Chapter 0200 sinister intentions
Hundreds of meters away from Zhou Qingfeng and others, above the ant colony that was dozens of meters high, a gray shadow was hanging upside down on the edge of the rough cave wall and slowly crawling.
Huiying puts exquisite grapple hooks on his hands and feet to make it secure. The grapple hooks can occasionally touch glowing moss everywhere. When they move, the moss falls and floats toward the ground.
A worker ant's tentacles touched the falling moss and looked up. However, the ant colony, who was used to dark life, degenerated his eyes and disappeared from the gray film and television dozens of meters away. After a while, an ant guard flew over to investigate. The gray shadow had already left that area.
On the platform below the gray shadow, "Alchemy Chief" Fabro was busy and sweating. The ant colony could provide too few reagents and equipment, and it was far from comparable to his laboratory in Hanfeng City. He could only rack his brains to use various methods to get on the horse.
Behind Fabro, the son of the city lord Marbury and his other subordinates seemed very irritable. Their arrogant attitude in front of Zhou Qingfeng was just to maintain the so-called "noble demeanor", and in essence they were also irritable.
The expedition team in Hanfeng City followed the route Zhou Qingfeng took. They thought that this would allow them to enter the elves' ruins more smoothly, but there were not many troubles along the way.
Zhou Qingfeng has an information network plus two or three hundred hidden servants. Sophia has built a two or three kilometers of reconnaissance network to avoid monsters and dangers that may be encountered as much as possible, saving time and energy.
There are only fifty people in Hanfeng City, and the logistics will not be able to keep up with the increase in the number of people. Due to the lack of an effective warning network, they either bump into zombies or are surrounded by dog-headed people along the way, causing a large number of casualties and reduced casualties in the continuous battle.
The long-legged city lord had no time to feel heartbroken that the elites that the family had trained for many years had been damaged one after another, so he himself brought the remaining people and was surrounded by acidophilic ants. When he was running away, Marbury, the son of the city lord, was abandoned and became a captive to the ant colony.
If I had known this, the city lord would not have left the Platy Village even if he died. So what if Zhou Qingfeng was going to enter the elf ruins first? But now there is no medicine for regret.
"Fabro, how long will it take to get the right potion?" The underground world was boring, except for the ant colony, moss and mushrooms. Marbury stared at Fabro, and could ask more than a hundred times a day. "Can't you speed up the progress?"
"Your Excellency, this must be patient." Fabro, who entered the work state, did not hide the current difficulties. "I have some clues now, but I am facing too many difficulties. Please don't bother me too much."
"But my grandfather clearly said in his diary that there is a subtle way."
"Maybe your grandfather was wrong."
"My grandfather is Levin, a Northland hero."
"But your grandfather is not an alchemist."
Before Marbury lost his mind, his followers persuaded him to pull him away from Fabro. The empty cave platform was the focused and distressed Fabro, a large number of potions obtained by acidophiles, plus a large number of experimentally scrapped ants.
And the gray shadows hanging on the ceiling.
Zhou Qingfeng also faces difficulties. Mondino wants to build an analytical magic array, but the underground ant colony cannot provide the corresponding materials at all. The boy can only force himself to hypnotize himself into the information network and exchange it for the succubus.
It took two days to build the magic circle. Even Xili came to help the necromancer to discover that this golemmaid with a human appearance not only has excellent archery skills, but also has a very in-depth understanding of arcane and magic nets.
The way Xili transforms the magic circle is very simple. She doesn’t talk about the principles or operations. In just one sentence, the magic circle you draw now is different from what I have seen.
Mondino initially argued that his professional knowledge was questioned. But soon everyone found that as long as he changed it according to what Shili said, the effect would be better. As for why, I didn't know that the Necromancer had to shut up and instead humbly ask for advice.
Previously, analytical array was built for constant runes. This time it was simpler, just analyze it. The body and ability of the acidophilic ant was much simpler than the werewolf. The team was busy until the third day, and the arcane runes from the ant corpse and ant eggs were drawn out.
As usual, Zhou Qingfeng borrowed the power of the necromancer to activate the arcane vision and looked up at the arcane runes floating above the magic circle. First, compare the differences between infected and uninfected eugenic ants?
It took only two or three hours to control the Information Processing Center, Sofia, who was in charge of the information processing center, concluded that whether it was an ant corpse or an ant egg, it would not affect its essence.
"Brother, I have a suggestion, can I borrow the brains of everyone in the information network link team and provide computing power to analyze these runes together. Then consume the green crystal first and build an accelerator, which will increase computing power by dozens of times."
With the help of Zhou Qingfeng's computer knowledge as the foundation, Sophia has been evolving through self-learning. The little girl's idea is to treat more than a dozen people in the team as a computing node and use accelerators to coordinate the computing power.
"If we succeed, we can not only know what the decay in the ant colony is going on, but we can even deepen our understanding of its related arcane runes."
Zhou Qingfeng didn't think about Sophia's suggestion for too long. He happily consumed the green crystal that was equivalent to his doctoral knowledge and ability, allowing it to be converted into an accelerator in the data center, and actively linked other people in the team.
Analyze and share together.
At the critical moment when you have to die if you fail, you must do your best.
So everyone gathered under the analytical array and looked up at the floating arcane runes together. The runes that were originally condensed were constantly dismantled, and a large amount of calculation work was quickly completed in a minute and a second.
There are actually two characteristics of acidophilic ants, one is ‘acid liquid’ and the other is ‘spiritual connection’. Considering the characteristics of ‘rot disease’, the first one to be analyzed is ‘acid liquid’.
‘Acid Gland’ and ‘Strong Acid Protection’, this is the secondary rune associated with ‘Acids’. The rune of ‘Strong Acid Protection’ appears, and Zhou Qingfeng immediately received a double request from Mondino, Justin and others who wanted to obtain this rune.
Both the wizards and the priests seemed particularly excited because they often encountered acidic items. There are many magical techniques in divine and arcane techniques that were accompanied by acidic attacks. If they could obtain "strong acid protection", they would be a big advantage.
Zhou Qingfeng was not stingy and allowed Sophia to record the information of the relevant runes and transmit it to everyone in the team. But the analysis of "acid liquid" ends here. "Rotosis" has nothing to do with this series of runes.
Then we can only analyze the "spiritual connection". This rune combination is much more complicated than "acid liquid". Zhou Qingfeng had to consume a lot of soul crystals and life glue to maintain the lives of everyone in the team.
When the high-intensity consumption lasted until the fifth day, the "spiritual connection" was deduced into multiple secondary rune structures. The reason for the curse of "rot disease" finally appeared. The previous guess was correct, and there were two kinds of curses in the ant colony.
Xili first saw through the strangeness. She said in the information network: "Rotary disease is caused by a problem with the mental connection of the ant colony. When the number of ant colony is too large, the queen's ability to control the ant colony will decrease, and the physiological functions of a single eugenic ant will be out of control."
In Zhou Qingfeng's view, the current rune parsing is a bit like looking for bugs in program code. A large amount of computing power is invested in, constantly simulating the evolution in it until a problem is discovered.
There are too many "rune codes" of werewolf, so Zhou Qingfeng can only roughly understand its function. The "rune codes" of the acidophila are much simpler. With the strengthening of computing power, he finally found its defects in the runes.
The cause of the decay of the ant colony itself has been found. Unless its natural runes are modified, the bug will always exist. However, the rotting of the ant egg is another matter.
The deduction continued, and in the rune analysis of the ant eggs, a line of curses from the infinite is becoming more and more obvious. Cialek exclaimed: "These ants were cursed by a certain god."
Cursed by the gods?
Xili also discovered the problem and said in a deep voice: "The Queen of Ants must have concealed something from us. Rotten disease is related to the connection between the soul, but the infection of the ant egg is a curse of the gods. There are other secrets hidden in the ant nest, but the Queen of Ants did not want to tell us.
It is actually not difficult to solve the curse of foreign curse, and some alchemy potions can be done. However, ordinary people cannot tell who the curse comes from, and they are often proud to crack it randomly. But if the curse comes from the gods, it will definitely be backfired once it is cracked.
The Queen of the Ant wants us to bear the consequences of the curse transfer, which is her real sinister intention. If our alchemy level is not too poor and we are forced to directly analyze the runes, we will not be able to find out the reason."
Chapter completed!