In front of Qu Wuming was a cave that was very different from before.

The surrounding stone walls that should have been full of pink spars seemed to have a bald head, and there were many blank areas, and pieces of pitch-black natural stone walls were exposed between the pink crystals, which looked very abrupt.

And around one of the pink hedrons, there was a small insect with an extremely special appearance.

It's not a good idea to say it's a bug. For the worm was so large, more than two feet long. A bug of this size, although not as exaggerated as the mutant monster insect encountered in the underground of the Mingsha Plain, but a bug more than two feet long—although it is not weird, it is not much better.

The insect is almost all earthy yellow, with a fat belly at the back half and a pair of slender tail whiskers at the end of the abdomen. In the middle of the body is a short and thick "waist", while the front half of the worm is extremely thick, a full two circles wider than the back belly. On the front half of its back, there is a dark brown oval dorsal armor, which looks extremely thick.

Behind the dorsal armor, there were a pair of short, translucent wings that covered only the waist and the small half-amputated belly, and below the severed wings, a pair of folded and slender wings that were longer than its tail.

Underneath its body, there are three pairs of worm feet, two on the back of the waist, and one pair of extremely thick giant feet under the breastplate. The pair of giant feet consisted of roughly three segments, the most of which resembled a pair of giant shovels, and a pair of open claws with seven or eight sharp claws.

When Qu Wuming bypassed the passage and saw it, it was lying next to the crystal bush, pushing left and right with its shovel-like forefeet, and it shoveled off a clump of crystals very easily, and then clamped its feet and held the clump of crystals and sent it to the insect's mouth in front of the back armor.

This was followed by the sound of clattering crystals and the sound of crystals being crushed into powder.

A handful of crystals, in less than a few breaths, disappeared into the mouth of this strange insect, and Qu Wuming couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

The hardness of this crystal, Qu Wuming has long experienced.

Although it can't catch up with the strange stones in Mingshayuan, it is already comparable to the high-level magic weapons of the seventh and eighth orders.

And that insect actually chewed those crystals to pieces like chewing ice cubes, and if it was bitten on his body, Qu Wuming had no doubt that he would easily bite off a piece of meat.

When the ball of light used to illuminate Qu Wuming's side illuminated the originally dimly lit cave, the insect that was originally chewing happily suddenly stopped moving, and the two pairs of insect feet behind struggled to move their bodies, and turned to look at Qu Wuming slightly awkwardly.

At this time, Qu Wuming saw that in front of the insect's back armor, there was a conical head about the size of two fists, with a black, round eye on each side of the head, and a pair of long tentacles the thickness of little fingers in front of the eyes.

Seeing the front of the insect, Qu Wuming couldn't help but say to himself: "I thought it was some kind of bug - isn't this an oversized mole cricket?" ”

As soon as Qu Wuming made a sound, the insect also made a chirp towards Qu Wuming, raised his upper half of his height, and lifted the pair of forefeet that looked like shovels upwards and aimed at Qu Wuming, as if threatening Qu Wuming not to get close.

However, before Qu Wuming could do anything, the bug had already slammed its raised feet down!

I saw a burst of earthy yellow light on the pair of alien forefeet, and it was inserted into the stone wall under his feet with two pops, and then he slashed like a pair of shovels, and in an instant, a large hole more than half a foot wide was made in the hard stone wall, and he slipped into it.

Qu Wuming thought that he would have to fight, and he was ready to kill him, but he didn't expect that the insect would run away without saying a word, it was really cowardly like a worm.

A moment later, perhaps the worm had broken through the stone wall, and a gurgling sound was heard, and suddenly a lot of dark red mud poured in from the mouth of the cave, and soon re-solidified in the hole, and closed the hole again.

Qu Wuming was very curious, and quickly escaped to the place where the insect burrowed and escaped, and sacrificed the "Falling Star" orb to "look" through the stone wall, and soon found that the insect was like a flexible swimming fish at this time, moving in unison, speeding through the soft soil and stone with high pressure and high temperature, and soon disappeared.

At this moment, Qu Siqiu's voice sounded in the sea of knowledge, telling Qu Wuming that she had found the end of the cave branch and had not found the soul crystal.

"Well, I'm afraid there won't be any soul crystals in this cave." Qu Wuming said through Qu Siqiu's Demon God Clone Seed Transmission, "You hurry up and join me, I think, I may know where to go to find the Soul Crystal......

Not long after, when Qu Siqiu arrived, Qu Wuming took her back to the character space again, and he sacrificed the "Falling Star" orb, drilled out of the cave from where the insect had escaped, and chased it in the direction it had escaped.

"Boss, what did you mean by that? How do you know where to go to find the Soul Crystal? In the space of the Purple Mansion, Qu Siqiu asked with some puzzlement.

Qu Wuming's mind moved, and he shared the image of the insect he had just seen into Qu Siqiu's divine sense, and then said: "This is the insect I saw just now, it seems to have an extremely strong ability to escape from the earth, and it can actually feed on the crystals on the cave wall. Before it fled, I saw it seem to be scared. ”

Qu Siqiu: "......" (I didn't seem to be asking this question just now...... ）

At this time, Qu Wuming then shared another image with Qu Siqiu.

It was a dark golden lump of cone-like stuff.

There seemed to be a hint of heat floating upwards from above.

It's like a piece of.

"It's a piece of." Qu Nameless's voice, "That's what the bug pulled before it fled." ”

Qu Siqiu: "......" (Boss, I didn't know you had this kind of habit before...... ）

"Look closely at the color and shape of this!" Qu Wuming guided Qu Siqiu to observe the details of the, and soon shared the memory image left by the place where he had found the Soul Suppression Crystal before with Qu Siqiu, and then said, "What do you think of these places where the Soul Suppression Crystal has been found?" ”

"Huh?" Qu Siqiu carefully compared several images, and after a while, he was finally surprised to find that all the places where the Soul Suppression Crystals were grown, there seemed to be a dark golden, cone-like rock, and those Soul Suppression Crystals grew on or next to this kind of rock.

"This ......" Qu Siqiu turned his head and looked carefully at the shape and appearance of the, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the two were almost identical!

"Boss, you mean, those Soul Suppression Crystals were actually just ordinary crystals, and it was because they absorbed this bug... Uh, the contents of the poop slowly changed into soul crystals later? Qu Siqiu came to a conclusion after analysis, but he was still a little unconfident and asked Qu Wuming for verification.

"......" Qu Wuming was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment in his heart, "That's right! It may not be that the Soul Suppression Crystal grows in it, or it may just be that the ordinary crystal has changed after absorbing the energy inside! Why didn't I think of it just now?

"Boss? Am I saying something wrong? Seeing that Qu Wuming didn't respond for a long time, Qu Siqiu thought he had guessed something wrong, and hurriedly asked.

"No, no, that's what I guessed." Qu Wuming came back to his senses and hurriedly responded, "I don't know about that insect...... Well, excrement, how long it will take to transform an ordinary spar and convert it into a soul crystal with a special effect. I don't think there will be only one worm, and if we can find its nest, maybe we will find more crystals that have been transformed by its excrement. ”

Qu Siqiu thought about it along Qu Wuming's train of thought, and said after a moment of silence: "Then, what if all the spars have been eaten by the insects in the worm's nest?" Wouldn't it be impossible to have a soul crystal? ”

Qu Wuming was stunned again when he heard this, and his heart said that Qu Siqiu's thinking angle was really different, why didn't he think of it? Then he thought about this possibility, shook his head alone, and replied, "I don't think they will all be eaten - after all, even bugs, it seems that there are very few bugs willing to eat food that has their own feces stained." ”

Qu Siqiu nodded when he heard this, feeling that what Qu Wuming said seemed to be very reasonable, and said secretly in his heart: "It is worthy of being the boss, and even such a detail has been considered." It's really informative...... When will the boss share more of this messy life knowledge with me? It's so stingy......"

Seeing that Qu Siqiu seemed to be in deep thought and no longer asked, Qu Wuming also collected his mood and concentrated on searching for the traces left by the worm in the ground.

It is not easy to track it down to find possible nests and nests.

I don't know if the bug was cautious by nature, or if he noticed that someone was following him in the distance, and the path of the bug seemed to be irregular, and it ran straight ahead, then suddenly upwards, and then turned around in circles, and then plunged into the ground......

This insect is very talented, and it is like a fish swimming in the sea and a bird flying in the sky, and it looks free and comfortable, free and effortless. And Qu Wuming drove the "Falling Star" orb to track behind, but it was difficult and stressful, and every time he advanced, he had to consume a lot of mana.

After following for a while, Qu Wuming simply gave up tracking along the trajectory of the worm's escape, but forcibly enlarged the detection range of the "Falling Star" orb, staring at the direction of the bug's progress from afar, no matter how it scurried around underground, Qu Wuming just stayed far behind, keeping the general direction good.

Gradually, the underground cave before had been left far behind by Qu Wuming, and it seemed that all around him were the semi-liquid, semi-solid rocks, and after a long time, Qu Wuming even had a trance feeling that he couldn't tell the difference between up and down, left and right, and didn't know where he was.

Fortunately, in the "field of vision" of the "Falling Star" orb, there is a shallow trace in front of the rock, and at the front of that trace is the insect with six legs that paddles rapidly, as if swimming in its own back garden.

Qu Wuming swallowed two pills to restore mana in one go, and asked Qu Wuxuan and Qu Siqiu to take the pills to restore mana respectively, and at the same time sat cross-legged on the Lingshi Square and frantically absorbed spiritual power, replenishing the mana that was taken away by Qu Wuming at any time, so that he could barely maintain the tracking of the insect and not be exhausted on the way.

Just when Qu Wuming had begun to wonder if his previous inference had been wrong—the bug had no hive at all, and it didn't have its population, it was just an ordinary strange bug that could eat hedrons, and the bug suddenly sped up and fled straight down.

"Good! Finally, it seems that we have a goal to move forward! Qu Wuming's spirit was lifted, and he said to himself, "I'm not afraid that you have a direction, I'm afraid that you will wander around!" If I continue to wander around like I did just now, I'm really afraid that I won't be able to afford it......"

Maybe it was because he heard Qu Wuming's "complaint", but the bug really didn't go around in circles this time, but always kept moving straight and continued to retreat diagonally.

Qu Wuming urged the "Falling Star" orb to follow far behind, and couldn't help but speed up a little, and in this way, after following the insect for about a hundred feet, he finally "saw" a behemoth appear in front of him from a distance......

In the field of vision of the "Falling Star" orb, a huge entity in the shape of an irregular bubble gradually narrowed the distance between Qu Wuming, and the insect had already landed on the "bubble", and its forefeet were picked up messily, making a small hole in the "bubble", and in a blink of an eye, it got into it and disappeared.

When Qu Wuming came closer, the stone wall in front of him had almost occupied all the sight, and I am afraid that the width of the cave inside was several times larger than the two largest places before!

Qu Wuming urged the "Falling Star" orb and turned into a yellow mang, slowly sinking into the stone wall......

"1 million words, is the editor there, is the editor-in-chief not? Can you give it to the last seven cats?"