In front of Qu Wuming was a cave that was very different from before.
The surrounding stone walls that should have been covered with pink crystals seemed to have a lot of blank areas like a bald head. Pieces of pitch-black stone walls were exposed among the pink crystals, which looked very abrupt.
And around one of the pink crystals, there was a very special-looking insect.
It's not quite right to say it's a bug. Because the bug was huge, more than two feet long. Although a bug of this size is not as exaggerated as the mutant bug encountered underground in Mingsha Plain, a bug over two feet long - although it is not weird, it is not much better.
This insect is almost all khaki in color, with a fat belly in the back half and a pair of slender tails growing at the end of the belly. In the middle of the insect's body is a short and thick "waist", while the front half is extremely thick, two times wider than the belly at the back. On the front half of its back, there is a dark brown oval carapace, which looks extremely thick.
Behind the carapace, there is a pair of translucent short wings that only cover the waist and a small half of the abdomen. Under the pair of broken wings, there is a pair of folded and slender wings, which are longer than its tail.
Under its body, there are three pairs of insect legs, two pairs on the front and back of the waist, and a pair of extremely thick giant legs growing under the breastplate. This pair of giant feet is roughly composed of three sections. The front section looks like a pair of huge shovels, and it also looks like a pair of huge open claws with seven or eight sharp claws.
When Qu Wuming walked around the passage and saw it, it was lying next to the crystal cluster. He pushed left and right with his shovel-like front legs and shoveled away a cluster of crystals very easily. Then he pinched his legs and hugged it. The cluster of crystals was sent to the insect's mouth in front of the carapace.
Then there was a sound of crunching crystals, and the sound of crystals being ground into powder.
A handful of crystals disappeared into the strange insect's mouth in less than a few breaths, leaving Qu Wuming stunned.
Qu Wuming has long known how hard this kind of crystal is.
Although it can't keep up with the strange rocks in Mingshayuan, it is already comparable to seventh- and eighth-level high-level magic weapons.
And the bug actually chewed the crystals into pieces as easily as it chewed ice cubes. If it bit him, Qu Wuming had no doubt that he would be easily bitten off a piece of flesh.
When the light ball beside Qu Wuming illuminated the cave that was originally very dim, the insect that was chewing happily suddenly stopped. The two pairs of insect legs behind struggled to move their bodies, slightly Somewhat awkwardly, he turned to look at Qu Wuming.
Only then did Qu Wuming see that in front of the insect's carapace, there was a conical head about the size of two fists. There were two dark, round eyes on each side of the head, and in front of the eyes. It has a pair of long antennae as thick as a little finger.
Seeing the front of the insect, Qu Wuming couldn't help but mutter to himself: "I thought it was some kind of insect - isn't this just an oversized mole cricket?"
As soon as Qu Wuming made a sound, the insect also chirped towards Qu Wuming, raised its upper body high, and raised its pair of shovel-like front legs upwards, aiming at Qu Wuming, as if to threaten Qu Wuming. As if Wuming shouldn't get close.
However, before Qu Wuming could do anything, the insect had already swung down its raised feet!
I saw a burst of earth-yellow light shining on the pair of alien front feet, inserting into the stone wall under my feet with two pops, and then began to dig wildly like a pair of shovels, hitting the hard stone wall in an instant. There was a big hole more than half a foot wide, and he slipped in with a squeak.
Qu Wuming thought that he would have to fight again, and he was ready to kill him just now, but he didn't expect that the insect would run away at the slightest disagreement. He was really as timid as an insect.
After a while, maybe the insect broke through the stone wall, and a gurgling sound was heard. Suddenly a lot of dark red mud poured in from the entrance of the cave, and soon solidified again in the cave, sealing the entrance again. got up.
Qu Wuming was very curious and quickly ran to the place where the insect escaped through the hole. He held up the "Falling Star" orb and "looked" out through the stone wall. He soon discovered that the insect was like a flexible swimming fish. Normally, the six legs move together, moving quickly through the soft earth and rocks under high pressure and temperature, and soon disappear.
At this moment, Qu Siqiu's voice sounded in the sea of consciousness, telling Qu Wuming that she had found the end of the cave branch and found no soul-calming crystal.
"Well, I'm afraid there won't be any soul-suppressing crystals in this cave." Qu Wuming said through Qu Siqiu's demon clone seed, "Hurry up and meet me. I think I may know where to go. Went to find the soul-suppressing crystal..."
Not long after, when Qu Siqiu arrived, Qu Wuming took her back to the character space again, and he sacrificed the "falling star" orb, drilled out of the cave from where the insect escaped, and followed the path it escaped from. The direction caught up.
"Boss, what did you mean by what you said just now? How do you know where to find the soul-suppressing crystal?" Qu Siqiu asked in the Zifu space with some confusion.
With a thought in his mind, Qu Wuming shared the image of the insect he just saw into Qu Siqiu's consciousness, and then said: "This is the insect I just saw. It seems to have a very strong earth escape ability." , and it can actually feed on the crystals on the cave wall. Just before it escaped, I seemed to be scared to death when I saw it."
Qu Siqiu: "..." (It seems that this is not the question I just asked...)
At this time, Qu Wuming then shared another image with Qu Siqiu.
It was a dark golden, cone-like thing.
There seemed to be traces of hot air rising upwards.
Seems like a piece of shit.
"This is a piece of shit." Qu Wuming's voice said, "That bug pulled it before it escaped."
Qu Siqiu: "..." (Boss, I didn't know you had this hobby before...)
"Look carefully at the color and shape of this shit!" Qu Wuming guided Qu Siqiu to observe the details of the shit, and soon shared the memory image left behind where he had previously found the Soul Calming Crystal. Qu Siqiu then said, "Look at these places where the soul-suppressing crystals have been found. What do you think?"
"Huh?" Qu Siqiu compared several images carefully, and after a while he was finally surprised to find that wherever the soul-calming crystals grew, there seemed to be a dark golden, cone-like rock, and those soul-calming crystals, It grows on this kind of rock, or is close to this kind of rock.
"This..." Qu Siqiu turned around and took a closer look at the shape and appearance of the piece of shit. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the two were almost exactly the same!
"Boss, what do you mean, those soul-soothing crystals were actually just ordinary crystals, and it was precisely because they absorbed the bug's... uh, stuff in the poop that they slowly transformed into soul-soothing crystals?" Qu Siqiu analyzed. Afterwards, he came to a conclusion, but still looked to Qu Wuming for confirmation somewhat unconfidently.
"..." Qu Wuming was startled when he heard this, and suddenly felt a sudden enlightenment in his heart, "That's right! It may not be that the soul-suppressing crystal grows inside, or it may just be that the ordinary crystal has changed after absorbing the energy inside. Ah! Why didn’t I think of that just now?
"Boss? Did I say something wrong?" Seeing that Qu Wuming didn't respond for a long time, Qu Siqiu thought he had guessed something wrong and hurriedly asked.
"No, no, you guessed the same as I thought." Qu Wuming came back to his senses and responded hurriedly, "I don't know how long it will take for that bug shit... um, excrement to change ordinary crystals. And transform it into soul-soothing crystals with special effects. I think there should be more than one insect. If we can find its lair, we might be able to find more crystals transformed by its excrement. "
Qu Siqiu followed Qu Wuming's thoughts and thought for a while, then said after a moment of silence: "Then, what if in the insect nest, all the crystal stones have been eaten by the insects? Wouldn't it be impossible to suppress it? Soul crystal?"
Qu Wuming was stunned again when he heard this, thinking that Qu Siqiu's thinking angle was really different, why didn't he think of it? Then he thought about this possibility, shook his head alone, and replied: "I don't think they will all be eaten - after all, even if they are bugs, it seems that there are very few bugs that are willing to eat food stained with their own feces. "
Qu Siqiu nodded when he heard the words. He felt that what Qu Wuming said seemed to make sense. He thought to himself: "As expected of the boss, he has even considered such details. He is really knowledgeable... When can the boss share more with me? How about these messy common sense of life? How stingy..."
Seeing that Qu Siqiu seemed to be lost in thought and no longer asking questions, Qu Wuming calmed down and concentrated on searching for the traces left by the insect in the ground.
It is not easy to track it and find possible insect nests and insect lairs.
I don't know if the insect is naturally cautious, or if it senses someone following it from a distance behind. The trajectory of the insect seems to be irregular. Sometimes it goes straight ahead, sometimes it suddenly goes upwards, and then it turns around again. After a while, it plunged into the ground again...
This insect is extremely talented. It can escape underground in this high temperature and pressure, just like a fish swimming in the sea or a bird flying in the sky. It seems to be free and comfortable, doing whatever it wants and effortlessly. However, Qu Wuming drove the "Falling Star" orb to follow behind, but his steps were difficult and stressful. Every step forward consumed a lot of mana.
After following for a while, Qu Wuming simply gave up tracking the insect's escape trajectory, and instead forcibly enlarged the detection range of the "falling star" orb, staring at the direction of the insect from a distance, no matter how it was underground. Running around everywhere, Qu Wuming just stayed far behind and kept the general direction.
Gradually, Qu Wuming had left the underground cave far behind. The surroundings seemed to be filled with semi-liquid and semi-solid rocks. After a long time, Qu Wuming could not even tell the difference between up, down, left and right. A trancelike feeling of where you are.
Fortunately, in the "field of vision" of the "Falling Star" orb, there is a shallow trace extending in front of the completely flat rock. At the front of the trace, there are six legs that are paddling rapidly. , bugs that seem to be swimming in your back garden.
Qu Wuming swallowed two magic power-restoring pills in one breath, and asked Qu Wushe and Qu Siqiu to take the magic power-restoring pills respectively. At the same time, he sat cross-legged on the Lingshi Square and frantically absorbed spiritual power, replenishing it at any time. With the mana drawn away by Qu Wuming, he could barely keep track of the insect without running out of mana halfway.
Just when Qu Wuming had begun to wonder if his previous inference was wrong - that insect did not have a nest or its group at all, it was just an ordinary strange insect that could eat crystal stones, The insect suddenly accelerated its speed and fled diagonally downward.
"Okay! I finally seem to have a goal to move forward!" Qu Wuming was refreshed and said to himself, "I'm not afraid that you have a direction, but I'm afraid that you will wander around blindly! I'm really afraid if you continue to wander around like just now. I can’t afford it myself…”
Perhaps after hearing Qu Wuming's "complaint", the insect really didn't go around in circles this time, but kept moving in a straight direction and continued to escape diagonally downwards.
Qu Wuming urged the "Falling Star" orb to follow him from a distance. He couldn't help but speed up a little, and just like that, he followed the insect for about a hundred feet, and finally "saw" a huge creature from a distance. Appeared in front...
In the field of vision transformed by the "Falling Star" orb, a huge entity in the shape of an irregular bubble gradually got closer to Qu Wuming, and the insect had already landed on the "bubble" and stopped with its front feet. Picking randomly, he made a small hole in the "bubble", and in a blink of an eye he got in and disappeared.
When Qu Wuming came closer, the stone wall in front of him almost occupied the entire line of sight. The width of the cave inside was probably several times larger than the two largest places before!
Qu Wuming activated the "Falling Star" orb, which turned into a yellow light and slowly sank into the stone wall...
"It's 1 million words. Is the editor here? Is the editor-in-chief here? Can I give it to Qimao?"
