Observe as much as you can, but avoid touching what you do not have to.

[An order. Turo was certain to have already intended to do such, but now Daqiang wanted to know what other oddities these creatures had in case they were equally suspicious. When something is injured and dying, it should die, not scatter into multiple other creatures that looked nothing like the original.]

This venerable one will return to the ship and inform the sailing crew to avoid the creatures until we know more. We should not risk an infestation should one be injured and similarly transform itself.