Chapter 29 Mutant Scarab Beetle

"That thing is an egg." Ling's answer just after he finished speaking, the woman suddenly let go of her palm covering her chest and became a state of support on the ground with her hands. She then roared desperately as if she was possessed, and at the same time she kept scratching her hands on the ground, in a state of extremely crazy. I reached out to signal Ling and the demons to retreat, and hid from afar to see what was going on with the woman.

Now the woman's things have been stripped away, and the only thing left is the golden gem. So if her current state is not because of her own reasons, it must have been related to the gem. Ling just said that the gem is not a stone, but an egg. Referring to the current situation, I immediately thought of a possibility.

"Why is that thing going to hatch?"

“Looks like a lot.”

We were discussing that when we saw a piece of thrust on the woman's back suddenly rise. Then we heard a crackling sound of bone breaking. The woman's back was lifted up, and two golden carapace-shaped elys were stretched out. As the appearance of the elys, the woman's chest also made a sound of bone breaking. A long leg that was obviously an arthropod stretched out from her chest, followed by the second and third long legs stretched out one after another. After stretching out eight consecutively, the woman suddenly raised her head forward and opened her mouth desperately. Suddenly, with a nauseating sound of muscle tearing, the woman's mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated level, and then a pair of mouthparts that were big tongs were stretched out from the woman's mouth. Then the woman's whole face was completely crushed, and a bug's head drilled out from behind her head and face, making a sharp and harsh scream.

"Damn, this thing is too disgusting, right?" said a monster: "Although we are monsters, it is rare to see such disgusting things!"

I turned around and asked Ling: "What the hell is this? Do you know it?"

"I'm sure I've never seen this shape before, but I feel very familiar with it in terms of energy fluctuations."

"Familiar? Remember where you encountered it?"

“A little like the energy fluctuations of Cohopula.”

"Kohopra? That Egyptian scarab?" I turned around in surprise and looked at the woman again. Oh no, now it is no longer a human, but a nauseating bug with eight long legs, a pair of elyses on the back, and a body full of fragments of human body.

"This should be a larva," Ling said: "Although the energy fluctuations are almost exactly the same, the fluctuations of this bug are very weak, and they are completely different from Kohopra."

I thought about it and said, "Whether it is good or not, I will catch it first."

"I understand." Ling threw out a black ribbon-like energy net and tied the insect firmly. Originally, Ling and I thought that this net would definitely not be able to trap it, and in the end we would have to fight another fight to stop this guy. Who knew that this thing looked so scary when it was born, but in fact it had no combat power at all. A energy net completely suppressed it!

After packing the bug and tied it up a few more pieces, I handed over the work of destroying the temple to the many demons behind me. Anyway, the guards were gone, so what else could a broken house cause? In addition to the temple in front of me, I also assigned other Russian attack targets to the demons, and then activated the Ring of Love.

Rose seemed very puzzled just after getting the communication. "You finished the destruction so quickly?"

"No, I have some new discoveries here and I need to go to Egypt."

"What are you doing in Egypt?"

"We killed a player here, but the guy actually parasitized a scarab egg on his chest. We planned to go to Egypt to ask what happened to Kohopra. I always feel like there is a big article here."

"But what to do with the harassment mission?"

"Are there still more than 200 monsters? I have demonstrated to them how to do it, and just leave the rest to them."

"Okay, then you'll come back. Oh, you contacted me and wanted me to summon you back, right?"

"Yes, there is no teleportation array here, so it's too slow to fly back!"

"You wait."

After activating the teleportation function of the Ring of Love, I was quickly summoned back to Rose. It was much easier to get to Aisinger. From here, I used a transnational teleportation array to teleport to Tianyu City, and then borrowed the teleportation array from the neighboring countries to cross the country. In the middle, I used flying birds to travel across the border. Although it was a bit troublesome, the speed was pretty good and I quickly entered Egypt.

As soon as I arrived in Egypt, I found a city to borrow a teleportation array and directly teleported to Anubis' temple, but now there is no one here. Anubis belongs to the God of the Underworld and will definitely not come out to wander around during the day, but I am in a hurry now and have no time to wait until night.

"Anubis! Anubis! Hey, I heard a squeak!"

"You're so noisy that you think I'm a vegetable market?" Anubis's phantom suddenly appeared above my head, and the loud voice almost deafened me.

"Damn, the sound is so loud!" I pointed Anubis in the sky and said with a righteous expression: "Okay, let's talk about something serious. Where are you? Take me over, I want to see Kohpura."

"Wait." After Anubis's voice disappeared, a stone door suddenly opened on the side of the temple. A soldier from the Death Legion walked out of it and signaled me to follow him. Unexpectedly, the soldiers did not take me into the interior of the temple, but walked into the desert outside the temple and stopped. Then the sand under our feet began to rotate and sink down, and soon turned into a huge quicksand pit. I knew this was a teleportation channel created by Anubis's magic power, so I didn't struggle, just put the mask down to prevent eating sand. As my whole body was completely trapped in the quicksand, I suddenly felt empty under my feet and entered a weightless state. However, my reaction was extremely rapid, and I automatically adjusted my body balance within almost one second, and finally landed steadily on the ground.

"You guy is still as annoying as before." I seemed very upset when Anubis saw me landing safely but I knew this guy had this personality. It would be his willingness to joke with you that he valued you. If Anubis really wanted to kill anyone, he would not talk to you and would fight directly.

"I don't have time to joke with you. Do you know where Kohpura is?" I asked directly.

"What are you looking for him?" Anubis did not directly answer my question.

He didn't answer me, nor did I answer him, and threw out the scarab larva bundle like a rice dumpling. Anubis is a genuine god, and his sense of energy is naturally much stronger than ours. Moreover, he is relatively close to Kohpura, so he is naturally more familiar with him after spending a long time together.

"Why does this thing have the aura of Kohopra?"

"If I knew, I wouldn't come here!"

"Where did you catch this?" Anubis asked while circling around the larva.

"Can you ask Cohopula first?"

"Oh, you wait a little longer." Anubis finally realized that this matter was more important. He snapped his fingers and called a slave of the God of the Underworld to take me and the larva to wait in his mansion first, and he himself quickly disappeared into the darkness.

I followed the slave of the God of the Underworld to Anubis's residence for a short time. Anubis came back with Kohpura. There were one or two people following him, one of whom was the wisdom god with an owl head, and the other was the angel-like goddess of truth Maat.

As soon as Kohpura entered the hall where I was waiting, she rushed directly to the larva. Then she saw him wave his hand and the bondage objects wrapped around the larva disappeared. The larvae that had obtained the *** reaction was extremely rapid. As soon as the bondage on her body was lifted, she jumped up suddenly, and then screamed at us but did not dare to go forward. All the people present were righteous gods except me, and their aura was so powerful that the larvae dared not approach. As for me, it was tied up by me before, and no matter how stupid it was, it was no match for me.

After liberating the larvae, Kohopula immediately began to approach the larvae carefully. The larvae seemed very afraid of him. When he saw him approaching, he kept screaming and retreating. However, because he was surrounded by us now, he had no place to retreat, and in the end, Kohopula successfully approached the larvae.

"Quiet child, keep quiet..." Kohpura said quietly as if coaxing a child, while reaching out to touch the larva's head. At first, the larva showed a little obedience, but just when Kohpura was about to touch it, it suddenly opened its huge mouthpart and bit it at Kohpura's hand.

Kohpura is a genuine god after all. The larvae in front of him is at most over three hundred levels. Only if he can bite him will there be a ghost. Although the larvae bit Kohpura's hand and swayed his head to tear off a piece of meat, unfortunately the carapace on Kohpura's body is not good-looking. No matter how successful it is, it didn't appear after biting for a long time. Instead, Kohpura waited for a while and stood up and pulled the larvae in her hand off.

"Mr. Kohopra, have you discovered anything?"

Cohopula did not answer my question, but asked back: "Are you discovering it?"

“In a Russian city.”

"Russia?"

"Yes. I was fighting an enemy at that time, and then I used some special equipment to strip her all of her equipment and finally found an oval golden object on her chest. At that time, I thought it was a gem, but later my magic pet Ling sensed that there was a fluctuation of life on the thing and guessed that it might be an egg. Then the person who fought with us suddenly showed great pain, and the egg in her body suddenly hatched for no reason. When it broke through the other person's body and was born, my magic pet discovered that it had the same breath as you, so I caught it here. I wonder what you think about this?"

After listening to my statement, Kohopra pondered for a while before speaking, "This little guy is a good guy from our scarab clan, but...!"

“But what?”

"But it is not a normal individual."

After listening to Kohopra's words, I became even more confused. "What is an abnormal individual?"

Kohpura asked Anubis's servants to move a table out, and then he waved his hand and five scarabs immediately appeared on the table. "Look, these are members of our scarabs on the table. The most important one is this." Kohpura stretched out his hand and picked up a scarab that looked dark and looked like a dung beetle. "This is the largest population in the scarabs. It has no intelligence and its attack power is average. Its only strength is its amazing reproductive power and strong environmental adaptability, and it can survive in various extreme environments. At present, more than 90% of our tribe are of this kind of low-level scarabs." Kohpura put the black scarabs after he said that.

Then, the remaining four scarabs, red, green, gold and blue, were placed in front of us. "Compared with the wild scarabs just now, this is actually the member of the scarab family we truly recognize. Although the body surface color is different, they are actually the same species. The color of the body surface is just a characteristic that grows due to the influence of the external environment. Unlike the black varieties, these scarabs have low-level intelligence, behave similar to low-level monsters, have basic judgment, memory, and know how to think about some simple questions. Their gorgeous shell will be completely closed when they are asleep, and if you don't pay attention, it is easy to mix it with gems of various colors."

"I know all of these, but what's going on with the one I caught?" I urged.

Kohopra explained: "According to your description, the golden gem you saw before should not be an egg, but this golden scarab."

"But they...?"

"I know, their appearance is very different." Kohopra said himself: "No matter what color it is, its body surface should be covered with smooth solid-colored carapaces, with no spots or color changes on the surface. But you see, the one that Zi Ri caught is not only covered with hard burrs, but also has no carapaces except the elys on its back. And you see, its body is obviously very slender and extremely uneven, completely different from the oval streamlined body of the scarab."

"Isn't this just a scarab?"

"No, this is exactly what I am surprised about." Kohopra said: "Although the appearance varies greatly, this is a real scarab, because it has the holy pattern core of our scarab clan in its body, which cannot be forged."

I frowned and asked, "If this is just a real scarab, why did he grow so big?" So far, there are only two sizes of scarabs I have seen. One is Koh Pula himself. His size is basically the size of a person. Apart from him, other scarabs I have seen are only between the size of a steamed bun to the size of a quail egg. The one I caught can only kill the woman and die. It can be seen that its size is quite large. Although it is not as big as Koh Pula, it is not much smaller than that of an adult man. It is rare to see such a large coh Pula.

Kohopra explained when he heard my question: "This is not a problem. Under normal circumstances, the wild black scarabs have a lifespan of about ten years, but this refers to their active lifespan. If they are trapped in a certain confined environment and cannot obtain food, they will enter dormant state. Once they enter dormant, the scarabs will have a lifespan of nearly ten thousand years, and unless it is awakened again, it will continue to calculate its lifespan at a normal speed. These colorful scarabs are higher than wild black scarabs, and their lifespan depends on their own efforts. Generally, as long as they do not encounter it,

Too big problems, these formal scarabs can live fifty to one hundred years. Of course, the dormant period does not count. If you are lucky or work hard enough to practice to the second-level scarab state before death, you can gain an additional fifty years of life. When you reach the second-level, the scarabs will gain relatively high intelligence, and it will also increase to the size of watermelon. Because you have obtained relatively high intelligence, your cultivation speed will increase significantly. If you can practice to the third level within the additional fifty years, your volume and lifespan will increase further. Theoretically, as long as you continue to practice, the scarabs will be able to survive."

"That means that the larger scarab actually exists, right?"

Kohopra nodded and said, "As long as you upgrade, the scarab will grow, but it's a little strange."

"What?"

"Following the size of the little guy you caught, his strength is at least above the seventh level. But the little guy in front of him is only between the first and second level, and his intelligence level seems to be lower than the first level, as if he has degenerated into the state of a wild black scarab. In short, this guy is very abnormal, and he feels like a developmental deformed freak."

Hearing Kohopula say this, I asked tentatively: "Do you think it's possible that someone is trying to artificially cultivate advanced scarabs?"

"I don't know, but I don't think so." Kohopra explained: "Although scarabs can be upgraded infinitely, it takes too long. Which of you adventurers has the patience to spend decades to train them? Besides, the powerful combat power of scarabs depends on quantity but not quality. Scarabs before level 5 may not even be able to defeat level 300 monsters. If you want to use it for combat, you must at least upgrade it to level 7. If you have the energy, it is better to catch a dragon and train it faster."

"According to this, it's not artificially trained?" I asked.

"No, I think it should be artificially trained." Tetu, who had not spoken, suddenly said.

"Why?"

"There are two reasons." Tetu said: "First. Although scarab is not easy to cultivate and is not suitable for combat development, we cannot be sure whether the other party has other uses. After all, scarab's ability is not just for war! Second, Zi Ri said that this juvenile scarab was discovered in Russia, but scarab is a specialty here, and there is no other place in Egypt. If it is an adult, it's okay, how did a juvenile scarab go from Egypt to Russia?"
Chapter completed!