Chapter 1536: Tip of the Iceberg
With an ominous premonition, Meng Chao turned his gaze toward the corpse of the second Sword Halberd Demon Pig.
This Sword Halberd Demon Pig had likewise been altered through gene knockout technology—its tusks, skin, and bristles modified until it looked like a tender-skinned, soft-fleshed "Little White Pig."
Yet it had a left forelimb of knotted muscle, incomparably thick and powerful, wrapped in rings of tree-root-like blood vessels, with countless bone spurs jutting out between them.
This forelimb was completely disproportionate to its body.
It was even longer than the Sword Halberd Demon Pig itself.
It looked as though it had been forcibly torn from some high-level beast several times larger than a Sword Halberd Demon Pig, then stitched onto the pig's body.
Meng Chao also discovered traces of densely overlapping dark crimson scales on this left forelimb.
Even though the Sword Halberd Demon Pig had been dead for some time, and most of its organs had long since failed.
Flame-like ripples still faintly flowed and surged between the scales.
The end of the left forelimb clearly did not possess the features of an even-toed monster.
Instead, it was a dragon claw unique to draconic monsters.
The enormous, razor-sharp dragon claw was like four Death Scythes layered atop one another. The mottled bloodstains that had long since congealed upon it exuded a terrifying aura that made one's heart constrict.
"This isn't a Sword Halberd Demon Pig's limb.
"It belongs to some high-level draconic monster, such as a Flame Demon Dragon, Giant Maw Flame Dragon, or Volcano Voyager.
"It may even share a degree of blood relation and inheritance with the Diamond Nine-Headed Dragon.
"Yet there isn't the slightest trace of stitching where this left forelimb connects to the Sword Halberd Demon Pig's torso.
"That is