Chapter 1335 The Mystery of Petrification

As soon as he walked out of the cave, Joan saw Nicholas, Bafra and Peter walking towards him.

Peter recovered well. It seems that the blood of the cockatrice can also undo the petrification caused by the mythical cockatrice. This unintentionally provided a set of experimental data for Joan and Medea's scientific research projects.

Medea truthfully told Nicholas and others what she saw in the cave.

Knowing that there are still some remaining cockatrices in the cave, Nicholas and Peter intend to take the opportunity to eliminate future troubles forever, but Bafra does not agree to kill them all, and promises to regularly monitor the dynamics of the cockatrices and strictly control the size of the group.

Considering that the mythical cockatrice has been captured and most of the cockatrices have been killed, it is already very difficult for the remaining cockatrices to survive in this mountain forest infested with beasts and snakes. Fulla's strict monitoring is unlikely to expand to the original group size, let alone pose a threat to the villages along the railway line, so everyone accepted Miss Druid's suggestion and did not kill all the cockatrices to avoid causing damage to the local ecology. The environment deteriorated unexpectedly.

On this trip, Joan and Medea captured a pair of male and female cockatrices, 20 eggs, and a mythical cockatrice. The harvest far exceeded expectations.

With the help of Joan, Medea and Ruby, Nicholas, Peter and Bafra solved a major hidden danger that threatened the railway and the village, and they were all in a good mood. After thanking Joan and the three, they invited them back to Gudi Village as a guest.

Considering that there are several cockatrices with her, and the mythical cockatrice that Ruby parasitizes, it is a bit scary. After consulting Joan and Ruby, Medea politely declined the invitation, and here Say goodbye to Nicholas and the others, perform teleportation, and take Joan, Ruby, and the captured cockatrice directly back to the underground world.

After returning to the "Palace of Silence", Medea opened up a stone room next to the unicorn breeding room as a place to raise and hatch cockatrices.

Joan was not idle either, and made a "sunlight mirror" and installed it on the ceiling of the chicken farm to provide the cockatrice with the indispensable light for growth and development at regular intervals.

After finishing the work on the chicken farm, Joan and Medea collaborated on a series of research on the cockatrice in the next week.

By dissecting the corpse of the cockatrice, Joan discovered that this magical beast did have "crops" and "sand sacs" similar to poultry, and that the gizzards of the cockatrice were stronger than ordinary poultry, and could petrify the swallowed animals. The substance is ground and nutrients are absorbed from it.

Of course, only adult cockatrices possess this powerful digestion ability, and the cubs can only eat fresh flesh and plant seeds, and are omnivores just like chickens.

The focus of Joan and Medea's research is the toxin extracted from a special gland in the cockatrice's throat.

When the cockatrice bites its prey, the capillary connected with its beak is subjected to hydraulic pressure to automatically inject the toxin secreted by the gland mixed with saliva into the prey. The external manifestation of the toxin attack is the rapid calcification of the flesh and blood around the wound until into hard minerals.

The petrochemical function of the cockatrice is exactly the same as the unicorn rabbit that Joan and Medea had studied before, except that the petrochemical toxin of the cockatrice is more toxic than the same substance secreted by the unicorn.

After the two petrochemical toxins invade the blood circulation system of the creature, they will continue to cause calcification of the body. From a macro perspective, it means that the agility attribute of the creature is continuously reduced by the toxin, and when the agility attribute is reduced to zero, the creature will also be Completely petrified.

Joan and Medea extracted the toxins of the unicorn rabbit and the cockatrice respectively, and used moth rats and goblins as experimental subjects to compare the changes in agility attributes over time after injecting different toxins under the monitoring of "advanced internal vision". change data.

After processing these data and performing regression analysis, two sets of curves can be obtained...

From the experimental data, the unicorn venom causes 1 point of agility damage every 6 seconds on average, and the cockatrice venom causes 1 point of agility damage every 3 seconds on average.

From this, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: the petrochemical efficiency of the cockatrice is equivalent to twice that of the unicorn rabbit.

Joan and Medea followed the same method to collect the saliva of the mythical cockatrice, and used alchemy techniques to separate the toxin from the saliva to verify the petrification effect caused by the toxin.

The experimental results show that the poison of the mythical cockatrice is similar to that of the common cockatrice, but the poison is more violent, causing an average of 1 point of agility damage per second, which is equivalent to three times that of the common cockatrice and six times that of the unicorn!

Qiao An collected the mythical cockatrice toxins left over from the experiment, and used "Secondary Supernatural Workmanship" to seal them into capsules as the material for "Poison Strike". This is equivalent to strengthening the third-level "Poison Strike" into a poor man Version of "Petrochemical Technique" - You know, the genuine "Petrochemical Technique" is a spell up to level 6!

In addition to causing petrification through biting, the mythical cockatrice also has a petrification ability with a completely different mechanism of action, which is "petrification aura".

When the mythical cockatrice activates a "mythical power", it can activate the "petrification aura", causing creatures within a 30-foot radius around it to continuously suffer from agility damage until the agility attribute returns to zero, turning into a stone statue.

The efficiency of "Petrification Aura" inflicting agility damage is similar to the bite attack of the mythical cockatrice. As long as the creature is within the range of the aura radiation and its constitution is not strong enough to resist the erosion of the petrification aura, it will lose an average of 1 per second. Click on the agility attribute.

The agility attribute of ordinary humans is around 10 points, and under the influence of the "petrified aura", they will turn into stone statues in just ten seconds.

In a real battle, it doesn't take as long as ten seconds at all. When a person's agility attribute drops below 5 points, he is basically a disabled person who cannot take care of himself.

"Petrochemical Aura" is undoubtedly the most terrifying of all the supernatural petrification abilities that Joan and Medea have studied so far.

Because it can petrify a large group of targets at the same time, its power is even greater than the "Petrified Gaze" of the Gorgon and the Petrified Lizard.

Now there is a puzzle that confuses Joan and Medea.

The "petrification aura" of the mythical cockatrice does not look like a "toxin" effect no matter how you look at it, that is to say, it has nothing to do with the mode of the mythical cockatrice or even the common cockatrice spreading toxins through biting to cause petrification. Instead, it is closer to the "petrified gaze" of the Gorgon.

The question is, how could a creature like the mythical cockatrice possess two completely different petrochemical modes at the same time?

This phenomenon does not seem to be in line with the general law of biological evolution in the Vales world.

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