Chapter 703: End of tunnel

Joan recorded these thoughts about the "Magic Mark" in a log book, and then returned to the body of the lock throat monster to extract its teeth and chitinous claws with hemostatic forceps, which was retained as a material for transformation.
The remaining body, Joan sprinkled out a handful of alchemy drugs, and quickly dehydrated and air-dried them into specimens and put them in the specimen box.
So far, Joan's initial research on the lock throat monster is complete.
He still had some intentions, so he took out a tooth that had just been extracted from the mouth of the corpse and used it as a casting material to perform the "transformation technique".
"Ahya!"
The moment when the chant started, a circle of golden light shrouded Joan from head to toe.
After just a few seconds, he turned from a beautiful and handsome human teenager into a long-handed throat monster.
Joan dragged a long arm around the campfire and was familiar with this flexible and elastic body.
At this time, the sound of swallowing saliva came from behind.
Joan stopped to look back and saw Guru tentatively approaching himself, his face full of pleasing expressions.
Joan stood still and looked at grunts blankly, and watched what it did.
Grumbling close to Joan trembling, he was deeply excited to become his own kind.
Next, Grunt made all sorts of weird gestures, circling around Joan, and finally lying on the ground, rubbing his knees with his hips, and secreted a lot of lubricating fluid that exuded pheromones between his legs.
Holden helped Jo Ann to draw an anatomical drawing of the body of the lock throat monster. Seeing this strange scene, he couldn't help being curious and came over and asked Jo Ann:
"What do you want to do, little monster?"
Hailar and Audrey came over arm in arm and were equally surprised by Grunt's unusual behavior.
Before Joan answered Holton's question, Hailar smiled ambiguously, rushing to say: "It looks like it is courting."
"Oh! So it became the one with Joan... who is the mother?" Holden asked curiously.
Joan shook his shoulders, a golden light burst out of his body, changed back to human form, and turned back to explain to his companions:
"The laryngeal monster is hermaphrodite and mating. In the relationship between the two sides, whoever is stronger and takes the initiative will show male characteristics; otherwise, the weaker side will reflect the female's physiological and psychological characteristics."
"Huh! I hate this change, why isn't the strong side turning into a female?" Hailar asked angrily.
"Because they aren't you." Holden spit out at the stitch.
"Joan, how can you be interested in these ugly monsters? It looks really disgusting."
Audrey frowned slightly and couldn't hide her disgust in her eyes.
"Because of curiosity."
Joan pondered slightly, and added two more words softly.
"Knowledge is neither beautiful nor ugly."
"I study strangely, but I'm actually re-understanding myself."
Audrey does not quite understand what it means to "re-recognize yourself", but this does not prevent her from thinking that Joan's words are philosophical.
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After a night of rest in the underground vault, the next morning, Joan, Hailar and Zion continued to go on the road.
The expedition team also has a non-staff member, the throat monster "Joo" that Joan subdued yesterday.
Guru is very familiar with the environment in this area, and is suitable to be the guide of the expedition team, leading the way.
Before setting off, Joan first cast a blessing for "Guru" and "Visual Link" to keep in touch with Gollum and observe the situation in front of him from his perspective.
Guru, the guide, was very competent.
You can always pick a safe shortcut in the labyrinth of underground tunnels, and lead the four of Joan to go deeper into the dark area, and reach the area where the tunnel exit is located within half a day.
The terrain in this area resembles a "necked bottle".
Joan, they are moving from the narrow "bottle" to the more open "bottle belly".
However, when he was about to cross the "bottleneck", the grunt in front of the road stopped, hiding behind a rock and snooping at the exit of the tunnel.
"Guru, why stop?"
Joan asked questions through the mind connection.
Soon afterwards, he received a mental response from Guru.
"Master, there is danger in front, four big soft bugs, biting monsters!"
Biting soft bug?
Joan frowned.
Guru's expressive ability is really poor. For its description only, Joan only heard four dangerous creatures lurking near the tunnel exit, but he had no way of knowing what kind of creature was and how dangerous it was.
"Guru, close to where the monsters are lurking until you can see them clearly."
The Throat Monster was a little hesitant, but in the end he obeyed the master's order, crawling forward, and preparing to inspire supernatural abilities. In case of a bad situation, he immediately fled at full speed.
As Guru moved forward, Joan also switched her perspective to Guru, gradually seeing what it called a "soft worm".
On the rock wall near the exit of the tunnel, four black mollusk creatures adhered.
These large, fat worms look like large-scale leeches or slugs. They are eight feet long from head to tail. Their wet, slippery abdomen is tightly attached to the wall, waiting for the prey to come to the door under the cover of darkness.
Joan kept Guru at a safe distance, staring at the group of soft monsters, and then informed the companions beside him, and the four accelerated their pace to rush to meet Guru.
It didn't take long for the four of Joan to come to where Guru was.
Hailar, Audrey and Holden all adjusted the brightness of the miner's lamp to the maximum. Three bright beams of light were thrown at the tunnel exit to disperse the darkness and capture the monsters lurking in the dark.
The four black soft worms appeared unresponsive under the light, still attached to the wall, and still seemed to hesitate to escape from the light area.
Illuminated by the miner's lamp, Joan looked far away from 40 feet, and found that these monsters' mouths resembled flowers, and wriggled slightly under the miner's lamp. The inner wall of the "petal" was flesh red, and a layer of bright crystal mucus was attached.
However, looking closely, he found that the "petals" were actually four valgus tentacles, with dense suckers growing at the ends.
Between each two tentacles, a large black hook-shaped tooth is revealed, and four hook teeth are arranged around the mouth, sometimes expanding outward and sometimes contracting inward.
It is conceivable that when monsters resembling giant slugs caught their prey with their tentacles, they would drag them to the front of their mouths and use the four hook-shaped teeth to insert the prey into the throat and swallow it into the esophagus section by section. Digest slowly.
"Joan, what a monster this is, it's really disgusting!" Audrey whispered in disgust.
Joan recalled many worm-shaped weird illustrations in The Monster Book of Vales, and came to guess after comparison.
"Probably a burrowing monster, a kind of worm-like monster, you can think of them as larger and more dangerous leeches."
As for how dangerous it is, Joan didn't make a conclusion easily, but he used "Higher Endoscopy" to observe the details of the cavemen's grotesques.
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