Chapter 337 The Witch's Egg (Ⅰ)

Liyanan noticed that Joan's face was gloomy, and guessed that he was in a bad mood, so she patted him on the shoulder and changed the subject.

"Stop talking about such nonsense, and come with me—there's something good for you!"

Joan nodded, reluctantly pretending to be very interested, and followed Li Yanan to the body of the snake dragon girl.

Liyanan walked around the corpse of this old enemy, and finally stopped in front of its dragon head.

With a slight lift of the hand, the two "electric light blades" inserted obliquely at the waist automatically pop out of the scabbard, turning into two streamers and shooting at the body of the snake dragon girl. Under Li Yanan's remote control, the snake dragon girl's body The abdomen is cut open.

A large mass of bloody intestines gushed out from the wound, Qiao An only felt disgusted in his eyes, and didn't understand whether Liyanan's actions were purely venting anger or ulterior motives.

Just when he was secretly confused, he accidentally found a ball of green ball slipping out from the cut open abdomen of the snake dragon girl.

"found it!"

Regardless of the blood everywhere, Li Yanan picked up the green oval object as big as the mouth of a bowl and showed it to Joan excitedly.

"This is the egg of the snake dragon girl."

Joan approached and observed, and found that the shell of the egg held in Liyanan's hand was green, thin and translucent. Through the light, it could be vaguely seen that the egg was filled with viscous liquid, and there was a group of small embryos suspended in it.

Although the limbs of the embryo are not yet fully developed, it is not difficult to see from the blurred outline that its body shape is very similar to that of the snake dragon, and it also presents three characteristics of dragon, snake and human body.

"The snake dragon girl spends most of her life gestating her own offspring, but this egg will only fully mature at the moment of the mother's death."

Li Yanan held up the green monster egg and explained it to Joan.

"If we leave the body of the snake dragon girl alone, the egg will hatch in her body within a day, and the larvae that break out of the shell will use the mother's body as food, constantly eating its flesh and blood, and the body will grow rapidly .”

"When the larva completely devours the mother body, it has grown to the juvenile stage, and thus has the ability to survive without the mother's skeleton and go hunting on its own. After about seven years of growth, it will transform into an adult snake dragon girl."

"That is to say, creatures like snake dragon girls are parthenogenetic, and they can give birth to offspring without a spouse?" Joan asked Liyanan curiously.

Li Yanan shook her head with a smile.

"It's not very accurate to say that. The snake dragon girl didn't conceive a new life in her body from birth."

"They have to try to hunt humanoid creatures after reaching maturity, and then swallow them after mating with each other, just like a female praying mantis treats her mate, and then an initial egg will form in her body."

"In order to promote the development and growth of this egg, the snake dragon girl must constantly lure and eat humanoid creatures, and provide continuous nutrition for the eggs in her body until the moment her life ends."

"When the mother dies, if the eggs in the body have absorbed enough nutrients, they will break out of the shell. The characteristics of the hatchlings born from this are very similar to those of the humanoid creatures that the mother swallowed during her lifetime, such as a snake dragon girl before her death. An elf, then the human body part of its offspring is like a female elf."

"It is for this reason that most snake dragon girls prefer to trap strong and beautiful prey in order to provide their daughters with better genetic talents. As for goblins and other ugly and wretched creatures, they don't bother to catch and eat them, lest they pollute their genetics. factors, producing less than perfect offspring."

These anecdotes told by Li Yanan were not even recorded in the "Wares Monster Illustrated Book". Joan listened with gusto and felt deeply that the world is full of wonders.

"Ms. Liyanan, since the snake dragon girl can only give birth to one egg in her entire life, and can only conceive and mature after her own death, then counting the accidental death, isn't the number of this race continuing to decline? Even if they No matter how long the lifespan is, I am afraid that the day of extinction is not far away."

Joan said thoughtfully.

"First of all, I have to admit that the fertility of the snake dragon girl is indeed very low, and the number of herds is indeed shrinking, becoming more and more rare, and even becoming an endangered creature."

"However, the eggs laid by the snake dragon girl may not only hatch one larva, and there are also cases of twins or even triplets."

Li Yanan smiled, held up the egg in her hand and stared at it for a long time, then said:

"Of course, most eggs contain only one hatchling, like this one in my hand, so all in all the gnome is still a sad creature doomed to extinction, and given their vile nature, we don't need Regret their fate."

Qiao Anxin nodded in sympathy.

It's a pity that monsters like the snake dragon girl are completely extinct, but if there are too many of them, it will bring disaster, so it's better to be extinct.

"Most of the creatures with long life spans and few in number in the world have extremely high medicinal value, and the eggs of the snake dragon girl are no exception."

Li Yanan threw the egg high in her hand, and when Joan was worried that she would break it, she grabbed it again, and said to him with a smile:

"It's already here, why don't you come to my house and help me concoct this egg into a magical alchemy potion?"

"How amazing?"

"Secret it first, you will know after the refining is successful."

Liyanan winked at Joan playfully, and wrapped his left hand around his arm. A teleportation light array rose from under his feet, and he flew back to the forest hut where he lived in seclusion in an instant.

After arriving home, Li Yanan immediately got to work. First, she prepared the alchemy equipment one by one, and then put the eggs of the snake dragon girl into a ceramic reaction kettle, served with various herbs, and ignited the fire with magic.

Joan was in charge of helping Liyanan process the medicinal materials, and found that there were many medicinal herbs in her home, all of which were rare species that he had only seen in books before.

These medicinal materials could not be bought even in Yangbo Trading Company, Qiao An saw that his eyes were hot, so he cheekily asked Li Yanan to give him some.

Liyanan readily granted his request, and her generosity didn't stop there.

The ceramic cauldron was bubbling and bubbling, and the complex alchemical reaction lasted for two hours before it ended.

When Liyanan lifted the lid, an indescribable strange fragrance immediately wafted out.

Including the eggs of the snake dragon girl, all the medicinal materials have been boiled into a pot of green and viscous liquid, which looks like herbal porridge.

Li Yanan quickly poured the pot of medicinal liquid into two wooden bowls, handed Joan a bowl, and urged him to drink it while it was hot.

Joan was holding this bowl of green color, it looked a bit disgusting and gooey, and he couldn't put his mouth down.

However, seeing Liyanan gobbled it up, she stopped hesitating, gritted her teeth, and swallowed the sticky liquid.

For some reason, as soon as she drank the bowl of medicinal porridge, Qiao An felt her eyelids heavy and couldn't help but want to doze off.

Turning to look at Liyanan, she found that she was also yawning, with a drowsy look on her face.