Chapter 130 Corpse

"Is there anything worth studying about this bug?" Ashford asked curiously when he saw me walking around with a bug.

Originally Ashford just asked casually, but my answer surprised him because I actually nodded. "Have you never noticed this bug before?"

"What's there to pay attention to?" Ashford asked me in confusion.

I directly stretched the insect in my hand in front of him, then pressed the insect's ribcage with my thumb and pushed it upward. As my fingers moved forward, the sharp mouthparts that were originally folded in front of the insect's ribcage were forced to pop out. .

"See this?"

"Yeah." Ashford nodded doubtfully. "What's this?"

"You yourself said that this thing can penetrate all armors, which means that the hardness of this thing is very high. Don't you know that the high hardness means that this thing contains some special substance or has a special structure? Even if it cannot be extracted, You can also use local methods to directly collect these needles and make them into weapon arrows."

"So this is what you are talking about." Ashford said with a smile as if he suddenly understood: "I advise you to give up quickly. Our Iron Crusaders have already studied this thing."

"Then you still..."

"It's not that I'm wasting things, it's that this one is useless."

"Why?"

Ashford explained directly: "The mouthparts of this bug contain a special magic metal. So far we have not found any similar metal in nature, which means there are no natural mines. If you want this metal, you only need to It can be extracted from the mouthparts of this insect."

"Then just extract it."

"But the question is, do you know the proportion of this kind of metal contained in the mouthparts of this insect? It's less than one thousandth of a milligram! This kind of metal is only found in the mouthparts of this insect. This is the amount of this kind of metal in one insect. Big, the collected mouthparts are only half the length of a toothpick, and as thin as a human hair. How many bugs do you think I need to get to get one gram of this metal?"

After hearing this, I already understood what Ashford meant. This kind of metal is not useless, but the price/performance ratio is too low. The investment is too high and the output is low. The cost of making weapons out of this metal would be prohibitively high. Moreover, even if you collect them at any cost, how many of these things are needed to make a weapon? Killing all the bugs in the entire forest would only be enough to get one or two weapons, right? No matter how good such a thing is, can it be used to equip troops on a large scale?

"Listening to what you said, it's really useless!" I frowned and asked, "Do you know the mixing ratio of this thing? Seeing that this mouthpart is so small, it can have such a high hardness, and from what you said, The content is very low, so if we extract a little bit, mix it with other metals and shape it, can we produce a very powerful effect?"

Ashford frowned when he heard this and said: "The situation you mentioned may be possible, but we Iron Crusaders don't have that much money to study this is just a little bit possible, and in the final analysis, the collection of these bugs will always be a problem . We don’t have that much energy to deal with this matter. All in all, the investment is too big and we can’t afford it.”

After hearing Ashford's words, I thought about it for a while, and then asked: "Then if I ask the guild to study it, and if it comes out with results, can we contract this place to us?" Although this is a public leveling practice. District, and it is only close to the German border and is not considered a territory of the Iron Crusaders, but I still have to ask, after all, these are the resources of the allies. Even if they don't want it, you can't just take it, right? It's easy to talk about things that are worthless, but if we decide to mine them, it will definitely be profitable. If we don't talk about it first, it will hurt our feelings when the time comes.

Ashford probably really didn't want this kind of thing, so he said cheerfully: "You can mine it as long as you want. These bugs are basically similar to disaster species here. You have to collect all the bugs before we can So happy."

"Can these bugs be farmed? What do they eat? Do they choose the environment?"

Ashford shook his head directly and said: "We didn't pay attention to it since we knew it was useless. If you want, just research it yourself. I don't have time to care about this."

Ashford was obviously not interested in this thing, and I didn't bother to talk to him anymore. First, record the location here, and then notify the God of War to send someone to help get some bugs to study. I don’t need to get involved in this kind of chore. The Frost Rose Alliance is so big, you can’t just let me do everything, right?

Seeing that I was no longer studying that bug, Ashford finally breathed a sigh of relief. He seems to hate this kind of bug. He may have been bitten before, so he doesn't like anything that has anything to do with this bug.

After my side became quiet, Al, who was responsible for exploring the path in front, suddenly jumped down from a nearby tree. "President, I found something over there. I think you'd better go over and take a look."

Ashford nodded and asked us to come together. What Al found was not in our path, but some distance to our side.

After going around a circle of relatively lush bushes, we saw what Al was talking about.

There should have been a battle here, and it wasn't very long. Behind the bushes was a small forest clearing. In the center of the clearing was a large tree that had been broken into three parts. Near the broken trunk was a corpse of a monster as big as an Asian elephant lying on its side. This monster should be something close to a reptile, and may belong to some kind of sub-dragon. The scales all over the body cover it from head to tail, and it looks like it has a high level of defense. The smaller head and mouth indicate that this is not a carnivorous monster, but there are three forward-facing horns on this guy's head, and they are all sharp, which shows that this thing's combat effectiveness is actually very good. However, now it has turned into a corpse. There is a not very long but very deep incision on the back of the neck. In addition, there are many battle marks on other parts of the body, but most of them have not broken through his defense. Only the blow on the neck was severe enough, almost cutting off a third of the guy's neck.

Because the thing was lying with its back to us, I couldn't see clearly what the wound looked like. I wanted to go around and take a look, but as soon as I turned around, I found that there were two bodies underneath him. . One of the corpses was a creature that looked a lot like a dog, but was slightly larger than a dog, but it was definitely not a demon wolf. There are three holes in this guy's body, which are obviously the work of this giant beast. The other corpse is a person, but because it is already dead, it is not easy to determine whether it is an NPC or a player.

This guy's legs were crushed by the giant beast. There were no obvious injuries on his body, but his head exploded all over the ground like a rotten watermelon. It looked like it might have been stepped on by the giant beast.

I carefully walked over and picked up a giant ax lying on the ground, then jumped over his body, carefully avoiding the blood and brains on the ground, and got closer to inspect the wound on the neck of the giant beast.

"Can you tell anything?" Ashford and the other four are not good at battlefield analysis. Except for Al, who knows a little bit, the other three are really laymen, so they can only ask for advice humbly.

We can't count on Kristina and Son of the Night, but fortunately I am more experienced in this.

"That canine monster should be the man's demon pet. It used its own sacrifice to attract the monster's attention, and then the man took the opportunity to cut the monster's artery with an axe. Then the monster fought back before dying. It knocked down and stepped on his head, and then the monster died due to excessive blood loss. However, this is not the point. The point is that this monster is also a familiar."

"How do you know this thing is a familiar and not a local monster?" Ashford has been here more than once, so of course he knows what kind of monsters are here, which can be seen from his understanding of those bugs. He asked because he was wondering how I knew.

"Actually, this is easy to confirm." I directly grabbed one of the monster's front legs and separated the two toes of its big claw. A very clear picture of the flipper was displayed in front of everyone. "This place is inland, and there are no lakes or large rivers nearby. How can this thing be a local creature?"

Alice said: "Two demon pets died fighting here, and a player was killed. That means..."

"At least one player left alive." Kristina said first.

Ye Zhizi said calmly: "Didn't you say that this is a public area before? Maybe it's just a conflict between two players and a PK. There shouldn't be anything worth noting, right?"

Compared with the ease of the Son of the Night, Ashford frowned and said: "No, the guy who survived is the same as our destination. Although I am not sure yet whether he has any interest in our mission. Influence."

"How do you know his destination is the same as ours?" This time I didn't understand.

Ashford walked to the ground next to him and twisted a handful of white powder and said: "This is a special medicinal powder with a very special smell. You can tell it when you smell it. I also brought a lot this time. This Although this area is a public area, the only place where this powder needs to be used is the small area at our mission site, and most people don't need to go there. There is this kind of powder here, but there is no bag, which means It was taken away by the other party. This powder has no other use except entering that place. If there is no need to go there, the other party will not take this powder away." Baidu search Shushuwu, Shushuwu hand-made, provided by Shushuwu Download txt of this book.

Hearing Ashford's words, I could only frown and sigh: "Now I have initially realized the annoyingness of this task. If I can summon a magic pet, let Bailang come out and smell it at this time, and all problems will be solved." Got it!"