Chapter 25: The monsters on the island are man-made
The afternoon meeting was held in the tent.
There were four people attending the meeting.
Acupuncture, purple stems, green beard, and cyanobacteria.
Several animal skin maps were spread on the ground.
One of them is the largest and is placed in the center.
Zhenjin pointed at the largest map and said, "This is what Zidi combined all the maps we have on hand."
Several people have set their sights on this picture.
Up north, down south, left west, right east.
The northeastern end of the hide map depicts an anchor.
Zhen Jin pointed at the anchor mark: "This is the starting point for your exploration team's departure, and it is also the beach where the front section of the Pig's Kiss is stranded. If the situation remains unchanged, there are still fifty or sixty people here, and the first mate of the Pig's Kiss is in control.
situation."
A cross is drawn on the southeast end of the animal skin map.
Needle Gold's finger moved to the fork: "This is the place where President Zidi and I will land. There are three landing boats on this beach."
A curved route extends from the fork and the anchor. Both routes are marked with words or pictures at intervals.
These two routes respectively represent the routes of the two exploration teams, Zidi and Cangxu.
However, these two routes did not come together, but ended abruptly in the middle. In the center of this big map, there is a large blank.
Zhen Jin took out two other small maps and photographed them in the blank spaces of the large map.
One map depicts desert terrain, the other a mountainous forest terrain.
The focus is on the latter.
On the top of the mountain forest map, notable locations such as the mines where the monkey-tailed brown bears live, the spider forest, and the mountain springs are depicted.
The two routes represented by the two exploration teams merged into one at the mountain spring.
The golden finger of the needle moved to the marked point of the mountain spring: "We are here now, and our goal is to return here."
He moved his finger to the northeast section of the large map, the picture of the anchor.
No one had any objection.
This island prohibits low-level magic and fighting spirit, and is home to many unimaginable ferocious monsters. All forces that can be united must be united as much as possible to survive.
External rescue is out of reach and difficult to estimate. It is more reliable to rebuild the ship and set sail again.
The construction and operation of a seagoing ship cannot be accomplished by just a few people.
"The difficulties before us are obvious, there are two." Zhenjin continued, "The first is the ferocious monsters along the way. The second is the changes in the landscape here. What do you think?"
Lan Zao replied in a deep voice: "Master, if low-level magic and fighting spirit were not prohibited here, our strength would be greatly improved. But now to deal with these strange beasts, we can only fight with flesh and blood. But
No matter what, Huang Zao and I will be your swords, and wherever you look, there will be swords clashing."
Lan Zao expressed his loyalty, Zhen Jin nodded, and was very satisfied with this attitude: "Then I'm looking forward to your performance."
After hearing this, Zidi seemed to be keenly aware of something. She looked at Lan Zhao with a confused expression: "Your statement is a bit strange. If low-level magic and fighting spirit are not prohibited here, then those ferocious monsters will
Use all kinds of spell-like abilities. We are powerful, but they will also be more threatening than they are now."
"According to my speculation, this is not the case, Master Zidi." Cang Xu said, "I don't think the magic beasts on this island can use any magic."
"Oh? Why is there such a judgment?" Zidi asked next.
Cang Xu did not answer directly, but looked at Zhen Jin: "Excuse me, sir, did you find any magic crystals among the corpses of the monsters you killed?"
Zhen Jin shook his head: "So far, no magic crystal has been found."
This is obviously abnormal.
Cang Xu nodded: "Although we have not eliminated silver-level ferocious beasts along the way, we have also obtained a lot of corpses of bronze and black-iron level monsters."
"But we have never seen the existence of magic crystal."
"Why is this?"
"The formation of the magic crystal is that the magic beast has lived in an environment full of elements for a long time. As it grows and eats, the magic power in the body continues to accumulate, and finally forms a qualitative change, condensing a magic crystal. The magic crystal not only stores most of the magic crystal in the body of the magic beast
of magic power, and can also help Warcraft stabilize and mobilize its magic power."
"Generally speaking, the more powerful the monster, the higher the quality of the magic crystal in its body."
Neither Zhenjin nor Zidi had any objection to Cang Xu's words. This was common sense.
Then, Cang Xu expressed his opinion: "I think that the magic power in the bodies of the magic beasts living on the island is chaotic. They cannot coordinate their magic power to make their own magic power stable and orderly. Because of this, the magic beasts cannot control the magic within their bodies.
The magic power, the magic power is in chaos, and the magic crystal cannot be formed."
Zidi nodded slightly and shook her head slightly: "It is true that magic crystals cannot be formed due to chaotic magic power. But this is only one of the possibilities that magic crystals cannot be produced. The key is Mr. Cangxu, how do you judge whether the magic power in these magic beasts is chaotic?
What about?"
This had to make Zidi suspicious.
Zidi herself is a black iron level magician, but she cannot use magic here, so she cannot investigate the magic state of the monster.
Cang Xu is just an ordinary person, not even a magic apprentice. How can he measure it?
Faced with Zidi's doubts and questions, Cang Xu calmly said: "I calculated it."
Then, the old scholar came up with a new opinion: "First of all, I think these monsters on the island are not naturally occurring. They are all man-made."
"Artificial Warcraft?!" Zhenjin and Zidi looked at each other and saw each other's surprised expressions.
As for the blue algae on the side, they had probably heard Cang Xu’s conclusion a long time ago and were not surprised at all.
"Then, how do you judge that these magical beasts are not naturally occurring? But are they artificially created?" Zhen Jin asked.
Cang Xu slowly explained: "Since entering the island, I have dissected many magical beasts and found that although they have a stable cycle and their organs and tissues cooperate closely, it seems that they are born this way, but when you really look into it, they are actually not natural."
Zidi frowned slightly, thinking about Cang Xu's words: "Unnatural?"
"Yes." The old scholar in front of him nodded, with a deep look, "They all lack natural charm. Don't you think that these magical beasts seem to be pieced together?"
Zidi pondered: "I once handled the body of a monkey-tailed brown bear. It was a silver-level beast that died in the hands of Lord Zhenjin. It had the tail of a monkey, the torso of a bear, and the palm of an orangutan, but the front part of its fingers
It has hard and slender iron claws."
"At first glance, this monkey-tailed brown bear looks like it is made up of orangutans, monkeys, and brown bears. But in fact, its internal bone structure is very reasonable. It has two hearts, and the rest of the internal organs can perfectly bear the burden.
Its physique.”
"I am a low-level mage. When I was studying, I invested the most energy in potions. I have collected a lot of materials and am familiar with the structure of most creatures. Although it is the first time I see such a monster,
I think their physiques are all very perfect and are not some kind of disability, mutation or useless body tissue. Is there anything unnatural about this?"
Zhen Jin's heart skipped a beat.
Zidi mentioned the monkey-tailed brown bear, which reminded him of the mutation in his hands.
In a desperate situation, his hands suddenly mutated and turned into sharp claws like a monkey-tailed brown bear, killing the eight-legged spider with one blow.
Afterwards, his hands returned to their original appearance.
Out of some psychology that she couldn't explain clearly, Zhenjin chose to conceal the matter and did not tell Zidi.
"Zidi is taking the initiative to show off my strength by mentioning this matter now." Zhen Jin immediately thought of Zidi's intention.
Sure enough, the next moment he saw Lan Zhao's eyes widening and looking at him with admiration.
Lan Zao admired from the bottom of his heart: "Master, your strength is really powerful!"
"Lord Zhenjin, your talent is astonishing. Your bravery and achievements will surely be widely praised." Cang Xu also agreed, and then looked at Zi Di again.
"Master Zidi, what you said is absolutely correct. I fully trust your judgment. Their life forms are indeed very reasonable and stable."
"I do not have the qualifications of a mage, nor have I been exposed to pharmacy, but I have been fortunate enough to read a lot of books. Some of these books are the histories of various families. These histories describe certain noble families in detail.
How to rise and how to manage their territory. Their early pioneering history was actually a confrontation with the environment and the use of human power to sort out the natural process."
"The contents recorded in these books include clearing out jackal thieves, resisting the tide of beasts, hunting wolves near the village, expelling wild boars from the crop fields, etc. In order to guide the future generations of the family, the sages who compiled these history books left behind many
The carefully drawn illustrations record in detail the shapes and habits of wild beasts, as well as how to resist and kill them more effectively."
"It is precisely because of these contents that I have benefited a lot. After some thinking in my stupid mind, I have also come to many superficial but interesting conclusions. This also makes me feel the unnaturalness of these beasts on the island."
"I found that beasts with horns on their heads are usually herbivores. Their horns are the main weapons used to defend themselves against predators."
"As for those relatively more ferocious carnivores, their teeth are longer and sharper, their muscles are more developed, and they are good at running, especially short-distance bursts. Some have fleshy pads under their claws, which is more conducive to them approaching quietly.
prey."
Having said this, Cang Xu's conversation changed slightly.
"Not long ago, where the yellow algae had not found us, it was a hilly area with relatively sparse forests, low temperatures, and occasionally a little snowflakes in the wind. That is the end of our current exploration, where we
With a startling glance, I saw a gold-level monster."
"It was an elk with huge white bone antlers on its head, like branches criss-crossing it. This elk eats meat rather than grass, and has a pair of huge snow-white wings on its back. I named it privately
It’s a white-bone feathered deer.”
"Although I only saw it in a hurry, I feel that its bone and flesh structure must be very reasonable and can stably and perfectly support its daily activities."
"But it's not natural. You see, its size is not suitable for flying. Its pair of huge wings only gives it the ability to glide. It eats meat, lives in nature, lives on the high end, and preys on other animals. But it
But it has horns. The horns are used for defense, but are not conducive to offense, are not conducive to it running and hunting, and are not conducive to it lurking and hiding.”
"Let's take the monkey-tailed brown bear that you killed. When the monkeys swing in the forest, their tails will keep their bodies balanced and stabilize their direction when they jump in mid-air. But the brown bear
Is it necessary? It is very heavy, what tree can bear it? Does it jump often? Does the monkey's tail grow on its body, do we feel a little redundant?"
"Besides, the orangutan's palm is similar to a human hand. The biggest difference from the claws of many beasts is that the orangutan has a thumb. This structure helps the orangutan grasp the branches when moving between trees. But in the hands of the monkey-tailed brown bear,
Such a palm has unexpectedly grown sharp claws. Isn’t this unnecessary?”
"That's what I mean by unnatural."
Seeing that the people in front of him were thoughtful, Cang Xu continued to talk.
"The first need of life is survival. The natural environment is cruel and harsh, and the beasts that can successfully survive and reproduce often have amazing survival skills. These skills are usually given by the organs in their bodies."
"For example, a mole has hard claws, and its shape makes it very convenient to drill holes. But it is almost invisible. In fact, it does not need to see, because the soil is dark and devoid of light. Instead,
It's its nose. It has a very keen sense of smell."
"This is life in nature. It has its strengths and weaknesses. In its body, its advantages and disadvantages are unified, allowing it to find its most suitable position in the cruel competition for survival with other lives.
Location."
"But let's look at these monsters on the island. They are too powerful. Their structure is very stable, but there are contradictions and conflicts with each other. Their place in nature is not clear."
"Just like the monkey-tailed brown bear that Lord Zhenjin killed, it needed a monkey's tail, but it didn't."
"Another example is the white-bone feathered deer. Does it need wide antlers? It doesn't need it either. The heavy antlers on its head are actually an obstacle to its hunting."