Chapter 7: Freaks
Everyone followed the prestige, and saw that in a corner of the west, someone pointed to something in front of him, and kept shouting to the people around him, "There is something here, it's an egg, come and have a look......
What he pointed at was the sediment of the magic liquid secreted by the Earth Helmet Worm. This yellowish crystal that looks like amber www.biquge.info has a diameter of one meter at the bottom and a height of nearly two meters, which is really not small. Although they appear to be waxy, they are actually quite hard. The earth-shattering bombardment just now didn't damage it in the slightest.
Levi was intrigued, and he walked over with the guards behind him. Sure enough, in the translucent crystal, I saw an egg the size of a watermelon.
This egg is at the very bottom of the magic crystal, mixed with countless sawdust, bone meal, and broken leaves, and can be seen at a glance.
The lord couldn't help but think of the special mouthparts of the ground helmet.
This large insect has a large jaw that resembles a pincer, and another mouth for feeding. It is a four-lobed mouth unique to insects, with four muscle synapses on the top, bottom, left and right, each covered with a layer of solid, sharp molars. The material of the latter is the same material as the hard shell on their body. Even the hard rock can't help but scratch and chew.
The egg apparently came out of its stomach by the Helmet worm that had swallowed it. To be able to walk through such a mouth is truly extraordinary.
As he stared, another voice came.
"Look, there's ...... here, too"
"I have an egg here...... too"
In the end, seven of the forty-nine magic crystals found contained eggs.
Putting them together, Levi looked at them and was puzzled. The previous five hunts were not as amazing as this one.
Under the care of the people around him, Levi compared the seven magic liquid blocks.
He noticed that the egg in one of them was obviously different from the other six, it was one size smaller and more round. Through the yellowish shell of the crystal, you can also faintly see some dark spots on its eggshell. The other six, but there was no variegation at all.
After glancing at the other eggs a few more times, Levi felt a faint pain in his brain.
"Where do these eggs come from?"
Seven of the forty-nine males spit out such eggs, which was obviously not an isolated case, but he had never heard of such strange habits of the ground helmet. In the past month, in order to complete the behavior spectrum, he did not let go of any clues.
Could it be that there is something wrong with the eggs themselves?
It has the ability to attract ground worms and not be harmed by them?
If so, what kind of animal gave birth to them?
Swallowed in the stomach by the ground helmet, is it parasitic, or is it for some other reason?
Or was it just a simple accident?
Levi thought for a long time, but only shook his head. There were too many secrets in this world, and he still knew too little about it in comparison. In this matter, it is not enough to give a clear judgment.
"Put them together. When you get to the territory, you can transport it directly to my bedroom, so don't get confused......"
The egg thing is just a small episode.
Most of the people in the hunting party, while paying attention to it, also kept doing their own thing.
The Earth Helmet Worms are full of treasures, but it takes a lot of work to deal with them.
The first is to peel off their shells, which is a laborious process.
The insect shell is the most precious thing on the body of the ground helmet insect. It's hard to peel them back from the outside. Even if a knife is inserted into the gap in the shell, it will not remove the overlapping armor. Only by starting from the line under their abdomen, first bleeding with a knife, and then hollowing out the internal organs, can there be room for further development. The remaining steps are to remove the attached muscles and melt the tendons on the shell with fire. When these are removed, the shell will automatically detach.
The removed blood and internal organs can be sold as casting materials. On the hillock, someone was taking glassware from the airship and using it as their container.
As for those muscles and tendons, they are the main ingredients of the awakening potion, which can open the door of strength to ordinary people who do not possess "qi".
One of the most important things is the Mana crystal.
"Mana" is not from Roland's human language. It comes from the ancient mystical language of the dragon, which means "the origin of life force". This is a naturally pear-shaped, 42-sided gem-like crystal. However, any creature that has "qi" will synthesize it in the body after death. It can be said that they are another way of being of qi, and they have all kinds of incredible uses.
The crystal, located in the middle of the skull of the ground helmet, is only a few centimeters away from the shell. This is an indispensable material for crafting complete Ground Worm armor.
The Mana crystal of the ground helmet, about the size of an adult's fist, is exquisitely clear, much like a colorless and transparent teardrop-shaped diamond. It has the elementalized characteristics of the cold system: the surface is always shrouded in a hazy white gas.
Holding them in your hand also makes you feel cold to the touch.
These forty-nine males, although they are of different sizes, produce mana crystals that are surprisingly consistent. Stacked together, without the help of some means, it is impossible to distinguish the difference.
When Levi reviewed these gains, the whole person smiled. Those annoying questions were all thrown out of the sky by him.
This time, it's a real bumper harvest!
The ground helmet insects with a length of more than seven meters were caught by him. These males, as the leaders of their own populations, are far more precious than ordinary individuals, whether they are shells or blood. Any one of them can bring him more than 10,000 gold vars. Most of the remaining forty-one are also excellent individuals over five meters. According to the last few transactions, each one is worth at least 5,000 or more. In addition, there is another surprise: the amount of magic liquid is far more than the previous times.
This is an extremely precious thing, and it is very difficult to collect. It is secreted only when the male worm mates, and at other times, even if the male worm is dismantled, there is no trace of it.
They are also the only ones that are not for sale here.
The best way to deal with this kind of valuable treasure is to put it in the warehouse and sell it at a price.
Looking at the insect shells piled together, the insect blood and internal organs placed in the large glass bottle, and the magic liquid crystal that shimmered on the side, Levi was full of a sense of accomplishment.
"Let's go back, everybody. This time, I have a lot to ...... reward."
Levi was like an arrow, and he couldn't wait to go back and give Andrew a big surprise. His harvest this time is worth the sum of several previous times. The only flaw was that it didn't leave the female behind. But it didn't matter, the forty-nine male insects left behind made him make a lot of money.
But Levi didn't know that there was a group of uninvited guests from the royal capital in his house at the moment.