Chapter 225 Experiment
Looking at the blood deer whose posture and behavior were obviously different from those of ordinary swamp blood deer, Josh silently turned on the video recorder, zoomed in, focused, and recorded its facial expressions and human-like behaviors.
The technological level of this alien world is indeed both advanced and backward.
Due to the high price of attribute materials, it is difficult for ordinary people to access advanced and easy-to-use attribute tools.
Therefore, attribute tools are so scarce in the daily lives of ordinary people, and the occasional one or two seem particularly backward. In order to keep costs low, many places still mostly use primitive tools.
At first, Qiao Xi also thought that the world's technological development was not very good, but as the farm developed better and better, she came into contact with more and more high-level and advanced products.
It’s not that the level of technology is low, but that advanced things are unaffordable for ordinary people, which creates this illusion.
This is a world where technology and magic coexist, where there is a huge gap between poverty and luxury, and it is very divided.
No mechanic would develop easy-to-use and cheap attribute tools for ordinary people.
Anyway, anything related to attribute energy will be very expensive. Qiao Xi has a deep understanding of this.
The camera recorded everything very clearly. After watching them finish their conversation and leave, Qiao Xi quickly led the group back to the camp quietly.
Without the energy to look for crops with special properties, Josh couldn't wait to hand these things over to Archie and ask him to find someone to check what was wrong with the fruit.
What, you said the protagonist solved all the problems by himself?
Just kidding, Qiao Xi is not stupid. This swamp blood deer looks very strange. She doesn't want to take the risk of such a dangerous operation.
Besides, professional matters should be left to professionals. She is just an ordinary farmer, so she shouldn't put herself in danger.
On the way back, there was no need to observe the attributes of the surrounding crops, just pay attention to your feet, and the group quickly returned to the camp.
A mourning meeting for the soldiers was to be held at noon, but Archer stayed in the camp and did not go out, so Josh quickly found him.
"What? Are you saying that the alien beast has developed the same intelligence as the magical beast?" Archer was a little surprised. This had never happened before.
Taking the camera from Josh, Archer lowered his head and looked at it carefully.
His eyebrows were furrowed into a straight line. "No wonder the night before yesterday, those strange beasts seemed to be organized to besiege the camp. After being repelled several times, they tried to counterattack many times. It turns out that there is a leader."
"Looking at it, it seems that the fruit is not an ordinary healing fruit. There must be something wrong. I will ask the gathering team to speed up the research."
"I encountered this swamp blood deer before when Irene and I were out collecting." Josh thought for a moment and told the story of the last time he encountered the swamp blood deer.
"Irene was about to shoot it, but missed, and it escaped. Its behavior was not much different from that of an ordinary beast, but you could feel that it had a sense of contradiction, a sense of weirdness that was inconsistent with a beast."
"It would come to scout the place in advance? It seems that the intelligence of this strange beast is stronger than that of ordinary monsters." Archer's eyes were empty and slightly narrowed, as if he was thinking about something.
After a long while, he turned around and sincerely thanked Qiao Xi: "Thank you for your help, Miss Qiao Xi. We will investigate the situation of this swamp blood deer. Be sure to pay attention to safety when you go out to collect in the next few days. Our soldiers will accompany you. Wait for our news."
Qiao Xi nodded and left it to them. She felt relieved. She didn't want to spend the effort to investigate the situation.
After leaving the commander's tent, Josh did not leave the camp again. With a heavy heart, he attended the mourning service for the fallen soldiers and bid them farewell.
Although they had not followed them into the secret realm of dense fog for a long time, in the face of life, even strangers would sigh at them, not to mention Josh who had been taken care of by them.
Not everyone attended the memorial service, and Josh noticed that Griffith, the legion commander, was not present.
At least half of the soldiers in the main army were no longer in the camp.
Josh guessed that Griffith must have gone out to hunt exotic beasts.
Sure enough, just a while after the mourning service ended, the legion led by Griffith returned to the camp with a large number of exotic beast corpses to pay tribute, including one of the exotic beasts that Josh seemed to have seen in the valley before.
It seems that they were caught by the legion commander after they separated.
Exotic beasts are full of treasures. Their claws, teeth, and even fur are all excellent materials. According to convention, these exotic beasts harvested in the past would be skinned and bones removed, and every bit of flesh and blood would be utilized to the maximum extent.
This is also one of the main gains of the expeditionary force in exploring new secret realms.
This is also the reason why they were not seen collecting attribute crops on a large scale before. Magic beasts and alien beasts were the legion's first spoils of war. As for the collection of attribute crops, this was only started later.
In fact, if Josh hadn't been there, Erin and the others wouldn't even have started working.
I've said too much, but the prey that Griffith brought back this time was obviously not intended to be kept for use. The soldiers silently threw the prey into the memorial bonfire, and used the raging fire that had bid farewell to their comrades to burn these strange beasts.
The fire burned fiercely, and with the help of the fire-attributed magical beast, it quickly burned these strange beasts to ashes.
Looking at the blazing flames, Griffith, who understood all the circumstances, had a flash of thought in his eyes. An intelligent monster?
Turning his gaze to the pile of strange beasts where only ashes were left, it was no wonder that this swamp lizard had a different reaction from the other lizards just now.
However, even if they have intelligence, so what? Isn’t the intelligence of Warcraft superior to that of humans? We have not seen them do anything to humans. Beasts are just beasts.
The collection team was very fast, after all, they were all professional scholars. Not long after dinner, a soldier came to Josh's tent and asked Josh to go to the commander's tent to discuss something.
When Qiao Xi heard this, he thought there must be news, so he put the little squirrel in his pocket and set off.
Sure enough, when we got to the commander's tent, all the big shots were there.
After Josh greeted Commander Griffith, Deputy Commander Archer and others, he saw Irene wearing a pair of mechanical glasses and began to explain their research results of the day to everyone.
“This fruit is suspected to be the product of an unknown mutation after the cross between the wisdom fruit and some underground plant.
One of the test rats used in the afternoon experiment was killed by one bite of the poison. Among the other two, one instantly recovered all its energy and blood after eating the poison, and then died after its vitality was exhausted. The other one had a confused mind and was unable to communicate, and had problems with consciousness, and finally died.
Of the ten captured living beasts, only one is still alive. However, the number of fruits used in the experiment is small, and there is no sign of improvement in intelligence. "
My dears, there may be only one update tomorrow. I will ask for leave in advance. If I don’t update two chapters before 5 pm, it means I have been overwhelmed by work. Please forgive me for a day.
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