Chapter 431: Purifying Crystals
Qi Lin roughly estimated that the number of young bodies in this underground hollow was around sixty to seventy, which was a combat force that he could not ignore, or rather, if these young bodies besieged him together, he would probably only have to turn around and escape.
The most critical thing is that there is not much ammunition for the Gauss pistol in Qi Lin's hand.
Even if you can kill a larvae with one shot, it is not enough at all, and it is still unknown whether these stronger larvae can be killed with a single shot.
The closest larval to Qi Lin is located at the edge of the underground cavity, it is lazily lying on a pile of ore about half a meter high, and the ores under it, whether in size, quantity or quality, are much worse than the larvae located in the center of the underground cavity - between the "sister-in-law" and the "sister-in-law", it also has a long-term status, or a difference in strength, those with low status and weak strength will naturally be marginalized, although they will obtain more resources than those "concubines" outside, But it is much less than the "son-in-law" who is in the core position.
Obviously, the young body in front of Qi Lin was in such an awkward position among this kind of monster race.
The ore scattered around this young creature was almost all snatched up by its kind, and in the process, the young creature did not dare to compete with its own kind.
For a moment, Qi Lin couldn't help but feel that this little guy was a little pitiful.
But it's just a momentary thought, you must know that the young creatures in the pit outside are worse than him, but when facing foreign enemies, they are still very fierce.
If he wants to enter this underground cavern, the first thing Qi Lin needs to figure out is the sensing range of these young organisms.
Most of the larvae killed by Qi Lin in the outside tunnel have a sensing range of about ten to fifteen meters, and this kind of sensing has nothing to do with hearing, sight, or even smell, Qi Lin feels that these monsters are likely to find targets through the biomagnetic field around the human body, or the energy fluctuations emitted.
The larvae inside the underground cavern are much larger than the ones outside, and all of these guys have a sensing range of more than fifteen meters.
Qi Lin tried to get closer, about fifty meters away from the young body.
No response.
Forty meters.
No response.
Thirty-five meters.
Still no response.
Qi Lin took another step, and as soon as he stepped into the range of thirty meters, the tentacles of the young body that were originally moving the ore around him suddenly stopped, stretched into the air, and made a gesture of being ready to attack.
The range of sensing is thirty meters, but judging from the limit length of this young body's tentacles, although it can sense Qi Lin's existence at a distance of thirty meters, it cannot attack Qi Lin at a distance of thirty meters.
It was waiting for Qi Lin to get closer.
However, Qi Lin's purpose had been achieved, and even if he stepped back, the young body immediately lost its sense of Qi Lin, and the tentacles spun around in mid-air a few times with some confusion, and then slowly drooped down.
"The sensing range is thirty meters...... But this is only the weakest of them, the others must be more than thirty meters......" Qi Lin silently noted it down in his heart, leaning against the edge of the cave, and began to move slowly in the direction of one side.
According to Qi Lin's observations, these larvae are adsorbed on the asphalt uranium ore, not only absorbing the radiation emitted by the ore, but also in their abdomen, there are organs similar to mouthparts, which constantly secrete a powerful corrosive acid pus, which will corrode and dissolve the ore, and finally, these larvae will be swallowed by dissolving into a liquid mixture.
In addition to devouring the bitumen ore containing uranium, there is another opening in the tail of these larvae, which is supposed to be their excretion port, from which the larvae will expel the waste residue from the dissolved material at certain intervals.
After observing for a while, Qi Lin chose a lone larvae in a remote location, this larvae was more than fifty meters away from other larvae, and even if Qi Lin attacked it, it would not be noticed by other larvae.
Selecting the target, Qi Lin raised the Gauss pistol and pulled the trigger on the young body!
The 2.5 mm caliber electromagnetic bomb easily penetrated the front half of the juvenile's body, and wrenched one-third of its body into pulp, only to see the tentacles of the juvenile body swing wildly for several minutes before losing all its strength and hanging down, and the remaining two-thirds of the body also ended convulsions and collapsed on the ore pile.
Qi Lin looked at the other larvae around him, and found that these guys were not aware of the death of this kind, and were still devouring the ore by themselves, so he bent over and walked to the side of the killed larvae.
The size of the juveniles in the pit outside before was too small, and the whole body was blown up with a shot from the Gauss pistol, and even a relatively intact corpse could not be left, and Qi Lin naturally had no way to carefully study the smelly and disgusting pus.
Looking at the corpse of most of the young bodies, Qi Lin took out a tungsten steel dagger and began to dissect it.
However, it didn't take long for Qi Lin to discover the problem - the corrosiveness in the blood of the juvenile was stronger than that of the adult monster, although the metal tungsten was very resistant to corrosion, but the tungsten content in the tungsten steel dagger alloy was not high, and the body of the juvenile body had not been able to cut much, and it had been corroded to the point of being riddled with holes.
Tungsten steel can't withstand the radiation of the blood of young organisms, and bone blades with calcium and phosphate as the main components are naturally even worse.
Qi Lin swept around all the things he had at hand, and silently took out the ceramic insert inside the body armor.
The main component of ceramics is silicon oxide, and like glass, this substance itself is an acidic oxide, and it is difficult to react with strong acids other than hydrofluoric acid, so even if it is used to hold aqua regia, there is no problem at all.
Using a bone mallet to smash the ceramic bulletproof insert, Qi Lin selected a palm-sized ceramic fragment with sharp edges as a scalpel and dissected the corpse of the young body bit by bit.
This creature is really similar to a slug, the water content of the body is definitely more than ninety percent, in a large amount of liquid with a pungent smell, Qi Lin can only find some tissues similar to hoses and glands not much larger than fingernails, as for many other organs, the ceramic piece will immediately turn into a liquid state after a pluck, mixed with blood and tissue fluid, and it is impossible to distinguish at all.
Qi Lin pinched the ceramic piece with two fingers and kept poking inside the corpse, and he felt as if he was playing with a pile of...... Moreover, it's still the kind of sparse ......
Just when Qi Lin couldn't bear this disgusting feeling and was about to give up, the tip of the ceramic piece suddenly poked at something hard.
"Huh? What is it? ”
Qi Lin's first reaction was to think that it was the ore residue that had not been completely digested, but when he picked out the hard object, he found that it was an emerald green crystal the size of a soybean, although the size of this crystal was small, the amount of radiation contained in it was comparable to a large pile of uranium-containing asphalt ore under the corpse.
Obviously, this is the essence of the larvae purified from bituminous uranium ore -