Chapter 1005: Mushroom Man Field

The strength of the tentacle monster's biological magnetic field is limited after all, so the acceleration of the flight has an upper limit, and it is about the same as Joan's "eye of insight" drifting speed with all his strength.

Among the flying species in the underground world, the flying speed of the tentacle monsters is at the lower middle level, and it can't keep up with bats, so they are more willing to use the hunting method of ambush. If they take the initiative to attack, once the prey is alarmed, it will be difficult for them to catch up with the agile prey with their slow floating speed.

The second group of modules of "Electromagnetic Affinity" is very similar to the 3rd ring spell "Tremor Perception".

Tentacles have no eyes, but their skin is very sensitive to changes in the electromagnetic field of the outside world.

If a creature approaches the tentacle monster, as long as it has body temperature, it will definitely radiate infrared rays to the outside world, and infrared rays are actually a kind of electromagnetic wave, which can be captured by the complex and tiny biological sensors between the tentacle monster's skin texture, and then according to the heat The distribution of radiation is imaged in the brain, "seeing" the general outline of the creature.

The tentacle monster uses this "blindsight" electromagnetic perception ability to observe the outside world.

Due to the inaccuracy of thermal imaging, the tentacle monster's cognition of the outside world is also very vague. It only has an idea of ​​the shape and outline of the creature, and it is impossible to know the details of its appearance.

It is precisely because of this imprecise way of cognition that the tentacle monster cannot accurately analyze the differences between different individuals of the same type of creature. There is only one simple criterion for judging: small creatures are easy to hunt, and the ones that are too big are the best. Do not provoke.

This simple standard is barely applicable in a long-term stable ecological environment such as underground caves. However, once the environment changes, or alien invasive species break into their habitat, this rigid dogma will make the tentacle monsters commit fatal crimes. mistake.

Just today, based on this empirical dogma, the two tentacle monsters mistakenly regarded the four of them as easy prey for goblins, and they paid a heavy price.

The third group of modules of "Electromagnetic Affinity" is similar in configuration to the 3-ring spell "Protective Energy Barrier" that Joan just learned not long ago, and it is limited to the "Electric Energy" part.

This ability makes the tentacle monster immune to all natural or magical electric shock damage.

Hailar didn't know this in advance, and tried to bombard the tentacle monster with a "lightning beam", but a 3rd-level spell slot was wasted, and he was almost captured by the tentacle monster.

Comprehensively calculating the three characteristics of "levitation flight", "electromagnetic perception" and "immunity to electric shock", the supernatural ability "electromagnetic affinity" of the tentacle monster has an equivalent magic power level of about 15 degrees, which is equivalent to a 5-level spell. Among all the supernatural abilities that Joan has come into contact with, it can be regarded as the top-ranked powerful skill.

Joan copied the magic imprint of "Electromagnetic Affinity" into the spell book, and then made a specimen of the tentacle monster's corpse and put it in a backpack.

Putting away the dissection tools and stationery, Joan took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. The surface time was already one o'clock in the morning.

After a brief wash, Joan got into the tent and meditated for an hour as usual. Afterwards, he covered himself with a blanket, yawned a lot, and soon fell asleep.

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There is no sunrise and sunset in the dark area to provide reference for people's daily life. In such an environment for a long time, it is easy to lose the sense of reality and feel that the passage of time cannot be detected.

Fortunately, Joan and his companions still kept the rules of life in the surface world. They got up early the next day, washed and ate, put away their tents and continued on their way.

The four of them rode along the almost straight underground river. During the whole day, they were only accompanied by the undulating mushroom bushes on both sides of the river bank. The calmness was a bit boring.

When camping at night, Joan checked the itinerary map automatically recorded by the "navigation compass", and it was more than 40 miles away from the dwarf camp when he set off.

The expedition team traveled so far in just two days, thanks to the wide and flat terrain on both sides of the underground river and the absence of monster attacks on the way.

If they can maintain such a high efficiency in the future, they will be able to arrive at the "Blood Tundra" where Evelyn lives in seclusion at the evening of the day after tomorrow, and Holden will send a letter asking her to come and meet her.

On the third day of the underground exploration, according to the Gregorian calendar commonly used in the surface world, that is, on June 13, Joan and his party left the camp and continued to advance deep into the wilderness.

When it was almost noon, Joan and the others finally found a more active species of life in the mushroom jungle that they were tired of seeing. Although this thing can also be classified as a "mushroom", it can move anyway.

That's right, on the third day after the expedition team entered the "Field of Fungiman", they finally saw a living mushroomman.

These supernatural fungal creatures, when rooted in the soil, look like a clump of real mushrooms, but grow very tall, generally more than five feet tall.

According to the difference in the shape of the cap, mushroom people can be roughly divided into two types.

One type of head cap is umbrella-shaped, and the gills spread radially under the cap, similar to the common "basidiomycetes" in the surface world. There is another type of mushroom man with a small number, the cap is conical, and the surface is covered with irregular septa, forming many honeycomb grooves, which look very similar to the "morchella" of the "Ascomycetes" in the surface world.

However, when Joan and the others rode ground lizards and passed near the seemingly peaceful mushroom forest, the mushroom people mixed in the forest were disturbed, and they pulled out their legs from the soil, and the thick mycelium hanging on both sides of the stalk also disappeared. They raised up one after another—it turned out to be limbs similar to arms.

Joan and his party learned from the dwarf miners that the fungus clan is very xenophobic and does not welcome travelers to set foot in their territory, and even initiate attacks.

When the mushroom man was first spotted, everyone was a little nervous and prepared to fight.

However, they soon discovered that the mouth of the dwarf drunk was really unreliable.

The frightened mushroom man in the forest by the roadside did not show any hostility towards their group of uninvited guests. Instead, they seemed a little timid. They retreated to the depths of the forest one after another, only looking at them from a distance.

Qiao An was very curious about the physiological structure of the fungus man, so he performed the "mosquito finger technique", turning the tail finger of his left hand into a blood mosquito, and sent him to the forest where the fungus man was hiding to observe these fearful natives up close.

Joan let the ground lizard gallop forward with his companions, switched his perspective to the blood mosquito, and focused on observing the mushroom man. It was soon discovered that not only did they resemble human beings in outline, but under the cap, corresponding to the position of the human head, there was also an outline resembling a human face, complete with nose, eyes, and mouth.

However, after careful observation, Qiao An suddenly realized that the "faces" of the mushroom people were nothing more than embossed decorations.

The organs on their faces are all in shape. For example, the eyes are actually just two slits, or a pair of grooves. There is no eyeball inside, and of course they cannot see.

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