Chapter 407 Efficient Hunting
The Silent Wasteland is located in the southern hemisphere of the Black Ring Star.
Ji Xinghuo took a transport plane and flew for several hours, crossing the equator, passing under the spectacular planetary rings, and sailing for more than two hours across the ocean, arriving at a continent in the southern hemisphere.
Looking out of the porthole, the ground was full of shocking craters.
Once, this continent was the most prosperous place on the Black Ring Star.
But in the war more than 1,500 years ago, after the only satellite shattered and fell, most of the satellite fragments fell on this continent, completely changing the environmental landscape.
The original continent of nearly 300 million square kilometers was mostly submerged by the ocean, forming countless large and small islands.
The Silent Wasteland is on the largest remaining land, with an area of more than 20 million square kilometers. The reason why it is called "Silent Wasteland" is that this area is like a dead place compared to other places.
After being bombarded by meteorites, the entire continent suffered a nuclear attack.
There are dozens of city ruins in the wasteland.
The entire Black Ring Star is full of similar ruins, and nuclear pollution still remains, which has caused countless monsters to mutate, making it very dangerous for ordinary people.
However, no matter how dangerous it is, there are still many monsters active and full of vitality.
The Silent Wasteland is silent.
At least on the surface, but in fact, it is one of the most dangerous areas on the Black Ring Star.
Because this wasteland is occupied by "Earth Devourers".
They are a species unique to the Black Ring Star, mutated from a species called "Drilling Worms" in the star realm under nuclear radiation. Their scientific name is "Black Ring Earth Devourers", which are more terrifying than Drilling Worms and difficult to hunt.
However, no matter how difficult the monsters are to hunt, they cannot stop hunters. The alien value of Earth Devourers is very high, and aliens enter the Silent Wasteland for adventure all year round.
There are several strongholds on the edge of the Silent Wasteland.
The transport plane landed at the stronghold in the north of the wasteland.
Ji Xinghuo walked down.
This time, he did not bring the branch-horned cloud deer. First, it was a bit cumbersome and could not be used. Second, the situation in the Silent Wasteland was not suitable for taking a mount, so he left it in a battle pet service center at the transfer station.
This base is not big, similar to a small town, with only two cross-shaped streets as the main roads, and hundreds of buildings on both sides.
However, there is a lot of traffic.
Ji Xinghuo's electromagnetic induction swept the entire gathering point at a glance. Stepping on the ground, it felt very hard. The underground of the entire gathering point was cast with steel, with an average thickness of more than five meters, obviously to prevent earth-eating insects.
"What free news, I don't know how many times it has been spread..." He looked at the people coming and going in the gathering point and couldn't help complaining.
There are two or three thousand people in a small gathering point.
Those hunting teams are almost all led by legendary strongmen, each of whom is very powerful; there are also many king-level strongmen. The electromagnetic induction just swept casually and found seven or eight, none of whom are easy to mess with.
You don't need to ask to know that everyone is here for the magnitude black ring earth-eating insect.
Ji Xinghuo walked around the gathering point.
He seemed to be walking around randomly, but electromagnetic induction covered the entire gathering point, locking onto densely populated places like hotels and bars. He focused a little and received the sound wave signals caused by the people talking, and translated them into content.
Soon, Ji Xinghuo caught the key information.
"There are more and more people."
"Someone must be deliberately spreading the news to muddy the water. Damn, who is it?"
"Boss, it's meaningless to talk about this now. We must find the earth-eating worm before others!"
"How can it be so easy..."
"The most important thing for us now is to recruit new teammates and increase our strength."
This is a hunting team that just came back from the wilderness. They replenished ammunition, food, water, and repaired their equipment. They were gathered in a private room of a restaurant and whispered.
Ji Xinghuo learned from the words that they had learned about the earth-eating worm more than 20 days ago and entered the wilderness to search, but found nothing and lost two teammates.
There are three hunting teams in similar situations.
Ji Xinghuo monitored at the same time, and after a moment, he pieced together the fragmented information.
It turned out that the first person to discover the earthquake-magnitude earth-eating worm was a team of three legendary strongmen. 35 days ago, they were attacked by the earth-eating worm in the south of the center of the Silent Wasteland, and only one person came back alive.
The only survivor was a Dan. After being treated in the southern base of the wasteland, he began to form a new team to prepare for the hunt.
However, the action was not secretive, and the news was leaked.
The second group of people who knew the inside story also secretly joined the hunt. In the next ten days, three teams successively found the target, but all suffered heavy casualties, and only a few people escaped.
Gradually, the news of the earth-eating worm spread thoroughly, and more and more people rushed to the Silent Wasteland.
However, no one has found the earth-eating worm so far.
The last time someone encountered it was 20 days ago, in the west of the Silent Wasteland, more than 2,600 kilometers away from the first encounter with it.
Ji Xinghuo opened the satellite map on his personal terminal and marked the location.
From the location where the earth-eating worm was first discovered to the last time, the five known locations of its appearance were all marked on the map smoothly according to time.
It was obvious that the Earthquake Devourer was moving westward.
Although it made two round trips, its overall direction was getting closer and closer to the west of the Silent Wasteland.
"Westward?"
Ji Xinghuo searched for information.
There is nothing special about the western part of the Silent Wasteland. Like other areas of the wasteland, it is full of nuclear radiation and some urban ruins.
"Maybe it's not going west, but just misleading." Ji Xinghuo thought. The intelligence of the magnitude monsters is already very high. They can't be regarded as ordinary monsters, but as a powerful enemy.
Moreover, it has been 20 days since its last appearance. This information may have lost its timeliness.
"Let's look for it first." Ji Xinghuo shook his head secretly.
In a wasteland of more than 20 million square kilometers, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a ground devourer.
Even if his perception is extremely strong, electromagnetic induction plus the dark perspective of the Dark Orb form a God's perspective, and the search efficiency is thousands of times higher than others, but whether he can find the target depends on luck.
Fortunately, there are many ground devourers in the Silent Wasteland, but I don't know how much spiritual energy they provide.
At this time, Ji Xinghuo saw a store in front of him.
Specializes in selling flying motorcycles. This kind of motorcycle is different from the ones on Earth. It can fly at low altitude. It is the best means of transportation in the silent wasteland. Staying off the ground can avoid many dangers.
Hunters keep entering the store and buying flying motorcycles to fly out.
"Buy one for cover, it will be more convenient."
Ji Xinghuo walked into the store.
Soon, he rode a black flying motorcycle that he bought for more than 5,000 True Dragon Coins, added two side boxes to the back, and then bought some supplies, put them in the boxes, and flew out of the gathering point alone.
There are many lone travelers like this, and no one noticed them.
After leaving the base, Ji Xinghuo flew southwest.
Boom boom boom...
With the low roar of the engine, the flying motorcycle kept an altitude of about 20 meters above the ground and sped along according to the navigation.
Ji Xinghuo turned on the automatic driving and looked down at the ground.
When we first entered the wasteland, the land was very desolate, with only a few bushes and weeds. As we went deeper into the wasteland for dozens of kilometers, the vegetation gradually increased, and sparse forests appeared. The terrain began to undulate. The wasteland was not flat, but also had mountains and rivers.
Ji Xinghuo's eyes saw through the ground, and the ground became transparent in his vision. Although it was covered with black shadows, it was clear enough to see the situation underground.
At the deepest point, you can even see one thousand meters underground!
In a larger range, with a radius of 15 kilometers around itself, within the coverage of electromagnetic induction, all movements are reflected in the brain and under control.
"Earth Devourer?"
Ji Xinghuo immediately made a discovery.
He controlled the flying motorcycle to turn and quickly approached the target.
Low-level earth devourers are used to living in groups. As they evolve and become stronger, they will live alone and even eat their own kind.
Before getting close, Ji Xinghuo's eyes penetrated the ground and saw three earth devourers lurking about two hundred meters underground.
They have the appearance of worms, with only trunks and no limbs, but they are countless times larger than worms. The largest one is only more than seven meters long and more than one meter in diameter. The other two smaller ones are more than five meters.
"One is super-group-level, and the other two are elite."
Ji Xinghuo looked through the situation of the earth-eating insects and judged their strength level based on the energy reaction.
Earth-eating insects grow very fast, and their average strength is much higher than that of ordinary monsters.
Suddenly, the largest earth-eating insect moved.
"Such a keen sense!"
Ji Xinghuo was a little surprised.
On the way here, he read the information about earth-eating insects, and the most noteworthy thing was their strong sense of touch.
All earth-eating insects have "micro-touch". When they lurk underground, they rely on this super-strong sense of touch to find prey passing by on the ground, and then silently swim upstream to launch an attack.
Ji Xinghuo was more than 500 meters away from them, and he was flying in the air. The engine sound of the flying motorcycle was transmitted to the ground, producing extremely weak vibrations, which could be detected by them.
"This must be more than just the slight touch of the hole."
"It should be related to the geological environment here, which makes them more sensitive to vibrations."
Ji Xinghuo pretended not to know and continued to fly over.
The three earth devourers swam quickly underground. They all had the ability to "escape underground". The thick soil was like sea water. They bypassed the rocks blocking the road and moved without making any noise. They quickly floated to the surface.
Just at this time, Ji Xinghuo's flying motorcycle arrived.
The leading earth devourer suddenly raised its head, its front end poked out of the ground, and then cracked, forming a terrifying big mouth with sharp fangs on the inner wall, and sprayed a huge ball of gray-white mucus towards Ji Xinghuo in the sky.
This ball of mucus was as big as a water tank, and the shooting speed was extremely fast, like a cannonball blasting into the sky.
At the same time, the gravity within hundreds of meters around suddenly increased.
Earth devourers have the ability to change gravity, and their effect on increasing gravity can be superimposed, and they are often released together when hunting targets.
The other two earth devourers increased gravity and sprayed gray-white mucus from different directions.
The flying motorcycle sank suddenly.
Carrying Ji Xinghuo, it was like a prey caught in a spider web.
But in the next second, with a bang, Ji Xinghuo accelerated with the flying motorcycle and flew out of the gravity field of the earth-eating insects. Three balls of gray-white mucus exploded behind him, but they didn't touch him at all.
Boom!
The sky brightened and thunder roared.
Three psychic lightning bolts struck down, hitting three earth-eating insects respectively, and the two weaker ones were turned into charcoal on the spot.
The strongest Earth-eating Insect let out a strange roar from its mouth, and was about to shrink back underground. Ji Xinghuo grabbed it from the air, and the entire land was overturned by invisible force, and the huge insect body in it was also thrown away. was lifted into the air.
When he first arrived in Silent Wilderness, Ji Xinghuo discovered that the metal content in the soil here was extremely high, which was abnormally high.
By manipulating metal, he can control objects through space.
The Earth Devouring Insect was lifted into the sky, but before it landed, Ji Xinghuo shot him several times with a plasma pistol, and gray plasma burst out.
It was already dead when it hit the ground.
[Spiritual Energy +75]
"so much?"
Ji Xinghuo was overjoyed. It was just a super monster, but it had absorbed 75 points of spiritual energy.
The other two elite ones also have more than 30 points.
This is more than the spiritual source provided by the Dark Eater. On average, it is at least 15 points higher!
"This is the right time."
Ji Xinghuo landed on his flying motorcycle. The seven-meter-long Earth-devouring Insect lay in front of him, which made him feel a little shocked.
The skin of the geophagous insects is brown, covered with a layer of rock skin, and emits a soil smell. It is not unpleasant, and is similar to the common earth smell. This smell masks them and makes them more difficult to detect, but for Ji Xinghuo Useless.
He reached out and pressed it, and an information interface popped up in front of him.
[Monster: Black Ring Earth-eating Insect]
[Level: Superior]
[Xenomorphs: rock skin, trauma transfer, rapid recovery, mucus ejection, cave micro-touch, ground escape, gravity mutation]
Six different species, all of good quality.
Ji Xinghuo looked at the corpses of the other two Earth-eating Insects. They found that the mutants were almost the same, with just a few missing.
Then there were some difficulties.
The body of the Earth Devouring Insect is too huge, and it is very troublesome to collect alien species.
"It can't be wasted." Ji Xinghuo finally started collecting, killing prey but not using alien species. Try not to do this kind of thing that goes against common sense.
He wielded the electric potential blade to chop open the insect corpses, cut off the alien species hidden inside, and threw them into the saddlebag of the flying motorcycle.
Then take off and keep going.
Not far away, Ji Xinghuo discovered two more ground-eating insects.
He deliberately approached them and made noise, attracting them to come out from the ground to attack, killing them easily, harvesting spiritual energy and collecting alien species.
The search efficiency of electromagnetic induction is too high. No matter how deep the ground-eating insects are hidden, they cannot escape Ji Xinghuo's eyes. They will not let go of any one they find, so their progress is greatly delayed.
However, Ji Xinghuo never tired of it.
Compared with the elusive and hard-to-find Earth-eating Insects, he prefers to harvest spiritual energy, which is more practical.
It's best if you can find the Earth-eating Insect of magnitude, forget it if you can't find it.
With this thought in mind, Ji Xinghuo stopped and went, taking detours from time to time. In half a day, he only advanced less than 300 kilometers.
But it’s rewarding.
On the first day he entered the silent wasteland, he gained more than 8,000 points of spiritual energy!
“What a great place!”
"If there is nothing else, I can kill all the earth-eating insects in the silent wasteland..." At night, Ji Xinghuo looked at the starry sky that was completely different from the earth and couldn't help but sigh.