Chapter 1001 Tentacle Monster (Ⅱ)

Joan was very satisfied with the effect of "Charming Stranger". While his companion was cleaning the battlefield, he briefly communicated with the tentacle monster he had been charmed by through a telepathic connection, and found that the tentacle monster's thinking was very simple.

In the cognition of the tentacle monster, all creatures in the world can be classified into three categories: those that can be eaten, those that cannot be eaten, and those that cannot be messed with.

Tentacle monsters show no mercy when attacking those "eatable" creatures, but they always hide carefully when encountering natural enemies that they can't afford.

Even with such simple cognitive concepts, occasional lapses in judgment occur—as in today's encounter.

In the concept of the tentacle monster, all creatures that look similar, except for differences in physical strength due to different age groups, the difference in strength will not be too great.

For example, in the tentacle monster family, all individuals have similar combat effectiveness after they mature. This tentacle monster can't deal with a powerful enemy, but if it is replaced by another tentacle monster, it still can't deal with it.

Any intelligent creature has a way of thinking that pushes itself and others, and the tentacle monster is no exception.

The tentacle monster captured by Joan has hunted and killed humanoid creatures more than once. Those gnomes and goblins living in the underground world are all classified as "edible" by it. When hunting such creatures, there is no Encountered too many threats.

According to its own situation and past hunting experience, the tentacle monster has reason to conclude such a "truth" that it thinks is generally applicable:

All humanoid creatures have similar strength, so they can be hunted boldly with confidence.

However, today's encounter has completely overturned the law it has inferred from experience.

The tentacle monster still can't figure it out until now. Joan and the other explorers from the surface world obviously look the same as those humanoid creatures that he has easily hunted before, but why the combat effectiveness is so different?

The questions circling in the tentacle monster's mind made Joan laugh.

These strange creatures living in the closed underground space have limited knowledge. They neither understand what an "extraordinary profession" is, nor do they understand the highly developed human civilization, which makes the gap between human individuals immeasurably large.

The tentacle monster's way of thinking is wrong in trying to generalize general laws by observing a few samples, which reminds Joan of a rather ironic fable.

A wise man among a group of turkeys concluded a rule based on long-term observation: every morning at eight o'clock, there must be food falling from the sky.

The wise man announced his discovery to other turkeys, and believed that behind this rule, there must be an eternal and unchanging truth in the universe.

However, at eight o'clock in the morning on the second day when it discovered the truth, what fell from the sky was no longer food, but the big hand of the owner of the chicken farm grabbing the wise man's neck, and the butcher's knife clenched in the other hand...

After laughing, Qiao An suddenly shuddered.

The tentacle monsters have extended the conclusion that all humanoid creatures are vulnerable only through the experience of hunting subterranean gnomes and goblins. Generalization?

Isn't he a self-proclaimed smart person who has been making the same mistakes as the tentacle monster? At best, he is a "wise man among the chickens"?

What disturbed Joan the most was that he suddenly realized a terrible fact: In the real world, the induction method can never come up with an absolutely credible truth.

This means that his past scientific research methods are likely to be fundamentally unreliable. However, apart from induction, what other ways can people seek the truth?

Qiao An couldn't answer this question, so he had to give up thinking for the time being, and turned to "advanced inner vision" to check the physical attributes of the tentacle monster.

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Scouting Target: Tentacles (supernatural creatures, aberrations)

Health status: Weak

Attributes: Strength 15, Dexterity 14, Constitution 13, Intelligence 6, Wisdom 11, Charisma 9

Supernatural Ability: Electromagnetic Affinity

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What does "electromagnetic affinity" mean? Joan wondered secretly.

He was about to have an in-depth discussion with the tentacle monster when Hailar's call came from behind him.

"Joan, here is a dead tentacle monster corpse, do you want to make a specimen and bring it back to school?"

"Okay, I'll take care of the body."

Joan turned around and walked over to his companion, and cast a 3-ring "reduction technique" on the corpse of another tentacle monster, and then stuffed the corpse, which had shrunk down to the size of a leather ball, into a travel backpack specially used to collect ore and biological specimens.

"There is still a live tentacle monster, what are you going to do with it?" Holden came over and asked.

"My 'Mosquito Finger Technique' is about to reach its time limit. Instead of casting a spell to create a new blood mosquito, why don't we let the tentacle monster explore the way ahead and act as a guide for us."

Blood mosquitoes are too fragile to be good spies, but not very suitable as scouts for exploring the Underdark.

Not to mention any powerful monsters encountered, just bats flying in groups in the dark, they are terrible natural enemies for blood mosquitoes, and they are swallowed by bats if they are not careful.

Compared with the blood mosquito, the tentacle monster's survivability is obviously much stronger, and it also has the ability to fly, so it is more suitable as a scout for the expedition team.

After introducing his plan to his companions, Joan took a "synesthesia" on the tentacle monster that was charmed by him, letting it explore the way ahead.

The tentacle monster swings its ten tentacles, like a huge scouting balloon, slowly floating up in the dark vault.

Ten minutes later, the tentacle monster had risen to the top of the cliff, suspended in the air and hovered slowly.

Through the senses of the tentacle monster, Joan confirmed that there were no other dangerous creatures above, and then turned back to his companion and nodded, indicating that he could continue on his way.

The only exit from the umbilicus is a thousand yards above the ground.

Joan originally wanted to transform into an eagle and fly up, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was no need to waste spell slots, so he used the supernatural ability of "Blood Transformation" to become a giant bee.

Hailaer and Zion's siblings had already heard that he was infected with "worm disease", but this was the first time they saw him in the form of a giant bee. They were very curious and rushed to touch his wings and antennae It made him tickle.

Hyrule and Holden both have the ability to fly, but Audrey has a bit of difficulty—her Pegasus "Lafayette" is a tsundere girl who doesn't like to fly in dark and closed environments.

Seeing Audrey's concerns, Joan flicked her wings and motioned for Her Royal Highness to ride on his back and carry her across the cliff.

"My suit of armor is not light, can you carry it?" Audrey asked worriedly.

Qiao An couldn't speak when he became a giant bee, so he shook his tentacles, and his pair of huge black-gold compound eyes showed a confident expression, promising to escort Her Royal Highness across the thousand-yard cliff safely.

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