Dean felt a trace of bitterness in his heart.
He had to say that the sealing ability of Splitter was too good. No matter how many times it was done, there was never a mistake. Every time it was sealed tightly. It was estimated that even if it was a human, it would be difficult to maintain such seriousness and consistency.
Dean felt like crying as his palms weakly drooped on the boulder. His hope was right in front of him. As long as he got out, he would have a chance to escape. However, he was blocked by these boulders. It was not easy to win the battle of life and death, but it was so close to leaving alive. Just a little bit more!
Dean was unwilling, but he was powerless. He loosened his hand. His other hand was holding the heavy head of Splitter. He wanted to throw it away. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind.
The Splitter was a monster bestowed its name by the Legend. It had the Splitter's magic mark in its body.
If he replaced its magic marks, could he break out of this boulder?
Thinking of this, he immediately picked up the head of Splitter and touched the soft flesh inside the carapace to find the Parasitic Soul Worm. At the same time, he quickly rushed back to the cave and searched in front of the body of Splitter, especially in the blood on the ground.
Nothing in the head.
Nothing in the body.
Dean put the head next to the blood and bent down to search everywhere. He was extremely nervous. He knew that when the offspring of the named monster was born, the Parasitic Soul Worm was still sleeping in its body, in the incubation state. Generally, when the monster was growing up, it would gradually wake up and be born. Then it would begin to absorb nutrients from the body of the named monster. At the same time, it would also absorb the characteristics of the genes. Then it would be digested into pieces of gene fragments and stored in its own body. Only then would it have the role of magic marks.
And this newborn splitter, from the time it hatched until now, it had only been five days.
Its Parasitic Soul Worm was probably still in its body. At this moment, with the death of the Parasitic Soul Worm, it was also dead in the abdomen.
With such worries, Dean carefully searched everywhere. The longer he searched, the slimmer the hope in his heart. After searching back and forth several times, he still could not find the shadow of the Parasitic Soul Worm.
The last glimmer of hope that Dean had just ignited was also extinguished.
Kacha!
Just as he was disheartened and sitting in the blood, a clear voice suddenly rang out. It was extremely loud in this quiet cave.
Dean could not help but be startled. He quickly got up and walked around the pile of corpses. Following the sound, his face was full of shock. Behind the pile of corpses, there were several huge skeletons. The skeletons were scattered, not whole. These skeletons surrounded a nest of weeds. Inside the nest were six snow-white oval giant... eggs?!
At this moment, a cracking sound rang out from a giant egg at the edge. Meandering cracks appeared on its surface.
Next to this huge egg was another broken eggshell. It should be the eggshell of the previous Splitter. Other than it, there were actually six more eggs here, and now another one was about to hatch!
Dean was startled for a long time. Suddenly, he smiled bitterly. The vast majority of beasts were not the same as humans. They were pregnant for nine months. Occasionally, they would have twins, and rarely, triplets. For beasts, it was very normal to give birth to seven or eight babies at a time. Some fish could even give birth to hundreds or thousands of babies at a time, but the number that could survive was not many.
The breeding habits of beasts were obviously transferred to the monsters. They were different from humans. When they were pregnant, it was the most dangerous time for them. They lacked food and safety the most. Therefore, if they gave birth one at a time, it would have a great impact on their life safety. Under the drive of the environment, it led to such evolution. They often gave birth to more babies at a time, which could reduce the number of times they faced danger and enhance their survival rate.
"Fight again?" Dean silently looked at it and did not move. Although this was the best opportunity to sneak attack, he knew that even if he killed this little thing, it would not help. When the Splitter came back, it would be his doomsday. Previously, it used him as a whetstone for its child. Now that this whetstone had killed its child, it naturally would not let other children encounter such danger.
However, if he did not fight, he could only wait for death.
Dean sighed as he looked at the cracking giant egg. As the saying goes, one second is one second. The fewer the terrifying monsters, the safer it would be for the other hunters to go out to hunt. After all, he was the one who rented the giant wall passage. Old Fulin could hire other hunters to explore it after he died. If the splitter grew up, then the passage would become a 'death passage'.
Dean picked up the dagger from the ground and quickly moved in front of the giant egg.
Kacha!
The giant egg, which had already cracked open, suddenly cracked open completely.
In the giant egg, there was a figure curled up into a ball, covered with viscous liquid, and smelled very fishy. It opened its eyes and curiously looked at the world outside the eggshell. When it saw Dean running next to the eggshell, the sharp scythe arms suddenly stretched out. Even though it was just born, the edge of the scythe was as sharp as metal, and with a bang, it completely opened the eggshell.
Dean's face slightly changed. He didn't expect the newly hatched splitter to have such a posture. Compared to the previous one that he had killed, its body shape was exactly the same. The only difference was that the scythe-like arms and the carapace were lighter in color.
He stopped moving. He knew that he had no chance of winning in a head-on battle.
The newborn splitter rushed out of the eggshell and rushed towards Dean.
Dean's face slightly changed as he retreated in a hurry.
The newborn splitter stopped as it saw Dean retreat. Its dark green eyes blinked as it looked at Dean. Suddenly, it used its scythe to pick up a monster's corpse from the ground and handed it to Dean.
Dean was vigilant as he retreated back.
The new splitter stopped and blinked its eyes. It took back the monster's body and no longer looked at Dean. It lowered its head and stuffed the monster's body into its head. Its mouth and eyes weren't on the same organ.
Dean was startled as he didn't expect it to not attack him. Did it think that he was not as delicious as these corpses? Or did it want to eat until it was full before dealing with him?
In any case, this was a great opportunity. He quickly threw the dagger and rushed towards it.
Whoosh!
The dagger struck out, and the newborn Splitter, who was eating, swung its scythe-like arms and knocked it down.
Seeing Dean rushing over, it growled and raised its scythe arm to meet him head-on.
"What a fast reaction!" Dean's face changed as he stopped in a hurry. The same trick had failed. The previous splitter didn't have time to react. Moreover, the distance between them was very close. It was difficult for the splitter to raise its scythe-like arms to block the dagger. But at the moment, the distance between them was too far so it had enough time to react.
Dean hurriedly ran around the mountain of monster's corpse as he saw it was still chasing him.
The newborn splitter immediately stopped as it saw Dean run away. It lowered its head and continued to eat.
Dean was relieved as he saw that the splitter ignored him. He quickly thought about other methods.
The newborn splitter quickly ate thousands of pounds of meat. It stopped and shook its body as it waved its scythe-like arms. It seemed to be a little excited as it moved its scythe-like arms on the rock wall to hone its blade. It didn't catch Dean on the other side. It seemed that it had forgotten about Dean.
Dean had long thought of a response plan. He didn't expect it to not attack him. He couldn't help but be surprised.
"What, what's going on?" Dean was at a loss. "It doesn't seem hostile to me. How could it be … wait, is it … "
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