Chapter 673 Unknown situation
It is not clear how dangerous the locust is, but since he has already said it, Lu Chen no longer considered the threat. He has only refined a batch of soul stones, and Connor, who had just left, brought Rosales over. Obviously, this kind of sea monster may be more dangerous than imagined. Rosales also confirmed to Lu Chen again without bothering.
"That ~ I have nothing to say. Are you sure this spawning area is surrounded by locusts?"
"I don't know if it is a locust shrimp. There is a piece of locust shrimp that has been covered by purple. At their current speed, they will definitely surround the entire reef area before dark and cover our position." Pointing to the direction opposite to the sun, Lu Chen answered indifferently. After all, with his unique flying speed, it is okay to escape. The previous insecureness was just an uneasy to conceal the truth from everyone; but after saying that, seeing that everyone was in silence, he continued to ask what the locust shrimp was.
"Most shrimps eat everything, but this kind of locust shrimp is a little different. They are pure carnivorous monsters and like to live in clusters. This is nothing in the vast ocean. The silver-light fish we hunted this time are similar, but they have hard and corrosion-resistant carapaces that are different from fish, and even other similar types. Unless they are directly crushed, even if they are swallowed by monsters many times stronger than them, they will not die in a short period of time. Instead, they will become a predator's nightmare with their pair of powerful claws."
"At normal times, locusts live on the seabed with large sea monsters, and are affected by food and a very small number of predators. The number of a group will not be too exaggerated. Once food shortage occurs, they will eat each other to maintain the continuation of the group. However, during the annual breeding period, locusts will have a special action that most of the monsters do not have... The small groups nearby will gather together to form a death tide that causes all sea monsters to escape. There will be no bones left in the places along the way."
After talking together, Rosales couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Even the dragon tribes dare not provoke the horror of the more peculiar small sea monsters, even the dragon tribes, during their breeding period.
"Connor said before that they are generally only at sixth level, so if we find the shrimp king, can we control them? And they are ultimately monsters. Is dragon power invalid for them?" According to Rosales, Lu Chen almost understood the origin of this name, but the most important thing in front of us is to make a decision to stay or get along with them.
"Haha, this is also their special place. The name 'locust shrimp' is not only because of their lifestyle like locusts. Have you ever seen locust swarms give up devouring plants when they encounter humans and natural enemies? As for the shrimp king, all locust shrimps that have reached the sixth level can be said to be kings."
When he found Lu Chen's surprised look, he seemed to have no idea of the species of locust shrimp. Rosales paused after a bitter smile and continued: "In fact, they didn't even have the first order when they were born, just small shrimps as big as nails. Then they grew to the sixth order bit by bit as they continued to eat, but this process was much faster than other monsters. The price was that they had no intelligence and could never break through to the seventh order or above."
"That is to say, there is no other way to encounter them at this time except to avoid them?" Lu Chen asked unwillingly.
"Yes... according to the distance you said, we should have less than an hour left, but in case we must evacuate in half an hour. You don't have to force it. The harvest this time has reached the estimated number. When it comes to the locust shrimp, it is likely that even fate is jealous of our harvest this time. Okay. I'll let everyone clean up all the remaining wolf sharks." After encouraging and comforting Lu Chen in a joke, Rosales gave up the command of the collection and led Conner to join Ingrid's blocking team, but with the appearance of the locust shrimp, the blocking was replaced by annihilation.
Seeing Rosales cooked a wolf shark with one blow, Lu Chen wanted him to capture all the eighth-level wolf sharks alive, but he opened his mouth but still failed to make this request. After all, the silver-light fish eggs in front of him were not too late to refine them. At the same time, with the example of locust shrimp, he also understood why Ingrid and the others did not use dragon threats to scare away these wolf sharks. Obviously, there are many monsters in the ocean that are not afraid of the dragon clan, just like the beasts on the earth will only be frightened by wild beasts that are more ferocious than them, but do not run away when they see people, especially those with low rationality.
Then, when the team members in charge of the collection rushed to work as porters according to Rosales' instructions, the speed of the entire refining process was shortened by nearly half, making Lu Chen no longer worry about other matters.
Unfortunately, time always passes by at the most critical moment. It feels as if after just a few blinks, Lu Chen saw Rosales and the others back, and strangely stopped everyone to continue placing silver-light fish eggs into the alchemy array.
"Is the time right? So fast? Don't stop, fill up this batch quickly." He said casually, but Lu Chen, who had been watching the alchemy array before, suddenly realized that not only did everyone not listen to him, but every face was full of embarrassment, as if he had made some mistakes. Yi Ruiya, who was holding her beside him, tended to shed tears. Even Loli Long became obediently and silent.
"Okay, why are you guys doing so hard? There are so many monsters in the ocean. If you want soul stones, just look for a chance next time." Ingrid spoke in disbelief.
Although her tone was not good, Lu Chen could naturally hear her concern for him, but this made him even more confused. But just as he was about to say something, Yi Ruiya condensed a water mirror in front of him... Then Lu Chen understood everything, he reached out to touch the deep-seated face in the water mirror. Even he dared not imagine what he had done, and he couldn't remember when he summoned the elemental armor and turned into dragons. The only thing he remembered in his mind was batch after batch...
"After more than ten minutes ago, you suddenly summoned this armor, and then you were like being possessed by a demon, desperately urging everyone to put more fish eggs into the magic circle, and even... you think you're too slow and do it yourself."
Listening to Yi Ruiya talking about herself in tears, while releasing the healing magic for herself, Lu Chen realized that things might be more serious than what she said. Otherwise, with her personality and concern for herself, it would never be possible to treat herself until now. Even if the other dragon clans could not stop themselves, they would not cooperate with her stupidly. However, it is not the time to ask the bottom line, and sincerely said "I'm sorry" to everyone. Lu Chen took off his elemental armor and looked at Rosales.
Rosales, whom Iriya said, also heard that although there were many loopholes and some situations were obviously hidden, I also understood that now is not the time to deal with this issue, and not to mention that it may involve Lu Chen's secret. Seeing that his eyes had returned to clear light, he no longer stopped and issued instructions to leave the sea.
The soul stone refining process in the second half was almost a batch of one minute, but the soul stones that could be refined within half an hour were still very limited. Seeing that the remaining hills of silver-light fish eggs that were almost like unmoved were about to become food for locusts and shrimps, the moment they left, Lu Chen asked Connor without any hesitation, would not have been willing to ask him if their hunting would destroy the ecology of the ocean.
Then, when he got the answer from "There are countless spawning places for silver fish", Lu Chen asked Enid to help, frozen the piles of silver fish eggs, which made his space ring that had never been filled with heavy feeling for the first time.
Chapter completed!