Studying Science in the Alternate World

The knight guards, entourage, assistants, Duke took the airship this time, and like other arcanists, he brought the whole team to serve himself.

Levin was also brought over by him, and the airship would land in Snakehead Town, which happened to let Levin go to Xiaohewan Farm to play.

He himself intended to live in a cottage 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, then he will not refuse, after all, there is more spiritual energy there.

"It's here." Assistant Vikas held a glass of wine, feeling a little revisited, "A new adventure is about to start."

This time, there was not only one airship from the Loop of the Penrose Mage Tower, but five airships came to the Emerald Sea Valley for investigation.

The Black Snake Family held a grand banquet in the manor, inviting all arcanists to go.

When the banquet was over, the arcanists took their leave one after another. Instead of choosing to live in the Black Snake Manor, they found their own lodgings outside.

Only Duke stayed and invited Mentor Penrose and others to live in the Black Snake Manor.

"The opening of the war in Cuihai Valley has put my Black Snake family in an embarrassing situation in Heijiaohe. Many arcane masters think that our cooperation with Bernoulli's Master Tower is an act of betrayal." Muhans Black Snake, when chatting with Duke , Not without resentment.

Duke didn't answer.

Mu Hans continued: "Actually, this is just a backlash. The information about the spiritual spring of Cuihai Valley leaked. No one in this city can stand up and launch a pioneering war. Bernoulli's tower took the lead. Instead, he blamed it. to us."

"It's only for a while. When the Bernoulli family integrates into Heijiaohe, everything will return to the past." Duke comforted.

"Perhaps, but thanks to your persuasion, His Excellency Penrose would never have stayed in the Black Snake Manor, let alone that heavenly girl from the Raging Wave family."

"Do your best." Duke said with a smile.

Born in Sheshou Town, the relationship between Duke and the Black Snake family was restricted, and it was too late to cut it off, and there was no need to cut it off.

Being strong is the last word.

"By the way, Uncle Muhansi, what happened to Cuihai Valley that caused the Union Tower to personally call the Arcane Master to investigate?"

"Drink a cup of tea first to relieve the hangover, and I will explain it to you in detail."

As the patriarch of the Black Snake Clan, Mu Hansi was naturally aware of the recent changes in Cuihai Valley, so he immediately told Duke in detail.

"In the beginning, everyone withdrew from the Cuihai Valley, and when the mercenaries left and returned, they found that the No. 3 well area was a little different. The original green camp area suddenly became colorful. .”

After a pause, Muhans frowned and said: "It's a lichen, a kind of lichen with an evil aura that can grow sharp teeth. Once you step on this kind of lichen by mistake, your feet will be broken, or your legs will be broken. Many mercenaries were abolished because of this."

The colorful fang lichens, spreading from the Well 3 camp, have spread to most of the Emerald Sea Valley.

Make people hard to guard against.

"In addition to lichen, there are more evil things appearing. Although these things are not very powerful, they are very unappetizing. I have seen some mercenaries infected with evil breath. The wounds are rotten and smelly. There's still some mycelium in there."

Mu Hansi said with a look of disgust: "It's disgusting, the effect of arcane treatment is not good, and physical means must be used to disinfect it."

"In other words, it's a fungal-like infection?" Duke asked.

"The high priest looked at it and didn't think it was a simple fungus. It might be the pollutant of some evil thing."

"Evil thing..." Duke narrowed his eyes.

He believed that this kind of fang lichen was definitely related to the forbidden area sealed under the No. 3 well area, and it was most likely caused by the molting of an ancient evil thing that polluted the outside world.

However, a gag order has been signed on the matter of the forbidden area, so Duke can't say it clearly.

I can only continue to listen to Muhans' description of the various weird things that appeared in the forest, and the disgusting experiences that the mercenaries encountered.

chatting.

Penrose's entourage came over and called for Duke to gather in the past.

"Go ahead, be careful after entering the forest, and don't enter rashly." Muhans urged.

"know."

Duke rushed to assemble, and when everyone was assembled, Penrose led the team directly to the third safe passage leading to Cuihai Valley.

Levin went to the farm, Mu Lali stayed in the Black Snake Manor, and the entourage was also left on the farm.

Duke only brought Vivian and other six great knights to guard him, and he was not at all shabby compared to other arcanists.

certainly.

It can't be compared with Kylia Raging Wave. Apart from five 1-ring great knights, she also has two 2-ring Eudemons knights.

This is the "guardian knight" selected by the great nobles for their potential descendants, so as to protect the descendants so that they can step into the spiritual mysteries more securely.

"It's really extravagant, the 2-ring Phantom Beast Knight is the guard..." Duke looked at Kylia who was not far away, and sighed in his heart, "But it can be seen from this that the knight is really in decline, and the 2-ring Phantom Beast Knight is really dead. They can only be guards, and it is said that the more experienced nobles will even choose the third-ring high-ranking Huan Beast Knights as guardian knights."

Fortunately, the dragon knight is just a legend, otherwise, the real arcanist might choose the dragon knight as the protector knight of his descendants.

"This era is the era of spiritual arcana, the era of arcane masters."

Reining in his thoughts, Duke closely followed the team. Such a mixed team of arcane mages and knights felt full of security.

The No. 3 safe passage has been repaired by mercenaries.

On the wide weed road, within a few hundred meters, except for a few weed leaves, there is nothing taller than the calf.

In the team, there is also a black beetle vehicle, which follows as a mobile laboratory.

On the road, you can occasionally see black beetle carts, pulling huge corpses of spirit beasts, or tightly packed spirit plants, and other strange things.

"Just stop here and start the research from here." Mentor Penrose announced the start of the research when the team drove to the foot of the mountain.

On the opposite side of the mountains in front is Cuihai Valley.

This place can only be regarded as the outskirts of Cuihai Valley, and the mysterious changes of 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 before, so he quickly led his guard knight team into the jungle next to the safe passage.

Xiaoyi hung up the "Rainfall Breathing Method", and everything within a radius of 500 meters was under control.

immediately.

The dou qi holographic screen in the field of vision outlines a map.

On the map, gray represents normal areas, and color represents abnormal areas. For example, red represents spirit beasts, and green represents spirit plants.

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 is black, right under Duke's feet.

He squatted down and saw that there was a layer of fungal lichen mixed with light yellow and light pink on the ground, which was completely different from the surrounding surface.

It's a bit like the slime mold that is often used in experiments.

"The fang lichen mentioned by Muhans is this kind of thing?" Duke put on his gloves, squatted down, thought for a while and activated the fighting spirit armor again.

But at this moment, the fighting spirit armor did not spread all over the body, but concentrated on the hands and arms.

Then he stabbed Fang Lichen with a dagger, and the next moment, Fang Fang Lichen seemed to come alive, and quickly expanded a big mouth full of fangs from the stabbed position, biting Duke's hand.

Duke opened his mouth against the fangs and punched him down.

Putting his fists on the fighting spirit armor, he directly punched Fang Lichen's big mouth into a big hole the size of his head: "Disgusting thing."

Juice splattered.

They were all blocked by Duke's vindictive armor.

"My lord, what is this? It's still a living thing?" The female knight Teasi followed Duke, frowning and asked, "I have never seen such a strange thing when I went on an adventure in the forest before. , a living thing like moss."

"Who knows, go and get the collection test tube for me." Duke ordered.

The big knights acted as his research assistants and quickly brought them to collect the test tubes. Duke used tweezers to stuff a bit of the fang lichen that had been smashed by himself on the ground, screwed the cap of the test tube, and put it in a spirit In the package carried by the horse.

Soon he was nearby and found fang lichens of various colors. A small piece of fang lichen could not grow fangs and mouths, only a large piece of fangs lichens could grow fangs and mouths.

He collected some samples of all kinds of fang lichens.

"These things make my heart fire." The great knight Damon brandished the knight sword and slashed at the fang lichen on the ground.

Dou Qi and sword lights shot out, and lichen slime flew around.

"Damon, don't do it, it's too disgusting to get mucus on your body." Another great knight, Affleck, frowned and scolded.

Vivienne said in a solemn voice: "Follow up, protect your lord!"

"Got it, captain." Damon took back the knight sword and muttered, "The smell of these fangs and lichens makes me uncomfortable."

"I can feel that the breath it emits has an evil smell." The female big knight Zoe sniffed her nose, "It's like a spirit beast that has been dead for more than ten days, and the corpse has already rotted. People feel uncomfortable."

The last great knight, Matt, held the knight sword and looked around, but did not participate in the discussion of the crowd.

Three female Grand Knights, Vivienne, Teassy, ​​and Zoe; three male Grand Knights, Damon, Affleck, and Matt.

These are Duke's six guard knights.

He ignored the discussion of the big knights, and simply greeted: "All follow, there are new things to collect ahead."

Then quickly walked forward.

Matt and Damon rushed to the front of Duke quickly, using the knight's sword as a machete to cut through thorns and weeds to open a path for him.

Going straight forward for 200 meters, Duke reached the small black dot displayed on the Dou Qi holographic screen.

Just now, through breathing resonance, Xiaoyi detected a special area in front of her. The breath fluctuation was similar to Fang Lichen, but slightly different, so she set it as a beating black dot.

at this time.

The little black spot has been exposed in Duke's eyes.

It is a huge and weird flower, which grows on the trunk of a dead tree. It has no leaves, only a slime mold-like stem similar to the fang lichen, and the roots are deeply rooted on the trunk.

"This flower is really big!" Damon choked out an adjective, "And it stinks too."

"It's very similar to konjac flowers. Some konjac flowers smell bad, but this one should be polluted by fang lichen." Duke stimulated this weird konjac flower with a stick, and the next moment the konjac flower slammed exploded.

The arcane shield was cast instantly, standing in front of Duke, taking over most of the mucus produced by the explosion.

Only a small amount splashed onto the armors of Damon and Matt, the two great knights. The strong stench made them vomit on the spot.

Although Vivian and other great knights were not splashed, the stench still made them want to vomit.

Duke, who was on the front line, didn't respond at all.

Because Xiaoyi had been running the "Battle Qi Armor" at the first moment of the explosion, covering his whole body, especially his face.

Fighting Qi completely isolates the smell.

"Everyone, be careful and cover your mouth and nose as much as possible. These weird plants may be infectious. But if you go back and run your battle qi a few more times, and there are no obvious wounds on your body, basically nothing will happen."

The mercenaries gathered in Cuihai Valley have already explored these weird things, and they are not fatal yet.

At most, the wound will fester and become infected, requiring flesh cutting and amputation.

Because the explosion was so thorough that even dead trees were blown off, and the trunk was blown into pieces, Duke could only scrape a little mucus from the ground as a sample.

Then go deeper into the forest.

On the dou qi holographic screen, there were a few more small black dots in front that Xiao Yi couldn't identify, waiting for him to personally investigate and sample.

"My lord, what's the use of studying these things? I feel that they have no effect other than nausea." Teyasi watched Duke rushing towards a new strange plant, and couldn't help asking his own doubts, "They have nothing to do with spirit beasts and spirits. Zhi is completely out of line."

As Duke walked, he replied indifferently: "Any new thing has its inherent value, it depends on whether you can discover it."

come closer.

It was another big tree with withered and 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 burst open.

The reason why the mutated konjac flower exploded was probably a sign of maturity, and the explosion was used to spread seeds or spores.

"Give me the oversized collection test tube."

"My lord, here we come."

Duke directly dug the whole mutated konjac flower from the trunk of the big tree, and stuffed it together with the decayed wood around it into an oversized collection test tube.

Just at this time, there was a sudden movement in the nearby bushes.

Vivienne immediately led the big knights to search the bushes, and came back with a knight's lance carrying a dying little beast.

"My lord, it's a muntjac." Vivian said, "It seems to be infected by these fang lichen-like things, lying in the bushes and convulsing. It's not dead, but it's almost there."

Duke crouched down and examined the infected muntjac.

There was a huge cut on the muntjac's hind leg, like it was injured by a mercenary, and then it was infected by something like fang lichen.

The hind legs are already covered with fang lichens of various colors, like a wriggling slime mold.

The eyes are red, the hair on the body is falling off, and the skin is rotten to varying degrees.

Bursts of stench came out.

"It's disgusting!" Damon wanted to gag again.

Duke frowned. This infected muntjac reminded him of something—a zombie, a zombie muntjac infected by fungus.

"Give it a good time." Duke has no interest in research.

He is not a life scholar. He likes to study these special life forms the most. This time he came to investigate with Penrose, more to feel the atmosphere.

At the same time, it is also to see if you can find new spiritual materials, improve the effect of card making, or reduce the cost of card making.

Damon heard the words and beheaded the zombie deer with a sword.

At this time, a large mouth with fangs suddenly grew on the hind legs of the zombie muntjac, and it bit Damon. Seeing this, Damon stomped directly on the mouth of the fangs with the feet of the spirit gold iron boots.

Pooh!

The thick juice splashed all over, and the hind legs of the deer were stamped into a meat paste.

"Damon, you're disgusting." Zoe and Tejas scolded together.

Vivienne also looked at Damon speechlessly: "Why bother to spoil the fun."

"Sorry, sorry." Damon raised his hand in apology, then stomped his feet vigorously to shake off the thick juice splashed on his legs.

Duke, who was walking forward, suddenly paused.

Xiaoyi is giving him feedback: "Master, in the area 300 meters ahead, I found a special breath, which greatly interferes with breathing resonance."

At the same time, a purple light spot lit up, flickering frantically on the holographic screen of battle qi.

This purple light spot is not standing still, but moving rapidly, and getting closer and closer to Duke's position.

"Be careful, something is approaching!" Duke scolded.

Vivienne immediately ordered: "Assemble, protect your lord!"

The big knights changed their laziness before, maintained a high level of alert, and slowly approached Duke, protecting Duke in the center.

Duke himself is also on high alert, and the Sand Eagle is already in his hands.

After a while, the purple light spot on the dou qi holographic screen moved to the vicinity of Duke, and at this time, a monster like a tiger pounced quietly in the front area.

The big knights stepped forward quickly and blocked the tiger monster with their shields.

bang bang!

The tiger monster was hit by the shield and rolled over on the ground.

It was only then that Duke saw clearly what it was. It looked like a tiger but not a tiger. It only had the general outline of a tiger, but actually it looked like a huge bug squeezed out of the tiger's body. It was a weird combination.

There is no fur, only the kind of skin similar to caterpillars. Although the colors are colorful, there is no beautiful beauty, only deformities and ugliness.

And it has a strong pungent smell.

It's not a pungent smell, but a psychological pungent that makes Duke Linghai, Blood Sea, and Qi Sea feel strongly uncomfortable.

"Evil breath..." Duke held the sand eagle and stood there silently examining it.

The big knights have already made three strikes, five cuts and two cuts, and pressed this ugly tiger-like bug to the ground with shields and spears.

"My lord, are you going to kill?" Affleck asked.

"Let me take a look first." Duke walked closer and looked at this weird "tiger bug" carefully. He guessed in his heart that it should be caused by the pollution of the shell of an ancient evil thing. I don't know if the main body is real. It's a tiger.

The tiger insect was pressed by the shield, and opened its mouth angrily, but it could no longer make any sound, as if its vocal cords had rotted.

There was only the sound of puffing and puffing.

Hiss.

Duke directly reached out, pulled out one of the tentacles on the tiger insect's head, and then injected spiritual energy to investigate the situation inside.

I found that the psionic energy was obscure and hard to get through, and it couldn't work at all.

"It's not spiritual material, it's even a kind of 'extreme spirit body'!" Duke quickly made a judgment in his mind. Spirituality is everywhere, and basically there is no object that spirituality cannot penetrate. If there is, this kind of thing will be called It is an absolute spirit.

There are very few records of the spirit body.

After some arcanist research, they believe that the Absolute Spirit Body is not a thing of this world, but may be an extraterrestrial thing carried by a meteorite.

Spirituality cannot penetrate, it is like a spiritual black hole.

The tiger bug is not such an absolute spiritual black hole, but it is difficult to penetrate the spirituality, and Duke's spiritual energy can only pierce on the surface of the tentacles.

He also tried to pierce the psionic energy from the broken wound, and also probed to the superficial surface, but was blocked by an obscure feeling, and it was difficult to penetrate even a little bit.

"Tie it up and take it back!" Duke ordered immediately.

"Yes, my lord!" The great knights took out their chains and tied the tiger bug into a ball.

This tiger worm is not strong, it is equivalent to a 1-ring spirit beast, and it does not know arcane arts, so it can only be tossed around in front of the great knights.

It was very slow when going forward, but it was fast when returning. It took less than half an hour to walk out of the jungle and return to the No. 3 safe passage.

The black beetle experimental vehicle was still parked on the side of the road.

The other arcanists who were researching hadn't come back yet, so Duke directly asked people to put all the collected experimental samples on the black beetle car, and the tiger bug was also dragged over.

"Ah." Suddenly there was an exclamation in the car.

It was only then that Duke realized that he hadn't come back alone. Kylia Routao had already stayed in the experimental vehicle, and she exclaimed when she saw the tiger bug.

Her guardian knight, faithfully guarding the side.

"You're back too?" Duke asked.

"Yeah." Kylia said with embarrassment on her face, "I ran into a little situation in the forest, so I came back to clean it up."

Her clothes had obviously been changed, and her hair was also wet, as if she had just taken a shower.

Duke roughly guessed what happened, but he still asked, "What's the matter, isn't your complexion very good?"

"Ah, this..." Kylia hesitated for a moment, but overcame her embarrassment, and said, "I met a disgusting flower, and it accidentally exploded during research. I was drenched in some mucus, and I felt very uncomfortable."

"I see." Duke didn't continue to ask.

Kylia has just been promoted to an arcane mage, and obviously hasn't had time to build an arcane wonder, so she doesn't have instant arcane defense.

"Duke, what did you catch?" Kylia quickly changed the subject.

"I don't know, it's a very strange individual. I'm going to let my tutor take a look and see if my tutor can know what it is." Duke's knowledge is limited.

I have read a lot of books, and Xiaoyi's database has also expanded greatly, but I have nothing to gain from the fang lichen, mutated konjac flower, tiger insects and the like that are related to ancient evils.

"I don't know what happened in Cuihai Valley. There will be such a disgusting species spreading."

"Who knows."

Duke simply got into the black beetle car, and the service staff in the car poured him a cup of coffee and sipped it.

Chatting with Kiriya about neither salty nor light days.

It doesn't matter what the specific content is, the main thing is that Ji Liya is too seductive, and the time spent with the beauty is beautiful every second.

"Ah, you two are actually being lazy." Orianna's appearance interrupted Duke's leisurely enjoyment of the good time.

"Sister Orianna, you are back." Duke said with a smile, "What do you gain in the forest?"

"What can be gained is some disgusting stuff, the smell can kill people, alas, this investigation really shouldn't be done." Orianna said with disgust, "It's better for you two to come back early to rest , I’ll come back early tomorrow too.”

Kylia smiled awkwardly.

Duke asked indifferently: "Have you seen the tiger bug in the cage outside the car? Can you tell what it is?"

"I'm not interested in watching it, let the tutor or Leadman help with the research." Orianna called the waiter and ordered a cup of green tea for herself.

Then he leaned comfortably on the seat, enjoying the sunset in the evening, and chatted with Kylia about the gossip of the arcanists.

This kind of gossip, even the charming girl of the sky, cannot escape the vulgarity.

Duke yawned, got out of the car on his own initiative, and squatted in front of the iron cage, studying the pollutants from the molted shells of ancient evils like tiger worms.

"Is this thing considered a living body?" He thought of the unfriendly experience in the mine back then.

At that time, it felt like the mine was the wriggling intestines and stomach of some kind of organism. All five senses were disturbed, and I could hear the faint roar of monsters.

"So, if it's really an ancient evil in the Forbidden Land that shed its shell, leaked it and infected it... the tiger bug is what a tiger looks like after it's infected?"

He pondered silently: "If this is the case, Roroya Snow Eagle was unconscious at the beginning, did he also suffer from a tiger bug infection, so he was taken to Runwu City later... It should be to be killed by those high-level arcanists Slice study."

"So this kind of infection, is it a spiritual infection, or is it an infection aimed at spirituality?"

"There is a guardian · mystery vine in my spiritual sea. At that time, the feedback from the 3-ring tree king-mystery vine was a special defensive barrier."

"But when the molting of the ancient evil interfered with me, the guardian · mysterious vine didn't respond!"

"call!"

"Thinking about it makes my brain hurt."

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