It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 250 Crash Site
Xia Zhi noticed it the moment the snail-shell ship fell.

So he acted extremely quickly, directly locking onto the exact location of the crash and coming over to investigate.

From the outside, the craft looked like a giant conch shell, except it was covered with an external deck and had long tentacles sticking out.

It's just like a giant organism that has been modified, with very obvious features.

It is said that this is a strange flying ship used by the Mind Flayer, called the "Nautilus".

The greatest feature of this ship is that it can travel in the astral plane and teleport between different worlds in the material plane.

Long, long ago, when the mind flayers could travel through the worlds of the material plane without any hindrance, they used the tentacles of the nautilus to search for interesting creatures on the surface.

Then take it home and study it...or just eat it.

But things are different now. As a warship during the heyday of the Mind Flayer Empire, the condition of the Snailhull is just like that of the empire itself.

Because the Mind Flayers have lost the secret to building this strange spaceship, this means that the loss of any Nautilus will be a permanent loss.

It would also bring those brain-eating monsters one step closer to being trapped in the material plane forever.

Of course, this is also because the conch shell ship has become extremely rare.

A mind flayer community that owns a Nautilus takes great care to keep it hidden, only launching it into the air when necessary.

Therefore, the chance of a screw-shell ship crashing like today is indeed very rare.

"Don't miss any details. Maximize the range and accuracy of the scanner—"

Xia Zhi gave a reminder to the AI on hand. At this time, Grey Wind was scanning the Snail Shell Ship, using advanced algorithms to conduct a meticulous scan of the hull structure and attempt to reconstruct the model.

Then, he walked around the crime scene at will, taking away some key samples and preserving them properly.

After all, it might come in handy later if you try to reverse engineer it.

Flames leapt across the scene, a pungent smell of burning filled the air, and everything around indicated that a fierce battle had broken out here before the snail-shelled ship crashed.

Judging from the obvious traces of battle and the bodies scattered on the ground, many clues are almost obvious.

"It's Cambion..."

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Xia Zhi paused and stood in front of a completely charred corpse.

Time flowed in his pupils, and his causal vision transformed the information of the external environment into information reception similar to vision. He could easily see the outline and appearance of the creature not long ago.

Its deep red skin, horns, bat wings, and tail all indicate its obvious demonic ancestry.

This is the evil demon named Cambion. Although it was the first time he had seen it, the young man, who had mastered the relevant information, was able to identify it immediately.

This clue was very obvious, and he began to think about it with great interest -

Did this ship just escape from hell?
He glanced around and saw a few more corpses. He looked at some marks on the conch shell ship thoughtfully. They were deep claw marks.

After taking a few steps, he looked down at the ground, then stretched out his finger and hooked it lightly.

A small piece of red flew into my hand.

"Red Dragon..."

Xia Zhi identified the source of the red scales, and the smell of sulfur and pumice lingering around the scales proved this.

So, this conch shell ship was not only attacked by the demons from hell, but also attacked by the red dragon. It seems that all the troubles were caused by it?
——"Red dragons have a strong sense of territory. They like mountains, wastelands, and any other places that allow them to live high up and overlook their territory..."

The relevant knowledge was immediately recalled, and he made a reasonable inference -

Is it because the Conch Shell Ship happened to intrude into the Red Dragon's territory before, which is why it was attacked?
No, that's not right. Compared to this, there seems to be a more likely option...

The Githyanki.

A race that was once enslaved by the mind flayers, but the slaves eventually rebelled against their masters and gained their freedom.

But the hatred will not be wiped out. The Githyanki hate their former masters very much and have been seeking ways to completely destroy the mind flayers.

It seemed normal for these powerful warriors from the astral plane, famous for their legendary silver blades and red dragon mounts, to attack the mind flayer's conch shells.

The magician's thoughts raced like lightning, and he pieced together a rough outline in an instant.

However, the specific ins and outs are still to be discussed. After all, this conch-shell ship is suspected of causing too many troubles at the same time, so it should be somewhat special.

"There is still one alive..."

After Gray Wind finished scanning the report, the young man looked at another piece of the snail shell ship fragment not far away, and then walked directly over the flames.

The blazing flames licked his body, but unfortunately it couldn't even break through the "mobile temple" on his body, let alone make his body feel anything.

It is harder, softer, more temperature-resistant, and sharper than any other substance...

Unfortunately, it's just skin deep.

In another piece of the disintegrated spiral-shell ship, Xia Zhi looked at it thoughtfully, and took the opportunity to stop several brain-eating monsters that were about to escape.

On the broken deck was lying a deformed life form that looked like an alien. The moment he arrived at the scene, he had already noticed the existence of this life form.

However, because he was more interested in the conch shell ship, and although this life reaction seemed to be like a candle in the wind, in fact, if left alone, it could survive until tomorrow morning.

So he didn't rush over to confirm the situation, but waited until he got the sample data of the conch shell ship. The dying creature lying on the ground had an octopus-like head and long tentacles under its jaws...

This image was not unfamiliar. After all, I had seen it when I dissected the True Soul Person.

However, that was a newborn mind flayer, and this one is obviously a survivor of the crash of the spiral shell, which means that there is more value in its head.

As if it had sensed someone's arrival, the dying Mind Flayer barely raised its head, its vicious yellow eyes fixed on the blurry figure in its field of vision.

mercy--

pity--

The monster tried his best to control the other party's thoughts with his mental power, trying to arouse the empathy in his consciousness and make him rescue himself.

At the critical moment of life and death, it no longer cared about anything else and tried its best to burst out the strongest mental power.

After all, it judged that it could not hold on for too long in this state, so there was little point in conserving its strength. The key point was to be rescued as soon as possible.

"..."

"..."

However, the humans on the other side were not controlled.

The seriously injured Mind Flayer was a little confused. It didn't feel any sign of resistance from the other party, but why did it seem to be unsuccessful?

No mercy.

No sympathy.

It should be said that there was nothing. The human just stood there thoughtfully, looking at himself with a very strange gaze.

No, that’s not right. It’s not a very strange gaze, but a very familiar gaze.

The bewildered Mind Flayer suddenly reacted, as if he used to look at those interesting lower-level creatures in the same way, as if they were experimental animals or food.

But now its role has suddenly changed, and it is the one being scrutinized in this way, and it is totally not used to it.

next moment--

The magician finally took action, or rather, he had completed Grey Wind's preparations and could start containing him.

With just a slight stretch of his hand, the seriously injured Mind Flayer and several brain-eating monsters around it disappeared directly in the golden ripples.

In the closed portable warehouse space, a certain empty area has been marked out as a small testing area.

The nanomachines that were put into emergency operation formed a series of facilities including biochemical laboratories, lepton cages, biological culture dishes, surgical dissection tables, and so on.

Under the bright lights, the silver-white alloy floor, the smooth walls without any undulations, and a variety of high-precision instruments, the combination of magic and physics exudes a special feeling.

The Mind Flayer was immediately sunk into a two-meter-high biological culture dish, where it floated in the dark nutrient solution and quickly lost consciousness.

As one of the more precious living specimens currently available, its injuries will be repaired first before being properly put into use.

In the short time it took to set up a special research area, Grey Wind had already taken the time to design thousands of research plans for this experimental subject.

Enough to completely squeeze out its value before removing its brain for preservation and slicing its body for research.

After taking another look around, Xia Zhi turned and left.

People nearby had already rushed over, but he didn't plan to show up and cleaned up all traces of his presence.

And according to Gray Wind's scan, which collected approximate environmental data within a hundred kilometers of the crash site, it was discovered that there were several surviving life reactions on another beach far away from the crash site.

——He is in a coma, but his life is not in danger. It can even be said that he does not look like a survivor of a plane crash at all.

——Compared to the mind flayer who almost died in the plane crash, those mortals were obviously special.

Just out of some kind of cautious mentality, or perhaps a vague keen intuition, Xia Zhi thought about it and did not choose to go over and contact him directly.

Because of the adventure stories of Feren in the past, he had serious and reasonable suspicion that this might be another group of adventurers carrying the "destiny".

Of course, it is better to say that it is the will and arrangement of the gods rather than destiny.

Anyway, the magician doesn't believe at all that there are no deeper forces behind those adventure groups.

After all, when it comes down to it, adventurers are just chess pieces, so there must be chess players playing against them behind the scenes.

Therefore, we need to be cautious, cautious and cautious again.

"Well, let's observe from a distance and not make contact for now..."

Gray Wind suggested, "Rather than this, I think Master, you should pay attention to your first believer—"

"According to the signal from Prototype Power Weapon No. 1, the drow seems to have discovered a passage leading to the Underdark..."

"The diffused hovering loop seems to have detected the existence of a special material called "fine gold". The preliminary test results are very consistent..."

"Perhaps the opportunity has come to rely on our unique advantages to crush them and launch a dimensionality reduction attack..."

(End of this chapter)