Regarding the one-eyed crow's words, Zheng Qing did not investigate whether they were true or false.
It's not that he completely believed what Old Crow said. In fact, the school allowed these remaining tribes of magical creatures to settle in the current Black Hell World, obviously to observe the impact of world changes on creatures.
A world that was almost ruined has been revitalized. What impact does the new surge of magic have on living things? Just thinking about it briefly, you will know that this is an amazingly huge topic, and the cost is enough for the school to be responsible for the project expenses.
The wizard pulled out his hair.
There is no need to use free experimental bodies, and it also eliminates the cost of purchasing live bodies from the outside world. Moreover, this time the trial for the second grade started, the trial venue was finally chosen to be placed here. It is difficult to deny that the school has cost-saving considerations.
The words behind the one-eyed crow also proved some of Zheng Qing’s guesses:
"When the war ended, the number of remaining ogres in the tribe was nearly a hundred, but no one expected that things would change so quickly..."
As it spoke, it raised its head and glanced at the dim sky, with a hint of confusion in the single eye on its forehead:
"The magic power gradually became abundant, the underground water surged up, and the food gradually became abundant. Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction... But for some reason, many good young men became weaker and weaker, coughed up blood, and lost teeth.
, the absorbed magic power leaks out like a deflated balloon, and can you imagine the ogre being poisoned?"
It was really hard for Zheng Qing to imagine.
Ogres are said to be invulnerable to all poisons. From fresh food to food that has been rotten for a long time, they are not taboo. To them, poisons are equivalent to condiments such as peppercorns or chili peppers.
The food is more delicious, and they even look for various highly poisonous animals and plants and throw them into their soup pots.
Presumably, only changes in the underlying rules of the world can cause ogres to suffer symptoms of poisoning.
The one-eyed crow murmured, his voice getting softer due to uneasiness:
"...In the first month, one-third of the tribe died due to food shortage and poisoning; in the second month, another third died due to an inexplicable curse."
"Later, although the curse gradually disappeared, the females in the tribe could not give birth to cubs... For two whole months, not a single cub in the tribe survived. And a tribe without cubs has no future.
"
"There is no way to lift the world's curse on the tribe, and there is no way to get rid of the bad luck... So when it challenged me, the warriors in the tribe kept silent."
"It sounds like you don't hate it for turning you into a crow?" Jiang Yu suddenly interjected and asked. Zheng Qing glanced at her and nodded slightly. Witches are always very sensitive to emotions.
The old crow clicked his beak twice, and after a moment of silence, he replied in a low voice: "Although it is a bit worse to turn losers into crows, it is not an unforgivable sin in the first place... Maybe I feel that I am a bit unlucky,
That’s all.”
"Then why did you attack it again just now?" Zheng Qing kicked the two-headed ogre corpse next to his feet.
This time, there was a trace of fear and hatred in the old crow's one eye: "Because it is a real monster... The tribe accepted it because it was a two-headed ogre. Originally, I thought my ancestors would appear and bring a glimmer of hope to the tribe...
…Unexpectedly, this guy was extremely cruel, and when there was plenty of food, he set his sights on the soldiers.”
"Because of its appearance, nearly one-third of the tribe's warriors disappeared in just four or five days. Others may not know, but I could see clearly from the sidelines that this monster not only ate the tribe's warriors
, and swallowed their souls.”
This answer silenced all the young wizards.
Although ogres have always appeared as ferocious and violent in wizard rumors, they usually only destroy the physical body of wizards, and rarely play with the soul like demons or dark wizards.
On the one hand, because the magic involving the soul is quite advanced, ogre shamans rarely get involved in superficial magic; on the other hand, it is also because ogres have customs similar to those of centaurs, fishmen and other magical creatures, and they respect such creatures very much.
Concepts like ancestors, soul, tradition.
Therefore, there is sufficient reason for the one-eyed crow to sneak attack on the two-headed ogre.
"Then do you know which tribe this ogre belongs to?"
Fatty Xin, who was squatting next to the two-headed ogre, was wearing silk gloves, holding long-handled tweezers in one hand and a silver knife in the other. He was skillfully cutting back and forth on the ogre's corpse. After listening to the words of the one-eyed crow,
Then, he suddenly asked: "The age of its bones does not match the number of tumors on its back... The underlying skin is also a little weird."
As he spoke, the fat wizard raised the long-handled tweezers in his hand. The tip of the tweezers held a thin piece of ogre arm skin. The outer side of the skin was intact, but the side next to the muscles was covered with strange white mesh structures.
, the grid is filled with the smell of decay, and even with Zheng Qing's eyesight, he can tell that its skin is completely unsuitable for tanning.
"Oh, how disgusting! How can its skin be like this!"
The young public-funded student pinched his nose, moved a little closer, and looked at the completely different skin on the front and back. Suddenly he looked up at the fat wizard: "Wait, does this mean that its skin can't be sold?"
"Not only the skin, but also its bones, blood, heart, eyes, and even the tumors on its back are abnormal."
The fat wizard casually threw the piece of rotten skin aside and sighed: "If you don't mind it, I can find some dark wizards from the Wandering Bar to take action, but you must be prepared to get into trouble if you don't get the mutton."
Prepare."
Zheng Qing immediately shook his head and waved his hands, signaling to give up.
At the same time, the one-eyed crow jumped forward a few steps, raised its claws, and clawed viciously at the piece of skin that the fat man had discarded, scratching it to pieces.
Several young wizards did not stop it from venting its anger.
After venting, the old crow shook its wings, raised its head again, and answered the fat man's previous question: "It does not belong to our tribe, nor does it belong to any clan I know... It named itself 'Black Hand', but
It has nothing to do with the Black Hand clan, I only know that it has lost its memory, and it just gave itself that name because its hands are darker."
"Is it possible that they are subordinates brought by other big demons or dark beasts?" Jiang Yu raised another possibility.
The one-eyed crow hesitated for a moment: "This possibility cannot be ruled out..."
"The greater possibility is that they are experimental subjects that escaped from the wizard's laboratory."
Xiao Xiao didn't know when he also put on a pair of silk gloves, and used a knife to cut open the chest of the two-headed ogre. While fidgeting with it, he interrupted the old crow's uncertain speculation: "It can be seen that there is something in its body.
There are many traces of sutures... and traces of wound healing after the use of healing magic... and this! The dark beast will not do this to his subordinates."
He reached deep into the Ogre's chest and pulled hard, pulling out a bloody spine.
There is an oval brass patch embedded on the spine. There are no complicated runes on it, only a capital letter 'M' branded on it using an incised technique.