"Hmm? Did you feel the fluctuation of the psionic crystal? "
Feng Luo felt the message from 24K through the mental link, and his eyes showed some surprise.
"Squeak, squeak!"
24K squeaked excitedly.
The golden body floating in the air flapped its armored wings and flew toward the sand dune that hid the Devil Scorpion.
Feng Luo started the energy motorcycle and followed.
"Squeak, squeak …"
A minute later, the man and the insect arrived at the side of the sand dune.
"Is there a psionic crystal down here?"
Feng Luo asked.
"Squeak, squeak!"
24K replied.
"You mean, under this sand dune, somewhere a little deeper."
Feng Luo observed the sand dune in front of him.
The Devil Scorpion hiding in the sand dune had already rushed out and been killed.
So the tip of the sand dune had completely collapsed.
And because of this, Feng Luo had already discovered it.
He had originally thought that the black thing in the middle was a dead tree stump. This judgment was actually wrong.
It looked more like a black pillar with a sharp tip. The bottom of the pillar was still hidden in the lower half of the sand dune, and he couldn't see how deep it was.
"Could it be? The psionic crystal has something to do with this pillar? "
Feng Luo wondered.
"Hmm, no!
This thing seems a bit like the sharp horn of some kind of creature or the tip of a limb. "
He carefully observed the black pillar.
Feng Luo's eyes narrowed.
This thing shouldn't be a pillar, but the structure of some kind of creature.
Feng Luo was really a bit surprised, but he wasn't very worried.
This was because the Scout Beetle that had arrived earlier had already detected that there were no signs of life within a dozen meters of the pillar.
This meant that it was very likely that even if this pillar really was the structure of a creature, that creature should have already died. This was a corpse preserved by the special environment of the desert.
This was also why he didn't stop 24K from approaching when he realized something was wrong.
"Squeak, squeak …"
24K had already floated above the sand dune, and it called out to a few Gatherer Beetles that had followed it over.
"Squeak …"
A few Gatherer Beetles received the order and directly drilled into the middle of the sand dune.
"Pop …"
However, a larger Elite Gatherer Beetle seemed to be a little curious as it crawled to the center.
It actually opened its mouth and bit the black pillar!
"Pa!"
The Elite Gatherer Beetle's tough mouthparts, which could bite through rocks like tofu, had no effect on this "pillar."
Squeak, squeak …
24K waved its six little claws in the air.
It seemed to be very dissatisfied with such a stupid little brother. It told it to hurry up and follow the others, but it went down to collect the psionic crystals.
Squeak …
The Elite Gatherer Beetle shook the part of its mouth that had been hit and then burrowed down.
"This corpse is actually so hard?"
However, Feng Luo's interest was piqued.
With some curiosity, he walked up the sand dune and took out Ghost Weep from his tactical vest.
Then, with about 80% of his strength, he waved his hand and chopped at the middle of the "black pillars".
"Pa!"
As a Legendary military knife, there was no doubt about Ghost Weep's sharpness!
However, when Ghost Weep's blade collided with the pillar, there was only a burst of sparks before it was directly shaken off.
Moreover, it could be seen that the place where the blade had struck did not even have a trace!
"It's really this hard!"
Feng Luo's eyes showed some surprise.
He did not use his full strength, nor did he activate Ghost Weep's additional skill or use his explosive point. He only used Ghost Weep to test the waters.
However, Ghost Weep's sharpness had reached B-Grade.
Even a B-Grade sharpness could not leave a trace on the surface. Wasn't the defense coefficient of this corpse of some kind of creature too high?
However, what surprised Feng Luo even more was yet to come.
Next, he added the Destruction Psionic Energy to the military knife.
He realized that even the Destruction Psionic Energy that could pierce through super-thick high-grade alloys was not as invincible as before when facing this black "pillar."
The knife that was imbued with the Destruction Psionic Energy only left a mark that was only a few millimeters deep on the surface!
This was even after he had activated his explosive point and slashed with all his strength.
"This defense coefficient, is it really A-Grade? Or is it even higher? "
Feng Luo was really a little shocked.
That was because he tried even more tests.
In the end, whether it was the Spray Beetle's corrosive ability or the Steel Beetle's laser burning, they did not have much effect on the pillar.
Even Feng Luo's trump card, the B-Grade armor-piercing bullet with the Destruction Psionic Energy, and the B-Grade armor-piercing bullet with the Destruction Psionic Energy, only left a one-centimeter dent on the surface.
The diameter of the pillar alone was more than a meter on the surface.
This meant that he could not even think about breaking the pillar!
"What is this thing? Its defense is so strong … Could it be … the corpse of some kind of Zerg?"
After getting this result, Feng Luo was surprised, but he suddenly thought of something.
He had not yet found a conclusion as to how the Psionic Energy Crystal was produced.
Previously, Honest Good Merchant had said that his friend had stolen it from a Boss's nest in a ruin.
However, Feng Luo would not completely believe the words of a merchant with the word "Honest" in his name.
Instead, the words of the short-haired girl and her group should be more reliable.
They had unintentionally found it in the desert.
Finding a stone in the desert with no attributes was still a little strange, and it was not strange for someone to pick it up.
Based on this, Feng Luo had a guess.
The Psionic Energy Crystal was most likely not a product of this planet. It should be a foreign product like the Zergs, brought to the planet by the Zergs to replenish their energy or do something else …
Then, if this guess was correct …
There was a fluctuation of the Psionic Energy Crystal underneath, which meant that this "pillar" was the corpse structure of some kind of Zerg unit.
After all, the Zergs had landed in the Death Desert area of the Death Jungle.
And in that battle where destructive weapons were used, who knew how many Zerg corpses were buried under this desert-like jungle!
"But I've miscalculated. I should have called a Scout along."
However, Feng Luo looked at the "pillar" in front of him, which had an unbelievable defense. He regretted coming here alone.
Although, with his ability, with 24K and the Scout Beetle, he could almost travel alone in this middle-level map area without much danger.
But there was no way to know what kind of Zerg corpse this was.
And if there was a Scout here, a Detection skill would definitely be able to get some information.
This was the advantage of being a Scout player.
The number of people in Nightless City had already exceeded 20,000.
As the guild leader, it was completely easy for him to find a Scout to help him with a mission. No one could say that he was abusing his power!
But I'm still used to being alone!
Feng Luo shook his head.
Since there was no Scout, he could only rely on the Scout Beetle and the Gatherer Beetle to explore.
"Squeak squeak …"
Apart from these Gatherer Beetles, the impatient 24K had also sent the rest of the Gatherer Beetles that had cleared the Devil Scorpion's spoils of war.
There were a total of 20 Gatherer Beetles, and they moved very quickly underground.
However, because 24K's order was to find the Psionic Energy Crystal, they all slowed down and "sneaked" along the black pillar to search.
One thing that had to be mentioned here was that after 24K broke through Level 50, or perhaps because of the increase in Psionic Energy.
24K had also obtained some other benefits, which was that he could, to a certain extent, obtain information from normal combat beetles.
Although these Gatherer Beetles were not Scout Beetles, 24K could still roughly sense the situation they encountered along the way.
And in the process, Feng Luo's mood became more and more surprised.
This was because the few Gatherer Beetles had already gone more than 50 meters underground.
In the end, they still had not found the root of the pillar.
More than 50 meters did not seem very long, but imagine that it was close to the height of a 20-story building. One could imagine how deep this pillar went underground.
A creature that was only a "horn-shaped" structure on its body was actually so long. How big would its volume be?
No, to be precise, it was not 50 meters.
This was because the Gatherer Beetles were still continuing to drill down.
It was not until five minutes later that these Gatherer Beetles finally reached the bottom of this "pillar," and this distance was already about 100 meters from the surface.
A pillar that was more than 100 meters long?
Was this really the body structure of a Zerg unit like a ram horn?
Feng Luo even suspected that his judgment was wrong. After all, how could there be such a large Zerg unit?
However, the reality proved that his judgment was correct.
At the bottom, the diameter had already expanded to about 10 meters. The Gatherer Beetles touched a layer of carapace, a layer that they similarly could not bite through and felt like the weight of the pillar was similar.
However, this was still not the end …
Half an hour later.
At this time, Feng Luo's mood was already a little numb.
This was because, at this time, the furthest Gatherer Beetle had already crawled to a position of a full three kilometers away from them!
There was still the carapace layer of the suspected Zerg unit under the desert.
Three kilometers. What kind of concept was this?
This was already about the same level as the cosmic battleship found in the underground city.
The corpse of this suspected Zerg unit buried 100 meters underground was even bigger than what Feng Luo had expected.
What kind of Zerg unit corpse was this?
Even though Feng Luo thought hard about the units in interstellar games, there were still some things he could not understand.
Thunder Beast?
It didn't seem like it either.
Apart from that, there was another piece of news that made 24K depressed and anxious.
Within this three-kilometer range, the Gatherer Beetles did not find the psionic crystal.
To be precise, the energy crystal that 24K sensed should be under the carapace or inside the pillar.
However, after such a long time, the Gatherer Beetle group had not found a passageway that could go under the carapace to retrieve the psionic crystal.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak …"
Until another five minutes passed.
The somewhat listless 24K suddenly raised its head from Feng Luo's shoulder and called out.
"A Gatherer Beetle found an entrance?"
Feng Luo's heart skipped a beat.
…
Two minutes later, Feng Luo, who had put down the energy motorcycle, stood at a position about two kilometers away from the pillar.
This was the bottom of the center of a ring-shaped sand dune, and the "hole" that the Gatherer Beetles found was located in the center of this ring-shaped desert.
Moreover, because of the low terrain, the hole was very shallow from the ground, only about a dozen meters deep.
Of course, if it were a normal player, even at this distance, they probably would not be able to go down. After all, the ground was all soft sand.
Of course, Feng Luo would not go down recklessly. However, even if he did not go down, it did not mean that he could not explore the situation inside.
"Swoosh!"
A Gatherer Beetle crawled out of the sand, then crawled back.
It left a hole behind it, and a Scout Beetle followed behind it and crawled into the hole.
After that, Feng Luo took out a sunscreen tent from his backpack and found a place to set it up.
After that, his whole body crawled into the hole, and his eyes became empty.
…
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh …"
At first, his vision was filled with darkness, and only the sound of two beetles moving could be heard.
Although this position was very close to the carapace, because of the large amount of sand that entered the hole, it took a full two minutes for the two beetles to crawl out of the sand pile. Then, their vision changed.
The moment they crawled out of the sand, the corpse of a somewhat familiar-looking Zerg was directly exposed in front of the Scout Beetle's vision.
No, to be precise, it was not one, but a large area.
Feng Luo looked over and realized that there were actually tens of thousands of "scorpion-like" things in his vision.
This thing was very familiar, because it had seen it in the information of the second experimental base.
This was the most basic but also the most important unit in the Zerg race.
In the game, they were called "Worker Bees," similar to the existence of Gatherer Beetles. They specialized in collecting all kinds of resources for the Zerg race!
But why were there so many Worker Bees under this carapace?
And it was not just one, but tens of thousands?
"Squeak, squeak …"
Feng Luo still did not understand.
24K, who was beside him, suddenly cried out with a high degree of excitement in its voice.
This kind of excitement was even more obvious than when it discovered the psionic crystal.
"What?"
"Are you saying that this huge thing is the Zerg base?"
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