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32.8 The mortal world, the mortal

Xiyuan land, when the Fenglong Empire still existed four hundred years ago, was an agricultural farming area. At that time, artificial canals were spread throughout the plains, and silt was dug out every year, becoming a new foundation for farmland.

At that time, if the Zhongsheng Civilization Budget for Outer Space Observation continued according to this model, it would become a rich farmland in a thousand years. When a race can persist for hundreds of years and complete such a large public welfare project, such a successful model will provide legal support for the subsequent greatness of civilization.

However, on this timeline, two hundred years ago, crystal insects spread, and the vast green on this land had disappeared, leaving behind huge insect nest towers fifty meters high.

Countless filament threads were spread out on these towers, just like hair spreading in water, spreading on the earth. The hair spreading in each nest can expand seven or eight hundred meters. On these "hair", some human and animal bones can occasionally be seen. Judging from the degree of osteogenesis, they have been dead for a long time.

The insects have turned this place into a Jedi for ordinary people. Any creature who dares to step into these silk threads will step on the insect nest in the center like a spider leaning against the center of a spider web, which will immediately sense the vibration, and will harvest all the lives that "offend" them.

These gushing red bugs are extremely fast and can jump, and when they devour creatures, they are like boiling blood.

So two hundred years ago, the people named these insects as blood sea worms. However, the scientific name given to them by the noble scholars of the Holy Gu Empire was the blood crystal worm.

The official name is given such a good name because it is the foundation of the imperial economy.

The ant tower replaces traditional plants in the ecological chain, and its hair is a tool for absorbing photosynthesis. A tower of a blood crystal ant can produce 70 tons of "ground eggs" a year, which contains a large amount of protein and lipids. The blood crystal ant tower is one hectare per hectare, and can produce enough food for the territory.

On the entire continent, spiritual insects are divided into levels one to nine. Level one to five are functional spiritual insects, which can improve human functionality. Among them, the fourth and fifth-level spiritual insects are contracted by special warriors similar to the Earth Knight class.

At level 6, the evolution ability of the mother insect branch of its tribe is very strong, and it is at the strategic level, which is controlled by the lord's heirs.

This type of blood crystal ant is of level 2, but it is just a large number. The hermaphrodite is only level 3, and its evolutionary ability is weak and can only provide food.

As long as the knights sign a symbiosis contract with a level 4 war worm, if the war worm is used to deter it, they can safely drive a steam tractor or other giant beast-level contract worms, drill an ant nest tower, and take out the eggs of the blood crystal worm as reserve grain.

The output scale of such a blood crystal ant area is like that of a large farm in the United States. Of course, the investment is much less than that of a large farm, and there is no need to fertilize. If the technology of driving a tractor is not included, the planting technology is almost at the level of slash-and-burn planting. No, slash-and-burn planting also requires statistics on the astronomical calendar to understand when to harvest, and this "eggworm that collects blood crystal ant" can be used all year round.

Now on this rock crystal star.

This blood crystal ant grows on the plains, and in the mountainous areas, there are various mineral vein bugs that can also reduce metals to elemental substances, and then accumulate in surface rock formations, and can be mined for people. A hundred years ago, when humans of Rock Crystal Star began to master this magical bug function, they immediately solved the food and industrial crisis.

This is how the Holy Gu Dynasty was established a hundred years ago. The new empire is one level stronger than the Fenglong Empire, which required periodic suppression of feces, rakes, and hatchets in various places four hundred years ago. However, is this really that beautiful for humans, the wisdom species?

In the wasteland, a man slowly walked in this nest forest, trampling on the "hair" of the insect nest many times. The blood crystal ant also jumped out, but was immediately shined by strong microwaves and shrank back.

Zhou You walked through the blood ant nest full of bones and walked into a farmhouse that had been no longer inhabited and had a collapsed roof. He bent down and pinched half of the broken brick covered with moss, and sighed helplessly!

Zhou You: "When humans developed into the industrial age, the reason why history defaulted to "sheep eating people" was that greedy people chose the option of industrial creators, so they could exempt greed from some sins in that era. But now, greed chooses the option of pure selfishness."

When Zhouyou stayed in this farmhouse, a cucumber-like existence with a puppy in size quietly approached the back of Zhouyou. When it was confirmed that it was about to succeed, it made a smug sound. However, just as it opened its mouthpiece, four spherical luminescent bodies appeared around it.

The sunlight within five square meters was accurately focused on the insect's eyes. Almost instantly, it turned yellow and fragrant. Of course, when it was about to make noise, Zhou You pierced its sound-producing eardrum and then cut off its joints.

The light path of torque, like an invisible blade, completes these "processing" steps.

Zhou You kicked this thing away and rolled onto the "hair" of the Blood Crystal Ant Nest. Seeing the blood flooding the insect with unknown name, he felt much calmer and walked towards the distant horizon with great strides. There, industrial smoke rose.

[The social development process here is forcibly urbanized. After all, few people can sign contracts with Level 4 insects. A large number of civilians cannot survive in the countryside, but the civilization process is seriously backward and people who have lost their right to work cannot be re-educated. Therefore, this is a serious deformity.]

Six hours later, at the city gate, I was drunk and guarded here.

After handing over a dozen copper coins in plain clothes, Zhou You took a black and white photo and entered the city with something similar to the "Good Civil Certificate".

What, where did you get the money? - picked up on the ground, wandering around the plain, Zhou You picked up fourteen gold coins. They were all found from the remains of those who died accidentally in a trip, as well as boxes thrown into wells in some villages.

These things can be seen casually as soon as the Zhouyou field opens. The probability of picking up money is just like the probability of discovering coins when draining an artificial lake in the city. The matrix field is orders of magnitude more than the positron radiation field stimulated by heavy elements, and there is no risk of overheating. So, Zhouyou will no longer build a magic vein in the body this time, and belongs to the native carbon-based life.

What comes across the city walls is a huge black iron-style city.

The pipes, towering chimneys, and metal gears with a diameter of ten meters are filled with the smell of metal oil. These are all things Zhouyou could have thought of before.

However, what Zhou You didn't expect was that it was full of artistic attainments: the gorgeous carving styles on each wall were completely different; the steps in each building had very delicate patterns; the bottom of the reservoir protected by iron railings on both sides had patterns on each brick.

Zhou You: "How idle is this? In the post-industrial era, countries with 80% of the tertiary output value are not so extravagant. Uh? Oh? By the way, 95% of the people here do not have contract insects, and can only use the service industry to exchange for food from these mainstream aristocrats. Tsk, understand, understand-"

Abandoning the preconceived prejudice, Zhouyou unfolded his own matrix field and carefully observed the details.

From the perspective provided by the matrix: individual infrared heat sources, mechanical rotational kinetic energy, and various contract bugs kept in the hexagonal nests below the building.

Zhouyou constantly switches between the heat value perspective of the red spots of the heat source and the dynamic force field perspective, and walks into the city with an eye from east to west and heads towards the market.

Various shouting sounds made Zhouyou feel the breath of fireworks in the world.

"Sweet bread, salty bread, greasy cake, delicious, I can't forget it!" - This is the shouting of the bakery. Zhou Youyou heard about it, well, the food processing technique is very good, and he has studied a lot of effort.

"Mason, carving, high-rise building cleaning..." - This is the humble voice of the roadside gig group.

"Dingling bell" - this is the coachman eagerly ringing the bell on the street to attract customers.

"Does go!" - Gardeners holding big scissors were building trees on the roadside, and from their tone, they seemed very proud of their current stable work.

Of course, the road ahead gradually became a little congested, and a large number of people were gathered.

"Everyone, come and have a look. As long as the Ten Silver Sky Bulls, your son can get the teachings of Master Rhodes and get twice the result with half the effort in the Horoscope contract." A man in a black robe stood on an electrical vehicle with a flyer and shouted. On the passing road, a large number of people were surrounded by people. Many enthusiasts asked the "man with skills" in detail with flyers.

The Zhouyou in the corner of the street bypassed the group of people.

In the Golden Beetle Empire, aluminum butterflies and copper spiders represent "copper" coins, silver bulls represent silver coins, and gold beetles represent gold coins. One gold beetle represents twelve silver bulls. But in fact, due to the huge amount of silver mines in the past century, in recent years, the gold beetles on the market have been garrisoned to appreciate and are rarely circulated on the market.

Now, Zhouyou only has traditional copper coins. After all, the Fenglong Empire was issued hugely back then. As for the silver bull and the golden beetle, Zhouyou did not find it outside the city. Only one hundred years ago, the silver petals and the golden crown cannot be used now.

Zhou You sucked the smell of fried food in the air and looked at the food in the distance, with a little helpless face. Now he had to get an income as soon as possible.

Just then.

A man approached quickly behind Zhou You. When approaching Zhou You, a poisonous sting with blood trough popped out of his wrist. On his arm, a blue centipede symbiotically lived with him. This was a second-level contract worm, and it was the favorite thing for thieves, and could numb the opponent through venom.

As for Zhouyou, as a foreigner, he was targeted when he first entered the city. He was regarded as a fat sheep!

As a new generation cultivated by the bell civilization, the body is the most natural and perfect state, and the face with excellent proportions has not been subjected to any wind and frost. Compared with the people in this city, it is like jewelry appearing in thick tiles, and it looks like it is rich and not well-informed in the world.

Zhou You did not have any high-level contract bug aura. Some people in this city carefully observed that there was no one else around Zhou You, so they took action. Just as the trafficker was about to approach, Zhou You suddenly turned around and held the wrist that was about to pop up the poisonous sting.

The matrix technology of the Star Civilization is the highest personal technology known to the Dashipan civilization.

Although low-level investigators carrying this technology do not ignore the scale of energy, nor can they act recklessly under the destructive military power of low-level civilizations (ordinary people cannot ignore dozens of javelins or strong bows and crossbows with a pistol); however, they are crushing the special technologies mastered by marginalists without social support on other planets.

When entering this city, the matrix of the zooyou has already connected the city's large number of steam engines and DC wires in the house. Now it can be imported at any point near one hundred meters at any time, with the error no more than one centimeter.

Now, Zhouyou has released the electricity that can burn the iron wire on the thief's completely wormed arm.

Dozens of charred spots appeared on this arm covered with chitin carapace instantly, just like a spherical lightning ignition effect, and smoke came out of the insect-like limbs. Passersby with a keen sense of smell discovered this scene, but they all quietly avoided this "conflict point"...

Zhou You smiled and held the thief's hand: "That, I don't have money now, can you lend me some money? Oh, by the way, your friend is there."

The trafficker's forehead was filled with cold sweat, and the contract worm was burned to death in an instant. His nerves were connected to the contract worm, and now he felt a terrible severe pain, and his whole hand suddenly became soft.

However, under Zhou You's clamp, he did not dare to get rid of it at all. He could kill his own insect without knowing it, making the thief think that the person in front of him was hiding a higher level of contract worm. The most important thing to be a thief is to admit defeat after making a mistake.

A few minutes later, in a small alley between two rocky tall buildings.

Zhou You threw away the purse he had thrown, showed a satisfied smile on his face, and walked out leisurely.

After walking seventy meters, Zhou Youran turned around and pointed to the back. The crisp explosion sounded and the sound of a bullet blew up.

The thief leader who was still thinking about finding the place back, the bullet-firing medicine in the gun chamber was ignited by the matrix, and the muzzle went off fire before it was lifted.

After the sparks shone, he covered his thighs in pain and looked at the back of the alley with horror and vigilance. After Zhou You left completely, the man with a face covered with porcupine-like thorns scolded his subordinates: "I'll make a fuss!" and then he quickly left.

Zhou You commented: "Life in this world is not easy, and it is understandable to steal some money to survive. But for money, you will hurt your life. Then - alas, (the face turns into bleak) Forget it, I am not qualified to evaluate the life here. After all, I am not the person here."

Zhouyou disappeared on the bustling streets.

The bells of the carriage pulled by the multi-pedal beasts and the various shouts covered the footsteps of the Zhouyou.
Chapter completed!
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