Chapter 698 Guru
After listening to Joan's introduction, Audrey naturally turned her attention to the slender and almost deformed arms of the choker, as well as the barbed hands and feet.
"Looking at its barbed claws, it's not difficult for me to imagine what it's like to be pinched by these sharp claws. The title of 'Lock Throat' is really appropriate."
Audrey touched her neck, feeling lingering fear.
"Fortunately, you reacted quickly enough just now to switch places with me before the choke monster launched an attack. I really have to thank you very much."
Qiao An closed the cloak attached to the 2-ring arcane "Transposition", and said softly: "There is no need to be so polite between friends, let's go quickly, so that Hailar and your brother won't worry."
"You still want to take this choker with you?" Audrey looked at him inexplicably. "What's the use of keeping this kind of evil monster?"
Joan glanced back at the horrified choker, and said to Audrey, "This is the first time I've caught a living monster, and I want to study its body structure."
"Odd hobbies!"
Audrey shrugged in amazement.
"But that's fine. Anyway, our mission includes collecting abnormal biological specimens. I hope this guy can help us earn a credit or two."
Joan nodded, dragged the choker, and followed Audrey silently.
Not far away, they encountered Hyrule and Holden who turned back to look for them.
Knowing that they had just encountered an attack and captured the attacker alive, Hailar and Holden felt incredible, and gathered around to look at the choker.
The four of them drilled the tunnel all day and were exhausted, so they simply camped and rested in this relatively open stalactite cave, and continued their journey tomorrow morning.
Hailar cut off a thick stalagmite with a sword, and dug a small hole in the center of the section with a dagger to place Joan's "campfire rosary". Afterwards, he recited the mantra to activate the magic power contained in the rosary.
A raging bonfire burns in this natural candelabra converted from stalagmites, releasing heat to disperse the moisture in the cave.
Sitting around the fire, Joan, Hailaer, and Zion siblings ate dry food with boiled hot tea.
While eating, Qiao An remained focused on casting spells, manipulating the "Mage Nether Palm" to hold the Throat Locker tightly.
Chewing the rusk, Joan silently thought about how to deal with this strange monster, and soon came up with an idea.
Turning around from the campfire, Joan faced the choker, his face looked particularly gloomy because his back was turned to the fire.
The choker struggled to raise its head from its giant palm, and the moment it looked at the young mage, it couldn't help shivering, fear and pleading alternately appearing on its face.
Qiao An looked at it blankly for a few seconds, then chanted a mantra, blessed himself with 2 rings of "Advanced Internal Vision", and checked its physical condition.
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Reconnaissance target: Choker (small aberration)
Health status: Weak
Threat Level: Low
Attributes: Strength 14, Dexterity 16, Constitution 13, Intelligence 4, Wisdom 13, Charisma 7
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The other five attributes are all okay, but the intelligence attribute is ridiculously low, only 4 points, not much better than ordinary beasts.
Seeing that the Choker had only this level of intelligence, Joan had to worry about its language ability, so he tried to communicate with it.
It took a lot of work, but the results verified his concerns.
The low IQ of the choker has seriously hindered its language expression ability. It can barely speak a few simple underground lingua franca, but its pronunciation is vague and its logic is even more messy. It is really difficult to communicate.
Joan was not discouraged, and made a spell-casting gesture, and cast two prophecy spells with "ósanwé" as the activation spell on the choker one after another.
The first spell is 2nd level "Detect Thoughts".
The second spell is the 3rd ring "Secondary Telepathic Connection".
Using "Detect Thoughts", Joan can sense the choker's mental activity, so that he can understand what it is thinking without expressing it in words.
After that, Joan can use the "secondary telepathic connection" to build a bridge of telepathic communication between himself and the choker, and he can accurately convey his thoughts to the other party without using words.
Both spells were successfully completed, and Joan immediately sensed that the choker was full of panic and confusion about his own situation.
Joan decided to use its psychological weakness to intimidate and lure it appropriately, so as to achieve the purpose of taming this strange monster.
Thinking of this, Joan picked up a piece of leftover corned beef jerky, shook it at the choker, and at the same time told it telepathically that this was delicious, and asked if it wanted to eat it.
The choker shook his head, but couldn't help but grunt and swallowed.
He said no, but his body was very honest.
Without revealing its true intentions, Joan pulled out the dagger and stabbed it hard at the piece of dried corned beef.
First a hole is pierced, and then a deep gash is cut.
The choker noticed his ferocious movement, and his panic rose to a new level.
This is what Joan wants.
Pulled out the dagger from the beef jerky, made two gestures with the tip of the knife towards the Choker's chest, and spoke to him telepathically.
"I'm going to use this sharp dagger to cut open your belly and make you into a dried specimen. What do you think?"
Fearing that the choker might not understand his intentions, when Joan mentioned "air-dried specimen", he pointed at the piece of beef jerky with a knife, indicating that its corpse would also turn into that dry appearance.
The choker was trembling with fright, its teeth chattering.
Want to ask how it feels at the moment?
Thousands of words turned into one sentence——
A group of panicked! !
Joan was satisfied with the effect of intimidation, and then tried to lure.
He touched the money bag and took out a gold coin. After thinking about it, he felt that it was a bit wasteful, so he stuffed it back into the money bag and exchanged it for an equally bright copper coin.
Joan put the copper coin and beef jerky together, and gently pushed it to the choker.
"There are two paths for you to choose."
"If you don't listen to me, I will kill you and make it into jerky."
"If you are obedient, I can spare you from death, and you can eat dried meat, and this gold coin will also be rewarded to you."
The choker glanced at the coin in surprise.
It's not very smart, but at least it can distinguish the difference between gold and brass, and can't help but mutter in its heart: That's obviously a copper coin.
Joan originally thought it couldn't tell the difference, but unfortunately he underestimated the monster's eyesight, took back the copper coin in embarrassment, and replaced it with a gold coin.
"Ahem... I made a mistake just now, this time it's real gold."
There are two paths of life and death, the choker doesn't need to hesitate, he decisively chooses to join Qiao An.
As long as it can be exchanged for a way to survive, even being a slave is better than being slaughtered and made into jerky.
"Very good, now answer my question, are there any other chokers living around here?"
The choker thought for a few seconds, then nodded in the affirmative.