I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

Chapter 20: The Hive (Part 2)

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Good heavens, Zhang Chen had been digging for a day, and only realized when it was time to leave that his experience points had barely accumulated to three thousand.

[Name: Zhang Chen]

[Skill 1 (Tier 2): Light of the True God (0/5000)]

[Skill 2 (Unranked): Dragon Qi (0/2000)]

[Points: 3050]

Zhang Chen looked at the 3,050 points, then at his already swollen hands, and couldn't help but frown: "It's getting harder and harder to excavate. At this rate, the excavation progress won't improve. I don't know how long it will take to upgrade the Tier 2 skill."

"Fortunately, there's still the stele to make up for it, but I don't know what the origin of that stele is," Zhang Chen muttered to himself, then carried the basket all the way to the stream to wash up. But when he saw the stream in front of him, Zhang Chen frowned even deeper: "The water level of the stream has dropped even more than yesterday. How could this be?"

Zhang Chen washed the mud off his body, then looked at the receding stream, a serious expression in his eyes: "The situation is not good! The water vapor in the world is constantly decreasing. This is not a good sign. Once there's a severe drought, no one will have a good time."

Zhang Chen washed up for a while, then carried the basket towards the hive. He went straight to the location of the hive, chopped up the wild pheasant he had hunted in the morning, took a chicken leg, carefully cut it into rice-grain-sized pieces, and sprinkled them in front of the hive.

That's right, the hornets eat meat! The aroma of meat wafted out, and countless hornets scrambled out, pouncing on the meat pieces on the ground, devouring them heartily.

Watching hundreds of hornets devour the meat, a thought arose in Zhang Chen's mind:

"If I could bring the hornets' nest back home, it would be even safer then. If those people dare to make things difficult for me, I'll just summon the hornets from the house, and they'll suffer a great loss."

Looking at the hornets, Zhang Chen shook his head, knowing that this was just his wishful thinking. The hornets' strength lay in their swiftness during the day. If people knew the location of the hornets' nest, a fire at night could burn the hornets clean.

"So I still have to find stronger species. The hornets are just a transition for me." Zhang Chen fed the hornets for a while, then cleaned up the minced meat on the ground to avoid attracting any natural enemies, before turning around and leaving.

Within two kilometers of the hornets' habitat, there are basically no small animals such as mice, because these small animals simply cannot withstand the hornets' hunting.

Arriving at the cave, Zhang Chen began the process of making explosives again. After half a day, Zhang Chen was seen walking out of the cave with a happy expression, indicating that today's harvest was not small.

But after walking out of the cave, Zhang Chen turned his head to look at this natural cave, feeling a little uneasy in his heart: "Although this place is sparsely populated, I can't prevent mountain hunters and villagers from breaking in rashly. If they discover my gunpowder, I'm afraid it will be a big trouble then. If I could move the hornets over and use the hornets to guard the cave, with the existence of this kind of killer bee, presumably those people would not dare to approach easily."

"If you want the hornets to build a nest here, it's actually simple. During the hornets' swarming season, in addition to having a suitable living environment, as long as you smear honey on the place where you want the hornets to build a nest, and add meat pieces, with sufficient food, the hornets will naturally build a nest here." A pensive look appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.

However, honey is a luxury in this era, only truly nobles can enjoy it, and ordinary people can't buy even a little.

"Or should I just dig that one out directly and move the hive over?" Zhang Chen thought about it and couldn't think of a good idea, so he had to go down the mountain to check the animal traps.

The traps still didn't fail, and actually caught two frogs.

Zhang Chen carried the two frogs back home. Today, he didn't see the white-haired fox at the gate, nor did he see Zhang Chen. But he still consciously hung the food on the wall, then returned to the house to think about the future drought and moving the hive.

"Strange, why haven't I seen the fox spirit's踪迹 today?" Zhang Chen lay on the bed and thought for a while, suddenly feeling a little strange, stood up and came to the fire wall, poked the hole open again with a small stick, and then the snoring next door was deafening. The white-haired fox was sleeping soundly with its four feet in the air and an extremely unsightly sleeping position. The snoring came from the fox spirit's mouth.

Zhang Chen didn't know that the fox spirit and Zhang Chen had stayed up all night last night, and hadn't gotten out of bed during the day today.

Looking at the fox spirit drooling at the corner of its mouth, with its four hooves facing the sky, a picture suddenly appeared in Zhang Chen's mind: a beautiful girl in white clothes, sleeping with an extremely unsightly sleeping position, drooling at the corner of her mouth. He couldn't help but feel a jump in his heart, and then blocked the hole.

"Do fox spirits all sleep like this? To be honest, this fox spirit's sleeping position… is indescribable!" Zhang Chen walked back to the bed and began to recharge his energy, thinking about tomorrow's plan.

Zhang Chen's breathing was soft and steady, and golden light flowed around his abdomen, illuminating most of his abdomen. It seemed like there was a small lantern, and the golden light echoed the outside world with his breathing.

Just as Zhang Chen was half-asleep and half-awake, suddenly the sound of pots and pans colliding came from next door, directly waking Zhang Chen up. Zhang Chen knew that the fox spirit and Zhang Chen had woken up, and were now cooking.

"Eh ~"

Zhang Chen raised his head and looked at the wall. The prey he had hunted hadn't been taken away by the fox spirit.

"Why hasn't the fox spirit moved the prey yet?" A hint of surprise flashed in Zhang Chen's heart.

But he didn't think much about it, thinking that Zhang Chen might be at home, and the fox spirit couldn't use its tricks.

Night fell.

Zhang Chen fell into a drowsy sleep. Suddenly, the sky outside was covered with dark clouds, and the flying sand and rocks shook the earth. A red light appeared outside the small courtyard and landed directly in front of Zhang Chen's house.

"Damn it! He's here again!" Zhang Chen looked at the paper on the table with a red glow, a look of horror in his eyes, grabbed the stick next to him, staring at the red light reflected on the window paper, his eyes full of fear.

"Brother Zhang Chen, open the door quickly, I have prey to bring you!" Just then, a knock sounded, and Zhang Chen's voice actually came from outside the door, and the voice was exactly the same as Zhang Chen's.

"This…" Zhang Chen in the house was stunned. If he didn't have such an irreconcilable relationship with the person next door, he would have almost believed the nonsense outside the door.

The little fox was also gloomy at this time: "Damn it, this guy can even imitate people now, and he can even use tricks! His abilities have become stronger again!"