"Whoa~ Whoa~"

The unknown trees around Andy swayed a few times, the dense leaves made a rubbing sound, and a few dead leaves fell from the air and spun to the ground.

"Cuckoo~Cuckoo~"

A bird flew out from the branches of a tall tree in the distance, making a strange call.

Andy didn't respond, but Liye, who was beside him, shuddered suddenly. Andy looked at him with some doubts, and Liye scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Ha, my lord, I'm a little too nervous~"

Andy glared at Liye and turned around, his face suddenly changed a few times.

Fearing that those heads would float on the water due to buoyancy, Mog used a lot of strength to insert the terrifying head of the wooden spear with its fist-sized fist directly into the mud at the bottom of the pool.

And Mog did indeed do this, but what happened after the water pool was something Andy didn't expect.

Although the wooden spear did not float out, something else appeared in the water pool!

"Those are... the corpses of pirates?!"

Because of the long time immersion in the water, the exposed body of the pirate has become swollen, and the purple-brown bruises that have been soaked under the whitish flesh are very eye-catching.

Andy stood in the distance and carefully looked at the pirates' corpses, and found that these corpses had a common feature, the mouth of each corpse was open.

Mog turned his head blankly, looking at Andy, waiting for Andy's next order.

Andy thought for a while and waved to Mog. Mog pulled out all the wooden spears around the water pool and plunged all the miniature heads into the water pool just like before.

After Mog finished doing this, Andy took Liye to the side of the pool. He looked at the corpses floating on the water, and thought for a while, with a hint of doubt on his face.

These pirates were not killed by the headhunter natives, because their heads were still hanging around their necks.

The aboriginal headhunters have a characteristic. After they successfully hunt outsiders, they will cut off the heads of these people, and use some special potion or witchcraft to make the heads into fist-sized heads and use them as accessories or sacrificial supplies.

For headhunters, the heads of outsiders symbolize power and honor. If they killed these pirates, the heads on the pirates' bodies would not be completely preserved.

So Andy reasoned that the pirates should have died of something else.

Andy thought for a while, picked a wild fruit from the bushes on the side, weighed it in his hand, threw the wild fruit out, and smashed it on the head of a pirate corpse accurately.

"Boom"!

The wild fruit bounced off the pirate's face and fell into the pool, creating a ripple on the water.

A strange sound came from the mouth of the smashed pirate's corpse, and a bright red, tongue-like thing stuck out of the pirate's mouth, "swish" into the pool.

The water in the pool tossed for a while, and the tongue-like thing shrank back again, and the wild fruit just now was still curled on the tip of the tongue.

Under the surprised eyes of Andy and Liye, the wild fruit quickly rotted, and an unpleasant smell was also emitted.

The "tongue" flicked the residue on the tip of the tongue at the top, pointed the tip of the tongue towards Andy, danced a few times in mid-air, and slowly retracted into the pirate's mouth.

This "tongue" looks very peculiar, with a layer of transparent mucus attached to the surface. There are two rows of teeth-like thorns under it.

"Master Captain..."

Liye looked at Andy, took two steps back nervously, and said softly, "What is that?"

Andy patted Mog on the shoulder, and the two also took a few steps back. Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the pool, Andy was relieved.

"That thing is called the shriveled fish louse. It is a rare creature and extremely precious. It is the alchemy material that alchemists dream of."

The fish louse is a parasite-like creature that wizards call "tongue-eating louse" because of its unique way of living.

Tongue-eating lice are special marine creatures that enter the mouths of fish as larvae and feed on the blood of other animals by parasitizing on the tongues of other animals.

The whole process is secret and slow, and does not threaten the life of the parasitic animals.

When the parasitized tongue shrinks, the larvae of the tongue-eating lice have grown up, and they will connect their tails to the shriveled "tongue" to replace the tongue of the parasitized animal and live symbiotically with it.

Some powerful sea beasts are also parasitized by tongue-eating lice, and once the two reach a symbiotic state, the sea beasts will also become more powerful.

Therefore, tongue-eating lice are also sought after by many people, and some wizards even specially cultivate tongue-eating lice and use their special abilities to help themselves gain more powerful power.

If there is no accident, there should be a lot of tongue-eating larvae in that pool, and these pirates died from those tongue-eating lice~lightnovelpub.net~ But Andy is not sure, these tongue-eating lice are headhunters Raised by indigenous people, it still exists naturally here.

However, the headhunter's wooden spears were stuck around the water pool. Even if these tongue-eating lice were not specially raised by the headhunter's indigenous people, they must have known the existence of these tongue-eating lice.

Because Andy is still looking for Captain Philip, he doesn't intend to provoke these troublesome guys.

The vitality of these tongue-eating lice is very strong, even Andy, it takes some effort to conquer them.

"Let's go!"

Andy said to Liye, Liye, as a cannibal, has a sense of awe for these strange creatures. After hearing Andy's words, Liye breathed a sigh of relief and followed the path left by Philip and others. Traces, walked towards the depths of the jungle.

When leaving, Andy found that there were signs of fighting in the bushes by the pool, and some bloodstains could be vaguely seen on the branches.

Andy seems to have seen the intense scene of Captain Philip taking the pirates and fighting the troublesome tongue-eating lice.

Coupled with the many scattered traces of trampling on the weeds, it can be guessed that in this battle between pirates and tongue-eating lice, Captain Philip did not take advantage of it, but was beaten and left the crew in embarrassment. The corpse fled in a hurry.

"As soon as I entered the jungle, I encountered the legendary tongue-eating louse. What secrets are hidden on this indigenous island?"

Andy was a little excited. He raised his head and looked at the lush foliage that blocked the sun and the blue sky. An indescribable darkness descended, wrapping the jungle.

A gust of wind blew gently, the leaves rustled, and the jungle fell into an eerie noise and silence.

Andy took a deep breath and began to look around vigilantly. The feeling in the dark told him that something was approaching...