Chapter 703: The End of the Tunnel

Joan recorded these thoughts about the "magic imprint" in the diary, and then returned to the corpse of the choker, and used the hemostat to pull out its teeth and chitin claws, and kept them as materials for transformation.

For the remaining corpses, Joan sprinkled out a handful of alchemy medicine, quickly dehydrated and air-dried them, made specimens, and put them in the specimen box.

So far, Joan's initial research on the choker has come to an end.

He still had some thoughts, so he took out a tooth that had just been pulled out from the mouth of the corpse, and used it as a material for casting the "transformation technique".

"Ahya!"

The moment the incantation was chanted, a circle of golden light enveloped Joan from head to toe.

After just a few seconds, he changed from a handsome human boy to a long-armed and long-legged choker monster.

Joan dragged a pair of long arms for a walk around the campfire, familiar with this flexible and elastic body.

At this time, the sound of swallowing saliva came from behind.

Joan stopped and turned around, seeing Gulu tentatively approaching him with a flattering expression on his face.

Joan stood still, looking at Gulu expressionlessly, and watching what it did.

Gulu approached Joan timidly, excited that his master had become his own kind.

Next, Gulu made various weird gestures, circled around Joan, and finally lay down on the ground.

Holden was helping Joann draw the anatomical diagram of the choker corpse. Seeing this strange scene, he couldn't help being curious, and came over to Joanne and asked:

"What does this little monster want to do?"

Hailar and Audrey walked over arm in arm, both surprised by Gulu's abnormal behavior.

Before Joann could answer Holden's question, Hailaer showed an ambiguous smile and rushed to say, "It looks like it's courting a mate."

"Oh! So it and Joan became the one...who is the mother?" Holden asked curiously.

Joan shook his shoulders, a golden light erupted from his body, he changed back to human form, and explained to his companions:

"The choker is hermaphroditic, heterosexual mating. In the relationship between the two parties, whoever is stronger and takes the initiative will embody male characteristics; on the contrary, the weaker party will embody female physical and psychological characteristics."

"Hmph! I hate this transformation, why didn't the strong one become a female?" Hailar asked angrily.

"Because they're not you." Holden spit out a sentence at the pinch.

"Joan, why are you interested in these ugly monsters, it looks really disgusting."

Audrey frowned slightly, and couldn't hide the disgust in her eyes.

"Because of curiosity."

Qiao An pondered for a while, and added a few more words softly.

"Knowledge is neither beautiful nor ugly."

"When I study strange things, I am actually rediscovering myself."

Audrey didn't quite understand what it meant to "re-understand oneself", but this didn't prevent her from thinking that Joan's words were very philosophical.

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After resting in the underground vault overnight, Joan, Hailar, and Zion siblings continued on the road early the next morning.

There is also a non-staff member in the expedition team, that is the choke monster "Gulu" that Joan subdued yesterday.

Gulu is very familiar with the environment in this area, and he is suitable to be the guide of the expedition team, leading the way ahead.

Before setting off, Joan first cast a spell to bless Gulu with "secondary spiritual connection" and "visual link" so that he can keep in touch with Gulu at any time and observe the situation ahead through his perspective.

Gulu, the guide, behaved very competently.

He could always choose a safe shortcut in the maze-like underground tunnels, and led the four of Joan to the deeper dark area, and arrived at the area where the tunnel exit was located within half a day.

The terrain in this area resembles a "flask".

Joan and the others are moving from the narrow "bottle mouth" to the wider "bottle belly".

However, when he was about to pass through the "bottleneck", Gulu, who was exploring the way ahead, stopped, hid behind a rock, and watched the tunnel exit vigilantly.

"Gulu, why stop?"

Joan asked through a telepathic connection.

Not long after, he received a telepathy from Gulu.

"Master, there is danger ahead, four big worms, monsters that bite people!"

Biting worms?

Joan frowned.

Gulu's expressive ability was really poor. Based on its description, Joan could only hear four dangerous creatures lurking near the exit of the tunnel, but he had no way of knowing what kind of creatures they were and how dangerous they were.

"Gollum, get close to where the monsters are lurking until you can see them clearly."

The choker was a little hesitant, but in the end he obeyed his master's order and climbed forward on tiptoe. At the same time, he was ready to activate his supernatural ability, and if the situation was not good, he would run away at full speed.

As Gulu moved forward, Joan also switched his perspective to Gulu, and gradually saw the "soft worm" it said.

On the rock wall near the exit of the tunnel, four dark mollusk creatures stuck to it.

These fat worms looked like large leeches or slugs, eight feet long from head to tail, with wet and slippery abdomens tightly attached to the wall, waiting for their prey to come to their door under the cover of darkness.

Joan kept Gulu at a safe distance, keeping a close eye on the group of soft monsters, and then informed his companions of the situation, and the four hurried to meet Gulu.

It didn't take long for the four of Joan to arrive at Gulu's location.

Hyrule, Audrey, and Holden all adjusted the brightness of the miner's lamp to the maximum, and three bright beams of light were cast towards the exit of the tunnel, dispelling the darkness and capturing the monsters lurking in the dark.

The four dark soft-bodied giant worms seemed unresponsive under the light, still attached to the wall, and seemed to be hesitant to escape from the illuminated area.

Illuminated by a miner's lamp, Joan looked 40 feet away and found that the mouths of these monsters resembled flowers, wriggling slightly under the illumination of the miner's lamp, and the inner walls of the "petals" were flesh-red, with a layer of shiny mucus attached.

However, when he looked carefully, he found that the "petals" were actually four everted tentacles with densely packed suckers growing at the ends.

Between every two tentacles, there is a huge black hook-shaped sharp tooth, and four hook teeth are arranged around the mouth, sometimes expanding outward, sometimes shrinking inward.

It is conceivable that when those giant slug-like monsters catch their prey with their tentacles, they will drag them to the mouth, use those four hook-shaped teeth to stuff the prey into the throat, and swallow the prey segment by segment, Digest slowly.

"Joan, what kind of monster is this? It looks really disgusting!" Audrey whispered in disgust.

Joan recalled the illustrations of many insect-shaped monsters in the "Vares Monster Illustrated Book", and made a guess after comparing them.

"Possibly 'burrowing snatchers,' worm-like aberrations that you can think of as larger and more dangerous leeches."

As for how dangerous it is, Joan didn't come to a conclusion lightly. He decided to use "advanced internal vision" to observe the details of the cave-dwelling monster first.

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