He paused and watched the whole process as the male wolf turned over, rushed back and confronted the intruder head to head, and both sides began to wrestle for the female wolf.
A chill ran down my spine.
Because this is the habit of antlers.
The antler deer is an animal with horns on its head. This is what happens when they fight for a mate... Both sides remain silent throughout the whole process, each with a pair of large horns on their heads, and whoever becomes exhausted first will withdraw from the fight.
Arctic wolves are not like this. How could Arctic wolves possibly engage in such behavior as "competing for mates"?
The female wolves in the pack all belong to the wolf king. Only when the wolf king rewards you can you take the opportunity to breed offspring. How could any wolf dare to do this in private?
Moreover, Arctic wolves do not have horns. Even if this wolf pack is quite special and does not have a wolf king, they all rely on this method to compete for mates.
It's not breeding season now.
Why do animals without horns imitate the breeding habits of animals with horns?
This is simply unreasonable!
For a moment, Sintara's hair stood on end.
He was a man as strong as a polar bear, the "first warrior" in the eyes of the people of Ice Lake, but now he only felt fear, and the words "That's not a wolf" kept echoing in his ears.
Yes...they are definitely not wolves...
Although they look like wolves, they are definitely not wolves...
So what are they?
What the hell am I standing with?
"Sintara."
Hitzfeld walked up to him holding a wolf cub and called his name to wake him up.
"You have far more experience surviving on the ice than we do."
"Has this ever happened to you before?"
What Xintara saw and wondered about, they had just seen.
Arctic wolves are hornless carnivores.
The hairy-horned deer is an horned herbivore.
It is indeed very strange that the former exhibits the "complete habits" of the latter.
But how should I put it, she wasn't too surprised.
She was sure that these were not wolves because her spirit had grown and become strong enough. With the nourishment and supply of her spirit, her left eye could directly penetrate the blindfold and see through the "faint" shadow dozens of meters away.
She had seen all of this a long time ago, and with her spiritual sense, she did not sense any "killing" tendency from these beasts, so she dared to stand in front at that critical moment.
How to explain this strange phenomenon?
She thinks it is most likely cognitive tampering.
After all, they had suspected it a long time ago - they suspected that the curse caused by the Depp-Valtina Ice Lake would tamper with people's cognition and memory, causing some people who had been close to the ice lake and had some experience there to completely lose this memory after they came down the mountain.
Since we have such doubts, why can't we expand our imagination a little more and further suspect that this curse may get out of control and completely disrupt the memory of creatures in the entire ice environment?
Take the situation we see now as an example. Is it possible that these wolves were indeed wolves, but were affected by the spread of the Ice Lake Curse. The curse forcibly instilled a bunch of survival memories of horned deer into them, causing their self-cognition to be completely confused, and they simply began to regard themselves as horned deer?
She suspected so, but for now it was just a suspicion.
If possible, she would like to get more key evidence from Sintara.
But Sintala said he couldn't help.
"I have never seen anything so strange..."
The team lifted the alert, and Xintara stood with the three of them, watching some big men take out dry food to tease this group of overly docile Arctic wolves, with complicated expressions on their faces.
"Never seen it?"
"Never."
Sintala stressed: "I don't know why this is happening. This is very disturbing... I plan to stop this rescue operation. We should go back to the town first, at least bring this news back to everyone."
"Could it be related to 'whimpering'?" Xia Yibing asked.
"Not likely." The sturdy man shook his head.
"The 'whimpering' only occurs at the end of each month. This phenomenon has been going on for a long time, and I have never seen the beasts affected in any way before."
That would be strange.
Xia Yibing was a little annoyed. She stared at the plush wolf cub in the girl's arms, walked over and picked it up.
"Hey?"
"This thing stinks, don't hold it."
You are just jealous...
Hitzfeld looked at her with some dissatisfaction as she put the wolf cub on the ground and kicked it on the back, urging it to go find its mother quickly.
"Ok?"
"and many more!"
Suddenly stunned, the girl quickly walked over and took the wolf cub back into her arms.
I didn’t notice it when I picked it up from the front, but there seemed to be something wrong with the wolf cub’s tail.
"Aisun——"
Now it was the woman's turn to be dissatisfied.
Maybe I wasn't jealous before.
Now I'm really eating.
"It's not right."
I lowered my head and heard Hitzfeld's cold voice.
"Its tail... don't you think it looks a bit like a horned deer?"
"If you say so..."
The other three were all stunned. After careful observation, they found that this short, furry, ball-shaped tail looked just like that of a deer.
"Could it be that--"
Hitzfeld threw away the little wolf cub, took the high-intensity flashlight from Xia Yibing, and began to check each white wolf one by one.
There's no problem on this end.
This side too.
This one...wait!
Reaching out and grabbing a wolf by the neck, he held it down to prevent it from escaping, and Hitzfeld gently pulled aside the fur on top of its head.
"This can't be true..."
Xia Yibing began to bar her teeth.
Because they all saw clearly that on the top of the Arctic wolf's head, under the thick gray-white hair, there were two blood-colored protrusions bulging out!
what is this?
Not only are habits imprinted, but even biological signs are constantly mutating towards the tampered habits?
What about that person?
What will people become?
Animals can be copied to become another animal.
Humans are animals too, right?
Could a person be affected by such a curse?
Can humans turn into wolves?
Or a horned deer?
Even more boldly, the people they found on the ice field... were they really people at the beginning?
However, these are not the things that they should be most vigilant about at this stage.
The most worthy of attention should be -
Without saying a word, Xia Yibing quietly took a step back.
At this step, she, Hitzfeld and Sintara surrounded Heidi who was approaching.
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When will the two-in-one monster be defeated?
hateful! What a shame!
Chapter 29 Heidi's Memory (Two in One)
Heidi naturally would not remain indifferent.
The corner of her mouth twitched slightly, and she raised her voice slightly in the wind and snow: "...If you suspect that I am transformed from something else, I am willing to cut open Hitzfeld's skin and examine the inside."
Anyway, she was a tree person, and tree people's physiological structure and flesh and blood life were completely different. Their vitality was stronger, let alone cutting open the epidermis to check, even if a few "organs" of her body were removed, she would grow back quickly.
"This may not be confirmed by cutting open the epidermis!" Xia Yibing shouted, "After all, you have seen this example. This unknown curse can not only confuse the animals' cognition, but also deceive their flesh and blood genes!"
What does that mean?
It was probably... a wolf. It was indeed a wolf originally - that's right, not only did it look like a wolf, it also thought so.
But suddenly one day, for some unknown reason, it was contaminated by a more dangerous unknown. This contamination tampered with its self-perception, and it suddenly felt that it was not a wolf, but a horned deer!
So naturally, its behavior and habits began to resemble those of the horned deer. It and other affected wolves formed a team that looked like a wolf pack, but was actually a herd of horned deer. They began to imitate the horned deer in digging through the snow to eat fern roots, following the humans who rushed into the ice field to ask for food, and wrestling head-on for mates.
If that were the case, Xia Yibing would not think this confusion was too dangerous, because they knew too little about it and were not sure how long this effect would last.
Perhaps this confusion will fade?
As time goes by, the wolves will gradually realize that they have been deceived. They may gradually regain their ferocity, become wolves again, and restore the natural order.
But Hitzfeld's subsequent discoveries overturned this fluke mentality. The actual changes that occurred in the wolves' bodies showed the most deadly aspect of this confusion - it not only tampered with cognition, but also deceived genes and flesh.
It's not just that you have been deceived - being deceived is often irrelevant, just like a person is hypnotized into thinking he or she is a dog, and is insulted, abused, and actively imitates the habits of a dog for a period of time, but this person's body, his or her flesh and blood will not change as a result. The body will not turn into a dog just because you think you are a dog, so as long as the hypnosis is lifted, you will soon return to normal.
You are still a human being, and you still control a human body.
But this confusion is different. It deceives your body and makes your body think it is a dog.
Then from the perspective of the body, your current appearance and shape are undoubtedly "incorrect".
You shouldn't look like a human, you should look like a dog!
So it immediately mobilizes all the energy remaining in your body, consumes fat and flesh, etc. - it forcibly tampers with your genes in a way that goes against science and common sense, causing a series of mutations and alienations, and completely transforming your flesh and blood body into a dog in a short period of time.
This is just creepy…
Xia Yibing was very reluctant to think this way, but she had to.
[Is there something wrong with Heidi? Is it possible that Heidi is not a Binglanluo tree person at all, and she just copied a copy of the real Heidi's memory. She just thought she was Heidi, and then her body was also deceived and turned into what Heidi should be like? ]
"You have a rich imagination, which is a good thing." Heidi covered her forehead with her hand, looking extremely speechless.
"Let me not talk about whether it is that easy to transform animals and plants... Do you remember Griman?"
of course I remember.
Except for Xintala who looked confused and didn't understand their conversation at all, Xia Yibing and Hitzfeld both remembered the various interrogations of the amnesiac evildoer a day ago.
"I'm sure you've all noticed that Mr. Grimman... some of his... um... some of his flesh looks very loose."
"That's it."
"I think this proves that he is indeed not the real Grimman. He might be some unlucky guy who went missing up there, and then was stuffed into Grimman's memory, and his body also became Grimman's appearance." Heidi spread her hands.
"This mutation consumes energy. It doesn't come out of thin air. So a lot of the blood, flesh and fat in his body were burned in the process. That's why he looks so thin... Do you understand what I mean?"
Xia Yibing nodded: "I understand."
