Daily News: Insect Girls' Heavy Dependence

Richard was very generous and immediately wrote Goldie an IOU for 500 Dior coins.

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it.

After some calculation, there were 2000 bottles of red granules and 1800 bottles of blue granules.

Even though the thousand-strong Trail Blazers team could easily carry these things, Richard did not intend to take them with him.

Firstly, he doesn't care about the cost of several thousand Dior coins right now. Secondly, the physical fitness of the Blade & Soul players is more valuable to him.

Thirdly, Richard was unsure whether the next location for collecting the essence insect fluid would also have mushroom people.

The group of mushroom people that were just chased away were so weak that they didn't look like the main force at all... In Richard's eyes, a mere 200 mushroom people were just an advance force or scouts.

Because neither he nor Gove knew whether the fungus people had any kind of civilization or system.

Richard mentally planned his next course of action, choosing areas where the mushroom people were unlikely to appear as his next collection targets.

The captain of the guard came to report the harvest.

"Young Master, we have finished collecting them. Most of the essence insect fluid in this area was not buried by the soil. We collected a total of 180 intact vials and 116 broken vials..."

This is a satisfactory result. As for the four missing tubes, they may have been swallowed whole by the mushroom man, or they may have been mixed in with the 116 broken test tubes.

Richard didn't dwell on it too much.

Lead the team to the next gathering area...

The camp set off, bypassing the grove of trees where the mushroom men roamed.

We arrived at a vast, empty snowfield.

This is also a collection point for the essence of insect fluid. However, the ground is completely covered with thick snow. There are no test tubes emitting a ghostly blue glow in sight.

If it weren't for the accurate alerts from the daily intelligence system, no one would have ever imagined that a priceless treasure was buried beneath this snowy landscape.

Richard pointed out a general area, and the pioneers began to clear the snow to explore.

Although the excavation site looked bustling with activity, there wasn't much of the sound of busy metal tools being hammered.

Because the pioneers dared not dig too hard, lest they break one or two bottles...

Even if they didn't know exactly how much Dior's essence insect fluid was worth, judging from the fact that young master Richard himself risked his life to collect it in the wild.

The stuff inside those bottles must be incredibly valuable!

If they accidentally break a bottle... these guys who haven't even paid off their insect loan yet. They can just wait to work for free for the rest of their lives!

Suddenly!

Asdale appeared as if in a flash.

She went up behind a pioneer in front of everyone... and the man's head mysteriously fell off...

In this sudden turn of events, no one clearly saw Astelle's movements.

She kicked the severed head and a personal backpack to Richard's feet.

Richard picked up his personal backpack and opened it, revealing two bottles of essence insect liquid inside!

Clearly a hoard!

This sudden killing caused the Trail Blazers to stop what they were doing and all look at Richard.

Richard instantly understood the reason: it wasn't that no one had previously harbored ulterior motives, wanting to hoard a bottle or two of the essence insect fluid or something...

Richard and Asdale, as the parties involved, remained silent.

Instead, it was the ever-friendly Govi ​​who spoke up:

"What are you looking at! Keep working! If you dare to hoard anything again, you won't die so easily!"

Most of the pioneers didn't think much of it. In their minds, possessing or stealing things from nobles was a capital offense.

Only one or two men hesitantly took out the essence insect fluid from their personal backpacks and continued working with trepidation...

They thought Asdale hadn't noticed their remorseful behavior... but actually, this fiercely protective brother was stopped from intervening by his younger brother.

To the other pioneers, this gray-haired noblewoman didn't seem nearly as easy to talk to as young master Richard... At least young master Richard wouldn't kill people outright...

The collection work continued, but the calm did not last long.

And then suddenly!

There were two pioneers who kept their eyes on Asdale.

Suddenly, large amounts of blood began to flow from their eyes, which then burst open...

This is clearly Asdale's doing!

Richard didn't see anything wrong with the justified act of killing thieves.

After all, those who dare to covet and steal the essence insect fluid... well, they're just dead.

But to make someone's eyes explode just because they were looked at a few times is just too cruel.

Sensing Richard's inner thoughts,

Asdale explained coldly:

"Even though those two guys returned the essence insect fluid just now... their eyes were so lewd, and they had bad intentions towards me. It's one thing to fantasize, but they actually started plotting a concrete plan..."

"And that guy who stole things just now, it seems like he's their lover, but I'm not interested in reading his mind any further, that's all I know..."

Richard heard what his sister said, so he couldn't really condemn her.

He was simply more curious about Asdale's abilities:

Bizarre methods of murder, invisibility, and even the ability to read others' thoughts...

What kind of incredible bug was implanted in my sister's body?!

What kind of existence could someone as powerful as her possibly possess? What could possibly threaten her life?

Asdale had clearly glimpsed the shock and confusion in Richard's mind through the dream insects.

But she didn't say anything more.

Because, in Aster's view:

The worms inside her would eventually form a cocoon for Richard. There was no need to reveal her abilities now…

Leave that idiot some room to explore. After I die, he'll inherit the cocoon and have to figure out how to control the power; then he'll have something to do...

Richard was clearly unaware that Asdale was already considering what would happen after her death.

After that little incident,

He continued to focus on supervising the Trail Blazers...

The collection work in this snowfield was conducted without the disturbance of the mushroom people.

Even though the essence of the insect fluid was buried in the soil, the collection work was still completed within two hours.

At this location, a total of 120 bottles of essence insect liquid were collected.

Now, counting the more than 300 from yesterday, and subtracting the 200 given to Goldie, there are more than 100 left.

With the 300 bottles collected today, Richard has now gathered enough. Enough for Yekaterin to guarantee a minimum of 400 bottles of essence insect liquid for advancing to the fourth tier.

As for the remaining 49 collection sites, Richard is not planning to go there now.

Information about the existence of a colossal insect beast, and the situation of her sister Asdale...

So far, this has made Richard extremely uneasy.

He simply didn't have much enthusiasm for discovering more treasures or anything like that.

"Notify the team to prepare to return to Stormwind."

Upon hearing this news, all the Trail Blazers seemed to forget the previous bloody incident.

On the contrary, the news that they could go home made them all feel refreshed.

After all, killing someone is perfectly normal in the world outside the walls.

If the leadership has a legitimate motive for murder, it doesn't matter to them. As long as they're not the ones who get killed, that's all that matters.

Moreover, aside from a few close relatives, no one is willing to speak up for the dead...