Chapter 314: Black Nest Sea Urchin |
Above the nearest patch of ruins floated a thick curtain of algae, hanging like drapes.
Behind the dark green algal curtain, fish shadows occasionally darted past in a flash.
Qin Ziwen cautiously used Insight first, observing from a distance.
Only after confirming that both the algal curtain and the fish swimming through it were just ordinary creatures did he slowly approach.
This abandoned underwater city was vast and silent.
Some luminescent fish creatures, along with some glowing aquatic plants, served as its only light sources.
"Baba ba ba," the little fish-man gestured beside him.
Pula helped translate, "Master, he says there's no danger inside. He used to come here often to play with friends. There are lots of little snacks here. It's just that occasionally, some black thorny balls are annoying, but those black thorny balls are slow, so there's no need to be afraid."
Qin Ziwen took the Hundred Jade Coral out from his mouth and swallowed another Deep Sea Oxygen.
After translation and communication through Pula, Qin Ziwen learned the true identity of the black thorny balls.
It was a creature resembling a sea urchin. The sharp spines on its body surface were highly toxic. It liked to hide among the seaweed and fed on it.
At the same time, they were highly aggressive. If they saw living creatures nearby, they would actively move closer and then stab the target with their highly toxic spines.
Not long after, Qin Ziwen saw what the little fish-man was talking about.
【Superhuman · Black Nest Sea Urchin: ☆☆☆】: Level 1 Paralysis Toxin.
A sea urchin nearly half a person's height was partially revealed among the algal clusters.
It was slowly extending its "Aristotle's lantern" — the common name for a sea urchin's chewing apparatus.
Like a sophisticated grinder, it sucked in the algae, then rotated, cut, and ground it.
"This can just serve as material for the 'Ancient Hunting Mausoleum,'" Qin Ziwen thought.
Originally, at the very beginning, he felt the requirements for the Ancient Hunting Mausoleum were high.
After all, it was ten different superhuman creatures.
Sometimes, you might not even encounter one in an entire map.
But everything fears comparison. Compared to the requirements of another Wonder Card, having Home hunt ten superhuman creatures didn't sound so difficult anymore.
The further into the later maps, the probability of encountering superhuman creatures also seemed to increase.
Sensing Qin Ziwen's approach.
The Black Nest Sea Urchin suddenly trembled.
It did not retreat. Instead, it floated slightly upward, hanging suspended in the water just like that.
The dense, numerous black spines on its body surface gently opened and closed with the rhythm of its breathing, like a trembling forest of needles.
Rolling once, the Black Nest Sea Urchin charged towards his direction.
Qin Ziwen retreated backward. This thing's aggression was actually this strong?
Luoen raised his arm. In Qin Ziwen's perception, an undercurrent surged out of nowhere, pushing the Black Nest Sea Urchin to roll backward, rapidly increasing the distance.
"Don't let it escape," Qin Ziwen immediately spoke.
Hearing this, Pula patted Luoen's shoulder, gesturing and explaining.
The little fish-man was stunned for a moment, glanced at Qin Ziwen, then spread his webbed palm and pressed it downward.
A torrent of water crashed down from above, smashing the sea urchin fiercely onto the roof of a building below.
The Black Nest Sea Urchin rolled once on the wall, scraping off large patches of attached barnacles and accumulated grime, but itself remained almost completely intact, with only a few sporadic white spots worn on the tips of several black spines.
"Quite hard," Qin Ziwen narrowed his eyes.
Staring at the black, thorn-like spines on the other's body, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind:
If he could collect these spines, then process them a bit, would they be good to make into arrows or weapons?
Such a hard natural material, and according to the Insight properties, it was also poisonous. Wasn't this a pure natural, animal version of the Poison Dart Tree?
Learning of Qin Ziwen's idea, Luoen said, "In our tribe, we sometimes also collect the toxin of the Black Nest Sea Urchin, but you must be careful during collection not to be pricked by its poisonous spines.
During the recent hunt for the Dry-eyed Snake, the long spears that extended from the snake puppets were coated with the venom of the Black Nest Sea Urchin.
After being poisoned, the body gradually stiffens completely, eventually becoming like stone. One has consciousness but cannot control the body, cannot even breathe, ultimately dying of suffocation."
After translation by Pula, Qin Ziwen silently judged that the Black Nest Sea Urchin's venom seemed like some kind of potent neuroparalytic toxin.
Cao Biansheng raised his Long Spear and cautiously approached.
Stabbing with his spear, he felt as if he was piercing some kind of hard shell.
After stabbing many times in succession, this Black Nest Sea Urchin kept rolling, nearly rolling onto Cao Biansheng several times.
Fortunately, with the little fish-man's cooperation, controlling the water flow to push it away each time.
Mogu stood at the rear, arms crossed over his chest, giving the Black Nest Sea Urchin a faint, disdainful glance. Such a weakling-level opponent was beneath him to bother with.
Watching these two rookies struggle so hard against one rookie-level opponent, Mogu finally said impatiently, "Its weaknesses are its mouth and its anus."
Cao Biansheng bit his lip, cursing inwardly. I'm not stupid, of course I fucking know its weaknesses are its mouth and anus.
But I also need to be able to hit them!
The light isn't strong to begin with, and the thing keeps wriggling.
How am I supposed to know where its ass is?
After being stabbed multiple times, the Black Nest Sea Urchin finally seemed to feel threatened. Its limited brain capacity made a judgment.
Rolling once, it prepared to hide within the buildings below.
But just after moving two steps, the surrounding water flow pressed in from all directions, forcibly trapping it in place.
Immediately after, an intense pain came from its rear!
Cao Biansheng let out a low roar, thrusting the Long Spear in with all his strength and giving it a fierce twist.
A large amount of transparent bodily fluid gushed out from the wound.
The sea urchin struggled violently a few times, but its movements became slower and slower, like a water bag that had been punctured, gradually drying up and shrinking.
Finally, it lay quietly on the building's surface, no longer moving.
After quite a while, on its body surface, a gray card slowly condensed.
Ordinary building card...
Qin Ziwen shook his head slightly. This thing's danger level wasn't low. Risking superhuman toxin, two superhumans hunting together, only dropped one ordinary building card.
Cao Biansheng picked up the card wanting to hand it over. Qin Ziwen waved his hand, signaling for him to keep it himself.
Compared to one ordinary building card, he valued the Black Nest Sea Urchin's corpse more.
If he could bring this thing back for breeding, wouldn't that be great? Then he'd have a continuous supply of poisonous spines to use.
Based on the recent encounter, Qin Ziwen had roughly figured out the movement speed of this Black Nest Sea Urchin.
As long as you were careful and remained vigilant, it wasn't easy to get pricked.
Afterward, led by Luoen, Qin Ziwen toured this underwater city ruin.
After the tour, he arrived at a definite conclusion — it had been picked clean, really fucking clean!
Apart from those Black Nest Sea Urchins, the rest were just some ordinary marine creatures.
He slowly floated upward, hovering above the city.
In the pitch-dark seawater, this city submerged at the bottom of the sea resembled a dead giant beast.
Qin Ziwen looked down below and sighed silently. The abandoned underwater city had been found, but how could he take it away?
Surely, he couldn't just take out a card and have it go "whoosh," sucking the entire city in, right?
"Hmm?"
Qin Ziwen raised an eyebrow.
He hesitated for a moment, then took out the Wonder Card shimmering with five-colored light.
In an instant, brilliant light erupted.
The five-colored flowing light from the Wonder Card surged out, completely engulfing the city below.
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