(Thanks to L Shadow Moon L for the tip~)

Wang Chong originally thought that the reason why the stream had strong energy was because it flowed through the source of energy. I didn't expect it to be the opposite! This stalactite is actually condensed by the energy in the water!

Wang Chong stopped at the top of the cave, trying to find out where the energy came from. But a large part of the roof of the cave was wet, apparently dripping from seepage.

"The true source of energy is still up there." Wang Chong said secretly, "No matter what it is." You have to get your hands, and the energy content is very considerable. Maybe that's where the hope for my rise lies. ”

Wang Chong left half of the soldiers and insects to dig holes here, and left hundreds of scouts day and night to guard against the mysterious existence that the giant python regarded as a lifesaver, and then returned home.

This stalactite gave the base camp a great shock. Not to mention the stupid dasha who is extremely sensitive to energy, the four insect queens are also restless.

Wang Chong thought about it, divided the stalactites into five sections, one for Dasha, one for the four insects, one into the pile of eggs of the king of insects, and one for grinding, and replenished as a swarm of insects. The last piece is spared.

Time did not stop, and many of the hole-opening soldiers and insects' mouthparts had been worn out, and the flesh and blood were blurred. For these soldiers and insects that have lost their effect, Wang Chong thinks a lot. In the end, they let the other soldiers and insects devour them--At that moment, Wang Chong couldn't bear it a little.

In four days, the soldiers had already opened the roof of the cave six meters deep.

When Wang Chong was guarding the insect that was about to break its eggs, the news of the soldier insect finally came, and the source of energy was found!

Wang Chong was patient, and when the worm's eggs broke, he "surrendered" them, and hurried to the cave.

The biters are manic! This is no less than a sturdy sailor who has not been ashore for several years, and there is a group of young women with snail (sensitive word) body in front of them. But the insect swarm can keep the order, which also makes Wang Chong a little shocked.

The source of energy is a transparent yellowish crystal, a bit like rock sugar. However, after being mixed with the soil for a long time, it has already been dyed with the color of the earth, and some of them have directly wrapped the soil in it. It presents an earthy crystal.

Energy...... It's thick! It's thick! Just by being here, I'm afraid I'm about to be able to catch up with normal eating. Wang Chong's heart was shocked, and he tried to bite it, and found that the crystal was very hard, and even the surrounding soil showed signs of crystallization.

"It's made by strong compression, isn't it...... Is it a nuclear explosion? Wang Chong looked at it for a while, and he was even more firm in his thoughts, because a lot of the soil here has turned into quartz, and what has not become quartz has also been highly crystallized. No wonder the progress of the Soldier Bug is so slow. ”

"You should find a safe place to put these crystals," Wang Chong said secretly, "or just put the base camp here?" ”

There are many advantages to having a base camp here, but it's not safe enough, because at least great apes and pythons have been found here, what if the mysterious being also comes?

After hesitating for a while, Wang Chong still felt that all the crystals would be mined and placed in another place.

The original base camp was found in a hurry, this time Wang Chong had a bunch of manpower, and he picked and picked the location of the base camp, searched and searched, and finally found a place that Wang Chong was satisfied with a week later.

This place is a bit like the Kanst landform of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the whole is complex, it is simply a gap in the steamed bun, and there are more than 100 large and small natural insect rooms, and there are seven passages leading to the ground; The location is located above the river, there is no worry about flooding, and the most important thing is that there is a natural large warehouse, located in the innermost, the hole is narrow, as long as a guard insect guards here, it is a situation where a husband is closed. Of course, the most surprising thing was ...... Eight meters away from the warehouse, there was a hole the size of a room, and this hole did not have any exit, only Wang Chong could enter and exit—to be precise, only those with teleportation ability could enter and exit. From now on, this will be Wang Chong's secret little vault!

Wang Chong was very satisfied with this place, and after inspecting and confirming it himself, he moved the base camp here that night.

The mining of the crystals continued, and after mining one piece, there were two discoveries, the first of which was that the crystals were assembled in pieces, and the whole thing was a bit like a pot. The second discovery was the discovery of reddish crystals during mining, which have much more energy than ordinary crystals, and the deeper the red, the more exaggerated the energy. ――According to Wang Chong's understanding, the ordinary ones are the low-grade spirit stones, these red-colored ones are medium-grade spirit stones, and the dark red ones are the high-grade spirit stones.......

A month in the blink of an eye.

During this period, six more eggs were hatched, two of the third grade and four of the fourth grade. Now Wang Chong has 3 third-level insect eggs. 7 queens of the fourth-order worm and 1 queen-of-the fifth-level worm. Now there are only two left that have not hatched, and these two Wang Chong focus on cultivating them, wanting to cultivate them into second-level ...... Even a first-class bug queen!

Each fourth-level insect can have about 100 guard insects in one litter, and there are more than 200 third-level worms, and in this month, Wang Chong's guard insects have exceeded 1,000. 9 glimpser insects. The number of soldiers and insects reached 250,000. In other insect swarms, the proportion of guard insects is generally one in a thousand, which means that there will be 1,000 guard insects in a million insect swarm, which is frighteningly higher than this.

And you must know that the guard insects in the ordinary insect swarm are all the lowest level sixth-level double-chelated guard insects, and in Wang Chong's insect swarm, except for the worm at the beginning, which produced all fifth-level guard insects, they are basically fourth-level guard insects with four chela. And when fighting the giant python, there were more than a dozen guard insects that broke through to the third level, and two guard insects broke through to the second level.

These two guard insects are twice as large as ordinary guard insects, with hard elytra, hideous spikes, and unique spider web patterns, and they look quite good. What Wang Chong has to do now is to cultivate the two second-level guard insects into first-level guard insects - that is, the quasi-insect king guards. Reborn smashed out the Worm King's guards.

"One pound of crystals can supply 20,000 insects, that is, a swarm can consume once...... Wang Chong calculated in his heart: "A consumption can be half a month, and each insect swarm is about 20,000...... In other words, I now consume 25 catties of crystals every month. ”

"Now there are 800 catties of crystals mined, which can support two years if the swarm maintains its current scale." Wang Chong kept thinking in his heart: "But the current insect swarm of this scale is still too small, if it can resist the king insect, how can it be a hundred insect swarms, that is, the scale is at least ten times larger!" At that time, these crystals could only be consumed for three months, so we still had to find a ranch or something like that. ”

"There is also spider pattern ......" Wang Chong frowned secretly: "Several insects that absorb black crystal have spider web patterns on their bodies, and there are also worms born after insects. But although the level of the insect queen who absorbs the crystal is not low, there are no spider web patterns on her body, and I don't know if this spider web pattern has an impact on her strength. ”

"Now there are two postworm eggs, one is all cultivated by black crystal, and the other is all cultivated by pure red top-grade crystal!" Wang Chong said secretly: "I don't know if there can be any surprises." ”

"There is also the No. 3 flesh radiator and genetic modification agent, the flesh radiator has been successfully experimented, and the strength of the radiator has nearly doubled, but the output is limited and cannot be used indiscriminately. As for experiments on genetic modification...... I'm afraid it's very suspenseful, and even if the experiment is successful, I won't use this thing, it's too scary......"

"Now I barely have some capital to gain a foothold, and in another month, when the crystal mining is completed, I will have to find a way to go to the Amazon. It's just that the caves here are basically explored, and they can't reach the other side of the mountain. Only the road guarded by mysterious animals is still ......a slight possibility," Wang Chong frowned: "But so far, none of the scouts sent to that thing have returned, what is there?" ”

……

Time passed like this, Wang Chong quietly accumulated his strength underground, and I don't know if he can make a splash when he reaches the ground.