By dawn the next day, there were basically no rattlesnakes emerging from the cave. Zhi Lingqi roughly estimated that from the time he killed the first rattlesnake to now, there have been about 2,000 rattlesnakes, all of which have been killed by him.
killed.
Seeing that no more rattlesnakes appeared at the entrance of the cave, Lingqi breathed a sigh of relief, but he knew that it was not that he had wiped out all the rattlesnakes here. There should be a small number of rattlesnakes left, which had lost their ability to fight again.
courage.
According to Zhi Lingqi's careful analysis, the remaining small number of rattlesnakes who dare not face him anymore, apart from the old, weak and young, there should be a very small number of high-end forces in the rattlesnake group that are not weak and cunning.
Cutting weeds without eradicating the roots, they will grow again with the spring breeze. To a group of ferocious beasts like rattlesnakes, Zhi Lingqi will never be merciful and leave endless troubles for themselves.
After quickly collecting intermediate-level and above rattlesnake demon cores, burying all the rattlesnake bodies, and cleaning and restoring the beheading scene, Zhiling used his eyes and consciousness to explore the surrounding situation, and then took out the chisel from the small space of the Ming Gate.
With the mountain ax, I used my spiritual energy to start from the rattlesnake entrance and exit, dig and widen the passage into the cave, and vowed to kill all the remaining rattlesnakes.
Even Lingqi was not too anxious. He knew that the remaining rattlesnakes, old, weak, and young, would naturally not dare to move without permission. However, those rattlesnakes with high-end strength would definitely look for opportunities to launch sneak attacks on him, so he must always be careful to guard against them.
After widening and digging for forty to fifty meters, a deep and spacious cave suddenly appeared. It was unknown where it was going. A cold wind blew out of the cave, making even Lingqi couldn't help but tremble.
A chill.
"Is it a cave dug by a rattlesnake, or a natural cave?" Zhi Lingqi thought to himself, looking inside the cave, and then broke off a stone on the rock wall of the cave. The stone was translucent.
, evenly blended with some milky white, and faintly glowing. The rock walls around the cave seem to be made of this kind of stone.
Zhi Lingqi looked at the stone in his hand several times excitedly, and felt from his hand that the stone contained a very rich spiritual energy. Zhi Lingqi guessed that this must be the spirit stone often mentioned in fantasy novels in previous lives, right? What if?
This is the spirit stone, so could it be that this place is a spirit stone deposit? If so, I would have made a fortune, but I don’t know how much reserves there are?
Thinking of this, Zhi Lingqi secretly rejoiced. Thanks to his foresight, he promptly cleaned up all the corpses of the more than two thousand rattlesnakes that had been killed, and also restored the killing sites. In addition, he had previously killed them one by one.
The fighting method did not make much noise, so there was basically no consequences.
Otherwise, it won't be long before his annihilation of the rattlesnake tribe will be discovered by other monster beast tribes, which will inevitably attract their prying eyes and lead to them coming to fight for the spiritual stones. Then he will regret and be miserable.
Zhi Lingqi thought for a while and decided to thoroughly explore the specific conditions of the cave first. Not only to find traces of the remaining rattlesnakes, but also to find out the general amount of spiritual stones. If the spiritual stone reserves are large, he will not be able to collect them all at once.
If he wanted to mine it, he would have to find a way to hide it. He didn't want to make a wedding dress for others.
If the spiritual stone reserves are not large, then as long as you quickly clean up and kill the remaining rattlesnakes, you can start mining them desperately, trying to mine all the spiritual stone deposits here before other monsters discover them.
Take them away together.
Zhi Lingqi immediately unfolded his spiritual consciousness and began to conduct careful exploration in a step-by-step method. The cave was not very deep, and he reached the end about 400 meters away. What he obtained from his exploration were one happy and one worrying result.
One thing he was happy about was that the reserve of spiritual stones, at least based on the current appearance, was pretty good and did not disappoint him. The other thing he was worried about was that no trace of the remaining rattlesnakes had been found yet, and the consequences would not be eliminated, which was always his hidden worry.
Although he did not find any clues that might allow the rattlesnake to hide, how could Zhi Lingqi give up? So, he turned back and started a second detailed exploration. The stone ax in his hand kept hitting the cave wall, and his feet kept stomping on the cave.
of ground.
Just like this, he went back step by step. When he was about 120 meters back, which was about 280 meters from the cave, Zhi Lingqi discovered something abnormal, the echo of his feet stamping.
It feels a bit hollow.
As a result, Zhi Lingqi hurriedly stopped, bent down and struck the ground with the stone ax again, carefully explored, analyzed and judged, and determined that the bottom here was hollow, but the question of how to open it next made Zhi Lingqi
Lingqi had a headache.
Since the rattlesnake can hide inside without making a sound, it is impossible to enter by forcible destruction. There must be some mechanism or the like that controls the opening and closing of the entrance and exit. Besides, there is no possibility of forced entry.
Something unexpected happened.
Zhi Lingqi went back and forth to search around the place. After a while, he really got a clue. On the cave wall about 20 centimeters from the ground, there was a slightly sunken movable stone the size of a wine glass.
The color of the stones is exactly the same as the color of the rocks on the cave wall. If you don't look closely and touch it closely, you won't be able to find any abnormalities at all.
Zhi Lingqi pressed his finger lightly on the movable stone, and a one-meter-wide and two-meter-long hole appeared in front of his eyes. There was a faint fluorescence inside the hole, and a path slowly extended downward, with traces of
The fishy smell also emanated from the hole.
Zhi Lingqi suddenly became happy, because the fishy smell already showed that the remaining rattlesnakes were down there.
In order to prevent these rattlesnakes from escaping again, after entering the descending hole, Zhi Lingqi used his spiritual consciousness to monitor closely while finding the mechanism to close the entrance and exit, and quickly closed the entrance and exit, and then used hard stones to secure the mechanism.
wedge.
Just like the entrance to the Rattlesnake Mountain, the small passage is not long, only a little more than twenty meters. What then appears in front of Zhi Lingqi is a spacious underground hall. The hall is oval in shape, about the size of a football field and height
It is about seven or eight meters tall, and is surrounded by small caves with vaulted roofs of the same height and different sizes, like cave dwellings.
The second floor of the grotto is slightly sunken about 1.5 meters into the cave wall. In front of the grotto is a circular corridor. The outer edge of the corridor is basically flush with the wall of the first floor of the grotto. It looks like a two-story enclosed house, with obvious traces of human excavation.
, maybe because they have been abandoned for countless years, the caves in front of them look very lonely.
There was no movement here. After careful observation, Zhi Lingqi suddenly let go of his tyrannical aura and crushed all around. In an instant, seven or eight thick rattlesnakes attacked him at the same time. Zhi Lingqi held a chisel in his right hand.
He swung the mountain ax and the mountain-cutting ax in succession, and quietly moved the traceless fingers of his left hand. In an instant, the bodies of seven or eight rattlesnakes fell to the ground.
Giving up on cleaning up these snake corpses, Zhi Lingqi changed the method of applying widespread pressure, concentrated his breath pressure, and followed up from right to left to crush them one after another. Explosions and blood could be heard from time to time. It was probably those old, weak, young and disabled.
The rattlesnakes are being eliminated one by one.
After a circle of coercive impact, Zhi Lingqi did not stop and continued the second round of crushing. Compared with the more than two hundred times in the first round, the explosions and the smell of blood this time were even more intense than the more than two hundred times in the first round.
It's insignificant.
After the third round of crushing, there were no more abnormalities, but Zhi Lingqi was still worried, so the fourth round began to enter each small cave and conduct spiritual search and exploration one by one, starting with the first floor.
The grotto, and then the second level of the grotto, he carefully inspected even the smallest gaps and tiny holes, and never took it lightly.
During the investigation, Zhi Lingqi discovered that the grottoes on the second floor are generally smaller and denser than the grottoes on the bottom floor. They are like rooms inhabited by humans. Each room is divided into two rooms, inside and outside, and some large rooms also have three or four rooms.
There are only three sets in the four-bedroom apartment, and apart from the stone bed, stone bench and stone table, there are basically no other extraneous things in the room.
The grottoes on the first floor, which is the bottom floor, are generally larger than the grottoes on the second floor, but they are also in the same room style. However, a considerable part of the rooms on this floor should be warehouses, because there are a lot of grottoes inside.
Making shelves.
The warehouses are roughly divided into four categories. The two most obvious categories are the spirit stone warehouse and the weapon refining materials warehouse. Because the spirit stones and weapon refining materials are still piled full in the warehouse, Lingqi also discovered that there are
The spiritual stones are obviously much higher than the spiritual stones in the cave wall above, because the concentration of spiritual energy contained in these spiritual stones is unmatched by the spiritual stones outside.
If the spiritual stones on the cave wall outside are low-grade spiritual stones, there are no less than a million spiritual stones here, at least medium-grade spiritual stones, and there are more than 10,000 individually stored spiritual stones, which are obviously higher grade than those in the warehouse.
The spiritual stones stacked together are even higher, and they are probably high-grade spiritual stones, or spiritual stones with special effects.
Faced with so many spiritual stones, this unexpected joy almost made Zhi Ling Qi Le faint. After being convinced that there was no more rattlesnake, Zhi Ling Qi was so happy that he threw all the spirit stones and refining materials from
The Jingmingmen was stored in the small space of Qihai.
The other two types of warehouses, Zhi Lingqi guessed, should be the medicinal materials warehouse and the food warehouse. Since they were already empty, he couldn't make a conclusion, so he could only make inferences based on common sense.