Chapter 582 – Dissecting the Beast
Chapter 582 Dissecting the Beast
Thor was suddenly attacked by a purple-black strip of flesh, but for him it was the end of a boring journey at last.
“Comparing tentacles with me?” Saul didn’t even move as the small algae at the back of his neck snapped out and split into ten in the air again, quickly burrowing into the ground around Saul’s body.
Saul felt the strip of flesh entangling him immediately release his leg and flee downwards.
Saul pressed his hands to the land and with a little force, pulled his leg out.
Looking at the large hole in the ground that continued to dent, he took two steps back and waited for Zo to return.
A few breaths later, the sandy soil under his feet began to tremble, and the rumbling sound drove all the nearby ground to start shaking.
Little Algae tensed, then pulled, slowly pulling itself out of the ground.
Gnarled vines netted a huge lump of earth, emerging from the ground a little. The dark gray dust from the dirt clod rustled down, forming a waterfall of sand and dirt.
A large amount of dust flew up in the sky, and for a time, visibility dropped to less than a meter.
Saul closed his breath and narrowed his eyes, waiting for the large monster in the earth to reveal itself.
Finally, after most of the dirt was shaken off by the small algae, inside the crisscrossing black vines, a huge beast three meters long appeared.
This beast had a huge mouth and a relatively skinny body and limbs. It looked as if only its mouth was still able to eat, while its other limbs were all about to degenerate.
The purplish-red strip of flesh that had once wrapped around Sol’s right leg was its tongue.
When it was pulled out of the ground by the small algae, it immediately extended its most powerful weapon, which was its tongue, and desperately tore at the vines of the small algae.
But the current Xiao Zao was simply not something that an ordinary beast could fight against.
Seeing that one tongue was unable to break free from Little Algae, the unknown beast surprisingly sprouted four tongues from its mouth once again.
The five tongues wrapped around different vines and pulled in different directions, seemingly wanting to use brute force to break away from Little Algae.
But its resistance still failed.
“Alright, Little Algae, let go of it first.”
Little Algae, which was still wrapped up like a ball of wool, immediately retracted nimbly. The huge beast immediately dropped to the ground, once again stirring up a cloud of dust.
As soon as the beast hit the ground, it was about to burrow into the earth, when Sol grabbed its tail in an over-the-shoulder slam and threw it to the back.
Taking advantage of the other party’s four feet to the sky, Saul directly jumped onto the other party’s white belly, one foot stomped hard on the beast’s huge mouth, so that it wanted to open its mouth to attack Saul could not.
He could already tell that the beast usually relied on vibration to hunt, hiding underneath the sandy soil, and all its limbs were short and weak except for its mouth.
Even digging holes for ambushes relied on the mouth and the resilient and flexible tongue inside.
Just as Saul was about to check out the beast, the spiritual power he had attached to the compass sent back a sense that the Chaotic Domain Compass had finished cooling down.
Saul looked down and estimated the time, it should be less than a day, between about 20 and 22 hours.
The beast under his feet was taking advantage of Saul’s inattention and was constantly patting the earth with its tiny limbs.
The rhythmic pattern seemed to be purposeful slapping.
“Could it be that it’s asking for help from its companions? But this kind of guy’s pack shouldn’t be moving very fast, right?”
After thinking about it, Sol decided that it would be better not to wait for the second beast to appear, and directly activated the Chaotic Domain Compass to reenter the Sorcerer’s Main World.
Sol looked up and saw the mushroom forest in the distance and the Sorcerer’s Tower nestled in the misty white fog.
“Not bad, no surprises, came back without incident.”
Saul raised his feet, and the long-tongued loudmouth monster that had once sneaked up on him returned with him.
Only now it didn’t move at all, and upon closer inspection, he found that the other party was already dead as dead can be.
Saul’s spiritual power swept through and found that there were many more active elemental particles in the monster’s body.
“That’s right, just like there’s water pressure underwater, there’s also elemental pressure in places where the concentration of elemental particles differs greatly. It was so difficult for me to enter a chaotic domain with no active elements, and for it to enter an uninhabited place filled with a large number of elemental particles from no active elements all of a sudden, it was even more like suddenly entering the deep sea from the surface, and it was directly pressurized to death.”
Algae ran out again and ran through the beast’s mouth, lassoing his massive head a few times and hoisting the beast straight up in the air.
It was as if Thor had simply returned from a hunting trip.
On Lake Rhine, huge figures stepped out onto the ice. The butler was the first to come out of the wizard’s tower and looked up at the huge beast, also with his mouth slightly open.
“Welcome back, Lord Tower Master, but I didn’t realize you were out hunting.”
Saul barely managed to move the beast from the stairwell to the basement level, and had just vacated a lab bench and placed the beast on it when he saw several Consciousnesses and the old hag both running over curiously. Camus didn’t make a sound, but his eyes also looked to the newly appeared beast.
“Where did this beast hunt back from? It looks like there’s no magic power fluctuation in its body, but it’s so strange looking, how come I’ve never seen it before.” The old witch came forward and poked the beast’s head with her finger.
“Hunted back from a place you’ve never been. It does have something special about it though, so I’ll come and study it later.”
Sol skillfully dissected the beast, inspecting its body structure.
“There’s a large percentage of cartilage in the body.” Agu assisted from the side, “It doesn’t seem to use its body much for hunting.”
“Hmmm,” Saul replied casually as he examined the blood and flesh, “Laying flat for too long.”
He then proceeded to dissect the beast’s head.
The bones were hard, and the skull was somewhat similar to that of a snake that could devour prey larger than its head.
As he disassembled it, Saul suddenly took hold of the beast’s five black and purple tongues and ran them down its throat and slowly outward.
The root of the beast’s tongue was not in the mouth, but in the esophagus, and was connected by a grape-shaped sarcoma.
As Saul attempted to cut the sarcoma off with his knife, he was shocked to find that the inside of this sarcoma was actually moving.
He put a shield on the lab table and then began to cut the sarcoma, however the sharp knife failed to leave a single wound on this sarcoma.
Saul switched to two other, sharper tools that still failed to cut through the sarcoma.
The old hag stretched out a finger, the tip of which instantly transformed into a blade, “Do you need my help?”
Saul, however, shook his head, “It’s not the tools.”
He snapped his fingers and a black shard of the blade appeared at his fingertips.
With a flick of his finger, the sarcoma that was still impossible to cut was easily separated from its skin like cheese, revealing the tofu-dreg-like texture inside.
Saul took out a stirring stick and stirred it inside, then raised it to his eyes.
“The substance inside this doesn’t seem to have been completely deactivated.” Saul wiped the substance from the stirring stick into a test tube and handed it to Agu, “Go and test the base properties, also, pay attention to the closure and don’t let the substance inside escape to the outside world.”
Agu naturally knew where Saul had brought this beast from, and didn’t say anything, only nodding cautiously.
“Are you suspecting that this beast is poisonous?” The old hag asked from the side.
Saul said, “There’s always something special about this sarcoma that can be the last deactivated organ on the beast. It’s always good to be careful.”
Hearing this, the old hag looked at the sarcoma on the beast much more eagerly.
Seeing this Saul immediately gave Agu a word of advice, “Destroy the sample immediately after the test.”
The old hag rolled her eyes.
Saul then looked at the stirring stick that still had remnants in his hand and realized that there seemed to be some black particles on it.
He extracted these particles and found that they crumbled at the slightest touch, turning into an even finer powder.
This scene was so familiar.
Sol immediately took out two small bottles from his body.
Both bottles were filled with black powder, one more, one less.
The two bottles were filled with the sand and dirt of the chaotic domain and the floating matter in the air respectively.
Saul briefly measured the three powders with the tools available to him and found that their physical behavior was surprisingly consistent.
“Could it be that this organ of the beast is used to filter the black dust that enters the body?”
Suddenly, Saul’s thoughts were interrupted by Camus.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the petri dish on Saul’s table, “Then how could there be a dormant body of the pollutant source on the beast?”
“What?” Saul and the others turned back at the same time, startled by the information in Camus’ words.
Camus pursed his lips, a rare somewhat tangled expression on his face, “You can check those contaminants you sealed with your tentacles. If sealed for a long enough period of time, the pollutant will enter a dormant state. Then its form should be consistent with the black powder in your hand.”
Sol: “…… KAM!”
(End of chapter)