My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 172: Hidden Poisonous Insect Tide

The Yueshan Ruins are not a popular secret place.

When Zhou Lu and the others were looking for a suitable place to set up camp, they did not encounter any beastmasters.

"Every once in a while, there will be a wave of insects here."

Xu Wuhu had obviously done enough planning.

He specifically emphasized this point when building the camp.

The insect swarms in Yueshan Ruins are also well-known in the beastmaster circle.

It is precisely because of the existence of the insect tide that even Beastmasters who need materials from the Moon Mountain Ruins generally do not enter the secret realm during this season.

The autumn and winter of each year are when insect swarms are most frequent in the Yueshan Ruins.

Many people speculate that this is because the resources in the Yueshan Ruins are limited, so many insect beasts will compete for resources in this way during the autumn and winter seasons.

Except for secret realms with special environments such as the Snowy Secret Realm, the seasons in most secret realms change along with the main world.

This is also one of the arguments that the academic community believes that the secret realm is a small world separated from the main world by immortals.

Zhou Lu naturally considered this issue as well.

So when he was building the camp, he asked Huahu to use vines and mucus to create an insect-proof net.

"This should be fine." Zhou Lu looked at the arrangement in front of him and nodded.

Night time.

The first wave of insect swarms began after Zhou Lu entered the secret realm of Yueshan Ruins.

Pitch-black flying insects came from all directions, like a black wave, instantly sweeping across the entire camp.

The sound of flying insects' wings flapping was heard in the air.

Zhou Lu only felt a buzzing in his ears, and his entire brain was being vibrated and hit by the insect's wings.

"Fuck... this is too exaggerated..." Zhou Lu said in shock as he looked at the black bugs that continued to accumulate on the firework vine web.

At this point, Hanabi's slime had completely lost its effect.

Countless insects instantly paved the road with their bodies.

If Hanabi hadn't reacted quickly enough and used vines to weave a circular dome to cover the entire camp, they would probably have been overwhelmed by these black bugs.

"It's a hidden poisonous insect."

Xu Wuhu said as he looked at the occasional fish that slipped through the net.

Even though Hanabi had woven the vine shield as finely as possible, the speed of weaving was too fast to activate the [Lilliput] skill, which allowed many poisonous insects to crawl in through the gaps in the vines.

The toxicity of cryptozoological insects is quite high.

Once bitten by it, the skin at the bite site will ulcerate in a very short time.

Zhou Lu naturally didn't want to put himself in such a dangerous situation.

Fireworks has already taken action at this moment.

As an expert in catching insects, it wove several insect nets and began to capture the poisonous insects that broke through the defense of the outer vines.

And Benben has now turned into a mosquito killer lamp.

Because the outside was completely covered by the hidden poisonous insect swarm, the camp became pitch black under the vine dome.

In order to better bring out Benben's "performance", Zhou Lu even specially installed a light for Benben.

Benben looked at the bugs swarming towards him and was too tired to complain.

got used to.

I've really gotten used to this kind of thing.

"If this continues, I'm afraid we'll run out of oxygen."

Xu Wuhu looked at the situation in front of him and frowned.

Countless venomous insects blocked any gaps they could find.

The layers of insects were so tightly packed that it was difficult for the outside air to enter the camp. And judging from what Hanabi observed from the branch outside, this wave of hidden poisonous insects covering the entire Moon Mountain Ruins would not end for a while.

"It seems like we are very unlucky." Zhou Lu said helplessly, "The scale of this insect swarm is much larger than what we saw in the information."

As he said that, he found Hua Huo.

At this point, Hanabi had given up on running around to catch bugs herself.

It has arranged a lot of branches in the camp, and each branch has grown several insect-catching vine nets.

Due to the constant changes in the cells at the roots of the vines, these insect nets sway regularly in the air.

In this way, they can stick to any bugs they encounter along the way.

What Huo Huo has to do is to pick the fruits from the net bag that is full of insects like a fruit farmer picking fruits.

Hanabi crushed the corpses of these poisonous insects into small insect cakes.

Then they were thrown into the newly lit bonfire as fuel.

The porous structure of bug cake makes it a very flammable fuel.

Amid the crackling sound of insects exploding, the smell of burnt protein began to fill the air.

The bonfire burned brighter and brighter.

But if this happens, the air crisis will be even more serious, right?
Xu Wuhu was just about to ask this question when he saw Zhou Lu asking the firework to take out some spores from its snail shell.

He raised his hand and sprinkled the spores on the ground.

As if sensing the heat from the campfire, the spores began to grow rapidly.

After a short while, black and white mushrooms appeared in front of Xu Wuhu.

"Night Goddess Mushroom." Zhou Lu introduced to Xu Wuhu, "A kind of mushroom that absorbs heat and converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and emits it."

This was also picked up from Wu Xiaoqing's laboratory.

However, this is not the result of Wu Xiaoqing's experiment, but a new species of fungus she discovered in the wild.

Since the technology for industrial oxygen production has been very mature, Wu Xiaoqing has not yet figured out its uses.

The reason why Hanabi brought them was simply because these night goddess mushrooms were very beautiful.

It wanted to use these mushrooms to decorate its little room.

Unexpectedly, these decorative mushrooms came in handy at this time.

"But they will quickly consume the heat from the bonfire." Zhou Lu said to Xu Wuhu, "We can't let the bonfire go out."

So the two of them joined the team adding poisonous insect biscuits to the campfire.

Considering the safety of the two beast masters, Hanabi would specially leave a leaf behind when making insect cakes.

The night passed very long.

The swarm of poisonous insects only began to slowly subside when the sunrise appeared the next day.

Because too many insects were intercepted and accumulated, the vine dome of Fireworks even began to collapse.

The little grass had to weave several pillars with vines to strengthen the support.

puff!
Xu Wuhu used brute force to tear a hole in the dome.

In an instant, countless insect corpses fell down and submerged him completely.

Hua Huo, who was standing by, had already prepared for the cleanup and cleared Xu Wuhu out in a short while.

After breathing the air again, Xu Wuhu felt much more alert.

Although the Night Goddess Fungus can produce oxygen.

But the smell produced by burning a large number of insects still gives people a suffocating feeling.

Later, the two even ate a few red leaf mushrooms, so they were not poisoned by the toxic gas produced by the burning.

"It seems that this trip may be much more difficult than we imagined." Zhou Lu said helplessly as he looked at the camp that was in a mess due to the corpses of hidden poisonous insects.

(End of this chapter)