Chapter Twenty-Four: Ant Hill
After a battle, many people were seriously injured, even Shen Yi himself escaped from death, and everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
After using divine healing techniques to restore Ralph's injuries a few times, Shen Yi counted the bullets in the magazine in distress.
A box of C-level armor-piercing shells consumed more than thirty rounds in one battle, plus twenty rounds for Arias, and now there are more than forty rounds left. In addition, the remaining D-class armor-piercing bullets and fire bullets were also fired by Arias and Evans in the battle just now, and there was nothing left.
Even in the face of David Jones, Shen Yi had never had such a huge consumption, let alone the dozens of rockets fired and the explosives that were used.
"Sir, you've run out of rockets and explosives for us. Lyle reported to Shen Yi.
Shen Yi immediately took out some more from the blood crest and gave it to him: "The consumption is too great, but it is just to deal with a group of berserk beasts and add a big earthworm, and the consumption can catch up with blowing up the entire shipwreck city." ”
While complaining, he used activation on the overturned Mustang. He has double the ability regeneration rate, which gives him a unique advantage in consistent use.
"I guess the worst thing for you is that this battle didn't get much to gain. Frost laughed.
"You know me too well, and I hate trading at a loss. Shen Yi shrugged his shoulders and tossed a black bracelet engraved with earthworm patterns in his hand a few times.
Double D-level Black Earthworm Bracelet: After wearing, it increases strength and agility by 6 points each. Comes with skill 1 Earth Walking Technique, which can move in the soil, and the stealth speed is 50% of the normal speed, and the damage is halved when it encounters an attack while sneaking. This skill consumes 2 spirits, has no cooldown, and can be used continuously. Skill stealth priority is 65. The resistance of the built-in skill 2 is increased, the resistance to the special effect ability is increased by 1, the special effect with a priority of less than 50 can be directly removed, and the special effect with a priority of less than 75 is half removed. This skill does not consume energy, and has a cooldown of 10 minutes.
You cannot use any items while using Geopathy.
As a double D-level equipment, this bracelet must not be considered bad. Not only does it have the equivalent of a stealth skill, but it can also increase the resistance of special effects, which is undoubtedly extremely rare.
But considering the difficulty of getting it, Shen Yi still felt a loss no matter how he thought about it.
It's no wonder that adventurers say that if they don't have enough strength, they can't even think about the wilderness.
With his strength alone, even if he gathers the equipment strength of the entire squad to fight, it is still too difficult.
If Hong Lang, King Kong, Gentle, Fat and Zhou Yiyu can all come over, with Zhou Yiyu's driving talent, coupled with Hong Lang's gentle attack, it will definitely be much easier to clean up this black earthworm than just now.
The soldiers were also disemboweling the black earthworm and removing a green bead from it. These beads are a good material for making antidotes, each of which can be exchanged for 10 bottles of intermediate antidotes, and can also be used for detoxification if used directly, much better than the poison sacs of berserker beast pups.
After thinking about it, Shen Yi threw the black earthworm bracelet to Frost: "You can keep it." ”
This scene fell in the eyes of Zhang Jianjun and the others, and the three adventurers showed a wry smile at the same time.
Lan Mei'er glanced at Zhang Jianjun, Zhang Jianjun thought about it, and finally walked over and said to Shen Yi: "I want to discuss something with you." ”
Shen Yi looked at Zhang Jianjun: "What's the matter?"
"Can you use the Black Earthworm Bracelet to help us open the door to return?"
"You guys?"
"It's me and Lan Mei'er. ”
"Why, scared?" Shen Yi asked.
Zhang Jianjun smiled bitterly and nodded.
If they had entered the wilderness before, they still had a glimmer of luck, then after three hunts of wild beasts, they had completely cut off the luck in their hearts.
It must be admitted that they are all lucky to have survived until now.
Therefore, Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier had the intention of retreating at the same time, and they didn't want to break into this terrible world anymore, but the gardener was still looking for his lost teammates, so they didn't plan to leave for the time being. And if you want to return to the bloody city, you must get the equipment in Shen Yi's hand - the Black Earthworm Bracelet is a double D-level equipment, which can open two personal return doors.
Shen Yi laughed: "I suddenly found that the business of the Wilderness Gate is very good, that is, here you will first slaughter one or two fierce beasts, and then sit on the ground and raise the price after getting the equipment, and sell the excess Return Gate...... Well, that's a good idea. ”
Zhang Jianjun blushed: "I know that without you, most of us would have died." But Brother Shen Yi, we have contributed just now, as long as we return to the door, you just need to help us open ......"
"No!" Contrary to Zhang Jianjun's expectations, Shen Yi refused.
He looked at Zhang Jianjun: "I'm sorry I can't promise you, because I have no obligation to help anyone." ”
Zhang Jianjun froze for a moment, and an ugly smile appeared on his face: "Brother Shen Yi, I have also ...... anyway"
Shen Yi stopped him: "You helped me deal with Li Song, I am very grateful." But as you said yourself, those two guys don't take my eyes at all. Therefore, I only have gratitude to you, but I am not grateful, and it is impossible to give up my principles because of this. You've helped me, I've helped you, you've done your best in battle, but I've done more. Without me, you would have been torn to pieces by the Berserker, the Pterodactyl, and even this great earthworm, but without you, I would have won. You're welcome, it's just because you're here that I'm a little more tired. ”
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately understood that Shen Yi still had at least several hole cards hidden in his hand. Their contribution was meaningless to Shen Yi at all, but it made him unable to let go of his hands and feet.
It's just because of this that Zhang Jianjun and the others couldn't figure out why Shen Yi still wanted to go with them.
Or did the gardener say, "You have a place where you want to use us?"
Shen Yi nodded: "There are some things that can't be done by equipping and summoning soldiers." I do need to use your place, so I want you to stay and help me. Don't worry, as long as you do something for me, I will naturally give you what you deserve. ”
The gardener raised his eyebrows: "Anyway, I won't leave if I don't find my teammates, just say what you need us to do for you, although we didn't help in these two battles, but ordinary summoned soldiers can let you play to that point, and I believe we won't have no value at all." But there is one condition, if it is too dangerous task, we have the right to refuse or you increase the percentage or you can hire us directly. ”
"No problem. ”
"Then let's talk about what you're going to do. ”
Shen Yi thought for a while before replying: "Speaking of which, the main purpose of my going to the wilderness is to understand the environment, collect information, and equipment or something is secondary. But there's one thing I'm so desperate for...... It's a team assembly order. ”
"Team assembly order?" Zhang Jianjun opened his mouth.
"Well, I know it's not easy, and you don't have to get it, but you have to try it, don't you?"
Zhang Jianjun was about to cry: "Boss, if you want to get the team assembly order, you have to go to Ant Hill, do you know what kind of place it is?"
Shen Yi smiled: "Of course, the biggest place of death in the East Second District. How's that, are you interested?"
The gardener pouted, "Interesting, that's where the Bloodpiers didn't even have an idea." I wanted to see what you were going to do, so I'll accept your invitation. As for the price...... Once you get to the place, it's up to you to decide what mission you assign. ”
"Then it's a word. ”
Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier looked at each other, it was obvious that they had no right to oppose in this matter, and after knowing that Shen Yi was the captain of the 641 squad that destroyed the Blood Thorn Team, they were not even qualified to resist.
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Ant hills.
It is one of the connecting points between the East 2nd District and the East 3rd District.
The entire wilderness is a huge wilderness with a diameter of about 10,000 kilometers. Each difficulty area is a hollow circle on top of it. Among them, the second difficulty area is the smallest, with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers, a circumference of less than 3,200 kilometers, and an area of about 80,000 square kilometers. Within 200 kilometers of the core is the bloody city, covering an area of about 30,000 square kilometers.
The entire area is cross-cut, with the east-west border of the 2nd zone being about 800 kilometres and the north-south border being 400 kilometres.
On the long 800-kilometer border, most of the places are natural Jedi, and ordinary adventurers cannot pass freely at all, and Ant Hill is one of the free arteries leading to the two areas.
To say that it is free, it is not necessarily free.
The entire Ant Hill is vast and densely covered with all kinds of large and small ant burrows.
These ants are not real ants in people's common sense, in fact, they are just a group of terrifying creatures that look like ants in appearance and living habits. They have sharp palatal teeth under their beaks and sharp barbs on their claws, and they are greedy and fierce by nature, attacking all targets they can attack. On weekdays, they feed on sand and soil, and when they encounter large beasts, they will come out of their nests, and the dense ant army can devour a black earthworm in an instant, until only a pair of shelves remains.
There are many skeletons of such ferocious beasts throughout the ant hills, lying quietly on the wasteland, as if to warn all those who try to pass through the hills with their own misery the turbulent undercurrents hidden in its calm expression.
Standing on a small hillside, Shen Yi carefully observed the hills in the distance with a telescope.
A few scattered black ants on the hill were pacing in boredom, occasionally colliding with each other with their long antennae, confirming each other through the breath of the air and receiving information.
Behind them, a large number of worker ants are toiling out of the red soil of the hills and transporting them back to the anthill – their staple food, in the absence of meat.
From a distance, they look like vertical and horizontal black lines on Qianmo, running through the entire hill into countless large squares.
In the middle of the hill, a long laterite road runs east and west to the very end of the western end.
This is the so-called corridor of life.
Countless adventurers have used their lives and blood to carve out a so-called "safest" passage through the ant hills.
At the end of the passage, a humanoid skeleton can be seen lying there.
Presumably, some hapless adventurer tried to cross the place, but unfortunately failed.
Maybe it's a guy who wants to run to the second difficulty to make a fortune? Maybe he thinks that as a high-difficulty adventurer, he can break through the East Second District, right? Or maybe it's a guy who uses a random teleportation scroll and unfortunately ends up near the ant's nest......
Shen Yi put down the binoculars: "From here, there is the corridor of life." The entire life corridor is about twenty kilometers long, and there are a total of two ant nests nearby, both of which are small ant nests, only double D-class, and they can't get the team assembly order we need. ”
"It's you who you need, not what we need. Zhang Jianjun replied angrily.
Lan Meier asked, "In this case, why do you choose the life channel?"
"It's been a long time since I got the information. Wild beasts, especially those that live in groups, grow over time. Therefore, many sources cannot be fully trusted. What was once a so-called small ant nest has now grown into a double C level. ”
"I see, that means that unless someone has eliminated them, the corridor of life is no longer as easy to pass through as it used to be?" Lan Mei'er asked.
"Things will always change, but you have to see how to find out. It is necessary to figure out the location and strength of the two nests, and most importantly, to find out if the other will help if we attack one of them. If so, what should we do? ”
Zhang Jianjun emphasized again: "It's you, not us." ”
"I'm not a bloody city, so I won't give you a mission to die...... Even the Bloody City does not arrange mortal missions. ”
"Unless you look for your own death. Lan Meier interjected: "Since you know that the team assembly order can only be obtained in a double C-level ant nest, you must also know what kind of defense power a double C-level ant nest has, right?"
Lan Meier and the others had only heard of the terrible ant hills, but they had no specific concept of how terrible they were.
Shen Yi was silent for a while, then pointed to a corpse the size of a hill in the distance: "See that? That's the corpse of the Jagged Mammoth." A serrated mammoth can easily crush three Smith black earthworms. But to the ant hills...... They're just food. ”
Looking at the people around him, Shen Yi said slowly: "In the Ant Hill, there will hardly be any other fierce beasts. Most of the fierce beasts that dared to enter the territory of the black ants, even some of the fierce beasts of the third difficulty, would be attacked by them in groups. ”
"The scariest thing about ant hills is the sheer sheer sheer number of them. Each ant nest is equivalent to the strength of a pterodactyl swarm, and on the ant hills, there are thousands of ant nests like this. All we have to do is pick one of the most powerful nests and quickly defeat them!"
"It's you, not us!" everyone repeated.