High Above

  Chapter 225 River of Parasites (43)

   "This form."

  Ian frowned slightly.

  He couldn't help but think of a parasite called 'Coloria trematode'.

It is a kind of parasitic snail, which makes the snail's eye stalks bulge and protrude, and constantly wriggles, attracting these snails to be eaten by birds... It can manipulate the snail's actions, making the other party go against its nocturnal normal, and go to it during the day High in the leaves, hunted by other creatures.

  Although they don't know what is going on with the parasites in the monitor lizard's body, this abnormal behavior does not conform to the usual behavior pattern of the blue-armored lizard.

   This vicious parasite can obviously affect the biological brain.

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

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

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

   Then he charged hard.

  Boom boom boom, the ground shook. Even if it is not a magical beast, the charge of the Cyan Armored Lizard is like a bull rushing. With the power transmission effect brought by the solid armor, even the overlord of the jungle, the sharp-clawed tiger, will temporarily avoid the edge.

  But accompanied by the sonorous buzzing of the long sword, Ian has already raised the sword and swung it out.

Before the sword arrived, a stream of water-based source material visible to the naked eye had condensed on the blade, and then turned into a materialized water blade that broke through the air and headed straight for the green-armored lizard with enough power to smash solid rocks. The head shot away.

  This water blade is not sharp, after all, it does not have a special constricting structure, but its power is extremely strong, it is like an invisible ram hammer.

When it hit the head of the blue-armored lizard, the skull, which was originally strong enough to crush the reef, and the impact horns disintegrated and shattered like crispy biscuits, and even the spine was deformed by the structure of the bombardment, and the bones were shattered inch by inch. ,

   With just this sword, Ian will behead the leader of the blue-armored lizard without even using the earth attribute essence that is really matched with the Abyss Iron Sword.

  —Who says a water knife can't kill without a blade?

  I feel that this water blade hammer has some potential for development...at least for heavy armor enemies.

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

Theoretically, after the father of the lizards is killed, his spouse and heirs should flee in all directions... Even enemies that cannot even be defeated by the leader are pure sentient beings, and the inheritance instinct in their bloodlines will not allow them to give up their lives it's here.

  However, the other five big and small blue-armored lizards did not back down at all after seeing Ian kill the big lizard.

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

   Immediately afterwards, just like the big lizard before, one after another, they rushed over without any coordination!

  For a moment, the roar of lizards charging was heard in the empty cave.

  Monitor lizards stepped on the blood of the lizard father, shaking the ground at the pace of the enemy's attack, looking extraordinarily tragic.

  And Ian just draws the sword, draws the sword.

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

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

  But he didn't relax. Instead, he immediately came to the corpse of the lizard group, bent down to observe the blue-black worms that were still wriggling in the other's broken head.

This is a kind of worm that is hard to see with the naked eye, but there are so many of them, and when they gather together, they form blue-black wriggling dots—these worms are actually dying and renewing constantly, and the blue ones are active , the black ones are dead bodies.

  Originally, the eyes of the green lizard 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 skin of the green-armored lizard turn black.

  The silver streamer swept over these bugs.

  【Massive Parasite Unnamed (South China Sea Relics Group)】

  【First Energy Level · Excellence】

  【The vicious parasites inhabiting the ecosphere of the underground ruins in the South China Sea need to live in suitable running water and living organisms. They mainly attack the biological cerebellum, frontal lobe and temporal lobe, and will replace their functions after being devoured. If the host dies or is out of the suitable environment, it will die soon】

  【Parasite through wound contact, 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, the data of the silver chip is not very much. Although the specific parasite size, energy level and microscopic modeling are also available, the information Ian really needs is very little.

   "Unnamed? Looks like I was the first to discover it."

  Standing up, Ian thought deeply: "The lizards are parasitized, probably because they have wounds in their mouths and stomachs—most of the wild animals 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 sublimated species. It is indeed easy to deal with ordinary monitor lizards of the incompetent level... If it is a sublimated person, even the spontaneous flow of source matter in the body can be contained. Tendency to live in parasitism."

The source quality flowing in the sublimator is a microscopic pure energy state structure, which can be coupled with organelles to allow the human body to "sublimate"—even nano-robots cannot be smaller than it, and it is really a problem to solve a parasite easy.

Ian waited patiently for another ten minutes, cut open the monitor lizard's body with his sword, and after confirming that most of the parasites deep in the flesh and blood 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 towards the whole body... a bit reckless, I should wait a little longer to see what these parasites look like when they mature."

  At this moment, the boy's expression was indifferent. He didn't feel uncomfortable because of the horror and nausea of ​​this parasite, but instead had a strong curiosity.

  Ian raised his head and looked towards the blue river.

  He observed closely, and found that it was just as he thought—in this azure blue river, all the tiny blue components were insect eggs and bug corpses...Although there were some mineral components, that was obviously not the main factor!

   This entire river is a river of parasites!

   "The upstream should be the lair of these bugs, right?"

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

   If it's just dangerous, it won't make Ian stop. Regardless of the terrifying appearance of this parasite, in fact, to him, taking a bath in the river has nothing to do with it.

  Having a silver chip and an ancient dragon core, even if he drank water full of parasite eggs like a giant lizard, he would not be infected because of this, but could turn them into high-quality protein.

  But there is no need to torture yourself like this if you have to say something—curiosity is a good thing, so there is no need to use it on it.

   What really made Ian fall into contemplation were actually the flickering 'parasites' hovering around the monitor lizard's eyes.

   This reminded him of a 'plague' that occurred in the colony on the back of the South Ridge six years ago.

   "Flicker disease?"

  The young man talked to himself, his tone was guarded: "Could it be that the flash mosquito disease that the aborigines spread in the past has something to do with this parasite?"

   I saw someone say that it was short and I didn’t think I’d read it, but the first 3 chapters today are considered an introduction plot, you can’t expect to kill random people or know everything right away as soon as you come out.

Because I am not happy with this kind of comment, I will add another chapter today (I don’t want you to read it all later, I am really annoying, every time I write a transition and import the plot, some people will read it madly), there are 9000 words today, I hope you don’t keep talking It's short, if you read it, it seems that you haven't read it. Any novel has its plot with turning points. I also pay attention to the description of the ruins. The plot of Sequoia Base is very important. I just pay attention to it, so I don't want to unfold it casually.

   I hope everyone has a happy Labor Day!

  (end of this chapter)