Otherworldly Skeleton

"These ghost things will become waste in winter, hahaha." The rude man with a height of nearly two meters sat by the fire and arrogantly chewed dried meat strips. Judging from the excellent meat color and perfect shape, this meat Tiao is a high-quality dry goods store in the Lan Empire, which can be regarded as valuable dry food. This rude big man obviously has good financial resources.

Rick's pimple face collapsed tightly, and he muttered softly while nibbling on the wheat cake in his hand, occasionally glancing at the rude big man with unpleasant eyes.

As always, Aixi sipped her saliva lightly, as if he never needed to eat, her pale red eyes stared at the darkness to the west, and her fingers brushed the longbow around her waist intentionally.

Howard also accidentally closed his restless mouth, sat quietly beside Rick and Ai Xi, closed his eyes and meditated, the elemental fluctuations in this black land were very weak, and it would take him a longer time to get in touch with the elements. communicate.

"Hahaha!" A series of loud laughter almost interrupted Howard's meditation, Rick looked angrily at the rude man who laughed, and saw that the bone hunter who claimed to be from Edinburgh Snow Mountain was full of bright red meat Mo, while spouting and laughing, he exaggeratedly told others the story of his fighting against skeletons and strong bones. A dozen bone hunters gathered around him and listened with gusto.

Rick put the wheatbread back into his arms and wanted to knock out the rude guy's teeth. He moved his buttocks and was about to stand up when suddenly a slender and firm hand held him down.

"Aisie, what are you doing?" Rick's eyes were full of rage.

Aixi looked at Ximian quietly, with no expression on her pretty face: "You need to learn to control your anger, Rick."

"That guy is too arrogant, he just laughed at Howard, I have to let him know Rick's fist." Rick desperately wanted to stand up, but the slender hand was able to press him firmly on the ground.

"If he can leave Skull Continent alive, I will let you cut off his tongue." Aixi said calmly, as calmly as if saying "a snowflake fell on your shoulder".

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Lu Yan finally knew how Ke Erwen lured the bone ants, and it turned out to be so simple.

Skeleton ants will not take the initiative to leave the range of 50 meters from the white wood forest, so Ke Erwen asked a group of skeletons to stand 50 meters away and throw a thick rope loop towards the white wood forest. Pull the white wood out of the ground abruptly.

After the white wood is pulled out, its roots are cut off and boiled with the soul-inducing water that is about to expire. When the water boils, it will emit a sweet and oily smell. All bone ants are attracted.

Therefore, as long as the distance between the "white wood root soup" and the white wood forest is adjusted, the number of bone ants to be attracted can be selected.

Let Ke Erwen try it a few times, and his method is really effective. At most, it can attract nearly a thousand bone ants at a time. Lu Yan stood at the nearest safe distance to carefully observe the movements of the bone ants. After several times, he finally thought of it. The best ant killer program ever.

"Boss Ke Erwen, there is a small lake to the south of the newborn soul gap, do you still remember?"

"Of course I remember, it's only 5 kilometers away from us, very close!"

"Well, let your hands go down and dig through the ice, bring some lake water over, and unload all the goods on the cattle platform, and use as much water as possible."

"Okay, what else can I order?" Although he didn't understand what Lu Yan was going to do, Ke Erwen still believed in Lu Yan's strategy after the battle in Guzajian Mountain Depression.

"Except for the skeletons collecting soul-inducing water by the edge of the newborn soul gap, all others work together with my subordinates." Lu Yan pointed to the front of Baimulin: "We are going to dig a big hole there."

Lu Yan sent 10 red bones, two by two, divided into 5 groups and took different routes to report back to Heishui City, while he himself led more than 70 red bones to stay, trying to train well before the arrival of the brigade of skeletons , and at the same time guard this important Baimu forest.

He and the red bones started the hard excavation work with the iron tools they found in the valley between the bones. Half of Kerwin's men were transporting water, and a dozen other men were setting up collection engines beside the Soul Gap. The soul water device, and the remaining nearly [-] skeletons helped Lu Yan dig together. Aye, Grunt, and Andelina were not idle, and everyone started the joyful digging work in front of the Baimu forest.

No one questioned the meaning of Lu Yan's move. Lu Yan has shown them enough miracles. All they are willing to do now is to give Lu Yan a goal, and they just follow it. The skeleton is Has the instinct of obedience to a powerful superior.

In less than two hours, a flat and long pit with a length of 50 meters, a width of ten meters, and a depth of six meters appeared. According to Lu Yan's request, the pit was dug into an inverted trapezoid, with a narrow bottom of two meters wide. .

After digging, Lu Yan immediately ordered to start watering. Hundreds of skeletons poured water over and over around the flat and long pit, pouring the lake water that was about to freeze along the edge of the pit. Before the soil, a thin layer of frost will be left. After a few times, the surface of the big pit will start to be covered with thin ice.

A surprised smile gradually appeared on Ke Erwen's face. He probably understood what Lu Yan was doing. He had been a white wood dealer for so many years, and he never thought that he could use this method to kill bone ants.

Soon, the inner side of the inverted trapezoidal pit was completely covered with slippery ice. Lu Yan put a few skeletons down, and if he didn't rely on the strength of the rope, he wouldn't be able to climb out at all.

The white wood roots were put into the pit and boiled, and the sweet aroma spread into the white wood forest. Soon after, black bone ants crawled out from the depths of the white wood forest and rushed into the big pit.

After most of the bone ants jumped into the pit, Lu Yan took the red bones and began to clean up the remaining bone ants on the surface. These bone ants are flexible and their bones are harder than the red bones, so they are very difficult to deal with. Fortunately, Lu Yan The bone ants he faced were less than two hundred, and he used the square formation to crush them carefully, the triangular shield to protect his companion's lower body, the crescent spear to stab from a high place, and the bone-cutting knife to deal with the troublemakers who rushed into the formation. By……

After 5 minutes, the surface was cleared, and all that was left were the bone ants bluffing and turning over and over in the ice pit but unable to climb up.

Lu Yan had carefully observed the behavior of bone ants in the past. They seldom jump, and they mainly move by fast climbing on the ground or the surface of the target, so he thought of this ice pit plan. The slope is steep and slippery. Once the ice pit went down, they couldn't get out, so the bone ants could only stay inside and wait for him to kill them one by one.

Of course, sometimes dozens of bone ants will gather together, trying to build an escape bridge by squeezing each other, but Lu Yan scattered more than 70 red bones to stand on both sides of the ice pit. If the pile is about to rise, it will go up and smash it. The escape bridge on the ice is quite unstable, and it will collapse if touched lightly, let alone smashed up with heavy iron.

As for the bone ants in the ice pit, Lu Yan only allowed his subordinates, Red Bones and Grunt, to kill them. Kerwin had no objection to this. He told Lu Yan that most traders were not allowed to upgrade to Strong Bones. stage, so he simply hid himself far away, for fear of coming into contact with too many overflowing rotting souls.

The shell of the bone ants is still very hard. Even if you just keep raising the long-handled hammer and dropping it again, when the thousand bone ants in the ice pit are all killed, the Gurunt and the red bones under Lu Yan will be exhausted. Enough, although Lu Yan himself did not make a move, but 50% of the rotten soul absorbed by each red bone will be automatically passed to him, which is equivalent to killing half of the bone ants in the ice pit by himself.

Ke Erwen set up a cauldron, took out a device obviously made by human craftsmen, and then cut off the tail of the bone ant corpse, boiled, distilled, and refined... emerald green formic acid was gradually extracted.

In the first wave of ant bones, a total of 120 grams of formic acid was refined. According to Ke Erwen's estimation, this amount can be sold for at least 30 calories.

What made Lu Yan even more happy was that the rotting soul energy contained in the bone ants was not weak. Some red bones that had been injured recovered quickly during the process of killing the bone ants. If you have red bones, you will be advanced.

Hurry up, Lu Yan continued the team, and this time came to the edge of Baimu Forest to dig a hole. Although it took nearly two hours to dig a hole each time, it was very safe to do so. Lu Yan respected every one of his subordinates. He cherishes it very much, he is not willing to waste the life of any red bone.

The red bones also knew what Lu Yan was thinking, they walked out of the lonely and fearful Yu Gu Division, followed Lu Yan to learn the wonderful formations, showed their power in the martial arts field, and later used hundreds of punches in the valley between the bones. Wan, killed Qianggu at a very small price, and now Lu Yan cherishes their lives and plans an upgrade method for them that is almost extremely comfortable. Every Honggu has obeyed Lu Yan from the heart , admiration, even belief... This kind of deep emotion affected their unformed bone souls, causing subtle changes in their bodies.

There were a lot of bone ants in the second wave, nearly [-]. This was because they had already reached the edge of the Baimu forest, and the area affected by the Baimu root soup was much larger.

The bone ants boiling in the ice pit were like a mess of porridge. Lu Yan's bones tightened for a while, but he didn't dare to relax in the slightest. The subordinates have to be torn apart.

Lu Yan ran around the ice pit with a white bee in his hand, and rescued wherever there was danger. Obviously, he was a little careless. The pit was dug too small, and the edge of the pit full of ice lumps was slippery. He almost missed it a few times. Sliding into the ice pit... But no matter what, this wave of bone ants was finally suppressed.

Seeing that the situation was stable, Lu Yan could finally sit down and rest for a while, but gradually, he felt that something was wrong, and the amount of rotten souls from some of his subordinates suddenly doubled, as if the All the rotten souls it absorbs are contributed.This phenomenon gradually increased. When the second batch of bone ants were completely killed, 13 red bones sent all the rotting souls to Lu Yan.

While Ke Erwen was distilling formic acid, Lu Yan sat under a white tree and opened the White Bone Encyclopedia. What is this strange phenomenon of rotting soul transmission? If the subordinate Red Bone stops advancing, That would be a waste of cultivating them.

After searching for a long time, Lu Yan finally found a few paragraphs of explanation: "The rare phenomenon of high tribute souls: out of too strong emotions, such as fear, surrender, love, admiration, etc., the lower skeletons provide the absorbed rotten souls to the upper skeletons. Or when regenerating souls, there may be a large amount of tribute souls, or even send out the rotting souls absorbed by oneself in full, this phenomenon is called high-amount tribute souls or full-amount tribute souls..."

"High-value tribute souls are very rare, and generally appear in relatively weak skeleton groups, such as insect-shaped skeletons. Of course, this is also related to the strength of upper-rank skeletons. Only powerful upper-rank skeletons can help increase the appearance of high-value tribute souls." chance, and the many life-and-death battles seem to help..."

"The high-paying tribute soul usually occurs when the skeletons are about to complete their advancement, so it can also be seen as an instinctive reaction of the skeletons not wanting to leave the original high-ranking skeletons..."

"The high amount of tribute souls proves the influence of psychological factors on the process of tribute souls among skeletons, and explains from one side why skeletons can absorb rotting souls and living souls from their subordinates without going through special rituals..."

Lu Yan was engrossed in reading the Bone Encyclopedia, Ke Erwen was happily distilling formic acid, and the other skeletons were digging pits, transporting water, and no one noticed that in the shadows deep in the white wood forest, there was a Huge conical heads are watching them secretly.