I am your natural enemy.

Chapter 541: Brainworm, Water Monkey (5k)

The thing seemed to sense Wen Yan's pursuit and dived deeper.

The deeper we dived, the slower the thing became, and the darker it became around us. Light could no longer penetrate such deep water.

When the water reached a certain depth and Wen Yan began to feel the water pressure, the diving thing seemed to dare not continue diving, but turned to move sideways.

In the endless darkness, the yang energy in Wen Yan's body seemed to be suppressed by the water pressure, and his eyes began to turn dark. In an instant, the darkness around him brightened a little bit, and the perspective also changed, turning into black and white.

The surrounding sea water seemed to have turned into air and was ignored in his field of vision. He finally saw the shape of the object in front of him clearly.

The thing looked like a skinny monkey, with its arms and legs together, and a long tail, like the tail of a swimming fish, swaying and pushing it forward.

Wen Yan held the gray cloth and chased after it quickly. When the water monkey saw that Wen Yan could catch up, it continued to dive and dived more than a hundred meters. Wen Yan still looked normal and could even open his eyes underwater. However, the water monkey's body had become even thinner and its movements became slower and slower.

When diving to a depth of more than 700 meters, Wen Yan could already feel obvious pressure, but felt that he was still some distance away from the limit. He caught up with the water monkey, flew the gray cloth over, wrapped it around it, and pulled the water monkey to continue diving deeper.

The water monkey struggled hard, but his body became stiffer and thinner.

Being pulled by Wen Yan to sink to a height of nearly a thousand meters in one breath, Wen Yan felt that the special effect of the Water Official Talisman for Relieving Evil was almost reaching its limit after continuous upgrades, so he stopped.

The water monkey was like a sculpture, its body like a dried corpse under the huge pressure here. It was not crushed to death, but it could not move.

This guy obviously doesn't rely solely on balancing the pressure difference between inside and outside to dive deep. It's more like he balances part of it, and then uses the pressure to compress his body and bear part of it.

Wen Yan's lungs were full of sea water, and the special effects balanced the pressure difference. Unlike this water monkey, even if he went another two or three hundred meters down, Wen Yan felt that he could still hold on for a while.

He floated in front of the water monkey, watching it coldly. When the ferocity in the water monkey's eyes gradually faded away and turned into pleading, the reminder finally came.

"Substitute brainworm."

“It was once a strange beast in the wilderness, it knew good and bad, and it understood human speech.

It knows how to eat wind and drink dew, absorb the essence of stars and moon, and it likes the brains of living things the most.

Later, because of his greed, cruelty and impatience for success, he colluded with Tengu.

Later they were expelled and no longer had any place on earth.

It sank all the way into the open sea and was swallowed by the giant sea beast Calling the Sun. By chance, it swallowed a part of the brain of the giant sea beast Calling the Sun.

It parasitizes on the giant beast's brain, replaces some of the functions of the giant beast's brain, and survives on the nutrients of the giant beast's body.

It was fascinated by the power of the giant beast and thought of riding this huge creature and galloping across the open sea.

One day, I will be able to fight my way back to the wilderness."

"A water monkey with strong vitality, good at resisting external pressure, good at parasitizing large organisms, but insatiable.

The greater the external pressure, the stronger the body.

Often due to their endless greed, they kill the large organisms they are parasitizing.

This time, he wanted to find a more powerful beast to parasitize, but he didn't know that the bigger and stronger steel beast didn't have a brain at all. "

"Temporary ability: vacuum."

"Extra tip from Xihe Lu: Brainworm, as a vanguard, if you can establish a bridgehead, you will be allowed to return to the land and take back the title of Water Monkey."

There are additional hints, and this time the additional hints have more content than before.

Wen Yan noticed this. Regarding things related to the Great Wilderness, there would always be extra hints from the Xihe Talisman, and sometimes more information would be given.

The information itself cannot be given through normal prompts.

After equipping the equipment with temporary abilities, I discovered that this was a rare type of prompt, and vacuum means literally.

To kill this guy called brain worm, which is actually a water monkey, you need to rely on vacuum.

This guy is purely stress-resistant and can resist external pressure.

The special effect of Wen Yan's Jie'e Shui Guan Lu is to balance the pressure difference between inside and outside, while the special effect of Shan Xi's natural enemy is to resist pressure. The difference is quite big.

Wen Yan can walk on the moon because he can balance the pressure difference between inside and outside, but this water monkey can't do that.

Wen Yan looked at it carefully and roughly understood. When the gray cloth was wrapped around the water monkey before, it could still suppress it a little, but the deeper it dived, the pressure that the gray cloth could exert on the water monkey became smaller and smaller.

It seems that because he dived too deep, this guy's body became stronger.

Wen Yan continued to pull the water monkey, whose body had become stiff and who was using all his strength to resist the heavy pressure, down for a while. Only when the water monkey had completely given up did he pull the water monkey up quickly.

As it floated up, the water monkey's body, which looked like a mummy, began to expand rapidly. When it was more than a hundred meters away from the water surface, it had completely turned into a giant macaque.

Not counting the tail, it should be about 1.67 meters tall when standing up. Its eyeballs have become a little bigger, and its face is grinning, giving it a ferocious look.

Seeing that it was about to break out of the water, the water monkey, who had a cowardly look on his face just now, immediately started to lose face and tried to break free from the gray cloth.

Wen Yan raised his finger and did not let the gray cloth wrap it up and suppress it. The thing that this water monkey is least afraid of is heavy pressure like water pressure.

The gray cloth was wrapped around the water monkey's limbs, twisted at its joints behind its back, and finally around its neck.

The more the water monkey struggled, the more severely the joints of its limbs were twisted. The gray cloth wrapped around its neck did not try to strangle it, but instead, when the water monkey struggled, it was pulled by its own strength and twisted its neck backwards.

Wen Yan said nothing and did nothing, just watched the water monkey struggle quietly.

After trying several times, the water monkey gave up struggling when it felt its bones and joints cracking and its neck was about to be broken by its own strength.

"Keep struggling. I really want to see if you can twist your head off."

The water monkey bared its teeth and returned to its timid look.

This water monkey has been maintaining the appearance of a wild beast, obviously trying to pretend that it does not understand human language.

Judging from the prompts, this guy can only understand human language and probably can't speak. It may be troublesome to communicate with him, and he probably has no desire to communicate.

Take it back first and then talk about it.

He stepped on the gray cloth, found the small boat, boarded it, and did not go onto the Dahlia. He hung behind the Dahlia, hanging far away.

Tip: Although the Dahlia is a steel behemoth, it does not have a brain.

Water monkeys are very good at parasitizing giant beasts, and Wen Yan doesn't want to take the risk.

Who knows if this water monkey, who is sometimes timid, sometimes fierce and a little cunning, is hiding something? What if this guy is waiting for Wen Yan to bring him on board the Dahlia?
Wen Yan no longer dared to blindly believe that the hint was correct, and he was sure that the hint did not list all the correct information.

God knows what's special about it.

Seeing the water monkey being dragged forward, staring at the Dahlia ahead, the greed in its eyes could not be hidden at all.

Wen Yan raised his hand, and the gray cloth covered the water monkey's eyes.

They headed north from the South China Sea until they arrived at the Lieyang Tribe's ship to pick them up. After they boarded the ship, they put the water monkey in a cage and took them to a base of the Lieyang Tribe.

Here is the cage that Wen Yan needs, a not very large vacuum chamber with a not too extreme degree of vacuum. It is usually used for experiments and is considered the property of the Ministry of Aerospace.

Relevant equipment is also being built in Decheng, but it has not been completed yet, and the Ministry of Aerospace does not seem to have much interest in continuing the construction. For most of the things they want to experiment with, the vacuum degree on the lunar surface is sufficient to meet their needs.

Once the underground base on the moon is built, there will be many more experiments that can be done.

If the vacuum level on the lunar surface cannot be met, we will continue to build better experimental equipment.

Wen Yan took the water monkey and transported it to the base. On the way, Wen Yan looked at the surveillance camera in the corner of the cage and saw that the water monkey's limbs were bent, and its hands and feet were still trying to pass through the cage to touch the things under the cage.

Seeing that it couldn't reach it, the water monkey turned around, lay on the cage, opened its mouth, and bit the steel cage. Sparks flew and tooth marks were left on the steel cage.

It stuck out its tongue, which was like a sharp sword, suddenly extending more than a foot long and hitting the steel plate under the vehicle, making a muffled sound.

After trying several times, the water monkey retracted its tongue and gave up unwillingly.

Wen Yan stopped the car and checked under it. This transport vehicle was not thickened and had several parts made of different materials. The steel plate of the vehicle itself was as thick as a palm, so the water monkey could not break it at all.

As we continued driving, the water monkey calmed down and started looking around the cage.

Wen Yan watched the video playback carefully and remembered the extra hint he had seen before. Someone must have given the water monkey a task, and the reward after the water monkey completed it was to return to land.

Then, this water monkey should not be reluctant to leave his hometown.

The biggest possibility is to return to the land itself, which is a huge benefit for them. However, the water monkeys themselves, perhaps for other reasons, cannot get close to the land at all.

Now that he has forcibly tied the water monkey to land, has some conditions been met?
After thinking it over, Wen Yan made a phone call and asked them to make a small modification to their equipment.

He remembered Zhang Laoxi saying that there were very few places with good environments, good weather and good harvests, but they had some disadvantages, which was that they were also natural places for corpses to be raised and it was easy for corpses to resurrect.

In the era when cremation was not yet popular, in order to prevent the ancestors from resurrecting and turning into zombies, the local burial method was hanging burial.

In some places, people are buried on cliffs with no roads in front or behind. The wind there is fierce and it is difficult to gather yin, so as to prevent the corpse from resurrecting.

In some places where there are no high mountains or cliffs, the coffins are suspended in the air with a bracket, away from the ground. Even the legs of the bracket are separated from the ground with gold and water to prevent the corpse from rising.

Of course, there aren’t so many plots now. They are just taken to the crematorium and cremated, and that’s all.

But Wen Yan still remembers these things.

He checked the time and called his fourth uncle for advice.

After hearing his description, the fourth uncle told him that it is better to be safe than sorry. No matter what happens, as long as the water monkey is not allowed to come into contact with the earth's energy, nothing will happen.

There are so many things that isolate the earth's energy, and there are countless simple ones if you magnify them.

The clear and turbid qi of a person, things made of metal and water, and things like rubber that are neither metal nor wood are all counted.

The so-called clear and turbid air of a person is found in all living people who breathe.

Things related to gold and water are simpler, just get an iron basin and hold some water.

This is a conservative approach. To put it simply, it does not count as long as it does not touch the land.

Wen Yan felt relieved and continued driving in the car.

On the other side, in the Lieyang Tribe’s base, the logistics bosses modified the equipment according to Wen Yan’s requirements.

By the time Wen Yan arrived, the thick metal structure that looked like a hyperbaric oxygen chamber had undergone a simple transformation, with all its legs submerged in water.

Wen Yan picked up the water monkey with one hand. The moment he lifted it out, the guy broke its tail and broke it free, and it fell to the ground.

Wen Yan watched quietly. The water monkey saw its tail touching the ground without any reaction. He was startled for a moment and then began to struggle violently.

"Don't struggle. The ground beneath your feet is made of fine steel to prevent certain things that can burrow or dig underground.

Insulating materials were added on top, and finally a layer of floor tiles was laid. Strictly speaking, the earth energy you want cannot enter here at all.

If you want to get in touch with the earth, forget it."

Wen Yan was very careful and chose the paths he walked on specially to ensure that there would be no problems throughout the process.

This was the first non-aquatic creature he had seen that was dragged to a depth of nearly a thousand meters under the sea and still survived.

Moreover, when he floated up, he floated up at the fastest speed, and the water monkey did not suffer any harm due to the drastic change in pressure difference in a short period of time.

Just these two points alone can make it possible to say that this is the most tenacious creature with flesh and blood that Wen Yan has ever seen.

If there were no special effects to help, Wen Yan's current body, in terms of vitality alone, would be at least several levels behind this water monkey.

At least Wen Yan knew clearly that without the special effects to balance the pressure difference, even if he ate the offerings and triggered the blood lock, he would not be able to hold on at that depth.

He put the water monkey into the vacuum chamber.

Then stand outside and look at the water monkey and go straight to the point.

"Who expelled you?"

When the water monkey heard the sound coming from the cage, an expression of shock immediately appeared on his face.

It was shocked and terrified.

Before, when Wen Yan could sense that it wanted to touch the earth and touch the earth's energy, it was not so shocked.

It didn't understand why Wen Yan knew all this.

The unknown brings great fear.

But then, the fear turned into rage. It changed its previous timid look and looked ferocious. It opened its mouth and its tongue slammed into the window, which was at least half a foot thick.

Wen Yan looked at the furious and crazy water monkey. He no longer flinched. His eyes were fierce and his eyeballs were red. He exuded a vicious aura. Wen Yan knew there was no point in talking.

This guy has eaten more than one person at some point.

Wen Yan took two steps back and nodded to the person in charge.

He walked out of the room and looked outside the thick glass protection, and a buzzing sound rang in his ears.

The air in the vacuum chamber was slowly being sucked away. The ferocious water monkey was still struggling like crazy, but it had completely lost the possibility of communication.

As the pressure inside gradually decreased, the water monkey began to realize that something was wrong.

Its extremely pressure-resistant body was unable to withstand this environment without pressure. Its body began to swell, and the air in its body was forced out first. Then its eyeballs burst, and blood oozed out, and began to boil the moment it oozed out.

"I'm afraid this will ruin your equipment."

"It's okay. This vacuum chamber is average and not expensive. As mentioned above, the funds will be reimbursed. We have always wanted to replace it. This one is a bit too old, but it has been well maintained and can still be used for experiments that do not require high standards."

Time passed by little by little, and with each order of magnitude increase in the vacuum degree, more time was consumed.

The water monkey's body had expanded to twice its size, but it was still not completely dead. It was still as ferocious as ever and was still struggling and attacking frantically, with no intention of cooperating or giving in.

After half a day, a muffled sound was heard in the vacuum chamber.

A hint appeared in front of Wen Yan's eyes.

"Kill the alien brain worm (water monkey) and get an additional 1% progress for the Water Official Talisman to relieve the disaster."

“The former water monkeys actually have the potential to continue evolving, and one day, turn into white-headed, green-bodied apes that cannot be killed by swords, drowned, burned, or struck by lightning, and can survive thousands of years without aging.

Unfortunately, its wild nature was difficult to tame, and its greed was hard to suppress. Not only was it bloodthirsty and devoured the brains of living creatures, it also joined forces with the Heavenly Dog to covet the bright moon, and finally aroused public anger.

He was driven out of the earth, and from then on, he had no contact with land or rivers. "

Seeing this prompt, Wen Yan took out his mobile phone, silently checked Shui Jun's description, and then put his phone away.

Now he understood why this guy had such strong vitality. If it weren't for the toughness that Gray Cloth had evolved specifically for, he would have found it difficult to break free after his joints were bound, and it would have been extremely difficult to catch this guy.

Throw it to the moon and maybe it will be able to jump around for a while.

It turns out this guy is called Water Monkey, and there is real hope that he can evolve into someone like Suicune in the future.

However, there may be several evolutions and job changes in between before it is possible.

From what Wen Yan has seen so far, anything that can evolve once is already a remarkable thing. He still wants to change his job several times. What a pipe dream.

If one wants to evolve to the level of Suicune, he would need at least one of the Four Great Rivers as a carrier.

Such conditions are impossible in the modern world. The big rivers with names and surnames have long passed the barbaric era of occupying land as kings.

Wen Yan didn't rush to do anything, but continued to maintain it. As night fell, he found a place to take a nap.

After falling asleep, he kept muttering about Suicune, and then he woke up from his dream and fell directly into the water. He sank into it and arrived at Suicune's territory.

When he saw Suicune, Wen Yan understood. He knew that if he came to find Suicune, he would not go anywhere else.

Suicune's huge body was still sitting there, chewing on the wine jar, looking unhappy.

"Sui-kun, forgive me for not visiting you for some time. I was really exhausted and busy. Today I just caught a guy from the Great Wilderness who called himself Water Monkey."

Seeing Shui Jun catch the key words and raise his eyelids, Wen Yan thought to himself that it was not good. He said that it was someone else who called himself that. What does it have to do with him?

The next moment, he exploded with a bang and opened his eyes helplessly as he walked out of the station.

"None of these water monkeys are easy to get along with!"

(End of this chapter)