Chapter 1318: There Is One, Mine
"Puppet Snakes? How do you know? Who told you?" Negris asked in astonishment.
Ang had been staying with everyone every day, fiddling with his things whenever he had time, and now he was addicted to the spacetime chessboard, having no time to pay attention to outside information. How could he know things that everyone didn't know?
"There is one, mine," Ang said.
"???" A big question mark appeared in everyone's heart. What did "there is one mine" mean?
After asking for a long time, they finally figured it out: "Pfft, you mean your bug drilled into the egg of one of the Puppet Snakes, ate it, and then parasitized in its body, becoming one of the Puppet Snakes?"
Ang nodded, but shook his head: "Not an egg, it's a seed."
"A seed was parasitized by a bug? This doesn't make sense either, right?" Negris muttered.
Ursman said: "It makes sense, it makes sense. Aren't there fungi that parasitize bugs or ants? Cross-species parasitism is not impossible."
"Fine, forget about cordyceps and zombie ants. What now? Let the Puppet Snake come to pick us up? The defense here is so strict, we can't pass even if we virtualize," Negris said helplessly.
Let alone virtualizing, soul shifting might not be able to pass. How strict was the defense here? Just now they almost stepped on some moss.
This kind of fluffy moss theoretically shouldn't exist here.
The surface of the entire Ten Thousand Worlds God Tree didn't have a place lower than a thousand degrees, whether it was the sunny side or the shady side. The sunny side was directly exposed to the sun, with a temperature of about two or three thousand, and the shady side had no direct sunlight, but it was at least over a thousand.
Only in those gullies and cracks could the temperature be lower than a thousand, but at least it was over five or six hundred. Such an environment was not suitable for the growth of moss at all.
However, the environment at the trunk was even harsher than that at the canopy, yet it was covered with lush moss. It didn't look right at first glance.
Calling the little tree person up to take a look, it was indeed wrong. It was a type of plant that the Guman Snake used to perceive the outside world, but it wasn't that moss, but the sharp thorns like velvet under the moss. These sharp thorns were very sensitive to various vibrations. Even if a butterfly flew by, the vibration produced by flapping its wings could be perceived.
If the road ahead was covered with such velvet sharp thorns, soul shifting was basically impossible. No matter how small the movement of soul shifting was, it couldn't be smaller than a butterfly.
Ang nodded.
"Ah? Nodding? What does it mean?" Negris asked in astonishment.
"Pick us up," Ang replied.
"Uh, I was just joking. If it's too dangerous, forget it. It's not easy to have a bug mixed into the opponent's camp," Negris said hurriedly.
He was just saying it casually. Ang wouldn't really call the Puppet Snake over because of his words, right?
Along the trunk below, a vine one size smaller swam up slowly like a snake.
Why the Guman Vine was called Guman Snake was because their movements were too much like snakes. Whether they were coiled on a tree or swimming, they were exactly the same as snakes.
It swam to the position where Ang's group was hiding, suddenly swung its body, and changed direction.
This movement had nothing special. The only special thing was that the movement was a bit faster and the commotion was a bit bigger. By the time it swam downward again, there was already a pile of virtualized Star-borns on it.
Don't look at it as a Puppet Snake one size smaller; its body was also very large. Ang's group stood on it, which was no different from standing on a giant mountain range. They could hide tightly by finding any position.
"King—" A low call sounded in everyone's ears.
Ang nodded.
"This... hello, what is your name?" Anthony greeted.
Anthony was too curious about this parasitic Puppet Snake. A bug parasitizing a Puppet Snake? Was it an animal or a plant? Ursman's examples of cordyceps and zombie ants couldn't erase its magic. This Puppet Snake was a creation of the Guman Snake. How could it be parasitized so easily?
There were too many questions, but Ang just greeted and stopped. This made everyone anxious and scratching their ears.
"My name is Little Vine," the Puppet Snake replied in a low voice.
Good, understood, Little generation.
Everyone quickly straightened their mentality. Ang was too lazy to name newcomers, so the naming rights were generally taken by Negris. However, if it was a name given by Ang and it was of the Little generation, it was equivalent to Ang's child.
"Hello Little Vine, I am Anthony," Anthony introduced himself.
"Hello, Anthony, I know you, the King's spokesperson. The King said, listen to you," Little Vine said curiously.
This Little Vine was like a child who had mastered language but was using this method to communicate for the first time. With Anthony taking the initiative to ask, it also responded enthusiastically.
"Hello Little Vine, I am Negris. Do you know me?" Negris asked hurriedly.
"Hello, Negris, I know you, you are the King's translator. The King said, if you don't understand, ask you," Little Vine said.
"Pfft, he didn't say let you listen to me?" Negris asked.
"No, King, should I listen to Negris?" Little Vine asked Ang directly.
Ang was fiddling with the spacetime chessboard. Hearing this, he shook his head rapidly without raising his head.
"Hahahaha..." Seeing Negris eat a loss, the field was full of a cheerful atmosphere.
Since Ang let it listen to himself, Anthony asked directly: "Little Vine, how did you parasitize the Puppet Snake? What is your state now? Is there anything uncomfortable?"
Little Vine replied blankly: "I don't know either. I crawled and crawled that day, crawled into a tree tumor with very strong vitality. I ate the thing inside, and then I felt very tired, very tired, and fell asleep quickly. When I woke up again, I became like this."
Very strong vitality? Tree tumor? Eat? Anthony silently wrote down these keywords and then asked: "How does the Guman Snake contact you? Can you hear its orders?"
Little Vine said: "It doesn't talk to me. It controls the body. When it controls, I hide."
Anthony and Ursman's expressions stirred.
"So the meaning of Puppet Snake is a shell without consciousness? Do other Puppet Snakes have consciousness? Does it control the Puppet Snake usually?" Anthony asked a series of questions.
If the Guman Snake controlled the Puppet Snake usually, then were these swimming Puppet Snakes all controlled by the Guman Snake?
"Yes, they control the body usually. When the Guman Snake comes, they also hide. They are afraid," Little Vine said.
That is to say, the Puppet Snakes had consciousness. Usually, they controlled themselves, but when the Guman Snake descended, their consciousness would hide in fear and hand over the control rights to the Guman Snake.
At this time, the little fire person suddenly pointed to a huge tree tumor on the trunk and said: "There, there, there."
It seemed that the place had arrived. Anthony was thinking about whether he could let Little Vine turn over when Little Vine suddenly said: "It's coming..."
Before he could finish speaking, he felt a powerful will descend on Little Vine's body.
?? Thanks to Shen·Ma for the reward. ===== CHAPTER 1319 =====
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