Chapter 2846 Spirit Sucking Tree Rope Demon

Qiao An was slightly surprised by the investigation results.

The mind flayer's intelligence was as high as 15 points, and its natural ability was even stronger than that of an adult mind flayer without a Psion.

For example, the 300-foot "Mind Piercing" actually caused psychic damage with a power level of 20!

Mind flayers have also evolved several new abilities that even mind flayers don't have, including damage-reducing armor, immunity to poison and acid, the supernatural ability to spit acid, and "tracking teleportation."

Any creature that teleports within 20 miles of the mind-fleeing giant worm will be immediately aware of it, and will lock the teleporter's landing point through psychic power.

Joan remembered that the mastermind Noah had the same ability, and Mancini, the mythical moss lord in Garden Township, also had a stronger "myth tracking teleportation".

Considering that Mancini was jointly created by the mastermind and many mind flayers, and Adam was originally an ordinary mind flayer tadpole in the brain pool, the ability of the three to track and teleport is actually derived from the same source.

This prompted Joan to make a bold guess.

In the early stages of the mind flayer chain of evolution, it is likely that more than one branch existed, and it may be a coincidence that the mind flayers chose the evolutionary branch of parasitic transformation.

In some places in the universe, there may be a group of mind flayer tadpoles that did not take the path of parasitism, but, like "giant worm Adam", took the evolutionary branch of neoteny, through mutual engulfment, in the natural world— — not in a laboratory — a mind flayer is born.

If the legend about the "ancestor Adam" of mind flayers is not fictional, then in another corner of the universe, there may be another ancestor of mind flayers who did not reject the inner appeal to remove the "bone" from his body. Pull it out, become a female, combine with it, form a family, and reproduce...

After that, it's another story.

Metatron's call came from upstairs, Joan answered and quickly went up to the fourth floor of the laboratory.

As soon as he entered the hall, he was taken aback by the big guy standing in front of him!

That guy was more than nine feet tall, like a cone-shaped column, standing quietly in the hall, with a huge eyeball rolling around in the center of his body, and a big mouth full of sharp teeth grinning under the eyeball , four five-foot-long tentacles with suction cups grow around the mouth.

In addition, there were six cavities on the monster's body, from which protruded thicker and longer whip-like tentacles, which sometimes extended and sometimes retracted into the cavities, without a trace.

At first, Joan thought it was a tree rope monster, but when he stopped to observe for a while, he found that this monster had some characteristics different from ordinary tree rope monsters.

Most of the wild tree rope demons live in the dark and dull cave areas of the underground world, together with stalagmites and stalactites. They are bloated and clumsy, and usually they can only wait for their prey to come to their door.

Once the prey was alerted, turned and fled, with the slow movement of the tree rope monster, it was too difficult to ask them to hunt down the prey.

In order to survive in the resource-poor environment, the tree rope demons have evolved the ability of "mimesis". The shape of the body, including the color and texture of the skin, is similar to the stalagmites that can be seen everywhere in the underground caves, and they quietly take root in the stalagmite forest. , motionless, and his body temperature dropped to that of a cold rock.

Creatures of the Underdark, unless they have supernatural vision to see through disguises, have difficulty discerning the true identity of their natural enemies among the stalagmites.

Once within 60 feet of this insidious pretender, the rope demon will use the powerful hydraulic pressure in its body to eject its tentacles from the cavity on the body surface, entangle the prey with lightning speed, and release the toxin that weakens the attribute of strength , until the prey gives up struggling, drags it back and swallows it in one gulp.

Comparing it, it is not difficult to find that the monster that looks like a tree rope demon on the opposite side has a purple body surface, and a layer of shiny mucus is attached to its delicate skin, instead of being dull and rough like a rock, it is obviously not suitable for lurking in the stalagmite forest. .

In addition, there are four octopus-like organs growing around the monster's mouth, which do not conform to the general image of the rope monster, but rather the characteristics of a mind flayer.

"Brother Gnostic, the one opposite is Dr. Saul's famous work, a 'spiritual tree rope demon' implanted in a mind flayer tadpole, named Shakluf."

Metatron made a timely introduction.

"It turns out to be Brother Shakluf, who has been famous for a long time. It is an honor to make acquaintance with you."

Joan was stunned, and went forward to embrace the "spirit-sucking tree rope demon" Shahcroft.

Shakluf also extended his facial tentacles enthusiastically, and greeted Joan face-to-face.

"Brother Gnostic, I'm sorry, I seemed to scare you just now." Shakluf said apologetically, "I should have taken the initiative to say hello, but Master Metatron forbade me to speak and made me block the stairs He even said that he wanted to play a prank to scare you."

"Hey! Brother Shakluf, how dare you betray me!"

Metatron cast a reproachful glance at the spirit sucking tree rope demon, turned around and asked Joan again: "Brother Gnostic, tell us the truth, were you really scared just now?"

Seeing her eager eyes, Joan couldn't help being angry and funny.

"That's right, I was taken aback, thinking that the exhibits in the laboratory had escaped from the cage."

"Haha! I guess you will think so!" Princess Lingsu smiled smugly.

"Brother Gnostics, at the beginning of Shakluf's birth, there was indeed a period of time when he was locked in a cage as an exhibit, but after getting along with him for a long time, we found that his mind was not distorted by the barbaric nature of the tree rope demon. Let him out and stay in the laboratory as my assistant."

"Shakhluf has been working in my laboratory for more than 30 years now, and has made a lot of achievements. Through hard work, he has been promoted to a level 17 'manipulator', and he has also used his accumulated honor points in the great Noah exchanged the citizenship of Odes and officially became a brother in our big family."

Dr. Saul introduced.

The so-called "executor" refers to a Psion who specializes in "Psychic Transformation". If you use arcane magic as an analogy, it is equivalent to a professional mage from the "Evocation School".

The 17th-level "manipulator" can cast the 9th-level mind-transforming ability, plus the innate ability of the mind flayer and the various abilities inherited from the host of the tree rope demon, Shakluf's overall strength may not be as good as Dr. Saul is much inferior, no wonder he is qualified to sit firmly in the second place in Saul's laboratory.

Qiao An looked at the Rope Tree Demon curiously, and wanted to use "advanced internal vision" to check his details. However, although the other party chose an inhuman host and had a different style of painting, he was a dignified citizen of Odes after all. Speaking of which, his status in the city is higher than that of himself, a "vagrant" who has been deprived of his citizenship, and it would be too impolite to use law to investigate without permission.

It's the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass, thank you everyone!