The afternoon meeting was held in the tent.
There were four people in attendance.
needles, purple stems, gray beards, and cyanobacteria.
Several animal skin maps are spread on the ground.
One of the largest was placed in the center.
Needle pointed to the largest map and said, "This is a combination of Zidi and all the maps we have at hand."
Several people set their sights on this picture.
Upper north and lower south, left west right east.
At the northeast end of the hide map, an anchor is depicted.
Pin Jin pointed to the anchor mark: "This is the .asxs. from which your exploration team departed, and it is also the beach where the front of the Pig's Kiss ran aground. If the situation remains the same, there are still fifty or sixty people here, and the first mate of the Pig's Kiss is in control of the situation."
At the southeast end of the animal skin map, a fork is drawn.
The pin finger moved to the fork: "This is where President Ziti and I landed. On this beach, there are three landing dinghy."
From the fork and anchor, a curved route extends respectively. On the two routes, at every distance, words or pictures are marked.
These two routes represent the routes of the two exploration teams, Purple Di and Cangxu, respectively.
But these two routes did not come together, but came to an abrupt end in the middle. In the center of this big map is a large blank space.
Needle took out two other small maps and slapped them in the blank space of the large map.
One map depicts the desert terrain, and the other depicts the mountain forest landscape.
The focus is on the latter.
On the mountain map, prominent places such as mines, spider forests, and mountain springs where monkey-tailed brown bears live are depicted.
The two routes represented by the two exploration teams merged into one place at the point of the mountain spring.
The needle finger moved to the marker 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, to the drawing of the anchor.
No one objected.
This island prohibits low-level magic and fighting spirit, and is home to many unimaginably ferocious monsters, so it is necessary to unite all the forces that can unite as much as possible to cooperate in survival.
External rescue is out of reach and difficult to estimate, and it is even more reliable to rebuild the ship and set sail again.
The construction and operation of a sea ship cannot be succeeded by a few people alone.
"The difficulties before us are obvious, there are two." Needle continued, "The first one is the ferocious demonic beasts along the way. The second is the change in the landform here. What do you think?"
Cyanzao replied in a deep voice: "Master, if low-level magic and fighting spirit are not prohibited here, our strength will be greatly improved. But now to deal with these strange beasts, we can only fight hard with our flesh and blood. But no matter what, Huang Zao and I will be your swords, and wherever your eyes go, there will be sword clashes."
Cyanozae expressed his loyalty, nodded with gold, and was very satisfied with this attitude: "Then I look forward to your performance."
She looked at the cyanobacteria, looking quite confused: "Your statement is a bit strange. If low-level magic and fighting spirit are not prohibited here, then those fierce monsters will use the ability of various spells. We are strong, but they will also be more threatening than they are now."
"According to my guess, it won't be like this, Zidi-sama." Cangxu spoke, "I don't think the magical beasts on this island can use any spell-like spells."
"Oh? Why is there such a judgment?" Zidi then asked.
Cang Xu did not answer directly, but looked at Zhen Jin: "May I ask, my lord, have you found any magic crystals in the corpses of the demonic beasts you have exterminated?"
Needle shook his head: "So far, I haven't found a single magic crystal."
This is obviously not normal.
Cang Xu nodded: "Although we have not eliminated silver-level beasts along the way, we have also obtained a lot of bronze and black iron level demonic beast corpses."
"But we have never seen the existence of magic crystals."
"Why is this?"
"The formation of magic crystals is that magical beasts live in an environment full of elements for a long time, and as they grow and eat, the magic power in their bodies continues to accumulate, and finally a qualitative change is formed, condensing a magic crystal. Magic crystals not only store the vast majority of magic in the body of the monster, but also help the monster stabilize and mobilize the magic power."
"Generally speaking, the more powerful the magical beast, the higher the quality of the magic crystals in the body."
Cangxu's words, neither the needle nor the purple stem had any objection. This is common sense.
Then, Cangsu expressed his opinion: "I think that the magical beasts that survive on the island have chaotic magic in their bodies. They cannot coordinate their magic and keep their own magic stable and orderly. Because of this, the magical beast cannot control the magic in the body, and the magic power is chaotic, so it cannot form a magic crystal."
Zi Di nodded slightly, and shook his head slightly: "The magic power is chaotic, and it is indeed impossible to form magic crystals. But this is just one of the possibilities that magic crystals cannot generate. The key is Mr. Cangxu, how can you judge that the magic in the bodies of these demonic beasts is chaotic?"
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 in the monster's body.
Cangxu is just an ordinary person, not even a magic apprentice. What can he measure?
Faced with Zi Di's doubts and questions, Cang Xu calmly and calmly: "I calculated it."
Then, the old scholar threw out a new view: "First of all, I think these magical beasts on the island are not naturally generated. They are all man-made."
"Artificial magical beasts?!" Needle and Zidi looked at each other, and both saw each other's surprised looks.
As for the cyanobacteria on the side, he probably had heard Cangxu's judgment a long time ago, and there was no surprise at all.
"So, how can you judge that these magical beasts are not naturally generated? But is it artificially made?" Needle inquired.
Cangxu slowly explained: "Since entering the island, I have dissected many magical beasts and found that although they have a stable cycle and close cooperation between organs and tissues, they seem to be born like this, but when I really dig deeper, they are actually not natural."
Zi Di's brows furrowed slightly, pondering Cang Xu's words: "Unnatural?"
"Yes." The old scholar in front of him nodded, his eyes deep, "They all lack natural charm. Don't you think these magical beasts seem to have been put together?"
Zidi pondered: "I once disposed of the corpse of a monkey-tailed brown bear, which was a silver-level beast that died at the hands of Lord Needle. It has a monkey tail, a bear's torso, and an orangutan palm, but it has hard and slender iron claws growing on the front of its fingers."
"At first glance, this monkey-tailed brown bear looks like it is made of orangutans, monkeys, and brown bears. But in fact, the bone structure inside it is very reasonable. It has two hearts, and the rest of the internal organs perfectly bear its physique."
"I am a low-level mage, and when I was studying, I put the most energy into pharmacy. I have collected a lot of materials and know the structure of most living things. Although it was the first time I saw such monsters, I thought they were all perfectly physic, not disabled, mutated, or useless body tissues. What's unnatural about this?"
Needle Jin's heart jumped slightly.
Zidi mentioned the monkey-tailed brown bear, which reminded him of the changes in his hands.
In a desperate situation, his hands suddenly mutated and became claws like a monkey-tailed brown bear, fatally striking the eight-legged spider with a single blow.
Afterwards, his hands returned to their original appearance.
Out of some kind of psychology that he couldn't explain, Needle chose to hide this matter and did not tell Zi Di.
"Zidi is also taking the initiative to show my strength when she mentions this matter now." The needle immediately thought of a layer of purple stem.
Sure enough, the next moment, he saw cyanobacteria's eyes widening and casting admiring glances at him.
Cyanozae praised from the bottom of his heart: "Master, your strength is really powerful!"
"Lord Needle, your talent is amazing. Your bravery and achievements will also be widely praised." Cangxu also echoed, and then looked at Purple Root again.
"Master Zi Di, what you said is not wrong at all. I fully believe in your judgment that their life forms are indeed very reasonable and stable."
"I don't have the qualifications of a mage, and I have never been exposed to pharmacy, but I have had the honor of reading a lot of books. Some of these books are the histories of various families. These histories detail how certain aristocratic families rose to prominence and how they managed their domains. Their early pioneering history was actually a confrontation with the environment, using human power to sort out the process of nature."
"The contents recorded in these books include clearing out the gnoll thieves, resisting the tide of beasts, hunting wolves near villages, driving away wild boars in crop fields, and so on. In order to guide the descendants of the family, the sages who compiled these history books left behind many carefully illustrated illustrations, detailing the form, habits, and how to resist and kill them more effectively."
"It is precisely because of this content that I have benefited a lot, and after some thinking in my stupid mind, I have also come to many superficial but interesting conclusions. Thus, it also makes me feel the unnaturalness of these beasts on the island."
"I found that most beasts with horns on their heads are usually herbivores. Their horns are the main weapon used to defend against predators."
"And those relatively more ferocious carnivores, with longer and sharper teeth, are more muscular, and are good at Mercedes-Benz, especially short-distance bursts. Some have meat pads under their claws, which is more conducive to them quietly approaching their prey."
Speaking of this, Cang Xu's words changed slightly.
"Not long ago, we were not found in the place where the yellow algae had not yet been found, which was a hill with relatively sparse forests, low temperatures, and occasional snowflakes in the wind. That was the end of our current exploration, where we caught a glimpse of a gold-level monster."
"It was an elk, with huge bony antlers on its head, like branches crisscrossed. This elk eats meat and not grass, and has a pair of huge snow-white wings on its back. I privately named it the White Bone Feather Deer."
"Although it was only a hurry to see it, I think its flesh and bone structure must be very reasonable and can support its daily activities stably and perfectly."
"But it's not natural. You see, its size is not suitable for flying, and a pair of huge wings give it the ability to glide at most. It eats meat, survives in nature, lives in the high-end, and preys on other animals. But it has horns. The horn is used for defense, and is not conducive to attack, not conducive to its attack and hunting, and not conducive to its lurking and hiding."
"Let's take the monkey-tailed brown bear that adults killed. When the monkeys sway in the woods, their tails keep their bodies balanced, stabilizing their direction as they jump in mid-air. But do brown bears need it? It is very heavy, what trees can withstand it? Does it jump often? The monkey's tail grows on its body, does it make us feel a little redundant?"
"Besides, the biggest difference between the orangutan's palm, which is similar to a human hand, and the claws of many beasts is that the orangutan has a thumb. This structure helps orangutans grip branches as they move from tree to tree. But in the hands of the monkey-tailed brown bear, such a palm grew claws. Isn't this a redundant move?"
"That's what I mean by unnaturalness."
Seeing that the few people in front of him were thoughtful, Cangxu continued to talk eloquently.
"The first need of life is to survive. 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. It has hard minions, and its physique makes it easy to drill holes. But it is almost invisible. In fact, it does not need to be seen, because the soil is dark and has no brilliance. In its place, it is its nose. It has a very keen sense of smell."
"This is life in nature. It has its strengths and shortcomings. In its body, its advantages and disadvantages are unified, allowing it to find its most suitable position in the cruel survival competition with other living beings."
"But let's look at these monsters on the island, they are too powerful. Their structure is stable, but there are contradictions and conflicts with each other. Their place in nature is not clear."
"Just like the monkey-tailed brown bear killed by Lord Needle, it needs a monkey's tail, not a monkey's tail."
"Another example is the white-boned feathered deer, does it need wide antlers? Again, it is not necessary. The heavy antlers on its head are an obstacle to its prey."