When Sheyan saw the series of notifications on his retina, he was overjoyed. He immediately checked the details of the mission completion rate. The response he got was:
[Silver Mission Series Hidden Branch, Chapter 2: The Injection Mission will not be completed automatically. When the mission completion rate reaches 100%, the mission can be completed. However, you can also choose not to complete the mission and continue to provide various "nutrients" to the liquid metal enhanced life-form to obtain additional completion rates. The higher the additional completion rate, the higher the chance of obtaining a lvl max evaluation.]
In the final analysis, this was the same as the work of workers on Earth. You would only get a basic wage if you completed the guaranteed piece-work, and then you would get a bonus if you produced extra work.
After devouring the ant queen, Ramtas no longer buried itself in the ground to evolve, but its overall strength, such as Strength and HP, had increased by about 15%. The CD time of its nature spells had been reduced by 25%, and its spell consumption had been reduced by 25%. It had also learned a new nature spell.
Previously, the upper limit of the nature spells Ramtas could learn was grade 2, but now it had broken through to grade 3.
Now, Sheyan had no choice but to carefully consider Ramtas' position. If it continued to evolve like this, Ramtas would become very valuable. If it was possible, Sheyan would not mind taking it as his servant.
At that moment, Ramtas pulled out a coconut-sized object from the ant queen's innards. It looked like a gallbladder. It grunted like a pig and respectfully presented it to Sheyan.
Sheyan took it and found that the object looked very disgusting. It was wet and had many blood vessels and other things on its surface. It looked like a tumour. Sticky, flesh-red liquid flowed out from the gaps between Sheyan's fingers and dripped to the ground.
Nevertheless, Sheyan still chose to believe in his summoned creature. He put the object aside and cut off the surface with a knife. He found that the object had a structure similar to an orange or a grapefruit. It had an astonishingly thick fleshy wall and was as large as a coconut, but the cavity inside had shrunk to the size of a fist.
But after the cavity was cut open, an indescribable smell floated out. The smell was a little fishy at first, but after a while, it became very comfortable. Sheyan looked inside and found a clear liquid swaying inside, so he poured the liquid out. There was only about two liters in total.
"Master … Drink …" Ramtas gestured anxiously at the side. Sheyan looked at it in surprise. If someone else had said that, he would never have dared to put the liquid into his mouth. After all, the ant queen was a highly poisonous creature. If the liquid was a poison sac, he would die too quickly after drinking it.
Taking Ramtas' loyalty into consideration, Sheyan pinched his nose and took a sip, but he immediately received a notification:
[You have drunk a rare medicine: Royal Jelly of One-Horned Flying Ants (Ant Dew).]
[All attributes + 1.]
"What?!" Sheyan never expected such a good thing to happen.
After all, ever since he became a Growth Hunter, if he wanted to increase his attributes, he would have to use three free attribute points to increase his Strength and Physique by one point.
His secondary attributes required five free attribute points to exchange for one point, while his other attributes required an astonishing seven free attribute points to exchange for one point! Now that all his attributes had + 1, drinking the liquid was equivalent to receiving more than 40 free attribute points for free! Of course, the drawback was that the 40 free attribute points could not be freely allocated, but that was still amazing.
Sheyan immediately took another sip and received another notification that all his attributes had + 1. But when he greedily took a third sip and all his attributes had + 3 points in total, he received a merciless notification:
[The energy your body can absorb from the rare medicine: Royal Jelly of One-Horned Flying Ants (Ant Dew) has reached its limit. It will no longer be effective if you continue to drink it. It may even lead to some abnormal reactions.]
Sheyan sighed regretfully. He was quite careful when he drank the liquid, so he only drank about one tael in three sips. There was still about two taels left of the rare medicine: Royal Jelly of One-Horned Flying Ants. According to the previous dosage, it could be divided into six portions, each of which could increase all his attributes by 1.
This was undoubtedly a huge fortune. Sheyan's losses from giving up the Pi ores and the ownership of the unknown mysterious object had been made up for. But for Paul and Aldaris, even if they got their hands on the ant queen's corpse, they probably wouldn't be able to get their hands on the rare medicine. The reason was simple.
For an ant colony, there were only two uses for the royal jelly. One was to hatch male ants for combat, and the other was to hatch the ant queen. The ant colony was in its heyday before they met Sheyan and Aldaris, so of course the ant queen would not secrete the royal jelly casually, just like how a woman would not lactate casually. Even if the ant queen secreted some royal jelly due to excess nutrition, it would be absorbed by itself immediately.
Without Ramtas, who had a super strong sense of smell, and due to the lack of information in this area, it was very difficult to find the organ that secreted the Ant King's Milk in the Ant Queen's body, which was as big as a locomotive, and it was almost impossible to get the Ant King's Jelly inside.
Sheyan took out a test tube and divided the remaining royal jelly into six portions. It didn't take long for Paul and Aldaris to walk out of the ant nest with great difficulty. Why was it 'great difficulty'?
Because there were eight pieces of high-purity Pi ores, and even the smallest piece was the size of a millstone. Their personal storage was already full of stuff, so there was no room for such a large piece. They had no choice but to do the hard work themselves.
Before the discovery of Uplos, ores with a Pi content of more than 7 parts per 100,000 were considered rich ores. But since the discovery of the corpse of Ryant, a senior explorer of the Milky Way Mining Association, and the piece of Pi ore he carried with him, the standard for rich ores was raised to 5%.
The crushing extractor that Sheyan and Aldaris brought with them this time could even process ores with 1% Pi content. According to the preliminary analysis of the samples they took for inspection, the purity of the eight pieces of Pi ores was between 2% and 7%, which was already very valuable for refining.
Now that everything had been settled, Paul and Aldaris naturally would not choose to take the Pi ores with them on their journey, but to refine them before leaving.
So the three of them stayed and began to crush the Pi ores into walnut-sized pieces, then threw them into the crushing extractor. It was worth mentioning that Pi was not a known metal element, so Paul's power had no effect on it. This made Paul lament for a long time ….
Sheyan did not hide what he had gained from Aldaris. In fact, Sheyan was not a person who sought to maximise his own benefits. He quietly tossed a test tube of royal jelly to Aldaris. Aldaris glanced at Sheyan but did not say anything. He just drank it without batting an eyelid. Sheyan then helped the two of them push the remaining Pi ores to the ground.
Sheyan had to admit that the visual effect of the Pi ores was quite beautiful. Intuitively speaking, the Pi ores were like tiny snow-white sand kneaded together and inlaid with densely packed topaz, sapphire, and amethyst of different sizes. When they shone under the sun, the Pi ores shone with a myriad of colours. It was a beautiful sight to behold.
When Sheyan got close to the Pi ores, he could not help but feel a sense of tranquility, as if his whole body had been cleansed by clear spring water, and his mind had never been so clear before. This feeling should be the reason why the One-Horned Flying Ants left the Pi ores behind. Sheyan checked the relevant records and found a similar phenomenon.
[You are bathed in the radiation of the Pi element. Your MP recovery speed + 10%. Your HP recovery speed + 10%.]
The task of crushing the Pi ores was naturally left to the battle puppets Hercules and Ramtas. The three of them took a break from their busy work. They leaned comfortably against the dry rocks and basked in the warm sun. At the same time, they began to bandage the wounds on their bodies.
Not long after, Paul suddenly sat up. He narrowed his eyes and said in a tone that was 30% mocking and 70% wary.
"They're here."
Sheyan's heart skipped a beat. His Perceptive Sense was not weak, but Paul was the one who gave the warning first! Obviously, Paul must have used some special means. Probably because the three of them had successfully cooperated once, Paul's wariness had been greatly reduced, and he was now showing his trump card.
Soon, Sheyan saw Hedi Curry's burly figure striding towards them. He was followed by other people. There was no doubt that when these guys saw the extracted Pi ores, the light in their eyes was indescribable. There was lust, jealousy, madness, envy ….
"You, you guys, you guys …" Ronnie was the first to scream. He seemed to have trouble finding the right words. But the lust in his eyes was unmistakable.
Sheyan, on the other hand, was smiling in his heart. According to the agreement, he had given up the ownership of the Pi ores, so there was no doubt that he would not be the one standing out at this time. Sheyan, on the other hand, was enjoying the feeling of hiding in the shadows behind others. (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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