He couldn't help but think of a parasite called 'Coloria'.
It is a parasite that can parasitize snails, causing the eyestalks of the snails to bulge and squirm constantly, attracting these snails to be eaten by birds... It can control the actions of the snails, causing them to violate their normal nocturnal behavior and eat during the day.
Go high up in the foliage and be hunted by other creatures.
Although we don’t know what the parasite is inside the monitor lizard, this abnormal behavior does not fit in with the normal behavior pattern of the green armored lizard.
This virulent parasite can apparently affect biological brains.
"It's only been a few minutes? It has already eroded to this point. Although the Green-armored Lizard is not a magical beast, and it is indeed easy to be parasitized without the circulation of source material in the body, the speed is really too fast."
Taking out the Chongyuan Iron Sword from his waist, Ian slowly pressed forward.
The leader of the group of lizards roared wildly. The giant beast, which was more than three meters long and weighed more than half a ton, lowered its head and pointed the protruding horn on its head at the enemy in front of it.
Then he charged hard.
Boom boom boom, the ground shook. Even if it was not a Warcraft, the green armored lizard's charge was like a bull charging. Coupled with the power transmission effect brought by the sturdy armor, even the sharp claw tiger, the overlord of the jungle, would temporarily avoid the edge.
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But with the clang of the long sword vibrating, Ian had already raised the sword and swung it out.
Before the sword arrived, a stream of water-attribute essence visible to the naked eye had already condensed on the blade, and then turned into a substantial water blade to break through the air, heading straight towards the Green-armored Lizard with enough power to crush solid rock.
The head shot away.
This water blade is not sharp, after all, it does not have a special restraining structure, but its power is extremely powerful, almost like an invisible giant hammer.
When it hit the head of the green-armored lizard, the skull, which was originally strong enough to break the rocks, disintegrated like a crisp biscuit along with the corners. Even the spine was structurally deformed and the bones were shattered inch by inch.
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With just this sword, Ian killed the green-armored lizard headed by him without even using the earth attribute essence that actually matched the Chongyuan Iron Sword.
——Who said that a water sword cannot kill without a blade?
It feels like this water-blade heavy hammer also has some development potential...at least for heavily armored enemies.
With this in mind, Ian looked at the lizards again.
Theoretically, after the father of the lizards is killed, his spouse and heirs should flee in all directions... Even enemies that the leader cannot defeat are simply given away, and the inheritance instinct in their blood will not allow them to put their lives to death.
Send it here.
However, the other five green-armored lizards, large and small, did not flinch at all after seeing Ian kill the big lizard.
In other words, they didn't notice the previous battle at all - because their physical fitness was not as good as that of the big lizard, they just started howling now, and then locked their eyes on Ian.
Immediately afterwards, just like the big lizards before, they rushed over one after another without any coordination!
For a moment, the roar of charging lizards sounded in the empty cave.
The giant lizards trampled on the blood of the lizard father, shaking the earth with the enemy's attacking pace, which looked particularly tragic.
But Ian just drew his sword, drew his sword.
That's all, all their heads were blown to pieces, and their headless bodies fell limply to the ground, twitching from time to time.
The ascendant's advantage over ordinary creatures is all-round and crushing - the force of Ian's sword swing may be heavier than the entire weight of the green armored lizard, and there is no suspense in this battle.
But he did not relax. Instead, he immediately came to the lizard corpses and leaned down to observe the small blue-black insects that were still squirming in the broken heads.
This is a kind of small bug that is difficult to see with the naked eye. There are just a lot of them. When they gather together, they form small blue-black squirming dots. In fact, these bugs are constantly dying and regenerating. The blue ones are active. Yes, the black ones are dead bodies.
Originally, the eyes of the green-armored lizard were almost occupied by this blue parasite. They even began to emit a faint fluorescence, but with the death of the host, these parasites began to lose their activity, causing the green-armored lizard's The pupils and skin of the eyes became blue and black.
The silver stream of light swept over these little bugs.
[Malignant Parasite·Unnamed (South China Sea Ruins Group Species)]
[First Level·Excellence]
[Malignant parasites that inhabit the ecosystem of the South China Sea's underground ruins need to live in suitable running water and living organisms. They mainly attack the cerebellum, frontal lobe and temporal lobe area of the organism. After devouring it, they will take over their functions. If the host dies or Without a suitable environment, you will die soon]
[Parasite through wound contact, the eggs cannot break through the mucous membrane. If you drink it, as long as there are no wounds in the mouth and stomach, it will not be regarded as the terminal host]
【……】
There is not a lot of data on the silver chip this time. Although the specific parasite size, energy level and microscopic modeling are also available, there is very little information that Ian really needs.
"Unnamed? It seems that I am the first discoverer."
Standing up, Ian thought thoughtfully: "The reason why the lizards are parasitic is that they have wounds in their mouths and stomachs - most wild creatures are like this, so after drinking a lot of water, they are invaded by parasites in the water."
"This is a first-level parasite. In other words, it is a sublimated species. It is indeed easy to deal with the incompetent ordinary giant lizards... If it is a sublimated person, even the spontaneous flow of source matter in the body can be Curb the trend of parasitism.”
The source of essence flowing in the sublimator is a microscopic pure energy state structure that can be coupled and embedded with cell organelles to allow the human body to 'sublimate' - even nanorobots cannot be smaller than it and can solve a parasite. It's such a piece of cake.
Ian waited patiently for another ten minutes, cut open the monitor lizard's body with his sword, and after confirming that most of the parasites deep in the flesh were dead, he nodded slightly: "The vitality is not very strong. The main parasitic part is the brain. But there is also a tendency to spread throughout the body... It's a bit reckless, I should wait a little longer to see what these parasites look like when they mature."
At this moment, the young man looked indifferent. He did not feel uncomfortable because of the horror and nausea of this parasite, but instead felt a strong sense of curiosity.
Ian raised his head and looked at the blue river.
He looked closer and found that it was just as he thought - all the tiny blue components in this azure river were insect eggs and insect corpses... Although there were also some mineral components, that was obviously not the main factor!
This entire river is a river of parasites!
"The upper reaches should be the nest of these bugs, right?"
Looking up at the upper reaches of the river, Ian fell into deep thought: "It seems that the underground ruins not only have an ecology, but also a very dangerous ecology."
If it were just dangerous, it wouldn't actually stop Ian. Even though this parasite looked scary, in fact, for him, bathing in the river wouldn't have anything to do with it.
With a silver chip and an ancient dragon core, even if he drinks water full of parasite eggs like the monitor lizard, he will not be infected by it. Instead, he can turn them into high-quality protein.
But there is a point, there is no need to torture yourself like this - curiosity is a good thing, and there is no need to use it in this way.
What really made Ian think deeply were the 'parasites' lingering and flashing in the monitor lizard's eyes.
This reminded him of a 'plague' that occurred in the colony at the back of Nanling six years ago.
"Family flashes?"
The young man whispered to himself, his tone full of caution: "Could it be that the flash mosquitoes spread by the indigenous people back then were related to this parasite?"