Above The Sky

"This form."

Ian frowned slightly.

He couldn't help but think of a parasite called 'Columbium fluke'.

It is a parasitic snail, which makes the snail's eye stalk bulge and protrudes, and keeps wriggling, attracting these snails to be eaten by birds... It can control the actions of the snail and make the other party go against its own nocturnal normality. Go to the heights of the leaves and be hunted by other creatures.

Although I don't know what's going on with the parasites in the monitor lizards, this abnormal action does not conform to the usual mode of action of the green armored lizards.

This nasty parasite can apparently affect biological brains.

"It's only been a few minutes? It's already eroded to this point. Although the green armored lizard is not a magical beast, it is indeed easy to be parasitized without the circulation of the essentia in the body, but the speed is too fast."

Taking out the Chongyuan Iron Sword from his waist, Ian slowly pressed it forward.

The leader of the lizard group let out a roar. The beast, which was more than three meters long and weighed more than half a ton, lowered its head and aimed the raised horn on the top of its head at the enemy in front of him.

Then he charged hard.

Boom boom boom, the ground shook. Even if it's not a monster, the green armored lizard's charge is like a bull rush. With the power transmission effect brought by the sturdy armor, even the overlord in the jungle, the sharp-clawed tiger will temporarily avoid the edge.

But with the clanging sound of the long sword shaking, Ian has raised the sword and swung it out.

Before the sword arrived, a water element visible to the naked eye had condensed at the blade, and then turned into a substantial water blade to break the air, with the strength enough to smash the rock to the green armored lizard. The head blasted away.

This water blade is not sharp, after all, there is no special binding structure, but its strength is extremely strong, just like an invisible giant hammer.

When it hit the head of the green armored lizard, the skull that was originally strong enough to break the reef and its ramming horns disintegrated and shattered like a crisp biscuit, and even the structure of the spine was deformed, and the bones were shattered inch by inch. ,

With this sword alone, Ian will kill the blue armored lizard in the lead without even using the earth-attribute Origin Essence that really matches the heavy abyss iron sword.

——Who said that a water blade can't kill without a blade?

It feels like this water blade hammer also has some potential...at least for heavily armored enemies.

With this thought in mind, Ian looked at the lizards again.

In theory, after the father of the lizard group is killed, its spouse and heirs should be scattered and flee... Even the enemies who cannot be defeated by the leader are pure gifts, and the inheritance instinct in the blood will not let them lose their lives. send it here.

However, the other five large and small green armored lizards did not flinch after seeing Ian beheading the giant lizards.

In other words, they didn't notice the previous battle at all-because their physical fitness was not as good as that of the giant lizards, they only started howling now, and then locked their eyes on Ian.

Immediately after that, just like the big lizards before, one after another, they rushed over one after another without the slightest coordination!

For a time, the roar of the lizards charging rang out in the empty cave.

Heads of monitor lizards trampled on the blood of the lizard father, shaking the ground against the enemy's attacking pace, which was extraordinarily tragic.

And Ian is just out of the sword, out of the sword.

That's all, they smashed all their heads, and their headless bodies slumped to the ground, twitching from time to time.

The ascendant's advantage over ordinary creatures is all-round and crushing - the power of Ian's sword may be heavier than the entire weight of the green armored lizard, and there is no suspense in this battle.

But he did not relax, but came to the corpse of the lizards immediately, and leaned down to observe the blue-black worms that were still wriggling in the shattered heads of the other party.

This is a kind of small insects that are hard to see with the naked eye, but they are very numerous and gather together to form blue-black wriggling dots - these small insects are actually dying and renewing continuously, and the blue ones are active Yes, the black ones are dead bodies.

Originally, the blue armored lizard's eyes were almost occupied by this blue parasite. It even began to emit a faint fluorescence, but with the death of the host, these parasites also began to lose their activity, making the pupils and epidermis of the green armored lizard become blue and black.

A silver streamer swept across the bugs.

[Vicious Parasite · Unnamed (South China Sea Ruins Species)]

【First Energy Level · Excellence】

[Malignant parasites inhabiting the subterranean relics ecosystem of the South China Sea need to live in suitable running water and living organisms, and mainly attack the biological cerebellum, frontal and temporal lobes, and will replace their functions after phagocytosis. If the host dies or is out of suitable environment, it will die quickly]

[By contacting the parasite through wounds, the eggs cannot break through the mucous membrane. If you drink it, as long as there is no wound in the mouth and stomach, it will not be regarded as the terminal host]

【…】

This time, there is not a lot of data on the silver chip. Although the specific parasite size, energy level and microscopic modeling are also available, Ian really needs very little information.

"Unnamed? Looks like I'm the first to discover."

Standing up, Ian thought thoughtfully: "The lizards are parasitized, it should be because they have wounds in their mouths and stomachs - most of the wild creatures are like this, so after drinking a lot of water, they are invaded by parasites in the water."

"This is a parasite of the first energy level. In other words, it is a sublimation species. It is really easy to deal with an incompetent ordinary monitor lizard... If it is a sublimator, even the spontaneous flow of the source in the body can be used. curb the parasitic trend."

The source substance flowing in the sublimator is a microscopic pure energy state structure that can be coupled and embedded with organelles to allow the human body to 'sublime' - even a nanorobot can't be smaller than it, solving a parasite problem. It was a breeze.

Ian waited patiently for another ten minutes, and cut open the monitor lizard's body with a sword. After confirming that most of the parasites deep in the flesh were dead, he nodded slightly: "The vitality is not very strong. The main parasitic part is the brain, but There is also a tendency to spread to the whole body... a bit reckless, I should wait a little longer to see what these parasites look like when they mature."

The young man's expression was indifferent at the moment. He didn't feel uncomfortable because of the horror and nausea of ​​this parasite. Instead, he had a strong curiosity.

Ian looked up at the blue river.

He took a closer look and found that just as he thought - in this azure blue river, all the blue components are the corpses of insect eggs and small insects... Although there are also some mineral components, but that is obviously not the main factor!

This whole river is a river of parasites!

"Upstream should be the nest of these bugs, right?"

Looking up at the upstream of this small river, Ian fell into thought: "It seems that the underground ruins not only have ecology, but also a very dangerous ecology."

If it's just danger, it's not going to stop Ian. Even though this parasite looks terrifying, in fact, it doesn't matter to him to take a bath in the river.

With a silver chip and an ancient dragon core, even if he drinks water full of parasite eggs like a monitor lizard, he will not be infected because of it, but can turn them into high-quality protein.

But there's no need to torture yourself like this -- curiosity is a good thing, and it doesn't need to be used for it.

What really made Ian pondered was the flickering 'parasites' hovering in the eyes of the monitor lizards.

This reminded him of a "plague" that occurred in the Nanling Back Colony six years ago.

"Flashmoss?"

The young man muttered to himself in a tone of caution, "Could it be that the Amphibole spread by the indigenous people has something to do with this parasite?"

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I saw someone saying it was short and I didn't feel like I watched it, but today's first 3 chapters are an introduction to the plot, you can't expect to quack and kill immediately or start to know everything right away.

Because I am unhappy with this kind of comment, I will add another chapter today (I don't want you all to write it later, I am really annoying, every time I write a transitional import plot, someone will madly brush it), there are 9000 words today, I hope everyone will stop talking. It's short, and if you haven't read it, any novel has its plot twists and cutscenes. I am also very attentive in the description of the ruins. The plot of the Sequoia Base is very important.

Wish you all a Happy Labor Day!