Chapter 270 The sandstorm is raging
The next day, when Zhou Lu was preparing information for the next secret exploration, Ye Qingyu knocked on his door.
When she knocked on the door, Hanabi was happily cleaning the room in her maid outfit that she had grown out.
Seeing Hua Huo opening the door for her, Ye Qingyu was stunned for a moment: "Have you already had so much fun?"
Hua Huo greeted Ye Qingyu very happily. call.
This cute appearance and this very interesting-looking maid outfit made Ye Qingyu's eyes light up: "How do you grow this dress? Can my little kite learn it?"
Hua Huo tilted her head in confusion: " This shouldn't be difficult..."
"Hey, teach my little Yuan another day." Ye Qingyu showed an excited expression.
"Sister Qingyu, aren't you going to send the research and development results?" Zhou Lu put down his work, looked at Ye Qingyu, and asked curiously.
Ye Qingyu said with a smile: "It is too exaggerated to produce the finished product today after sending out the requirements yesterday. It will also make the front line think that our research and development is very easy, and they will continue to make outrageous demands."
"Um...can you fish in this kind of thing?" Zhou Lu complained.
"It can't be said that it's a fish-out. We also need time to verify whether Xiaoqing's moss is really effective." Seeing that Zhou Lu had misunderstood, Ye Qingyu explained.
"Okay." Zhou Lu just asked casually, "So, what do you want to see me for? Has the competition to ask Daomu to re-select a beast master begun?"
"That's not that fast." Ye Qingyu shook her head, and then said, "This time there is a commission, see if you are interested in accepting it."
"Commission?"
"A commission from the Development Army." Ye Qingyu introduced, "They need a spirit pet that can withstand a large range of sand and dust spirit beasts to help develop the mine. They sent the request to me. Originally, they wanted You asked me to go, but I thought of you.”
Ye Qingyu is the deputy captain of the nursing team. In the official system, the deputy captain of the nursing team is basically the most powerful person in the nursing team. Indeed. It's busy with official duties.
Speaking of this, she sighed and said: "In recent times, attacks on orphaned pets have become more and more frequent in various places. I need to organize a task force to investigate this matter."< br>
“Is it a mission in the secret realm?”
“Well, the pioneering army encountered difficulties in exploring the secret realm that has not yet been opened.” Ye Qingyu said.
After Zhou Lu heard this, he readily agreed.
An unknown secret that has not yet been opened?
It should be more interesting to explore than to go to the known secret place.
He was also curious about the secret realms that had not been visited by beast masters before.
According to existing scientific theory, all secret places in this world are essentially part of the world.
The secret realm occupied by the immortals is actually only a part of it.
Based on the information left by their ancestors, humans have basically explored all the secret realms where the Immortal Sects are located.
The remaining secret realms are either rarely known, or have simply never been visited.
These unknown secret realms, in addition to providing people with a variety of special spiritual beasts that have never been seen before, will also produce a large number of special minerals.
Some of these valuable mineral deposits are not even open to the public.
Zhou Lu read these in the newspapers, and the reports above accused the officials covertly and overtly, urging them to open up these secret mineral deposits.
This time, the mission Zhou Lu accepted came from a secret place in the desert.
Hua Huo Cao Sheng saw a real desert for the first time.
Coming out of the temporary teleportation point, it looked at the rolling yellow sand in front of it with a curious expression.
The yellow sand blocks out the sky and the sun, and the entire sky is dyed with a layer of earthy yellow.
The teleportation point is in the center of the Pioneer Army's camp, so when Zhou Lu comes here, he directly enters the Pioneer Army's camp.
The commander here has long known about Zhou Lu’s arrival from the logistics department.
A tall, handsome and dark boy greeted him.
The moment I saw this person, the system task jumped out.
After Zhou Lu took a look, he directly chose to skip it.
Now Hanabi's top priority is to accumulate attributes.
As for system tasks, he only needs to know that the man named Lin Kexing in front of him is from his camp.
Lin Kexing didn’t know that Zhou Lu had known his name and background through the system. He smiled and stretched out his hand to Zhou Lu: "Hello, I am Lin Kexing, the deputy commander of this pioneering army. "
Zhou Lu replied politely: "Hello."
Then he saw Lin Kexing's embarrassed expression.
Following Lin Kexing's gaze, Hanabi was curiously pulling at the sand on the ground with her roots.
After realizing that she was being watched by everyone, Hanabi immediately stood up straight and hid behind Zhou Lu.
“The sandy soil here is relatively compact, and we specially let the plant spiritual pets solidify.” Lin Kexing introduced to Zhou Lu, “But after leaving the camp, the outside environment becomes worse, even for plants Many spiritual pets cannot adapt to such a dry environment."
As he spoke, Lin Kexing led Zhou Lu towards his temporary residence.
"We plan to set off in the afternoon, go to the location where we last penetrated, and then continue to explore further." Lin Kexing invited Zhou Lu to sit down, and then brought some food and tea, "The frontline supplies are tight, and there are still Please forgive me.”
"Didn't you say that supplies were carried out not long ago?" Zhou Lu asked curiously.
Speaking of this, Lin Kexing's face changed slightly: "Those bastards in the logistics have included those mushrooms in our consumption. If we don't live frugally, we will have to eat those damn things later. Delicious mushrooms.”
The man in front of me seems to have a very strong opinion on delicious mushrooms, and when he mentioned this, he even lost his good manners before.
Zhou Lu smiled awkwardly.
Fortunately, Sister Xiaoqing did not let me experiment when she made the final product, otherwise I would probably break through the defense like him now.
"Zhou Lu?" At this moment, Xu Dalong walked in.
When he saw Zhou Lu sitting opposite Lin Kexing, he was also surprised.
Immediately, he understood: "Are you the beastmaster who came over to assist us?"
When Zhou Lu saw Xu Dalong, he immediately asked: "You are the squad leader's brother, Hello! I often hear the monitor mention you.”
When Xu Dalong appeared, the system also popped up a task prompt.
Even though Zhou Lu had never met Xu Dalong, he recognized him immediately.
“You actually know me.” Xu Dalong laughed loudly and raised his hand to pat Zhou Lu on the shoulder, “It seems that you caught the wrong-toothed dog outside. Aren’t you from Xin’an College? How could you run away? Went to New Guangdong.”
“Exchange and study.”
Xu Dalong really didn’t expect that when he saw Zhou Lu again, this young man who seemed so young at first would actually be. He is a fourth-level beast master at the same level as himself.
This growth rate is too exaggerated.
And looking at the fireworks next to Zhou Lu, there have also been huge changes.
The last time I saw the other person, it was a small grass huddled in a white jade volute.
“I thought it was Ye Qingyu coming over.” Xu Dalong chatted with Zhou Lu.
In fact, when he made the request, he had already thought about the person he wanted to come.
Ye Qingyu’s spiritual pet, Bigleaf Iris, is also famous as a quasi-divine pet. "Okay, come with us in the afternoon. We have to find a way to drive away the sand spirit beast." Xu Dalong didn't chat for too long, and soon brought the topic back to the topic.
As he said that, he looked at Hanabi, smiled and said, "The rest is up to you, little guy."
"I'm not a little guy." Hanabi retorted subconsciously.
Then he suddenly realized that Zhou Lu was embarrassed by this, and immediately wanted to apologize.
"Hahaha, that's right. I forgot that you have grown up." Xu Dalong didn't care about this at all, and laughed, "I'll tell you about the sand spirit beast I figured out later. Let me tell you the characteristics and you will have less work.”
“Thank you”
Judging from the information at hand, the sand spirit beast encountered by the Pioneer Army was definitely not simple.
A spirit beast that can affect the environment on a large scale, even if it is a favorable terrain, is a spiritual beast that starts at the fourth level.
Although he believed in Hua Huo's strength, Zhou Lu did not slack off at all and carefully examined the characteristics of the enemy summarized by Xu Dalong.
No specific entity found.
It will cause the sky to be full of yellow sand.
Invoke the immortal Sandman soldiers when necessary.
The others are actually okay, the main thing is that this one has no entity...
Is it really that there is no entity, or has the entity not been discovered yet?
These are two completely different concepts.
In any case, after having some confidence in his mind, Zhou Lu followed the large troops to the front line of development.
As Lin Kexing said, after leaving the camp, the environment suddenly became bad.
The yellow sand in the sky almost blocked all sight.
"Sure enough. As soon as we retreated, it occupied it again." Xu Dalong looked at the sandstorm in front of him and frowned.
Although he had anticipated it when he ordered the retreat, when he saw this situation, he still found it a bit tricky.
“Is this the sand dust I want to deal with?” After hearing Xu Dalong’s words, Zhou Lu also showed a bewildered expression.
He looked at the rolling yellow sand in front of him.
No matter how you look at it, this is a specific weather under a specific environment.
Is it actually a spiritual beast?
"Yes. It is very cautious. Maybe it knows our strength, so it just besieged us and did not attack."
During the initial confrontation, Xu Dalong did not fight with Shachen. Through the battle.
But that was not the true body of Shachen, but the giant sandman made of sand by the other party.
It was precisely because of that battle that Shachen knew the strength of these people, and he never launched a frontal attack again. He mainly dealt with the pioneering army by harassing and blocking them.
"Is there a way to fix the sand?" Xu Dalong asked for advice.
Although they can continue to move forward relying on the wrong-toothed dogs, if this fundamental problem cannot be solved and they will have to worry about sand and dust attacks every time they mine in the future, it will be a disaster for future generations.
"I'll let Hua Huo try it." Zhou Lu nodded and said.
Hanabi received the master's order and immediately entered a fighting state.
I saw it lifting its leaf skirt, and its roots poured into the soft sand.
In an instant, the sand and soil for hundreds of miles around entered a solidified state and were firmly grasped by the roots of the fireworks.
At the same time, at the nodes of these root systems, tall and enlarged branches grew like crazy, and soon a small forest was formed.
The leaves of these plants blocked all the surging sand and dust, and soon a layer of sand condensed on the surface of the leaves.
As the branches shook, all the sand fell to the ground, and was instantly fixed by the roots of the branches.
Lin Kexing was dumbfounded when he saw this scene: "Fuck..."
He has also seen plant spiritual pets, and quasi-gods have also seen them, but this scene He really hasn't seen it.
Can the quasi-god’s spiritual pet be able to transform a forest into a forest with just one thought?
“We can pass through temporarily.” Zhou Lu said to Xu Dalong beside him, “There will be no sand and dust in the woods.”
But beyond the trees, sand was flying wildly.
However, the wind force of the sandstorm has weakened significantly. It seems that the fireworks still have some effect on solidifying the sand.
"I found its traces." Hua Huo suddenly said, "Although he ran very fast, I felt it."
Xu Dalong was also ecstatic when he heard this: "Really Then let’s go and look for him!”
“…It’s not that easy to find,” Hua Huo said again, while looking for clues about the other party, “The other party just showed his breath. He ran away decisively."
"At least it proves that it has an entity." Zhou Lu suddenly became excited, "As long as we find the entity, we can defeat it."
As he said that, Zhou Lu looked at Hua Huo and asked, "No Did he leave any parasitic ramets on his body? "
" He ran too fast and basically ran away with a trace of his breath." Hanabi thought for a while and said, "These sands have lost their spirituality now, look. It’s because the other party gave up the operation.”
Are you so stubborn?
Zhou Lu was not sure whether the other party would have to pay a price for expanding the sand, but at least he knew that the other party was very cautious and even timid.
Facing such an enemy, we must strive to kill him with one strike. A little slack will give the opponent a chance to escape.
According to Xu Dalong, there are very rich mineral deposits under this desert, which can basically meet the energy needs of the real world for the next three hundred years.
If this unknown spiritual beast is not caught, its current hostility towards humans will definitely cause it to continue to cause trouble to humans during the subsequent mining process.
And this is one of the reasons why Xu Dalong asked the logistics to find foreign aid.
Since you have encountered a problem, you have to find a way to solve it.
You can't just trust the wisdom of future generations for any problem, right?
“Keep going.” Zhou Lu used empathy and checked it again with Hanabi’s perception, and then said, “I want to see how long it can hide.”
Since As soon as Hanabi took action, the opponent showed the courage of a strong man to cut off his wrist.
I would rather give up part of my body than fight head-on with the beast masters. This move made Zhou Lu more determined to capture the opponent.
A spiritual beast that controls sandstorms on a large scale.
If its ability is not weak, Zhou Lu would still be quite interested.
After I was promoted to the fourth level, I still had one beast-control slot without a contract.
He does lack a means of large-scale control.
Although fireworks can be done, it will consume a lot of ramets and is not actually cost-effective.
As for the contract with Dao Mu or other divine beasts, let me first say that this matter has no impact in the first place. Even if you really win it, it is another contract.
(End of this chapter)