Ye An

Ye An roughly counted. There were more than 80 stone balls scattered beside the stream. The size was basically the same. Most of them fell into the wet mud, and a few fell into the stream, surrounded by scorching water vapor, making it impossible to get close.

Due to insufficient preparation, Ye An had to untie the animal skin bag and pour out most of the mushrooms inside, leaving enough space to hold the spar.

The ferret jumped onto a stone ball, slapped its little paws vigorously, and let out two excited calls.

Ye An gave up using the short knife and wrapped the cloak around his fist and forearm. Referring to his previous experience, he punched three times with full strength and smashed the stone ball into a big hole.

Energy gushed out from the gap, Ye An didn't try to break the stone ball apart, but put his arm in, groped for the spar transformed by the queen ant, took it out and peeled off the carbon skin on the surface.

As the carbon skin peeled off, Ye An found that this one was bigger than the previous one, and naturally contained more energy. He raised his head and smiled at the puffed-out ferret, and put the harvest into a bag.

Not every stone ball can have such a harvest.

Ye An smashed open ten stone balls in a row, but only harvested six complete spars. The rest of the queen ants were incompletely crystallized, with only a thin layer covering the body surface, while the inside remained in its original shape.However, the male ants and soldier ants guarding the queen were not all carbonized. The ferrets rushed in through the gap Ye An made, took out a few and chewed them cheerfully.

Ye An sniffled. Driven by curiosity, he followed the example of a ferret and took out a few worker ants. Each of them was as long as a palm, with a full waist and abdomen, and you could hear a crisp sound when you cracked it lightly.One bite, the taste is very springy, and the taste is somewhat similar to pheasant. Although there is no salt and seasoning, it has a unique crispy fragrance.

After eating the two worker ants, Ye An patted off the residue on his hands, and calculated what he had to take out. One animal skin bag would definitely not be enough, so he communicated with the ferrets and asked them to go to the ground to get the rope.

Except for one ferret, the rest followed the same path and disappeared at the end of the tunnel.

Ye An continued to break open the stone balls, and harvested more than 60 crystal stones, as well as worker ants and soldier ants piled up into hills.

During the period, the stream rippled layer by layer, and there were bursts of sound.

The sound attracted Ye An's attention. He temporarily stopped what he was doing, and turned his head to look over. It turned out to be a small group of whitebait swimming down the river.The body of the fish is slender and flat like a sword, covered with tiny scales.The fish tail spreads out in a fan shape, ethereal as silk in the water.

The water vapor above the stream is extremely hot and can easily hurt people, which proves that the temperature of the stream is also extremely high.There are fish to survive under such high temperature, we can only lament the ability of biological adaptation and evolution.

Schools of fish jumped out of the water, and soon disappeared under the water.Ye An withdrew his gaze, continued to break open the remaining stone balls, and harvested another batch of crystals one after another, with a total of more than [-] crystals.

There was a sound at the end of the tunnel as the ferrets brought back bales of hay twisted into ropes.

Ye An connected the ropes together, tested the firmness, and used local materials to remove the complete carbon skin from the surface of the stone ball, superimposed two or three layers, and used it to wrap the scorched ants.Then tie it tightly with ropes in circles, so that it can be easily taken out of the ground.

After breaking the last stone ball, Ye An has come to the source of the stream.

The gurgling hot spring emerges from the ground, gushing into a column shape with a height of nearly one meter.

The whitebait he saw earlier gushed out with the stream, and went down the river one after another.

Ye An tried to fish it with carbon skins, but failed several times, and almost burned himself.Lacking suitable tools, success is unlikely, so Ye An simply gave up fishing, counted the harvest, and prepared to return to the ground.

Unexpectedly, the ferret suddenly grabbed his hair and pointed its small paws at the rock wall, sending a message that there are still good things.

"and also?"

Ye An walked to the rock wall guided by the ferret, looked at the uneven surface, groped from one end, covered it with his palm, and tapped a few times with his fingers, but found nothing.

The ferret continued to bark, more excited than ever.

Ye Anhuai continued to grope curiously, covered himself up, and knocked on the rock wall, when suddenly there was a strange sound in his ear, and the knocking sound in one area was very different from that in the other area.

"Is it here?"

Ye An stopped, centered on the area where the abnormality was found, and continued to knock on the rock wall, back and forth several times, finally locked a range, and hit it with his fist.

After smashing open dozens of stone balls in a row, even though they were wrapped in animal skins, his knuckles were still a little red and swollen.I didn't feel much pain when I focused on collecting crystals before, but this time when I hit a harder rock wall, the pain instantly escalated.

Ye An hissed coldly, withdrew his hand and shook his arm, moved his fingers a few times, changed his hand and continued to smash down.

After a few counts, cracks appeared on the surface of the hard rock wall, and then it collapsed, revealing a cave buried under the rock wall.

The entrance of the cave was covered with hard mud, and there were claw marks on the mud, exactly the same as what Ye An found on the hill.Judging from the remaining traces, the mud was probably left by the owner of the claw marks, and the purpose should be to block the cave and protect himself.

Ye An cleaned up the mud, looked inward, and found that the cave was full of corpses of four anteaters, one big and three small, all of which had lost signs of life. Cracked carbon skin.

Ye An's heart suddenly started beating wildly. He cautiously stretched out his hand and touched a small anteater closest to the entrance of the cave.There was a crisp sound, and the carbon skin began to fall off. Unfortunately, the little anteater was not crystallized, and it was charred from the inside to the outside.

Ye An was not discouraged, and dug out all the remaining three anteaters.

There was also no gain from the remaining two small anteaters. Peeling off the carbon skin on the adult anteater, the lustrous light came into the eyes, and the energy gushed out instantly, no less than the queen found in the stone ball. , and even better.

Ye An took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and forced himself to calm down.

The queen can be carried in a bag, but the adult anteater cannot be taken home.It is as big as an adult antelope, even if it is smashed, its energy will not decrease. As long as it is brought out of the ground, it will be discovered soon, and troubles will surely follow.

Excitement and joy slowly settled, and Ye An gradually became able to think calmly. He began to consider countermeasures. After weighing the pros and cons, he left two ferrets to guard the ground, and left most of the crystals, only a few crystals with him. , a few ants and a few mushrooms returned to the ground.

This is not a delta, but near the border of Hunter City. Most of the people in the trade area have not left. If he wants to take away more crystals safely, he must find helpers and allies.

Ye An climbed up from the bottom of the pit to the ground, and stepped onto the snow with his arms outstretched.

The cold wind hit his face, and the drastic change in temperature made him sneezed, rubbed his nose with his fingers, let a few mutated dogs stay where they were, and jumped onto the backs of the flock of birds, taking the rest of the mutated dogs and goat corpses with him Return to Hunter City.

The dogs ran in the snow, dragging behind them ropes made of hay, on which mutant goats were tied, leaving several long marks along the way.

The departing team passed by Ye An, and when they saw the mutated goat he had harvested, apart from being surprised, they didn't have the slightest thought of coveting it.In the previous battles, Ye An's strength was obvious to all. Even if he was alone, no team would go out of their way to trouble him.

Ye An went all the way and returned to Hunter City smoothly.

The mutated goats are sent to the trade area. If the team that has not left wants to trade, as long as they can offer the goods he is interested in, he will not refuse.

Zhao Weng was discussing matters with Xiao Yun in the tent. He heard that Ye An had returned and brought back a large number of prey. Before he could react, Ye An walked in from outside the tent with a very serious expression. He obviously had something to say.

"Sit down first, and drink some hot soup to warm you up." Zhao Weng took down a tin pot from the stove, and poured out not hot water, but broth with a strong aroma.

Ye An was not polite, picked up the wooden bowl and blew, and drank the hot soup in two or three gulps.

When his hands and feet were warmed up, he asked Zhao Weng and Xiao Yun to step back and untie the animal skin bag he carried with him, and took out the mushrooms, burnt ants and spar one by one, and placed them in front of them.

Both Xiao Yun and Zhao Weng were mutants, and when Ye An walked into the tent, he could feel the energy of the spar.It's just that they didn't expect that the spar that Ye An took out would be crystallized by the queen ant!

In addition, Zhao Weng's eyes were also attracted by mushrooms and ants. As a businessman, he concluded that these two are good things at a glance.

"There is a place where there are a large number of such crystals, mushrooms and ants, and a crystallized anteater."

Ye An told the two of them what he found underground, and he could clearly see the changes in their expressions. The emotions conveyed more surprise, mixed with a small amount of estimation, but no malice or greed.

Perceiving this result, Ye An breathed a sigh of relief, and further explained his plan.

"This is your discovery, you don't need to share it with others." After hearing Ye An's words, Xiao Yun said.

"Indeed." Ye An did not deny, "but I need help."

In addition to these spars, he also had to maintain the deal with Zhao Weng, taking away the food and salt, as well as the sea turtle shells left in the city lord's mansion.Considering many aspects, there must be a trade-off.

Zhao Weng did not have Ye An's ability to read people's hearts, but he has been traveling all year round and has a certain grasp of people's hearts. He said immediately: "I can help make transportation tools. If you want, I can also trade for you to modify the car. The price It’s five of these crystals. I don’t want anteaters, but I want most of them, mushrooms and ants. How about giving you food, salt, animal skins and tools in exchange?”

Xiao Yun also didn't want anteaters, but he wanted a third of the spar. In exchange, he promised to capture three adult snapping turtles for Ye An, and personally led the team to send him back to the delta.Since then, the two sides have formed an alliance, and anyone who is unfavorable to Ye An will be the enemy of Hunter City.

"make a deal!"

The three finalized the agreement, Xiao Yun and Zhao Weng quickly arranged manpower, brought enough vehicles, led by Ye An, and galloped to the place guarded by the mutant dog and ferret.