Because these bugs have very hard shells and like to hide under the hard surface, they are very troublesome to catch and laborious to eat, so in the past, no one wanted to catch them. It wasn't until the last few months that people who had "dragon pushers" suddenly started buying firecracker bugs and promising to exchange them for food. As a result, the firecracker bugs, which no one originally paid attention to, began to be caught by people frantically. The firecracker insects in the area around the quagmire area have also been swept away.

In the notorious swamp slums of the Federation, in addition to the criticism of the living area, the living conditions here are also very treacherous. The decaying mud of the upper layers of the earth did not provide any source of food, so people had to hide underground, digging up mineral deposits in exchange for food from the Federation, and advancing north, searching for hardy animals and plants in the windy tundra. Compared to the inferior food provided by the Federation, the flesh and blood of animals living in the tundra are obviously more nutritious.

But people didn't dare to go too far into the area. For it is said that on the other side of the tundra, there lived the "Vault Dwellers" who had been driven out - the indigenous people who had lived on this planet earlier.

For this reason, the area of activity of the people in the mire area has always been very small. Aside from the muddy swamp overhead, where there was no room for human footing, the only places they could move were underground and a small tundra to the north of the bog. Further north, there is the forbidden area, which is nicknamed "the land of the frozen dead". It is also a buffer zone for them and the "Vault Dweller" according to rumors by the federal military.

Zhao Zhuo was a very life-loving person, so he never thought of going to such a place to find death. The furthest he'd ever been was eight kilometers north of the mire. Further north, he said he wouldn't go.

Fortunately, if he just caught firecracker bugs, he didn't need to run that far. But for a distance of five kilometers, it still takes a long time to walk.

About an hour and a half later, Zhao Zhuo, who had finally warmed up his body because of running, stopped in a hollow. The cold wind above his head was too strong, which greatly affected his walking, and the cold wind blowing on his face like a knife made people want to turn around and go back all the time: although the air here was much better than the underground world, Zhao Zhuo would rather endure the foul-smelling air than lose the heat of his body by freezing at low temperatures.

After looking around, there were no obvious traces of human beings around, so Zhao Zhuo decided to try his luck here.

Putting down the backpack, Zhao Zhuo took out a shovel and chisel from it, randomly chose a place that looked "about in stock", and began to chisel after a sigh.

Firecracker bugs live underground, and in winter, they go into a semi-hibernation state and don't come up to the ground at all. To find their hiding place, you have to dig through the top layer of the earth, which has been frozen into ice by snow and cold.

On the frozen wasteland in the far north, in the whirring cold wind, the sound of "dingding" and "dangdang" suddenly sounded in this sunken place.

Far away, someone who heard the voice got up and looked this way, and after a moment, leaned down again to pay no attention to it. Doing your own thing is the royal way to survive in the quagmire area, and being nosy will only invite trouble.

After more than ten minutes of busy work, the layer of soil with a thickness of only five centimeters was finally chiseled open by Zhao Zhuo with a chisel of thirty square centimeters.

After reaching out to remove the ice slag-like dirt, Zhao Zhuo suddenly became overjoyed: he saw that there were three small holes the size of his index finger on the gray-brown ground. The entrances of these three small holes were all blocked with something like a dark red chrysalis shell. Zhao Zhuo saw clearly, this is the chrysalis shell that faded after the transformation of the firecracker insect! And looking at the complete Cheng dù covered by this chrysalis shell, the firecracker insects in the hole must still be hibernating!

A loaf of bread, this is!

Licking his lips, Zhao Zhuo carefully lay on the ground, stretched out his hand to clean up the soil around the cave entrance, and then took off the chrysalis shell, put his nose to the cave and sniffed gently.

A faint, pungent smell of gunpowder.

"Sure enough, it's in stock!" He rubbed his hands excitedly, hurriedly turned around and took out a thermos cup from his bag, unscrewed the lid, and carefully poured the hot water in the cup into the hole of the firecracker bug.

Filling insects with water is definitely the only way to catch firecracker insects.

In this weather where spilled urine can freeze into icicles, a cup of hot water will definitely not cool down for a minute.

Soon, the hot water poured into it cooled down quickly under the influence of the ambient temperature, and then unsurprisingly froze. The whole worm hole was immediately filled with such an icicle.

After doing this, Zhao Zhuo rubbed his hands and waited quietly. In his hand he was holding a large tweezer with very small spikes at the tip, which greatly improved its bite force. It's perfect for dealing with things like firecrackers.

It didn't take long for the wormhole blocked by ice water in front of him to react, and a few imperceptible sounds of ice breaking came, and the icicles that blocked the entrance of the firecracker wormhole began to retreat out little by little. Fragments of ice soon scattered around the hole, and then a dark red worm about a finger long and shaped like an earthworm that had swelled three times its size crawled out. Before it could clean up all the ice slag at the entrance of the cave, disaster suddenly fell from the sky, and a large pair of tweezers lightly clamped its body, and then quickly threw it into a transparent glass bottle.

The angry firecracker insect "snapped" with a sound like a firecracker explosion, and its whole body suddenly rose from the ground and hit the cap of the glass bottle hard. Under the impact of this firecracker insect, the iron bottle cap was deeply protruding, protruding more than three centimeters!

For such a situation, Zhao Zhuo was not surprised, put the bottle aside very calmly, and then locked the target on the next hole according to the previous method.

Three minutes later, the second firecracker insect was also thrown into the glass bottle by Zhao Zhuo in the same way.

But...... As he prepares to catch the third firecracker bug, something strange happens.

After removing the pupa shell that the firecracker insect had blocked at the entrance of the hole to keep out the temperature, Zhao Zhuo poured hot water into it again. But after only a few drops, the hot water overflowed from the hole.

Zhao Zhuo was stunned: There is still something?

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