Chapter 0201 Pursue the truth
After several days of hard work, Fabrow's ant nest laboratory accumulated a large amount of scrapped agents and failed test ant eggs. The rotten smell filled the entire laboratory, but the "Alchemy Chief" had already smelled it and couldn't feel it.
The clown Adrian stayed at the top of the cave in this simple laboratory, staring at it for days and nights. Fabro repeatedly conducted experiments under his nose, muttering various inexplicable recipes, overturning all kinds of conjectures.
"I need poisonous kale, ghost belladona, distiller, I need my laboratory." Fabrow's eyes had gone from red to black, but he still failed. "I can do it, but how can I continue with such conditions?"
Under depression and heavy pressure, the "Alchemy Chief" kept destroying the equipment on the table. He grabbed the potion dish and shouted loudly: "This is the most ridiculous alchemy item I have ever seen. A nest of ants made me with saliva and clay.
How could I make qualified potions with these things? What’s the use of finding a qualified formula? I can’t do anything and can’t continue to test it. There’s really no way to do it.”
Fabro kept venting his anger when he was slamming. Adrian, who was hanging on the top of the cave, packed up the test records he had done in the past few days and called on the "Holy Light" to send them all back to Zhou Qingfeng via the information network.
When the Alchemy notes recorded in many diarys were finished, Adrian got a special task. He climbed down from the top of the cave, approached carefully more than ten meters away from Fabro, and whispered: "Dear Alchemy Chief, you seem to be in trouble."
Because Fabro worked for many days, his robe was dirty by the messy medicinal herbs. His black eyes showed that he was in extreme fatigue and embarrassment. He heard someone shouting, and he even thought it was auditory hallucination.
Adrian shouted a few more times before Fabro turned his head. He saw the gray shadow hanging on the wall of the cave more than ten meters away, but his consciousness did not return to normal. He just asked blankly: "Who are you?"
"My name is Adrian, and I work for Lord Victor Hugo?"
"Oh?" Fabrow finally responded, "What did that evil guy send you to do?"
"His Excellency Hugo wants to ask, are you willing to work for him?"
"Me? That evil demon actually came to recruit me?" Fabro suddenly jumped up in anger, "I am a noble man, a pure alchemist, and a believer who is free from evil thoughts. How could I work for the evil demon?
You underestimate me too much. The recruitment of evil demons is an insult to me. Even if I die, die in this ant nest and are devoured by acidophile ants, I will never bow my head to Victor Hugo. You dream about it!"
Fabro picked up a petri dish made by an ant and smashed it fiercely at Adrian. The clown did not dodge at all, but just retreated and hid in the darkness that was sank into the top of the cave, leaving a sentence
"That's a pity. Mr. Hugo said that the curse you face was brought down by the gods, and it will only attract God's anger if you break it."
Fabro threw one and wanted to throw another one, but when he heard the 'God's wrath', he immediately stopped and shouted, "What did you say? Hey, wait! This recruitment is so insincere, he ran away in one sentence?"
Adrian really stopped and quietly retreated. From the top of the cave, he returned to another cave where Zhou Qingfeng and others were, and saw his teammates gathered next to the acidic ant corpse pit that he had seen before.
The huge corpse pit is deserted, rotten, and exudes a breath of death. It can be called a forbidden place for acidophile ants. Except for the corpses that keep falling from the pipes, there are no living ants. After only a few days, the corpse of the queen of the pit at the bottom of the pit was covered with a large number of ants.
"Jiying" stood by the pit and leaned over and sighed: "Did the acid-loving ants really not understand it for thousands of years? Is the so-called "rotten curse" actually caused by their large clan?"
"I think they know." Zhou Qingfeng said: "The 'Roar Curse' may not be a bad thing for the ant colony, but a means to eliminate aging individuals. For the huge ant colony, dying is not a big deal."
Others in the team nodded and agreed with Zhou Qingfeng's speculation. But Justen asked again: "What exactly is the cause of the ant eggs also rotten spots?"
"Then I have to ask it." Zhou Qingfeng pointed to the previous queen of ant who was almost invisible when he was crushed by an ant corpse pile in the corpse pit. "I believe it must know the answer. Only it can tell us the secrets in the ant nest in person."
Adrian walked to Zhou Qingfeng and handed over the pages of papyrus that had been collected for several days, "His Excellency Hugo, I have informed Fabro of the situation as you told me. He is indeed interested."
Zhou Qingfeng handed the papyrus to Justen, "Give these records to you. In our team, only you know how to prepare medicines. Fabro has bad character, but he seems to have some ability. We will need his knowledge."
The Pastor of the Disease took the papyrus, flipped through it and suddenly threw the page into the air. He and his apprentice knelt down together, shouting "Mother of the Disease", and shouting loudly: "My Lord, please determine whether these records can fight against the strong acids of the acidophilic ant?"
The paper pages fluttered, burning out of thin air and quickly turned into ashes.
Talona, the "Mother of the Epidemics", suddenly responded. The ashes did not fall, but instead formed a triangle with three amber teardrops. The tears turned into eyes and looked at Justen and others kneeling below.
Justen and others sang hymns, excited to the point of trembling. Their shouts had a certain rhythm, and in the cave where the deep pit was located, all the believers of the disease were promoted.
Zhou Qingfeng watched coldly and said to Sophia in his mind: "I have a kind of doubt. The knowledge that humans do not know, and the gods do not know. Only when humans discover something can the gods master it. This is completely contrary to our previous conjecture.
For example, Talona and Cialek didn't know that the Ant Tribe Plague was because of the rune combination bugs. It was not until I completed this deduction that they could understand.
But I am a little surprised that the real world where we are has only developed for thousands of years, and humans have begun to explore outer space. This alien civilization has developed for tens of thousands of years, so why is it still so backward? It seems that it is always standing still."
Sophia couldn't answer and only reminded: "Brother, the Hidden servant completed the investigation of the entire ant nest. Except for the spawning chamber where the queen was waiting for was protected by the psychic power, the three-dimensional structures in other places were depicted.
Your inference is correct. The captives captured by the queen of the ant have not only us and Hanfeng City. There are seven or eight prisons underground, with hundreds of humanoid creatures in it. I even found ogres. But these prisoners are afraid that they will not help us much."
The prayers of the sick believers ended, and the original pages of paper that turned into ashes appeared again. This time, the papyrus turned into a parchment scroll, and the original transcription of knowledge was re-sumed and improved. Justen and others felt as if they had obtained the treasure and praised it.
Zhou Qingfeng looked at the necromancer Mondino again and asked, "What level of soul crystal is needed to recall the soul of the predecessor's ant?"
"You want to perform psychic art?"
"right."
"This is really hard to evaluate. I have never had experience in this area. However, judging from the current queen's consciousness strength and our analysis of the acidic ant arcane rune, the soul of the senior queen should be equivalent to a green crystal, which is very powerful."
So Zhou Qingfeng added a green soul crystal in his hand and threw it at Mondino. The necromancer took it in shock and exclaimed with a shocking soul, "Hello Hugo, do you actually have a green crystal? How did this come about?"
Zhou Qingfeng only stared coldly, even though the other people in the team were blank by the sudden appearance of the green crystal.
Mondino gently stroked the green crystal with his dry hand bones and sighed in a low voice: "As long as there is such a green crystal, I can get rid of the old ghost's control." He looked at Zhou Qingfeng again, "Heronor Hugo, can I exchange my loyalty for it?"
Zhou Qingfeng only shook his head slightly, "I don't really believe in loyalty, or even in the soul vows. Loyalty will subvert, vows will be betrayed, and I believe in benefits more. The greater the benefits you can bring to me, I will give you."
Under the black robe, Mondino's eyes flashed with bright red light. He pondered for a few seconds and returned to calm down, finally bowed slightly and said, "Your Excellency, I understand what you mean. I will try my best to exchange for the benefits you give."
The team was very quiet, and only 'Jiying' hid behind and whispered to Xili: "The master has lie to me all the time, but he has not given me any benefits, and he always robs me of pocket money."
Zhou Qingfeng had a sharp ear and turned his head and glared, "Die horse, do you really want to be free?"
"Jiying" immediately stared at everyone and shouted, "Who? Who wants freedom? What's the best thing about freedom without food and clothing? Following the great master is my lifelong wish and supreme glory. I don't want any freedom."
Zhou Qingfeng snorted coldly before giving up.
The necromancer began to perform spiritualism, "using the principle of equal exchange, the dead body as the medium. In the void, I requested to recall a lost soul."
The archbishop-level green crystal gradually turned into powder and drifted into the void. The corpse of the queen in the ant corpse pit randomly became decayed and decayed. As the spell sounded more and more high, a stream of air came from all directions, gradually gathering in the hands of the necromancer.
The airflow was crushed again, and a huge phantom appeared in front of Zhou Qingfeng and others.
White and fat, huge in size, shaking tentacles, and deteriorating legs and feet. The soul of the previous queen was recalled by spiritualism from the past time. As soon as it appeared, the link of the mind directly penetrated everyone's consciousness, and an ethereal voice sounded.
"Humans, why do you summon me?"
Chapter completed!