Alien Dust

Chapter 463: Rotten Forest
After dodging the zombie tide, I thought I could reach the Blood Lake Base smoothly, but I never expected that there was a rotten forest in front of me.

The entire forest is full of rotten vegetation. With just a little force, you can knock those rotten trees into colorful dust. Sometimes, a strong wind blowing in the wasteland can create a strange and dreamy feeling of falling petals.

Wu Hen originally wanted to upgrade his weapons along the way and eliminate the rotten beasts and aliens living in the rotten forest, but he never expected that the surface of the rotten forest was rotten, so that the three of them fell into the underground root soil layer under the rotten forest, and wasted a lot of time fighting those biochemical earth dragons in this soil layer.

Fortunately, it was not a complete failure. Wu Hen collected the condensate of the biochemical earth dragon and strengthened the magnetic claws on his fingers. When Wu Hen grasped his palms forward, he could grab things through the air. Moreover, if he activated the thunderstorm, it would produce the Ten Thousand Lightning Grip, which was quite powerful.

"The beasts in this rotten forest are also very difficult to deal with." Guo Hong said.

"Let's not waste time here. These rotten beasts are scattered around, and they like to ambush and launch sneak attacks. It won't be of much value to us to eliminate them one by one, unless..." Wu Hen looked around.

His perception was blocked and Wu Hen was unable to perform a holographic perspective scan, otherwise it would not be difficult to find the nests of these rotten animals.

"My detection snake seems to have discovered a rotten bear's nest, right on our path." Lu Xian's goggles showed the place where the rotten giant bears gathered.

"The degree of mutation of these rotten bears is quite high, no less than those small elite zombies we encountered in the abandoned city. They can be collected." Guo Hong suggested.

"Okay, you lead the way and we'll catch them all at once!" Wu Hen nodded.

Following the detection snake released by Lu Xian, they soon found a forest bear cave.

This bear cave is not the common mountain cave. It is composed of a large number of rotten giant trees and mountains of bones. Near this bone bear cave, there are also swarms of rotten bees. They are like the loyal guards of these mutant bear beasts. They have built a biochemical beehive on the mountain of this rotten bear cave.

The mutant bears and the rot bees seemed to have reached some kind of symbiosis. The powerful mutant bears would drag back some huge prey when they went out hunting. After they had enjoyed the lean meat and fat of the prey, the cortex, internal organs, and remaining tissues became delicacies for the rot bees. Then they secreted saliva and stuck those huge trees and bones into rotten castles, standing in the center of the forest, as if forming a kingdom that belonged to them alone.

Seeing this rotten kingdom, with bears as royal family and bees as guards, Wu Hen couldn't help but sigh. Which cruel high-dimensional life was influencing the creatures here? They were obviously dead, but they continued to live in a pitiful and sad way. Their souls could hardly find rest and they were completely cursed for eternity.

"You guys deal with these rot bees, I'll go in and free them." Wu Hen said.

"Okay!" Guo Hong and Lu Xian both nodded.

After teaming up with this mysterious boss, Guo Hong and Lu Xian's gold mining efficiency was greatly improved.

In the past, when they traveled as a whole team, they moved forward very cautiously even though they were fully armed. Not to mention encountering a tide of zombies would be tantamount to waiting for death, and they did not dare to approach the nests of such rotten creatures.

Most of the time, they were wandering around the edges, relying on luck to come across some lone mutant species. A team had to be carefully deployed and each had to do their job to barely get rid of an elite alien species. It was impossible for someone like Wu Hen to directly break into the nest of an elite alien species!

Following this mysterious boss, both of them became bolder.

Of course, the most important thing is that the new equipment gives them enough confidence. In the past, they had to flee in panic when facing these Rot Bee guards. Now, they can just turn on the tracker and fire freely into the sky, and they can see those Rot Bees turning into flaming raindrops and falling down. After all, the firepower is still insufficient...

"At seven o'clock, there seems to be a biological queen bee. My God, how come it has grown such a big pair..." Lu Xian pointed to a giant rotten tree high up and said with some disbelief.

Guo Hong took the opportunity to look and really saw the magic milk of the biochemical queen bee. It seemed that the magic milk contained not lactation fluid, but two biochemical tanks hanging on the chest!
Sure enough, that was not the decoration of the biochemical queen bee, but its terrible biochemical weapon. A large amount of venom rain sprayed out. At the same time, all the biochemical bees raised their butts and shot poison needles at Guo Hong and Lu Xian.

The poison needles were densely packed and came into contact with the venom rain during the firing process, turning into an extremely exaggerated biochemical bee sting rainstorm that swept towards the rotten forest.

Lu Xian was shocked. She never expected that these rotten bee colonies could have combination skills.

The sting of the Rotten Bee was not very lethal, and they could easily resist it with their defensive equipment. However, the sting of the bee infected with the biochemical venom of the queen bee became terrifying...

"Get behind me!"

Guo Hong said to Lu Xian, and opened his arms.

Fortunately, Lu Xian had a slender figure, and when Guo Hong turned around and hugged her, he was able to basically wrap her up completely. Even so, Lu Xian was still frightened and her face turned pale. She didn't dare to open her eyes until the terrible biochemical bee sting rain stopped.

"I now understand what happened when we fell beneath the forest surface. The surface of this rotten forest has been full of holes made by these guys!" said Guo Hong.

"We have to get rid of the Queen Bee. Those rot bee soldiers are impossible to kill, and there is almost no mutation fluid on their bodies. Killing more of them will just be a waste of ammunition." Lu Xian said.

"Use this to create a vortex of fire at a height of one hundred meters in the seven o'clock direction. I'll blow it up!" Guo Hong handed Lu Xian a flame bomb, and then climbed to a position with a wider view.

Pulling out the ancestral sniper rifle, Guo Hong took a deep breath and began to feel the surrounding atmosphere. The breath would cause various interferences to his bullets. If he made good use of the surrounding breath, he could even double the thrust of his gun barrel and even create different effects such as biochemical, violent whirl, flaming, quick freezing, and corrosion.

There's rotting matter all around here, and the forest is filled with methane.

Guo Hong gathered the corrupt energy in the chamber of his gun...

"Boom!!!!"

With a loud bang, the fire bomb exploded right in front of the Queen Bee, instantly burning the rotten bee swarm that was stacked like a wall of fog to ashes.

Without the obstruction of these rot bees, Guo Hong held his breath, took aim, and then pulled the trigger!
The special effects of the bullets fired by the sniper rifle have a certain degree of randomness. When it roars out from the barrel and comes into contact with the surrounding methane, it instantly ignites the space. The forest-green fireworks are like a fierce bird of prey, whizzing past.

The green fire bird rushed towards the queen bee, and the blazing ghost flames devoured it. The queen bee could be seen being incinerated in mid-air...

"Boom! Boom!"

Two big magic breasts fell down, and the rest of the biochemical queen bee had turned into ashes.

Lu Xian took a closer look and discovered that the magic milk was actually a metal smelting product. No wonder it looked like a biochemical tank.

Green mutation condensate flowed out from it. Lu Xian saw that the rot bees around had fled after the queen died, so she started collecting them excitedly.

This amount of royal bee mutation condensate is no less than the income from their previous year's hard work. As expected, after the equipment was upgraded to a higher level, the efficiency of gold mining was greatly improved. It felt that it would not be long before they could buy a comfortable and clean house in those oases, enjoy hot baths, taste delicious food, breathe fresh air, and start health preservation in advance.

"Go and take a look in the beehive. When I was up high, I noticed there was Yuanyou honey there. As expected, it is pure. Lord Wu Tian needs this thing. Don't let the impurities around it contaminate it." Guo Hong said to Lu Xian.

"Okay, I'm good at this." As a woman, Lu Xian is more delicate in picking and preserving Yuanyou, and will not let the polluted air pollute Yuanyou in the slightest.

After climbing to the top, Lu Xian saw the pure Yuanyou, which was stored like royal jelly.

Just as he put it into the box, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook. Lu Xian glided down from above in panic, just in time to see the entire bone and rotten wood bear cave collapse, and then a tall figure walked out from the raised dust.

"Brother Wu." A smile appeared on Lu Xian's face.

"The skeletons of these bears are all made of metal. What rotten bears are they? They are obviously diamond bears. My gauntlets had a hard time dealing with them, but I finally saved them all. This is their biochemical bear bile, which looks like a crystal energy material. If it's valuable, you can keep it." Wu Hen handed the bear bile crystal core to Lu Xian.

"This thing is valuable. Crystal energy is one of the few energy sources that can be driven in this wasteland. In those oasis cities, it is equivalent to a small energy integrated board." Lu Xian said excitedly.

After experiencing the last disaster, the red-haired Lu Xian has become gentle and elegant, as cute and naive as a little girl who has not seen much of the world, and she no longer has her previous arrogance.

"The mutation condensate is quite abundant. My weapon can evolve to another stage. However, the absorption efficiency of mutation condensate of the same species seems to be reduced. The conversion rate of my weapon is less than 10%. I'll give all of this to you." Wu Hen gave the remaining half of the mutation condensate to Lu Xian and Guo Hong.

Looking at the mutant condensate which was sticky and ugly but comparable to liquid gold, Guo Hong and Lu Xian never stopped smiling. They just followed along and they had already improved so much compared to before!
"That's right. These mutant species also seek condensates from different populations, so that the degree of evolution will be higher. This is similar to genetic evolution. The greater the genetic difference, the higher the probability of genetic mutation and the higher the upper limit. The closer the genes are to each other, the easier it is to cause disease, and the absorption effect will be greatly reduced." Guo Hong said.

(End of this chapter)