Chapter 172: The Tide of Hidden Poison Insects
The Yueshan Ruins are not a popular secret place.
When Zhou and Lu were looking for a suitable place to camp, they did not encounter any beast masters.
“Every once in a while, there will be a wave of insects here.”
Xu Wuhu has obviously done enough strategy.
He made a point of emphasizing this when building the camp.
The insect swarm in the Yueshan ruins is also famous in the circle of beast masters.
It is precisely because of the existence of the insect tide that even beast masters who are in need of materials in the Yueshan ruins will generally not enter the secret realm during this season.
Every autumn and winter are exactly the times when insect infestations occur most frequently in the Yueshan ruins.
Many people speculate that this is because the resources of the Yueshan Ruins are limited, so many insect-like spirit beasts will use this method to compete for resources in the autumn and winter.
Except for secret realms with special environments such as snowy secret realms, the seasons in most secret realms change along with the main world.
This is also one of the arguments in academic circles that the secret realm is a small world separated by immortals from the main world.
Zhou Lu naturally also considered this issue.
So when he was building the camp, he specifically asked Hanabi to create an insect-proof net using vines and slime.
"This should be no problem." Zhou Lu looked at the arrangement in front of him and nodded.
Night time.
The first wave of insect waves began after Zhou Lu entered the secret realm of Yueshan Ruins.
Pitch-black flying insects came from all directions, like a black wave, sweeping across the entire camp in an instant.
In the air, the sound of flying insect wings vibrating is endless.
Zhou Lu felt his ears buzzing, and his whole brain was being vibrated and hit by the insect's wings.
"Fuck...this is too exaggerated..." Zhou Lu said in shock as he looked at the black bugs accumulating on the firework vine web.
At this time, Hanabi's slime has completely lost its effect.
Countless bugs paved the way with their bodies in an instant.
If Hanabi hadn't reacted quickly enough to weave a circular dome with vines and enveloped the entire camp, they might have been swamped by this black bug by now.
“It’s a poisonous insect.”
Xu Wuhu looked at the fish that occasionally flew in and slipped through the net, and said.
Although Hanabi has weaved the vine shield as finely as possible, the quick weaving did not have time to add the [Lilliputian] skill, which allowed many hidden poisonous insects to get in through the gaps in the vines. .
The toxicity of cryptotoxins is not low.
Once bitten by it, the skin at the bite site will ulcerate in a very short time.
Zhou Lu naturally didn't want to put himself in such a dangerous situation.
Hanabi was already in action now.
As an expert in catching insects, it weaved several insect-catching nets and began to catch poisonous insects that broke through the outer vine defense.
And Benben, at this time, has also turned into a mosquito killer lamp.
Because the outside was completely covered by the poisonous insect swarm, the camp became pitch black under the vine dome.
In order to better bring out Benben’s “performance”, Zhou Lu even gave Benben a special light.
Benben looked at the bugs coming towards him and was unable to complain.
Get used to it.
I am really used to this kind of thing.
"If this continues, we may be starved of oxygen."
Xu Wuhu frowned as he looked at the situation in front of him.
Countless cryptid bugs clog any crack they can find.
The layers of insects were so tightly packed that it was difficult for outside air to enter the camp at this time. Judging from what Hanabi observed from the branches left outside, this wave of hidden poisonous insects that enveloped the entire Tsukiyama ruins would probably not show any signs of ending for a while.
“It seems that we are very unlucky.” Zhou Lu said helplessly, “The scale of this insect tide is much larger than what we saw in the data.”
With that said, he called for Hanabi.
At this time, Hanabi had given up on running around catching bugs by herself.
It arranged many branches in the camp, and each branch grew several insect-catching vine nets.
Under the constant changes of cells in the roots of the vines, these insect trapping nets will sway regularly in the air.
In this way, they can stick to all the bugs they encounter along the way.
What Hanabi has to do is to pick the net bag that is full of insects like a fruit farmer.
Hanabi crushed the corpses of these poisonous insects into small insect cakes.
Then they were thrown into the newly lit bonfire as fuel.
The porous structure of insect cake makes it a very flammable fuel.
Amidst the crackling sounds of insects, the smell of burnt protein began to fill the air.
The bonfire is getting hotter and brighter.
But in this case, the air crisis will be more serious, right?
Xu Wuhu was about to raise this question, and then he saw Zhou Lu asking Hua Huo to take out some spores from its volute.
Raise your hand and scatter the spores on the ground.
As if feeling the heat of the campfire, these spores began to grow rapidly.
After a while, black and white mushrooms appeared in front of Xu Wuhu.
"The goddess of night fungus." Zhou Lu introduced to Xu Wuhu, "A mushroom that absorbs heat and converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and discharges it."
This was also collected from Wu Xiaoqing's laboratory.
However, this is not the result of Wu Xiaoqing's experiment, but a brand new strain of bacteria she discovered in the wild.
Since the technology of industrial oxygen production has been very perfect, Wu Xiaoqing has not thought about their use yet.
The reason Hanabi brought them was simply because these Night Goddess fungi were very beautiful.
It wants to use these mushrooms to decorate its small room.
What I didn’t expect was that these decorative mushrooms would come in handy at a time like this.
“But they will quickly consume the heat of the bonfire.” Zhou Lu said to Xu Wuhu, “We can’t let the bonfire go out.”
So the two of them also joined in adding cryptotoxic insects to the bonfire. Among the cake team.
Considering the safety of the two beast masters, Hanabi will leave a special leaf during the process of making insect cakes.
The night passed very long.
The tide of cryptotoxic bugs did not slowly subside until the sunrise the next day.
Due to the accumulation of too many bugs, Hanabi's vine dome could not hold up and sank.
Xiao Caocao had to weave a few pillars out of vines to strengthen the support.
Poof!
Xu Wuhu used brute force to tear a hole in the dome.
In an instant, countless insect corpses fell down, engulfing him.
Hua Huo on the side was already ready to clean up, and Xu Wuhu was cleaned up in a short time.
Breathing the air again, Xu Wuhu felt that his spirit was much clearer.
Although the goddess of the night bacteria can produce oxygen.
But the smell produced by the burning of a large number of insects still gives people a suffocating feeling.
When they got to the back, the two of them even ate a few red leaf mushrooms before they fainted from the poisonous gas produced by the burning.
"It seems that this trip may be much more difficult than we imagined." Zhou Lu said helplessly as he looked at the camp that was messed up by the corpses of the hidden poisonous insects.
(End of this chapter)