Chapter 29 Mutated Scarab

"That thing is an egg." Just after Ling finished his answer, he saw the woman suddenly let go of her palms covering her chest and put her hands on the ground. Then she screamed desperately as if she was possessed. , and at the same time his hands were constantly scratching on the ground, in an extremely crazy state. I stretched out my hand to signal Ling and the demons to step back, and looked at the woman from a distance to see what was going on.

Now everything on the woman's body has been stripped off, and the only thing left is the golden gem. Therefore, if her current state is not due to her own reasons, it must be related to that gem. related. Just now Ling said that the gem was not a stone, but an egg. Looking at the current situation, I immediately thought of a possibility.

"Isn't that thing about to hatch?"

"It looks like."

While we were discussing there, we saw a lump suddenly bulge on the woman's back, and then we heard the sound of bones breaking. The woman's back was lifted up, and two golden carapace stuck out. Shape elytra. Immediately after the elytra appeared, there was a sound of bones breaking in the woman's chest. A long leg that was obviously an arthropod stretched out from her chest, followed by a second and third long leg. The legs were also stretched out one after another. After stretching out eight times in a row, the woman suddenly raised her head forward and opened her mouth desperately. Suddenly, with a disgusting sound of muscle tearing, the woman's mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated degree, and then a pair of large pliers-like mouthparts protruded from the woman's mouth, and then the woman's entire face After being completely crushed, an insect's head came out from behind her head and face, letting out a high-pitched scream.

"Holy crap, isn't this thing too disgusting?" A monster said: "Although we are monsters, we don't see such disgusting things very often!"

I turned around and asked Ling: "What on earth is this? Do you recognize it?"

"I've definitely never seen this appearance before, but the energy fluctuations feel very familiar."

"Familiar? Do you remember where we met?"

"Kind of like the energy fluctuations of Kohopura."

"Kohopura? That scarab in Egypt?" I turned around and looked at the woman again in surprise. Oh no, it was no longer a human being, but a creature with eight long legs and a pair of elytra on its back. Disgusting bugs with body parts hanging all over their bodies.

"This should be a larva." Ling said: "Although the energy fluctuations are almost the same, the fluctuations of this insect are very weak and are not at the same level as Kohopura."

I thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter whether it's okay or not. Let me catch it first."

"Understood." Ling casually threw out a black ribbon-like energy, and instantly tied up the insect. Originally, Ling and I thought that this attack would definitely not be able to trap it, and that we would definitely have to fight again to restrain this guy. Who knew that this thing looked so scary when it was born, but in fact it has no fighting power at all. The energy completely subdued it!

After packing the bug and tying it up a few times, I handed over the task of destroying the temple to the many monsters behind me. Anyway, the guards were gone, so what else could be done in a broken house? In addition to the temple in front of me, I assigned other attack targets in Russia to the demons, and then activated the Ring of Love.

Rose looked very confused as soon as the communication was connected. "You completed the destruction so quickly?"

"No, I have some new discoveries here and need to go to Egypt."

"What are you doing in Egypt?"

"We killed a player here, and it turned out that the guy had a scarab egg in his chest. We plan to go to Egypt to ask what happened to Kohopura. I always feel that there is something big in this."

"But what about the harassment mission?"

"Aren't there still those two hundred monsters? I've already shown them how to do it, and I'll just leave the rest to them."

"Okay, then come back. Oh, you contacted me because you wanted me to summon you back, right?"

"Yes, we don't have a teleportation array here. It's too slow to fly back!"

"Just a moment."

After activating the teleportation function of the Ring of Love, I was quickly summoned back to Rose. It's much easier to do when you get to Essinger. From here, you can use the transnational teleportation array to teleport to Tianyu City, and then borrow the teleportation arrays from neighboring countries to cross the country. You can use birds to cross the borders on the way. Although it's a bit troublesome, the speed is pretty good. Yes, we soon entered Egypt.

As soon as I arrived in Egypt, I found a city and borrowed a teleportation array to teleport directly to the temple of Anubis, but now it was empty. Anubis belongs to the god of the underworld, so he definitely won't wander around during the day, but I'm in a hurry now and don't have time to wait until night.

"Anubis! Anubis! Hey, I heard a squeak!"

"You are so noisy, do you think this is a vegetable market?" The shadow of Anubis suddenly appeared above my head, and his voice was so loud that it almost deafened me.

"Damn, the sound is amazing!" I raised my middle finger to Anubis in the sky, and then said with a straight face: "Okay, let's get down to business. Where are you? Take me there, I want to see you. Kohopura.”

"Wait a minute." After Anubis's voice disappeared, a stone door suddenly opened on the side of the temple, and a soldier of the Death Army walked out of it, and then motioned for me to follow him. Unexpectedly, the soldiers did not take me into the temple. Instead, they walked to the desert outside the temple and stopped. Then the sand under our feet began to rotate and subside, and soon it became A huge pit of quicksand. I knew this was a teleportation channel created by Anubis's magic, so I didn't struggle. I just put the mask down to prevent it from eating sand. As my whole body completely sank into the quicksand, I suddenly felt that my feet were empty, and my whole body entered a state of weightlessness. However, my reaction was extremely fast. I automatically adjusted my body balance in almost a tenth of a second, and finally landed firmly on the ground.

"You're still as annoying as before." Anubis seemed very unhappy when he saw that I landed safely and failed to catch me, but I knew this guy's character was like this. The fact that he is willing to joke with you shows that he values ​​you. If Anubis really wants to kill someone, he will not talk to you and will fight directly.

"I don't have time to joke with you anymore. Do you know where Kohopura is?" I asked directly.

"What are you looking for him for?" Anubis did not answer my question directly.

He didn't answer me, and I didn't answer him either. I just threw out the scarab larva bundled like a rice dumpling. Anubis is a genuine god, and his ability to sense energy is naturally much stronger than ours. Moreover, he has a close relationship with Kohopura, so he is naturally more familiar with them after being together for a long time.

"Why does this thing have the aura of Kohopra?"

"I wouldn't be here if I knew!"

"Where did you catch this thing?" Anubis asked as he circled around the larva.

"Can you find Kohopura first and then ask?"

"Oh, wait a moment." Anubis finally realized that this matter was more important. He snapped his fingers and summoned a servant of Hades and told him to take me and the larva to his mansion to wait. He himself quickly disappeared into the darkness.

I followed the servant of Hades to the residence of Anubis. Not long after, Anubis came back with Kohopura, followed by one or two others. One was a wise god with an owl head. Picture, there is also Maat, the angelic goddess of truth.

As soon as Kohopura entered the hall where I was waiting, he rushed directly to the larvae, and then saw him wave his hand, and the restraints wrapped around the larvae disappeared together. The infected larvae reacted extremely quickly. As soon as the restraints on their bodies were released, they jumped up suddenly, screamed at us but did not dare to step forward. The people present except me are all righteous gods, and their aura is so powerful that the larvae dare not approach it. As for me, it was kidnapped by me before, and no matter how stupid it is, it knows that it is no match for me.

After freeing the larva, Kohopra immediately began to approach the larva carefully. The larva seemed to be very afraid of him. When he saw him approaching, he kept screaming and retreating. However, because he was now surrounded by us, we couldn't retreat. There was no place to retreat, and Kohopra finally managed to get close to the larvae.

"Quiet child, keep quiet...!" Kohopura whispered as if coaxing a child, while reaching out to try to stroke the larvae's head. At first, the larva showed a little bit of obedience, but just when Kohopula was about to touch it, it suddenly opened its huge mouthparts and bit Kohopula's hand.

After all, Kohopura was a genuine god. The larvae in front of him were at least over three hundred levels, so it would be a ghost if they could bite him. Although the larvae bit Kohopula's hand, it shook its head from side to side desperately, trying to tear off a piece of meat. Unfortunately, the carapace on Kohopula's body was not good-looking. It bit it for a long time and nothing happened. Instead, It was Kohopura who waited for a while and then stood up on his own initiative and pulled the larva off his hand.

"Lord Kohopura, did you find anything?"

Kohopura did not answer my question, but asked: "Did you discover it?"

"In a Russian city."

"Russia?"

"Yes. I was fighting an enemy at that time, and then I used some special equipment to strip off all her equipment. Finally, I found an oval golden object on her chest. At that time, I thought It was a gem. Later, my demon pet Ling sensed the life fluctuations on the thing and guessed that it might be an egg. Then the person fighting us suddenly appeared in pain, and then the egg in her body I don’t know why it suddenly hatched. When it burst through the other person’s body and was born, my magic pet found that it had the same aura as yours, so I caught it here. I don’t know what you think about this. ?”

After hearing what I said, Kohopura thought for a while and then said: "This little guy is a good member of our Scarab family, but...!"

"But what?"

"But it's not a normal individual."

After listening to Kohopura's words, I became even more confused. "What is an abnormal individual?"

Kohopura asked the servants of Anubis to bring out a table, and then he waved his hand, and five scarabs immediately appeared on the table. "Look, these on the table are the members of our scarab family. This is the most important one." Kohopura reached out and picked up a scarab with a dark surface that looked like a dung beetle. "This is the largest group among the scarabs. It has little intelligence and average attack power. Its only specialty is its amazing fecundity and strong environmental adaptability. It can survive in various extreme environments. At present, we More than 90% of the family are this kind of low-level scarabs." After Kohopura said, he put the black scarabs back, and then put the remaining four red, green, gold, and blue scarabs. before us. "Compared with the wild scarab just now, this is actually a member of the scarab family that we really recognize. Although the body surface colors are different, they are actually the same species, and the body surface colors are just A characteristic that develops under the influence of the external environment. Unlike the black variety, these scarabs have low-level intelligence, behave like low-level monsters, have basic judgment, memory, and know how to think. Simple question. Its gorgeous shell will be completely closed when it is sleeping. If you are not careful, it can easily be confused with gems of various colors."

"I know all this, but what happened to the one I caught?" I urged.

Kohopura explained: "According to your description, the golden gem you saw before should not be an egg, but this golden scarab."

"But they...?"

"I know that their appearances are very different." Kohopura himself said: "No matter what color the scarab is, its body surface should be covered with a smooth, solid-colored carapace without any spots on the surface. And the color changes. But look at this one caught by Ziri. Not only is its body covered with hard thorns, but it also has no carapace at all except for the elytra on its back. And you see, Its body is obviously very slender and extremely asymmetrical, completely different from the oval and streamlined body of the scarab beetle."

"Isn't this a scarab?"

"No, this is what I am surprised about." Kohopura said: "Although the appearance is very different, this one is a real scarab, because it has the core of the sacred pattern of our scarab family in its body. This cannot be faked.”

I frowned and asked: "If this is just a real scarab, then why does it grow so big?" So far, the scarabs I have seen have only two sizes. One is Kohopura himself, his It is basically the size of a person, and other than him, the other scarabs I have seen are only between the size of steamed buns and quail eggs. The one I caught could only push the woman to death. It can be seen that its size is quite large. Although it is not as big as Kohopura, it is not much smaller than an adult man. It is rare to see such a large Kohopura.

Kohopura heard my question and explained: "This is not a problem. Under normal circumstances, the wild black scarabs have a lifespan of about ten years, but this refers to their active lifespan. If If they are trapped in a closed environment without access to food, they will enter a state of hibernation. Once it enters hibernation, the scarab will have a lifespan of nearly ten thousand years. Unless it is awakened again, it will continue to calculate at the normal speed. Its lifespan. These colorful scarabs are higher than the wild black scarabs, and their lifespan depends on their own efforts. Generally speaking, as long as they don't encounter too many problems, these official scarabs They can live fifty to a hundred years, of course, the dormant period does not count. If you are lucky or work hard enough and can cultivate to the second-level scarab state before death, you can gain an additional fifty years of life. By the second level, the scarab will gain relatively high intelligence, and it will also increase to the size of a watermelon. Because it has gained relatively high intelligence, its cultivation speed will increase significantly. If it can be cultivated in the extra fifty years Once you practice to the third level, your size and lifespan will further increase. Theoretically, as long as you continue to practice, the scarab can become immortal."

"That means larger scarabs actually exist, right?"

Kohopura nodded and said: "As long as you advance to a higher level, the scarab will grow, but there is something strange."

"What?"

"Looking at the size of the little guy you captured, his strength is at least level seven. But the little guy in front of you only has strength between level one and level two, and his intelligence level seems to be lower than level one. Okay. The elephant has degenerated into the state of a wild black scarab. In short, this guy is very abnormal and feels like a freak with developmental malformations."

Hearing what Kohopura said, I asked tentatively: "Do you think it is possible that someone is trying to artificially cultivate high-level scarabs?"

"I don't know, but I don't think so." Kohopura explained: "Although scarabs can be upgraded infinitely, it takes too long. Which of you adventurers has the patience to spend decades training them? Besides, The powerful combat effectiveness of scarabs relies on quantity rather than quality. Scarabs before level 5 may not even be able to defeat level 300 monsters. If they want to be used in battle, they must be upgraded to at least level 7. If they have that energy, it is not as good as It would be faster to catch a dragon and train it."

"Does that mean it's not artificially cultivated?" I asked.

"No, I think it should be artificially cultivated." Tetu, who had been silent for the whole time, suddenly said.

"Why?"

"There are two reasons." Tetu said: "First. Although scarabs are difficult to cultivate and are not suitable for use as a combat force, we are not sure whether the opponent has other uses. After all, the ability of scarabs is not only used for Fighting is so easy! Second. Ziri said that this juvenile scarab was found in Russia, but scarabs are a specialty here and are not found anywhere else except Egypt. If it is an adult, it would be fine. How did a juvenile scarab get from Egypt to Russia?"