Chapter 815: Evolutionarily Erroneous 'Rats'

It was row upon row of densely packed black dots.

Just like ants on the ground.

At the very least there had to be tens of thousands of them.

It was absolutely a scene that could make someone with trypophobia pass away on the spot.

Except compared to orderly arranged ants, these black dots appeared so chaotic.

Of course.

None of these were the main point.

The main point was the appearance of those black dots.

Although the distance might still be about a thousand meters away.

They were individual people.

No...

It should be said they were humanoid creatures walking upright on two legs.

These creatures wore pitch-black clothes, which looked like they were made from the animal skins of some Magic Beast.

Their faces had distinct human facial features.

Although they looked like low-budget misshapen and inferior goods.

But they could indeed be considered facial features.

Their skin was yellowish with a purplish-blue tint.

It was a color that looked very dirty at first glance.

This should be from being exposed to the sun.

After all, there weren't many shaded places in this damn marshland.

Of course, although they had hands, feet, and human facial features.

But because there was a slender metal whip hanging down to their heels from the back of their heads, it made it impossible to categorize them into the realm of 'humans'.

That's right.

It was a whip.

This was what Lan Qingyou and Elisa saw clearly.

Although they were somewhat black and also very dirty.

But under the afterglow of the setting sun, one could indeed see the unique cold gleam of metal reflecting off them.

"Where did these disgusting things come out from?"

Looking at that disgusting design with a bald head in front and a whip in the back, Elisa said with disgust.

"Foreigner, you don't understand this right, look at the claws on their fingers, and then look at those holes on the ground behind them."

"If nothing unexpected happens, there should be some underground settlement or something below this place."

Lan Qingyou pouted her lips, gesturing.

At this time, Elisa, whose attention was originally all on those ugly appearances, finally noticed the burrows behind those things.

She even had the great honor of seeing a hand suddenly reach out from the fluffy soil on the ground that had been plowed once by the Meteorite's shockwave.

That scene.

As long as you've watched a little bit of zombie movies, you should have an impression.

"What is this situation? Cavemen?"

Elisa asked, dumbfounded.

"Something like that, especially that hunched appearance, no matter how you look at it, it's very similar to the legendary cavemen."

Lan Qingyou nodded.

"But that skin color, way of appearing, and the blackish-blue animal skins they're wearing, combining these elements together, no matter how I look at it I feel like they're zombies."

"Hiss— really, really, really, extremely ugly, how exactly did they evolve to evolve into this kind of appearance?"

Elisa said 'really' three times in a row.

It could be imagined that these things were truly ugly in her eyes.

And it wasn't some ugly-cute, but ugly to the point of making people feel disgusted, making people unwilling to even take another glance.

"Who knows, but to be able to evolve a metal whip from the back of one's head also indeed requires a bit of capability."

Lan Qingyou didn't think much of it.

But Elisa suddenly thought of a question.

"Say, could these guys be the Magic Beasts entrenched in the Wailing Marsh?"

"Should be."

Lan Qingyou nodded.

After all, she had already used her Demon Eye to clearly see exactly what these things were.

[Individual Name: Zeduo]

[Traits: Digging, Swimming, Crawling, Omnivorous, Photophobia]

[Abilities: Whip Strike, Mimicry, Mind Control, Death Gaze]

[Description: An evolutionarily erroneous ethnic group, failed to become humans, but desires to become humans.]

[Analysis: An evolutionary error caused by excessively high levels of a certain mutated virus in the body.]

[Individual Name: Haruchi]

[Individual Name: Lalayehe]

Not just these.

Lan Qingyou looked out.

As long as it could be appraised within her range, besides the race, they all had things like individual names.

Or rather, things like 'names'.

Although they had no surnames, just having names already explained the problem.

Having an individual name meant these things had at least formed a primitive social structure.

But, no matter how you look at it, the traits of this group of things didn't seem human.

They were simply like...

"Like a group of rats in the gutter."

Lan Qingyou said disdainfully.

Especially those two points of digging and photophobia, they were simply identical to those rats that only deserved to live in the stinking gutters.

But if you say they are human, they actually possessed an ability like Mimicry that only Magic Beasts had.

You should know, related skills of humans are usually called 'Transformation', 'Illusion', or 'Conversion'.

Only insects are called 'Mimicry'.

But perhaps it was exactly because they were a group of rats that could burrow underground.

That's why they were able to survive the Meteorite's strike right?

No...

It should be said exactly because they lived underground in the dark and damp.

So even if the Meteorite fell, the only ones it could smash to death were those inside this crater.

"A bit hard to endure."

"What's a bit hard to endure?"

Lan Qingyou's murmuring left Elisa beside her confused.

"Nothing."

Saying so, Lan Qingyou took out her cards and began taking pictures of these guys who were gradually approaching.

After all, it was the first time encountering such disgusting things, Lan Qingyou naturally had to record it well.

However.

Just when this group of things approached and both Lan Qingyou and Elisa wanted to make a move.

An unexpected yet logical thing suddenly happened.

They saw that when these guys arrived at a distance of about fifty meters from the two, the originally hunched figure of a guy in the very front visibly straightened up.

Subsequently, the two saw this guy's body slowly changing form.

While changing form.

Something like mud was constantly pouring out from this thing's mouth.

This thing truly stank to high heaven.

The smell was even stronger than that of the mud monsters Lan Qingyou had encountered before.

But the most physiologically discomforting part was that this mud-like viscous substance directly covered this guy's body!

"What a... what a disgusting scene..."

As a noble, Elisa could dissect experimental subjects in the laboratory.

But a scene like this...

To be honest, she couldn't handle it.

"Don't turn your head, looks like this is nothing more than just the beginning."

Elisa, who felt some physiological discomfort, wanted to turn her head away so as not to look at these disgusting things.

But Lan Qingyou didn't turn her head, instead staring intently at that guy.

After all, she had never seen an ecology like this before.

As for what the other party wanted to do, that was unknown.

However...

"Compared to this, were you subjected to an attack just now?"

Lan Qingyou looked forward motionlessly, without any intention of turning her head.

And being told this by Lan Qingyou, Elisa also had to turn her head back to look at that nauseating scene.

"Yes, sister, a Mental Attack that was displaying slight skill before an expert and extremely laughable."