Ye An

As the shells were peeled away layer by layer, more and more skeletons appeared in front of the two of them.

In addition to the shattered human skull, the pair also found several leg and arm bones, as well as off-white fragments of no discernible shape.

Beside several broken arm bones, Ye An accidentally found a rusty dagger.

Due to being soaked in water for a long time, the blade was firmly embedded in the scabbard, and the mouth of the scabbard was completely rusted. Ye An used great strength to pull the dagger out.

As expected, the dagger was also engraved with fish patterns, and the edge was sunk into the back of the knife, which was exactly the same as the metal box found near the stairs.

"City Master Xiao, catch it."

Ye An retracted the dagger into its scabbard, and threw it to Xiao Yun in the air.

Xiao Yun held the handle of the knife with one hand, took out the blade for a closer look, and nodded to Ye An, proving his guess was correct.The dagger and the metal box do have a relationship and probably belong to the same owner.

With this discovery, the two were refreshed at the same time, and while searching for the bones, they walked along the corridor.

After walking about one-third of the distance, more than a hundred pieces of human skull fragments have been collected.Roughly put together, five or six complete skulls can be assembled.The rest are too broken to be pieced together, so they can only be stacked together to estimate the number of dead in the corridor.

When the two were busy, the shellfish attached to the wall and the top of the head were very quiet, and the mutated snails rarely moved. Only the sea anemones in the corners occasionally protruded their tentacles to collect the pieces of meat scattered on the ground, and occasionally swallowed a few pieces. Broken shells.

The opened shells have been piled up into hills and lined up along the sides of the corridor.Next to it are found skeletons and rusted weapons.

During the search, Ye An and Xiao Yun successively found several bones that did not belong to humans. Judging from the shape and size, they should not be mutant octopuses, but more like some kind of giant fish, or cetaceans living in the ocean.

"This is……"

After removing a broken bone with a diameter of more than half a meter, Ye An was surprised to find several metal boxes lying on the ground.

Like the dagger found before, the surface of the box is covered with rust, and the lid is firmly closed, covered with layers of rust, making it difficult to open with bare hands.

Ye An grabbed a shell, tried to pry it with the sharp edge, and then smashed it with the handle of a knife, but it was all in vain and useless.The force used was too great, and the box was directly crushed.

Hearing the sound, Xiao Yun came over to ask Ye An, picked up a metal box, looked through it carefully in his hand, and said to Ye An: "This should be a medicine box. It's been too long. Even if it's empty, the medicine will probably be effective." Not much left."

In order to verify what he said, Xiao Yun shook the metal box a few times, but did not hear any sound, then held the dagger behind his back, inserted it from the top of the box, and cut the lid in half on the spot.

A cool smell wafted out. In view of the lesson of the mutated octopus, Ye An instinctively covered his mouth and nose, and quickly backed away.

Xiao Yun waved his hand to him, indicating that it is not necessary.Then turn the cut box over and show him the inside.There is a thin layer of dark brown jelly on the bottom of the box, which is where the taste comes from.

Peel off the glue, and there's nothing else.

"This is wound medicine." Xiao Yun turned over the bottom of the box, pointed to the symbol engraved on it, and explained, "This is something from Haicheng, and it is clearly marked on it."

Ye An's eyes fell on the metal box, saw the mark on the bottom of the box clearly, and quickly moved to Xiao Yun.

He had too many doubts and guesses in his mind. He sensed the other party's emotions and hesitated a bit, not sure if it was the right time to speak.

Xiao Yun seemed to know Ye An's question, he was not as silent as before, and said directly: "I am from Haicheng."

"I heard that Haicheng disappeared 30 years ago." Ye An said.

"Yes." Xiao Yun flipped over the metal box, groped for the lines on the bottom of the box with his fingertips, and said in a deep voice, "Not long after I was born, my father went out to sea with a warship and never returned. Died in battle in the city, and was finally devoured by sea monsters. I was taken away by a wounded warrior and raised in a settlement."

The person who brought Xiao Yun out of Haicheng used to be Xiao Yun's father's right and left hand. He was injured in a battle and lost an arm, so he didn't go out to sea with the boat.After Xiao Yun became sensible, he told him everything he knew.

Due to being injured again on the way to escape, the wear and tear of his body reached the limit. Before Xiao Yun could become the Lord of the Hunter City, and he could not find out the whole truth of the year, the man died of regret.

Xiao Yun's words stopped here, and he didn't continue to talk.

Ye An recalled how the two traveled together several times, especially what happened in the ruins of Haicheng, and many questions were answered.

"Is this sunken ship from Haicheng? Including those maps?" Ye An asked.

"It should be right." Xiao Yun said.

Ye An took a deep breath, connected with everything he found on the island and the cave he passed on the way back, more guesses came into his mind, and he was about to tell Xiao Yun, when suddenly there was a tremor under his feet.

"what happened?"

The two men shivered at the same time, and quickly stood back to back, holding the long knife in their hands, with the blade slanted outward, alert to any possible danger.

At the end of the corridor, a large number of sea cucumbers with parasites rushed in like a tide. The movement was too big, which disturbed the shellfish and mutant snails on the wall, and the previous quiet atmosphere was instantly broken.

A large number of mutated snails fell from the wall, stretched out their arms and legs and crawled on the ground, stacking up at an astonishing speed, forming a protective net that reached the roof of the cabin, intercepting the sea cucumbers that rushed.

Shellfish of various colors and patterns flap their shells, and even without water, they can still stay in the air for a while.Taking advantage of this time, seashells piled up behind the mutated snail one by one, and adsorbed on it, forming a second line of defense.

The sea anemone in the corner also moved.

In Ye An's eyes, the palm-sized body suddenly began to swell, pulling out the body from the corners and crevices of the habitat like a carrot, and blocking it behind shellfish and mutated snails, the height exceeded two meters.

Tentacles with sticky liquid protruded from the gap between the shellfish and the mutated snail, and instantly grew to three or four meters, easily piercing into the sea cucumber's body and absorbing the sea cucumber's body fluid.

The sea cucumber shriveled quickly, and the parasite could no longer get any nutrients. It didn't want to be sucked together, so it had to separate from the host.

As more and more sea cucumbers are sucked, the number of parasites that escape from the host gradually increases.

In order to survive, some parasites actually changed in advance, passing through the stage of becoming a pupa, the outer skin split from the back, and directly broke out carnivorous mutant bees from inside.

These bees are very similar to the wasps Ye An saw, but they are bigger, and the patterns and colors of their bodies are also different.And adapt to underwater life in the alienation, the wings are no longer transparent, but more like bat wings, unfolded when flying, looking weird and scary.

The mutated bee broke free from its outer skin and spread its wings. It couldn't fly immediately, it had to spend a few seconds waiting for the wings to harden and unfold.

These few seconds are opportunities for sea anemones, shellfish and mutant snails.

More and more tentacles protruded from the sea anemone, flowing over the protective net composed of shellfish and mutant snails like a waterfall, covering the newborn mutant bees firmly without leaving any gaps.

The mutated bee tried to shake its wings, but to no avail.

Taking advantage of the gaps where they could not fly, the sea anemones continued to attack, and the largest mutated snail stretched out its arms and legs to catch the mutated bees on the ground. Once entangled, it would not swallow them, but tear them into pieces and discard them.

A large pile of eggs the size of rice grains appeared from the abdomen of the broken mutant bee. Once any creature ate these mutant bees, it would immediately become their host, and mutant snails and shellfish would not be spared.

Sea anemones are the only exception.

The mucus on their body surface is inherently toxic, and the unique digestion method makes it impossible for the mutated bee eggs to survive in their bodies, and will only be reduced to nutrients and slowly digested.

With more and more changed parasites, a mutant bee finally broke through the sea anemone's defense line, flapped its wings and flew up, aimed its sharp tail needles at the mutant snails and shellfish, and pierced them fiercely.

Once pierced, there will be conical cracks on the shells and snail shells, and the edges will be faintly black, obviously corroded by toxins.

This kind of wound caught Ye An's attention, and he quickly turned around and picked up a piece of skull. Sure enough, similar wounds were found on it, and it was not an exception. At least one-third of the skull fragments found had the same marks.

Xiao Yun also made the same discovery. The next moment, a mutated bee broke through the mutated snails and shellfish, and rushed towards the sea anemone waving its tentacles. The cold ice suddenly hit, and they joined together like a rain of arrows, and the mutated bee flying in mid-air They shot down one after another, and when they landed, their bodies curled up, and the eggs in their bodies were frozen into ice cubes.

The sea anemones, mutated snails, and shellfish in the battle conveyed emotions at the same time, which were clearly transmitted to Ye An's mind.

Have fun, fight.

Ye An tried his best to understand, the first attempt to assimilate this type of creature, the effect can't be said to be good, but it's not bad either.Through mutual contact, Ye An learned that these bottom cabin residents dislike mutant bees very much, and they have an endless relationship with each other. He also learned the characteristics and weaknesses of mutant bees through them, and immediately signaled to Xiao Yun.

"Don't get close to these bees, they are full of poison."

"The mother's body is frozen, and the eggs in her body will not die, so she must find a way to burn it."

The reason why these mutated bees can survive the shipwreck has a lot to do with this characteristic.The living organisms in the ship were unable to light fire, which resulted in the mutated bee eggs being able to survive for a long time, absorbing nutrients immediately upon encountering a host, and multiplying rapidly.

Knowing the characteristics of the mutated bees, Xiao Yun sacrificed more ice, and solidified the ice wall in the corridor, trapping most of the mutated bees in it, freezing the mothers to death with low temperature, and temporarily freezing the bee eggs.

Ye An retreated quickly to avoid direct contact with the mutated bees, and at the same time gave enough space for the sea anemone to intercept the bee swarm.Then he quickly searched in the corridor, pushed open the hatches one by one, and carefully observed the interior of the cabin.

He needs to find a cabin that can light a fire, gather these bee eggs and burn them to prevent future troubles!