Chapter 78 "M"

Regarding the one-eyed crow's words, Zheng Qing did not investigate whether they were true or false.

It's not that he believed everything Old Crow said. In fact, the school allowed these remaining tribes of magical creatures to settle in the current world of Hell, obviously to observe the impact of changes in the world on creatures.

A world that was almost ruined is revitalized. What impact does the new surge of magic have on living things? Just thinking about it briefly, you will know that this is an amazingly huge subject, and the cost is enough for the school to be responsible for the cost of the subject. The wizard pulled out his hair.

There is no need to use free experimental subjects, and there is no need to pay for purchasing living subjects from the outside world. Moreover, this time for the second grade trial, the trial venue was finally chosen to be located here. It is difficult to deny that the school had cost-saving considerations.

The words behind the one-eyed crow also proved some of Zheng Qing’s guesses:

"When the war ended, the number of remaining ogres in the tribe was nearly a hundred, but no one expected that things would change so quickly..."

As it spoke, it raised its head and glanced at the dim sky. The single eye on its forehead showed a hint of confusion:

"The magic power is slowly becoming abundant, the underground water is welling up, and the food is gradually becoming abundant. Everything seems to be developing in a good direction... But for some reason, many good young men are becoming weaker and weaker, coughing up blood and losing teeth. , the absorbed magic leaks like a deflated balloon, and can you imagine the ogre being poisoned?"

It was really hard for Zheng Qing to imagine.

Ogres are said to be invulnerable to all poisons, and they eat everything from fresh food to food that has long rotted. To them, poisons are equivalent to condiments such as peppercorns or chili peppers. Many elderly ogres will even look for various highly toxic animals and plants to throw into their soup pots in order to make their food more delicious.

Presumably, only changes in the underlying rules of the world can cause the ogres to suffer symptoms of poisoning.

The one-eyed crow murmured, his voice getting softer due to uneasiness:

"...In the first month, one-third of the tribe died due to food shortage and poisoning; in the second month, another third died due to an inexplicable curse."

"Later, although the curse gradually disappeared, the females in the tribe could no longer give birth to cubs... For two whole months, not a single cub in the tribe survived. And a tribe without cubs has no future. "

"There is no way to lift the world's curse on the tribe, and there is no way to get rid of the bad luck... So when it challenged me, the warriors in the tribe kept silent."

"It doesn't sound like you hate it for turning you into a crow?" Jiang Yu suddenly interjected and asked. Zheng Qing glanced at her and nodded slightly. Witches are always very sensitive to emotions.

The old crow clicked his beak twice, and after a moment of silence, he replied in a low voice: "Although it is a bit worse to turn losers into crows, it is not an unforgivable sin in the first place... Maybe I feel that I am a bit unlucky, That’s all.”

"Then why did you sneak attack on it just now?" Zheng Qing kicked the two-headed ogre corpse next to his feet.

This time, there was a trace of fear and hatred in the old crow's one eye: "Because it is a real monster... The tribe accepted it because it is a two-headed ogre. Originally, I thought that the ancestors appeared and brought a glimmer of hope to the tribe... …Unexpectedly, this guy was extremely cruel, and when there was plenty of food, he took advantage of the soldiers.”

"Because of its appearance, nearly one-third of the tribe's warriors disappeared in just four or five days. Others may not know, but I could see clearly from the sidelines that this monster not only ate the tribe's warriors , and swallowed their souls.”

This answer silenced all the young wizards.

Although ogres have always appeared as ferocious and violent in wizard rumors, they usually only destroy the physical body of wizards, and rarely play with the soul like monsters or dark wizards.

On the one hand, because the magic involving the soul is quite advanced, ogre shamans rarely get involved in superficial magic; on the other hand, it is also because ogres have customs similar to those of magical creatures such as centaurs and fishmen, and they respect such creatures very much. Concepts like ancestors, souls, traditions.

Therefore, there is sufficient reason for the one-eyed crow to sneak attack on the two-headed ogre.

"Then do you know which tribe this ogre belongs to?"

Fatty Xin, who was squatting next to the two-headed ogre, was wearing silk gloves, holding long-handled tweezers in one hand and a silver knife in the other. He skillfully cut and cut on the ogre's corpse. After listening to the words of the one-eyed crow, After that, he suddenly asked: "Its bone age does not match the number of tumors on its back... The underlying skin is also a little weird."

As he spoke, the fat wizard raised the long-handled tweezers in his hand, holding a thin piece of ogre's arm skin at the tip of the tweezers. The outer side of the skin was intact, but the side next to the muscles was covered with strange white mesh structures. The mesh was filled with a rotten smell. Even with Zheng Qing's eyesight, he could tell that its skin was completely damaged. Suitable for tanning method books.

"Oh, that's disgusting! How can its skin be like this!"

The young public-funded student pinched his nose, moved a little closer, and looked at the completely different skin on the front and back. He suddenly looked up at the fat wizard: "Wait, does this mean that its skin can't be sold?"

"Not only the skin, but its bones, blood, heart, eyes, and even the tumors on its back are abnormal."

The fat wizard casually threw the piece of rotten skin aside and sighed: "If you don't mind the trouble, I can find some dark wizards from the Wandering Bar to take action, but you must be prepared to get into trouble if you don't get the mutton." Prepare."

Zheng Qing immediately shook his head and waved his hands, signaling to give up.

At the same time, the one-eyed crow jumped forward a few steps, raised its claws, and viciously scratched the piece of skin that the fat man had discarded, scratching it to pieces.

Several young wizards did not stop it from venting its anger.

After venting, the old crow shook its wings, raised its head again, and answered the fat man's previous question: "It does not belong to our tribe, nor does it belong to any clan I know... It named itself 'Black Hand', but It has nothing to do with the Black Hand clan. I only know that it has lost its memory and gave itself that name just because its hands are darker."

"Is it possible that they are subordinates brought by other big demons or dark beasts?" Jiang Yu raised another possibility.

The one-eyed crow hesitated for a moment: "This possibility cannot be ruled out..."

"The greater possibility is that they are experimental subjects that escaped from the wizard's laboratory."

Xiao Xiao also put on a pair of silk gloves at some point and used a knife to cut open the chest cavity of the two-headed ogre. While fidgeting with it, he interrupted the old crow's uncertain speculation: "It can be seen that there is something in its body. There are many traces of stitches... and traces of wound healing after the use of healing magic... and this! The dark beast will not do this to his subordinates."

He reached his hand deep into the ogre's chest, pulled hard, and pulled out a bloody spine.

There is an oval brass patch embedded on the spine. There are no complicated runes on it, only a capital letter 'M' branded on it using an incised technique.