Chapter 287 Insect Eggs and Abnormalities

The cleaning went smoothly, so smoothly that the soldiers were still a little confused after completing the cleaning.

How come the targets were gone before they had used up all the bullets in their backpacks?

There were only about a hundred rot wasps in this nest area, and the soldiers only discovered this when they were counting the bodies: 210 soldiers were even a little too much - but if they were still using old rifles, 210 anti-aircraft output would be far from enough.

They had to wait until the rot wasps approached them and then use three rounds of shotgun shells to shoot them down from the air at once.

Whether the breech loading can be performed most significantly when attacking moving targets.

The exploded beehive revealed the black cave hidden behind it. The artificial cave that could be seen at a glance was filled with a large number of milky white soft eggs. The densely packed soft eggs were neatly placed on the ground like rice grains erected by a busybody.

Rot wasp eggs.

The scout spider shook its head, trying to pounce on a bee egg fixed on the wall to have a big meal... but was kicked back by the soldier next to it, telling it not to mess around anymore.

It shrank back behind the other spiders in grievance.

"Sir!"

The major pushed the crowd aside and walked in, glancing at the neatly arranged storage nest chambers with a large number of insect eggs.

There was no queen bee, but there were a large number of insect eggs.

What he didn't know was that when there was plenty of food, a queen bee/queen bee would naturally appear to focus on laying eggs in the case of rot wasps, but the current nascent bee colony had not yet developed such an egg-laying creature.

"Egg storage room... So many."

The major leaned over and pressed on an egg, feeling the softness of caressing a colloid, but more of it was cold. The root of the insect egg was entangled and fixed to the ground by the stretched lavender vines to prevent it from falling.

Some of the insect eggs were fixed to the ground by plants, and some were fixed to the wall by plants. The eggs near the entrance had obvious defects and were taken by the rot wasps to hatch.

Is it a plant that coexists with the rot wasps? The major thought.

He had participated in the mission of eradicating the forest element and witnessed the wonder of the symbiosis between plants and element life.

The eggs were always in a low-temperature dormant state in this unnatural nest. Is this a method used by the rot wasps to preserve their eggs... Nature is really amazing.

He had planned to have no gains before setting off, but so many eggs... It was indeed good news, and the trip was worthwhile.

He took a quick look and estimated in his mind that there were about two hundred rot wasp eggs. So many rot wasp eggs should be able to sell for a good price.

However, there is a doubt. Can the rot wasps really dig through the thick limestone here with their claws without any hard structure...?

The major stood up and looked at the obvious marks of excavation deep inside.

As the eggs were removed, the major looked at the traces of cooling runes remaining on the ground, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

The explorer guards hid in the forest and watched the airship rise. After rising to a relative height, they opened the shooting window and used the ship-borne guns to cover and sweep the beehive on the edge of the mountain until the entire beehive was destroyed.

Then they approached the powder of crystal ore explosives sprinkled directly by the soldiers to let it burn.

The comprehensive cleaning task was given to the hunting spiders, who could find the living larvae of the wasp from the wreckage of the polygonal nests with great accuracy. These fat white larvae avoided the explosion of the bombs with their not yet fully developed bodies and thick bodies.

They huddled in the polygonal nest blocks one by one.

Just treat it as a snack for these guard hunting spiders.

Humans would dislike this kind of scavenger, but hunting spiders don't. This is a rare and delicious high-protein food.

After confirming that there were no recyclable resources, the soldiers did not leave the corpses on the ground this time.

In the surrounding area, they used local materials and split wood to get firewood. Using these firewoods as fuel, pouring the crystal ore explosives taken out of the explosive pack as a combustion aid to completely burn this area.

The rising flames completely engulfed the nest area, and several black smokes gathered together to form a larger smoke column swaying in the clouds and rising into the sky.

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"It seems that they don't plan to leave anything for us... I still want to eat a meal of bee larvae... It's a waste to give them to spiders."

A guard stared at the flames rising in the distance. The rising high-temperature flames engulfed the creatures, and the high temperature turned the protein into carbon ash.

He could vaguely smell the smell of cooked protein, which was very fragrant.

The larvae of the rot wasp, especially the larvae that have just hatched, are soft, tender and juicy. It is larger in size, and the chef can completely remove the organs of its body and only keep the most tender part of the insect meat. Those white and tender pieces of meat look like pieces of shaking jelly on the plate.

"Forget it, do you want to compete with those spiders for food? The most you can eat is the adult rot wasp, which they don't like to eat."

After the rot wasp matures, because it eats carrion, the insect meat will contain trace amounts of toxins, and it needs to be pickled and detoxified before it can be eaten. There are very few parts of this creature that can be recycled, so it is troublesome to fight it, and it is not profitable.

The only profitable thing is the bee larvae and eggs harvested after defeating them - as food, or sold to the arena in the kingdom so that they can use these alien creatures to fight beasts in the duel cage.

Alien creature fighting beasts is a very popular activity in the kingdom.

The captain of the escort shrugged, smelling something wrong in the air. His ears twitched, isolating Lin's strange voice.

There was no wind, but the leaves were shaking.

He said.

"Something is approaching."

The guards' hands were already on their swords at their sides.