Chapter 20/Green Jar Ant

Chapter 20 Green Jar Ant

After hearing what Yuan Xiaole said, the Fat Knight subconsciously smiled apologetically at the others:

"Yuan Zi, please don't..."

However, before Yuan Xiaole could finish speaking, he spoke unusually calmly:

"According to the Wilderness Home, the main living area of ​​the giant cicada monkey is on the 1st to 3rd floors below Changying, where they have a large number of habitats."

"Starting from the 4th floor, some giant cicada monkeys will transform into vengeful red cicadas. At the 5th floor, explorers will mainly face those vengeful red cicadas that are 3 to 4 times larger than the giant cicada monkeys. "

"These flying enemies are difficult for even high-level explorers to deal with, but as long as they don't take the initiative to attack, the revenge red cicada will not give up its mission of sucking tree sap and reproducing offspring and come to attack the explorers."

"Generally speaking, it is a fairly gentle dungeon creature."

"But the cicada-eating ants are different. The cicada-eating ants have a high desire to attack and have a strong sense of territory expansion. According to the high-level explorers who came up from the 'main tunnel', the cicada-eating ants initially They were only active on the 4th and 5th floors, but now they can be found on the 2nd underground floor - these green canned ants should be their nest creatures."

Having said this, Yuan Xiaole took a breath and continued:

"Captain Senyan, when you exited the third floor a few days ago, you did not encounter the large army of cicada-eating ants because these invading creatures have not yet expanded. But now that they appear here, it means that they have begun to invade this area. as your own base."

"We don't know yet how difficult the cicada-eating ants that have built their stronghold will be, but look at these giant cicada monkeys. On the second level, they are still parasitized and used as hatching tools, but at least they are free and can Move freely.”

"However, starting from the third floor, they began to be followed by a large number of cicada-eating ant teams. The two got along well, and even the violent cicada monkeys would not attack each other randomly - so I doubt that the cicada-eating ants on the third floor The cicada ants should be able to control the behavior of the violent cicada monkeys in some way."

"It wasn't until just now that my suspicions were confirmed."

Yuan Xiaole walked up to a violent cicada monkey that had not yet been executed and kicked it on the head. Lin Huai'en saw the giant cicada monkey spit out a mouthful of thick green liquid and its mouthparts squirmed very energetically.

Lin Huai'en was keenly aware that he could faintly smell the aroma of wine.

"These violent cicada monkeys are all alive."

Yuan Xiaole kicked the violent cicada monkey on the ground hard, as if to verify something: "The reason why the violent cicada monkey is violent is because of the pain of being parasitized by cicada-eating ants."

"But the violent cicada monkey in front of us obviously can no longer be called a violent cicada monkey. It should be called a 'placenta'."

"They were drunk with wine and became incubators for cicada-eating ants."

Yuan Xiaole walked to the side of the green jar ant with a huge belly with a gloomy expression - at a speed that no one could stop, he pulled out the dagger from his waist and stabbed the green jar ant hard in the abdomen.

Then, a scent of wine mixed with sweetness spread in the ant nest.

"I read an introduction about the 'honeypot ant' in a natural history magazine. This green pot ant should be highly similar to the honeypot ant." Yuan Xiaole put his right hand on the green pot ant's severed abdominal wound Below, billowing green slurry is continuously pouring out from it.

"There are no bees in Changying Underground City, and there are no large flower seeds, so these sweet wines should be fermented from the fruits of vines. If you have suitable containers, you can put some back. I think they should be able to sell well. Price."

Yuan Xiaole looked at the strange expressions of others and shrugged helplessly. Then he lowered his head without hesitation and licked the liquid in his hand: "It's a bit like plum wine, sweet and sour."

After Yuan Xiaole commented on the taste of the slurry in the belly of the green jar ants, he wiped his hands and looked at his girlfriend with a serious expression: "Yaya, do you remember what I told you about why I came to the dungeon?"

"Isn't it because I can't find a job..." Fat Knight muttered in a low voice, but Yuan Xiaole gave him a sharp look: "I did not find a job! But that's because I only submitted resumes related to dungeons!"

Yaya said with some hesitation: "Xiao Le, you have changed since you went to Moscow three years ago..."

Yuan Xiaole nodded: "Yes, I went to Moscow, but actually, I went to Siberia - because of my father's work."

He looked at the others with dim eyes: "The Kadchan Underground City in Siberia is currently the only underground city that is 'out of control'. It can also be said that fortunately it is the underground city that is out of control 'over there'."

"Fortunately... is it 'out of control' there?"

Lin Huai'en silently repeated Yuan Xiaole's words. He had vaguely heard Xu Qin mention similar views, but now that he thought about it, he couldn't remember clearly.

Yuan Xiaole nodded: "Yes, the entire area of ​​more than 300 kilometers in Siberia has been turned into a military blockade. The Moscow Association used about 500,000 troops to control the invasion of species in the underground city."

Yuan Xiaole pointed to the nest of cicada-eating ants in front of him: "And cicada-eating ants are potential 'invasive species' in Changying's underground city."

"So, Yaya, you don't have to have any sympathy for these cruel and aggressive creatures! Because they are pests to our civilized world! They are existences that should be eradicated! If you have gasoline on your hands, just It should be burned with gasoline! If you have explosives on hand, you should use them to blow them to pieces!"

Yuan Xiaole clenched his fists hard: "This is a war! Not a game! You can't treat dungeon exploration as a pure adventure! Or a money-making tool!"

Yuan Xiaole spoke with high spirits.

But after hearing his words, even the Fat Knight shook his head helplessly.

Lin Huaien heard Neil whisper from behind: "The more you talk, the more outrageous it becomes."

Then he turned and left.

Taking her departure as an opportunity, most people turned around and left.

Only Lin Huai'en, Fat Knight, Sen Yan, and Mu Yaya were left standing in front of Yuan Xiaole.

"That's a good point." Sen Yan clapped her hands and left.

The fat knight smiled awkwardly: "Yuan Zi...even if things are really as you said, except for Siberia, no underground city is out of control? Not to mention, our government will not let What happened in your mouth..."

Mu Yaya just looked at Yuan Xiaole with some worry.

Yuan Xiaole raised his fists and froze on the spot for a long time, and finally smiled miserably: "Brother Lin, do you also think there is something wrong with my brain?"

Lin Huai'en didn't expect that Yuan Xiaole would actually ask him. He was a little stunned, but after thinking about it, he said seriously:

"No, I happen to have a senior who said a similar point of view to yours, but that person also said something, which is roughly 'the correct point of view must be correctly understood under the correct premise.' So. It’s normal for your words to be ignored by them.”

“Don’t resent them, let alone yourself.”

Lin Huai'en walked over, patted Yuan Xiaole on the shoulder, turned and left.

["In this world, there are always some people who want to think about some crazy ideas all day long against the background of peace."]

["In this way, most people can live in a peaceful world without any worries."]

["It's just...how could such a thing as peace ever really exist?"]

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Lin Huai'en took out his empty water bottle and filled it with some green can ant slurry, intending to sell it on the ground.

According to the purchase price of 20 yuan for 500 ml of wine, this amount of money is not a lot, but as long as this green ant wine is indeed harmless to the human body, you will not lose money even if you drink it and sell it yourself.

After cleaning up all the "placental cicada monkeys" and green jar ants, the pioneers set out again. According to Sen Yan, they planned to rest one night at the [Goddess Camp] ahead and wait until the next day before going The strategy failed them in another three-story ant nest.

The last time they pushed forward, the main reason why they lost manpower was because they encountered a hatch.

The high-intensity attack on the ant nest, coupled with the sudden appearance of the hatchling in the center of the team, directly blocked the front team's retreat.

Senyan and the others tried their best, but only five people were rescued.

The remaining three people were surrounded by a tidal wave of cicada-eating ants.

"If I had been more cautious and lured the enemy out and then eliminated them like you did this time, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened."

When it comes to that bad battle, Sen Yan seems quite regretful. Perhaps her inner unwillingness is more serious than it appears on the surface, but at least on the surface, she seems quite calm.

She subconsciously clenched the hilt of the sword in her hand: "So, I can understand what Yuan Xiaole said."

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"Why are you telling me this?"

Lin Huai'en was actually a little caught off guard by Sen Yan's initiative to talk to her.

But her expression was very calm: "It's nothing, it's just those words you comforted Yuan Xiaole, I didn't go far, I happened to hear them."

"Although I am no longer an idealist, I at least still agree with one thing - that is, 'Those who collect wages for others should not be frozen to death in the snow.'"

Your words are already very "idealistic"...

Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head: "I think you are exaggerating. Yuan Xiaole is not at the level of a 'payer for everyone'. At most, he can be regarded as a somewhat idealized 'middle-class young man' who was beaten up by society a few times." alright."

"Like you and me?" Sen Yan turned her head, looked at Lin Huai'en, and suddenly smiled.

"Haha... I didn't say that I am no longer an idealist."

Lin Huai'en said "Haha" and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "We hang idealists on street lamps every day, forcing their soulless bodies to face the so-called reality. I don't want to be like this. treat."

"So I don't look like an idealist."

Listening to Lin Huai'en's calm and indifferent words, Sen Yan didn't know what she was thinking of, she said "hmm" softly, and then stopped talking.

Lin Huai'en couldn't stand the suddenly silent air, so he took the initiative to break the silence: "By the way, there is something I have always been curious about. I wonder if you would like to tell me."

"Say." Senyan said calmly.

"You must have changed your race, right? Is it a company benefit?" He asked curiously.

"Even listed companies are not that wealthy. Should we give each of our manager-level employees an Elf Fruit worth more than 10 million?" Sen Yan said calmly.

Then she was silent for a moment: "Yes, I have been reincarnated as an 'elf'. But it is not a benefit from the company, but a secondary mortgage of my own house and a loan from the bank."

"'Borrowed from the bank'?" Hearing Sen Yan's statement, Lin Huai'en gasped: "Are you so serious about this job?!"

"It's just out of desperation." Sen Yan straightened her hair noncommittally, "Just like you men want to buy luxury cars and watches, female managers of listed companies are not that easy to deal with. One Elf Fruit can save me once and for all. It’s already a pretty good deal.”

As she said that, Senyan looked at her wrist: "What's more, which girl doesn't love beauty. Reborn as an elf, although you can't live forever outside the dungeon, you can stay young forever as long as you carry the crystal core with you. , it has already made many people fight to the death.”

"I was lucky enough to grab one."

Sen Yan ended the conversation calmly, took a few steps forward, and ordered the troops to turn along the fork in the road.

Lin Huai'en looked at her background, dumbfounded, absorbing the impact she gave him:

"The professional female managers of these listed companies are really awesome..."

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However, having said that, Lin Huai'en also knows that double loans are not affordable for most people.

There is one level of mortgage loan, one level of mortgage loan, and two levels of loans, and ordinary people can be peeled off.

And Senyan doesn't look like she has a boyfriend. She has to pay for these two loans with her salary. This is probably the reason why she is so desperate.

Because of his desperate efforts, the entire team fell into crisis and lost three people.

"This...it's true, who knows how warm and cold the world is..."

Lin Huai'en's ability to withstand pressure is not very strong. Putting himself in Sen Yan's situation makes him want to vomit, but Sen Yan can act completely normal, which is something that he admires very much.

"Perhaps it is people like this who can afford such a large team. After all, unlike the surface world, the explorers here have to risk their lives..."

Although there are resurrection facilities, they cannot be said to be absolutely safe.

At least the psychological pressure is much greater than on the ground.

"I don't know if they have any work-related injuries..."

Lin Huai'en whispered in his heart that although he had worked in a listed company, he really didn't know the situation in the underground city.

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The team continued to move forward. Lin Huai'en didn't have a map in his hand, so he didn't know how far they had traveled.

He just felt that the third floor was much larger than the second floor. Throughout the afternoon, they encountered at least ten waves of battles, all relying on the physical recovery crystals and magic potions brought by Senyan's team to hold them there.

After Lin Huai'en was promoted to level four, he originally looked at the progress bar that required at least fifty more cicada-eating ants. He felt that at least for this expedition, there was no hope of upgrading. After an afternoon of debate, his level increased by a third. One is more.

Yuan Xiaole and Mu Yaya were directly upgraded. Mu Yaya was promoted to level 6 and Yuan Xiaole was level 5. The Fat Knight, like Lin Huai'en, suffered from the disadvantage of being a melee profession. The experience value was only increased by half of the level and was still stuck at level 5. class.

But the results of such a rapid escalation are also obvious. Even though Senyan and the others provided an unlimited supply of stamina crystals and magic potions, the recovery speed of these two props was quite limited due to the shallow dungeon. So when Lin Huai'en and the others finally arrived at the resting point, Mu Yaya's face was as pale as paper again, while Yuan Xiaole silently wiped the blood on his hand from the bow string.

If it weren't for the fact that the expressions of Sen Yan's team members didn't change, Yuan Xiaole would have definitely started to protest.

"To be honest, I am really convinced by these guys who can get into prestigious schools. Staying up late studying is just like playing. It is obviously something that I am not interested in at all. They sit at the desk all day long."

Although the fat knight did not gain much experience, he was very tired because he had to protect the mages and archers. When Sen Yan finally announced that he could rest, he limped to Lin Huaien and sat down. Going down: "I personally watched a guy get a large piece of meat bitten off his leg. He applied some healing potion and then continued on the road. He didn't fall behind at all."

"Looking at a guy like me who just sprained his foot, he didn't dare to complain about hard work."

Hearing the fat knight's complaint, Lin Huai'en smiled bitterly: "Let's not talk about whether there is such a thing as talent. Maybe not everyone has the gene for hard work."

The resting point on the third floor chosen by Sen Yan and the others was naturally not equipped with all kinds of complete infrastructure like the second floor. It was a "shelter" naturally formed in the underground city.

When Lin Huai'en first walked nearby, he didn't even notice that there was a "shelter" here. It wasn't until Sen Yan took out her pendant, looked at it, and shouted, "This is it." There is such a narrow entrance hidden in the corner of the Blood Vine Cave.

"The goddess pendant, if it approaches a safe point such as a shelter, will emit white light to alert explorers."

Yuan Xiaole saw that Lin Huai'en was interested in the pendant in Sen Yan's hand, so he explained to him: "The closer you are to the shelter, the stronger the white light will be, and the dimmer the red light. If you are very far away from the shelter, it will turn red, and vice versa. , it will become pure white without a trace of red.”

"A goddess pendant costs about 30,000 yuan, which is not expensive, but I can't afford it either."

Speaking of this, Yuan Xiaole couldn't help but sigh: "My family doesn't support me being a dungeon explorer."

Seeing Yuan Xiaole's expression of complaint, Lin Huai'en didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only smile bitterly: "I can't afford it now. I should be able to go back this time."

Senyan and the others have large-capacity dungeon backpacks, and they can pack up a lot of loot. Compared to Yuan Xiaole and the others who explored the dungeon on their own, they gained many times more. They found more than a dozen crystal cores alone. After the expedition, the four people divided the money casually, and each of them had almost tens of thousands of yuan in their account.

If Yuan Xiaole and the three of them save their money together, they can indeed buy a pendant.

As for Lin Huaien himself, he is still far from it.

So Yuan Xiaole also knew that Lin Huai'en was trying to comfort himself. He shook his head, sighed, and cursed in a low voice: "Damn big dog."

I dragged my exhausted body into the shelter to rest.

The natural shelter in the underground city is very different from the safe camping site on the second level. First of all, the area here is only more than 100 square meters, which is barely enough for Sen Yan's team to stay. Secondly, in the center of the sanctuary, there is a statue of a goddess, emitting a faint white light, covering the entire space.

"With the protection of the goddess statue, there will be no hatching in the resting point."

Mu Yaya dragged her tired body and walked in behind Lin Huai'en.

I don’t know if she was following Yuan Xiaole and was exposed to a lot of things, so Mu Yaya noticed Lin Huai’en’s gaze and actually took the initiative to explain his doubts: “If there are monsters who want to invade the shelter, the explorers can also Rely on the power of the shelter to severely damage them."

"Hit them hard?" Lin Huai'en asked subconsciously.

"Yes, I don't know exactly what happened. I only heard Xiaole say it once."

Mu Yaya nodded and walked towards where Yuan Xiaole was.

Looking at Yaya's back, Lin Huai'en subconsciously touched his chin where stubble had begun to grow:

"I don't know if it's my imagination..."

"I seem to be starting to enter my popularity period?!"

But I understand after thinking about it.

"Ha... Sure enough, when I comforted Yuan Xiaole before, it also touched other people..."

Lin Huai'en raised his head and looked at the green vine dome where the shelter had faded away and returned to its natural state.

"Are you right, senior?"

After regular double updates, I am considering moving the reward thank you to the morning. Chapters will be posted in the afternoon. It is easy to make the time period so that I can thank the same person for two days of rewards at once and start tomorrow.