Chapter 2844 Heart-Snatching Giant Worm

On the third floor of Saul's laboratory, there is only one exhibit, which is the giant python-like worm raised in the salt water pool. Its thick body is coiled in the pool, and the body exposed to the water is as purple as the mind flayer. The mucus secreted by the watch reflected a shiny luster under the chandelier.

As if sensing the sound of footsteps, the giant worm raised its head buried deep in the pool and looked towards the stairs.

Qiao An was able to see the appearance of this strange insect clearly, and couldn't help but think of the "cave-dwelling monster" he had encountered many years ago when he was exploring in the "Ground Navel" tunnel in the Underdark Region.

This giant worm looks like an enlarged version of the cave-dwelling monster, with its head split into four parts, and four thick purple tentacles extending out, twisting and swinging constantly.

At the roots of the four tentacles, sharp beak-like mouthparts can be vaguely seen, reflecting the characteristics of cephalopods.

Compared with the giant worm's swollen and split petal-shaped head, its tail is extremely slender, about 60 feet long from head to tail, and the overall shape of the big head and thin tail is very similar to a huge tadpole.

tadpole?

Joan suddenly had an idea.

A purple tadpole with four tentacles extending from its head, isn't this the hatchling of a mind flayer?

At this time, the giant worm in the pool suddenly lowered its head, twisted its body, showing a gesture similar to a child acting like a baby to its parents, and at the same time sent a telepathy to Joan.

"Ah... Dear friends, my lucky fellow countrymen, please give me some food, Adam is so hungry..."

"Wow~ This giant worm is begging for food!"

Metatron raised his tentacles in surprise, apparently also receiving the telepathy from the giant worm.

"I'm sorry to make the two distinguished guests laugh. Don't think that I am abusing Adam. This poor child may have a psychological shadow left by an unfortunate childhood experience. He has an insatiable and pathological desire for food, even if it is not at all. If you are hungry, you will never let go of the food brought to your mouth."

Dr. Saul explained helplessly.

"You'd better feed him some brains, otherwise I'd feel really uncomfortable listening to his nagging pleadings."

Metatron looked sympathetically at the begging giant worm in the pool.

"Oh, Master Metatron, your heart is still so soft, it's really hard to help."

Dr. Saul turned around and clapped his hands, temporarily canceling the force field barrier surrounding the pool.

Two laboratory assistants pushed the dining cart over, dumped two large basins of bloody brains into the pool, and before the giant worm approached, quickly backed away, staring at the pool vigilantly until the force field barrier rose again Only then did the two mind flayers heave a sigh of relief.

"Brother Gnostic, please don't get too close to the pool. This guy Adam is very good at pretending to be pitiful, so we can't let our guard down on him."

Dr. Saul stretched out a tentacle and dragged the over-curious Gnostic brother back from the edge of the pool.

"One of my assistants was too careless when feeding Adam. He was suddenly attacked by this guy, dragged into the pool by him, and sprayed out acid to dissolve his body. By the time we rushed to save him, it was too late. That The brain of the hapless guy has been swallowed by Adam in one gulp."

Joan followed Dr. Saul's warning and kept a distance from the pool.

At the same time, the giant worm has stretched out four tentacles, nimbly grabbing food, and greedily sucking the brains. This eating method is exactly the same as that of the mind flayer.

There are various indications that this giant worm named Adam is closely related to the mind flayer. Either the mind flayer tadpole is parasitic on a giant supernatural insect host, or it is simply a mutant of the mind flayer tadpole.

Dr. Saul's next introduction confirmed his guess.

"Lord Metatron, Brother Gnostics, you can probably see that Adam is actually a mind flayer tadpole that hasn't undergone transformation and is constantly growing in size."

"According to the tradition of our mind flayer family, every citizen in the community will put the oocysts they have laid in the brain pool to raise them uniformly. Most of the tadpoles will wither and die after a long development period, decomposing into promoting tadpoles. In the end, only a very small number of strong and lucky tadpoles will be able to develop and mature, and with the assistance of adult mind flayers, they will be separated from the brain pool, implanted in the host body, and finally complete the transformation."

"Yeah, it's a growth stage we've all experienced first-hand," Metatron echoed.

"Then a natural question arises, what happens if we don't implant the mature tadpoles into the hosts they need for metamorphosis?"

Dr. Saul smiled slightly, asking and answering himself.

"It was with this question in mind that I created a large petri dish in my laboratory with the same ecological environment as the brain pool, except that there was no master brain, and then with the consent of the great Noah, from his brain pool Select a batch of mature tadpoles and transfer them to my artificial brain pool to conduct neoteny persistence experiments."

"What is 'juvenile persistence'?" Joan pretended to be stupid without losing the opportunity.

"Gnostic brothers, the so-called neoteny usually refers to the special phenomenon that amphibians remain in the larval stage for a lifetime." Dr. Saul explained, "Just like frogs and toads in nature, the mind flayers are actually supernatural amphibians. Biology, so I suspect that our tadpoles may also observe neoteny if certain conditions are met."

"This sounds very interesting, doctor, your experiment was successful, and Adam... this giant mind flayer worm, is it a sample of mind flayer tadpole nymph?"

"Brother Gnostic, what you said is strange and light, but the experiment process was not so smooth. I observed it for five years and killed three batches of experiment subjects, but I did not observe the expected phenomenon. In the end, almost all I am going to give up this subject, alas, it is full of bitterness, it is difficult to express it in words!"

Dr. Saul sighed.

This kind of frustration of waiting for the results of the experiment but still not being able to observe the significance, Joan has also experienced it before, and empathizes with Dr. Saul's bitterness.

"Doctor, how did you break through this dilemma?" Metatron asked curiously.

"Haha, I really want to say that with the spark of my own genius, I found a breakthrough in a flash of inspiration, but this is not true. Frankly speaking, the final success of this experiment can only be attributed to good luck. It was just a mistake. A random coincidence."

Dr. Saul laughed at himself, and then told Joan and Metatron about the twists and turns encountered in the research.

"In fact, at that time our laboratory was in a predicament of tight funds, and it was almost impossible to maintain it. In order to save money, we had to cut down some projects that could not produce results in the short term. The neonatal persistence experiment of mind flayer tadpoles was the first experiment. A project that got axed."

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