dark moon

Chapter 245 Crystals
"It's a porter." Moria once proposed to name this kind of bugs worker bees, but Xiu Er rejected it because it was too immediate and sounded stupid. After Moria decided to name them Xiu Er, Before you, I gave them this name first. Although it is quite stupid, once the captain starts to use power for personal gain, it is quite helpless. "What are they hiding in there?"

"I knew we were giving birth to baby worker bees, but I didn't expect them to be shy. They would hide in no-one's places and wouldn't dare to have sex in public..."

"Call the porters. Besides, they are mutated from the cocoons of larvae and cannot give birth to small insects." Xiuer cruelly interrupted Lin Jing's thoughts and watched a dozen porters slowly crawling out from the target building.Compared to what they had seen before, they were a bit larger, or rather fatter, and even their movements became a bit sluggish.

"Of course you can't have children if you don't mate. Aren't they working hard?" While talking nonsense, the two of them stared at the move of the porters. The action was not smooth. There were bugs in the target building, which was not surprising. People expected it, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I was still a little disappointed.

Moreover, compared to the number of life breaths sensed in the building, there were very few bugs coming out. There were at least dozens of times the number of bugs in front of you. Thousands of bugs bigger than a human head were entrenched in a building. Just think about it. It makes people's scalp numb, it's like hell on earth.

The chubby porter passed in front of the two people and climbed to the supporter of the only nest building dozens of meters away. Under the surprised eyes of the two people, he pressed his abdomen full of dense holes against the supporter, and then became motionless.

"What are you doing? Imagine that you are raping..."

"I don't think there are any bugs that have special interest in a building." Before Moria could say anything, Shuer had guessed her bad words and quickly stopped her, "Is it my imagination? They It seems to be shrinking, like a balloon deflating.”

"It's not an illusion, I saw it too." Moria affirmed, "I understand, they sent the essence of life into the supporters, so they themselves became exhausted."

"Although your words are regrettable in every sense, I think you are right." Shuer sighed, "What do they seem to be transporting? Is it energy?"

"However, the fungus carpet has the function of transmitting energy. Wouldn't it be better if they just lay on the fungus carpet?"

"Perhaps the energy being transported is special. For example, the intensity is so high that the creep transmission pipeline cannot bear it, or the amount is so large that it will take a long time to transport the creep. It's not impossible."

"Well, indeed." The two turned their attention to the target building again. The porters came out of it. If they were really transporting something, they would definitely find the answer if they entered the building.

Fortunately, the door was open, and the two of them sneaked into the building like thieves, fearing to step on something they shouldn't touch.

In the two people's imagination, the target building should be like the factories they saw before, divided into several different workshops, which were filled with various equipment. On the production line, there were still many half-manufactured puppet parts. Once completed, there will be a huge assembly rack on the other side for the final process of assembling the mechanical body.

However, it turns out that this is not a factory at all.

This largest building actually has no partitions inside, it is just a giant empty room.There are almost no mechanical equipment in the empty house, except that every ten meters, there is a translucent glass column with a diameter of three meters, running up and down from the ceiling to the floor. The glass columns are arranged in a matrix, occupying almost all the internal space of the building.

If you carefully observe the inside of the glass column, you can vaguely see many pipes with special textures. Some of them are still shimmering with faint energy flowing inside.

There is only one area in the building that is not occupied by glass pillars. Right in the center of the building is a circular area with a radius of more than 30 meters. There are indeed no pillars here, but there are a large number of crystal clusters drilled out of the ground, almost reaching the ceiling. Some kind of huge and strange energy can be sensed in the crystal cluster. The energy is so powerful that Shuer and Moria feel deep pressure, as if they are facing a demigod that goes beyond the realm of living things.

Beside the crystal cluster, there are dozens of soul clan mechanical bodies scattered around. However, this kind of body has never been seen before. It is about the same height as a human or even shorter. There is a probe protruding from the head. The probe is hollow. All the way into the body.

"Haha, guys like the Soul Clan actually hide something like this." Xiuer recovered from his surprise and exhaled heavily, "Such a huge energy is enough to blow up several cities. However, such a strong energy , why can’t it be sensed outside? Is it because the building is special and can isolate energy fluctuations?”

"Shur, look at those bugs." Moria tugged on the hem of Shur's clothes and lowered her voice and said, "Do they have a special habit of not letting go of crystals?"

On the huge crystal cluster, there are a large number of porters densely packed with them. Their postures are exactly the same. They all press their abdomens against the crystal and remain motionless.Will a few swollen bugs fall from the crystal like blood-sucked locusts, and slowly walk towards the supporters outside like what the two saw not long ago? "They are collecting the energy of the crystals for their supporters?" Shuer thought further, "Then, they use the unknown method mentioned by Militi to transport the energy to their home base through the air."

"I'm afraid that's the case. I finally understand why the worker bees look like this. The small holes in their abdomens are probably used as energy pipelines." Moria clicked her tongue, "And look at this building. It seems that the soul clan also needs the energy of crystals. Look at the probes on the heads of these mechanical bodies, I think their functions are similar to those of worker bees."

"Call the porters, and maybe it was because of these crystals that the bugs occupied the Soul Clan's base. You see, there is no energy fluctuation felt from outside the building. It should be the Soul Clan's trick to deceive the bugs, but the result is not I know why it was exposed, which resulted in a swarm of insects.”

"Fortunately, there are no crystals in the human fortress, otherwise the bugs would have demolished it." Moria stuck out her tongue and said happily, "Then we will be the unlucky ones."

"Are you sure you haven't?" Xiure said with a half-smile, "Do you still remember? Wei mentioned a term several times, mining."

"Of course I don't remember, and I couldn't understand what she was saying. I just remember that some bastard mentioned that there was some kind of associated moss that would be encountered during mining, which could be used to make food."

"Ha, ha, moss is delicious." In order to avoid being beaten for talking more, Shur explained with a smile, "I always thought that mining was just a literal meaning, just like the most popular activity of dwarves. But seeing the bugs action, I suddenly felt that maybe the mining Wei mentioned was not just about mining metals, but also about collecting crystal energy?"

"Just like Parvatiga's magic tower absorbs the energy of the leyline nodes?"

"Yeah." Shuer nodded, "Otherwise, there is no need for humans to build a lonely fortress so close to the bugs for no reason, probably just to occupy the crystal."

"But why don't the bugs capture the human fortress? And if there are such important energy resources, why do humans abandon the fortress that they have worked so hard to build? Hasn't it been abandoned for several years?"

"I don't know about that. Maybe it's better to hide it on the human side. Who knows what the bugs are thinking and what the humans are thinking." Shuer shrugged indifferently, "The only thing I care about now is There's obviously not enough space to deploy a breakaway point here, and the glass pillars are just too much in the way."

"So we need to find the entrance to the underground part of the base?" Moria asked doubtfully, "I have always wanted to ask you, what will happen if we find it? If it is not captured by insects, then the door must be closed, you How do you plan to open it? Moreover, it seems that the Soul Clan's base has been shut down. Are you sure the entrance to the underground base can still be opened?"

"Actually, there is no pause. You see, you can still feel weak energy fluctuations in these glass pillars, and they are always changing." Shuer pressed his hand on a glass pillar and felt the subtle energy fluctuations with his heart. "This It means that the base is still secretly collecting energy at the door of the bugs' home. If it really stops, the energy fluctuations here should also disappear."

"Okay, even if you are right, then how do you open the door without telling the insects?" Moria asked, "Knock on the door, and then say, "Open the door, is it me?" Even if the door is opened, Bugs are not stupid, why can’t they find it? Well, they are really stupid.”

"Oh, of course I have a way." Xiuer said mysteriously and began to walk around in the huge room. "According to Wei, there are entrances to underground bases in several important buildings, which are as important as the collection room. There must be talent in the place, right?"

"What does the entrance look like?" Moria cast a meaningful glance at Xiure's location. It seems that this guy's bad habits cannot be changed in a short time. "Describe it to me and I will help you find it."

"Well, the entrance is hard to describe." After walking around a glass pillar, Xiuer paused in his steps. Regardless of whether Moria could see him or not, he pointed forward and said, "Here, that's it."

The bugs are all around the crystal, and between the heavy glass pillars, there is no trace of the bugs at all, and it looks empty.In a corner surrounded by glass pillars, a Soul Clan-style metal platform lay on the ground. The surface above the platform was entirely made of glass. It was pitch black under the glass and the specific situation could not be seen.

　Thanks to book friend Leng Xiaoxin for the reward of 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)