Dharma Ring: Selling dung beetles at the border

Alexander opened the sky with a punch, igniting the trees in the valley and burning them, turning them into sparks and flying debris into the sky. He punched directly into the valley.

Wuming also laughed and followed him. He had just digested one million runes. Now he was full of energy. He finally stopped picking at the rope and rushed towards the cliff of the valley boldly.

Only half of Wuming's current body has been recovered. An arm and half of his upper body are missing from his limbs, revealing the broken and deformed body inside, as well as the amorphous black oily substance filling it. Black pus protruded from the body, forming an arm.

In the black substance, the fire gradually lit up from the inside out.

Wuming raised his head and stared calmly at the explosions of battle occurring above the valley, as if something was brewing.

Patch interrupted: You won't be able to get up, will you?

You're kidding, aren't you just going up a cliff! Wuming immediately turned around and retorted.

Then you go up. Patch said.

Wuming froze for a while and walked around for a while:

Okay, I didn't want to use this economical way of climbing stairs.

Wuming made a hugging gesture toward the cliff, and the hand he conjured instantly expanded and deformed.

Several thick tentacles stretched out from Wuming's arms and stuck to the cliff. Wuming climbed up like a spider.

Half of the cliff was infected by the black substance, leaving traces of moisture and a breathtaking deep color.

Patch casually poked a ball of small octopus at the bottom of the valley, sat on the soft octopus ball, and crossed his legs.

Mr. Patch, aren't you going to fight? Millicent asked.

What am I fighting for? I led the way. Patch swayed his feet leisurely, not even bothering to look up. My mission has been completed.

Millicent saw that Patch was lazy and took out the knife.

He used his miraculous sword skills that could control the air flow, and carried himself directly into the valley.

Rushing up the valley, the two sides of the battle also came into view.

Insects... Millicent clenched the scimitar in her hand.

Above the Yatan, the golden field is almost covered by the pale bodies of insects. There are squirming insect bodies everywhere, and densely packed arms that are constantly waving. They cluster together to form a sharp sound, forming a stomach-churning insect tide on the Yatan plateau. .

Alexander opened his fists and turned around in the insect wave, opening and closing widely. But the cooperation of the insects was also quite terrifying. The insect threads in the distance almost chased Alexander's figure and attacked.

Alexander pumped his fist wordlessly, and the body of his pot collapsed into fragments from time to time, expanding the cracks. The flesh and blood in the body of the pot spattered out, and he was covered in blood. The warrior pot is like a silent bull plowing bloody paths on the white earth.

Wuming was much wilder. Instead of converging, the original black matter became even more violent, spreading in all directions in the insect tide.

Wuming laughed wildly, and also imitated the posture of the Corruption Familiars, raised his hands, and python-like black snakes emerged from his body and pounced on the insects around him.

The black waterfall crashed down, splashing out large amounts of black liquid.

Hard horn emerged from the black liquid, and bright spots appeared like eyes peering in the darkness.

The black liquid, which is more terrifying than corruption, infects and devours the bugs. The black mycelium grows inside the pale bug. When the black completely swallows the bug, it explodes, spreading the black soul of injustice farther away.

Wuming laughed wildly and raised his hands in the air.

All the black ghosts followed the nameless hand and rose upwards, gathering into thick clouds that covered the sky and the sun, absorbing all the golden light around them.

As if experiencing a solar eclipse, the entire insect swarm was enveloped in darkness.

The towering black cirrocumulus clouds collapsed, raining down a long stream of innocent souls.

The misty soul was extremely heavy and fell to the ground, causing the rocks to crack.

Most of the bugs were crushed into pieces, and the remaining bugs were no longer able to cooperate and were harvested by Alexander and Millicent.

Soon the worms would disappear.

Millicent stared at the last wave of insects. She raised her knife and started to harvest these insects with water birds.

One hand stopped in front of Millicent's knife, and with a wave of his hand, Millicent's long knife was swung away.

Don't kill them all. Wuming pinched an insect with his charred shapeless arm, and swung away Millicent's knife with his other hand.

On the battlefield, there were still many insects alive, but they were all sealed tightly by the cement-like black substance on Wuming's body.

Seeing that the teacher was stopping her, Millicent did not insist and put away the knife.

She looked at the dark substance on Wuming's body and frowned:

Teacher, is this really Taiyang's move? It doesn't look like it...

What's the difference?

The sun should be bright and warm, but you are dark and wet...

Then you don't understand. Black absorbs sunlight the most. Wuming opened his hands and faced the golden tree like a golden wheel, squinting his eyes comfortably, This is the best way to feel the brilliance.

Wuming lazily waved his hand to Millicent, and the bug in his hand was shaken, making a shrill scream.

Wuming said: Anyway, don't be so rigid. Sunlight can be the sun, and darkness can also be the sun. The nature of the power doesn't matter, as long as it can be used to help others, it is a good sun.

After Wuming shook off the bugs, he dropped them one by one, and let the bugs' eyes focus on him.

Wuming held the insect's conch-like head and pointed it at his ears:

Hello? Is Gewei here? Is there anyone on this channel? Talk! Gewei, talk!

The insect was silent for a moment, and its scream began to turn into a human voice, turning into that familiar old voice:

I am here.

Wuming nodded with satisfaction: You are indeed here.

Wuming deliberately kept some insects. After all, even the insect swarm in front of him was just a disposable part to the insects.

To the bugs, these are just like an army of puppets. What really matters is not the puppets, but the will of the leader behind them that is difficult to destroy.

Wuming pointed at the mess on the ground:

This is not how a partner behaves.

Then it's clear that the collaboration has broken down, Gerwe said.

Why? Wuming said, Did I do anything to make you unhappy? Did I do anything arrogant to destroy our trust?

...You don't need to know this. Gewei said, We have our own considerations.

The thinking of bugs is difficult to understand. Millicent also said, If they could be understood, they wouldn't be so annoying.

I don't think so. Wuming said, I heard that the wisdom of insects emerged from the insect swarm, so they should be smarter than ordinary people. After all, human beings are diverse enough. There will always be some extreme individuals that can break through the lower limit. , the insect swarm should not be affected.”

Wuming said: Can't you tell me the reason directly? Our cooperation is so pleasant, don't you want to keep it?

Cooperation? Gewei said in an indifferent tone, We are not cooperating. We don't need you, you need us. We help you deal with the sludge and provide you with worm silk. And without you, we will not suffer any harm.

What about our beautiful vision? Wuming said, Think about it carefully, we have a grand vision to build a sewer kingdom! Think about it, the world wall that runs through the dome and is always secreting a waterfall of feces!

It's just a vision. Gewei said, After you entered the Asian arena, we re-evaluated the risks and benefits, and we decided to terminate the cooperation.

Why? Yatan is just making slow progress and has no patience at all! It's short-sighted!

Wuming was heartbroken: The beautiful cooperation is about to be destroyed by short-sighted bugs.

We certainly have good reasons, said Gewei.

What's a good reason? Wuming asked.

The gold content of Yatan people's excrement is too high, and it is too troublesome to decompose. Gewei said, According to calculations, even if you successfully open up the trade route of Yatan, you will not be able to create the holy wall city you talk about. .”

Wuming suddenly became speechless.

Damn it, damn golden people. Wuming beat his chest, never expecting that a small piece of excrement could involve so many things.

If nothing happens, we will no longer accompany you. Gewei said. People say that worms are scavenging and parasitic organisms, but your caravan is parasitic on worm threads. Now we will no longer provide cooperation.

Seeing that Gewei refused to let go, Wuming got angry and stared:

Don't think you worms are the only decomposers! Come on, Alexander, give him the whole job!

Needless to say, Alexander had already grabbed a corrupt relative, twisted off his head, peeled off the skin, and threw the meat into the pot.

Then he puts his head against the lid of the pot and pries it open, lights a bottle of oil and throws it into his body. The flame burns the miasma in the pot, creating a negative pressure.

Alexander opened the lid a small gap and sucked out the marrow fluid in the insect's conch-like skull with the help of negative pressure.

Alexander was also seriously injured in this battle and was repairing himself with the help of insect flesh and blood.

He pressed the insect's tough skin together and fit it into the cracks on his body.

Seeing Alexander enjoying his meal, Wuming swallowed and ran to the opposite side of him: Save some for me too.

Wuming sat across from Alexander, cleaning the battlefield with gusto.

While Wuming was eating, he said to Gewei:

I have another question for you. You have a good grasp of my status. How do you know when I am defenseless?

We have our own channels, and we won't reveal them to you. The insect said. It no longer had any interest in life. Looking again, it was found that it had killed itself.

The insect swarm does not care about individual lives, what matters is the will behind them. The will behind this can naturally abandon the individual at any time and will never be controlled by the individual.

Wuming saw that there was no movement in the conch in his hand, shook it, pried open the brain, placed it on the protective cover and started to squawk.

Damn bugs, I didn't even know their purpose in the end. Millicent said angrily.

Their purpose? It's obvious. Wuming used the fragments of the insects' shell swords and halberds to pry his skull, They are here for you.

At me?

Otherwise, why would I come here specifically to dump garbage? It can't be that this valley is where the bugs dispose of garbage, right? This is impossible. Do you know why?

Millicent nodded in agreement: If this was a garbage dump, it wouldn't be as simple as a few Sacred Bloodwood buds.

Mainly because they decompose garbage themselves. Bugs are very environmentally friendly and throw everything into the pond. They will not leave this fertilizer and water in outsiders' fields. Wuming said firmly.

He seemed to realize something and began to think deeply.

Teacher, what did you think of? Millicent asked, Have you guessed their purpose?

Ah... I didn't mean to say that I'm trash. Wuming argued to Millicent, Even if my pieces are trash, they are nothing together.

Of course you are not... Millicent was speechless, Shouldn't the purpose of the bugs be the most important thing now?

Don't you have a relationship with the Valkyrie? Wuming said, They probably want to use your relationship with the Valkyrie to do something. For example, make Corruption great again. They went out of their way to kill me and dump my body on you. Right now, I probably want you to make some changes, such as forgetting your original intention or something?

Millicent thought for a while, and if the teacher really died, she might indeed have some psychological changes.

How can you be so sure? said Millicent.

There was a person who was like this before. Wuming said vaguely with worms in his mouth. When you see that the people and the country you care about are gone, you don't want to burn yourself. I speak from experience.

Wuming swallowed the meat in his mouth:

That's all the bugs have, it's not that important.

As expected of a teacher. Millicent said with admiration.

To be able to say that the revival of corruption is a non-issue shows that the teacher has a broad mind and a great pattern——

The important thing now is that our supply of worm silk is gone. Wuming frowned, not forgetting about the worms, The Yatan business has not been settled yet, and it is all supported by the business outside Yatan. Worm silk accounts for a large part What if the business is gone? Millicent, what's wrong with you? What are you doing?

Millicent came back to her senses: Oh, it's nothing. I found a gift and wanted to give it to the teacher.

Millicent handed the Amber Starlight to Wuming and talked about the causes and consequences of her acquisition.

While the two were talking, Patch finally walked slowly around on the flat road.

Hey, it's done. Patch looked at the mess.

It's over, it's not over yet. Wuming said, It was insects that attacked me.

Of course I know it's a bug, I handed you over. Patch said.

Wuming said: The insects no longer provide us with silk! Are our silk reserves enough? Are we going to run out of silk?

Patch thought for a while: About the silk business, I just have bad news and good news. Which one do you want to hear first?

Say it first, I have to take it slow. Wuming covered his chest, I can't stand any more stimulation.

After saying that, Wuming showed off two more worms to make up for the missing runes.

Patch smiled: We have enough worm silk.

Wuming was delighted when he heard this: Where's the bad news?

Sufficient reason is that our silk business has shrunk significantly.

Wuming's eyes darkened: Why?

Patch said:

Most of our silks are supplied to the Kaliya royal family. They have a large demand for fine silk and give them a lot of money. But recently, the quantity of silk purchased by the Kaliya royal family has decreased a lot. It seems...originally The demand is gone.”

How could this be so... Wuming murmured, Did even Kalia betray us?

The reason is unknown, Patch said. Apparently some big head that consumed silk disappeared in Callia.

Wuming tapped his fingers and thought:

I just have to go back to the academy later. I'm going to ask... By the way, if we don't cooperate with the bugs, can the portal be taken back?

As long as the bugs don't stop me, Patch said.

Well, it's not all bad. Wuming nodded, I'm going to see what Kalia is up to.

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