Chapter 2416 Clusters of Leaf Ray

There were still a few scattered leaf rays left in the air, and they were all frightened, circling around the young mage, at a loss.

Joan whistled, and the thousands of sparrows under his control finally found a chance to take revenge, angrily twittering and pounced on the left-handed Ye Yu.

Ye Yu and Sparrow are like a strong man and a three-year-old child, they are not in the same weight class at all.

However, as the so-called "ants kill elephants more", the huge number is enough to offset the difference in individual strength, not to mention that this group of little sparrows are summoned creatures created by magic power, and they completely obey Joan's orders, fearing neither pain nor death.

Every lone leaf ray was surrounded by thousands of angry birds and frantically pecked and gnawed. In a blink of an eye, it was torn to pieces, and its corpse fell on the grass like pieces of green rags.

Qiao An turned into a bee-man form, and flew to the nearby corpse of a dilapidated leaf ray with the spirit net, shook the net bag, and issued a silent warning to the struggling leaf ray in the net bag:

Be smart, all of you, or this is what will happen to you!

There are a total of 24 leaf rays in the net bag. In the group form, they have the "brood will" whose intelligence is much higher than that of individuals. They can fully understand the threat of Qiao An, and they have become honest.

The lone leaf ray had been killed by the flock of birds. Joan waved his hand to disband the flock of birds, and activated the 8th-ring spell "Manipulate Plants" that came with the "Branch of Irminsur", transforming all the leaf ray in the net bag into The servants under his control, and then released them to take over the mission of the birds, searching the air for the windmill where Audrey and Hyrule were hiding.

Of course, the leaf ray inhabiting the "Wonderland of Oz" was not the only one captured by Joan. The other leaf ray were only focused on monitoring the foreign creatures that broke into the airspace, and they were not on guard against their own kind. Formed a group of "twenty-five boy".

The group of leaf rays under Joan's control wandered in the air, and the other leaf rays thought it was a routine patrol, so they didn't interfere.

Taking advantage of the swarms of Ye Yu to search for the mill, Joan pulled out a dagger to dissect the corpse of Ye Yu.

The leaves are as flexible as leather, and the symmetrically distributed veins inside are extremely tough, like the skeleton of a kite, which is an important organ that supports the leaf ray to fly in the air.

Joan cut the tail of the leaf ray longitudinally. The hollow tubular structure is filled with viscous and toxic tissue fluid, forming a simple hydraulic device. The structure inside the hook is similar to a bean pod, with two grain-like seeds inlaid.

According to the structure of the tail of the leaf ray, it is not difficult for Qiao An to imagine that they inject venom and implant seeds while stabbing their prey with their tail hooks.

The prey is paralyzed by the poison and loses its mobility. The leaf ray seeds in the body suck the flesh and blood of the host to germinate and grow until they mature and fly away from the host.

This typical parasitic reproduction method is more common in fungi and insects, such as Aedes wasps, while green plants rarely adopt this method to reproduce.

Qiao An suspects that the leaf ray not only needs to eat flesh and blood to supplement nutrition during the growth stage.

Although the mature leaf ray can perform photosynthesis, considering the poor energy conversion efficiency of photosynthesis, it is not enough to support the leaf ray to fly for a long time, and it is likely to need to hunt live animals regularly to replenish energy.

However, the leaf ray does not have feeding organs such as a mouth or mouthparts, so how to eat?

Joan's gaze once again fell on the tail of the scorpion ray, which had been cut in half. This hollow tubular organ was both the weapon and the ovipositor of the scorpion...could it also serve as a mouthpart?

The thought sent a chill through him.

It is not surprising that biological organs have evolved multiple functions, but from a human point of view, the leaf ray integrates many important functions such as eating, drinking, laying eggs, fighting, etc., into one fallopian tube, which is convenient. Too decent, not for a lady.

Suddenly, Joan thought of many interesting questions.

Do Leaf Rays Flower?

Judging from the location of the seeds, if the leaf ray blooms, wouldn't the flower buds grow on the tail?

Monoecious or dioecious?

Self-pollination or cross-pollination?

Does the leaf ray, which can fly freely, still need insects as a pollination medium?

These issues require further research before conclusions can be drawn.

Qiao An looked up at the swarms of leaf rays circling in the air, feeling deeply that his trip was not in vain.

At this time, Joan received a telepathy from the will of the brood of the leaf ray swarm, informing him that he had found the windmill mill, which was less than two miles away from the pond in the forest where he was.

Joan ordered the swarms of Ye Yu to lower their flight altitude, lead the way in the air against the crown of the tree, and activate the "Soul Transformation Art" attached to the Styx robe by themselves, transforming into an incorporeal ghost form, floating through the dense forest, and following the swarm of Ye Yu ray straight Walking forward, within a quarter of an hour, you will see a windmill covered with green vines erected on the opposite hillside.

At this time, Joan received an alarm from "Branches of Irminsur". There were many large supernatural plants growing around the hillside, and their life levels were not low!

Joan used telepathy to order the ray ray to land on the windmill in groups to guard the mill, while he maintained his incorporeal form and floated towards the hillside.

The supernatural plants detected by the "Branches of Irmin Sur" are the "man-eating plants" mentioned in Hailar's letter not long ago. They are interspersed with roots in the forest. Pulling out the roots, it swiftly pounces on its prey.

The man-eating plant is actually a terrestrial close relative of the "big flytrap". It also has broad, powerful, pod-shaped leaves with serrated edges. The inner side of the leaves is pink and covered with a layer of sweet and fragrant oily secretions. As bait to lure prey.

These piranhas are in the flowering period. The fist-sized buds burst into five brown petals, forming a five-pointed star shape, and light brown dust is released from the stamens.

After Joan returned to the physical form, he immediately smelled the sour smell wafting in the wind, and his eyes were stinging from the pollen.

Hailar once mentioned in a letter that the pollen of the man-eating grass is highly corrosive, and Joan is still not sure whether this acidic pollen cloud has supernatural properties.

If the pollen was just an ordinary acidic substance, it would not be able to cause harm to incorporeal creatures. Joan could transform into a ghost form and float directly past the man-eating grass.

Conversely, if the pollen cloud of the man-eating grass is a supernatural weapon similar to the "acid mist technique", then even if Joan is in an incorporeal form, it is still possible to be corrupted by the pollen.

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Scouting target: Very large supernatural plant × 35

Life Level: Level 13

Attributes: Strength 29, Dexterity 10, Constitution 18, Intelligence 3, Wisdom 11, Charisma 6

Special Abilities: Plant Traits, Tremor Sense, Jungle Camouflage, Immunity to Acid Erosion, Acidic Pollen Cloud, Other (Unidentified)

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