Facing the high intelligence of Youyou and the 'Egg Beast', Xia Ya could only sigh, when will his little mantis reach their level of intelligence~
"I haven't seen it with my own eyes, so I can't be sure, but according to Old Man Lava's description, it is indeed consistent with the gold-eating ants I have read in a certain book. Gold-eating ants are just monsters, very weak, but they like to live in groups.
, hundreds of millions of gold-eating ants form an ant nest, and even earth beasts would not dare to break in, otherwise hundreds of millions of gold-eating ants will swallow everything clean." Youyou held the heavy book in her hand, casually
Turn over a page, which displays various information about gold-eating ants.
The book in Youyou’s hand is called ‘Memoirs’. ‘Memoirs’ does not exist physically or inherently, but is a book that Youyou has embodied based on her own memories.
All the information that Youyou knows can be found in the 'Memoir', and the information that she has read can be engraved on the 'Memoir'. Even if the memory becomes blurred after a long time, the information that is engraved on the 'Memoir'
Memory, although there will be no human beings and the latest chapter of the great master of change
Therefore, Youyou who has the 'Memoir' in hand can truly achieve photographic memory. This is also the ability that every mirror ghost must possess. After all, their talent is learning!
It is clearly recorded in the memoirs that gold-eating ants and medium-level monsters are weak individuals but can live in large numbers in groups. They should not be easily provoked. They have mild habits and will not attack other creatures casually. They feed on items such as mud, stone, and sand. After eating,
After that, a small amount of metal in the food will be extracted in the body, and finally spit out deep in the ant nest, and contributed to the queen ant's food. The metal will continue to be refined, over and over again... and finally it will be refined into 'Hundred Refined Ant Gold'
Bailian Ant Gold does not require any processing or purification at all. It is already in its purest state. Its purity even exceeds the mother ore of ordinary ores. It can be directly made into the required weapons or equipment. It is an extremely precious metal and is deeply loved by the public.
loved by dwarves
If what Old Lava discovered was just the nest of ordinary soul beasts, it would obviously not be a big temptation for Zheng Feng. But this nest of gold-eating ants really hit the red heart, with its faint presence.
Precious metals have a unique meaning to him
In the past year or so, he has been to countless cities and visited dozens of chambers of commerce, hoping to purchase some precious metals and build mechanical beasts.
However, the metals that can be purchased on the market are only very ordinary alloys, which are not suitable for Youyou's discernment. If she wants to use such low-quality metals to make mechanical beasts, she might as well not make them.
Although some chambers of commerce have released a few pieces of precious mother ore from time to time and put them up for auction, the price is too high and the quantity is too large to be able to produce anything.
This is also an extremely helpless thing. After all, humans and dwarves are not at the same level in terms of metal craftsmanship. The best metals that humans can purify now are just ordinary goods in Youyou's eyes and cannot be considered high-quality. I really want to
To make a mechanical beast, he has to find the materials himself.
Youyou speculated based on the soul beast mentioned by Old Man Lava, and initially judged it to be gold-eating ants. After all, Old Man Lava could still escape from the nest of hundreds of millions of soul beasts. This has to be said to be a miracle, but
What if it's not a miracle?
It can only be said that the soul beasts in the lair have no interest in Old Man Lava, so they did not launch an attack. Of course, the premise is that Old Man Lava does not take the initiative to provoke them...
The purpose of Zheng Feng's search for the ant nest this time is obvious, which is to steal the hundred-refined ant gold from the gold-eating ants. Obviously, he is not a popular target for the gold-eating ants. Once Zheng Feng's actions are discovered, hundreds of millions of gold-eating ants will
Ants will definitely attack in groups
When hundreds of shadow mantises flew into the mantis nest, Zheng Feng left a deep memory. If he hadn't picked the right time and happened to have two kings in the nest, one would have died and the other would have given birth. It would never have been as easy as that.
What's more, the gold-eating ants living in the gold-eating ant nest can't be counted in hundreds or thousands, but tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Just imagining it makes Zheng Feng's scalp numb, but for the precious ants
Jin, he can only bite the bullet and go look for it and see what happens.
After all, gold-devouring ants are just magical beasts. Even if there is a queen ant, it is probably between a ferocious beast and a wild beast. Be careful, the damage is still quite big.
"Meow~" Ya ran across the desolate land and suddenly let out a cry. The tiger's claws gently tapped the soil under his feet, as if he had discovered something different.
"Ya said it's empty below, let's move back a little..." Zheng Feng led everyone back more than ten meters, and then ordered Ya to use the 'earthquake technique'
When the fang tiger's palm slapped the ground hard, the seemingly solid rock formation collapsed instantly, revealing the underlying sediment and a dark passage, about three meters wide but bottomless.
"It seems we have found the right place." Zheng Feng looked at the underground passage and said to himself, considering whether to take the little girl and Xia Ya down. After all, it is not clear what is down there.
Zheng Feng hadn't said anything yet, but the little girl guessed it by looking at his expression, and immediately said angrily: "Alice is going down, big brother, don't even think about throwing Alice down." The latest chapter of The Master
If the little girl goes down, Xia Ya will naturally go down too. In the past year or so, he has almost become the little girl's exclusive wall. Although in terms of strength, Xia Ya may not be the little girl's opponent...
But often when Zheng Feng goes to hunt soul beasts alone, Alice is taken care of by Xia Ya.
"Okay, let's go down together." Zheng Feng thought for a while and agreed to the little girl.
Gold-eating ants are just monsters. As long as Alice and Char don't go deep into the ant nest, there shouldn't be much problem in protecting themselves.
The three of them jumped down the passage, and the tooth retracted into its owner's arms in a compact shape, because although the passage here was three meters wide, it was still too small for her.
Sylph and Undine took the initiative to fly to the front and rear of the team. Two small light groups, one green and one blue, illuminated the dark ant nest, allowing everyone to see clearly the area of more than ten meters nearby. There was silence and no one noticed.
The figure of the gold-eating ant
You can move forward at both ends of the passage. There seems to be no difference, but if you feel the ground carefully, you will find that the passage actually has a certain slope, with one end going down and the other end going up.
Zheng Feng and the others chose the downward side to go deeper, because they knew that the upward side would probably lead to the exit.
Along the way, there are often some branch roads on the mud walls, which are also about three meters wide. If you think about it horizontally and vertically, they are intricate.
Zheng Feng and the others simply walked down one passage at first, ignoring any branch roads, but when they reached the end, they discovered that it was a dead end.
In the end, I had to retreat to the branch roads I encountered earlier and choose one of them to continue deeper. This underground passage was like a maze, making it difficult to identify the direction.
No wonder Old Lava was trapped here for several days. If he was unlucky, let alone three days, he might be trapped until he died and would not be able to get out of here!
In this intricate ant nest, Zheng Feng and the others walked for a whole day, and there was a dead end at the end of the road. Even half of the gold-eating ants did not find it.
Moreover, there was no daylight here, and he didn't know whether it was day or night. When he saw the little girl snoring, with her upper eyelids next to her lower eyelids, drowsy, Zheng Feng had no choice but to stop and rest. After all, continuing on was not an option.
Adequate rest can ensure that their spirits are in the best condition, and even if there is an emergency, they can face it with a calm mind.
Sylph and Undine also returned to Zheng Feng's arms, huddled together with Ya, and the light captured them. They could only see the range within a few meters of the passage, but if there was any abnormal movement, even if they could not see it, they could not escape Zheng Feng's induction.
Zheng Feng looked at the passages extending in all directions and sighed softly. He didn't know which way to go. At first, he could go lower according to the terrain, but as he went deeper, there were more and more forks, all leading to the underground.
direction, it is impossible to identify its authenticity.
You often choose a passage to go down. If it's not a dead end at the end, it will lead to other passages and finally return to the starting point.
He saw the marks he had made no less than six times, which showed that they spent most of the day walking in circles in the anthill.
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