Another year has passed.
On this day, Zhang Changkong routinely came to collect vitality stones from the nest of steel ants underground.
I don’t know if it’s the Vitality Stone. After a year, there are already eight nests of steel ants in the ground. The number of steel ants has reached more than fifteen thousand. It’s just that Zhang Changkong hasn’t summoned all the steel ants for a long time. But he is not too clear. After all, the ground has been dug by steel ants in all directions. Without the steel ants to lead the way, Zhang Changkong would not be able to reach the nest.
Under the dark red light of the small fireball, Zhang Changkong was like a hard-working landlord, checking each ant nest and taking away the vitality stones inside.
I don’t know if it was the environment here or the vitality stone that caused these steel ants to grow bigger. There were even dozens of steel ants that had genetic mutations or something. They grew to half a meter tall, but they didn’t become zerg. After all, they didn’t become zerg. The sign of a bug is that it can absorb vitality. Although these dozens of steel ants are not bugs, they have exceeded the strength of rare-level bugs and can be regarded as elite-level.
The steel ants grew bigger and stronger, and the mining progress improved accordingly.
Zhang Changkong inspected six ant nests and already packed more than two hundred vitality stones in one bag.
Throwing a vitality stone into the bag, Zhang Changkong used his feet to push away a steel ant blocking his path.
"There are more and more Vitality Stones. I don't know how to plant Vitality Plants, and I don't know how to form formations. The Vitality Stones can only be consumed by me and five insects, but I can't use so many." Zhang Changkong was a little worried about happiness. He comes underground once every five days to collect vitality stones. During the five days, he uses at most two or three stones a day. The golden scarabs each consume two stones a day. The golden scarabs and colorful moths consume about one stone a day. In five days, they consume about fifty. Each time he came to the ground to collect vitality stones, they were usually between one hundred and two hundred, sometimes close to three hundred.
Over the past year, Zhang Changkong's castle has accumulated at least five thousand vitality stones.
It’s not that Zhang Changkong wanted to collect it every five days so frequently. He found that there were only a few steel ants mining. More steel ants were keen on digging tunnels and even fewer bringing the vitality stones back to the nest. More steel ants liked to be in the nest. Just sit back and enjoy the results. Even if Zhang Changkong takes ten days and a half, there will not be much difference in the amount of energy stones collected. Five days is the most suitable time for him to collect the energy stones after calculation.
Although Zhang Changkong no longer attaches great importance to the vitality stones, it is better to collect the vitality stones than to be destroyed by steel ants.
Zhang Changkong approached an ant nest. Inside, there was a palm-sized ant that had not hatched for a long time. The little ant was holding a vitality stone. Just when Zhang Changkong was about to push the ant away and take out the vitality stone, his hand suddenly stopped.
He has seen a lot of little ants. Usually little ants are gray and turn black when they grow up, but under the dark red firelight, this little ant's whole body was dark and shiny.
Zhang Changkong thought for a while, and used the "True Solution to Burning" at the Xiaocheng stage to release a small fireball with high temperature and white light in his hand.
"It is indeed black." Zhang Changkong concentrated for a moment and showed a smile.
"It's not in vain that I made you eat so many vitality stones, and finally a zerg was born." Zhang Changkong still remembered the bloodthirsty mosquito that left a deep impression on him. At that time, he guessed that ordinary worms would also Zergs may appear.
Now this steel ant bug confirmed his suspicion.
Perhaps the temperature of the fireball made this little insect uncomfortable. It climbed down from the vitality stone and walked to the innermost part of the ant nest.
Zhang Changkong extinguished the fireball in his hand, put his hand in, caught the little ant, put it in his hand, and looked at it carefully for a while.
Other than the color, no changes can be seen for the time being.
This little ant exuded a feeling of intimacy towards Zhang Changkong, crawled along Zhang Changkong's arm to Zhang Changkong's shoulder, and then crawled to Zhang Changkong's back.
Zhang Changkong breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that the contract effect of the black stone was useless against the worms, so he couldn't put this little ant here. Fortunately, the magic of the black stone was far beyond Zhang Changkong's imagination. Even if Zerg, as long as it is the descendant of Zhang Changkong's insect swarm, is still under Zhang Changkong's control.
Zhang Changkong put the little ants crawling around him back into the ant nest, and took out two vitality stones and put them in the little ant's nest.
He has no idea of taking the little ant out for the time being. The underground environment is more suitable for steel ants to survive. Moreover, when the little steel ant grows up here, he may become the leader of this group of steel ants in the future. At that time, this slightly intelligent ant The Zerg Iron Ants can manage this large group of unorganized and undisciplined miners. They may be able to dig into the inside of the veins in a few years. What will be produced by then will not be low-grade Vitality Stones, but may be mid-grade Vitality Stones or even A top grade vitality stone.
After Zhang Changkong collected the remaining vitality stones from the ant nest, he went to the mine of the vitality stone veins to have a look. Sure enough, dozens of mine tunnels were opened there, but there were only more than fifty steel ants mining here. , picked up a few scattered vitality stones.
Zhang Changkong routinely summoned a wave of steel ants to join the mining team.
But he knew that after he left, those steel ants would disperse soon. Maybe it was because the stone here in the mine was too hard, and many steel ants didn't like to dig holes here.
Zhang Changkong supervised the work for an hour, and then lost his patience. He summoned an elite steel ant and sat on it on the way back.
When Zhang Changkong returned, the battle in Black Bee City entered a fever pitch.
Originally, Black Bee City would be attacked by some bugs in the rain from time to time.
But today, a wave of water cockroaches came, most of them were about half a meter in size, and some were as big as a palm.
I don’t know where these water cockroaches came from. At first, some soldiers on the city wall used bows and arrows to kill some passing water cockroaches. Then somehow, more and more water cockroaches came outside Black Bee City.
He pinned a water cockroach to the ground with one shot, pressed the gun barrel, and a strong man in black armor kicked away several water cockroaches around him.
This black-armored warrior is the commander of the first legion and a senior senior warrior.
"Captain, these bugs are not strong, they are just too difficult to kill. Unless they are cut into two pieces, they can still be alive and kicking after being pierced. It is really disgusting." A strong man wielding a big knife easily killed several water cockroaches next to him. Cut in two, he is also a high-level warrior, and these insects are no threat to him.
"Indeed, we have seen hundreds of thousands of species of insects. This kind of insect is the most disgusting. It's okay for us. Many people have been bitten in other places." Sweeping, half a circle of water left the cockroach's incomplete body.
"Do you want to inform Master Immortal? Our city wall does not have Zerg-level combat forces stationed there." The sword warrior thought it should be prudent. After all, although their first legion was the most elite legion, they still did not have Zerg after all. Combat forces, like the 3rd and 4th legions, both have a zerg.
The black-armored warrior thought for a while and said, "Forget it. There are no zerg among these bugs after all, and the Immortal Master hates trouble."
"Besides, even if we don't notify the Immortal Master, someone else will. Will we be the first to be unable to persist?"
"Of course not." The swordsman slashed the water cockroach into pieces with a flash of light.
Coincidentally, no one thinks that they are inferior to others, and every legion thinks that "someone" will inform the Immortal Master.
Then, the water cockroaches invaded Black Bee City, and no one came to notify Zhang Changkong.
