Doomsday Totem

Chapter 177 Crystal Nuclei
This inexplicable desire was fleeting, Iron Slag came back to his senses, and put away the crystallization nucleus.Then, he went around in a circle and found the satellite signal receiver.It seems that this abyss master is consciously guarding here to prevent humans from restoring communication in this area.

After understanding the situation, he got up and left, returning by the same way.It is about 30km away from the campsite. If you walk at full speed, you can reach it in only 6 hours.At present, the obstacles on the way have been cleared away, so his speed of action will not be affected at all.

After several hours of trekking, he finally returned to the camp before dark.In the canopy, he called Wang Hu, briefly described the situation of the mission site, and asked the latter to inform everyone to pack up and prepare to leave early tomorrow morning.

Wang Hu nodded, then took out a small cloth bag and handed it to Tie Slag, saying that it was the spoils of the past two days and that it should be handed over to the head of the regiment for safekeeping.Iron Slag opened it and took a look, there were a few gnat teeth and the tail of a thorn bug.Iron Slag said that the rubbish was useless, and threw it into the brazier for heating.

Seeing this, Wang Hu quickly reached into the brazier and rescued the little cloth bag.While extinguishing the flames on the cloth bag, he explained: "Commander, the trophies can be exchanged for gold coins. The moth's teeth cost 1 gold, and the stinger's teeth cost 3 gold. They are all good things."

"What?" Hearing this news, Tie Slag was in a bad mood.In the past two days, he killed hundreds of crickets and eight stinging insects. According to Wang Hu's statement, at least a hundred gold coins could be exchanged.Thinking of this, he raised his head to look at Wang Hu, and asked angrily, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"I... I thought you knew..." Wang Hu touched his forehead and replied with some embarrassment.

"Can this be exchanged for gold coins?" Iron Slag took out a spherical crystal emitting a faint light, and threw it to Wang Hu casually.

Wang Hu took the crystal, glanced at it, and asked in surprise: "The cyan crystal nucleus! Did you kill an abyss master?" Tie Slag didn't answer, but just nodded.Wang Hu took a deep breath and sighed sincerely, "Amazing, Captain."

"Is it very powerful?" Tie Slag asked back.He didn't expect that this serious man would sometimes sigh.

"How did you do it?" Wang Hu nodded and asked.Under normal circumstances, there would be three hundred crickets and fifty thorns gathered around the abyss master.To confront this swarm head-on, at least twice as many troops as there are now.

Tie Slag didn't answer, just took down the psychic warrior rifle, took out three psychic blank bullets from his pocket, and handed them to Wang Hu to try outside the camp.Wang Hu took the rifle and looked at it for a while, saying that he would come whenever he went, and then left the awning.

After Wang Hu left, the iron slag was roasted for a while.When the clothes were gradually dry, I went back to my tent, ready to rest.Before going to bed, he took out the fluorescent crystal nucleus and held it in his hand to play with.The surface of the crystal nucleus is very smooth, feels good to the touch, and feels a little warm to the touch.

At this moment, that inexplicable desire reappeared. In the deepest part of his heart, there seemed to be a voice tempting him: "Plunder... devour..."

With the emergence of longing, his consciousness gradually became blurred.For a moment of absence, he felt a warm current flowing from his palm into his body.The warm feeling flows through all the limbs, as if the whole body is soaked in the hot spring, it is indescribably comfortable.

Time flows quietly, as if the whole world has become a warm ocean.After about 10 minutes, Wang Hu's voice came from outside the tent, and Tie Slag suddenly woke up.He subconsciously looked at his right hand, and was suddenly taken aback.

I saw countless small, bright red blood vessels protruding from his wrist.These blood vessels were covered with crystal nuclei, and with a thought in his mind, the densely packed tiny blood vessels were immediately retracted into his body.At this time, he found that the crystal nucleus in his hand had become extremely dim, and had lost its original fluorescence, just like an ordinary stone.

He tentatively squeezed it hard, but the crystal nucleus in his hand turned into powder, which slipped between his fingers like fine sand.Somehow, he seemed to feel something changed.At this time, Wang Hu's voice sounded again: "Commander, I'm back from testing the gun."

"I'm tired, let's talk about something tomorrow." Tie Slag replied through the tent cloth.

"En." Wang Hu outside responded, then turned and left.

After Wang Hu walked away, Tie Slag lay down, looked at the narrow tent roof, and carefully felt the changes in his body.Before he knew it, he fell asleep...

The next morning, Tie Zha woke up leisurely, feeling full of energy, as if he had inexhaustible strength.When I got out of the tent, I saw people coming and going in the camp, and everyone was busy packing their things.

Iron Slag moved his body and twisted his neck, then walked to the place where the red comet was parked and asked Alice to scan his body.

[Dear captain, your evolution rate is now 38%, which is 2% higher than last month] Alice replied in a low voice.

"Explanation of the term, the crystallization nucleus of the abyss master."

[Obey, my captain] [Beep...beep...the crystal nucleus is the container for high-level life forms to store spiritual energy]
[The crystalline nucleus of the abyss master is a spherical crystal with a round shape and contains star sand-like spiritual energy. Among them, the shimmering light emitted by the crystal nucleus with higher spiritual energy content is closer to dark green]
"Purpose." Iron Slag added.

[Directly extract liquid spiritual energy, the conversion rate is 2%]
"Can a traditional evolutionary or an insectoid directly absorb the spiritual energy?" Iron Slag asked in a low voice.

[Beep...beep...traditional evolutionists and worms cannot directly absorb the psionic energy in the crystal nucleus]
"What about the compound evolutionary of tradition and insectification?" Tie Slag continued to ask.

[Beep...beep...beep...beep...I'm sorry, my captain, there is no relevant information]
[Automatically enable fuzzy search...beep...beep...a ​​biologist once proposed that the body structure of bee-ant insect colonies is the most similar to the traditional and insect-like compound evolutionary. His theoretical basis is: "they (They) all have insect genes, and can absorb and use psionic energy on their own"]
Hearing this statement, Tie Slag decided to find another chance to try.If the crystallization core can increase his evolution rate, then he has a chance to become stronger.Although it is not known whether there are side effects, there is certainly little information on this.After all, the number of traditional and worm-like compound evolutionaries is extremely rare. In addition, the temple completely bans worm-like evolutionaries. Even if there is information on the Internet, it is still feathered, and the reliability is very low.

While thinking, Wang Hu came over, returned the psionic warrior rifle, and then sighed: "Commander, this gun is really good."

"When the credits are enough, I will give each of you a pair." Tie Slag said.

"Thank you, Commander." Wang Hu stood up straight and gave a military salute.

After Wang Hu left, Tie Slag came to the awning to have some breakfast.Not long after sitting down, Mu Qianhe came.

"Yo~ Isn't this the head of Sacha?" Mu Qianhe asked with a smile, "Come to have breakfast?" Tie Slag nodded, and the former cast a wink over him, and said in a tired voice, "What a coincidence ~I’m also here for breakfast~ Is this fate?”

Seeing her pissed off, Tie Slag rolled his eyes involuntarily.However, seeing his embarrassment, Mu Qianhe laughed even more happily, and said: "Head, if you want to eat meat or drink milk, Qianhe will help you."

Iron Slag really wanted to say "not hungry", but he was really hungry, so he asked her to help bring a box of canned meat and two compressed biscuits.Not long after, Mu Qianhe brought food from Ju Amu, then tore off the seal and heated it in front of him.

He picked up the compressed biscuit, tore off the wrapper and ate it.The compressed biscuits were very dry, and he felt a little parched after eating half of them.Just as he was about to go back to the tent to fetch water from a cup, Mu Qianhe handed over his marching cup.Tie Slag took a look at her, then took a big gulp of it.

"Is this delicious?" Mu Qianhe asked, pointing to the half compressed biscuit in Tie Slag's hand.

"It's okay." Iron Slag replied.

"Give me a try." Before he could answer, Mu Qianhe snatched half of the compressed biscuit, and bit off a small piece where he had bitten just now.After chewing a few mouthfuls, she frowned and said, "It's so unpalatable ~ big liar~" Although she said so, she still slowly finished the remaining half of the compressed biscuit.

Seeing Mu Qianhe chewing slowly, Tie Slag suddenly felt restless.The former tempted him several times, but he suppressed it with a normal heart.But this is not a long-term solution, and if this continues, there will definitely be problems.He is a worm, and his ability to resist temptation is worse than that of ordinary people. Now he is tempted again and again, which is really unbearable.

"I have a girlfriend." Tie Slag said straight to the point.Perhaps, this is not the best way to refuse, but it is definitely the most effective.

"Qin Ke'er?" Mu Qianhe asked while watching him.

"En." In order to solve the problem as soon as possible, Tie Slag nodded against his will.

"That's great~" Mu Qianhe said with a smile.

"Why... why?" Her reaction was beyond his expectation, so he stuttered a little.

"We have made an agreement since we were young~ we will find the same boyfriend in the future." Mu Qianhe said excitedly.

"This..." Tie Zha looked at Mu Qianhe anxiously, and scratched his hair habitually.

"Can't you?" Mu Qianhe tilted his head and asked innocently.

"En." Tie Slag nodded seriously.

"Then you can only break up." Mu Qianhe said helplessly, spreading his hands.

"Why?" Tie Slag didn't know what to say.

"We swore by a mule." "Why a mule?" "Because whoever speaks does not count will be the wife of that mule." "And then?"

"Look at how big the mule is..." Mu Qianhe gestured and said, "How can Ke'er's small body stand it?"

"Uh..." This time, Tie Slag really had nothing to say.

Mu Qianhe stood up, walked around him, then bent down, smiled at him, and said, "Look, I have a big frame, and my words don't count."

(End of this chapter)