Chapter 48 An Unexpected Discovery

After all the falling dust cleared, a giant undead creature finally broke out of the ground, but I was dumbfounded.

"Giant horseshoe crab?"

The creature in front of me is not the creature that should appear here at all. There seems to be something wrong with the time and place. The guy in front of me is clearly a Cambrian marine arthropod, a super ancient creature several eras earlier than the dinosaurs. I never thought that I could summon the undead of such a thing in Anubis's territory. Logically speaking, it It shouldn't appear on land at all, and besides, it's too different in this era, right?

I watched helplessly as this monster, which was bigger than the sports field, slowly stood up. His body looked like a crab with a long tail, except that its shell was not full of edges and corners like a crab shell. Its shell looked like It's relatively smooth, like an upside-down saucer.

The monster stood up and turned around. Because it didn't have eyes, I didn't know if it was paying attention to me, but it was definitely looking for the scent of the crystal powder I sprinkled just now. For undead creatures, black crystal powder is the best nutrition, but summoning this thing in front of you doesn't seem to be of much use. What I wanted was to summon a random skeleton or ghost to ask for directions, but instead I summoned such a big guy. Not to mention whether it could communicate or not, even if it could speak human language, how much crystal powder would I need to make it? Are you willing to help?

After thinking about it, I decided to change my position and call again. This big guy was not the person to ask for directions. Unexpectedly, I just turned around and was about to fly away when I felt the huge wind pressure coming from behind. In panic, I dodged in the air, and a huge steel whip fell vertically, almost taking me down with it.

The steel whip missed, and several more identical steel whips flew next to me. I hurriedly twisted my body and passed between these thick steel whips.

"You hateful monster, why did you attack me? I didn't ask you to do anything. I even spilled a handful of crystal powder and didn't ask you for it. You still attack me. Do you have any conscience?"

"Give me all the crystal powder you have on you, and I will let you go." Unexpectedly, this monster can really speak, and it speaks quite fluently, but its voice is a bit loud, almost catching up with the sonic attack.

"You want crystal powder? Okay, I want to ask something. If you tell me, this crystal powder will be yours." I took out another handful of crystal powder and shook it.

"I want it all."

I had already guessed that this big guy had a big appetite. "No, just this one, just say it, don't say it."

"If you don't say anything, I want crystal powder."

Now I finally understood. This guy was not bargaining with me at all. He just wanted to steal all the crystal powder and didn't want to help at all. I know a little bit about this creature. After all, they lived in a relatively long time, and there were no moral standards in that era, and everything was based on strength. As long as I'm stronger than you, I'll bite you if I want to, and kick you if I want to kick you. You can't beat me anyway, so there's no need to worry about your revenge. As long as you have the strength, you can go sideways.

"Okay, you want crystal powder, right?" I smiled evilly and took out a handful of Bright Crystal crystal powder from Fenglong Space. Then he sprinkled it.

The crystal powder of black crystal can enhance the power of undead creatures and play a nourishing role, while the crystal powder of light crystal has the completely opposite effect. It can burn the soul fire of the undead and is very dangerous to the undead. Generally speaking, high-level undead people don't have to worry about this thing. After all, crystal powder is not a shotgun. It can be blown away by a gust of wind. However, although this thing in front of you is big. In the final analysis, it is still a low-level undead, so it is definitely unable to deal with these crystal powders. As soon as those shining crystal powders fell on the monster, they immediately erupted into white holy fire. The monster screamed and rolled desperately in the flames. At first, it could even wave its strong tentacles like a whip and go crazy. , and finally couldn't even move, and could only make low moaning sounds.

I flew to this guy, landed directly on his body, and then knocked on its shell, only to hear a metallic echo. "Your shell is really good. Let me test the hardness." As I said that, I used a hammer from eternity to hit it. I didn't use much force at first. The hammer went down and made a local sound, and the eternity was actually bounced back. "Not bad. It's valuable. Xiao Longnu, Ling, Crystal, come out for a moment. How about you help me take a look at this thing?"

Ling first knocked it with his hand, then hit it hard twice with his staff, but found that it couldn't be hit. Xiao Longnu was very simple. She directly stretched out a green jade finger and drew a circle on the edge of the carapace, then lightly pounded the center of the circle and cut out a perfect round piece of carapace.

"This thing is very hard, almost as hard as the claws of our divine dragon clan."

Ling took the disc cut off by Xiao Longnu and held it in the palm of her hand. Then she saw a green flame suddenly rise in her palm. The disc quickly shrank and condensed in the flame, and finally turned into a ball of ink black. 'color' matter. As Ling Di's fingers pointed several times, the black substance floated above Ling's palm and gradually expanded into a round thin plate.

"I didn't expect this thing could be tempered."

"How hard is it?"

Ling handed the thing to Xiao Longnu, who tapped it with her nails a few times, then shook her head. "It's already exceeded my dragon claw. It seems like it's not the ultimate hardness. If there is good equipment for finishing, I believe it will become harder."

Crystal took the thin piece and looked at it and said: "Although the hardness is very good, this thing will isolate the transmission of magic power. If it is used as armor or weapons, will it become a blank slate equipment?"

"You're not afraid, can we use it to produce golems? Anyway, the golems don't know how to use magic, as long as they are strong enough."

We figured out the best use for this thing in a few sentences, but I still feel like it's a shame. "Although this guy is not small in size, there shouldn't be much material left after tempering. It seems that we can only produce a few particularly strong elite-level demon dolls!"

"I don't think so." Ling pointed to the ground. "I just felt it. I just discovered a lot of soul sensing things like this. There should be a lot of these creatures here. If they are all dug out to refine this material, I think it will definitely be enough to make demon dolls. ”

"Maybe...!" I suddenly felt a pain in my feet. I quickly jumped out of the way and saw a strange creature with arcs of electricity all over its body lying where I was just standing. "It's really embarrassing to be bitten by such a little thing!"

"Why does this thing look so familiar?" Ling pointed his finger, and the little thing immediately flew up, and then flipped over in the air and turned upside down under Ling's command. We looked at this little thing and then at the big guy lying next to us, and now we finally understood. This little thing is the larvae of the big one.

"I think our resource supply problem has been solved." Crystal looked at the little thing who was still in the lightning arc and said: "This little guy is still alive, just take some back and raise it."

"It hasn't died after living in the mother's body for so long. This little thing shouldn't have a long growth cycle, right?" Although I don't know as many economic laws as Rose, but at least I'm not stupid. If the growth cycle of these things is too long, Then it has no breeding value.

Fortunately, Ling answered our questions. "I just used soul search to check the soul of this big guy, so you don't have to worry. The reason why these little guys didn't die for so long is because they are protected by the soul of the mother in the mother's body. The mother of this creature' The nature is very strong, and even after death, he is still protecting his child. It was because he was too seriously injured by the light crystal powder just now, so he could not control the protective space in his body and the little guy ran out."

"How long is their growth cycle? Can they be put into practical use?"

"The growth cycle is only six months."

"What? Six months?" I looked at the little thing floating in the air, not much bigger than a crab, and then at the big guy under my feet who was larger than two football fields. I really can't imagine how this thing can increase its size hundreds of thousands of times in six months. Isn't this just like blowing up a balloon!

Ling suddenly moved the little thing in front of me and said, "Actually, I don't think these things need to be killed at all."

"Why?"

"Because this is an arthropod, their shells cannot grow with their bodies, so they need to constantly shed their shells during the six-month growth period, which means...!"

Xiao Longnu grabbed it and said, "That means we don't need to do anything. The raw materials will fall off of them naturally, right?"

"Correct." Ling continued: "When the new shell inside is formed, the shell will be cracked by the internal muscle tissue, and we only need to collect the fragments to refine this high-hardness raw material. There is no need to kill them. They. Moreover, this kind of creature can actually be tamed. It can also be used as a war machine when necessary."

"A real machine?" Xiao Longnu couldn't understand what Ling meant.

I helped explain: "These things are as big as two football fields in their entirety, and their outer shell is as hard as a city wall. As long as we do a little processing on its back, we can build a heavy artillery position. By then we will have it." A mobile fort.”

"It's not just a fort." Ling added: "The giant horseshoe crab is an aquatic arthropod. Although it can move freely on land, it is still a marine animal in the final analysis, so its biggest role is not as a fort, but as a diving warship. . With the hardness of its shell, you don’t have to worry about the opponent’s artillery. Moreover, it is an aquatic animal, so diving for it is as easy as taking a walk. Also, although this thing does not have any magic, it can discharge electricity, and there are several Ten steel arms thicker than oil pipelines can dominate the ocean with physical attacks alone. Even on land, with the damage of its tentacles, it will definitely be no problem to destroy city walls."

"Does this thing have a weakness?"

"Yes. There is only a soft shell on its abdomen. It is not as hard as our armor. So...!"

"So as long as someone gets under its belly, it can be easily killed, right?"

Ling nodded: "Theoretically, that's the case, but the premise is that you have to avoid those electrified arms and legs first. Also, if it suddenly pulls off, no one can guarantee that they will not be crushed."

After listening to Ling Di’s introduction, I made a natural decision – to raise giant horseshoe crabs on a large scale. This kind of thing is really useful. The shells shed during the growth period can be used to smelt materials. When they grow up, they can fight in wars. After they die in battle, the shells on their bodies can be recycled. There are basically no shortcomings except that the meat cannot be eaten.

Since you have decided to recycle and raise them, you have to collect a large number of small giant horseshoe crabs and bring them back to raise them on a large scale. For this reason, I specially opened the space door and released the Kirin Warrior and Ring Knight to help me collect the shells and living larvae of the undead giant horseshoe crabs everywhere. In order to be able to close the space door after a while, I also kept Ling. Come down, she can help me manipulate the space gate and summon creatures. Considering that it might not be safe for Ling to go back alone, I left Xiao Longnu and Bai Xue behind for a while to protect each other, and Bai Xue could also act as a mount for Ling.

Tell them to go back to Isengard and wait for me after they finish moving their things, while I take the other demon pets and leave here to find the wish fruit. I left this land of right and wrong first and found a place where there were no big guys. I sprinkled a handful of crystal powder again. Fortunately, nothing weird crawled out this time. Instead, an arm still covered with dry muscles like beef jerky stretched out from the ground. I didn't wait for him to crawl out slowly, so I grabbed his hand and pulled him out.

"Don't pull, don't pull, it's going to fall!" The guy under the ground shouted as soon as his head was pulled out. Unfortunately, he shouted too late. Before I could let go, I felt a sudden light on my hand, and the guy fell off again. When I returned to the ground, I only had half an arm left in my hand.

"Hey... this... I'm sorry, I didn't expect it to be so weak!" I quickly returned the half of the arm to him. Then he sprinkled black crystal powder on the fracture, and the two arms immediately connected together. For these undead, black crystal powder is a panacea and can cure everything.

"What did you summon me for?" The mummy said while fiddling with its new arms: "I don't have any skills. If you want me to fight, I will definitely fall down."

"I'm not asking you to fight. Besides, I won't call you like this if I want to fight? I just want to ask something."

"That's no problem. I can tell you everything I know, but you have to give me some crystal powder."

I immediately took out a handful of crystal powder. "I want to ask you if you saw a girl in green clothes passing by here?"

"Is she the girl dressed in tree leaves and smelling fruity?"

"you saw it?"

"Yes. She ran right past where I was lying. Then she kept running over there."

I looked at the direction he was pointing, and the fruit of my heart's wish really changed its direction. It seemed that Xiaochun's analysis was correct. "Thank you very much." I handed him the crystal powder and immediately chased him forward.

The underworld is a veritable ghost place. It can be said that there are ghosts everywhere. I inquired all the way and easily tracked the whereabouts of the wish fruit. It seemed that she changed her direction and then changed her route many times, and finally ended up heading in the opposite direction to the starting direction. Fortunately, she didn't change her direction again. Based on the direction of her movement, I guessed that her destination should be the city of Pizor. This is a relatively large undead settlement under the leadership of Anubis, where a large number of undead and dark creatures live. It is said that many low-level Hades can be found there.

Since I predicted the destination in advance, I didn't bother asking all the way, but flew directly to the destination to find it. The shape of Bizo City is relatively shabby. The five-meter-high city wall is covered with loess, and it looks shabby as if it will fall down at any time. The houses in the city are basically made of civil structures, and their appearance is similar to that of a city wall. I classify them all as dangerous houses.

After asking the undead warrior guarding the gate at the city gate, I found out that the Wish Fruit had just entered the city from here a few minutes ago. As expected, I followed the wrong direction. After entering the city, I flew all the way to the first fork in the road, and then used crystal powder as a bargaining chip to inquire about an undead businessman on the roadside and learned that the wish fruit followed several undead into the OnePlus store not far away. I quickly chased after him.

Many people believe that the underworld is a transit point for souls. After people in the underworld die, their souls will queue up here to wait for reincarnation, and then return to the underworld. That's not the case at all. The underworld also has a permanent population, and these undead souls will never return to the human world. Some of the undead souls are even native-born locals. They are not the souls left behind by the death of creatures in the upper world at all. For example, my familiar phantom is a spiritual body generated in the human world. It also has many characteristics of the undead, but because it is naturally generated in the human world, it is not afraid of light magic. Since a spiritual body can also be generated in the human world, let alone the underworld. It is completely normal to generate a spiritual body here. Because there are permanent undead here, there will naturally be some simple transactions before the undead. However, because the undead have little desire and demand, this kind of transaction is still very backward and not too frequent, but anyway The transaction still exists. For example, the undead shop in front of me is one of them.

When he saw me walking into the store, a big-eyed girl with naked eyes came up to me immediately. This mm is wearing a loose robe, but because the whole body is covered with water, it looks close to the body and seems to be slightly transparent. If you are an ordinary person, your blood will probably rise. Fortunately, I have always been very resistant to beautiful women.

"Excuse me, sir, do you need anything?" mm asked enthusiastically.

I didn't answer her words, but asked in surprise: "Why are you like this? Did you fall into the water? There seems to be no river near here!" The undead don't need to drink water, so of course they won't dig wells or reserve water sources. There was no natural water, so I was curious as to how she could make it look like something fished out of the river.

The girl explained in a very calm tone the reason why I almost fainted. "Um...Actually, I was dragged into deep water by a Nile crocodile and drowned when I was cleaning clay pots by the river a few days ago. Because it will take a long time to reincarnate, I found a job here..." The girl even rolled up her robe a little to let me see the bones of her calf. According to her, the meat there was bitten off by a crocodile, which made me shudder.

Now I understand, this girl is just a water ghost, that's why she's so sexy. The water on her body is actually not water at all, it is the memory of her death, just like a burned ghost often has its whole body on fire when it reaches the underworld. As for her big eyes, they seemed to have popped out due to the suffocation she felt before drowning, so they felt particularly big.

I didn't say my intention right away, but pretended to ask about the products, and then asked about the wish fruit. I lied to the water ghost sister and said that was my friend. The two agreed to meet here and asked her if she had seen it.

The water ghost mm immediately said that my friend had gone to the back with a few undead people who came to buy things and the boss, and then she enthusiastically wanted to take me in. I politely declined her kindness and walked to the back of the store. As soon as I opened the door curtain, I smelled a burnt smell with a faint aroma of meat. When I looked carefully, I found a charred corpse lying next to the door curtain. It was still on fire in many places, and most of its body had turned into charcoal, so that smell must have come from its body.

I ignored the corpse and was about to step forward when I suddenly felt my ankle being grabbed. When he turned around, he saw that it was the charred corpse that had done it. A person with a poor psychological quality would have fainted at this moment, but my psychological quality has always been abnormal, and I have no reaction at all. "Let go." I said coldly.

Not only did the burnt corpse not let go, he also stretched out his other hand. Seeing that he was so uncooperative, I didn't bother to talk nonsense to him. After two clicks, the charred corpse lay back down again, and I continued walking towards the yard with two burning arms on my ankles.

The Egyptians built their houses very strangely. Even though they had plenty of land, they liked to build their houses extremely densely. The backyard looked like a maze. I pushed open the deepest door of the yard and stepped in. I was stunned on the spot.