Chapter 2845 Two Adams

"At that time, I told my assistants that I would stop feeding the tadpoles in the future, as it would save a lot of money to buy fresh brains. As for the tadpoles still in the pool... I said with resentment, let them Let them fend for themselves! Raising them in vain for so many years, but with no results, is quite interesting!"

Dr. Saul went on to tell the two visitors how Adam was born in the laboratory.

"The pool was blocked like that, I turned my attention to other projects, and it didn't take long for me to forget about it."

"About more than half a year later, an assistant came to me in a hurry, saying that he was passing by the brain pool on the third floor, and heard strange movements by accident. When he got closer, he couldn't help being startled, so he rushed to report to me."

"I was also very curious after hearing this, so I ran to the third floor with my assistant, lifted the seal, and took a closer look at the pool. I was surprised to find that there were still some tadpoles surviving in the pool, and they were killing each other."

"Since I have run out of food, these little creatures have been locked up in the pond and have suffered from hunger. They are so hungry that they can only prey on their companions to satisfy their hunger, and use the lives of their brothers in exchange for their own chances of survival."

"Once this phenomenon of cannibalism appears, it will cause other tadpoles to follow suit, and quickly spread throughout the tadpole population like a plague."

"Tadpoles are devoured by stronger or more ruthless and treacherous ones every day. In this cruel Colosseum, the weak will be eliminated, and the strong will fight with the stronger."

"By devouring other tadpoles, the tadpoles selected by the cruel living environment became bigger and bigger, and I finally got what I wanted, and observed the neoteny of mind flayer tadpoles by accident."

"After a whole year like this, the tens of thousands of tadpoles put in the pool went through countless times of killing each other, and finally only the strongest, coldest, and most cunning tadpoles remained... maybe the luckiest one survived and dominated the entire pool .”

"This mind flayer tadpole, which has not undergone transformation, eventually developed into a huge mind flayer, which is the guy you are seeing at this moment."

Dr. Saul pointed to the voracious giant worm munching its brains in the pool.

"Since frogs and tadpoles are two different creatures, of course I have reason to think that mind flayers are also different from mind flayers, so I named the ancestor of this new species 'Adam'."

Qiao An nodded understandingly.

The word "Adam" in the soul-absorbing texts means ancestor. According to legend, the name of the first mind flayer in the world was "Adam".

According to the creation legend of the mind flayer, Adam was born in the endless void of the astral world, trying to capture a host to accommodate his highly developed but fragile brain, and then seek a way to reproduce. However, Adam has been wandering in the astral world for a long time. No suitable host was found.

One day, he suddenly found a hard bone growing out of his soft, tadpole-shaped body, and this bone had an independent thought, so he told Adam telepathically:

"I am the product of the absolute spirit. You take me out of your body, and I will become your female partner. When we combine, we can reproduce."

However, Adam believes that the physiological structure of "dioeciousness" lacks a simple and harmonious aesthetic feeling and does not conform to the "absolute spirit". characteristics, continue to look for the ideal host.

In the historical documents of mind flayers, there is no clear record of what kind of creature Adam finally found as a host. Judging from the fact that mind flayers can only parasitize humanoids, the ancestor Adam who endowed them with this genetic characteristic was very It may be parasitic on ancient humanoids or their god ancestors.

In short, the mind flayer family has reproduced like this until now, and has always maintained the characteristics of "hermaphroditism".

In the eyes of Joan, a human being, such legends seem to be backfired—more like the ancestral myths fabricated by the mind flayers in order to rationalize their physical characteristics.

Regarding this legend, there is also an interesting cultural phenomenon in his opinion.

In human society, when people tell you to "listen to your inner voice", they are actually advising you not to care too much about rules and stereotypes, to pursue what you desire boldly, not to be bound by tradition, and to be ashamed to express yourself personality and preferences.

For example, the traditional social atmosphere advocates heterosexuality, but you just like the same sex, and you are very contradictory.

When your friends advise you to "listen to your inner voice", they are actually urging you to pursue love bravely, even if the object of your admiration is the same sex.

In human society, in this era of rising enlightenment ideas and young people advocating individualism, encouraging people to "listen to their inner voice" generally has more advantages than disadvantages and is of progressive significance.

But don't use the same words to "encourage" a mind flayer in Odys!

The first ancestor Adam refused the temptation of his inner voice, and did not pull out the "bones" in his body to become a female, thus preserving his androgynous pure essence. In the eyes of the mind flayers, this was a saintly experiment about absolute spiritual belief. refining.

Starting from this legend, the "inner voice" is the same as "the temptation of the devil" or "schizophrenia" to the mind flayer. In a sneering tone, he said that he had been seduced by the "inner voice" and lost his mind.

Mind flayers are a nation that attaches great importance to unity and friendship among compatriots. This kind of ridicule is the most serious offense. Don't expect to be forgiven by the other party once you say it.

"Brother Gnostic, there is only this greedy mind-stalking giant on the third floor. It's nothing to see. Let's go to the fourth floor to visit."

Metatron's urging came from his ear, waking Joan from his wandering thoughts.

"Okay, you and Dr. Saul go upstairs first, and I'll follow right away."

Before leaving the third floor, Joan quickly cast a spell to detect Adam, to see if this mind flayer tadpole mutated giant insect also had the talent for psychic powers.

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Scouting Target: Giant aberration (supernatural vermin subspecies, mind flayer subspecies)

Life Level: Level 20

Attributes: Strength 41, Dexterity 15, Constitution 34, Intelligence 15, Wisdom 19, Charisma 21

Special Abilities: Blindsight, telepathy, damage reduction 5 levels/magic cold iron, immunity to poison/acid, spell resistance; 120-ft. line acid breath (deals 20-level acid damage); brain suck, 300 ft. Mind piercing, mind blast 60 ft., track teleportation, psionic powers (manifestation level 20; powers known: read thoughts, levitate, mass suggestion, dominate, teleport, plane shift)

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