Astral Cockroach

Earning ten million Origin Stones isn't that easy.

The trestle road to be built in Crimson Crow Mountain is different from the temporary trestle road used for treasure hunting in the Orchid Mountains. They plan to use this thing for hundreds or thousands of years, so it must be strong and not perfunctory.

Spotted Bamboo personally designed it for them, using an all-metal material structure. He specially designed a model and spent five full days explaining the various preparation materials needed before construction could begin clearly.

The trestle road is mainly made of metal materials, and the project is huge. Using metal abilities to transform metal is unrealistic, so they can only mine and smelt iron. Spotted Bamboo also taught them the method of iron smelting in a blast furnace.

Various preparations need to be made, discussed, and divided into several steps, which are expected to be completed within 5 years.

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Spotted Bamboo was bored at Li Bamboo Peak, so he came to Crimson Crow Mountain in advance.

Coming in advance wasn't to work for Crimson Crow Mountain. After explaining the preparations for building the trestle road clearly, he set off directly, passing through the Illusionary Mist.

It's frustrating that the second heart position only produces 150 Origin Stones of Origin Force every day. After being promoted to County Lord, it's not enough to walk around on the Dragon Bamboo Continent.

As expected, he can only supplement it with high-quality Origin Force food produced by the God-given Seed. Fortunately, it coincided with the season when the caravan came to Crimson Crow Mountain to trade, and the Crimson Crow Ghost King paid to help purchase a large batch.

With three large bags on his back and another large bag in his front claws, he couldn't fly in the air and could only walk along the ground.

Near the Illusionary Mist, no grass grows within a distance of tens of meters, so Spotted Bamboo ran along the edge of the Illusionary Mist.

Seven or eight days later, he ran out of the southern tropical range.

After another five or six days, the mountainous terrain turned into a boundless plain. This was after passing through the subtropical region and entering the northern plain region.

The plain jungle is not as dense as the south, and Spotted Bamboo's body can move freely through it, so he left the Illusionary Mist and went deep into the continent.

After eating a bag of Origin Force food, Spotted Bamboo slowed down and occasionally ascended to high altitude to observe. Whenever he found a solitary peak or mountain range, he approached to check and search around.

Spotted Bamboo was indeed exploring, but the goal was not only Origin Stone mines and precious tree species, but also the remnants of God-given Seeds, which were most likely to exist.

He had been carefully observing for a long time. In the south, the high temperature, high heat, and high humidity cause everything to decay into dust and mud over the long years, or be buried deep underground out of sight.

The subtropical region is probably the same.

Judging from the climate on the Myriad Race Continent, the temperate and cold zones have less rainfall, and the hardwood trees that grow in the north are generally very hard. Some hardwood trees with particularly hard materials have a certain probability of being preserved.

After several days of fruitless searching, Spotted Bamboo moved westward horizontally for about 100 kilometers and then turned north.

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The plain jungle seemed to have reached its end.

In the distance, the outline of majestic mountains loomed.

Mountains!

Spotted Bamboo, who was leisurely on his way, accelerated again.

A rare large mountain range in the north, undulating, with an overall height that should exceed 300 meters. Looking from high altitude, he found another mountain peak in the distance.

Spotted Bamboo immediately approached the mountain peak, not in a hurry to climb it, but carefully observing the plants in the jungle at the foot of the mountain.

The most common are cypress trees, followed by Scotch pine, weeping willow, oil pine, camphor, white ash, beech, oak, spindle tree, and other trees that are also common on the Myriad Race Continent.

Various plants are distributed in a crisscross pattern according to natural laws, and there is no trace of past management.

Climb the mountain.

The same is true on the mountain.

The mountain peak is majestic and tall, higher and larger than Li Bamboo Peak. It is estimated that it can accommodate more than 100 warriors.

Now it is mid-August, and the summit is covered with snow. One-fifth of the north side of the mountain is covered with snow.

It is early morning, the nights are cold, the grass leaves on the ground are covered with frost, and a thin mist is slowly dissipating under the sunlight.

Standing on the top of the peak and looking north, the trees north of the mountain range are sparse, and there are more herbaceous plants.

Spotted Bamboo spread out his mental power and searched carefully from the top of the mountain.

Soon, a cave with traces of excavation and well-preserved was found on the top of the mountain.

This mountain peak was once inhabited by warriors, and they were relatively wealthy. They had an endless supply of Origin Force food, which was sent to the top of the mountain for cold storage.

The mountain rock is solid, and the northern geological changes are small. Continuing down, another well-preserved residential cave was soon found.

It was empty and there was nothing in it, and the vegetation in front of the cave was also ordinary and common wild vegetation.

This mountain range divides the north and south, and the vegetation on the south side is more lush. Starting from the south side, continue to search down.

One after another, 17 well-preserved residential caves and 6 caves that had collapsed due to the age were found. Occasionally, some caves were inhabited by wild animals.

There was nothing left.

Spotted Bamboo moved to the north side of the mountain and searched from bottom to top.

There were even more insect warriors gathered on the north side, and the caves were more densely distributed. Finally, in a cave in the middle and upper part of the mountain, fragments of black carapace were found. They were very fragile and would break with a little force. There were too few to piece together, so it was impossible to identify the race.

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"This place was once prosperous, but it declined and died out as Origin Force was exhausted."

"It should be the last warrior on the mountain peak, and should be a high-level warrior."

Spotted Bamboo thought, feeling a little inexplicable sadness in his heart. He didn't feel like continuing to search, so he unloaded the two bags of Origin Force food on his back, put them in the cave to hide, and prepared to hunt some food on the mountain to replenish himself, rest and recuperate before continuing north.

The remains of the warrior should be buried in peace. He found a flat place in front of the cave and prepared to dig a pit to bury them.

Just after digging less than half a meter deep, his toe touched a hard object.

Not a stone.

Digging away the soil to check, it was black wood.

"There's something!"

Spotted Bamboo was overjoyed, and spread out his mental power to scan deep into the soil. It was indeed a tree, very large, buried deep underground. After a long time, only the trunk remained of the decayed wood.

There was no Origin Force fluctuation.

The exterior was very hard, with signs of petrification. After peeling it off, the wood inside was of average hardness and extremely tough.

Spotted Bamboo roughly judged that it should be some kind of oak or oak tree, and it was very unlikely to be a special species of Quercus glauca.

It did not have the toughness and strength that ordinary tree species should have. It was undoubtedly a God-given Seed. The trunk was about 8 meters in diameter, and it was leaning against the mountain. The part that was originally exposed outside the soil had disappeared, leaving only a section about 50 meters long.

Thinking of the warrior's remains in the cave, it was impossible for a high-level warrior to cultivate such a tall tree. It can be further inferred that this is a wild tree-like God-given Seed.

Spotted Bamboo continued to excavate and found many fragments in the soil. It was certain that this was a wild God-given Seed that had completed three transformations and grown for a long time, and eventually withered and died due to the exhaustion of Origin Force.

There was no Origin Force fluctuation, so there was no way to analyze its quality and Origin Force enhancement type.

Ignore it for now. He can come back here when he returns, collect a small amount of samples, take them back, and let Barbara check them.

Working in an Origin Force environment is too difficult. If it is the remains of an ordinary wild God-given Seed, the value is not enough to mobilize people. It must be a 'divine' God-given Seed to be worth cooperating with Crimson Crow Mountain and mobilizing a group of warriors to bring the remains back.

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After resting for half a day, he crossed the mountain range and entered the open grassland, running north all the way.

The originally cool temperature gradually turned cold.

Ten days later, the ground gradually accumulated snow, and almost no trees could be seen.

Three days later, Spotted Bamboo encountered a small snowstorm, and the front was a vast sea of forest covered with ice and snow, mainly cold-zone trees such as fir, spruce, red pine, birch, and oak.

The tree structure is similar to that of the Myriad Race Continent. Spotted Bamboo guessed that if he continued north, it should be the northern wilderness area that is completely unsuitable for insect races to survive.

There was not much Origin Force food left, and cell metabolism increased and Origin Force consumption increased in the icy and snowy environment. He didn't dare to continue north. After wandering around in the snowy forest for two days without any harvest, he turned around and returned the way he came.