah." A voice suddenly exclaimed in the car.
Only then did Duke realize that he was not back alone. Kiliya Fury was already in the experimental vehicle and exclaimed when he saw the tiger insect.
Her guardian knight stood by faithfully.
"Are you back too?" Duke asked.
"Yeah." Kiriya said with an embarrassed look on her face, "I encountered a situation in the forest, so I came back to clean up."
Her clothes had obviously been changed, and her hair was wet, as if she had just taken a shower.
Duke roughly guessed what happened, but he still asked more: "What happened? You don't look too good?" "
Ah, this..." Kiliya hesitated for a moment, but overcame her embarrassment and said, He said, "I met a pretty disgusting flower. It accidentally exploded while I was studying it. I was sprayed with some mucus and felt very uncomfortable." "That's it." Duke didn't ask any more questions
.
Kylia has just been promoted to Arcane Mage, and obviously hasn't had time to build Arcane Wonders yet, so there is no instant arcane defense.
"Duke, what did you catch?" Kiriya quickly changed the subject.
"I don't know, it's a very strange individual. I'm going to let my mentor take a look at it to see if he can figure out what it is." Duke's knowledge was limited.
I read a lot of books and expanded Xiaoyi's database, but I found nothing about ancient evil things like fanged lichens, mutated konjac flowers, and tiger insects.
"I don't know what happened in Cuihai Valley, so that such a disgusting species could spread."
"Who knew."
Duke simply got into the Black Beetle. The service staff in the car poured him a cup of coffee and sipped it slowly.
Chatting with Kiriya in a casual way.
It doesn't matter what the specific content of the conversation is, the main thing is that Kiriya is too eye-catching, and every second spent with the beautiful woman is wonderful.
"Ah, you two are actually lazy." Oriana's appearance interrupted Duke's leisurely enjoyment of the good time.
"Sister Oriana, you are back." Duke said with a smile, "What can you gain in the forest?"
"What you can gain are all disgusting things. The smell can kill people. Alas, this trip We really shouldn't have come here for research." Oriana said with disgust, "You two are smarter and come back early to rest, and I will come back early tomorrow."
Kilia smiled awkwardly.
Duke asked nonchalantly: "Have you seen the tiger insect in the cage outside the car? Can you tell what it is?" "I'm not interested,
let the tutor or Lidman help with the research. "Orianna called the waiter and ordered herself a cup of green tea.
Then he leaned back on the seat comfortably, enjoying the sunset in the evening, and chatted with Kiriya about the gossip of the Arcane mages.
This kind of gossip is something that even the most beautiful girl of heaven is not exempt from.
Duke yawned, took the initiative to get out of the car, squatted in front of the iron cage, and studied the pollutants from the shedding of ancient evil creatures like tiger insects.
"Is this thing a living thing?" He thought of the unfriendly experience he had in the mine.
At that time, it felt like the mine was like the wriggling intestines of some kind of organism, all five senses were disturbed, and the vague roar of monsters was heard.
"So, if it is true that the ancient evil thing in the forbidden area shed its shell, was leaked and infected...the tiger worm is what the tiger looks like after being infected?" He thought silently: "If this is true, did Luo Luoya
Snow Eagle fall into a coma when he was unconscious? An infection similar to tiger worms also occurred, so he was taken to Runwu City later... It should be sliced and studied by those high-level arcane mages." "So
this infection is a spiritual infection, or is it a spiritual infection? An infection?"
"There is a guardian vine of mystery in my spiritual sea. At that time, the feedback from the 3-ring tree king-the vine of mystery was a special defensive barrier." "But when the shedding of ancient evil things interfered with me
, , there is no response from the Guardian Vine of Secrets!"
"Phew!"
"My head hurts just thinking about it."
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