Chapter 1889 Bull's Eye Magic Lamp

Next it is the troglodyte witch doctor's turn to roll.

He tried his best not to show his complicated mentality of worrying about gains and losses, grabbed the dice, blew in his palm, prayed for the blessing of the ancestors, and then threw the dice.

The dice that fell into the jade plate jingled and bounced, attracting the attention of everyone present, and they all held their breaths.

Theoretically speaking, the troglodyte witch doctor has a 70% chance of rolling a number greater than 6, and the probability of winning is not low.

However, Goddess of Fate likes to joke about mathematical expectations. When the dice comes to rest, the number 4 is on the upside!

The Lizardman witch doctor was stunned, unable to believe it was true, as if his spine had been taken out, he collapsed on the ground, his face ashen.

The orc shaman's eyes widened in surprise, his hands and legs stopped shaking, and he puffed out his chest and cheered.

After the final verdict came out, all contestants except for the unlucky Zhanli people were very satisfied.

Joan's team, as the champions of this survival competition, won a bonus of 10 pounds of magic crystals, plus a magic lantern.

The bonus was divided equally between five people. As for the magic lantern, according to the usual practice, it was awarded to the member with the best performance in the team - Klein, Scholz, Gumoduo and Robin Hood agreed that it was none other than Joan!

In the past, Joan would definitely feel embarrassed. After two years of experience, he has made great progress in interpersonal communication and social experience, and his mentality has become more calm and confident, and he has learned to take the initiative to fight for the benefits he deserves.

Since everyone believed that he deserved this award, being too modest would be hypocritical, so Joan calmly accepted the bull's-eye lantern made of brass and cast a spell to identify it.

This "bull's-eye magic lamp" is a magic device made by Chief Gouno himself. It has constant "indestructible flame" and "seeing through invisibility". It can light up the lantern by chanting a mantra, and the light it emits illuminates the surrounding area. One hundred feet of space, with anti-hidden function.

If that's all, the "Bull's Eye Magic Lamp" is not qualified as the championship prize of the survival competition.

This magic lamp can also release the 8-ring "maze technique" once a day, forcing a designated target within the light range to be sent to the maze of another world.

Creatures that fall into the maze, if they are as smart as Joan and with a little luck, can escape the maze and return to their original place within a minute. But if the brain is not smart enough, or if the luck is not good, you have to wander in the maze for a longer time, staying for ten minutes at most, and be sent back by the maze.

Qiao An stroked this simple magic lantern, and suddenly had a wonderful idea.

Using the "bull's eye magic lamp", many show routines can be designed.

For example, activate the "maze technique" that comes with the magic lamp, forcefully remove the most threatening enemy from the battlefield, take the opportunity to eliminate other enemies that are easier to deal with, and then set a trap where the strong enemy originally stood, and wait for the opponent to escape from the maze and return to the battlefield. In situ, they often fall into the trap unsuspectingly.

In addition, the "maze technique" can also be cast on companions and even the caster himself, and escape into the maze at a critical moment to avoid enemy attacks, traps and even natural disasters.

After entering the maze, you can take refuge for up to ten minutes. During this period, you can heal your wounds and illnesses safely, cast spells to strengthen your combat power, and be free from external interference.

If you are worried that the enemy will stay in place to ambush, Joan can also use "Transportation from Another World" to escape from the maze, suddenly appear behind the enemy, and squat back with one hand!

Joan can devise many tactics like this, it all depends on how big his "brain hole" is...

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On the second day after the end of the survival competition, that is, on August 23rd, the surface time, Qiao An participated in the co-organization of friends from the Magic Crystal Mining Area, Rock Essence Camp, Underdark Region, Garden Township, and... Abyssal Snake Cave (dislike (`)) After the celebratory banquet, cast a spell and teleport back to Midgard University.

After living in the Underdark for two weeks, especially during the four days of participating in the maze race, Joan accumulated a lot of scientific research materials and came up with some new ideas. After returning to school, he put into work and wrote a review paper. The theme is tentatively set as "The Struggle for Survival in the Underdark".

Joan has already made a writing outline, and the first part is the background introduction as usual.

"Underdark" generally lacks light, vegetation, and water resources. Most areas are barren than deserts, and only a few strange creatures with special physiological structures can barely survive.

For most intelligent creatures, it is not easy to find a paradise in the underground world with resources that can sustain the reproduction of the population. If they occupy such a land of geomantic omen, it is the most important mission of the entire ethnic group to do their best to keep this land.

The harsh environment brings the pressure of survival, and the pressure of survival leads to intensified competition. In the cruel environment where survival is not guaranteed, morality has become a luxury. Therefore, Joan deeply feels that many mainstream morals and ethics in human society Concepts simply don't work in the underground world.

For a modern person living in a civilized society, when he observes the ecology of the Underdark region, his first impression is that "troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers".

This is not necessarily because the aborigines in the underground world are evil and cruel by nature. Living in such a severely introverted environment, there are only so many resources. If you don’t grab them, you will be robbed by others. None of them are good stubble.

In the surface world, there is actually no lack of fierce competition for survival, but relatively speaking, it is not as extreme and crazy as the Underdark, so Joan feels that the contemporary theories about the evolution of species in the Surface world are also applicable to the Underdark.

Qiao An decided to discuss the competition for survival in the Underdark from two dimensions, one is "natural selection" and the other is "artificial selection".

The so-called "natural selection", in short, is that species that are more adaptable to the environment are more likely to survive and continue, and vice versa are more likely to be eliminated.

After generations of screening and elimination, in order to adapt to the environment and survive, species often evolve some peculiar physiological functions or supernatural abilities, which is the result of "natural selection".

One example of natural selection that Joann focuses on in this paper is mimicry.

In the surface world, there are countless creatures that are good at using "mimicry" skills to hunt or avoid natural enemies, such as inchworms disguised as dead branches, dead leaf butterflies disguised as fallen leaves, and hoverflies disguised as wasps.

In the Underdark, creatures proficient in "mimicry" also abound. Some creatures are also good at using supernatural powers to enhance camouflage, and their mimicry skills are even more exquisite than their counterparts in the surface world.

As far as the underground creatures Joan has come into contact with in this survival competition, there are not a few who are good at "mimicry".

For example, the "dark monster" that hangs upside down on the dome of the cave and disguises stalactites, the "hibernation pseudo-monster" that looks like a gray cloak, the "rope monster" that is disguised as a stalagmite, the "gargoyle" that pretends to be a sculpture, and of course still The "Gray Stone Man" that looks like a boulder when it's not moving.

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