The marching ants had loosened the surrounding walls quite a bit, and with a little effort, Link knocked down the patches of dirt and rocks and walked straight in.

"Pry the case of the recorder open for me."

Link placed the recorder on the ground, and then a swarm of silver worker ants surged up and instantly surrounded the recorder.

Link crouched beside him and stared closely, for fear that one of the worker ants would accidentally break something hidden in the recorder.

"Hey, be careful, little ones."

Link tilted his head and stared wide-eyed.

The worker ants did not come up and gnawed, but surrounded the recording pen, like a survey and construction foreman on the construction site, and circled around several times before determining the direction of construction.

The worker ants stick out their pincer-like palates and rub against the recorder to snap the metal chips off bit by bit.

After the first team finished dismantling, they lined up in a neat queue and walked towards the ant nest with metal fragments in their mouths.

Then the second team in the back line immediately made up for it......

Link watched with the naked eye see a white mark appear around the recorder from shallow to dark.

Command is measured, and orders are forbidden.

Although Link had long known the marching ants' consistent thinking and firm will, he had seen hundreds of worker ants complete their tasks in an orderly manner, and their movements were as frequent and fast, as if they were carved out of a mold.

The shock is far greater than seeing some kind of prehistoric behemoth.

Soon the metal around the recorder was bitten off by the worker ants, and the worker ants returned to the nest in unison.

Link easily opened the recorder and found another ...... underneath the circuit board

Why do you say again?

Because the circuit board was opened, a black metal rod lay quietly inside the semi-circular voice recorder case.

"What is this?"

Link took the black metal rod in his hand and looked at it carefully.

The metal rod is about ten centimeters long and has a jet-black body.

It didn't take long for Link to spot the first point out of the ordinary, the metal rod had a deep blackness and, to put it professionally, extremely low reflectivity.

Secondly, the black metal rod has a regular hexagonal outline, with hard lines and slightly thinner than a pencil.

If there is a curved handle on the head, it will be a completely hexagonal cone.

Link subconsciously pinched the black metal rod, and then pushed it outward with his thumb to test the hardness of the metal rod.

In the end, the thumbs were propped up until red, and the metal rod did not move at all, and there was no curvature at all.

Link is also a veteran player who has played for six years, and when he re-examines this metal rod through the eyes of someone who has come before, it doesn't feel like something that can be made by more than 40 years of nuclear development technology like Wasteland.

As for the description of the system.

[Black metal rod: Hmm...... It's mysterious]

It's also quite perfunctory.

I ™ didn't know this thing was mysterious, was it?

Link was speechless, so he had to put the black metal rod on it first.

"You guys move the corpse out there and bury it!"

Link took over the hidden quest from the prince and inherited the name of the mandala, so it was not good for his body to continue lying in the secret passage.

This ant nest was left here by the prince with a kind heart, and more than 40 years later, let these marching ants be buried in person to repay the 'nurturing grace' of the year.

The industrious worker ants received the order, and without saying a word, they lined up, and slipped out of the cave in unison, all the way to the bones, and brought people to carry their clothes back from outside.

Ah Fu slowed down for a while and finally woke up a little, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a gorgeously dressed skeleton 'drifting' on the ground, and the whites of his eyes rolled and fainted again.

The worker ants moved the bones to their designated locations and then began to pull at the walls and floor.

The prince's bones were visibly covered by the earth, and finally formed a small bag of earth.

Link looked at the ant nest and then at the royal ring ring on his ring finger.

If the ant nest had not been found before, and he had not received an A-class commission, Whistling Castle would be a stopover for Link to rest before entering Shadu.

But now he had to think about it......

Now that he has taken on the A-level mission, some of the big forces in Shadu have naturally become Link's enemies.

There are many forces in Shadu, and the situation is complex and turbulent.

At that time, Link will make a move, and the whole body will be moved, and the sand will be in chaos.

This requires him to have a base that can be attacked, retreated, and defended.

Although Wuthering Castle is dilapidated, there are three secret passages, Link is extremely familiar with the environment here, and the most important thing is that there are secret passages to and from Shadu without knowing it.

The Valley of Weeping, sandwiched between the Cult of the Mechanicus and Shadu, can be said to be an independent realm.

There is still half a year before the player officially enters the game, and the main quest of the planet [Mandala's Revenge] is clearly to be the enemy of the major forces, and Link will inevitably pull up one of his own forces. After the players enter the game, they can use their identity as NPCs to contact some players and issue tasks to guide players to do things for themselves.

"Okay, then set the base at Whistling Castle!"

In his previous life, he made a name for himself here, and now he has got the main quest here, which can be regarded as a treasure land for Link.

Just as Link was thinking, Ah Fu staggered in from outside.

"Oh no, boss, I saw a moving skeleton just now!"

Link glanced up at Ah Fu and said lightly, "I didn't see any skeletons?" Is it that you have been stuck for too long just now, and you have not fully awakened and hallucinated? ”

Ah Fu glanced at the secret room, but didn't see any skeletons.

couldn't help scratching his head: "Is it really me dazzled?" ”

"Alright, it's been a busy night, now let's get some rest."

The two fled all the way from the gale desert and the barren Gobi to here, only curling up under the Gobi boulders for one night.

At Wuthering Castle, Link dealt with five Automata fanatics, and since then has discovered so many secrets one after another, his spirit has been in a state of high spirits. Ah Fu glanced at the tree-like ant nest and the dense silver marching ants, and goosebumps broke out all over his body, and finally ran to lie down in the secret passage outside the wall, and after a while, there was a rhythmic snoring.

"All marching ants obey the order, now immediately explore the Whistling Castle, spread out the team, and dig up all the secrets!"

After Link gave the order, the workers, soldiers, and flying ants all went out and scattered throughout the castle.

Now that he is going to use Wuthering Castle as a base, Link needs to have a clearer understanding of Wuthering Castle.

A few hours ago, Link had dared to pat himself on the back and say he knew everything about Whistling Castle, but now he had to send out an army of soldiers to explore Whistling Castle in its entirety, making sure that nothing was missed.

And the only ones who can do this are the 'ubiquitous' marching ants.

The marching ants scattered everywhere, and Link could see the silver queen in the center of the nest at a glance.

The marching ants had bitten the metal before, and had brought back some metal scraps to the silver queen.

At this moment, the silver queen ant's forelimbs grabbed metal crumbs and stuffed them into her mouth to chew, and the huge abdomen below began to tremble, and then squeezed out a metal egg the size of a silver rice grain and fell into the nest.

The silver queen picked up a piece of metal scrap as fine as dust on her forelimbs and continued to eat.

After eating several in a row, another metal egg was squeezed out of his abdomen.

Link leaned forward to take a closer look, and the surface of the metal egg, the size of a grain of rice, was as smooth as a drop of water.

Immediately afterwards, a pattern appeared on the metal egg, like a wrapped droplet of water, gradually sublimating, revealing the rudiments of more marching ants.

The antennae and front and rear limbs have been stripped from the 'water droplets', and the appearance of the silver marching ant is becoming more and more complete.

In the few minutes that Link was observing, the silver queen had laid three or four metal eggs.

The marching ants were scattered all over the castle, and Link clearly detected the location of each marching ant through a special bloodline connection.

In Link's mind, these marching ants converged into lines, and the lines converged into surfaces, outlining the secret passages and layout of the castle.

Marching ants have a much stronger sense than treasure hunt rats and humans, and can dig a way out even with a thick wall.

Later, the shape of the castle became clearer and clearer, but Link fell asleep from exhaustion......

In dreams.

Link dreamed that it was pouring rain from the sky, and the rain was crashing down on his face.

The rain is like a fine needle, it still hurts a little when it pierces the face, and in the end, it is simply suffocating by the wind and rain.

"Whew!"

Link snapped open his eyes and found that the treasure hunt rat was licking his face and hair, and his whole body was just in front of his nose, which made it impossible for him to breathe.

Link glanced at the system, and it was already half past ten in the morning.

Six hours of peace of mind, no worries about enemy sneak attacks, and no worries about whether there is a tomorrow.

Link rubbed his face and forced himself to wake up, and then looked at the stump ant nest, and the marching ants were all in place.

Link communicated with the marching ants, and the little ones chattered and scrambled.

During his conversations with the marching ants, Link learns that there are indeed places in the Whirring Castle that he has not discovered.

Simply got up neatly and let the flying ants lead him over.

The flying ants flew ahead, and a swarm of them came together to form arrows to guide Link in the direction.

After fusing with Link, these flying ants can also understand Link's thinking because of their connection to Link's bloodline.

Soon, Link discovers a new hole in the tunnel.

After the marching ants found this place last night, they dug the hole directly, and made the excess soil into a staircase to enter the hole.

After that, the flying ants took Link to another place.

Two secret rooms, one for the dungeon and the other for the wine cellar.

The contents had been emptied, and the entrance had been sealed by the craftsmen, and the two places would not have been discovered if it weren't for the marching ants.

Link returned to the tunnel and walked over to the snoring Afu.

"Ah Fu, get up!"

Link shouted, but Ah Fu didn't respond.

The treasure hunt rat jumped off his shoulder, jumped on Ah Fu, patted his chest, and said, 'It's up to me Xiaobao to get people up', followed by a chaotic fist greeting.

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Ah Fu opened his eyes in a daze and rubbed his red face: "Boss, you're up too!" ”

"Today I am going to Sadu, but this trip is full of difficulties, I may encounter many enemies, and my life may be in danger. What are your plans, do you want to stay in the castle to help me take care of the base, or do you want to go with me to Shadu to break through? ”

Ah Fu heard that his life was in danger, and he suddenly came to his senses.

"Boss, if you stay in the castle, will I keep it alone?"

Link shook his head, "No, you stay with the marching ants, rebuild the castle, and wait for me to come back." ”

"Boss, the sand is so dangerous, how can it be without my help! What's more, I can still take care of your daily life, as the boss's most reliable right-hand man, how can I be missing my place in the sand! ”

P.S: It's time to enter Shadu next, all sides of the power line will appear, more exciting stories are being staged, don't forget to vote for the recommendation, the new book issue recommendation vote is very important!