Chapter 273 Psychic Crystal Detector
The sturdy staff creaked under the pressure. The pure black octopus head, which was as thick as sticky liquid, was less than ten centimeters away in front of him. Its tentacles had even swept across Aldai's cheek. .
Perhaps it was a leftover habit from when it was still alive, but the illithid's liquefied consciousness had already opened its worm-like round mouthparts, preparing to bite off Aldai's skull and suck out the brain inside.
However, in such a swanky carnival scene, Aldai's face remained calm. Even if her ears were filled with the screams of her teammates, she didn't blink at all.
The mere liquefaction of consciousness is not a problem for Aldai. The trouble is that he has to deal with them without hurting himself and his teammates. This is something he has to think about.
Besides, there may be many things of research value in this room. If a big fireball explodes here, the damage will be huge.
Aldee needed a solution that would have a small impact but could actually solve the situation at hand.
Should he say it or not, Master Fa's mind is indeed spinning very quickly.
"Nemea, lead my liquefied consciousness away and control it for a while."
Tiefling Nemea was hit against the wall by a psychic blast from the liquefied consciousness of another illithid, feeling as if several of his bones were broken.
Hearing this, he gritted his teeth and jumped up, taking off a large bag from his waist.
She felt that this time it must be a fat one, so she brought a sack that could hold half the size of a person when unfolded. It was originally intended to contain treasures, but now it could only be used to contain liquefied consciousness.
The liquefied consciousness is a liquid, and it is useless to cut it with a sword. Putting a sack on the head of the liquefied consciousness can have some interference effect.
Nemea put the sack on and rode on it himself, trying to suppress the illithid's liquefied consciousness.
But this thing can still use psychic abilities. Nemea, who was riding on it, immediately became dizzy. He followed the centrifuge and turned it around a few times. His hands immediately lost strength and he was thrown off by the liquefied consciousness.
Aldai took this opportunity to reach for her magic bag, took out a white tablet and hit it on the liquefied consciousness.
"Enhanced special effects!"
Under the influence of this spell, the original function of the item will be improved.
For example, torches will burn more intensely, swords will become sharper, armor will become stronger, and so on. However, this spell can only be used on ordinary items that are not enchanted.
The liquefied consciousness that was suppressing Aldai hadn't noticed the seriousness of the problem yet, but soon, the body made of liquid began to collapse inward, and the black illithid's liquefied consciousness roared and shrank into one as if it had been sucked away by a water pump. The small section finally disappeared, and only the white piece fell to the ground. At this time, it had absorbed water and turned into a black piece.
"Oh oh oh, no wonder the TV commercial said it is super absorbent. It's true."
It’s hard to tell even now, but it’s actually a sanitary napkin…
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The image of using sanitary napkins to address liquefaction awareness is indeed not quite right, but it does work.
Aldai soon followed suit, and the liquefied consciousness of the three illithids was sucked into the sanitary napkin.
Maybe they also feel that it is not good. From time to time, they can see a layer of black water stains on the surface of the sanitary napkin, trying to escape, but the liquid cannot resist the super absorbent material of the sanitary napkin.
By the way, if you let them know what sanitary napkins are used for, they will probably feel even more sour...
Spells are magical, but how to use them is what mages should consider more. Blindly pursuing powerful spells is ultimately nothing more than a show.
From this aspect, Aldai is indeed worthy of the title of high-level mage.
——It’s just that the style of painting is a bit unacceptable.
Another benefit of using a sanitary napkin is that it acts as a temporary seal.
Aldai picked up the three sanitary napkins, then took out a large glass jar and stuffed the three liquefied consciousnesses into it. Finally, she carved a few runes on the cork of the jar with her fingernails.
Every time the liquefied consciousness in the tank tried to struggle, it would bounce back as if it had been shocked when it hit the wall of the tank.
In Aldai's view, such valuable research material cannot be destroyed casually.
Although for liquefied consciousness, it may be more pleasant to be simply eliminated. After all, when you enter Master Fa's laboratory, you have to kneel down and sing conquest when the devil comes. "How are you doing?"
"It's okay, I'm just feeling dizzy."
"I took a psychic blast head-on, and I feel like my consciousness and body are still separate."
"vomit……!"
Tieflinymia didn't say anything, but lay on the ground and vomited out her dinner.
Among the three, only Priest Perrin had the highest mental saving throw, and had no other problems except for being a little dizzy. However, Draeger and Nemea were in dire straits, especially Nemea. Not only was he dizzy, but he was also beaten black and blue.
Perrin quickly raised the wooden holy symbol in the shape of the sun around his neck, treated minor injuries to everyone, and then gave Nemea another shot to treat minor injuries.
Most priests usually stay in temples, and only a few priests of gods prefer to go out on adventures. Therefore, the number of nannies among adventurers is as rare as the number of mages, and they are also very popular.
While Perrin was nursing Nemea, Aldai wandered around the captain's cabin. She even opened the hatch of the life-sustaining cabin without caring, and groped up and down the body of the dead illithid. Draeger couldn't help grinning.
"Don't you really feel sick? Look at its tentacles still twitching."
"Not at all, it's just a corpse. Besides, illithids are hermaphrodites, so they won't be able to touch anything unique to men."
"...That's not the point."
On the workbench in the corner of the cabin, there were some semi-finished products that looked like magic items. They were worth a few dollars, but Aldai had no interest in them.
But there are good things in the illithids.
In addition to finding another laser pistol and three psychic batteries, Aldai also found a small gray pocket and a soap-sized box-like thing from the illithid, which looked like some kind of instrument.
After shaking the bag, there was the sound of gems colliding inside. Aldai untied it, took a look, and threw the bag to Derger.
"Divide your harvest among yourself."
Although the common currency is gold coins, due to the heavy weight of gold coins, gems of equivalent value are also used for transactions.
And pure money is the last thing Aldai needs.
The three people immediately cheered and began to divide the accounts. Even Nemea, who was still vomiting just now and couldn't stand up straight, managed to stand up and divide the gems.
Aldai looked at the small box in her hand carefully under the magic light.
A small window made of translucent hexagonal glass can be seen on the matte black surface, but looking inside from the small window, there is nothing in the box.
This thing can't be opened. There is no lock or mechanism to open the box.
Aldai thought about it carefully and then remembered that she had read a book about illithids that mentioned this thing a long time ago.
This is a psychic crystal detector.
The psychic crystal is the energy source of the shell ship, and the psychic crystal of this shell ship has long been burned out.
The possibly injured illithid preserved its dying comrade with liquefied consciousness, and then planned to go out to find psychic crystals to repair the shell ship. However, the injury was too serious, and it had to lie down in the life-sustaining cabin with the detector and wait. rescue.
This thing also has certain research value, so it must be taken away.
But Aldai didn’t quite understand why ‘Aurora’ led her into the shell ship.
Is there something important related to finding the Demon King's Ring?
Even a flexible mage cannot piece together a reasonable explanation when there are no clues. Aldai thought about it for a moment, then reached out to hold the holy symbol hidden in her clothes, intending to ask the Demon King God through prayer what he thought.
But at this moment, the entire captain's room suddenly shook.
It felt like something heavy and big suddenly hit the shell ship...
(End of chapter)