"Young Master Caesar, why are you here?" A sorcerer girl named Shirley was the first to recognize the person hiding behind the giant egg. Like most of the girls on campus, she had a crush on the handsome and sunny noble young man.
Unfortunately, her appearance and family background were relatively ordinary, and she did not have any special talent. She knew that she had little chance to win his favor, but this did not stop the admiration in the girl's heart.
Shirley had fantasized countless times about how she would strike up a conversation with her Prince Charming for the first time, but she would never have imagined such a situation. At this moment, Caesar no longer had his usual elegance. He looked completely panicked, like a startled stray cat in a garbage dump.
The young master of the Andrea family smiled bitterly. "Why else would I be here? Of course, I was caught by that thing."
His answer was reasonable. Everyone remembered the broken staff they picked up in the sand not long ago, which had the mark of the Andrea family on it.
But they did not completely let down their guard. Except for Shirley, everyone else pointed their weapons at Caesar, signaling him not to move forward. Then Mr. Harvey asked, "Why didn't you show up when we came down just now?"
"Because I can't be sure if the people in front of me are 'you'." Caesar's answer sounded very awkward, but everyone quickly understood the meaning of his words, because the "carpet" of skin under their feet was the best proof.
"You mean that thing can disguise itself as someone else?"
Caesar nodded. The horror in his expression did not seem to be fake. "Not only that, it can also split itself and shed any organ from its body. These organs can be parasitized in the body of other creatures, and it will not take long to give birth to its offspring. And it only needs less than a day to grow a new organ. I've never seen such a terrifying creature. We must destroy these giant white eggs as soon as possible, or it will be too late when the thing inside hatches."
Lolo turned her head and asked the quasi-magus, "That skinner you mentioned before, does it have this ability?"
"If the skinners had this ability, they wouldn't have gone extinct so easily." Rob let out a soft sigh. "Split parasitism — this method of reproduction is rare even in insects or plankton, and it's almost impossible in higher animals because the higher the level of the animal, the higher the degree of differentiation of the organs. This process is irreversible. Even if you can solve the problem of survival after the organ is separated from the body, it's difficult to transform it back into an embryo. Currently, a deep-sea creature called the parasitic electric eel can barely do this. As for the worm just now, its situation is even more complicated. It looks more like a simplified descendant of that monster."
"Simplified descendants?"
"Yes, it seems that it only inherited a portion of its mother's abilities, and at the same time sacrificed a considerable amount of intelligence, allowing this reverse second evolution to be realized."
"So what we're dealing with now is a new monster that has the abilities of a skinner, a Gwent multi-segmented worm, and a strengthened parasitic electric eel. At the same time, it can continuously heal itself?" Lolo sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Not only that, I just checked the undeveloped larva. From its body structure, it should have some other abilities when it matures. As for its mother, I'm afraid it'll be even more difficult to deal with …"
This was the first time the future Supreme Magus, Your Honor, gave such an evaluation of a creature, which also meant that even Rob felt that this monster was a little tricky. The quasi-magus frowned. "The other things are still manageable, there's always a way to deal with it. What I'm most worried about is this guy's learning ability."
"Learning ability?"
Rob pointed at Caesar not far away. "His strength is the best among this batch of freshmen, at the level of a grade 3 magician, enough to wipe out most of the teams here. However, he was no match for that monster at all. In the end, in order to survive, he did not hesitate to betray his teammates and become that thing's servant in exchange for a chance to live. But before that, that thing only attacked those who were alone. Don't you think it's strange?"
The words of the future Supreme Magus, Your Honor, were like a bomb dropped on the field, causing an uproar.
Caesar's expression changed drastically. "You … You're slandering me. This is pure slander. Everyone, don't believe him. You just need to ask anyone in the Student Council to know about the grudge between me and him. But isn't it a little too despicable to use this kind of method to take revenge on me?"
Rob was speechless. "Don't tell me you still think you can get away with it like this. You're the only one in the entire basement who is not wrapped in the giant white egg. Is it because you have a good relationship with that monster?"
Caesar forced himself to calm down. "I was caught late, so it didn't have the time to attack me."
"You'd better wipe off the mucus on your body before saying this. It's the instinct of all creatures to protect their offspring, even that monster. So this should be the reason why that guy accepted you as a servant. You can continue to look after these giant white eggs for it when it leaves its nest."
The young master of the Andrea Family was shocked. Cold sweat oozed from his forehead, but he said, "Are you crazy? Who would be a servant to a monster?"
Rob did not want to talk nonsense with this guy anymore. He said directly, "I don't care about your hobbies, nor do I care what you've done to survive. I just want to know how much information you've revealed to that thing. You'd better not lie about this, because it means how much earlier that monster's hunting plan will be. "
"What do you mean?" Lolo was puzzled.
"Judging from this guy's previous actions, it should be a complete newbie. It's obviously very strong, but it only targets people who are alone. I'm guessing that this guy grew up in an extremely narrow space, and it rarely came into contact with other creatures. Now that it suddenly entered a new environment, it still doesn't know its position in the food chain, so it's acting very cautiously. Even when it sneaked up on Jenny and stole her shoes, it was all for one thing — to learn. The things it did that we think are inconceivable were all for the sake of understanding this new world as soon as possible. The length of this period depends on how long it takes for it to realize that there are almost no creatures in the freshmen arena that can threaten it. So … "Rob sighed and looked at Caesar." You'd better tell the truth. How much help have you provided it? "
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