Hurrying slowly, Zhang Changkong spent the rest of the time on the road, except for occasionally taking a moment to secretly go to the oasis to replenish water resources.
After all, he is already secretly disobeying the recruitment order. If he disappears for several months inexplicably and is noticed by the Xiangshan Sect, it will be a big trouble.
After six days, the wasp, which had lost half its life, finally flew out of the Dusk Desert.
"It seems there is something wrong with the route." Zhang Changkong has memorized the map. The location here is not the route he originally planned. However, in the desert at dusk, finding the route according to the map is simply impossible. It was extremely lucky to fly out in six days.
"It seems that it will take more than half a month to fly back to the Sanhe Rainforest, which is a little longer than expected." At this point, even if it takes two months, Zhang Changkong can only go on.
After flying out of the Dusk Desert, the Golden Needle Wasp was in better and better shape after swallowing a few middle-grade vitality stones.
Twenty-five days later, Zhang Changkong returned to the Sanhe Rainforest.
"I don't know if the Xiangshan Sect has any spies in Black Feng City. It seems that it is safer to hide their whereabouts." Zhang Changkong rode the Golden Needle Wasp to stay thousands of meters above Black Feng City and gave an order for the Golden Needle Wasp to be on standby. .
At this time, it was night, Zhang Changkong secretly landed and got into the underground of Black Bee City.
Zhang Changkong rode a steel ant elite forward in the passage, followed by several steel ant elites carrying colorful sacred sand.
"There are more and more steel ants here. Are there so many fish in the underground river? It feels like the growth of steel ants has not been affected at all." Zhang Changkong felt that this place may be more suitable for steel ants to survive than the gray iron mine cave. In the iron mine cave, the number of steel ants increased to nearly 150,000 and stopped growing. Zhang Changkong probably did this because of limited resources. The extra steel ants might kill each other, and he In recent years, seven batches of steel ants have been brought here from the gray iron mines. There may be more than 20 or close to 300,000 steel ants underground in Black Bee City.
This is precisely the reason why the number of steel ants increases, which makes the mining business proceed so smoothly.
After walking for a long time, Zhang Changkong rode the Iron Ant Elite and finally arrived at the warehouse of Mine No. 13.
"Huh? The middle-grade Yuan Qi Stone is gone." Zhang Changkong looked at the stone box that had been chewed open. It wasn't long before the middle-grade Yuan Qi Stone came out of the Yuan Qi Stone vein, and Zhang Changkong didn't dig out much.
After thinking about it for a moment, Zhang Changkong knew the reason. Apart from the Steel King, no other steel ant had a soft spot for the vitality stone.
The Steel King has been born for five years. Over the years, one of them has been chewing the vitality stones in the vitality stone warehouse, as if it is the boss and Zhang Changkong specially digs the vitality stones for it to eat.
"Eating so fast? Although there are not many middle-grade vitality stones here, there are close to two thousand. How can you eat them all in such a short time?"
Zhang Changkong was a little strange. Then he thought about it and realized that the matter was serious. In the past, Zhang Changkong thought that the King of Steel wouldn't be able to eat much here, so he let it stay here and let it live leisurely. Now it seems that he can no longer let it go. Here, Zhang Changkong doesn’t know how many middle-grade vitality stones there are in this vein of vitality stones. According to the way Steel King eats, no matter how much he eats, it won’t be enough for him. Zhang Changkong still hopes to use these after he reaches the level of a mage. The Vitality Stone improves one's cultivation level, and it is not something that is wasted by a useless insect like the King of Steel.
The middle-grade vitality stone is okay, but if a high-grade vitality stone is dug out in the future, it will be okay. Compared with the consequences of hundreds of high-grade vitality stones disappearing, Zhang Changkong is more willing to kill the Steel King directly.
"Let's take Steel King to the Dusk Desert this time. We've raised it for so long, it's time to put it to some use." Zhang Changkong took the seven-colored sacred sand from the back of the Iron Ant Elite, and wrapped each one in a stone box. With.
This is the safest place. The vitality stones dug out by Zhang Changkong are basically placed here.
Unless monks in the mage realm or ferocious underground beasts attack, Zhang Changkong doesn't think anyone can take away his ants, guarded by nearly 300,000 steel ants that are not affected by poisonous smoke and have been contracted with the "Secret Art of Slave Insects". Wealth, not to mention, the steel ants and insects here have begun to explode in recent years. Zhang Changkong has already named them Black Fifteen, and there may be three or two that have not been discovered by Zhang Changkong.
After placing the colorful sacred sand, Zhang Changkong began to look for the King of Steel.
Even after searching all twenty-six warehouses containing vitality stones, the Steel King was still nowhere to be seen.
"Forget it, let's go dig first, and then call it over after digging." Zhang Changkong asked the Iron Ant Elite to move forward in the direction of the mine.
"Why are there so many steel ants carrying rocks?" After Zhang Changkong approached the Yuanqi Stone vein, he found many steel ants carrying rocks. Zhang Changkong discovered that those rocks were the special rocks dug out from the Yuanqi Stone vein, and, magically However, Zhang Changkong did not find the vitality stone in a rock, as if it had been screened by him personally.
With doubts, Zhang Changkong continued to move forward.
"It turns out it's you." Zhang Changkong used his spiritual consciousness to scan from a distance and saw the King of Steel lying on a pile of tall Yuan Qi stones. They were all middle-grade Yuan Qi stones, estimated at no less than 200,000, and there was a pile of higher ones next to him. The larger pile of vitality stones are all low-grade vitality stones.
Zhang Changkong saw that the Steel King did not sleep, but was full of energy and emitted waves.
The current Steel King is seven or eight meters long and nearly three meters tall, making him the largest mutant individual in the Iron Ant clan.
Zhang Changkong did not interrupt Steel King's action of distributing pheromones, he was observing.
Under the command of the Steel King, sixteen steel ant bugs occasionally took out vitality stones from rocks. Most of them were low-grade vitality stones, and sometimes they would also let in middle-grade vitality stones. Those steel ant bugs would also be very conscious. Put the middle-grade vitality stones into the pile of vitality stones where the Steel King was lying.
Zhang Changkong observed quietly for two hours, and everything was in order. It was simply more efficient than him personally directing the steel ants to mine.
"I see, Steel King's appetite has not increased. He probably moved the middle-grade vitality stones in the warehouse here." Zhang Changkong smiled slightly, "I didn't expect that after several years of eating and waiting to die, Steel King finally became We have found an excellent overseer insect, and its orders to the steel ants are more precise than before. It seems that digging out high-grade vitality stones is just around the corner."
What surprised Zhang Changkong even more was that the aura of the King of Steel was more powerful than any of his insects, and much more powerful than the Golden Scarab. Except for the three king insects seen in the core area and the dead Aside from King Centipede, King Steel had the strongest aura among the bugs he had ever seen.
"The Sanhe Rainforest has the opportunity for insects to evolve into king insects. Maybe the King of Steel will advance to the king of insects when I leave the Xiangshan Sect." At this moment, Zhang Changkong's favorable impression of the King of Steel greatly increased. If there are any high-grade Zhang Changkong felt that he could barely accept the five hundred vitality stones given to the Steel King.
Zhang Changkong was in a good mood when he thought of this, so he threw a few small fireballs into the air and floated them towards the Steel King.
