33. Insect catching

Not far from a stream in the middle of the woodland, Ling Li, holding a bow and arrow, looked at a beetle with a black body and a green head lying on a branch more than ten meters away. It resembles a stag beetle, but its body is almost the size of a palm, and it has a green marking.

Originally, due to the large surface area of the Chiyan Continent, the species were much richer than those on the Blue Star, and due to the cataclysm, the species of organisms on the planet were now several times more than before. In the depths of this mountain forest, there are countless rare treasures, precious creatures and minerals.

It's just that with his current strength, Ling Li still didn't dare to leave the scope of the safe zone and enter the mountains and forests to explore.

I don't know if it's because the system has been upgraded again, or because his soul power has been promoted to the second order, anyway, after the system was upgraded this morning, he was very miraculously found that he didn't need to spend energy points anymore to detect and analyze the attribute status of creatures and items with lower strength than him.

At this time, a very brief item attribute column appears at the "Sky Eye":

Level 1 mutant Glowhead Stag Beetle (female)

Life: three years and five months

Absorbs soul power after killing: 2

After eating insect meat, it can replenish physical strength, qi and blood, and there is a certain chance to improve physical fitness.

The soul power that this mutant beetle could provide was almost catching up with that of a first-class mutant fish, which was what surprised Ling Li.

No matter how small a bug is, it's meat, and besides, this bug isn't that small.

Can't figure out a mutant beast or a mutant bug?!

Of course, if there are a lot of them, they will really have to escape.

Thinking of this, Ling Li held his breath, stretched the Tuomu Bow in his hand to a half-open with both arms, and aimed the arrow at the stag beetle that seemed to be preparing to hunt on the branches. As soon as the right hand was loosened, the moment the bowstring vibrate, the arrow pierced through the beetle and nailed it to the branch.

The spade beetle, which was bigger than a slap, wasn't dead, clutching at the six legs of a branch.

In a few days, after improving his archery skills from Xiaocheng to proficiency, Ling Li was now thirty meters away, and if he wanted to shoot a leaf, he almost missed a hundred shots.

Unable to kill with one blow, Ling Li, with a slightly dissatisfied look on his face, drew his knife and rushed quickly, then flew up and smashed the green head of the beetle with a single sword.

"Tick, found that the energy can be absorbed, do you absorb it?"

Although this sound is a little noisy, it can't be turned off yet, and it is automatically absorbed by default, otherwise if you encounter something valuable, you won't have a place to cry after being directly absorbed by the system.

For example, the seventh-order Star Beast Crystal Nucleus.

The information that Ling Li got from Zhu Fatzi was at least worth more than 10 million.

At this price, Ling Li, who had planned to sell this crystal nucleus after returning to the city, suddenly hesitated and became afraid, because the value of this thing was too huge, and it was far beyond the scope of what a family like theirs could afford. It's okay for a poor family to make a small fortune, but if you have a huge extra sum of money out of thin air, it's not a good thing most of the time.

After killing the beetle, climb up the tree, pull the feathered arrow from the arm-thick branch, and carry the beetle into a special backpack.

More than a dozen mutant bugs have now been collected inside, including locusts, scorpions, centipedes, praying mantises, and several beetles.

He wandered around the woods this time, and when he came out, the purpose was to collect wild vegetables for the purpose of collecting this mutant bug. Mushrooms and the like are just handy.

With his current situation, he can only hunt low-level mutant arthropods such as insects, scorpions, centipedes, etc., and rely on the energy of insect meat to add points to enhance and improve his strength. Whether in the Blue Star or the Red Flame Continent, arthropods are the most numerous and diverse creatures in the animal kingdom, and due to the impact of the cataclysm, the lower the level of animals, the more susceptible to the influence of the rules of heaven and earth, and mutation.

In the Red Flame Continent, the vast majority of arthropods have mutated to varying degrees, and about one-tenth of them have completely mutated and become alien insects.

The reason why the number of alien insects in the boxwood valley is not very large is that before the students trained in the field, it had been cleared by the army twice, and some powerful alien beasts and alien insects were removed. After all, mutant insect meat is rich in nutrients and energy, and is even more popular with ordinary soldiers than ordinary beast meat.

Otherwise, Ling Li wouldn't have been wandering around this forest for more than an hour, and only then did he harvest a dozen mutant bugs.

Feeling that the harvest was almost the same, Ling Li came to the stream, poured all the beetles in the bag to the ground, peeled off the carapace of the insects with the tip of his waist knife, cut out the white and tender insect flesh inside, and pierced it with thin willow branches. He even smashed the worm's leg open with the back of his knife, peeling out the flesh inside.

The mutated insects are all relatively large, the locust is even as long as a forearm, and the centipede, which is also more than a foot long, looks very much like a lobster. More than a dozen insects, after being dissected, were almost three kilograms more than three kilograms of meat.

After finishing the preparations, Ling Li began to light a pile of dry branches he had collected and barbecued them.

These insects themselves belong to the same kind of animals as shrimp and crabs, and the meat texture is similar, especially after mutation, it is more tender, and it is rich in various nutrients and energy.

After eating the barbecue, Ling Li had another unexpected surprise to find that while eating these insect meat, he still didn't feel hungry after adding four points, indicating that the energy provided by these insect meat was quite huge. And it took less than two hours to catch these bugs, even counting the barbecue time.

In this way, should I give up mining and start focusing on catching insects for a living in the future?

It seems that this is the best way to improve your strength as soon as possible.

After destroying the worms, Ling Li doused the fire with water, then followed the stream to the river and returned to the camp. This was on the way, and by the way, I hit four "prey bugs".

During dinner, Zhu Fatzi suddenly said that he was leaving the camp for a few days and had something to do.

This came as a bit of a surprise to everyone.

Ling Li thought that this guy might not be able to suppress the qi and blood in his body, and he might have to prepare for the promotion of martial arts. When this martial artist is promoted, he must have a strong person around him to take care of him, and the camp conditions in this wild field are definitely not suitable.

"There are four pieces of snake meat, you can take them all and let your friends try them." Ling Li said casually, this python is mainly beaten by Lao Zhu, and he should bring some snake meat when he leaves. But after he finished speaking, a few people were silent, obviously a little unhappy.

This made Ling Li feel a little unhappy in his heart.

Zhu Zhengang naturally saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, so he said: "It's embarrassing to take it all, in this way, I'll take two pieces and let others try it." I still have some dried meat at the head of my bed, so I left it all as compensation. ”

Hearing him say this, everyone regained humility.

As soon as Zhu Zhen left, everyone went to the river to lay a fish basket trap as usual, but this time Ling Li didn't go.

The methods have been taught to everyone, and it doesn't matter if you go or not......