Taoist is a bit salty
Chapter 405 Warehouse
They not only emptied a section of the creek, but also continued to work, intending to empty the entire creek.
This is too interesting, right?
Qing Hu took a closer look at the pit where Han Sui dug out the fragments. According to the size of the fragments, the shape and depth of the pit, she decided to part ways with Gao Cheng and the others.
They were going in the direction of the inner palace.
And the flow direction of the stream is clearly along the periphery.
Gao Cheng thought about it with a difficult expression, but insisted on following Qing Hu and the others.
However, he also arranged for another captain to lead the team, and then divided the team he led into two, and handed over half of it to another captain to lead the team to clean up the water peanuts.
It's not that Gao Cheng doesn't pay attention to the opportunities in the Holy King's Palace, but it's too important to deal with the pollutants in the water and peanuts.
If the team were able to empty the entire creek, the water peanuts they got would indeed be edible again.
That is definitely an exciting and good thing for the Nujiao Kingdom.
This kind of thing must be handed over to safe people.
If Gao Cheng didn't feel that it might be more rewarding to follow Qinghu, he would not have entrusted this important matter to other people to lead the team.
Even after handing over the command, Gao Cheng earnestly urged several improvised measures.
"You have great responsibilities, and the main task is to complete the task. The others must stand aside." The team leader who accepted the important task immediately nodded solemnly. "Master Gao, don't worry."
In the end, Gao Cheng took four youths and teenagers, formed a five-member team, and followed Qing Hu and the others.
Qinghu led the way. Along the way, they saw many human races, and also saw the corpses of many human races, as well as the corpses of foreign races.
I didn't see any living aliens.
But the more they walked towards the Holy King's Palace, the more oppressive the air was.
When they entered a primeval forest, the entire deep primeval forest was very quiet, there was no sound at all, as if the entire forest was dead.
"Little brother Shen, something is wrong here." Sensing the crisis, Han Sui reminded loudly.
"Don't worry. It needs to be dealt with anyway." Qing Hu continued to stride and lead the crowd away.
When everyone reached the depths of the deep forest, huge insect nests came into everyone's eyes not far away.The insect nest was built among several ancient trees in the forest.After eating all the ancient trees that wrap the inside of the insect nest, there are only bare trunks left.
The dark, soft soil built a hill-like insect nest.
Some ants-like winged insects came in and out of the nest.
Nine huge insect nests in a row blocked Qinghu's way forward.
Each winged monster is at least the size of a house dog.When humans discovered the worm nest, they also appeared from all directions, surrounding the humans who came in.
"It's over, we are surrounded. There are too many bugs, and everyone has no hope of rushing out." Han Sui said with a pale face.
"Can you shoot arrows?" Qinghu asked sideways.
"Yes. But there are so many bugs here, no matter how good you are at archery, you can't kill them." Han Sui smiled wryly.
"Vulcan Arrow." Qinghu said.
When Han Sui heard it, he was pleasantly surprised and said, "Is there really? I can do it."
"Take it easy." Qing Hu handed the other party a longbow and a pot of arrows after finishing speaking.A pot of ten.
"I can also shoot arrows." Gao Cheng interrupted suddenly at this moment. "Not only me, but even the brothers around me are proficient in archery."
"Really?" Qing Hu looked at him suspiciously, why did she have a bad feeling that this guy was tricking her.
"The worms are about to kill them. If you still have bows and arrows, hurry up and come out. If one more person shoots arrows, the hope of being born is greater?" Gao Cheng tried to persuade.
It's confirmed, this guy is lying about her magic bow and arrow.
When she led the team here, she also meant to kill the bugs here.
Because there is an entrance here.
"Okay, don't take things and stop working."
Qing Hu took out a few more longbows and quiver.
He also gave Yundou and Yunyan a longbow and quiver.
The middle-aged man beside Han Sui opened his mouth, but then closed it embarrassedly.
"If you are not good at archery, you will be tossed." Qing Hu said straightforwardly. "If you can't do archery, you won't be able to shoot even one of them."
The middle-aged man blushed.
"Actually, his swordsmanship is pretty good, at the level of a grand master." Gao Cheng smiled and exposed the old background of the middle-aged man.
"We are using arrows now." Qing Hu apologized.
"Okay, they started to spit black mist, everyone act quickly. When the black mist comes, our clothes and utensils will be corroded."
After hearing Qinghu's words, everyone quickly started to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
Gao Cheng excitedly opened the bow, but after struggling for a long time, he couldn't draw it fully.
He blushed with anger and had a thick neck.
Still, Han Sui next to him was more stable, and he drew his bow slowly, without using too much force once.Sure enough, he drew the longbow completely, and then an arrow flew into the insect swarm.
The raging fire suddenly burned up.
Burned out all the bugs and black mist around it.
"Shenhuo!" Han Sui said in shock and as a matter of course.
The divine fire burned some of the surrounding black mist and bugs, reducing its volume by about one-third.Then it burned towards the surrounding bugs and black mist.
Then Han Sui slowly drew his bow again.
But it was not him who shot the second arrow, but several people around him.
They also figured out the trick first and shot the magic arrow.
Their arrows were all shot towards the lair.
One, two, three, three nests were ignited in succession, not only a large number of bugs crawled out in a panic, but also strange hissing sounds came out from the ground.
Hearing the hissing sound, Qinghu immediately raised her bow and shot an arrow.
One after another divine arrows shot into the ground like streamers.
Followed by a bigger flame soaring from the ground into the sky.The neighing sound also became shrill and tragic.In addition to the original neighing sound, there were more neighing sounds from the surrounding underground.
After Qinghu heard this, the divine arrow fell into the ground like a rain of light.
Turn the surrounding sky, earth, and forest into a sea of flames.
Others also shot magic arrows frequently, but before they shot a few arrows, they felt mentally exhausted, and their lack of soul thought seemed to empty out their sea of consciousness.
Gao Cheng yelled at Huan, but in fact he shot the fewest arrows, only three.
Everyone else shot at least six.
A boy named Li Mi next to Gao Cheng even shot a few arrows.
Even Han Sui looked at each other several times.
Hissing, as the earth shook, big worms covered in fire climbed up from the ground one by one, rolled on the ground, and died tragically.There are nine such big bugs.
The fire in the forest also continued to spread towards the periphery.
During the period, I don't know how many bugs were wiped out in the fire.
"This fire won't burn the entire forest, right?" Han Sui stared dumbfounded at the dozens of small hills around him that had been burned to black.
"It's also a good thing to burn. There are so many bugs hidden in this forest. Let them continue to multiply here. Maybe in the future, as long as the creatures that come in, they will be dragged away by them as snacks." Qinghu said.
Han Sui nodded, "That's also the reason."
Qing Hu walked to a hill and stomped her feet vigorously.
Boom boom boom, the surrounding ground cracked and fell into a deep pit.
On one side of the deep pit, an underground passage with traces of artificial construction appeared in front of everyone.
"You brought us here to fight the worms, isn't it just to enter here?" Han Sui stammered.
"Your piece of god-level material, I think it should have collapsed from here. Maybe those bugs accidentally activated a formation when they were building their nests, and sent that piece of debris away." Qinghu said He led the team into the channel first.
Inside the tunnel was dry and smelly.
The border is full of bug droppings.
Apparently this place is regarded as a public latrine by the bugs.
The green coral simply suspended above the bug droppings.
Well, in fact, everyone chose to levitate.
The insect feces on the ground were layer after layer, and there was no place to step down at all.
It was not easy for their team to reach the end of the maze-like underground passage.
At the end is a thick stone wall.
There seems to be a formation and something here.
Han Sui and others looked at Qinghu suspiciously.
Qing Hu hurried to the stone wall and started digging with a small shovel.
She dug out pits one after another, and then inserted small array disks into them.A thousand or so small arrays were inserted into this seemingly small stone wall.And there are array disks of any shape.
This equates to more than 1000 keys.
With such a terrible blocking method, it is no wonder that neither humans nor bugs have discovered this place for so many years.
After using the divine script to activate the formation disk, Qinghu entered thousands of divine scripts.
There was only a click on the wall, followed by the sound of a mechanism sliding.
The entire stone wall also slowly opened towards the inside.
Inside the stone wall is a large interconnected stone cave.There are a lot of tatters piled up in these caves.
Many weapons are corroded and slag.
There are also a lot of materials, including various metal ores, smelted metal rods and so on.
In addition, there are boxes of fabrics that emit various strange smells and so on.
"Is this a warehouse?" Gao Cheng asked in surprise.
Although everything is broken, everyone can still pick up the broken things and pick them up.
Qinghu's eyes scanned these things.It is determined that this should be a material warehouse of the Qingming Army.They are all basic materials, I don't know why they were abandoned here.
"Let's all look for it, and take whatever you like." Qing Hu took away a large number of metal rods and ores with a wave of her hand after speaking.
Of course, she did not leave Gao Cheng and Han Sui less.
As for how the two of them divide, that's their business.
Then Qinghu took away most of the smelly fabrics.
The next step is all kinds of collections.
In a short while, most of the entire warehouse was taken away.
When she came back, Han Sui and Gao Cheng didn't move her.
"Why don't you take anything?"
"Ore and metal rods I have agreed with Han Sui, half of the family. We didn't see any use for the other things, so please ask brother Shen to clear up the confusion. So that we don't miss the treasure by mistake."
After hearing Gao Cheng's words, Qing Hu laughed immediately. "Compared to other things, it's all dilapidated. In fact, there are very few things that are really broken and useless. Look at this long sword. It looks very rusty. In fact, you can use some spiritual spring water to wipe it.
You see. "
Qinghu wiped it with Lingquan water.
The long sword that was originally rusted immediately burst into dazzling colors.
"This is a divine tool. Although it is mass-produced, the divine tool is a divine tool and is durable. In fact, it became what it is now because of the lack of divine power, and it hid itself in a deep sleep. In the future, you will use more divine power and spirit stones to make offerings." . This sword will work."
"Are those weapons piled up like hills all divine weapons?" Gao Cheng and Han Sui became excited at the same time.
"They are all artifacts. This warehouse is actually the material warehouse of the protoss. I just don't know why it was abandoned. The artifacts here have long lacked divine power, so they protect themselves." This is what the artifacts are self-deprecating.
Even if the artifacts are only spiritual, they will instinctively hide themselves and let themselves live longer.
"Sacred Artifact, ahhh..." Han Sui took the lead and ran towards Weapon Mountain.
Aww, Gao Cheng took a bite of Li Mi's arm and square mouth.Li Mi screamed in pain.
"You bite yourself."
"I can't believe it, so many, so many artifacts." Gao Cheng cried with excitement.He wanted to pull Li Mi's arm to bite again.
Li Mi jumped farther than a monkey, and vowed to be farther away from Gao Cheng in the future, and farther away.
This guy actually likes to bite! !
"What about these worrying fabrics?" Gao Cheng asked again, pointing to a piece of smelly fabric in the distance.
"Those cloths have to be washed in running water for three months before the smell fades away. Why don't you find a pharmacist who knows how to get rid of the smell, and make some deodorant powder or something and soak it. Of course, the best way is to put Wash it in the pool of divine liquid, and make sure there won't be any smell left, it's just too much of a waste of divine liquid." Qing Hu pointed out.
"Is this kind of fabric the material for making the divine robe?" Gao Cheng hurriedly asked.
"Yes, that is." Qing Hu admitted directly. "They're all some of the most common fabrics for divine robes. But they're better than the magic robes you wear. Even if you use those fabrics for refining magic robes, it's estimated that the finished product will have a good effect."
"It's best to find the ancestors of the gods to refine it into a real god robe." Han Sui said immediately. "Using such materials to refine robes is too wasteful."
Gao Cheng nodded again and again.
What a waste, what a waste.
Good steel is used wisely! !
"It's thanks to little brother Shen this time, otherwise I wouldn't have such a grand harvest." Gao Cheng said.
"You should thank Han Sui. He was the first to discover the clue. If he hadn't found a fragment of a god-level material, I wouldn't have been able to find this place." Qinghu discovered a strange place in the innermost corner of the cave. The obvious protective formation collapsed.
It seems that something has come in.
That piece of debris should have collapsed from there.Then it flew out of the ground and fell into the creek.
This is too interesting, right?
Qing Hu took a closer look at the pit where Han Sui dug out the fragments. According to the size of the fragments, the shape and depth of the pit, she decided to part ways with Gao Cheng and the others.
They were going in the direction of the inner palace.
And the flow direction of the stream is clearly along the periphery.
Gao Cheng thought about it with a difficult expression, but insisted on following Qing Hu and the others.
However, he also arranged for another captain to lead the team, and then divided the team he led into two, and handed over half of it to another captain to lead the team to clean up the water peanuts.
It's not that Gao Cheng doesn't pay attention to the opportunities in the Holy King's Palace, but it's too important to deal with the pollutants in the water and peanuts.
If the team were able to empty the entire creek, the water peanuts they got would indeed be edible again.
That is definitely an exciting and good thing for the Nujiao Kingdom.
This kind of thing must be handed over to safe people.
If Gao Cheng didn't feel that it might be more rewarding to follow Qinghu, he would not have entrusted this important matter to other people to lead the team.
Even after handing over the command, Gao Cheng earnestly urged several improvised measures.
"You have great responsibilities, and the main task is to complete the task. The others must stand aside." The team leader who accepted the important task immediately nodded solemnly. "Master Gao, don't worry."
In the end, Gao Cheng took four youths and teenagers, formed a five-member team, and followed Qing Hu and the others.
Qinghu led the way. Along the way, they saw many human races, and also saw the corpses of many human races, as well as the corpses of foreign races.
I didn't see any living aliens.
But the more they walked towards the Holy King's Palace, the more oppressive the air was.
When they entered a primeval forest, the entire deep primeval forest was very quiet, there was no sound at all, as if the entire forest was dead.
"Little brother Shen, something is wrong here." Sensing the crisis, Han Sui reminded loudly.
"Don't worry. It needs to be dealt with anyway." Qing Hu continued to stride and lead the crowd away.
When everyone reached the depths of the deep forest, huge insect nests came into everyone's eyes not far away.The insect nest was built among several ancient trees in the forest.After eating all the ancient trees that wrap the inside of the insect nest, there are only bare trunks left.
The dark, soft soil built a hill-like insect nest.
Some ants-like winged insects came in and out of the nest.
Nine huge insect nests in a row blocked Qinghu's way forward.
Each winged monster is at least the size of a house dog.When humans discovered the worm nest, they also appeared from all directions, surrounding the humans who came in.
"It's over, we are surrounded. There are too many bugs, and everyone has no hope of rushing out." Han Sui said with a pale face.
"Can you shoot arrows?" Qinghu asked sideways.
"Yes. But there are so many bugs here, no matter how good you are at archery, you can't kill them." Han Sui smiled wryly.
"Vulcan Arrow." Qinghu said.
When Han Sui heard it, he was pleasantly surprised and said, "Is there really? I can do it."
"Take it easy." Qing Hu handed the other party a longbow and a pot of arrows after finishing speaking.A pot of ten.
"I can also shoot arrows." Gao Cheng interrupted suddenly at this moment. "Not only me, but even the brothers around me are proficient in archery."
"Really?" Qing Hu looked at him suspiciously, why did she have a bad feeling that this guy was tricking her.
"The worms are about to kill them. If you still have bows and arrows, hurry up and come out. If one more person shoots arrows, the hope of being born is greater?" Gao Cheng tried to persuade.
It's confirmed, this guy is lying about her magic bow and arrow.
When she led the team here, she also meant to kill the bugs here.
Because there is an entrance here.
"Okay, don't take things and stop working."
Qing Hu took out a few more longbows and quiver.
He also gave Yundou and Yunyan a longbow and quiver.
The middle-aged man beside Han Sui opened his mouth, but then closed it embarrassedly.
"If you are not good at archery, you will be tossed." Qing Hu said straightforwardly. "If you can't do archery, you won't be able to shoot even one of them."
The middle-aged man blushed.
"Actually, his swordsmanship is pretty good, at the level of a grand master." Gao Cheng smiled and exposed the old background of the middle-aged man.
"We are using arrows now." Qing Hu apologized.
"Okay, they started to spit black mist, everyone act quickly. When the black mist comes, our clothes and utensils will be corroded."
After hearing Qinghu's words, everyone quickly started to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
Gao Cheng excitedly opened the bow, but after struggling for a long time, he couldn't draw it fully.
He blushed with anger and had a thick neck.
Still, Han Sui next to him was more stable, and he drew his bow slowly, without using too much force once.Sure enough, he drew the longbow completely, and then an arrow flew into the insect swarm.
The raging fire suddenly burned up.
Burned out all the bugs and black mist around it.
"Shenhuo!" Han Sui said in shock and as a matter of course.
The divine fire burned some of the surrounding black mist and bugs, reducing its volume by about one-third.Then it burned towards the surrounding bugs and black mist.
Then Han Sui slowly drew his bow again.
But it was not him who shot the second arrow, but several people around him.
They also figured out the trick first and shot the magic arrow.
Their arrows were all shot towards the lair.
One, two, three, three nests were ignited in succession, not only a large number of bugs crawled out in a panic, but also strange hissing sounds came out from the ground.
Hearing the hissing sound, Qinghu immediately raised her bow and shot an arrow.
One after another divine arrows shot into the ground like streamers.
Followed by a bigger flame soaring from the ground into the sky.The neighing sound also became shrill and tragic.In addition to the original neighing sound, there were more neighing sounds from the surrounding underground.
After Qinghu heard this, the divine arrow fell into the ground like a rain of light.
Turn the surrounding sky, earth, and forest into a sea of flames.
Others also shot magic arrows frequently, but before they shot a few arrows, they felt mentally exhausted, and their lack of soul thought seemed to empty out their sea of consciousness.
Gao Cheng yelled at Huan, but in fact he shot the fewest arrows, only three.
Everyone else shot at least six.
A boy named Li Mi next to Gao Cheng even shot a few arrows.
Even Han Sui looked at each other several times.
Hissing, as the earth shook, big worms covered in fire climbed up from the ground one by one, rolled on the ground, and died tragically.There are nine such big bugs.
The fire in the forest also continued to spread towards the periphery.
During the period, I don't know how many bugs were wiped out in the fire.
"This fire won't burn the entire forest, right?" Han Sui stared dumbfounded at the dozens of small hills around him that had been burned to black.
"It's also a good thing to burn. There are so many bugs hidden in this forest. Let them continue to multiply here. Maybe in the future, as long as the creatures that come in, they will be dragged away by them as snacks." Qinghu said.
Han Sui nodded, "That's also the reason."
Qing Hu walked to a hill and stomped her feet vigorously.
Boom boom boom, the surrounding ground cracked and fell into a deep pit.
On one side of the deep pit, an underground passage with traces of artificial construction appeared in front of everyone.
"You brought us here to fight the worms, isn't it just to enter here?" Han Sui stammered.
"Your piece of god-level material, I think it should have collapsed from here. Maybe those bugs accidentally activated a formation when they were building their nests, and sent that piece of debris away." Qinghu said He led the team into the channel first.
Inside the tunnel was dry and smelly.
The border is full of bug droppings.
Apparently this place is regarded as a public latrine by the bugs.
The green coral simply suspended above the bug droppings.
Well, in fact, everyone chose to levitate.
The insect feces on the ground were layer after layer, and there was no place to step down at all.
It was not easy for their team to reach the end of the maze-like underground passage.
At the end is a thick stone wall.
There seems to be a formation and something here.
Han Sui and others looked at Qinghu suspiciously.
Qing Hu hurried to the stone wall and started digging with a small shovel.
She dug out pits one after another, and then inserted small array disks into them.A thousand or so small arrays were inserted into this seemingly small stone wall.And there are array disks of any shape.
This equates to more than 1000 keys.
With such a terrible blocking method, it is no wonder that neither humans nor bugs have discovered this place for so many years.
After using the divine script to activate the formation disk, Qinghu entered thousands of divine scripts.
There was only a click on the wall, followed by the sound of a mechanism sliding.
The entire stone wall also slowly opened towards the inside.
Inside the stone wall is a large interconnected stone cave.There are a lot of tatters piled up in these caves.
Many weapons are corroded and slag.
There are also a lot of materials, including various metal ores, smelted metal rods and so on.
In addition, there are boxes of fabrics that emit various strange smells and so on.
"Is this a warehouse?" Gao Cheng asked in surprise.
Although everything is broken, everyone can still pick up the broken things and pick them up.
Qinghu's eyes scanned these things.It is determined that this should be a material warehouse of the Qingming Army.They are all basic materials, I don't know why they were abandoned here.
"Let's all look for it, and take whatever you like." Qing Hu took away a large number of metal rods and ores with a wave of her hand after speaking.
Of course, she did not leave Gao Cheng and Han Sui less.
As for how the two of them divide, that's their business.
Then Qinghu took away most of the smelly fabrics.
The next step is all kinds of collections.
In a short while, most of the entire warehouse was taken away.
When she came back, Han Sui and Gao Cheng didn't move her.
"Why don't you take anything?"
"Ore and metal rods I have agreed with Han Sui, half of the family. We didn't see any use for the other things, so please ask brother Shen to clear up the confusion. So that we don't miss the treasure by mistake."
After hearing Gao Cheng's words, Qing Hu laughed immediately. "Compared to other things, it's all dilapidated. In fact, there are very few things that are really broken and useless. Look at this long sword. It looks very rusty. In fact, you can use some spiritual spring water to wipe it.
You see. "
Qinghu wiped it with Lingquan water.
The long sword that was originally rusted immediately burst into dazzling colors.
"This is a divine tool. Although it is mass-produced, the divine tool is a divine tool and is durable. In fact, it became what it is now because of the lack of divine power, and it hid itself in a deep sleep. In the future, you will use more divine power and spirit stones to make offerings." . This sword will work."
"Are those weapons piled up like hills all divine weapons?" Gao Cheng and Han Sui became excited at the same time.
"They are all artifacts. This warehouse is actually the material warehouse of the protoss. I just don't know why it was abandoned. The artifacts here have long lacked divine power, so they protect themselves." This is what the artifacts are self-deprecating.
Even if the artifacts are only spiritual, they will instinctively hide themselves and let themselves live longer.
"Sacred Artifact, ahhh..." Han Sui took the lead and ran towards Weapon Mountain.
Aww, Gao Cheng took a bite of Li Mi's arm and square mouth.Li Mi screamed in pain.
"You bite yourself."
"I can't believe it, so many, so many artifacts." Gao Cheng cried with excitement.He wanted to pull Li Mi's arm to bite again.
Li Mi jumped farther than a monkey, and vowed to be farther away from Gao Cheng in the future, and farther away.
This guy actually likes to bite! !
"What about these worrying fabrics?" Gao Cheng asked again, pointing to a piece of smelly fabric in the distance.
"Those cloths have to be washed in running water for three months before the smell fades away. Why don't you find a pharmacist who knows how to get rid of the smell, and make some deodorant powder or something and soak it. Of course, the best way is to put Wash it in the pool of divine liquid, and make sure there won't be any smell left, it's just too much of a waste of divine liquid." Qing Hu pointed out.
"Is this kind of fabric the material for making the divine robe?" Gao Cheng hurriedly asked.
"Yes, that is." Qing Hu admitted directly. "They're all some of the most common fabrics for divine robes. But they're better than the magic robes you wear. Even if you use those fabrics for refining magic robes, it's estimated that the finished product will have a good effect."
"It's best to find the ancestors of the gods to refine it into a real god robe." Han Sui said immediately. "Using such materials to refine robes is too wasteful."
Gao Cheng nodded again and again.
What a waste, what a waste.
Good steel is used wisely! !
"It's thanks to little brother Shen this time, otherwise I wouldn't have such a grand harvest." Gao Cheng said.
"You should thank Han Sui. He was the first to discover the clue. If he hadn't found a fragment of a god-level material, I wouldn't have been able to find this place." Qinghu discovered a strange place in the innermost corner of the cave. The obvious protective formation collapsed.
It seems that something has come in.
That piece of debris should have collapsed from there.Then it flew out of the ground and fell into the creek.
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