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Chapter 331 Blood of Silver
Before me stood a mountain range rising from the deep sea, its peaks undulating and covered with black reefs.

The surface of the underwater mountain range is covered with many caves of varying sizes.

The mountain looks like it's been eroded and riddled with holes.

From time to time, some cave-dwelling marine creatures can be seen going in and out of the caves.

"Qin, to lure it out, we need to prepare some bait first." The merman leader searched the vicinity and quickly found what he needed.

This is a red fish with a large head and a small body.

There are blue spots on both sides of her cheeks, which look like a pair of blue eyes from a distance.

The merman leader clapped his hands together, smashing him into a pulp.

Then it took out a fine net from a leather pouch at its waist and poured the meat sauce into it.

The other end of the fine net is a long, thin rope.

"If something takes the bait later, you need to be quick and don't hold back. Those things bite really hard." The merman leader turned to look at Mogu beside Qin Ziwen.

Mogu merely glanced at him disdainfully, his pale golden pupils sweeping over him.

"Let's do it."

The merman leader started moving, grabbing the rope in its hand and swimming close to the mountain's surface.

The meat sauce, covered by a fine net, slid through the water, leaving a trail with a fishy smell.

Qin Ziwen noticed that these traces followed a pattern; they were all connected in a line along the holes on the surface of the mountain.

Just as they passed the entrance to one of the caves, a long, thin black shadow emerged from it.

In an instant, it bit into the thin net, and the rope became taut.

This is a silvery-white water centipede with a glassy luster.

The part of it protruding from the cave is over two meters long, and its wrist-thick body is covered with sharp spikes on both sides.

"boom--"

Mogu disappeared from the spot.

When it reappeared, it was already in Mogu's palm.

In its palm, the water centipede struggled desperately, trying to wrap itself around Mogu's arm.

Mogu flicked his wrist, then squeezed.

A thick cloud of blood mist splashed up in the water.

It was only then that Qin Ziwen's insight belatedly arrived, landing on this water centipede.

[Extraordinary Silver Bobbit Bug: ☆☆☆☆]: Level 1 Sharp Mouthparts

Qin Ziwen took the silver Bobbit worm from Mogu's hand.

He didn't expect it to be this thing; he had heard of it before in an animal documentary.

It is said that many alien monsters in movies are based on it.

The Bobbit worm, which lives in the deep-sea sand, is fierce and has a bizarre appearance. It has chrysanthemum-shaped mouthparts on its head and a pair of mandibles.

The Bobbit worms in this sea area are equally impressive.

“Master, its blood is very valuable.” Mogu held up the silver Bobbit worm in his hand. “After refining, we can extract pure silver blood.”

"What is the use?"

Mogu said, "It is an important ingredient. Many recipes that can enhance the innate abilities of a race require the use of the Three-Colored Blood. The Three-Colored Blood is made by mixing the gold, silver, and bronze blood in a 1:2:3 ratio."

"Then isn't all the blood flowing out of its body being wasted?" Qin Ziwen pointed to the silver Bobbit worm in Mogu's hand. Blood emitting faint silver light was continuously flowing from the broken end of the worm.

The blood merged into the sea and quickly dissipated.

"We need to go back first." Qin Ziwen thought for a moment and then opened a node nearby. The node had just been upgraded, creating an extra spot.

The merfolk leader was curious when it saw the node. It had only heard of this thing on the stone tablet passed down in its tribe, and this was the first time it had seen it.

But without permission, it dared not venture in.

Mogu lowered his head and returned home through the node. Qin Ziwen went to the kitchen and found an iron basin.

Although long, the Bobbit worm is slender, like a python. After curling up into a ball, it is placed in a basin.

Blood seeped from the wound and quickly accumulated into a thin layer of bloody water in the basin. The bloody water shimmered with a sparse silvery light, as if sprinkled with fluorescent powder.

He was very interested in the silver blood and tricolor blood that Mogu mentioned, and wondered if he would have a chance to obtain the kind of building that Mogu had described.

If I had the means, I could make the kind of nourishing food that Mogu mentioned.

Besides the blood of silver, the corpses of silver Bobbit worms can also be collected.

"This is the fifth one." Qin Ziwen silently counted in his mind. Apart from the Thousand-Eyed Serpent, he had stored the other important materials from the several extraordinary creatures he had hunted in the cellar.

The Thousand-Eyed Serpent was sacrificed to the Serpent Puppet by the Murloc leader. He had completed his mission and taken the three cards it dropped, so naturally he couldn't mention the corpse anymore.

Back in the underwater mountain range, the merman leader repeated his actions, this time using a finer net, and continued "fishing".

This time, my luck was a little worse. After nearly half an hour, I finally caught a second silver Bobbit worm in another hole.

This Bobbit worm is larger than the previous one, nearly five meters long, and has one more star.

Having learned from his previous experience, this time Mogu didn't crush it directly. Instead, he flicked his arm, and the Bobbit worm rolled around on his arm, collapsing like a soft noodle.

Qin Ziwen squinted and looked around. He wondered to himself if this was the only kind of insect in the seabed.

As if guessing Qin Ziwen's thoughts, the fish-man leader said, "This is the most common insect here. Its mouthparts are very sharp, and after it bites a wound, it will burrow into the body and then parasitize it."

"Besides this insect, there is another extraordinary creature deep in the mountains, but it is rare and we don't know if it still exists now."

The surrounding seawater was icy cold, and the place was dimly lit.

Upon venturing deeper into the underwater mountain range, Qin Ziwen discovered that it was undulating and had a rather strange shape.

The mountain range was riddled with holes, which for some reason reminded Qin Ziwen of the Thousand-Eyed Snake.

He cast a vision into the mountains, but received no response.

He immediately chuckled, realizing he might be overthinking things.

It's just an ordinary underwater mountain.

"Can't we go inside?" Qin Ziwen pointed to the caves on the surface of the mountain.

The merman leader said, "The passages inside are very complex, and these holes are interconnected, making it easy to get lost."

As it was speaking, it stopped.

"There it is!" the merman leader pointed ahead.

Following the direction of its finger, Qin Ziwen saw a reddish-brown "pumpkin seed" lying in a depression in the mountain.

It has a flat back, two flagella near its head, and several pairs of chelicerae on the sides of its body.

It looks like a crab, a hermit crab, and even a bit like a spider.

【Extraordinary Bloodthirsty Sea Mite: ☆☆☆☆★】: Level 1 Blood Boiling

Sea mites?

Mites exist on the ocean floor?!
At first glance, he thought it was some kind of crab, but he never expected it to be a mite.

Such a large mite, what kind of things could it parasitize?

(End of this chapter)