Mage Joan

Chapter 1068 Underground Bug Lair

The nest built with blood moss and mucus has a perfect geometric shape and a solid shell, which reminds Joan of swallows who collect branches to build their nests.

From this point of view, the reason why the owner of the cave collected a large amount of blood moss was not necessarily to eat all of it, but a large part was used as building materials for building the nest.

However, a safe cave has already been dug, so why build another nest in the cave?

With doubts, Joan remotely controlled the blood mosquito, landed on the edge of the nest, peeked inside, and found that the bottom of the nest was covered with a layer of soft blood moss, like a blanket, with more than ten feet-long eggs scattered on it, hard gray Shell, covered with dark red markings.

"Eggs?"

Joan muttered to himself.

After thinking for a while, he changed into a bee man form and flew into the cave with wings flapping.

"Brother Joan, wait for me!"

Belling quickly jumped down, and under the protection of the "Feather Falling Technique", he landed lightly and safely.

Joan waited for the dwarf mage to follow, and then walked towards where the blood mosquito was.

Both of them had dark vision, so they didn't need to cast lighting spells, and soon came to the bottom of the cave, in front of the hemispherical lair.

Belling looked up at the edge of the nest which was much higher than himself, with a curious gleam in his eyes.

Joan vibrated the bee wings, dragged Bellin into the nest, and landed on the flat bottom, feeling like being in a bath.

Belling ran over, picked up an egg with both hands, looked it up and down, then turned to Joan and asked, "Brother, we should hatch these eggs and see what they look like."

Joan also has the same plan, but having said that, it is not a pleasant experience to be treated as a "mother" by a newly hatched giant worm, or as a target of attack.

For safety's sake, let's wait and see.

There are a total of 17 unknown eggs in the nest, Belling just needs one is enough to satisfy curiosity, and the remaining 16 eggs are put into the backpack by Joan.

There was nothing else worth studying in the cave, so Joan dragged Bellin and flew out.

Joan introduced the situation in the cave to the other companions, and the five continued on their way.

Walking forward for about an hour along the road that the mysterious giant worm came out of, the originally smooth and straight road suddenly became messy, with broken blood moss scattered on the road, and liquid traces similar to blood.

Qiao An and the others stopped at the same time, exchanged glances with each other, each held their weapons and stepped up their guard.

Step lightly and explore forward vigilantly. The messy traces seen along the way are becoming more and more obvious. It seems that someone has fought fiercely here.

Turning over the bloody mossy slope, Belling, who was walking at the front, stopped in astonishment, then turned around and shouted excitedly.

"Everyone, come and see! New information has been discovered!"

Joan rushed up to the top of the slope quickly, looked in the direction pointed by Belling, and vaguely saw a huge red caterpillar lying motionless among the bloody mossy pile of stones.

With a thought, Joan remotely controlled the blood mosquito and flew around the huge caterpillar that was more than ten feet long. After confirming that the monster had already passed away, he bravely walked over and inspected the corpse of the giant caterpillar.

Obviously, this big red-haired worm was the owner of the previously discovered burrow, and it died here for some reason.

Joan didn't know the scientific name of this big bug, and there was no relevant record in the "Vares Monster Guide", so for the sake of convenience, he temporarily named it "Blood Moss" according to its habitat.

On the corpse of the blood moss, no less than ten scars can be clearly seen.

Judging from the outline of the scar, it looked like a whiplash, but there was a special sign that caught Joan's attention.

The flesh and blood near these welts showed obvious signs of decay, and the most serious parts had even turned into pus and blood, and the internal organs of giant insects could be faintly seen.

Comparing the part of the giant worm that has not been whipped, it is not difficult to find that the degree of decay near the whip marks is obviously very abnormal. It is more like being splashed with a strong corrosive acid than natural decay.

This giant worm seemed to be beaten to death by the enemy with a long whip attached to strong acid.

What kind of creature is it that kills the giant worm?

The scene where the giant worm died was probably also a place of dying fights. The only suspicious traces were many broken purple tubers scattered around.

Joan remotely controlled the "Mage's Hand" and grabbed a piece of purple mucus flowing. After careful observation, he suspected that it was the fruiting body of some kind of mushroom.

If these were the remains left by the killers of the giant worms, then they probably did not benefit themselves, and eventually died together with the giant worms.

Only with these shapeless fragments, Joan couldn't piece together its complete image, and he didn't even know how many people were on the other side of the fight.

Reluctantly throwing away the purple fragments, Joan continued to search, trying to find the whip weapon that killed the blood moss.

At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound from the tall mushroom bushes beside him, which immediately aroused his vigilance.

Joan immediately turned into a bee-man form, ready to take off to avoid the attack, and then looked in the direction of the abnormal movement.

A chubby head protruded from the forest-like mushrooms. Its ferocious face was almost exactly the same as the dead giant worm found earlier.

The most conspicuous organ on the entire face is the mouth that sometimes shrinks and sometimes expands in the center. Through the saliva, one can vaguely see the spirally arranged circles of sharp teeth inside the giant worm's mouth.

Joan had no doubt that the gear-shaped jaw of this monster could easily bite off any object close to the mouth.

Barely restraining the instinctive fear, Joan soared into the air, approaching the "big fleshy worm" that seemed to have bad intentions from above, and observed the pair of soft tentacles on the top of its head.

Under the action of body fluid pressure, the giant worm's antennae swing flexibly, like a snail, as if to detect odor particles in the air.

Joan also noticed that there was a button-shaped round protrusion under each of the giant insect's tentacles. At first he thought it was a pair of monocular eyes of the giant insect, but after a little observation, he found that there was no pupil at the top of the protrusion.

From this point of view, the eyes of this giant worm living in the dark region seem to have degenerated, and it mainly relies on sensitive tentacles to sniff the external environment.

While Joan was fascinated to observe the giant worm, the giant worm was also shaking its tentacles, spying on the group of uninvited guests on the opposite side. It was both curious and a little scared of these completely unfamiliar creatures.

The giant worm hesitated for a while, and finally moved forward vigilantly, slowly crawled out of the mushroom, and showed the whole picture in front of Qiao An.

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