Chapter 2842 Heart Erosion Ooze Monster

Scouting Target: Huge ooze (psychic subspecies)

Life Level: Level 15

Attributes: Strength 18, Dexterity 16, Constitution 21, Intelligence 20, Wisdom 15, Charisma 19

Special Abilities: ooze traits, blindsight, formlessness, fear of fire (weakness); devour memory, split avatar; psionic powers (manifestation level 15; known powers: read thoughts, telekinesis, telekinetics, Brain Lock, Psionic Any Door, Brainwave Gun), Others (Unidentified)

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The heart-eating ooze monster has an intelligence attribute as high as 20. No wonder it can awaken a variety of psychic powers, including a "psychic control technique" that Joan has not yet mastered.

It's a pity that with Metatron and Dr. Saul present, it's not convenient for him to extract juice from the heart ooze monster.

Metatron was also curiously looking at the heart-corroding ooze monster, but his focus was different from Joan's.

"Doctor, is there any limit to the ability of the heart ooze to swallow its prey and reproduce it? If it can infinitely copy any creature it can swallow, wouldn't it be possible to create endless slaves out of thin air with a heart ooze Army?"

"Haha! Master Metatron, you have raised a good question. Of course, the ability to replicate the Heart-Eating Ooze is not omnipotent, and there are quite a few restrictions!"

Dr. Saul explained with a smile.

"First of all, a heart ooze cannot devour prey that is larger or has a higher life level than itself."

"In addition, as you can see, the heart ooze monster is a large group of semi-fluid jelly. This jelly that contains spiritual energy is the raw material for kneading puppets, and it can only extract half of the body at most. Gel is used to shape the puppets, so at most you can only create puppets whose total weight is half of your own."

"Not only is the weight of puppets limited, but the number and distance are also strictly limited."

"With the intelligence level of the heart-eating ooze monster, it can only control 7 puppets at the same time within 120 feet at most, and it will not be able to command any more."

"If the distance between a certain puppet and the heart-eating ooze monster exceeds 120 feet, there will be a serious delay in the conduction of spiritual commands, causing the puppet to be unable to respond to the master's commands in time, and become extraordinarily clumsy."

"The two of you must have noticed that there is a thread like a spider's silk connecting the heart-eating ooze monster and the puppet, which is a channel for transmitting psychic energy."

"The heart-eating ooze monster needs to transmit energy and instructions to the puppet through this pipeline, and it can also use the puppet as the starting point to display psychic powers. If this pipeline is cut off, the puppet will lose its energy supply and automatically decompose into a puddle of mud. colloids."

"The pipe that transports the spiritual energy looks very slender, will it be easily torn off?" Metatron asked worriedly.

"That's not enough."

Dr. Saul displayed "psychic control" through the force field wall, pulled out a dagger from the waist of a nearby Dilo dwarf, and remotely slashed the dagger at the transparent thread connecting the Dilo dwarf and its owner.

The sharp blade cut the thread and was immediately bounced off. The seemingly fragile thread was still intact.

"This thin line is formed by drawing the colloid in the heart-eroding ooze monster. It is infused with spiritual energy to strengthen its toughness. Ordinary swords cannot hurt it at all. Only spiritual weapons or magic weapons can cut it."

After visiting the heart-eating ooze monster, Joan and Metatron followed Dr. Saul to the second floor of the laboratory.

The layout of the second floor is different from that of the first floor. It is divided into four independent exhibition areas by force field walls.

The space in two of the areas is relatively small, at best they can only be called "showcases", and the imprisoned in them are "Fear Phagocytosis" and "Octopus Claw".

Both of these monsters have characteristics similar to beholders. Back then, the mind flayers had dropped them on Udinos to harass the beholders, deliberately stimulating the sensitive and fragile nerves of the "giant-eyed tyrants" for fun.

Joan had personally experienced the harassment incident, and lived in Udinos and Odis in the form of beholders and mind flayers for a long time, but until now he still can't understand two things:

Why do beholders go crazy when they see creatures that look like themselves? Don't they know that looks are born, and people can't help themselves, and they didn't intend to grow like that to make them angry?

Mind flayers treat their compatriots with affection, righteousness and courtesy, but they are stingy at giving even a little bit of love and etiquette to creatures other than compatriots. Instead, they take pleasure in torturing innocent people with stimulation. Sadist?

If you can't understand these two mentalities, it means that no matter how you look like, no matter how hard you try to follow the customs, you will not be able to truly identify with the beholder or the mind flayer from the psychological level, and you will not be able to truly integrate into the society of the two.

When living in human society, Joan often felt out of place with the people around him. Every time he encountered a wall, he would intensify his doubts about his own human identity. He felt that the reason why he could not integrate into human society was that he was not a human in essence, but a monster.

However, when he stepped out of human society and tried to find a sense of belonging among monsters, he was still out of place in the end.

He couldn't find a sense of belonging in Udinos or Odes, but he became more and more aware that he was still a human being in essence, and he had an unprecedented desire to return to human society.

This kind of at a loss mentality made it hard for him to let go. Standing in front of the showcase, he couldn't help but have a question in his mind:

Wandering souls will eventually land, and sooner or later they have to define their own identities. When that moment comes, will you choose to be a human, a beholder, or a mind flayer?

This is an inescapable question.

Joan is still unable to make up his mind, and needs more time to experience and think, until he finally makes a choice between the three without hesitation.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Joan followed Dr. Saul to the exhibition area opposite the hall.

The space in this area is more open, and it is also divided into two compartments. On the left is a tentacle beholder imprisoned, which is also the old face that attacked Udinos back then.

The right compartment imprisoned a humanoid monster, about ten feet high from head to toe, with a dark red body, a ferocious face and horns on its forehead, all showing distinct demonic features, and densely dotted with spots on its body. It seems to be still blinking.

Taking a closer look, the large and small dark spots on the monster's body are all eyeball-like organs. They blink from time to time, revealing crazy and menacing gazes. The moment they look at each other, Joan Can not help the scalp numb.

Suppressing the feeling of disgust, Joan looked up and down at the monster separated by a wall, and found that many eyeballs grew irregularly on the chest, back, face, neck, shoulders, top of the head, fingers, and even the soles of the feet. The eyeballs made a rattling sound, just hearing this weird movement made one's hairs stand on end.