Chapter 61 The Curse of the Mutant Leech

The transaction is closed.

After leaving the Wetland Park.

Sun Shiqi, with a resentful face, can't help complaining loudly at last.

"I can't believe it!"

"I have never seen such a stingy blue coat. Where is the modesty of civilized people? What about the promised reciprocity? These greedy gophers!"

"I shouldn't have fantasies about them!"

In the tavern in the trading center of Honghe Town, four of the ten most talked about stories are related to the blue coat.

Some people once received a lot of good things from those blue coats because of a few flatteries. Others went in with a pile of colorful papers to cheat on food and drink. When they were blown out, they still carried a lot of "survival materials" for him.

These blue coats have almost become synonymous with people who have too much money. Their stories are often inseparable from the word "getting rich overnight".

Sun Shiqi didn't think that he could pry open the treasure of the refuge with one mouth, just like the rumor in the street. It seems that normal business is also a good choice.

However

The reaction of these people was beyond his expectation.

So that he could not help wondering whether these guys would be disguised as a group of refugees.

Will there really be a blue coat to build a house on the ground?

Besides, in the end, he didn't see where the shelter was

The gunman walking in front looked back at him, and then looked at the bulging package on the back of the two headed cattle, wondering.

"So the deal lost?"

He has worked as a bodyguard for many years. He has dealt with many businessmen and seldom seen them lose money.

"It's not a loss," Sun Shiqi said angrily, "but I could have earned more!"

“……”

The gunman was speechless, his attention moved away from him, and he continued to look around for warning.

Sun Shiqi pulls out the account book from his pocket, with a pained expression on his face.

Ten kilograms of salt only changed to 30 kilograms of bacon.

If it hadn't been for this trip, he wouldn't have accepted such a harsh price even if someone pointed a gun at his head!

But unfortunately, there is no if in this world.

It is also impossible for him to drag the salt to the Stonehenge, replace it with daily necessities and electrical appliances, exchange it with grain from the farm, and then use the grain from the farm to exchange meat here.

At least four days, or even a week, would have to be spent on him!

The roads in the city are much harder to walk than those outside, not to mention the coming winter. People and aliens are frantically preparing for the coming winter.

On waste soil, this time node is more dangerous than ever.

No matter the time cost or the risk, he is unlikely to take the detour scheme.

And the man clearly saw this.

Not only the 10 kilograms of salt, but also the ten revolvers and two bags of bullets that he carried with him were all undervalued by that guy for various reasons.

Arms may not be valuable in Stonehenge, but any survivors' stronghold will not refuse to stock up such weapons that are easy to maintain, durable and cheap. It is more than enough to exchange three or four mutated hyenas for corpses. A butcher can kill 60 or 70 kilograms of meat at random.

That's 70 kilograms of meat!

Isn't it too much to change 30 kilograms of dried meat? It's really not worth 20 kg!

However, that man was only willing to give him 10 kilograms of unsalted bacon jerky for each gun!

No matter how hard he tried, the man only nodded for the sake of friendship and asked him to take 1kg more smoked fish.

Damn marmot!

"I don't understand very much, but how about making money?" the gunman said as if nothing had happened. "I always hear people say that when you are satisfied, you are always happy."

"Ho ho, what do you know? You can't make a fortune with contentment."

Sun Shiqi was too lazy to pay attention to him, but he just waved his pen impatiently and kept on counting the account books while burying his head on the road.

"... These dried meat must be exchanged for at least 60 kilograms of crude salt. No, at least 80 kilograms is not worth the trip. I have to think about which mine I will deal with."

The gunman glanced at him and the goods on the back of the two headed cattle, and said in a relaxed tone.

"Then you should be pious and grateful."

"At least I am a contented person who accompany you here."

……

130 kilograms of bacon and 10 kilograms of smoked fish were exchanged for 10 kilograms of crude salt, 10 revolvers, two large bags of bullets and game currency.

Chu Guang was very satisfied with the deal.

Of course, it is also a matter of timing.

As the cold winter approaches, whoever has food is the father. In addition, the prey has gone to hibernation. Occasionally, game can be saved by throwing it into the snow, but salt is not so important.

But when the spring begins next year, it will be another case.

After all, making dried meat in spring and summer is a bit fanciful, because you don't need any salt to save it in winter.

But then again, will the outpost still need to make money by selling food?

Chu Guang didn't think so.

In short, for Chu Guang, the production cost of 130kg bacon and 10kg smoked fish is only 60-80 silver coins.

Even based on the purchase price of the granary, it is only 140 silver coins.

However, at present, players sell their prey directly to the granary, and they don't have to slaughter their own prey or smoke dried meat for the time being, so it is more appropriate to use production costs directly to calculate.

In fact, it doesn't matter which price is used.

After all, Chu Guang now has 500 kilograms of the same game currency.

"Money" is really just a number for him as a manager

……

Alone, he dragged the coins into the shelter and put them in the empty room. Looking at these shiny coins, Chu Guang's face could not help smiling with relief.

If only they could all be changed into chips.

Not to mention power armor, is it enough to buy a plane?

If someone sells

Money that has not entered the market has no meaning.

Chu Guang only appreciated his masterpiece for a while, then turned to leave the refuge, returned to the ground, and began to ponder the glass jar he had obtained from the merchant surnamed Sun.

The ants with big fists huddled together in the glass jar, flapping their legs and antennae, looking for the exit.

One of the iron backed ants, whose face is outward, is the most energetic, and is pounding the inner wall of the glass jar with its pincerlike mouthpiece.

However, the inner curved surface of the glass jar is too slippery to find the force point for biting. Even if the biting force is stronger, it will not help. We can only worry about the transparent "wall".

Chu Guang was not interested in insects, but he wanted to know how this little thing became the natural enemy of mutant leeches.

You should know that even the young of mutant leeches are much larger than their size.

So Chu Guang went to find the fishermen by the lake, borrowed a baby of a mutant leech, and then picked up a vigorous looking iron backed ant and put them both in the same bottle.

Something interesting happened.

The mutant leech did not attack the prey at once, but tentatively extended its mouthpiece forward.

Seeing that the edge of the mouthpiece was close to the iron backed ant, the mutant leech suddenly seemed to touch the switch, and suddenly retracted, then twisted its plump and round body, arched the other side of the bottle, as if hiding from something.

The ant was also very interesting, and seemed to realize that there was a big guy nearby.

However, it did not panic at all. Instead of attacking immediately or turning around to run away, it circled the inside of the bottle and shook its antenna overhead.

What is this?

Is

Chu Guang, who was squatting on the ground to observe, touched his chin, and suddenly a flash of surprise appeared on his face.

"I see..."

"It should be looking for companions."

He seems to have guessed the reason why this ant can resist the variation of leeches.

While Chu Guang was preparing to further verify his conjecture, players not far away were looking at this side and whispering.

"What are managers doing?"

"I don't know. It's like playing with ants."

"I think he got a leech cub from the anglers. Is it because he wants to see ants fight with leeches?"

"Gan, why do you have such a strange hobby?!"

The crow, who was walking towards the granary with mushrooms in his arms, happened to hear the conversation among the players nearby. It was cold behind him, and he couldn't help shivering.

Water, leeches?

How can anyone play with such disgusting things?!

This is too terrible

……

After repeated control experiments, Chu Guang finally verified his guess.

First of all, leeches have no eyes and mainly rely on smell to search for prey. The same is true for mutant leeches, which are quite sensitive to smell due to their more sensitive sense of smell.

After finding the prey, the iron backed ant did not choose to attack at the first time, but, like other ants, immediately released the pheromone to tell the nearby companions that there is a fat sheep here. Come and join us.

Although the digestive juice of the mutant leech can corrode most of its prey, it is almost ineffective against the iron backed ant. Even if it is swallowed whole, it will not be digested at all, but will be bitten from inside.

Therefore, this fear of natural enemies has almost been written into the gene of the mutant leech, so that when they smell the pheromone released by the iron backed ant, they almost instinctively run away and dare not turn back.

"... the case has been solved."

"It's really because of this stuff."

Looking at the translucent gelatinous substance the size of the thumbnail cover in his hand, Chu Guang gently pinched it, a bit like deteriorated Simi Dew.

This thing is the pheromone gland of the iron backed ant, which grows under its buttocks and can be pulled off without much effort.

After removing the pheromone gland of the big ant, Chu Guang threw it back into the bottle and shared the room with the mutant leech.

This time, the performance of mutant leeches is much more brave.

After several tests, it probably felt that the smell of this thing was different from its natural enemies, so it finally got up the courage to swallow the prey, and then the body squirmed like waves.

About five or six minutes have passed.

The mutant leech cub, which was still wriggling, suddenly stopped moving.

Chu Guang poured it out of the bottle and opened his stomach with a knife.

The ant inside was suffocated, but there was a piece of meat on its mouth, which was probably torn from some part of the body of the mutant leech cub.

This little wound is not enough to kill the leech. The real fatal thing may be the formic acid injected into the leech or something else.

"It's unrealistic to kill leeches in the nest."

"But if you can smear the pheromone gland extract on your body and disguise it as the natural enemy of the mutant leech... wouldn't it be possible to pass the pass without harming the nest of the mutant leech?!"

Realizing this, Chu Guang's face was filled with excitement, and his eyes changed when he looked at the glass jar beside him.

Get rich!

20 kg of blue umbrella mushroom can be exchanged for 2000 chips, if you can pick 200 kg of blue umbrella mushroom

Of course, 200 kg may be exaggerated.

However, there should be no problem with bailaijin, right?

Unfortunately, these iron backed ants are all workers, and there is no queen ant that can reproduce. Otherwise, they can collect the wool from the mutant leech nest every day!

"... You need to find a player with high collection skill to do this job."

Chu Guang's eyes began to wander around the outpost, looking for the lucky one.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a player who was not far from the granary.

Crow crow!

Chu Guang's eyes lit up when he saw the little player.

that was close.

I almost forgot her!

If I remember correctly, this player called Crow Crow has the talent of "Toxin Intuition". All the blue umbrella mushrooms he sees are green!

Others have to turn on the lights to look for them when they enter the cave. This guy has his own night navigation. He will be finished after staring at the things that emit green light. Don't you want to easily get a hundred pounds out?

I felt the sight from the manager, and the crow who had just handed over the punishment task was full of excitement.

The intuition of the perception department made her predict the danger in advance.

However, at the moment when she was about to anoint her feet, Chu Guang predicted her fate and went forward to trigger the plot.

"How is your punishment task going?"

Hearing the voice coming from behind, the crow turned back carefully and looked at the manager and said with trembling.

"Yes, I have... I have just finished. I have already handed over 100 kilograms."

Chu Guang nodded.

"It's just the right time. From now on, your identity level will be restored to that of a resident. In addition, I have a glorious and arduous task for you."

If it is normal, the crows and crows will certainly be happy to come next, stand up and offer loyalty. After all, who will not love hiding tasks?

Maybe it can increase NPC's popularity!

However, from just now on, her right eye could not help jumping, telling her that there might be a big pit waiting in front of her.

"I may not be able to finish it, or you can find someone else -"

"Believe in yourself, you can do it, and this task can only be completed by you!"

There was no chance for the crows to refuse. Chu Guang seriously interrupted her little beep beep, paused for two seconds, and then continued.

"I will give you a bottle of special powder, and you can apply it on your body."

"It can ensure that you can safely enter the nest of the mutant leech. What you need to do is collect the mushrooms that emit green light inside."

The crows and crows were so worried that they were about to cry, especially after hearing the six words "mutant leech nest", they almost dropped the line on the spot.

"Then, then, can I come out safely?"

Chu Guang said in an affirmative tone.

"Theoretically, yes."

Crow crow: "??"

theoretically?!

Chu Guang didn't give her a chance to protest, and continued.

"The theory is just for preciseness. Don't worry, the success rate is more than 90%. Even if you fail, you will die in a special task, and there will be no punishment other than resurrection CD."

There is still punishment!

The hardest thing is to revive the CD. Okay!

The crow said pitifully, "Can you spare the resurrection CD?"

Chu Guang paused for two seconds and selectively ignored her words.

"The content of the task is very simple. You have 10 minutes of absolute safety time and 20 minutes of relative safety time."

"After entering the nest, don't worry about anything. Avoid those leeches and collect the blue mushrooms with green light you can see."

"Before the end of time, we can collect as much as we can."

"Every jin of blue umbrella mushroom --"

"I will count you 4 coppers and 5 contributions!"