The Thunder Wolf Dragon and the Thunder Light Bug have a symbiotic relationship.
When the Thunder Wolf Dragon discharges electricity, it can turn the lightning bug into a super electric lightning bug in a similar way to excitation mutation.
The super-electric lightning bug will feed back to the Thunder Wolf Dragon with sufficient thunder attribute energy, allowing it to enter the super-electric state within a certain period of time.
Among them, the Thunder Wolf Dragon is the dominant one, and can even guide the super-electric lightning bugs that live on its back to form a charged ball of light for flying strikes.
There is no reason to chase after the lightning bug, and the other party will remain unmoved.
Li Fan felt that the only reasonable reason was that the Thunder Wolf Dragon had lost the ability to stimulate mutant lightning bugs.
This is consistent with the problems with the power storage capacity recorded by the investigators.
The lack of this ability is fatal to Thunder Wolf Dragon.
There is no way to become the leader of the clan, and expulsion is inevitable.
At first, because Puff wanted to stay away from Velociraptor, he migrated from Shuiwu Forest to the surrounding area of Kara Village.
As a result, the Thunder Wolf Dragon became highly alert and began to attack indiscriminately, threatening the safety of Kara Village.
After the joint hunting suffered heavy losses, they came to the volcano again
What an unpredictable fate.
Li Fan sighed in his heart, feeling that the fate of this thunder wolf dragon was like the fate of human beings.
But he still didn't understand what the Thunder Wolf Dragon was doing in the volcanic area.
The pressure of survival in the wild here is obviously much higher than in most areas, and the number of lightning bugs is also very limited.
If you encounter any powerful monster, you may die here.
After thinking for a long time with no results, Li Fan decided not to delve deeper.
Dust pouring out of the giant volcanic crater meets the gray sky and blocks out the sun.
The airship penetrated slightly into the core area of the volcano, and there was no trace of sunlight again.
However, the mountains under the smoke and dust are not gray. The slowly flowing red magma illuminates everything on the ground in red.
When Li Fan passed by the kitchen, he took a carrot from the cutting board and walked to the bow of the boat while eating.
Returning with a pot of vegetables, Ye Ye scratched his head in confusion when he saw that the freshly peeled carrots were missing.
"Dilu, it's shift change."
"Uh I'm not sleeping meow!"
Di Lu jumped up suddenly on the bench.
"Very good, you can go to bed now, I will take your place."
Li Fan informed.
Covered in this gray dust, it was impossible to distinguish between day and night when looking at the sky.
But Li Fan knew that it was early morning, and Di Lu had been staying at the bow of the ship all night in order to monitor the reaction of the hull shell in real time.
"Okay, meow! Don't call me for breakfast and lunch. I want to sleep until night to accumulate enough energy!"
After Dilu finished speaking, he rubbed his eyes and came to the kitchen, opening the small hatch converted from the pot lid.
Gu~gu~
Hearing the sound of her shriveled belly, Dilu looked around and picked up the vegetable basin.
"Flower leaves, three leaves, leaves, meow! I'll take this vegetable salad back and eat it, meow!"
After Dilu shouted, she held the vegetable basin and got into the cat slide pipe.
Returning with a bunch of carrot leaves, I looked at the empty cutting board and scratched my head again.
Since it is a mineral exploration ship, many details have been modified to facilitate exploration.
Although it is the shell of the ship that can resonate with the Hexing Stone, Hualai installed a vertical guide pin on the bow.
The observer does not need to observe the shell at all times, as long as he pays attention to the guide pin when there is nothing wrong.
In terms of safety, since the airship cannot be too fast during detection operations, the golden wake with dispersion capabilities cannot yet be used.
But the little fool, the naughty one, and Xixi's constant guarding have already made most of the monsters afraid to come close.
So what Li Fan had to do on the bow was basically to mark the detected area on the map.
After about five hours of detection.
Snap!
A red electric light appeared at the tip of the guide needle.
"Stop marching!"
Li Fan shouted to the bridge at the stern of the ship, and Fei Rui immediately stopped the Flame.
I ran to the bulwark and looked down. I saw a strange red aura rising from the ground and pouring into the outer shell of the spacecraft.
"Is there any new discovery?"
Eudora ran over quickly.
"Well, there is probably a Hexingite vein down there. It looks like the surrounding terrain is relatively hard. I should try to explore it."
Li Fan analyzed.
"Wait a minute, aren't the Hexingite veins exposed on the surface?"
Eudora said unexpectedly.
"I read from the data that a small part will be exposed to the surface."
"I specially bought a dozen G-grade mining pickaxes. I thought it was beyond our capabilities, right?"
Eudora asked tentatively.
"It's okay. For this exploration, I specially formed an expert team. As long as we find the location of the mineral vein, we can just listen to each other's instructions on how to explore."
"Expert Group"
Eudora looked back at the deck of the ship and didn't remember anyone else traveling with her.
After reaching the ground, the team came to the location where red aura was constantly emerging.
Taking out three elf balls, Zhanzhan, Yaya, and Shasha soon appeared.
"This is your panel?"
Eudora asked in surprise.
"That's right, mineral expert Zhan Zhan, rock structure expert Ya Ya, and construction worker Sha Sha."
After Li Fan finished the introduction, he began to explain the exploration needs to the monsters.
It was more comfortable to chop, and the mud on Shasha's body quickly dried up.
The most uncomfortable thing is the teeth, sweating constantly.
"Ya Ya, you come first, as long as you make sure the soil here is safe for excavation."
Li Fan gave the deployment.
Yaya ran briefly on the rock formation, and after confirming that it was relatively stable, he crawled sideways and lay on the ground.
Ouch
"Zhanzhan, jump once, then step down with maximum strength."
Li Fan conveyed Yaya's thoughts.
Ouch! Zhanzhan roared, his two feet briefly gathered momentum, and he jumped up.
Bang! The ground shook and the rock formations dented.
Yaya, who had crawled down to feel the shock, stood up.
Ouch
"The rock formation below is very stable and can be dug, right? Come on, get into the ball."
Li Fan then put Yaya into the adaptation ball.
Zhanzhan uses his sensitive detection of minerals to leave an X-shaped mark on the ground with his tail blade to locate the discovered excavation point.
Shasha raised her head to the ground and dug at the location.
However, due to the hard geology here, the efficiency is not very fast.
"If the Hexingite vein is found, will the crisis of the Sky Comet Dragon be resolved?"
Di Lu, who was watching the exploration, asked.
"Not necessarily. Even if Huihui does come to the volcano, she will inevitably have disputes with those terrifying beings in the volcanic restricted area. The only advantage is that no matter how big the crisis is, it is usually limited to the volcanic area."
Li Fan expressed his speculation.
It is definitely better for one area to suffer than for all areas to be threatened, not to mention that there are very few humans active in volcanic areas.
Ouch!
The rustling in the rock formations let out a roar.
The team saw the red rocks exposed at the bottom of the pit and quickly rappelled to the side.
throat!
When Eudora went down with the pickaxe, the red rock cracked. Li Fan and Di Lu immediately picked up the fragments and put them in front of their eyes for observation.
"The color is great, meow."
Dilu opened his backpack, took out the scorching carapace fragments and moved closer, the red light and electric light appeared again.
"It is indeed the Hexing Stone! Found it, meow!"
Li Fanyu Doradilu hugged each other and cheered to celebrate.
The next thing to do is to prove the reserves.
As Shasha continued to dig, strip-shaped veins of Hexingite gradually appeared.
When the exposed length is about 8 meters, a dark rock formation appears.
Ah? That’s not all, is it? This should be only a small part of the entire mineral vein.
With an anxious mood, Li Fan guided Shasha to dig, but after digging less than five meters, another black rock formation appeared.
The team stepped forward and dug for a while. When the irregular-shaped Hexing stone vein appeared as a whole, before Eudora and Dilu noticed anything, Li Fan's face was already ashen.
"Such a large piece of Hexing stone vein is enough for the Celestial Comet Dragon to use for at least twenty years, right?"
Eudora stepped on the mineral vein and speculated.
"It doesn't seem right, nya?"
Dee looked confused.
"What's wrong? Isn't this the Hexing stone vein we are looking for?"
Eudora asked puzzledly.
"According to the fragments I collected, it can only activate a scorching carapace for a short period of time. If I want to maintain the jet flight of Sky Comet Dragon, at least I can't count it, but I feel that this mineral vein is not enough."
Dilu expressed his opinion.
"Li Fan, why did Di Lu say you were squatting on the ground?"
"It's nothing, just a little tired."
Li Fan had a look of despair on his face.
"Can it be true?"
Eudora asked tentatively.
"You know the Tower of Babel, right?"
"I know."
"Except for the rock wall of Babel Tower, there is a whole vein of Hexingite inside."
"It turns out that so many Hexing stones are needed to accommodate the Celestial Comet Dragon."
Eudora was stunned.
She knew why Li Fan was depressed.
Volcanoes are already the most ore-rich areas. If even the Hexingite reserves here cannot satisfy the Celestial Comet Dragon, then the possibilities in other areas will be even smaller.
"Huh? Could the lack of Hexing stone veins be the reason why the Celestial Comet Dragon was almost extinct before?"
Eudora speculated.
At the flying height of Sky Comet Dragon, there are no natural enemies at all.
The reason why their numbers were reduced to the point where they were deemed extinct may be the Hexing Stone.
After all, the team has just experienced the difficulty of exploration and mining.
"If Tian Huilong's body metabolism requires the use of Hexing Stone, then it is very possible."
A feeling of powerlessness emerged from the bottom of Li Fan's heart. He did not expect that even as powerful as the Sky Comet Dragon, he would be strictly restricted by the ecological environment.
The ecology of the monster hunting world is like an equivalent exchange market. Having any ability requires a corresponding price, and no one can escape it.
"In that case, if you can't find the Hexing Stone, it doesn't seem that bad. Maybe the Sky Comet Dragon will destroy itself before it causes a crisis."
Eudora speculated.
"No, that's the scariest thing"
Li Fan sighed and said.
"Why?"
"Because Sky Comet Dragon will definitely spare no effort to find the Hexing Stone before its life ends. According to its mobility, the area it can reach may be much larger than the area currently explored by humans. By then
All the monsters in the area will move around on a large scale because they are afraid of the ancient dragon, and human settlements will suffer."
"No wonder Longliyuan attaches so much importance to it"
Eudora said with emotion.
"You go back first, I will guide the little fool and Naughty to hoist this giant mineral vein up."
Hunting and killing the Sky Comet Dragon head-on is the only way Li Fan can think of at the moment.
Because even if the capture is successful, he does not have enough Hexing Stone to sustain the huge consumption of the Celestial Comet Dragon.
As for discovering other Hexing stone veins, Li Fan felt that it was of little significance.
Because as long as the current Hexing stone veins are exhausted, Tian Xilong will still enter the search state.
This is its innate ecological habit. There is no right or wrong in good or evil, but it is a huge threat to humans.
There are currently only two options: disaster strikes or eradicates the Sky Comet Dragon.
The two ends of the giant mineral vein were tied with worm silk. As the little fool naughtily lifted into the air, the giant mineral vein continued to rise.
Li Fan put Shasha and Zhanzhan into the elf ball and grabbed a lowered cable.
When he rose to a certain distance, Li Fan discovered a minor problem.
That is because the distance between the Hexingite vein and the hull is constantly getting closer, the intensity of the red lightning generated between the two is also constantly increasing.
"It seems that we have to find a water source later, let the sand and some mud come out, and paste it on the surface of the vein as a blocking layer."
Li Fan muttered.
As for the dangers it would cause, he felt there was no need to worry.
The Searing Carapace is just a raw material without the Sky Comet Dragon.
After the absorption of Hexingite reaches saturation, it will stop absorbing.
Zi La La! Zi La La!
The strange red and black electric light kept exploding on the surface of the ship's hull.
But as the energy absorbed by the carapace approaches saturation, the resonance effect begins to gradually weaken.
The cable continued to rise, and Li Fan stepped over the bulwark and came to the deck.
"Ugh, there are so many flying insects, meow!"
Di Lu looked ahead and exclaimed.
Li Fan turned his head and looked over, and indeed saw a dark swarm of flying insects.
"I'm going to get the insect net, meow."
Dilu said and rushed to the kitchen.
"Oh, that's strange. What kind of flying insect is this?"
Not only has Li Fan never seen this flying insect before, but his habits are also somewhat unclear.
Forget about traveling in groups, why not go anywhere but head towards the airship?
Bang! The first flying insect hit the hull of the boat without any deceleration buffer at all.
Six claws under the body clasped the shell, two membrane wings spread out, and a black light flashed in the exposed transparent abdominal pouch.
Bah!
The hull was saturated with energy, and the black breath that slowly spread outward was absorbed into the abdominal pouch of the flying insect.
While the flying insect expanded slightly, red and black light appeared from its abdominal pouch.
Soon, as the insect swarm arrived, more and more flying insects clung to the surface of the hull, absorbing the energy that escaped.
Because the energy has a place to go, the energy attached to the scorching carapace gradually fades away, and the absorption of the Hexingite veins begins again.
“You’re here for the buffet!”
Li Fan held the bulwarks with both hands and shouted downwards.
"Here I come, meow! Let me catch one and see what kind of flying insect it is!"
Dilu ran over quickly holding an insect net.
"No, I have a faster way to identify it!"
Li Fan said, taking off a silver crown ball from his shoulder strap.
"Choose which one you can suck best!"
Look for one and throw the ball.
Due to the force of the throw, the black flying insect was knocked over in mid-air and turned into white light and flew into the ball.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
Capture successful!
Li Fan quickly took out his mobile phone to check.
