Chapter 183 Lost and Found
This filthy land is about the same size as the slime area, but it is now filled with all kinds of debris, including slime, monster remains, and other things he doesn't recognize. In addition, the filthy air that fills the entire space is disgusting.
And after being sucked into this place, the countless strange insects seemed to suddenly become excited. After a moment of agitation, each of them raised their glowing tail sacs high and swallowed the filthy air in big mouthfuls. It looks like they are tasting the delicacies of the world!
Duan Qing suddenly felt nauseous. He held his breath and dared not breathe. He searched for the mysterious metal among the various debris.
Since the slime was sucked into this filthy land, the mysterious metal is probably here!
After a search, about three hours later, he almost turned the entire filthy land upside down, but still did not see the shadow of the mysterious metal.
How is it possible!
Duan Qing sorted out his thoughts again. It was true that his mysterious metal had definitely fallen into the mucus area yesterday. Today, he searched the mucus area and did not find the mysterious metal. In addition, the dozens of holes above the dome of the mucus area should be used to spray mucus, and the mysterious metal should not enter them.
Then the mysterious metal must have been sucked into this filthy place along with the mucus and strange insects yesterday! But where did the mysterious metal go!
According to his observation, in this filthy place, in addition to the hole where he was sucked, there were only three small stones on the top of his head, which should lead to other places.
Could it be that the mysterious metal was sucked somewhere else again? This possibility cannot be ruled out!
Well, no! There are also strange insects!
Duan Qing looked at the strange insects that were swallowing and spitting out filthy air. At this time, the tails of countless strange insects were more than a circle larger than when they came in. They looked bulging and had almost swallowed up the filthy air here.
He remembered clearly that when he was sucked in, there was no trace of a single strange insect here, which meant that the strange insects in front of him were all the strange insects that were sucked in with him before, so where did the strange insects yesterday go!
He couldn't help but look up at the three small stones above his head, and he had a vague answer in his heart. If the mysterious metal was not in this dirty place, it was very likely that it was taken away by the strange insects yesterday!
At this time, countless strange insects that had been swollen by sucking the dirty air suddenly put down their raised tail capsules one after another, crawled to the top of their heads along the surrounding stones, gathered in front of one of the small stones, and made a strange low hum.
As countless strange insects kept humming, the three small stones above their heads suddenly shrank, revealing three passages, and then countless strange insects rushed into one of the passages, ignoring the other two.
Duan Qing saw this without any hesitation, and sacrificed Ju Qing to perform the sword-controlling technique, and followed the strange insects into the passage.
At present, this strange insect is his only clue to find the mysterious metal. If he doesn't seize the opportunity to find the mysterious metal as soon as possible, he doesn't know how long he will be trapped in this ghost place!
The passage chosen by the strange insect is a bit narrow, only about ten feet wide, and it is winding. It is quite inconvenient for him to follow the strange insect with his sword. If he is not careful, he will hit the wall of the passage.
After following the strange insect for about a hundred feet, he finally came to another space.
Compared with the previous mucus area and dirty land, this place is even larger. There are more than a dozen pools of similar size in the open space. Apart from this, there is nothing else.
The passage where the strange insect and Duan Qing entered this place is located in the corner, and it is more than ten feet away from the nearest pool. As soon as Duan Qing stepped into this place, the passage was blocked by small stones, cutting off his retreat.
As soon as countless strange insects entered this place, they turned into more than a dozen long dragons and went straight to each pool, jumping into the pool one after another like dumplings.
Duan Qing followed the strange insect to one of the pools without stopping. He found that as soon as the strange insect entered the water, its body began to dissolve immediately. A strange insect the size of a human head was dissolved in a breath, and turned into several thumb-sized prototypes floating in the water.
The originally clear water in more than a dozen pools gradually began to turn green and bubble as the strange insect was dissolved in the water.
What kind of water is this! Duan Qing was a little terrified and quickly stepped aside, fearing that the water would splash on him!
More and more strange insects were dissolved by the pool water. More than a dozen pools had completely turned from transparent to green, and each of them was constantly emitting bubbles and water mist like a boiling pot, and countless prototypes of strange insects rolled in the water.
When all the strange insects were dissolved, the green liquid in more than a dozen pools burst out at almost the same time, gushing out a huge amount of green foam. In the blink of an eye, the green foam filled almost the entire space.
Duan Qing had a bad premonition and performed the sword-controlling technique in advance, flying high to the top of the space, barely avoiding the gushing green foam.
The green foam came and went quickly. In just a few minutes, the foam covering most of the space disappeared without a trace, leaving behind the prototypes of strange insects and green mucus.
Thumb-sized, several times larger than the previous prototypes, each wriggled its body, followed the mucus back to the pools.
Seeing this, Duan Qing suddenly realized that the mucus in the mucus area came from here.
Since it was mucus, Duan Qing had nothing to be afraid of, and he landed to look for the mysterious metal.
Not long after, Duan Qing saw the thing he had been thinking about, the mysterious metal, by the side of a pool!
As expected! Duan Qing was overjoyed when the mysterious metal was found again. He carefully put the mysterious metal into his bag, and his heart, which had been hanging, finally let go.
After finding the mysterious metal, he felt much more relaxed and walked back and forth between the pools to observe.
Through the green mucus, Duan Qing could vaguely see that there was a small stone at the bottom of each pool, which should be the path to the mucus area.
What made him feel most incredible was that the embryonic forms of those strange insects had grown a lot in just a short while!
What a terrible vitality! Or was it that the mucus was effective?
He suddenly had a bizarre guess in his mind, could these strange insects be the same batch as yesterday?
Judging from the growth rate of these strange insects, this is really possible!
Hmm! Duan Qing's mouth curled up slightly, and he took out two bamboo tubes filled with spiritual spring water, poured out the spiritual spring water, filled a pool with some mucus, sealed it, and carefully put it into the storage bag.
This mucus is a bit strange, and it might be useful in the future if I keep some.
After collecting the mucus, Duan Qing began to look for a way out of this place.
In addition to the dozen or so small stones at the bottom of the pool, there is only one small stone at the top.
This means that he either has to go back to the slime area from the bottom of the pool, or open the small stone at the top and try his luck elsewhere.
After thinking about it, Duan Qing still thinks it is safer to go back to the slime area from the bottom of the pool and then explore the other end of the slime area passage, after all, he is more familiar with the slime area.
As long as he doesn't go to that dirty place and doesn't actively provoke the strange insects, there is no other danger. It is the best transfer point to find a way out.