In the center of the floating island is a large mountain, 5,000 meters high and covering an area of tens of kilometers. The grass and vines on the mountain grew surprisingly luxuriantly, covering the entire mountain so tightly that there was not a single void at all.

In addition to the dense vine grass, another characteristic of this mountain is that it has a very regular shape, round and sloppy like a half-buried sphere.

Qu Shaocheng and Weng Jiahong's warships hovered over the mountain, looking for surprises in the dense vegetation, hoping to discover something strange. For example, the empty underworld grass is easy to grow in such an environment.

This Void Herb is one of the miraculous medicines, and taking it directly can help Stellar Realm peak cultivators greatly increase their chances of advancing to the Galaxy Realm, which is a priceless treasure, and it is the main target of Qu Shaocheng's adventure this time.

However, in the lush grass of this mountain, even if there is really empty grass, it is extremely difficult to find. At this time, Qu Shaocheng and Weng Jiahong each brought more than 20 gentlemen, staring wide-eyed to identify in the exterior imaging, and it would be difficult to gain for a while.

Ling Qi came over in a maintenance spaceship, because at this time, the nearest team had already completed mining, and the next site was to be explored here.

Qu Shaocheng saw the maintenance spacecraft approaching, glanced at it and stopped paying attention. However, the next moment, a request for dialogue was sent to him from the maintenance spaceship.

"Why did you contact me with this guy who is out of the limelight?" Qu Shaocheng was inexplicable, and suddenly remembered that he heard Ling Qi's voice in the fleet channel before, and he couldn't remember who it was for a while, so he turned on the radio.

Subsequently, Ling Qi appeared on the communication projection.

"?" Qu Shaocheng was dumbfounded, even if he wanted to break his head, he couldn't imagine that this engineer who was in the limelight was Ling Qi. This guy didn't have a super battleship, he actually came with it in this way, and he shined when it came to repairing equipment.

Ling Qi ignored his shock and asked directly, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Void Grass ......"

Qu Shaocheng hadn't recovered from the crash yet, and only after subconsciously answering did he wake up: "Why are you here?" ”

After asking like this, he himself felt that he was mentally retarded, just now he had obviously reacted that Ling Qi had applied to come with him as a maintenance engineer, how could he still ask such a question without IQ.

Ling Qi let out a casual sigh and immediately inquired about the information of the Empty Underworld Grass online. Qu Shaocheng couldn't stand his attitude, his face turned dark, and he simply cut off the conversation. Ling Qi didn't care either, after reading the introduction of the Empty Underworld Grass, his eyes suddenly lit up.

This is really the light of his eyes, after activating the special effect of the "Treasure Recognition" skill, Ling Qi's eyes are shining like fiery eyes, but the effect of this skill can only be seen by himself.

The camera swept over the mountain below, and Ling Qi maintained the skill effect and stared at the image. Since the blood bar can be seen in the communication projection and exterior imaging, if there is really empty Stygian Grass, he believes that he will definitely be able to see the treasure light as well.

Searching a large area like this, Ling Qi found nothing. He didn't believe that the skill was invalid, but that there was no void grass in this area.

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the fleet channel, and Ling Qi heard that it was the nearest team who had just cleaned up the last wormhole and came to the mountain to start exploring.

"It's strange that the signal of the high-power ground penetrating radar is weakened layer by layer, and it disappears completely after only a few tens of meters, and it can't be transmitted at all!" The leader of that team was shocked. They pulled out the robotic arm, changed to a distance of 100 meters to drill the mountain again, and then inserted a huge probe into the mountain dozens of meters deep to send out a detection wave again.

The result is still the same, as if there are countless layers of protective bodies inside the mountain, preventing the detection wave from transmitting to the depths.

"Could it be that this round mountain is some kind of special structure that was built after tomorrow?"

"I'm guessing that this floating island was once a habitable star, which was attacked by bugs. This mountain is the ultimate defense, and perhaps on the other side of the flooded sea, there is also such a defense. I don't know how this planet was captured by the Cosmic Sea. ”

"Possibly, it looks like it's going to be excavated!"

……

There was a lot of discussion on the fleet channel, and Ling Qi also believed this speculation a little. But if that's the case, then what about the ninth-level female worm sticky liquid crystal that he needs? Could it be that this Zerg hadn't evolved to the ninth level at the beginning?

"The ninth level, that is already the strongest level below the god level, it is indeed not easy to reach. However, more than a dozen eighth-level wormholes have been discovered and mined before, and more than 200,000 tons of eighth-level crystals have been harvested. It stands to reason that there are so many levels eight, which means that the resources at the beginning were extremely abundant, and they should have been able to evolve to level nine. ”

Ling Qi thought again, when the insect reached this level, it was estimated that he also possessed extraordinary wisdom and strength, why would he give up such a rich resource here and leave?

"Huh? There are bugs! The team over there let out another exclamation, startling everyone. Nima, could it be that the insects of the entire floating island are concentrated here? Everyone looked nervously and was ready to respond at any time.

Qu Shaocheng and Weng Jiahong didn't dare to run around anymore, and even the team over there stopped working on dozens of other wormholes that were still being mined.

"Dead?"

It turned out that when they pulled out the mechanical arm this time, a beetle corpse with a body of half a meter in size was brought out from the top, and this insect corpse had been decomposed to the point that only an empty shell remained.

Something is wrong!

Guan Tong's expression was solemn, and he ordered the surrounding teams that had not yet completed mining to speed up.

Here, the two escort battleships were on edge, nervously watching the mountain below. The spacecraft was replaced with a hook and rake device and excavated directly. Under the strong digging of the mountain, large pieces of soil were peeled away, and soon a large pit with a diameter of tens of meters was formed.

Suddenly, the fleet channel was silent, and people looked creepy at the layers of insect corpses exposed at the bottom of the pit. All of these insect corpses are empty shells, and the shells that should have been hard have decayed to a certain extent, indicating that they have been dead for a long time.

Did the bugs burrow into this mountain and die, or were they covered with dust dozens of meters thick after death?

"Keep digging!" Guan Tong order.

The results of this expedition have been extremely rich, exceeding his expectations. There are more than 200,000 tons of eighth-level crystals alone, and nearly 500,000 tons of seventh-level wormholes, and although there are many middle and low-level wormholes, the crystal content in each low-level wormhole is far less than that of high-level wormholes, with a total of only more than 900,000 tons. Even so, he was satisfied, and even if he went back at this time, it would not be in vain.

But the current scene made Guan Tong unable to turn a blind eye, and everyone wanted to find out the truth under the mountain.

As the pit got deeper and bigger, the insect corpses in the lower layer became larger and larger, and they were tightly stacked, and nothing else was mixed with each other.

"Why do I think this round mountain is a worm tomb at all?" Ling Qi swallowed dryly and said.

Suddenly, a strange atmosphere enveloped the mountain.