The Silent Wasteland is located in the southern hemisphere of the Black Ring.

Ji Xinghuo flew on a transport plane for several hours, crossed the equator, passed under the spectacular planetary rings, and sailed across the ocean for more than two hours to reach a continent in the southern hemisphere.

Looking out of the portholes, the land is full of shocking craters.

Once upon a time, this continent was the most prosperous place on the Black Ring.

But in the Great War more than 1,500 years ago, when the only satellite shattered and fell, most of the satellite fragments fell on the continent, completely changing the landscape.

Most of the continent, which was originally nearly 300 million square kilometers, was submerged by the ocean, forming countless islands of all sizes.

The Silent Wasteland is the largest remaining piece of land, covering more than 20 million square kilometers. It's called the "Silent Wasteland" because this area is like a dead place compared to the rest of the world.

After being bombarded by a meteorite, the entire continent was hit by a nuclear attack.

There are dozens of city ruins in the wasteland.

The entire Black Ring Star is full of similar ruins, and there is still nuclear contamination left, which has also caused countless monsters to mutate, which is very dangerous for ordinary people.

However, no matter how dangerous it is, there are many monster activities with life.

The silent wasteland was silent.

At least on the surface, it is one of the most dangerous areas on the Black Ring.

Because this wasteland is occupied by "earth eaters".

They are unique to the Black Ring Star, which is mutated by a species called "Driller" in the astral realm under nuclear radiation, and its scientific name is "Piercing Worm", which is more terrifying than Driller and difficult to hunt.

However, no matter how difficult the monsters are to hunt, they can't stop the hunters, and the xenomorphs of the Earth Eater are of high value, and Inhumans enter the Silent Wasteland all year round to adventure.

On the edge of the Silent Wasteland, there are several more strongholds.

The transport plane landed at a stronghold in the northern part of the wasteland.

Ji Xinghuo walked down.

This time, he didn't bring the Horned Cloud Deer, first, it was a little cumbersome and unusable, and second, the situation in the Silent Wasteland was not suitable for carrying a mount, so he deposited it in a war pet service center at the transit station.

It's a small stronghold, about the size of a small town, with only two crisscrossed streets as the main thoroughfare, and hundreds of buildings on either side.

However, there is a lot of foot traffic.

Ji Xinghuo's electromagnetic induction swept away, and the entire gathering point was clear at a glance. Stepping on the ground, it was very hard to the touch, and the entire underground of the gathering point was cast with steel, with an average thickness of more than five meters, apparently to prevent ground eating insects.

"What kind of free news, I don't know how many times it has been spread for a long time......" He couldn't help but complain as he watched the people coming and going in the gathering point.

There are two or three thousand people in a small gathering point.

Those hunting teams are almost all led by legendary powerhouses, and they are all of good strength; There are also many strong people at the level of the Heavenly King, and the electromagnetic induction just swept it at random, and found seven or eight, and none of them were easy to mess with.

You don't need to ask, you know, everyone is here for the magnitude black ring earth devouring insect.

Ji Xinghuo took a turn in the gathering point.

On the surface, he walked casually, but the electromagnetic induction enveloped the entire gathering point, locking on a densely populated place such as an inn and bar, focusing a little, receiving the sound wave signals caused by those people's speech, and translating them into content.

Soon, Ji Xinghuo grasped the key news.

"There are more and more people."

"There must be someone deliberately spreading the word to muddy the waters. Fuck, who's it exactly? ”

"Boss, there's no point in talking about this now, we must find that ground eater before anyone else!"

"How can it be so easy to ......"

"The most important thing for us now is to recruit new teammates and increase our strength."

It was a hunting party that had just returned from the wasteland, replenishing ammunition and food, water, and gear, and was gathering in a restaurant box to discuss in a whisper.

Ji Xinghuo learned from his words that they had learned the news of the Earth Devouring Insect more than twenty days ago, and entered the wasteland to look for it, but they found nothing, and they also lost two teammates.

There are three hunting parties in a similar situation.

Ji Xinghuo listened at the same time, and after a while, pieced together the fragmentary information.

It turned out that the first person to find the magnitude of the Earth Devourer was a team of three legendary powerhouses, and 35 days ago, they were attacked by the Earth Devourer in the center of the Silent Wasteland, and only one of them came back alive.

The only survivor was the Dan, and after healing in the southern stronghold of the wasteland, he began to form a new team to prepare for the hunt.

But the act was not secret, and the news was spread.

The second group of people who learned the inside story also secretly joined the hunt. In the following ten days, three teams found the target one after another, but all of them suffered heavy casualties, and only a few escaped.

Gradually, the news of the devouring insects spread completely, and more and more people rushed to the Silent Wasteland.

However, no one has found the ground eater so far.

The last time someone encountered it was 20 days ago, in the western part of the Silent Wasteland, more than 2,600 kilometers from the original encounter.

Ji Xinghuo opened the satellite map on his personal terminal and marked the location.

From the location where the ground eater was first discovered, to the last known location of the five occurrences, it was smoothly marked on the map in time.

It was clear that the magnitude devourer was moving westward.

Although there were two round trips during this period, the overall direction was getting closer and closer to the western part of the Silent Wasteland.

"To the west?"

Ji Xinghuo searched for information.

There is nothing special about the western part of the Silent Wasteland, which, like the rest of the wasteland, is filled with nuclear radiation and some urban ruins.

"Maybe not to the west, just misleading." Ji Xinghuo thought about it, the wisdom of the earthquake level monsters was already very high, and they couldn't be treated as ordinary monsters, but as a powerful enemy.

And 20 days have passed since it last appeared, and this message is likely to lose its relevance.

"Let's find it first." Ji Xinghuo shook his head secretly.

Finding a ground devouring insect in the more than 20 million square kilometers of wasteland is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Even if his perception is extremely strong, electromagnetic induction and the dark perspective of the Darkest Orb form a god's perspective, and the search efficiency is thousands of times higher than others, but whether you can find the target depends on luck.

Fortunately, there are a lot of ground devourers in the Silent Wasteland, but I don't know how much spiritual energy is provided.

At this time, Ji Xinghuo saw a store in front of him.

Specializing in flying motorcycles, this kind of motorcycle is different from the earth, it can fly at low altitudes, it is the best means of transportation in the silent wasteland, and it can avoid many dangers by staying off the ground.

Hunters are constantly entering the shop and buying flying motorcycles to fly out.

"It's also more convenient to buy one for cover."

Ji Xinghuo walked into the store.

Soon, he rode a black flying motorcycle that he bought for more than 5,000 real dragon coins, added two side boxes to the back, and then bought some supplies, packed them into boxes, and flew out of the gathering point alone.

There are a lot of lone wanderers like this and they don't go unnoticed by anyone.

Out of the stronghold, Ji Xinghuo flew in the southwest direction.

Boom Boom Boom ......

With the low roar of the engine, the flying motorcycle maintained an altitude of about 20 meters above the ground and galloped all the way according to the navigation.

Ji Xinghuo turned on the autopilot and looked down at the ground.

When I first entered the wasteland, the land was very desolate, with only a few shrubs and weeds, and as I went deeper than tens of kilometers, the vegetation gradually increased, sparse forests appeared, and the terrain began to undulate.

Ji Xinghuo's gaze saw through the ground, and the earth became transparent in his field of vision, although it was covered with black shadows, it was clear enough to see the situation underground.

At the deepest point, you can even see a thousand meters underground!

In a larger range, with a radius of 15 kilometers as the center, within the coverage of electromagnetic induction, all movements and stills are reflected in the brain and are under control.

"Ground Eaters?"

Ji Xinghuo immediately made a discovery.

He steered the motorbike and quickly approached the target.

Low-level ground eaters are accustomed to living in groups, and as they evolve and increase in strength, they will live in isolation and even devour their own kind.

Before he got closer, Ji Xinghuo's gaze penetrated the ground, and about two hundred meters underground, there were three Earth Devouring Insects.

They have the shape of worms, with only a torso and no limbs, but they are countless times larger than worms, the largest being just over seven meters long and more than one meter in diameter, and the other two smaller ones are more than five meters long.

"One is superior, two elites."

Ji Xinghuo saw through the situation of the Earth Devouring Insects and judged their strength level based on their energy reactions.

The ground eater grows extremely fast, and its average strength is much higher than that of ordinary monsters.

Suddenly, the largest ground eater moved.

"Perception is so acute!"

Ji Xinghuo was a little surprised.

On the way he had read about the Earth Eaters, the most notable of which was their powerful sense of touch.

All ground eaters have a "hole micro-touch", when they are lurking underground, they rely on this super sense of touch to find prey passing on the ground, and then silently go upstream to attack.

Ji Xinghuo was more than 500 meters away from them, and he was flying in mid-air, and the sound of the engine of the flying motorcycle came to the ground, producing extremely faint vibrations, which could be detected by them.

"It's definitely more than just a little touch."

"It should have something to do with the geological environment here, so that they are more sensitive to vibrations."

Ji Xinghuo pretended to be unknown and continued to fly past.

The three Earth Eaters swim rapidly underground, and they all have the ability to "retreat", and the thick soil is like seawater, bypassing the rocks in the way, moving without making any movement, and quickly rising to the surface.

At this moment, Ji Xinghuo's flying motorcycle arrived.

The Earth Eater suddenly raised its head, its tip poking out of the ground, and then splitting open, forming a terrifying mouth with sharp fangs on its inner walls, and spewing out a huge cloud of gray-white slime towards the Ji Xinghuo in the sky.

The mass of slime was as big as a water tank, and it fired at an extremely fast rate, like a cannonball blasting into the sky.

At the same time, the gravity within a few hundred meters of the surrounding area increased suddenly.

Ground Eaters have gravity-altering abilities, and their gravitational effects stack together, often casting them together when they hunt their target.

The other two ground eaters increased their gravity and spewed gray slime from different directions.

The flying motorcycle sinks violently.

With Ji Xinghuo, it is like a prey that falls into a spider's web.

But in the next second, with a bang, Ji Xinghuo and the flying motorcycle instantly accelerated, flying out of the gravity field of the Earth Devourer, and three clouds of gray and white slime exploded behind him, but they didn't touch him at all.

Bang!

The sky lit up, and thunder roared.

Three psionic lightning bolts slashed down, striking three Earth Devourers respectively, and splitting the weaker two into charcoal on the spot.

The strongest Earth Devourer let out a strange roar from its mouth, and it was about to shrink back to the ground immediately, Ji Xinghuo grabbed it in the air, and the entire land was overturned by an invisible force, and the huge insect body in it was also lifted into the air.

When he first arrived in the Silent Wilderness, Ji Xinghuo found that the metal content in the soil here was extremely high, and it was abnormally high.

By manipulating the metal, you can control things in the air.

The Earth Eater was lifted to the sky, and before it landed, it was shot a few times by Ji Xinghuo with a Lizi pistol, and the gray plasma burst out.

He was dead when he hit the ground.

【Spiritual Energy +75】

"So much?"

Ji Xinghuo was overjoyed, it was just a super-monster, and he actually absorbed 75 points of spiritual source.

The other two elite-level ones also have more than 30 points.

That's more than the spiritual source provided by the Dark Eater, and on average, it's at least 15 points higher!

"It's the right time."

Ji Xinghuo drove the flying motorcycle down, and the more than seven-meter-long ground devouring insects were lying in front of him, feeling a little shocked.

The ground eaters have brown skin, covered with a layer of rock skin, and emit the smell of soil, which is not unpleasant, similar to the common smell of earth, this smell masks them, making them more difficult to detect, but it is useless for Ji Xinghuo.

He reached out and pressed it, and the information interface popped up in front of him.

[Monster: Black Ring Earth Devourer]

【Grade: Superior】

[Xenomorphism: Rock Skin, Trauma Transfer, Rapid Recovery, Mucus Spray, Hole Micro-Touch, Retreat, Gravity Mutation]

Six xenospecies, all of which are of good quality.

Ji Xinghuo checked the corpses of the other two Earth Devouring Insects, and the xenomorphs were almost the same, only a few less.

And then there are some difficulties.

The body of the ground eater is too large, and it is troublesome to collect xenomorphs.

"Can't be wasted." Ji Xinghuo finally started to collect, killing the prey but not aliens, try not to do this kind of thing that goes against common sense.

He wielded his electric blade to slash through the corpse, slicing out the xenos hidden inside, and throwing them into the side box of the flying motorcycle.

Then take off and move on.

Not far away, Ji Xinghuo found two more Earth Devouring Insects.

He deliberately approached to make noises, attracting them to come out of the ground and attack, killing them easily, harvesting spiritual energy and gathering xenomorphs.

The search efficiency of electromagnetic induction is too high, no matter how deep the ground devouring insects are hidden, they can't escape Ji Xinghuo's eyes, and they won't let go of any one they find, so the speed of progress has been greatly delayed.

However, Ji Xinghuo is not tired of it.

Compared with the elusive earthquake devouring insects, he prefers to harvest spiritual source energy, which is more realistic.

It's best to be able to find the magnitude of the earthquake devourer, and if you can't find it, forget it.

With such an idea, Ji Xinghuo stopped and stopped, and from time to time he made detours, and only advanced less than 300 kilometers in half a day.

But the harvest is full.

On the first day he entered the Silent Wasteland, he had harvested more than 8,000 points of spiritual energy!

"What a great place!"

"If nothing else, I can kill the earth devourers in the Silent Wasteland......" At night, Ji Xinghuo looked at the starry sky that was completely different from the earth, and couldn't help but sigh.

(End of chapter)