There are many kinds of insects and beasts, and in the process of fighting them, humans have gradually explored a set of detailed division systems, and according to the strength of insects and beasts, they are divided into ten levels.

And the Steel Soldier Insect is the lowest level of first-class insect beasts.

It is worth mentioning that the division of the level of the knife caster also refers to this system, for example, the trainee knife caster corresponds to level one to five, the soul knife casting progress is less than 20% is the first-level trainee knife caster, and the second-level trainee swordsmith between 20%~40% is the second-level trainee knife caster, and so on, the sixth level is the real knife caster.

Now the steel soldier insect is almost no threat to Lin Ze, so he estimates that his strength level is at least level two, and as for whether it has reached level three, he has to fight to know.

According to the map, Lin Ze cautiously walked towards the square, and when he was still four or five hundred meters away from the destination, he found traces of steel soldiers.

At the same time, behind a broken wall in front of me, there was a rustling sound.

Lin Ze immediately dodged behind a boulder, quietly poked his head out to look at the situation not far away, under his gaze, two cheetah-sized steel soldiers Shi Ran walked out from behind the wall, his scarlet eyes looked around, and the four blade-like feet moved to smash the stones under his feet.

The two steel soldiers were completely unaware of Lin Ze's existence, and roamed around by themselves, stopping from time to time, opening their sharp bloody mouths to bite the steel bars exposed in the stones, clicking and chewing and swallowing into their stomachs.

Steel is at the top of these guys' recipes, followed by humans.

Lin Ze narrowed his eyes and looked around, finding that there were many huge stones scattered nearby, turning this ruin close to the square into a small labyrinth.

Steel soldiers and insects are not good at climbing, if they really fight, this environment will be more favorable to him, and he will not be besieged by insects and beasts.

In a flash of thought, Lin Ze quickly had a plan in his heart, quickly lowered his body, held his breath and concentrated, and mobilized the qi in his body to inject into the white knife.

The translucent, hazy air flow enveloped the sharp blade in a short time.

After condensing the sword, Lin Ze adjusted his breath slightly, and then rushed out of the shelter with an arrow step, his eyes wandered, and immediately locked on the position of the two steel soldiers, and in a few steps, he swept to the nearest steel soldier, and before it could react, the tip of the cold flickering knife had already sunk into its skull, harvesting its life.

The other steel soldier insect reacted at this time, raised its head and let out a sharp hissing sound, the sound was heard far away in the empty ruins, and after a while, the square in the distance also resounded one after another, as if in response to the initial chirping.

This place is not far from the square, once the battle happens, the steel soldier insect will inevitably call for companions, Lin Ze has long expected this, he did not panic when he saw this, calmly killed the remaining steel soldier insect, and after absorbing the soul energy, he could stop and look into the distance.

Billowing dust slowly rises and floats from the field of vision.

The dense steel soldiers rushed like a surging tide, smashing the stones and broken walls that stood in the way along the way, the momentum was furious and amazing, Lin Ze roughly counted, the number of steel soldiers and insects attacking was at least thirty.

It was only after approaching the boulder-lined ruins that the speed of the insect swarm slowed down, and they immediately noticed Lin Ze standing swaggering in the middle of the ruins, and they opened their huge sharp pincers and rushed towards him.

Sandwiched between the two sides, two human-height boulders stand opposite each other several meters apart, forming a natural doorway that can only accommodate two steel soldiers and insects at the same time.

The steel soldiers and insects have low intelligence, and they don't care about the surrounding terrain at all, and they only care about scrambling through the boulders, and the formation is in chaos.

Ahead of them was greeted by a cold, deadly sword light.

Whew!

The two steel soldiers who rushed to the front were killed instantly, and the sword light did not stop, flashing in the void one after another, taking away the lives of the steel soldiers who were blindly rushing forward.

The death of his companion immediately enraged the swarm, and as more and more Steel Soldiers rushed closer, the two boulders that stood in the way were quickly knocked open, the gap widened, and a large number of Steel Soldiers rushed in.

And Lin Ze retreated in advance as early as when he saw that the situation was not good, relying on the ruins and broken walls to fight a guerrilla war with the steel soldiers and insects, the white knives covered by the knife were extremely sharp, and even the shells of the steel soldiers and insects comparable to steel could not resist them.

About ten minutes later, with the death of the last of the steel bugs, the already dilapidated ruins became even more dilapidated like a violent wind, and the ground was covered with crushed stones.

Lin Ze calmed down his somewhat rapid breathing, didn't care about resting, picked up the white knife and began to absorb soul energy.

After the insect beast dies, the soul energy will gradually be lost with the passage of time, and it will completely dissipate after about an hour, so after killing the insect beast, you must seize the time to absorb it.

After a busy time, the white knife increased its steel attribute soul energy by 0.34%, and the total amount reached 0.44%.

"Casting a red lotus requires a total of 36% of steel attribute soul energy, and at this rate, it will take half a month to absorb it at the earliest. Lin Ze thought to himself.

The time taken to forge a soul knife is usually measured in years, and a trainee knife forger can be called excellent if he can successfully forge a soul knife in one year, and this is only the lower level knife casting recipe, and the intermediate and advanced knife casting recipes take longer.

Therefore, the progress of soul knife casting was increased to 36% in half a month, which was already shocking in the Blackstone Settlement, but Lin Ze was not satisfied with this, 15 game days was still too slow for him after all.

"You'll have to hunt down the higher-level Steel Soldier Worms!"

The insect beast base is huge, so it occasionally gives birth to individuals that are much stronger than ordinary steel soldiers, and humans name them elite individuals.

In the classification of insect beasts, elite individuals are usually one level higher than ordinary individuals, for example, elite steel soldiers belong to the second-level insect beasts.

And among the elite individuals, sometimes rarer and more powerful individuals are born, which are called king worms.

In addition to being more powerful than elite individuals, the king insect also has the ability to command, and can summon the elite individuals and ordinary individuals of the same group, so where there are king insects, there are usually a large number of insects and beasts gathered.

Whether it is an elite steel soldier insect or a steel soldier king insect, the difficulty of hunting is much more difficult than that of ordinary steel soldier insects, but in contrast, the steel attribute soul energy contained in these two is also more abundant.

If he could hunt enough elite steel soldiers, Lin Ze's speed of absorbing steel attribute soul energy would inevitably speed up a lot.

"According to the signs on the map, there are a lot of steel soldiers and insects in the square, and there may be elite individuals in them!" Lin Ze secretly guessed.

Before leaving for the square, he searched for the corpses one by one and removed the cores inside.

The insect core is an important material for making white knives, and if you sell it to the Knife Smith Guild, you can exchange it for a lot of credits, and the carapace of the steel soldier insect is not low, but it is too troublesome to carry, so Lin Ze can only give up.

Just when Lin Ze was busy taking the worm core, 18 kilometers away in the Blackstone settlement, in the Ding family's villa, Ding Beiye was listening to his subordinates' report with a puzzled face, and only asked after a while:

"You mean, Lin Ze went to the ruins of C7 City by himself?"

"That's right!" the young man in charge of the report said categorically, "I watched him go out of the north gate alone!"

"Is that kid tired of life and wants to find death?" Ding Beiye couldn't help but show a puzzled look.

Even if Lin Ze can deal with six or seven steel soldiers and insects independently, there are often dozens of insect swarms in the ruins of the city, and if he really encounters a insect swarm, he may not know who is hunting whom, and what is the difference between looking for death

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't understand why Lin Ze did this, but in any case, this was undoubtedly good news for him.

Thinking of this, Ding Beiye's expression was ruthless, and he said in a deep voice: "Let Wu Weilin go to the ruins of C7 City, find Lin Ze and kill him!"

Wu Weilin is a second-level trainee knife caster, which is enough to deal with just a newcomer.

"Young master, there's no need for this, maybe we don't need to make a move, that guy will die in the ruins of C7 City!"

"What if he comes back alive?" Ding Beiye glared at his subordinates angrily, "Why is there so much nonsense, just do what I say!"

"Yes, yes!"