Chapter 426 Purification Crystal

Qi Lin roughly estimated that the number of larvae in this underground cavity was around 60 to 70, which was a force he could not ignore. In other words, if these larvae besieged him together, he would probably Only turn around and run away.

The most important thing is that Qi Lin is running out of ammunition for the Gauss pistol in his hand.

Even if one shot can kill a young creature, it is not enough at all, and it is still unknown whether these stronger young creatures can be killed by one shot.

The larva closest to Qi Lin is located on the edge of the underground cavity. It is lazily lying on a pile of ore about half a meter high. The larvae in the center of the hollow are quite different—there is also a difference in status, or in other words, strength, between "dizi" and "dizi", those with low status and weak strength will naturally be regarded Marginalized, although the resources obtained are more than those of the "bastards" outside, they are much less than the "sisters" who are at the core.

Obviously, the juvenile in front of Qi Lin is in such an embarrassing position among the group of monsters.

The ores scattered around this young body were almost all snatched up by its kind, and during this process, this young body didn't dare to compete with its kind at all.

For a moment, Qi Lin couldn't help feeling that the little guy was a bit pitiful.

But it was just a momentary thought. You must know that the young creatures in the tunnel outside are worse than him, but when facing foreign enemies, they are still very fierce.

To enter this underground cavity, the first thing Qi Lin needs to find out is the sensing range of these young organisms.

Most of the larvae killed by Qi Lin in the tunnel outside have a sensing range of about ten to fifteen meters. This kind of sensing has nothing to do with hearing, vision, or even smell. Qi Lin thinks that these monsters are likely to pass around the human body The biological magnetic field, or the energy fluctuations emitted to find the target.

The larvae inside the underground cavity are much larger than those outside, and the sensing range of all these guys is not as small as fifteen meters.

Qi Lin tried to get closer, about 50 meters away from the young body.

no response.

Forty meters.

no response.

Thirty-five meters.

Still no response.

Qi Lin took another step, and just stepped into the range of 30 meters, the tentacles of the larva that had been moving the ore around it suddenly stopped, stretched into the air, and made a posture ready to go.

The sensing range is 30 meters, but judging from the limit length of the tentacles of this juvenile body, although it can sense Qi Lin's existence from 30 meters away, it cannot attack Qi Lin who is 30 meters away.

It was waiting for Qi Lin to get closer.

However, Qi Lin's goal had been achieved, and when he stepped back, the young body immediately lost Qi Lin's sense, and the tentacles circled a few times in mid-air with some doubts, and then slowly hung down.

"The sensing range is 30 meters...but this is only the weakest among them, the others must be more than 30 meters..." Qi Lin silently wrote down in his heart, sticking to the edge of the cave, and began to move slowly towards one side .

According to Qi Lin's observations, these larvae are adsorbed on the pitchblende, not just absorbing the radiation emitted by the ore, but in their abdomen, there are organs similar to mouthparts, and the mouthparts are constantly secreting The pus is a powerful corrosive acid that corrodes and dissolves the ore. Finally, the larvae swallow the dissolved mixture in liquid form.

In addition to devouring the bituminous ore containing uranium, there is another opening at the tail of these larvae, which should be their excretion port-every time, the larvae will excrete the waste residue in the dissolved substances out from the drain.

After observing for a while, Qi Lin chose a single juvenile in a remote location. The distance between this juvenile and other juveniles was more than 50 meters. Even if Qi Lin attacked it, it would not be attacked by others. Perceived by juveniles.

After selecting the target, Qi Lin raised his Gauss pistol and pulled the trigger on the young creature!

The 2.5mm caliber electromagnetic bullet easily penetrated the first half of the young body's body, and smashed one-third of its body into pieces. After several minutes of wildly waving the tentacles of the young body, Only then did he lose all his strength and hang down, and the remaining two-thirds of his body also stopped convulsing and collapsed on the pile of ore.

Qi Lin looked at the other juveniles around him, and found that none of these guys were aware of the death of the same kind, and they were still devouring the ore on their own, so he stooped and walked over to the killed juvenile beside.

The juveniles in the tunnels outside were too small in size, and their entire bodies were blown up with a Gauss pistol, and even a relatively complete corpse could not be left behind. Fetid and disgusting pus to study carefully.

Looking at the half of the juvenile body, Qi Lin pulled out a tungsten steel dagger and began to dissect it.

But it didn't take long for Qi Lin to discover the problem—the corrosiveness in the blood of the juvenile was stronger than that of the adult monster. Although tungsten is a metal with strong corrosion resistance, the tungsten in this tungsten steel dagger alloy The content is not high, and the body of this larva has been corroded and riddled with holes before it can be cut much.

Even tungsten steel can't withstand the radiation of young blood, and the bone blade mainly composed of calcium and phosphate is even more so.

Qi Lin scanned all the things in his hand, and silently took out the ceramic insert in the body armor.

The main component of ceramics is silicon oxide. Like glass, this substance itself is an acidic oxide, and it is difficult to react with strong acids other than hydrofluoric acid. Even if it is used to hold aqua regia, there is no problem at all.

Using a bone mallet to smash the ceramic bulletproof insert, Qi Lin selected a palm-sized piece of ceramic fragment with sharp edges as a scalpel, and cut open the young body's body bit by bit.

This creature is really similar to a slug. The water content of its body is definitely more than 90%. In a large amount of liquid with a pungent smell, Qi Lin can only find some tissues similar to hoses and skins larger than fingernails. Glands that are not too big, as for many other organs, the ceramic plate will immediately turn into a liquid when it is fiddled with, mixed with blood and tissue fluid, and it is impossible to distinguish them at all.

Qi Lin pinched the ceramic piece with two fingers and kept probing inside the corpse. He felt as if he was playing with a pile of poop... Moreover, it was still kind of sparse...

Just when Qi Lin couldn't bear this disgusting feeling and was about to give up, the tip of the ceramic piece suddenly poked something hard.

"Huh? What is this?"

Qi Lin's first reaction was that it was an ore residue that had not been fully digested, but when he picked out the hard object, he found that it was an emerald green crystal the size of a soybean. The amount of radiation contained in it is comparable to a large pile of uranium-containing pitch ore under the corpse.

Obviously, this is the essence purified by the larvae from the pitchblende——