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Chapter 3 Catching Rock Crystal Ants
Huainan City is backed by Yu Cang Mountain.

Going north out of the city, you will see mountains rising from the ground, with majestic mountains and jagged rocks.

Lin Anqian ran from the city to the foot of the mountain in one breath, and stopped at a depression.

There was a young girl squatting there, holding a branch in her hand and fiddling with something on the ground, her expression was a little anxious.

Seeing this, Lin Anqian ran forward, fiddled in the bag, and apologized to the woman: "Liu Yiyi, I'm sorry, I'm late."

The woman named Liu Yiyi raised her head when she heard the sound, and seeing that it was Lin Anqian, her frowning brows relaxed, and she shouted excitedly as if seeing a savior: "You've come! Look, it's out now!" It’s a lot, pack it up quickly, don’t let them get away!”

Lin Anqian glanced at the ground, and saw that there was a hole the size of an egg in the ground, and there was a group of ants the size of a fingernail crawling back and forth. There was a piece of bark beside it, and many ants gathered on it, but they didn't move much. , as if stuck.

Seeing this, Lin Anqian didn't say much, and took out a wooden tube from her bag.

On both sides of the wooden tube were two metal tubes, Lin Anqian opened one of them and stretched it out in front of Liu Yiyi.

Liu Yiyi picked up two branches casually, sandwiched the piece of bark and the ants on it, and carefully put them into the wooden barrel.

Lin Anqian immediately closed the wooden tube, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and smiled at each other.

Liu Yiyi stood up, stretched her numb legs, and said angrily, "Why did you take so long to come? If you were later, the rock crystal ant would have dragged the whole bark into the hole."

"Something happened in the store, let's deal with it."

Lin Anqian was a little embarrassed. Originally, she was going back to get the bag, but in the end, she wasted a lot of time on making a deal, which caused Liu Yiyi to wait. If these rock crystal ants returned to their caves, their efforts would be wasted.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yiyi quickly asked, "What's the matter? What happened in the store? Is it important?"

She has a round face, a pair of big dark eyes, and she speaks crisply and sweetly, revealing a youthful vigor.

"It's okay. Then let's go to the next one quickly, don't let them drag into the hole." Lin Anqian didn't dare to delay any longer, put the wooden tube back into the bag, and continued walking with Liu Yiyi.

They found several ant holes near here, and willow bark coated with honey was placed in each of them to attract ants. Lin Anqian was delayed returning to the city for a long time, and did not know what happened to the remaining willow bark.

The two walked a few more places. Fortunately, the bark was relatively large and was not dragged into the hole, but some of them were also eaten into small pieces by rock crystal ants and moved into the ant hole, so they still lost a lot.

Liu Yiyi felt a little regretful: "It would be better if I used thicker wood, or a metal plate, so I could delay a little longer."

Lin Anqian frowned, shook his head and said: "No, this rock crystal ants are different from ordinary ants. They mainly eat the ore in the ground, and they are not interested in ordinary food at all. They cannot be attracted by other wood or metal. they."

"Ah? Didn't we attract you with honey?" Liu Yiyi's eyes widened, and she looked at Lin Anqian in surprise.

"The honey is just there to stick them. It's the willow bark that attracts them."

"how do you know?"

Liu Yiyi was very curious. You must know that rock crystal ants usually live in underground veins, and basically never appear on the ground, so you can only see rock crystal ants when the Tianyan faction is mining.

But now Lin Anqian can use willow bark to attract rock crystal ants, which completely subverts her cognition.

"Many animals, although they are not herbivorous, occasionally feel unwell. At this time, they will eat grass to recuperate their stomachs."

"I have seen rock crystal ants on the willow trees beside the Bianguan River. I guess, although they eat ore, they also eat the willow bark occasionally, because the willow bark contains salicylic acid, which is the ingredient of aspirin."

"What is aspirin?"

Lin Anqian spoke quickly, saying that she was bald, but she was speechless when asked by Liu Yiyi, and she didn't know how to explain it.

While talking, the two walked to an ant hole again, but there were no rock crystal ants on the willow bark here, and no rock crystal ants entered or exited the hole next to it.

Liu Yiyi immediately forgot the question just now, looked at the willow bark with some frustration and muttered, "Why doesn't this piece even have rock crystal ants?"

"Let's look further ahead." Lin Anqian leaned over to inspect the bark, then got up and continued walking.

The two walked a few more places, and there were no rock crystal ants except for one row.

"Could it be that these caves have been abandoned? Shall we try to find some more?" Liu Yiyi was a little unwilling.

She picked up the willow bark on the ground, ready to find a new ant nest.

"Show me." Lin Anqian took the piece of willow bark from Liu Yiyi's hand, and found that the honey on it was a bit pulled and silky, something should have stuck to it.

"The bark has been stuck to rock crystal ants, but it's gone. Could it be that someone got there first?"

"No way, we didn't see anyone along the way." Liu Yiyi took back the willow bark and looked at it, and said angrily: "Who is this! Want to eat for free?! Let me catch him, see if I don't pick him up skin!"

Lin Anqian was no longer as gentle as before, her eyes became sharper, the corners of her mouth were drawn into a line, and she said coldly, "Let's keep our voices down, and go ahead and take a look."

"it is good!"

The two twirled their hands and feet, and continued to walk through the rocks.

Not too far away, Lin Anqian grabbed Liu Yiyi, winked, and signaled her to look ahead.

At a crevice in the stone ahead, there is a long and narrow body covered with scales, four thick and short animals with flat and long tails.

"It's a stone scale armor." Liu Yiyi recognized it at a glance, because she had seen this kind of monster before. It feeds on ants and some insect larvae, and it is not very aggressive.

I saw that the head of the stone scale armor was conical, and it was stretching its tongue to eat the rock crystal ants on the bark of the willow tree. The scale armor on its back glowed with a faint blue light in the setting sun.

Lin Anqian also felt that the stone scale armor looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"The armor of the stone scale armor is a very good material for refining weapons. It can also be used as medicine. It can be used as a elixir. Its claws can be refined into talisman weapons. Its whole body is a treasure!"

Liu Yiyi was still indignant just now, but now she became a little excited when she saw the stone scale armor. After all, this stone scale armor is much more valuable than rock crystal ants. If she catches it, her admission fee will be fully covered.

Afraid of disturbing the stone scale armor, she approached Lin Anqian and asked in a low voice, "Qianqian, do you have any tools to grab the stone scale armor?"

Lin Anqian had been thinking about where she had seen this monster before, and only after hearing Liu Yiyi's words did she come to her senses.

That's right, don't you know if you grab it and have a look?
She dug out a crossbow-like thing from her bag, aimed at the stone scale armor and pulled the trigger.

The crossbow immediately shot a ball and flew towards the stone scale armor.

The ball exploded in mid-air, forming a net, which accurately caught the stone scale armor.

"Qianqian, you are amazing!" Liu Yiyi jumped up and ran towards the net.

"Slow down, don't get hurt by it." Although Lin Anqian covered the stone scale armor, she was still afraid that it would have other attacks.

She quickly put away the crossbow and followed closely behind.

"No, it will only shrink when it encounters danger, use..."

Before Liu Yiyi could finish her sentence, she saw that the stone scale armor had disappeared from the net.

"Huh? Why is it missing?!"

(End of this chapter)