The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

Having seen the inside of the ant nest, Campus Spring Colors revealed a wicked smile unique to players.

At the bottom of the earthen hill, in the narrow, winding road gnawed by black ants, there is a surprisingly open area of ​​about 1 cubic meter.

One of the black ants, which is extremely plump by black ant standards, is curled up in this open area in a position like a baby lying in bed, making the space seem a bit crowded.

It is quite deformed overall, with its abdomen taking up almost three-quarters of its entire body.

"My gut feeling was right after all."

The spring scenery on campus makes me chuckle.

To be honest, the reason he was persuaded by Dog Brother and his friends to take the risk, besides their long-standing friendship, was partly because he himself wanted to verify his own guesses.

He figured that, given the game's hardcore approach, it was unlikely that monsters would randomly spawn out of nowhere.

Since there are so many ants, there is a high probability that there is a queen ant hiding in the ant nest.

And that was indeed the case.

Even amidst the springtime scenery on campus, one could sense the blood energy emanating from this plump black ant. Although its size made it difficult to determine its level, the fact that it could produce so many black ants meant it couldn't be weak.

The most outrageous thing is that even when he was standing right in front of the queen ant, she was still producing milky white eggs, as if it were out of her control.

Clang~

A flash of light appeared.

Campus Spring Scenery drew the bone knife from her waist: "Baby, don't be afraid, just bear with it, it will pass in a moment."

They called her "baby" but didn't hesitate at all when they did it.

He was even worried that he wouldn't be able to pierce through it in one go, so he specially circulated his blood and qi.

Pfft!

Although it was difficult at first, I eventually got in.

The knife plunged into the queen ant's enormous abdomen, and pale green fluid immediately oozed out, emitting a strong, fishy odor.

The vibrant spring scenery on campus unconsciously frowned under the influence of this stench.

With one hand pinching his nose, he used the other to pull out the bone knife with a sudden burst of force, instantly drawing out a large amount of pale green liquid with an exaggeratedly pungent and nauseating stench.

The spring scenery on campus retreated half a step, cautiously observing the queen ant's reaction.

Strangely, the queen ant did not seem to feel any pain.

Even with a gash in her abdomen, constantly spraying fluids out, the queen ant showed no violent reaction, maintaining her original posture, with only her two black eyes turning towards the spring scenery on campus.

The queen ant's indifferent gaze made even the campus beauties feel a little uneasy: "Just bear with it a little longer."

He wanted to take this opportunity to stab him a few more times.

Unfortunately, the few black ants scattered around the ant nest clearly sensed that the queen was threatened, and immediately rushed towards the campus spring scenery as if their lives depended on it.

With his current physical abilities, reflexes, and dynamic vision, he could even clearly see the black ant leaping into the air and gliding through the air.

To be honest, this gaming experience is captivating.

Especially compared to her real self, the campus spring scenery makes her feel that she is all-powerful now.

Faced with the attack of black ants, an ordinary person would probably only see a black shadow flash by, but Campus Spring Scenery was able to react in time and accurately swing her knife to deal with it.

With a continuous clanging sound, the black ant corpses, cut in half, fell like raindrops.

The main issue is that there aren't many black ants around the ant nest right now. If we were to draw an analogy, the difficulty level for the campus spring scenery might not be much higher than playing Fruit Ninja.

Worried that the black ant army would turn back to look for the queen, he didn't dare to delay any longer. After killing dozens of black ants in succession, he reached out and pulled the queen out of the ant nest...

……

Xishi Village is an open space closest to the river.

As mentioned before, there is more than one open space inside the Xishi tribe.

Strictly speaking, these open spaces were originally training grounds used by the Xishi tribe for martial arts practice.

Because there weren't enough players before, and the players' original spawn point was in that open area, players chose to move around and even build houses in that area based on the principle of proximity.

Now, with the increasing number of players, the open space is becoming a bit crowded.

Players who don't want to be disturbed will naturally go elsewhere to cause trouble.

At present, in the center of the open space named Shuilu Kongdi by Yunyanchenglu, a furnace has been built by ramming clay and sand layer by layer.

This two-meter-diameter traditional steelmaking vertical furnace is the result of their hard work over this period of time.

"Absolutely stunning."

Yunyan Chenglu stood in front of the vertical furnace, his eyes filled with affection as if he were looking at his lover.

Drunk and unaware of the sky above the water, he couldn't help but express his question: "Why don't we just build a modern steelmaking blast furnace directly?"

"You've really grown up, Ah Shui, your vision is too big."

Cheng Lu shook his head: "Of course I'd like to achieve the goal in one go, but don't you think about it? What's the point of building a steelmaking blast furnace?"

After this period of understanding, they have realized that steel does not seem to be so common in the background setting of this game.

They haven't found any iron ore yet, and a vertical shaft furnace of this size is more than enough for their needs, and even more.

If we switch to a blast furnace, we can find some metal products, but just by collecting those scraps, we don't know when we'll be able to start a furnace.

After all, at most they can build a makeshift blast furnace, a small experimental blast furnace, which is not something that can be handcrafted under these production conditions.

"Let's go check the west side of the starting village. I refuse to believe we can't find iron ore. If all else fails, iron sand will do."

Chenglu called to Ashui, preparing to go out and explore.

As soon as they reached the first open space, they saw Dog Brother and his group walking towards the tribe's gate, looking disheveled.

It's worth mentioning that Dog and his crew did find a river, waded across it, and were preparing to confront the swarm of black ants when, as if they had received some kind of signal, the swarm of black ants retreated as quickly as the tide.

Seeing such a good thing, Dog Brother and his group gave up the idea of ​​continuing to provoke the black ant swarm and returned to the tribe in a dejected manner, intending to rest for a while before thinking about other upgrade plans.

"What? That guy from campus hasn't come back?"

Upon hearing this news from Peng Zhi, Dog Brother was somewhat surprised: "That shouldn't be the case, isn't that guy the fastest runner?"

Roupeng slapped his thigh happily: "If his life or death is unknown, then he's dead."

"What are you thinking? Look, he's still on the leaderboard!"

Dog Bro retorted, but it wasn't hard to tell from his tone that he was very disappointed.

As luck would have it, they were talking at that moment.

Standing on the high platform beside the gate, Ke Yun, who was acting as a sentry, interjected, "You're looking for campus romance? Weren't you just back..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly widened his eyes.

"What the hell are those things following him?!"