Chapter 259

Chapter 427 Who is the insect swarm now?

"So, those things you swallowed can actually be spit out again?" Lu Lin looked at the ferret in surprise.

"Only those undead creatures can spit it out," the ferret emphasized, "and it has to be destroyed. If it has been eaten by other undead creatures, then there is nothing I can do if you ask me to spit it out to you. ”

"It can also be eaten by other undead creatures..." Lu Lin touched his chin, "I used to think that the abyss in your stomach was some kind of metaphor or abstract concept. Could it be that you really have the abyss in your stomach? A sea?"

"A sea? No, no, no, it's not that exaggerated." The ferret shook his head repeatedly, "Even in my vague memory, I have never seen such a large area of ​​​​the underworld beach. Just the underworld beach created by the underworld in my belly. The size of the beach...well, it’s the size of the lake.”

"Is the lake," Lu Lin touched his chin, "is it as big as the lake behind Kenemer?"

"Absolutely like that," said the ferret, "so what's up?"

"Yeah, I was just thinking, if that's the case, wouldn't you be able to vomit out the undead creatures in your stomach to fight?" Lu Lin asked.

"So be it," said the ferret.

"Then why have I never seen you do this before?" Lu Lin asked.

9⑵ "Is that necessary? There are just three or two small fish and shrimps," the ferret curled his lips, "And I've eaten them all, so there's no point in spitting them out?"

④Mortar "Then can you spit out a worm now?" Lu Lin asked, "The kind you ate before."

ba four "Huh? That thing?" The ferret looked confused, "That thing is not even an undead creature. Why did you spit it out? Do you want to do research on it?"

Er Miao "It's not an undead creature? Are you sure?" Lu Lin said, "Why don't you take a closer look?"

Sisi "Huh? Why do you need to look carefully at this? Just some... hmm?" The ferret suddenly froze mid-sentence, and then showed a shocked expression, "Huh? How are you alive? Why? And how do you know? of?"

San San "Well... you see, since people from other worlds come here, they will turn into undead creatures if they are not resurrected after death," Lu Lin said nonsense seriously, "Then after this kind of bug dies, Should he also become an undead creature?"

Sanwu "No, logically speaking, shouldn't they be resurrected directly?" the ferret said.

0⑥ "This..." Lu Lin touched his chin.

Wow, if he was just covering up his alchemy manual at the beginning, now he actually sensed something was wrong.

Yes, why did this thing come back to life?

The recipe also says "Alien Demon-Eating Insects" instead of "Otherworld Demon-Eating Insects' Corpses"...

"Is it because you ate faster that their souls were trapped?" Lu Lin raised a possibility.

The abyss does have the power to isolate soul connections. He knows this. If it blocks the resurrection of these bugs, then the ferret's ability to deal with bugs is not just as simple as dealing with corpses.

That can directly prevent these things from resurrecting.

If this guess is true, doesn't it mean that if the time cost is not considered, they can really clear out all the monsters in a dungeon?

Um……

Forget it, if it were another dungeon, you could still consider this. The situation here is special. There are countless white worms. The speed at which the ferret eats can be fast or slow, but after all, it only has one mouth. If you really expect it to eat the worms, After eating them all, they will probably have to fight here for years.

As for now, Lu Lin is still more concerned about another thing.

"Quickly, spit out one of those bugs and take a look," Lu Lin urged. "I want to see if it has the same abilities as those bugs."

"Oh, okay, I just want to see what's going on with this thing," the ferret said, opening his mouth and putting his little paws into his mouth.

Seeing it digging around in his mouth with its claws, Lu Lin's expression became quite subtle.

Although I know that the ferret's body is a soul, this action still seems a bit too anti-biological.

After digging for a while, the ferret's eyes suddenly lit up as if he had caught something, and then he pulled something out of his mouth.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be a bug.

But unlike the snow-white bugs encountered on the road, this bug had turned completely black, and its originally soft shell had become hard and ferocious, with sharp spikes even growing out of the edges of the carapace.

"Has the form changed? Does immortality have such an effect? ​​Or is it the manifestation of the curse, or is it the influence of Ming Yuan?" Lu Lin touched it As for the chin, I have a guess in my mind, but I can't seem to be sure.

After looking around at the insect, Lu Lin picked up a white insect body that was thrown aside and put it down in front of the black insect.

Seeing this, the black worm pounced on it and swallowed the white worm into its belly in a few strokes.

After eating, Lu Lin noticed that its body seemed to become more bulging.

It's not that the whole thing is getting bigger, but it's becoming bulging...

"Because the outer shell has become hardened?" Lu Lin thought secretly, and with the attitude of doing an experiment, he took a larger insect corpse and threw it in the Yue√FeI group＄:八逜{+７:》㈥′ ∫六⒊ˇ⑷〓⑷2 appeared in front of the black insect.

At this moment, Luo Di also noticed the movement on Lu Lin's side and walked over suspiciously.

When he saw the black worm eating the white worm's body on the ground, he was stunned and froze on the spot.

this……

He actually asked Lu Lin to create something that could dispose of white insect corpses?

And why does this thing look so much like a white insect...

Just as he was thinking this, there was a clicking sound on his back as the black insects continued to eat.

His former carapace was constantly stretched and cracked by his expanded body, but what was exposed under the cracked carapace was not flesh and blood, but a new layer of carapace.

Not only that, the old carapace did not fall off, but was attached to the new carapace, looking like regular protrusions, making the surface of the carapace rugged and irregular.

By the time the insect finished eating the corpse, it had doubled in size.

"Is this thing what I thought it was?" Ruo Di asked.

"Well, that should be the case," Lu Lin said. "After A Diao eats the body of the white insect, it can transform it into this undead black insect in its stomach. From now on, it seems that it should also possess the white insect's body." The characteristics of the insect are just that the energy nature in the body seems to have changed from a state close to normal magic power to a state more similar to negative magic power. "

As Mi said, Lu Lin threw another magic stone to the insect.

⑼The appearance of the magic stone is quite hard. With the current hardness of the black insect's mouthparts, it should not be able to bite this kind of magic stone.

However, the black insect didn't bite it, it just held the magic stone in its arms and sucked it.

0 And just by doing this, you can see it growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Si "looks like white worms and can absorb magic directly," Lu Lin said.

Just as San Luodi was about to answer, he heard another clicking sound coming from the black insect.

Wu looked down and saw that the previously stable shell had cracked again, and this time, a new shell was exposed underneath.

The two layers of shell that Lu once had showed no sign of falling off, but instead created a rugged and complex "terrain" on the back of its carapace, which made it look even more dilapidated and aggressive in appearance.

"Well, it looks like this thing is more expensive than the white one?" Lu Lin said.

"Just the fact that the outer shell is hard is already a de facto suppression," said Luo Di. "Besides, the undead have a physical advantage over opponents of equal strength. After all, the undead are not afraid of pain and can't use any strength." Limitation, just no brains, but these bugs don't have much brains... By the way, can you control these bugs? "

㈨ "I can't, but it can," Lu Lin pointed to the ferret.

4 This is a creature born in the underworld. As the controller of the underworld crystal and the underworld, the ferret has a natural ability to control this creature.

"How many can be controlled at the same time?" Rudy asked again.

Bait "If you just give an order, there is no upper limit," said the ferret, "but it requires precise control... Actually, I'm not very good at multitasking."

"It's enough to be able to give orders," Luo Di said, "It seems that we can try a different style next time we explore."

⑶ "Let me guess," Lu Lin touched his chin, "Do you want to... use insect swarms to deal with insect swarms?"

Chapter 428: All the bugs are eaten by bugs? So what do I eat?

Soon, all the projects that needed to be tested were completed.

But everyone has no intention of turning back now.

During the journey, Xiulinsi has actually been making a three-dimensional map, and currently only their route has been entered into the map.

But if they want to go deeper, they'd better record all the shallow terrain, so that it will be clear which route they can take to go deeper.

Of course, doing this will be very troublesome, and exploring the map itself is not without risks. If you do it deeper, it may be counterproductive and put yourself in a dangerous situation.

But considering the smoothness of today's shallow exploration, Xiulinsi believes that ②∏⊙④∏③√: ③=0￥, ⑤swellingzＨHuaｎqun: It is still necessary to do this.

If you understand the environment of the safe area, you can know how many roads lead to the depths.

In this way, when exploring dangerous areas, if an accident occurs or encounters a strong enemy that cannot be fought, it will be easier to determine the approximate direction of the retreat route and possible connecting roads.

In addition, Luo Di also has something he wants to test.

That's what would happen if black worms were used to fight white worms.

Or to put it more boldly, he wanted to try to see if the black worm could be called the natural enemy of the white worm.

After all, compared to white worms, black worms' hard shell and ability to absorb white worm corpses make it seem like they should have an absolute advantage in dealing with white worms.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Luo Di's idea was a little brighter.

The hard shell of black insects does give them a fighting advantage when dealing with white insects, but it also reduces their efficiency in absorbing magic power.

The battle between white worms and black worms is a combination of fighting and energy absorption. According to the actual combat situation, in the battle between black worms and white worms, the energy in the black worms will be slowly absorbed by the white worms.

But at the same time, once the shell of the white insect is torn open by the black insect, the speed at which it absorbs the energy of the black insect will decrease.

The more wounds are torn open, the more the absorption speed will drop. After reaching a certain critical point, the energy will begin to be absorbed in reverse by the black insects.

As for the result, when the white worm and the black worm of similar size fight one-on-one, who wins and who loses mainly depends on how much the black worm can hit the white worm hard.

If the black worm has not been able to cause effective damage to the white worm, so that the energy in the black worm is not enough to support its heavy shell to move flexibly, then the black worm is likely to be finished.

If the black worm can injure the white worm as soon as possible, it is very likely that it can snowball in the subsequent battle and eventually kill the white worm.

As for the winning rate, it is about 60-40, and the white worm is in the lead.

After all, although the black worm's shell is hard, the only part that can cause substantial damage to the white worm is the mouthparts. If the white worm is smart and focuses on escaping and defending, it will be difficult for the black worm to gain favorable results.9

But this is only the case when the two worms are of equal size and fight one-on-one.④

If there is a difference in size, then the winning rate of the larger size against the smaller size is It must be higher. In addition to the reason of combat effectiveness, the speed at which large-sized insects absorb energy seems to be higher than that of small-sized ones. Ba

When the number increases, when the size and number of both sides are equal, the greater the total number, the higher the chance of the white worm winning. 2

Because white worms have a stronger ability to absorb energy, and they can absorb the energy of their own kind, it will lead to the situation that the victory that was obviously won by black worms is finally digested by the white worms themselves. ㈣

Anyway, in conclusion, black worms are not only not the natural enemies of white worms, but if placed in the natural environment, they may become food for white worms. ⒊

But this does not mean that the plan of using insects to control insects is not a good plan. The plan failed. Although the black worms are at a disadvantage in direct confrontation, it is also a fact that they can use white worms as their own nutrients. Three

Not only can they quickly and massively process the corpses of white worms, but even when they have the advantage in size and number, white worms are still no match for them. 婚

So in terms of the result, the appearance of black worms is obviously conducive to subsequent exploration. Dirt

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the current exploration work. Combined with the ferret’s induction of these worms and the magic crystal used to record map information, the originally troublesome large-scale exploration work has now become as easy as strolling in the garden.

Not only can it collect map information on a large scale, but it can also be used as If the pathfinders encounter a large number of white worms, they can also give everyone an early warning. ⑨

Of course, at this depth, there seems to be no white worm swarm that is enough to cause trouble to the black worm swarm. 4

Along the way, the black worm swarm is like a locust passing through. Relying on the advantages of number and size, they eat all the unfortunate white worms in the shallow layer as nutrients. ⒏

Everyone is very satisfied with this result. 哓

Only the snow ferret is not very happy. ４

As for the reason... ３

If all the worms are eaten by worms, what will he eat? ３

After thinking about this soul-searching question, Lu Lin gave a pie-in-the-sky answer: "These worms are too small, won't you be satisfied with eating them? Wait until these things are eaten by those they can't beat. The worms they encounter must be very big at that time. You can eat them then. ”0

The snow ferret thought about it and it made sense. Five

And in fact, after releasing these black bugs, they would eventually be eaten back by it. Search

These are creatures raised in the Nether Abyss, and becoming stronger is also helpful for the growth of the Nether Abyss. Search

After sweeping the shallow area, everyone returned to the surface and swept the ground with a large group of black bugs.:

Later, he felt unsatisfied and took the initiative to create some magic fluctuations outside, luring a wave of scattered insects outside and turning them all into nutrients for the black insect swarm.

This group of black insects was originally derived from the large group of insects that besieged Lulin's magic circle. Now it has grown again, all When released, although the number is not too large, the quality is actually quite high.

This mighty black insect swarm scared the guards of the camp. If they hadn't seen Lu Lin and others staying in the center of the insect swarm, they would probably have started to attack this side.

After sweeping the nearby scattered white insects, the snow ferret pulled the black insect swarm back to the abyss, and then everyone returned to the camp.

During the previous test, the information transmission plan with the camp was not very effective, and some auxiliary equipment during the exploration also needed to be improved, so as soon as she returned to the camp, Xiu Linsi went straight back to her workshop to work.

Lu Lin also tested some weapons and equipment on the way, and now there are also areas for improvement.

Luodi started to optimize the supplies he brought. Some things seemed useful at first, but unexpectedly they were useless. Some things he didn't think of bringing at first, but only remembered when he needed them. In addition, the number of other items he brought also needed to be adjusted.

Oro routinely maintained his weapons and equipment. In addition, he had a general idea of ​​the environment inside and could prepare some things that could be used for cave exploration.