"Don't look at it, it's the same situation after I killed this monster last time!"
Viscount Jackson took out a white handkerchief to wipe the long sword in his hand, and put the bright blade back into the scabbard.
"It turns out that after death, there will be a self-destruct phenomenon!"
Leylin was a little surprised, this completely did not conform to the general growth law of living things.
Looking at the skeleton that was still emitting white gas, Leylin stepped forward to pick up a bone.
The white dry bone was covered with cracks, as if it would fall apart with the slightest touch, Leylin pressed his fingers hard, bark! Dry bones turned into bone meal.
"Hmm, no!" Leylin glanced, and found a few traces of red blood vessels among the white bone meal.
"The target has life fluctuations, and high-energy bacteria are detected. It is recommended that the subject stay away immediately!" At this time, the scanning results of the chip also appeared in front of Leylin's eyes.
Leylin quickly tossed the red blood vessels in his hand, and at the same time began to clean his palm with energy particles.
"What's wrong?" Melfiler realized something was wrong.
"Be careful with those bones, there's still something inside!" Leylin frowned, and stepped back quickly.
Bark! At this moment, many red blood vessels suddenly appeared on the original lizard skeleton, and the bone was pierced with countless holes. It seemed that the previous blood vessels were the bone marrow parasitic inside the bone.
Countless blood-red thin tubes emerged, entangled like tree roots, and formed a small monster.
It is a bit similar to the original monster, but the whole body is blood red, with blood vessels protruding from time to time, without eyes and mouth, but the four legs are very strong.
call out! The monster's speed was extremely fast, and it left its previous position before Jackson and the other wizard apprentices could react, leaving only a thin red line in everyone's eyes.
"Chase! This monster is definitely related to the withered forest!" A man covered in a gray robe whispered a few words in Jackson's ear, and Viscount Jackson immediately issued an order.
"The gray-robed man has been following Jackson since he was in Polar Night City. He should be a confidant, and he has a very powerful detection ability!"
Leylin narrowed his eyes, and scanned with the chip, "Does this body shape and appearance still have the fluctuations of a second-class apprentice? Interesting!"
"Quick! Follow up!"
Following Jackson's order, the soldiers of the Black Iron Guard immediately stepped forward, Jackson was in the center of the guard, and the gray-robed man followed closely behind.
The rest of the wizard apprentices glanced at each other, and Melfil was a little helpless: "Come on!"
Leylin purposely slowed down his speed and walked parallel to Melfield, "Do you have any guesses about that thing before?"
"It seems to be some kind of parasite! Judging from the strength of the parasite, the mother body has at least the level of a third-class apprentice, or even... an official wizard!" Melfil smiled wryly.
For official wizards, Leylin's team is not dangerous at all, just a few first-level witchcraft can wipe out Leylin and the others.
"Shouldn't be!" Leylin shook his head and said, according to the calculation of the chip, although the strength of the parasite is good, the main body is at most the energy intensity of a third-class apprentice peak, otherwise, Leylin would be the first to escape.
"It's just... a mere investigation mission, I chose it myself, and it actually involves creatures with at least the third-class apprentice difficulty, this luck..." Leylin didn't know what to say about himself.
I was also glad that I didn't come here alone, otherwise, if I didn't explode my ability in times of adversity like the protagonist in the previous life novel, I would only end up dead.
"Be careful, we are getting deeper and deeper, I can feel the strong negative energy in the air!"
A sorcerer's apprentice growled loudly.
For negative energy, Leylin's feelings are more obvious. After all, his major is the energy particles of the dark system, just like the plant and light systems pay more attention to the study of positive energy. The time is definitely much longer than ordinary people.
"It's almost comparable to the periphery of Black Bone Forest Academy, no wonder I feel like a fish in water!"
Leylin pulled up his collar to cover the smile on his lips.
bang! The sound of armor colliding sounded, and the team stopped suddenly.
"It's gone! The red monster, I saw it paused here, and suddenly disappeared!" Jackson drew out his long sword: "Be alert!"
The Black Iron Guards immediately formed a circle here, guarding Jackson and other wizard apprentices inside to guard against sudden attacks.
"This should be the core area of the withered forest!" Melfil stroked his beard.
"Here, some of the detection methods prepared earlier can be used!" Melfil took out a tube of black potion from his shirt, uncorked the bottle, and gently poured it on the ground.
Didi! !
After the black liquid medicine was poured on the ground, it turned into tiny ants, which kept crawling around.
After all the potions were used up, Leylin estimated that nearly ten thousand ants appeared in total.
"This level of detection can be called an all-round coverage search, and the parasite will hardly escape!" Leylin thought to himself.
Sure enough, after waiting for more than ten minutes, a black ant appeared at Melfeller's feet, and crawled along his clothes to Melfeller's ear, as if saying something next to his ear.
"I found it! Follow me!" Melfil followed the ant and led the team to a withered oak tree.
"Move this oak tree away!" Melfil pointed to the big tree, "According to my detection, there is a secret passage under this oak tree."
"Team one! Go!" Viscount Jackson waved his hand.
The guards in black armor immediately stepped forward, swung their spears, and stabbed at the oak tree.
The withered oak tree obviously couldn't bear this kind of attack, and many holes were pierced by the spear, and many sawdust flew into the air, as if it was snowing. Ten guards hurriedly moved the completely decayed oak tree away, revealing a dark hole.
"It's here!" Melfil's eyes lit up, and he chanted a few more spells.
Dense groups of black ants crawled from all sides and all entered the hole.
Suddenly, Melfil's face turned pale, his body fell backwards, and he almost passed out.
"What's the matter?" Leylin appeared behind Melfiler and helped him on the waist.
"There is a very dangerous creature in the cave, it wiped out all my little ones!" Melfil's face was very ugly.
"What should we do?" An apprentice asked, it seemed that he wanted to return to the city first.
"Prepare the torches!" Jackson waved his hand, "Let's go down and have a look!"
"Yes!" The guards carried out the task of the city lord very well, Leylin and the other wizards glanced at each other, and in the end they had no choice but to follow.
The entrance of the cave is relatively small, and adults need to bend over to get in, but the deeper it goes, the wider it becomes. Later, the guards can walk side by side and stand upright, even holding torches and not even reaching the top of the cave.
"Troublesome! Judging from the height of this cave, the body of that 'matrix' must not be too small." Leylin touched the skin on his waist. If he hadn't prepared a lot of hole cards, he might have left the team secretly.
After all, life is more precious to anger a city lord.
"Master Viscount! There are two forks in front!" A man who looked like a small captain reported to Jackson.
"I'll go and see!" Jackson stepped forward.
Leylin followed behind, and sure enough, there were two openings that were almost the same size in front of him. They were deep and deep, and when one looked down, there was only bottomless darkness, like a monster with its mouth open.
"The concentration of negative energy here is too high, and ordinary detection methods won't work!" The gray-robed man beside the city lord suddenly said.
"Call two people to scout the way!" Viscount Jackson frowned and issued an order.
"Let me do it!" Leylin suddenly stepped forward.
Now that he knows that the 'matrix' is extremely powerful, he doesn't want to lose his combat power in vain.
"Since Mr. Leylin is willing to make a move, that's the best!" Viscount Jackson smiled.
Leylin stepped forward a few steps and took out a piece of transparent crystal from his pocket.
"Gullstone-Jonatel!" With the sound of Leylin's incantation, a black vertical eye suddenly appeared in the crystal.
The vertical eyes are the same size as ordinary people, without the whites of the eyes, and the pure black pupils make people feel as if the soul is about to come out of the body.
"This is... the eye of negative energy!"
"A spell that only wizards who specialize in negative energy can use!"
The apprentices behind whispered, and looked at Leylin with more hostility and fear.
Wizards who specialize in negative energy, the zero-level spells they use are often more lethal, and they are more bloodthirsty and brutal, and they are generally representatives of dark wizards.
It is understandable that ordinary wizards show hostility.
Leylin had no intention of explaining to the people behind him, so he crushed the crystal with force.
The black vertical eyes split into two, and floated towards the two holes respectively.
As the vertical eyes entered the cave, Leylin's eyes gradually closed. Viscount Jackson stared at Leylin nervously. The whole team was silent, only the sound of the torches burning continued.
A few minutes later, Leylin opened his eyes: "In the cave on the left, there are only a few mutated lizard-like creatures, and at the end is a huge rock."
"As for the right side, I only know that it is a downward passage, and my spell was defeated after going deeper!"
"In this case, let's go down together!" Jackson pointed to the hole on the right.
The cave on the right was even darker and damper. Leylin touched the soil wall next to him, and saw a few moss-like things all over the wall, which was wet, "It's so damp!"
Leylin's heart moved slightly, his face remained unchanged, he took out a white towel from his bosom, and wiped his palms clean.
"I'm afraid it's very close to the lair of those monsters!"