Chapter 999 The Shadow Above the Head

Audrey noticed that Joan's expression was unusual, so she came over and asked with concern, "What happened?"

"Just above us, about two hundred yards high, hovered two strange shadows."

Joan pointed to the top of his head, telling the danger signs that the bleeding mosquito had just detected.

"What shadow?"

"Is it a monster?"

Holden and Hailar also gathered around, inquiring nervously and curiously.

"It's still not clear what it is. In short, everyone should be on alert, and I'll take a look."

Joan completely switched his perspective to the blood mosquito, fluttered his wings, and flew towards the two hovering shadows above his head.

When the blood mosquito approached within 60 feet of the shadow, Joan finally saw clearly that there were two strange creatures floating in the mid-air of the dome.

At first glance, it looks like two large purple-red balloons with a diameter of about five feet, ten feet apart from each other, each dragging a long strand of silk, suspended in the air, and spinning slowly.

Prompted by curiosity, Joan remotely controlled the blood mosquito to fly closer to see what the two balloons looked like, but he was surprised!

The object that looked like a balloon from a distance turned out to be a huge head. To be precise, it was more like the brain tissue in the cranial cavity, wrapped in a layer of wrinkled purple-red skin, trembling slightly rhythmically.

At the front of the brain, corresponding to the position of the human jaw, there is a protruding forward, curved and sharp beak, which is dark in color and looks very much like the mouth of a parrot or squid, except that it is much larger in size.

Joan held his breath, and continued to observe through the compound eyes of the blood mosquito, and found that under the brain-shaped organs of these two monsters, the slender objects that he had mistaken for a balloon string just now were actually two sets of tentacles arranged symmetrically from left to right, with a total of ten. There are so many, each one is no less than fifteen feet long by visual inspection.

The roots of these tentacles are about as thick as an adult's wrist, extending forward from the roots, becoming thinner and thinner, and the thinnest tip is like a quill pen.

Surrounding these tentacles, there are many small barbs and spikes, which look like creeping thorns, which is shocking.

What surprised Joan even more was that the tentacles of these two monsters were entangled with each other, like lovers with ten fingers interlocking, appearing very close.

The strange scene in front of him reminded Joan of an illustration he had seen in "Vares Monster Illustrated Book (Strange Volume)".

He compared the two purple-red balloon-shaped monsters in front of him with the creatures depicted in the illustrations in the book, and they were indeed 60-70% similar.

At this moment, the two strange monsters in mid-air seemed to be aware of the humming of the blood mosquito's wings, the cortex-like outer membrane of the skull shone with silver light, and countless tiny electric snakes flew along the brain circuit at a high speed.

Seeing this scene, Qiao An immediately had a premonition that something was wrong, and hurriedly called the blood mosquito to stay away from the two monsters and fly back to him as soon as possible.

Almost at the same time, the closely entangled tentacles of the two strange creatures in the air quickly separated from each other, and with their big heads flickering against the current, they chased after the blood mosquito along the escape path.

Qiao An observed the relative flying speed of the blood mosquito and the two strange monsters, and confirmed that the opponent would not be able to catch up with the blood mosquito for a while. Feeling relieved, he turned around and reminded his companions to prepare for the battle.

"There are two creatures that look like 'tentacle monsters' in the air. They were still mating just now. They were startled by my blood mosquitoes and they have already chased them down!"

"It's unreasonable to deal with such evil monsters. If they take the initiative to attack, we don't have to be polite and kill those two monsters!"

There was coldness in Joan's eyes.

If he had a choice, he didn't want to provoke the tentacle monster.

However, according to the literature, this kind of monster is unreasonable at all, as long as it finds a creature that it thinks it can defeat, it will attack immediately.

The intelligence of the tentacle monsters is not low. In most cases, they will not actively expose themselves to their prey, and prefer to hide in hidden places such as caves or rock crevices. The thorny tentacles capture the opponent and inject poison to paralyze it.

After a successful sneak attack, the tentacle monster will drag the prey back to the lair, pry open the prey's skull with its sharp beak, and suck the blood and brains—this is their favorite delicacy.

Joan considered that he and his companions were going to leap over the cliff later, so instead of always worrying about guarding against sneak attacks by the tentacle monsters during the flight, it is better to lure them down now, deal with them, and clear away a big problem on the follow-up expedition in advance. Hidden danger.

Holden looked up at the dim dome, and the magic searchlight embedded in the forehead of the expedition helmet shot out a bright beam of light, sweeping towards the two tentacle monsters floating in the air.

"These two guys look so weird!" Mr. Poet whistled in surprise, "Joan, you just said that they are mating, but they look exactly the same, which one is the male one and which one is the male one? female?"

"Hermaphroditism, heterosexual mating."

Joan's answer was as concise as ever.

Hyrule also raised his head like Holden, using the searchlight to monitor the behavior of the tentacle monster.

She noticed that the two tentacle monsters gradually opened up the distance in the process of chasing the blood mosquito, and the relative positions formed an obvious gradient. She immediately had an idea and ran forward for a certain distance, so that her position was on the same level as the one in the air. Take a look at the two tentacle monsters, which happen to be on the same inclined straight line.

The sound of chanting a mantra came from his ear, which caught Joan's attention. He turned around following the sound and saw Hailaer gesturing to cast a spell.

When he recognized the spell that Hailar was casting, his expression changed slightly, and he wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

"Tinwé!"

Hailar had already chanted the last activation spell, and raised his hand to blast a "lightning beam" that tore through the night!

According to her idea, after the 3-ring "Lightning Beam" hits the tentacle monster that is closer to her, it penetrates it, and incidentally bombards the second tentacle monster behind it.

In this way, Hailar only needs to cast a spell once to shoot down both tentacle monsters.

What happened next was far beyond her expectations.

The "lightning beam" did hit the first tentacle monster as she wished, and at the same time, the furrowed purple-red skin on the surface of the tentacle monster's head also glowed with lightning, completely extinguishing the energy of the "lightning beam" Inhaled into the body - not only failed to penetrate it, but also failed to cause the slightest damage.

"This monster! What's going on..." Hailar was stunned in shock.

Just when she was at a loss, the tentacle monster, who had just eaten a "lightning beam" but was not injured, suddenly accelerated and swooped down, threw out ten tentacles covered with thorns, and went straight to Hailar's head and neck to wrap around.