Chapter 671 Egg Dragon
"The Insect Kingdom, as the name suggests, is the creatures on this sixth layer. More than 80% of them are insects, or in other words, have insect-like appearances."
Riko's stomach growled.
The distance between the fifth and sixth floors was eight thousand meters. The ladder did not descend very quickly and it took nearly two hours, so she felt a little hungry.
But she continued,
"And within a radius of fifty kilometers outside the altar, there is a huge insect kingdom. According to rumors, this insect kingdom is led by a queen insect. The queen insect has no intelligence, but all insects in the swarm kingdom will unconditionally obey the queen insect's orders and complete their work efficiently, orderly, and step by step, just like-"
"An automatic soul-guiding machine without emotions!"
Romantina felt that there was a contradiction in Riko's words.
For example: Since the queen insect has no intelligence, how can she command other insect swarms?
"I don't know either." Li Ke shook her head.
"Little monster?"
Dugu Bo also became interested and asked Zhou Qing for his opinion.
"Just like a baby will cry loudly when it is born, not because it is sad, but because it wants to breathe smoothly, and then it will instinctively suck and do other things. Can you say that a newborn baby has wisdom?"
Zhou Qing gave such an example, which made everyone think of the answer: instinct.
The swarm survives by instinct.
"But from what you described, Riko, about the territory occupied by the insect swarm, I'm afraid it will be a bit troublesome for us to reach the altar."
A radius of fifty kilometers.
This distance is not small. If it is completely filled with bugs, the Titled Douluo will be eaten until only bones are left.
There were seven of them——
"I will kill them all!" Atalja stuck out her butt, her ten fluffy tails swaying slightly, her legs stepped on the bunny girl's shoulders, her four arms pressed on the bunny girl's head, and she swayed back and forth like riding a rocking car, and volunteered.
"good idea!"
Dugu Bo thought to himself that the swarm of insects was not in vain.
but.
Snakes have never liked insects, so it would be best if they didn't have to take action.
"no!"
Riko rejected the proposal and said, "Individuals in the swarm are actually quite large. The small ones are comparable to human heads, and the large ones can be over three meters. If we kill them all, it will definitely cause a large-scale epidemic on this layer. It may not recover for more than a hundred years, and future explorers will die in vain."
"Also, Abo said that the insect swarms on the sixth floor will not actively harm humans unless humans harm them first."
clap clap!
Zhou Qing clapped his hands and said to Dugu Bo, "Old monster, sometimes you have to learn from Li Ke and not just think about fighting and killing all the time."
Dugu Bo: "...I am past the age of innocence."
"But now you are young again."
Zhou Qing blinked and said as a matter of course, "On the second floor, he was so full of energy that he danced with Ms. Odin." In an instant, Dugu Bo's face turned as gloomy as charcoal, but he really couldn't refute anything. He could only raise his hands to cover his face and try to calm down.
Romantina said: "It was Atarja who first proposed to destroy the insect swarm."
Zhou Qing said seriously: "Children's words are not to be feared."
"is it?"
Romantina looked suspicious.
Zhou Qing's ability to change the subject was already perfect. He said to Li Ke: "Your stomach growled just now, didn't it? Then let's eat first."
Li Ke's face turned red. Seeing Zhou Qing took out dry food, dragon mane snail dove meat, holy grail fruit and the like, she waved her hands hastily and said, "As an explorer, you have to eat what's available."
As she spoke, Riko looked at a nearby nest made of rocks. There were three creatures around 50 centimeters tall, with round heads and prominent horns, similar to dinosaurs. She took out a one-millimeter-thick "Guide to Creatures on the Sixth Layer of the Abyss Ruins" from her backpack, flipped through it, and found content that matched the description. She said, "Let me cook the food!"
"Can this creature be eaten?" Atalja licked her lips, eager to try.
"The eggs are fine, but the creature itself is highly poisonous and cannot be eaten." Riko looked at the guide and said, "This creature is called an egg dragon. Once it reaches adulthood, it can lay nearly a hundred eggs every month. One egg can save an explorer from eating for a day."
"Okay, then I'll go ahead!" The bunny girl did not let Riko use the white flute, and took the initiative to step forward to fight with the egg dragons. However, when these egg dragons saw the bunny girl running over, they were scared away and did not even think of fighting.
Dugu Bo curled his lips and said sarcastically, "You are so timid, how can you be called a dragon?"
"Who cares? As long as it tastes good, that's all."
The bunny girl went into the egg dragon's nest without looking back and took out the eggs with yellow background and gray spots one by one. Because the egg dragon had an amazing reproductive ability, she didn't leave any behind.
To keep things simple, Riko decided to make boiled eggs.
But when the water boiled, the eggs were taken out and peeled, only to find that they seemed not fully cooked. There was only a layer of light yellow solidified layer on the outside, and tiny red blood vessels appeared inside, which were trembling slightly, as if they had extremely strong vitality.
"Is this thing edible?" Romantina picked up an uncooked egg, cracked it open, and found that the outer layer of egg white was almost the same as the coagulated layer of the boiled egg, only slightly thinner.
In other words, the egg cannot be cooked simply by boiling water.
But Li Ke was not discouraged. She just crushed the dry food Zhou Qing brought out into powder, put the boiled eggs in and shook them, and then used the fat of the dragon mane snail dove to boil oil and fried them.
But after being fried, the vitality of the egg seemed to be awakened. When it was placed on the plate, it vibrated with a amplitude visible to the naked eye, as if -
The beating of the heart!
In fact, it is because of the high temperature of frying that a heart is grown inside and begins to beat, making the fried dragon egg more chewy.
Zhou Qing picked up a plate, grabbed one with his hand and put it into his mouth. The moment he bit it, he could taste the fragrance of the egg white, the sweetness of the egg yolk, and the saltiness of the dry food. The taste was surprisingly good.
After eating one, I immediately felt three points full.
Eating one is equivalent to eating a whole day, it’s true.
So far, Zhou Qing has eaten the Holy Grail Fruit, the Dragon Mane Snail Dove, and the Egg Dragon Egg. After savoring them carefully, he finally understood the difference between the monsters in the Abyss Ruins and the soul beasts in the outside world.
Soul beasts are essentially beings that can utilize the energy of heaven and earth to cultivate, gradually breaking away from the control of their survival instincts and moving toward a process of increasing wisdom.
However, judging from the current development trend of soul beasts, it is still a long way to go for soul beasts to truly develop their own civilization, and they still have to compete with humans - generally speaking, soul beasts have absolutely no chance of competing with humans, especially under the premise that the God Realm is still wary of all beasts, it is even more difficult.
The creatures in the ruins of the abyss actually also utilize the energy of heaven and earth, but they do not actively control the process of cultivation. Instead, they rely on instinct to solidify all external energy into the flesh, presenting it in the form of material flesh and blood, rather than in the form of energy such as soul power.
Therefore, in terms of nutritional content, the creatures of the Abyss Ruins are much stronger than the meat of soul beasts from the outside world. However, in order to fully absorb them, one's own digestive system must also be extremely strong...
(End of this chapter)
