Elven King of Bugs

Three days later.

In the past three days, Bai Chen has been heading towards the target area.

EMI Forest is located to the northwest of EMI City. When entering EMI Forest from EMI City, you must pass through most of the forest to reach the northwest area of ​​the forest.

Considering that the deeper the forest, the more dangerous it becomes, Bai Chen gave up on the quickest straight-line route and chose to head west, go some distance and then change direction to the north.

In this way, Bai Chen can avoid stepping into the center of the forest and reach the northwest region relatively safely.

The cost of taking a detour is that the originally one-week journey is extended to ten to twelve days.

The time limit agreed between him and Gu Jie was forty days. Considering the time required for the return trip, Bai Chen only had twenty days at most to find Sanbee and the "terrible sweetness".

Even though [-] days seems like a lot, in fact treasure hunting is the most time-consuming process. The northwest area of ​​EMI Forest alone is quite large. If you want to search this place with the power of one person and one needle, you will need at least one person. months time.

Coupled with other time-consuming things, such as accidents that may occur along the way and other things Bai Chen needs to complete, twenty days may not be enough.

"It can't go on like this."

Early that morning, Bai Chen washed his face next to the stream. A cold feeling spread from his cheeks throughout his body. As soon as he was refreshed, he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

If he continues to be distracted by other things, delaying the already tense journey

There is a risk of not being able to meet deadlines.

"You have to put other things aside for a while. If you still have enough time when you find the target item, you can then consider the poisonous formula and conquering the elves."

Compared with the 100 million commission, the other two goals are obviously not as urgent. Even if the trip is not completed today, you can visit the forest again another day.

"That's it. I decided to speed up my pace and try not to stop except for rest."

After making a decision, Bai Chen simply packed his luggage, called the Sting Bee who was grinding the poisonous sting on his arm with a stone, and set off for the northwest area of ​​the target.

Sometimes God just likes to joke, so Bai Chen made up his mind to cover his head and rush on the road. Unexpectedly, not long after setting off, a warning signal came from the Needle Bee.

This situation is not unfamiliar to Bai Chen. Whenever the Needle Bee encounters a wild elf that exudes a dangerous aura, he will send such a signal to Bai Chen.

Usually Bai Chen's reaction is: hold the tail of the giant needle bee and ask the giant needle bee to take him up to the sky to observe, and choose to get closer or take a detour depending on the situation.

The body structure of the Needle Bee is not suitable for manned flight, and Bai Chen's physical strength is not enough to support him holding the Bee Bee for a long time. After all, the body surface of the Needle Bee is difficult to grasp, and it is easy to be caught by maintaining this posture. The poisonous needle in the tail pricked me.

But it’s not difficult to do it holding a giant sting wasp in a short period of time.

Originally, Bai Chen wanted to take a detour directly. His current situation was not suitable for causing trouble, but after thinking about it, he felt it was a pity. If an insect-type elf who rarely liked him appeared, he would be in big trouble. .

The schedule is not too urgent, and it doesn’t take much time to take a look.

Bai Chen quickly convinced himself and skillfully hugged the yellow and black tail of the giant needle bee.

The giant needle bee flew up to an altitude of more than ten meters, and without wasting any time, flew directly to the place where the aura was emitted.

In order to prevent him from accidentally getting rid of Bai Chen, he thoughtfully slowed down on purpose.

Soon, Bai Chen saw the elves pointed by the giant needle bee from a bird's eye view.

It was a group of strange-looking bugs, with an orange body and three pairs of legs. The front pair was larger and had sharp toes. On its head was a pair of disproportionately large Kazilan eyes. There were two pale trees growing on its back. Red mushroom with yellow spots.

“It’s actually Paras”

Bai Chen's mood was very complicated. If he had met her at any other time, Bai Chen would have screamed with joy, but now it was a bit embarrassing at this time.

Forget it, it's better than having the Three Bees on one side and Paras on the other, a situation where you can't have your cake and eat it too. Overall, it's still worth being happy about.

Paras is an insect and grass type elf. He has the racial talent of releasing mushroom spores and powder-type moves through the mushrooms on his back. This talent can be put into better use in Paras, whose characteristic is spores.

The spores on Paras's back are one of the main ingredients of the highly toxic formula, Bai Chen's goal for this trip.

The main effect of the highly toxic formula developed by Bai Chen is to paralyze the opponent. Because of this, the formula materials are closely related to the so-called paralysis state.

When it comes to paralysis, most people think of the use of static electricity and electric energy. However, in addition, the paralysis powder moves and racial abilities mastered by some grass or insect elves can also put opponents into paralysis. role.

The source of paralysis powder is the scale powder of insect-type elves. The racial ability mainly refers to the elves with spore characteristics. Scale powder and spores are the main materials of highly toxic formulas.

Of course, it doesn't mean that just finding a few elves and using their spores or scale powder can solve the problem.

Just as the toxins mastered by each poison-type elf must be unique, the spores and scale powder on different elves also have different effects.

Take the mushroom spores released by Paras as an example. Some individual spores can make the inhaler drowsy, some individual spores can cause more significant paralysis, and some individual spores can effectively reduce physical strength and affect body functions.

Explained in gamification terms, different spores will bring three effects: sleep, paralysis or poisoning.

The situation in reality is more complicated than in the game. Abnormal states can be superimposed. It is not a fantasy for one spore to bring several abnormal states at the same time.

There may not be many spores that bring several abnormal states at the same time, but Bai Chen's goal is not such rare items, but spores that can create a powerful paralysis state.

This group of Paras is undoubtedly a good source of materials.

"Needle Bee, get down."

Thousands of thoughts flashed through Bai Chen's mind. Finally, he decided to seize this opportunity and obtain the main ingredients of the poisonous formula from these paras.

It may take some time, but after passing this village there will be no such store, so I will lose two hours of sleep at most.

After landing dozens of meters away from Paras, Bai Chen slowly approached Paras from directly in front so as not to disturb Paras and be regarded as an enemy.

However, this is unlikely to happen.

Under the influence of the power of insect control, Bai Chen is like a good friend in the eyes of Paras. Seeing Bai Chen's visit, the Paras did not have any overreaction, and some Paras even waved their hands happily. Claws came to greet Bai Chen.

A rough estimate is that there are about twenty Paras, ranging in size from big to small, and the sizes of the mushrooms are also different.

The mushrooms on some Paras' backs grow so huge that they almost cover the entire back. This is a sign that Paras is about to complete the evolution of Paras.

It also means the death of insect consciousness.

Paras is a very magical elf. The mushrooms and bugs on his back grow together, constantly eroding the body's nutrients. When the mushrooms absorb sufficient nutrients, they will evolve.

After evolving into Parasite, the one who truly controls the body and issues action instructions is no longer the consciousness as a bug, but the big mushroom on his back.

The dominance of consciousness changes from worm to parasitic mushroom

Unlike the urban legend of eating Picoxi and evolving into Gengar, this is a true horror story.

At least Bai Chen can't imagine at all, if he conquers Paras, how will he view this evolutionary process when Paras reaches the edge of evolution?

Accept the fact of consciousness transformation

Is the Paras who evolved like this still the original Paras?

Bai Chen knew that this was a natural growth process, but he still felt a little uncomfortable inside.

Because of this, he has no intention of conquering Paras, and even if he does, he will not let Paras evolve.

Well, maybe looks and potential are the real reasons