Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Ant Nest Rest

"Ninth level black ants!" I almost shouted out.How could this guy appear in my guardian monument phantom, and call the wind and rain here?The small energy storm just now was caused by this guy swallowing energy. This guy's body like a tiger and leopard is a little smaller than in the ant's nest, and his eyes are a little dull, but his fierce nature is still there. When the energy storm dissipated, it suddenly rushed towards me ferociously, and the pair of jointed limbs held high in front of its chest ruthlessly poked at me. The number of source crystals harvested from the wormhole was far beyond Tianhuo's expectations.

Although the engineers of the Zerg race can produce a lot of source spar every day, you must know that these source spar are used as salary, and they are distributed to every bug in the bug den every day. Once an engineer-level bug evolves, it will no longer be able to produce source spar. On the contrary, its appetite will become greater, and its demand for source spar will also become greater.Both elite-level and hero-level bugs need to devour source spar to advance to a higher life level.Therefore, generally speaking, it is impossible for a wormhole to accumulate nearly ten thousand source crystals and pile them there.

It's unbelievable to get so many source crystals at once like today. So, here comes the problem, more than 9,000 source crystals are like hills, plus a small amount of some special materials taken from the worms, they are very large and heavy, so they are not easy to carry. There is only one camel beast left in the team, and food and water need to be carried first.If you bring all the source crystals and so on, such a heavy load will greatly reduce the marching speed, and it will be easily exposed. When encountering a battle, it will also make people flustered. These were unexpected things for Tianhuo. As the leader of the team, he had to find a way to deal with them.If such a large sum of wealth is placed here, there must be guards to prevent accidents.

After careful consideration, Tianhuo decided to reduce the number of personnel, leaving the wounded to guard the source spar, and the rest of the people continued to go deep into the sand sea.When the task is completed and returns, pass here to bring the spoils and the wounded together. Tianhuo has made a decision, even if someone is dissatisfied, there is no room for objection.With the decision made, everyone's impetuous emotions caused by the windfall stabilized a lot, and they each went to rest. Tianhuo found me, although his words were gentle, but his expression was serious: "You don't use the guardian monument like that, do you think it's a brick? It's used to hit people."

I said embarrassingly, "I couldn't help it at the time, that nine-level black ant was too fierce." Tianhuo revealed the reality of my guardian monument: "Although your guardian monument phantom is very concise, but this time the collision is also traumatic, don't take it seriously. The guardian monument phantom is warmed in your body. After raising it for such a long time, with your spiritual imprint, which is equivalent to a part of your body, if it collapses, you will not be able to condense the phantom of the guardian monument for at least ten years. Even now, you have already been implicated, There will be no small troubles."

Seeing what he said seriously, I realized that I still underestimated the influence of the Guardian Monument on me.I solemnly said: "Thank you, Master Tianhuo, for your reminder, otherwise, I would have really overlooked it." Tianhuo said meaningfully: "You are a good seedling of my Guardian Alliance, and I have the responsibility to guide and protect you. When you were fighting the ninth-level black ants before, I felt a unique and huge aura, which is the guardian The stele will only be available in real time. You have already reached the last step on the road of refining the guardian stele, and you are only a short step away from being able to advance. Although it is a bad thing for the ghost of the guardian stele to be traumatized at this time, it is also a good thing. "

I was very surprised, and humbly asked for advice: "Master Tianhuo, please clarify." Tianhuo is optimistic that I can become a guardian. Although his expression has not changed, his words have become more enthusiastic. He said patiently: "The last step in refining the guardian monument is to fuse the phantom with the real. The combination of virtual and real, space vibration, At the moment of fusion, there will be a huge energy conflict. If the phantom of the guardian monument is not condensed enough, it is very likely that it will not be able to withstand the pressure of the conflict and collapse, and the success will fall short. Now that the phantom of the guardian monument is injured, it is just time to take this opportunity to protect the The ghost image of the stele can be condensed again, broken and then erected, but it will increase your success rate of refining the guardian stele by two points."

Since Tianhuo wanted to give advice, I naturally wouldn't waste this great opportunity, and immediately asked questions that I didn't understand or wasn't sure about.The refining method of the Guardian Monument looks simple, but because it involves various energy laws, it is actually extremely difficult, as long as a slight mistake will lead to failure.If someone teaches me the experience of failure, it will naturally save me many detours. Sure enough, Tianhuo was not impatient at all, and he communicated with me step by step. Although the Guardian Alliance has issued a guardian tablet refining manual to everyone, there are more detailed explanations on how to refine the guardian tablet in the manual, but these are relatively basic refining methods. Very little involved.

Not in the manual, although I don't know why, but the preciousness of this knowledge is beyond doubt.Tianhuo didn't mean to hide his secrets, he answered my questions one by one, and even extended it after answering, and said more things that I didn't think of. These are undoubtedly his usual insights. This kind of experience is very precious. Generally speaking, people who are not masters and apprentices or very close people will not pass it on so unreservedly.You must know that some knowledge sounds very simple, but if no one tells you, if you want to pierce that layer of window paper, you may have to take many detours, endure many failures, and read a lot of relevant knowledge before you can finally summarize it.

How precious is the time and effort that goes into this! One taught with heart, and the other studied hard. Before we knew it, both of us were immersed in the mysterious and profound world of the guardian monument. Woke up. In the state of concentration, the passage of time is least noticeable.After waking up with a start, I suddenly felt a little dizzy in my head. Obviously, I had packed too much knowledge at once and overused my brain.Tianhuo and I looked at each other with a smile, and I thanked him again, but Tianhuo waved his hand and said: "No need to thank you, it's just because you are pleasing to the eye. One more guardian like you is better than one I don't like to be a guardian." .”

This is very true, since Tianhuo is pleasing to my eyes, no matter how polite I am, it will appear that I am not generous enough, not open-minded enough, and people will look down on me for no reason. I turned my head to look at Hutu, and this black man came over with a new pair of armor, and said in a muffled voice: "Your original armor is too damaged to be repaired, I simplified it for you, and made it A set of light armor, of course, the defensive effect is not as good as the original one, but it’s better than nothing, so you can make do with it.” Hutu said it casually, but since it was made by a weapon refiner, this new pair of armor can never be as bad as he said. The original armor was very strong, but obviously that nine-level black ant was even more fierce, no matter how strong the armor was under its minions, it was like paper. After a fierce battle, I certainly killed that guy , but the armor has also become as tattered. However, armor is used to protect the body during battle. Since it has played its due role, even if it is destroyed, I will not feel too distressed. It's embarrassing that Hutu even picked it up and remade it. I took the armor and thanked him: "Thanks, Hutu, your craftsmanship is really amazing." I praised it casually. Praising others is also a virtue. There was no expression on Hutu's rough and dark face, and he said in a low voice: "Praise is not free." Hutu said it so directly, which made me a little embarrassed.I was thinking of getting something out to pay the production fee, when Hutu suddenly laughed and said, "I'm just joking, it's all local materials, there's no cost." After speaking, he turned and left happily. I didn't expect that Hutu, a simple and honest guy, would suddenly make a joke. I shook my head with a wry smile, and took the armor back. This pair of armor is also simple, like a turtle shell, its main function is to protect the chest and back.This shape looks like it was made by Hutu. It is a standard rough style without any artistic beauty. In layman's terms, it is ugly. Fortunately, on the battlefield, armor is mainly used to save lives, and I don't dislike it even if it looks ugly. The front chest and the back are made of two rather resilient black ant exoskeletons, connected in the middle by the skin of a desert catfish.This part of the chest is not a layer of black ant exoskeleton, but three layers, so tightly attached together, and it does not appear to be too thick, it can be seen that Hutu has worked hard on it.The three-layer exoskeleton changes layer by layer from outside to inside, from hard to tough, and reduces the weight of external forces layer by layer.Although there are no good materials here, it can be seen that Hutu has a clever mind. After trying to wear it on my body, I realized that there is a soft lining inside the armor, which is much more comfortable to wear than it looks.The inner lining should be filled with materials extracted from my original armor that was destroyed in the battle, because I can feel the coolness inside. The next day, Tianhuo led a dozen people to continue deep into the sand sea, leaving only seven people including me.I took out three bottles of the condensed Emerald Demon Fairy and presented them to Tianhuo, and I only kept one bottle for myself.Tianhuo was not hypocritical, and accepted my wish.I know how to be a human being so well, and it also made Tianhuo look at me with a little more kindness. Although Tianhuo is a lord-level powerhouse, after all, the deeper he goes into the sand sea, the more likely he will encounter hero-level bugs. A lord-level powerhouse is not guaranteed to be safe and sound, not to mention that he also has Hutu and Getai with him. .The concentrated Jade Demon Fairy has an amazing healing effect. If the three of them have any accidents, the Jade Demon Fairy will most likely save their lives. Although Tianhuo has not been to the Scarlet Fortress for a long time, he also knows the name of the Emerald Demon Fairy.The condensed emerald demon girl specially created by the little tree spirit is even more precious, so Tianhuo is not polite to me, and accepts my wish generously. Speaking of which, three bottles of condensed Emerald Demon Fairy were exchanged for Tianhuo's experience in guarding the monument, and I still made a lot of money.Knowledge is power and knowledge is priceless. I fought against the ninth-level black ants, and I was seriously injured. Although I drank a bottle of Emerald Demon Fairy at the time, it will take a while to fully recover.The Phantom of the Guardian Monument also needs time to re-stabilize it, so I also stayed as a wounded person. After Tianhuo made arrangements and led the group to leave, the ant nest suddenly became quiet. I also randomly found a cave in the ant nest to practice and heal my injuries every day.When I was hungry, I used local materials, and directly cut a few worms to satisfy my hunger. After two or three days, the negative effects of the battle with the ninth-level black ants gradually became apparent.Although he poured a bottle of Emerald Demon Fairy at that time to stabilize the injury, there were a large number of capillary ruptures in the subtle parts of the body, which could not be repaired in a day or two. Capillaries connect various organs of the body, veins and arteries in the body, countless nutrients, oxygen, and carbon dioxide must be exchanged and circulated through capillaries.The capillaries of the whole body are connected together, with a total length of 150,000 kilometers, like a network extending in all directions.If you think about the highways on the earth, once they are paralyzed, what problems will arise, and you will know the importance of the capillary network. More importantly, the damage to the phantom of the Guardian Monument also dealt an extremely serious blow to my mental strength.Tianhuo was right, the guardian monument was damaged, and the future troubles were not small.Of course, a crisis is also an opportunity. It depends on your attitude towards the crisis, whether to actively solve it or to deal with it passively. The good news is that as the phantom of the Guardian Monument gradually solidified, my spiritual power gradually recovered and improved slightly.The micro-trauma of the capillaries in the body is all handled by Xiaohu. As long as it is given enough authority and energy support, it is more professional than me in treating physical injuries. The only thing that worries me is the little Dryad. There has been no news for the past two days.Judging from the mental imprint, he is fine, and his vitality is quite active, but he has not given me any news, and he doesn't know what he is doing behind my back.I don't want to bother with his little tricks, and don't want to spend energy on finding out his little secrets, so he shows up whenever he wants. After I realized that recasting the phantom of the Guardian Monument with mental power was also a kind of tempering for my spirit, basically except for eating, drinking and resting, I spent all my time polishing the phantom of the Guardian Monument. The phantom of the guardian monument slowly rotated in my mind, the light was slightly dim, suspended there like cast iron, without the mountain-heavy power of bombarding the ninth-level black ants, it was lifeless.Occasionally, there would be a ray of bright golden light sliding on the stele body like a dragon and snake, and then sinking into it, returning to silence. In fact, every flashing golden light is the embodiment of my spiritual power in recasting the phantom of the guardian monument. On the outside, the ghostly image of the Guardian Monument looks intact, but when you fully immerse your spiritual power in it, you will find that it is actually full of holes, with many tiny cracks that are difficult to detect with the naked eye.When such a phantom of the guardian monument merges with the real body, it cannot bear the impact at all. But that day when the guardian monument phantom transformed from reality to reality, it absorbed a huge amount of energy. Although it failed to transform into a real entity in the end, the guardian monument phantom also increased a bit because of the huge amount of energy it absorbed. With no other distractions, I devoted myself to recasting the phantom of the Guardian Monument.The inner space of the phantom of the Guardian Monument is extremely huge, vaguely divided into several layers, and occasionally an energy storm will be set off, blowing like a tornado, and frightening lightning flashes in it. The reason why there is an energy storm is also because a huge amount of energy was absorbed before, and the phantom of the guardian monument was damaged. There is no complete energy law to restrain these huge energies of different attributes. My spiritual power also needs to carefully avoid energy storms, they won't treat me preferentially just because I am the master here. Like a mason, I filled the broken cracks in the phantom of the guardian monument, and continued like this day by day, and my spiritual power was also slowly improving.It is a joy to be able to watch my strength improve every day. Working in happiness, the efficiency is very high. After three or four days, the phantom of the guardian monument has been repaired by me in sevens and eighties. What makes me a little puzzled and uneasy is that there seems to be an additional layer of separation between the restored guardian monument phantom and me. It is no longer as agile as before, but occasionally exudes an aura of indifference and chill. When I was puzzled, a small energy storm in the phantom of the guardian monument suddenly attracted my attention.I cast my gaze over there, and a black shadow like a tiger and leopard appeared in the cyan energy storm. Out of great surprise, I brought my spiritual power closer to the past.Spiritual power is the extension of consciousness, where the spiritual power reaches, the consciousness will also arrive.When I approached, the black figure suddenly became alert and roared at me with a ferocious gesture. Strange, how come there is a strange creature in the phantom of my guardian monument?The thought flashed through my mind.I invoked the power of the phantom of the guardian monument to disperse the small energy storm in front of me, and the black shadow appeared in my sight immediately. "Ninth level black ants!" I almost shouted out.How could this guy appear in my guardian monument phantom, and call the wind and rain here?The small energy storm just now was caused by this guy swallowing energy. This guy's body like a tiger and leopard is a little smaller than in the ant's nest, and his eyes are a little dull, but his fierce nature is still there. When the energy storm dissipated, it suddenly rushed towards me ferociously, and the pair of jointed limbs held high in front of its chest ruthlessly poked at me. I retreated subconsciously, but I was a little slower, and I was slashed by its sharp black limbs.There was a tearing pain in my mind, and the mental trauma was simultaneously reflected on my body. I am furious, dare to be so vicious on my territory!This is my home field, as long as its power can't break the phantom of the guardian monument, I'm the god here.As soon as I thought about it, invisible pressure gathered from all directions, and the whole space was frozen by me. Although the ninth-level black ant has a ferocious expression, it is like a fish frozen in ice, unable to move an inch. The surrounding pressure is still increasing, crushing it.I approached it calmly, wasn't this guy beheaded by me, why did he appear here?Or, the moment it was beheaded by me, its consciousness and spiritual power were absorbed and suppressed by the phantom of the guardian monument before it dissipated? Given my limited knowledge of the Guardian Monument, I can only make such a conjecture, and I'd like to ask Tianhuo if I have the chance. As a result of the increasing pressure in the phantom of the Guardian Monument, the nine-level black ants burst open suddenly, like dazzling fireworks, and countless crystal light spots were fixed in the air.As the pressure receded like a tide, spots of light rippled and floated in the air, everywhere. "What is this?" I reached out curiously and held a spot of light in the palm of my hand. The light spots are like water droplets melting into the river, and they are integrated into my spiritual consciousness at once, and I also understand at the same time that this is the spiritual power of the ninth-level black ant.After all, spiritual power is a kind of power. When its consciousness dissipates, its spiritual power is preserved in the special place of Guardian Monument Phantom. When the first light spot merged into my spiritual consciousness, other light spots swarmed towards me like moths to a flame.A large number of light spots instantly merged into my spiritual consciousness, which made me feel full immediately. There was a bang in my head, like a thunderbolt, clearing away all the uncleanness and smog, and the phantom of the guardian monument emitted a bright circle of light again, as if it had been reborn. With my breathing, the circle of light expanded and contracted. At this moment, the phantom of the guardian monument was finally perfectly restored, and it went to a higher level, becoming more solid and full of spirituality.The chaotic energy flow also disappeared, and there were a few clear streams in the phantom of the guardian monument, which were formed by the fusion of energies of the same attribute. The spiritual power and the phantom of the guardian monument merged into one, breaking free from the shackles of the mortal body, flowing across the earth like a tide, flowing in all directions.Without opening my eyes, the surrounding vegetation and stones are all presented in my mind, every detail is clearly visible.I enjoy this unfettered feeling, and my mental power continues to expand until it covers the entire ant nest. The few people who stayed behind in the ant nest were all reflected in my mind under the influence of mental power, and there were three people on the two floors above me.The person closest to me is also a candidate for the Guardian Alliance. It is said that he is a child of a family from a certain planet. He has good talent, but he has a withdrawn personality and usually doesn't talk much. We are both candidates for the Guardian Alliance, but the relationship between the two of us is not considered close, just average, it seems that there is a competitive relationship between us. When my mental power swept over him, he woke up from his cultivation as if he had noticed it, and continued to practice after searching around. The spiritual power extends layer by layer, and it also allows me to see everyone's state. Some people are practicing, some people are resting, and two people are chatting.I happened to hear my name mentioned by two people, so I focused on it. One of them said: "It's really the right choice to take this mission this time. Not only do you have 100 combat points, but you also have so many source crystals. When I go back, I want to change a weapon. I have taken a fancy to a gold handle before. A super war bow, a masterpiece of master Rubens, the workmanship and materials are all worth mentioning, the key is that the golden rhino horn used in this bow complements my energy attributes, and can increase the combat power by more than 30%. It is a pity that the price is too high Gao, now I have so many source spars, enough for me to change a few." Another person also nodded in agreement and said: "I have been in Scarlet Fortress for five years, but this time I have gained far more than the sum of the previous five years. After this task is completed, I am going to go back. Originally, I wanted to find The opportunity to be promoted to the lord, but I haven't had a clue for five years, it seems that I have no luck. Fortunately, this time I have gained a lot, and I will have an explanation to the family when I go back." The two are happily planning for their future. The person who spoke first suddenly lowered his voice a little bit and said, "Tell me, Lanhu found such a large pile of source crystals, but reported it to everyone to share. Is it selfless or too stupid? If it was me, It might have been hidden." Another person said: "In the Scarlet Fortress, I have seen many lunatics. They fought desperately and went wherever they were in danger. But, idiot, hehe, I didn't see one. Let me tell you, he must have died before the newspapers came out. , has already hidden part of it. The real money is in front of you, how many people will not be tempted? I don't believe it."