Purple star beetle (4)
Shi Jianxia and the others were not very close to Shi Wuyu, at least a few hundred meters away. When Jun Xiaoyi's voice fell, Shi Wuyu raised his head as if he had sensed something, and looked straight in the direction of the few people.
Wen Qiuqiu happened to look over and met his eyes. She couldn't help but say, "What a keen perception."
The aura in the insect-occupied area is mixed, and mental perception will be greatly weakened. It is not easy to detect the situation hundreds of meters away in just a few seconds.
"What is he doing?" Xia Shuxing asked curiously.
The chestnut-haired boy was carrying a white medicine box with a red cross in the middle. It looked ordinary and no different from an ordinary medicine box.
From time to time, he would put the medicine in his hand back into the medicine box and take out new ones. The medicines were of different colors, some were red like a pool of blood, and some were transparent like boiled water.
Every time he took out a bottle of potion, he would tentatively drop a drop on the parasite under the crooked tree. The potion would silently sink into the parasite's bluish-white skin, and then the parasite would start to go crazy -
Specifically, it manifests itself by jumping headfirst, running around trees, lying on the ground, and making loud noises...
His behavior is quite strange, as if he has been bewitched.
"Is he doing some experiment?" Shi Jianxia answered hesitantly.
"Do you want to go over and take a look?" Jun Xiaoyi asked.
Before the three of them could make a decision, Shi Wu Yu, who was sitting on the crooked tree in the distance, had already raised his hand and waved to them, looking quite excited, like a trapped person who had been trapped in a group of zombies for a long time and was finally waiting to be rescued.
It's just that his expression and behavior are too relaxed, and it doesn't seem like he's trapped at all.
"Do you want to go over?" Jun Xiaoyi asked again.
"He's from Fengyan Military Academy." Xia Shuxing pointed out the other party's identity and was reluctant to go and rescue him.
Shi Jianxia glanced at him and said, "He's waving so vigorously, let's go over and take a look."
Xia Shuxing was furious at her look.
Although this midterm exam was not explicitly stated to be a team exam, since we were divided into groups, everyone should be responsible for their own team members. It was obviously abnormal for the other party to be trapped alone in the crooked tree. It was impossible that his teammates would suddenly encounter an accident and have their exams terminated less than two hours after the competition started, right?
Jun Xiaoyi also felt strange, but also wanted to go over and see what the chestnut-haired boy was tinkering with.
Wen Qiuqiu, who always stood on the same side as them, kindly explained, "He might have been separated from his teammates while escaping."
This is not uncommon. Although this insect-infested area has been cleared and used as an examination area, it is hard to say whether there are any that have slipped through the net.
Before the exam, the instructors also reminded all the candidates to pay attention to their own safety. There are level five parasites in the insect-occupied area. If you can't defeat them, run away quickly. If you are injured or even lose your life due to your own aggressive behavior, the military academy will not be responsible.
Xia Shuxing said "oh" dryly and followed them.
Jun Xiaoyi warned: "Those two curved earthworm parasites are both level three, everyone be careful."
As he spoke, he had already released the dandelion.
Fist-sized balls of fluff flew forward with the wind, and when they reached the crooked tree, they scattered into wisps of small fluff. Some fell to the ground, some flew to the treetops, and some floated onto the parasites, quickly taking root and sprouting.
The power of the cattail fly turned into fragments and scattered in Jun Xiaotyi's body. He went to find the director of the research institute who helped him suppress the cattail fly's consciousness. With the director's advice and help, he used his own power to slowly erode those power fragments, and unexpectedly found that the mimicry potential level and combat level had been improved.
This shocked him greatly, especially the slowly increasing potential level. Since it had not yet been upgraded from B level to A level, no one except him had noticed this for the time being.
Jun Xiaoyi knew very well what the improvement of his mimicry potential level meant. Once exposed, the attention focused on him would definitely be far greater than it is now, and Zhuang Mingyue might not be able to protect him by then.
For the sake of his own life and his limited freedom, Jun Xiaoyi chose to put the matter aside for the time being.
Now, the combat level of Dandelion Mimicry has been upgraded to Level Three, which is more than ten times faster than its original improvement speed. Therefore, the flying dandelion fluff can take root in the Level Three parasite to absorb its power and feed back useful information.
Xia Shuxing looked sideways when he saw him accurately describe the type and level of the parasite.
Before he could take a closer look, he saw Xia and the other two moving towards Shi Wuyu. He could only look away, feeling somewhat suspicious.
After suffering a crushing defeat to Shi Jianxia and Jun Xiaoyi in the freshman camp competition, Xia Shuxing carefully studied the mimicry of the two.
Shi Jianxia's "Classic of Mountains and Seas" can summon too many secondary mimics, so the gains are limited, but he has mastered Jun Xiaoyi's dandelion mimicry.
If I remember correctly, Shi Wuyu's location is outside the monitoring range of Dandelion. Could it be that Jun Xiaoyi's mimicry level has also been improved?
Previously, the combat level he displayed in the League Five Points Tournament was only level two, and if it were to be improved further, it would be level three.
Xia Shuxing was shocked by his own guess. It was shocking, unexpected and unbelievable that Xia could raise the combat level of some of the mimics to level three in a short period of time. If Jun Xiaoyi also had the strength of level three, it would be too outrageous.
Or do they have mastered the secret to quickly improve the level of mimicry combat?
Xia Shuxing glanced at Shi Jianxia and Wen Qiuqiu with suspicion. He wanted to ask about their current combat level, but he was a little hesitant to open his mouth.
While he was hesitating, several people had already arrived not far from the crooked tree.
The two parasites seemed to have smelled the scent of delicious food. The parasites that were running wildly around the crooked tree slowed down a bit. No matter how their bodies ran, their heads kept looking in the direction of Shi Jianxia and others. Their necks were almost twisted into a knot, but they were still stubbornly connected to their bodies by that layer of skin and flesh.
The parasite of the pupa on the ground also half-crawled up, its cloudy eyes rolled strangely, and a strange hoarse sound came from its mouth. There was even turbid yellow liquid flowing from the corner of its mouth, which was quite disgusting.
"Hello, friends of Nan Teng! Can you rescue me? I have been trapped here by these two parasites for more than half an hour." Shi Wu Yu held a bottle of medicine in one hand, his face full of distress.
Before awakening his mimicry, he never thought that he would deal with medicines. As an amnesiac and medical idiot, he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse to have an SS-level mimicry medicine box.
He could take out all kinds of potions from his medicine box, but there were no detailed descriptions, and they were only distinguished by color. Some potions were very similar in color, and he was in a mess when using them. Therefore, even though the level of mimicry combat increased extremely quickly, his combat power was completely unable to match it.
"Of course no problem." Shi Jianxia Xiao responded, released Bifang, and merged with it to fight.
Bifang had also reached level four mimicry, and her combat power was incomparable to that of her time on Shuiyuan Star. As soon as the Bifang Fire appeared, its scorching heat caused Xia Shuxing, who was closest to her, slight discomfort.
The Azure Sea Dragon is a water mimic and naturally repels fire. Xia Shuxing sensed the power contained in the Bifang Fire and suddenly looked at Shi Jianxia, "Have you reached level four?"
Shi Jianxia responded calmly, "Good luck."
Xia Shuxing showed an incredible expression. He trained day and night, absorbing the highest quality insect crystals for his mimicry, but it had just been upgraded to level four. Shi Jianxia's main mimicry potential level was only C-level, but the secondary mimicry had also been upgraded to level four. How could it be explained by just good luck?
No matter how shocked Shi Jianxia was, he controlled the Bifang fire and transformed it into a long dragon of fire that attacked the two parasites.
The crimson flames rose high, and the parasite, which was only at the third level, was no match for her. After howling in pain, it turned into ashes and fell to the ground, leaving only two light purple insect crystals the size of pigeon eggs.
朏朏 and the nine-tailed fox jumped out of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and ran over. They each picked up one and put it in their arms, then quickly slipped back to Shi Jianxia and handed the insect crystals to her as if to show their courtesy.
Shi Jianxia touched their little heads, took the insect crystal and handed it to Jun Xiaoyi.
Before the exam started, everyone agreed that all the insect crystals obtained from the exam would be handed over to the team leader Jun Xiaoyi for safekeeping, and would be distributed according to work after the exam.
Shi Wu was surprised to see her easily get rid of the two parasites and slowly climb down from the crooked tree. Her movements were so light and cautious that she didn't look like a level five ability user at all.
After both parties introduced themselves to each other, Jun Xiaoyi took the lead in asking, "Why are you here alone?"
Shi Wuyu pulled the medicine box slung over his shoulder and said, "Our team's luck was bad. We encountered a group of parasites right after entering the examination room, and we accidentally got separated while trying to escape."
There were too many parasites chasing them, so they had to run separately. Shi Wu Yu didn't want to keep running, so he climbed up the crooked tree and tried to use potion to kill the parasites, but the plan obviously didn't go smoothly.
"A group?" Shi Jianxia was a little surprised.
As they explored along the way, they encountered some parasites, mostly in groups of three or five, and quite a few were solitary. They basically had never encountered a group of more than five parasites gathered together.
Judging from Shi Wuyu's tone, and the fact that he was able to chase the four members of their team and cause them to separate, the 'group of parasites' he mentioned must be quite a lot in number.
Shi Wuyu struggled to think about the situation at that time, raised his hands and placed them in front of him in an arc shape, and used extremely poor language to describe it: "It's a very large group."
Four people: "..."
"Give me a specific number?" Jun Xiaoyi asked with difficulty.
Shi Wuyu racked his brains for half a minute and said uncertainly, "There are at least thirty of them, gathered outside a hospital. I don't know what they are doing."
"Hospital?" Xia Shuxing repeated with a frown.
There is also a predator-prey relationship between Zerg parasites, and they usually do not gather in large numbers. The situation of more than 30 of them gathering together is obviously abnormal.
Shi Wuyu nodded. "I don't remember the name of the hospital, but it seems there are parasites inside."
"Where is that hospital?" Shi Jianxia asked immediately.
The kids will help with the map exploration mission, so they don't need to spend too much energy. The focus is on mission two and mission three, especially mission three.
Shi Jianxia had a hunch that the hospital mentioned by Shi Wuyou might be the clue to Task 3. In the various cases they studied, many insect plagues broke out in hospitals.
Earlier, some people developed strange symptoms in their bodies after being parasitized by Zerg, but they did not know that they had been parasitized by Zerg. In this case, they went to the hospital, which triggered the Zerg plague.
Shi Wuyu pursed his lips embarrassedly and said, "I was in such a hurry when I ran away that I don't remember it."
But he quickly added: "I took pictures though."
Four people: "..."
Too rushed to remember the location, but still had time to take photos?
Shi Wu Yu opened the photo album in his smart brain and scrolled through it several times before he found the photo of the old hospital. Next to the photo was a note in small print: 'Purple star blister beetle parasite exists'.
When the photo was enlarged in front of the group, Shi Wuyu was also suddenly enlightened. "So there are parasites of the purple star blister beetle there!"
Four people: "..."
His tone of amazement was as if he had escaped from the old hospital not an hour ago but ten years ago.
Shi Wu Yu met four pairs of eyes and seemed to realize that his reaction was a bit exaggerated. He touched his nose and said, "My memory is a bit bad. Please forgive me for laughing."
This is not just a little bit bad, it is comparable to Alzheimer's disease.
Shi Jianxia said: "This hospital seems to be in the west."
I saw it when I was exploring in that direction from a small hill, but since the buildings there are densely packed, I haven't done a more detailed investigation yet.
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Ten minutes later, five people peeked out from the top floor of a building some distance away from the old hospital.
Like other buildings in the insect-occupied area, the old hospital had walls covered in moss and weeds, and large patches of paint had peeled off from the exterior, revealing mottled stains.
There was a stone tablet standing at the entrance of the hospital, with four large characters carved in a flamboyant style in the center:
Renxin Hospital.
Xia Shuxing poked his head out and asked, "Where is the parasite?"
Whether outside the hospital, in the small square behind the gate, or in the corridors and wards visible through the broken glass windows, there were no signs of Zerg parasites.
Shi Wuyu also looked puzzled. "When we landed, we did see many parasites surrounding the hospital. Could it be that they were all chasing us?"
Jun Xiaoyi said, "There are indeed no parasites near the hospital, but it's hard to say inside. There's a special energy field there, and my dandelions can't take root or sprout there."
"Energy field?" Shi Jianxia asked back.
Jun Xiaoyi nodded. "I can't really explain what it feels like, but it seems to suppress the power of mimicry, covering only the hospital building. It might have something to do with the building materials."
"What are you waiting for? Let's go in and take a look!" Xia Shuxing said immediately.
Wen Qiuqiu suddenly said, "It seems like a group of people came to the back door of the hospital."
Everyone looked over and saw a team of cadets wearing Feng Yan Military Academy uniforms about to enter the hospital through the back door.
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