our family is gone

"It's actually linked. If I hadn't gone to the bay first, I might not have thought of this. If I hadn't found the manuscript, I might not have been able to do anything even if I knew it."

Lance had a strange feeling, like a math problem that he couldn't solve even after thinking hard, and suddenly found that he had seen the answer.

There is a special pleasure in exploring and researching, especially when you don’t know when the harvest will suddenly be useful.

After thinking about it, Lance began to feel happy and focused on the den again.

The original perspective of sweeping became exploration and research, and the mentality also changed.

The cave must contain the ancestor's research results, and he may find more interesting things.

The red bottle is showing signs, but what about the blue bottle?

In addition to the long preparation time, what restricts the caster's strength is spiritual restlessness and spiritual consumption.

The first two can be compensated for by rituals and equipment. For example, Alhazred can suppress negative effects by holding [Purifying Coral].

But your spirituality is not enough, so it is easy to over-consume. For example, Amanda was seriously injured and fell into a coma in order to fight against the deep diver's storm.

If a blue bottle can be produced, the strength of the spell caster will no longer be constrained by these conditions, just like Lance himself who has a steady stream of spiritual spell casting.

The ancestor has done so much research, there is definitely something good.

With this fantasy in mind, Lance continued to go deeper, but I'm afraid he didn't expect that he would encounter an even more terrifying scene ahead...

When he walked in the empty and deserted passage, the air was no longer the result of the fermentation of excrement and rotting corpses, plus some indescribable and bizarre smells.

Instead, it has an obvious stale smell, like the smell of a dusty basement that has not had air circulation for a long time and is suddenly opened one day.

Logically speaking, this is the state that this abandoned ancient sewer should be in, but due to the strong "influence" of the beast cave, Lance actually felt that this was abnormal.

As the fire continues to advance, repeated scenes appear in front of you. The feeling of hollowness and silence may have an impact on people's psychology.

But he is Lance who has wandered into the bay alone. What scene has he not seen before? He has never been afraid if he can step firmly on the ground.

Just when he turned the corner and the light of the torch shone into the new space, he was completely stunned.

I've never seen this before!
What comes into view is... mouthparts, limbs, connective tissue and bones - a large pile of convulsing and deformed remains like a mountain, fused together in the terrifying darkness...

It is like a carpet covering the entire passage, stretching all the way into the darkness, and even the end can't be seen at a glance. In front of it, the hugeness of the Pig God seems to have become a joke.

There are only a few cases where the mutation is not so serious and the shape can be roughly discerned.

There is a huge pig head, and in fact the whole thing has been severely mutated and integrated into it.

It is filled with irregular purple-black eyeballs, and the pig's mouth opens to reveal its sharp and disorderly growth, complex interlaced teeth, and an astonishingly long pointed tongue hanging down like a tentacle.

There is no concept of a torso at all. What is connected to the pig's head is fused flesh and blood, in which the eyeballs, mouth, ears, and all other inexplicable things are crumpled into a ball.

In addition to the pig's head, there is also the exaggerated erected spine, which is adhered with flesh and blood, but the stark white bones are exposed. It is difficult to imagine how it can remain active, but there is no doubt that it is alive!
Because the spine is swaying with the rhythm of flesh and blood, the joints are no different from normal ones.

Also connected to the spine is the disorderly growth, deformed and twisted flesh and blood.

The blood vessels that are even thicker than the thighs show an attractive bright red color, and even smaller veins protrude like veins on them.

Of course, there are also weird eyeballs on it that I can't get rid of no matter what.

Thick blood vessels penetrated the flesh and blood, pumping hot blood rhythmically to supply nutrients to the flesh and blood.

What's even more weird is the inverted pig body. The head is inserted into the flesh and blood, and there is a pile of chaotic flesh and blood, but the back half becomes extremely weird.

There were actually outer tentacles on the butt that were similar to the head of a sea anemone. The weird look reminded Lance of a standing sea anemone that was swaying slightly with the current, because this thing was really squirming.

Although they know that flesh and blood is just a form to them and actually has no meaning, this thing is like installing a sea anemone head on a pig's butt, it really opens the door to the chrysanthemum.

The even more terrifying scene looked very bizarre even to Lance, who had mastered the power of flesh and blood.

Because the flesh and blood is not restricted to the body, it may still be a pig's head at that position for a second, but when the flesh and blood changes, it becomes a tail.

One word to describe it is "flowing water". It is moving and constantly changing, as if it has no body.

A large number of human and pig organs, limbs and bones were mutated and twisted into indescribable parts. Those limbs were twitching, their mouths were still opening and closing, and their eyeballs were even blinking...

These layers of stacked flesh are constantly twitching, squirming, hissing, and snorting. It can be said that basically every piece of deformed flesh seems to be showing vitality.

Compared with the corrupt pig-man god, the vitality displayed by the monster in front of him is really surprising.

It seems as if it can feel that it keeps getting more and more, until it takes over the entire world.

Invisible flesh and blood!
This thing was even more heinous than described - a horrific mass of fragmented organs, limbs and bones!
In fact, it is the result of the ancestor's research waste being "come alive" under the strange power. The various mutated organs and limbs are evidence of his crazy experiments.

Just seeing it from a distance, Lance felt an instinctive nausea in his heart.

It's the brain urging itself on, crawling, twisting and expanding... This creepy thing must be destroyed!

but not now.

Lance couldn't help but take a step back, turned on the fire, and let the darkness cover the crazy scene again.

This is a kind of mental pollution, or the scene in front of you is beyond the scope of human understanding. Ordinary people may fall into madness after just one glance.

Just after spying on that thing, even Lance needed a while to suppress the desire for destruction in his mind.

That's why Lance has been instilling a philosophy in them.

Calmness and reason are human beings' strongest weapons.

Only if the will is strong enough can one fight against madness, otherwise one will run away, go crazy, or even surrender before fighting. If that's the case, no matter how powerful the person is, it will be a joke.

Lance forced himself to calm down and reorganize the information he had obtained so far.

Now I finally understand why the pigs did not occupy the sewer corresponding to the ruins, but instead dug into the wilderness.

The reason is simple. Those pigs were driven out by this invisible flesh and blood. The fragments found along the way are also traces left behind after being devoured by invisible flesh and blood. As for the flesh and bones?
Don't you think that invisible flesh and blood really grows so big by eating air?
We have become part of it long ago and are truly indistinguishable from each other.

This is why Lance is unwilling to start solving the invisible flesh and blood now.

It's not that he can't be beaten, no matter how much flesh and blood he has, it is just sacrificial material for Lance.

But now the pigs are being eliminated. If you clean up the invisible flesh and blood, it will open a passage to deeper places for the pigs.

You must know that underneath Hamlet is an ancient god of flesh and blood!
If a "pig's foot" really runs into the depths according to the script, no one knows what will happen. The ancestor will definitely not mind supporting the "new pig man" to fight against Hamlet.

It is the most reasonable thing for Hamlet at this stage to leave invisible flesh and blood to block the sewers and completely eliminate the pigs before seeking to solve them.

But Lance needs to evaluate the invisible flesh and blood. He wants to see what is going on with this thing?
The various organs on this thing are not in vain. The fire just now has actually disturbed the invisible flesh and blood. This thing seems to have the instinct to devour all organic matter, squirming, slowly but firmly trying to get closer.

That way even an eighty-year-old man can be faster than it, but don't be fooled, Lance can feel the power contained in those flesh and blood.

Once you get close, the abnormal limbs above will attack at any time.

Since it was a test, damage was inevitable, so Lance took out his musket and fired casually.

After the roar of the bullet, a ball of blood burst out on the flesh and blood. From the torn wound, you can see the softness of the invisible flesh and blood, as if it were fresh.

But the wound disappeared in an instant, and it was not even clear whether it was hiding the wound by squirming or whether it healed on its own.

At such a size, a gunshot wound was not even as good as a mosquito bite. To see clearly, a larger wound would have to be made.

Just when Lance was about to take action, there was a sudden movement in the passage, which made Lance alert and quickly withdrew to the side, and the torch was extinguished.

Because he could clearly hear sounds that were not human activities.

Sure enough, within a few seconds, the figure of the Flesh Devourer rushed out of the darkness, and what was even more surprising was that there was not one, but four.

Two of them were larger than their companions, and they also had carapace and bone spurs growing on their backs.

Lance, who was hiding in the dark, recognized that it was a large flesh-devourer that evolved from the flesh-devourer he had seen before.

The gunshots just now must have alerted them, but how did this thing come so fast? And there are so many?
And the moment he was slightly distracted, he saw four Devourers killing the invisible flesh very directly.

I didn't even see any stop, the purpose was very clear.

The moment he pounced on it, the mouthparts full of fangs like a millstone bit it, and the outer fangs tightened in circles, directly swallowing the flesh and blood.

The tines on the outer ring bite into the flesh and are responsible for fixing it. This appearance reminds Lance of a leech attached to the human body.

The special structure of the mouthparts bites tightly and swallows flesh and blood. The only pity is that the bones still need time to dissolve.

The large ones are even more ferocious, evolution has brought more powerful strength, and the chewing effect is even more terrifying. You can hear the clear sound of bones being crushed by mouthparts.

But just like what Lance said just now, if the invisible flesh and blood were really so harmless, they wouldn't have beaten the pigmen away.

That is to say, the first wave of Devourers was caught off guard, and soon the deformed flesh and blood reacted.

The spine that stood up in the invisible flesh and blood swung violently and hit the flesh-devourer head-on.

Spine sweep!

The bones on it were like steel under the huge force. When it hit the body, it not only shattered the body, but also inserted bones into the inside.

With just one blow, half of the flesh-devourer's body was smashed, and he finally couldn't bear it anymore and let go of his mouthparts.

But it was calculated that the other was even more unlucky.

The pig's head controlled by flesh and blood suddenly emerged from the changing flesh and blood, opened its bloody mouth and bit one.

Eaten alive!

The power of the pig's mouth full of fangs was no worse than that of the Devourer. The thick and tough skin did not play any more role. It was bitten off and the body as thick as a bucket was divided into three sections.

One section was still biting flesh and blood, one section was twisted on the ground like a severed tail, and another section was in the pig's mouth, which was swallowed in two or three mouthfuls.

Soon, the part bitten on it was swallowed up by the wriggling flesh and blood, becoming a part of the invisible flesh and blood, and at the same time, it was declared dead.

The invisible flesh and blood killed two Devourers with just a slight counterattack, and this was only a small part of the endless flesh and blood, maybe not even the toes.

But the other two evolved large devourers resisted the attack of those deformed limbs.

The hardened carapace on the back resisted the force of the spine and it wasn't a big problem. It made a muffled sound when it collided with the bones, and it didn't break the defense at all. The sharp bones directly cut open when they hit it.

Even if the other bit the pig's head, it would only make a tooth-piercing squeezing sound. Unfortunately, several of the canines were broken, and the effect was not even as good as the spine.

Even the spikes on the carapace scratched and pierced the pig's head. Although this thing was not restricted to the body, it was still injured.

Now Lance understood why evolution gave birth to carapace and spikes. It turned out to be a survival mechanism for specific defense.

When the main body is bitten, the fragile back is exposed, and the effect can be seen by comparing the effects now.

Just rely on your back armor to resist. No matter what you do, I will devour flesh and blood anyway.

The creation is finished.

But the problem is that you only protect the back, and there is no armor in other parts. Flesh and blood are invisible. If you don't come, it will go.

A large Devourer was hit several times on the spine just now. Although it did not penetrate the back armor, the force of the blunt blows could be transmitted to the head through the back armor.

The fierce blow made it dizzy, and it was forced to give up continuing to devour, but chose to retreat.

The other one resisted the bite of the pig's head and stayed instead. Unfortunately, this "tenacity" would cost it its life.

The invisible transformation of flesh and blood surged up directly and pulled the large devourer into the flesh and blood...