Magic Tech’s Lair

The old nest of the ant colony, the interior of the ant maze, is filled with thick white mist everywhere, like a primitive space where the world has not been opened, and the thick fog is like chaos.

The ant colony is busy opening up this small world all the time and expanding their homeland.

The fog and chaos in the space, because of their opening, formed a series of passages, intertwined and extending in all directions, interweaving to form the old nest of the ant colony.

At this time, at the core of the ant nest, the queen is experiencing her own changes.

It has evolved this time, and there are four more slender golden lines on its back.

These four fine lines correspond to the egg-laying sacs in its body, and the four fine lines mean that it has evolved four egg-laying sacs.

In other words, the egg-laying ability and hatching speed of queen ants have increased significantly because of this evolution.

After it finished evolving, it started to eat a lot.

The ant engineers continuously delivered food (the bones of the Titans), and the latecomers never refused, showing the talent of a big eater. It will eat as much as the ant soldiers bring in.

The pet assistant here sent several messages for Cao Yan in succession:

"The queen is refueling by eating in preparation for growing the colony again (laying eggs)."

"In this evolution of the queen ant, the number of hatching sacs has increased to four, and the number of eggs laid each time will exceed 10,000... The upper limit of the number of ant colonies will increase, and it will no longer be limited to 100,000..."

"Ding! The ant colony of the host is about to experience a group-style overall evolution."

"Ding! The queen ant has started to lay eggs for the first time after the end of evolution, and the number of eggs laid this time will exceed 12,000..."

One message after another was conveyed to Cao Yan through the pet assistant.

In the eyes of Qiao Zuo and others around him, Cao Yan was just looking at the metal maze door in front of him intently, and he didn't realize that he was paying attention to the evolution process of the ant colony through the assistant's screen.

Because of this evolution of the queen ant, at this moment, whether it is the ant colony that was originally scattered in the jungle, or the branch of the ant colony that remained in the abyss cave under the headquarters of the Pet Master Association, or it is in the ancient battlefield, and in front of you The ants who searched in the ruins of the temple all showed signs of group evolution.

The vitality of the entire ant colony is quietly increasing.

so-called vitality,

It means that they will no longer be killed so easily, and have stronger life resilience. This is an evolution in the form of life.

"Congratulations to the host, the colony ability of the ant colony has also evolved."

The group ability of an ant colony is to 'eat'.

The fundamental motivation for them to move around is actually to store food, absorb nutrients (energy) through eating, and grow and evolve.

The evolution of group ability means that the ant colony has a stronger ability to eat.

After reading these push messages, Cao Yan withdrew the idea of ​​paying attention to the ant colony, and then focused on examining the door of the maze in front of him.

The surrounding area was quiet, and everyone was afraid of disturbing his observation, so no one made a sound.

Led by Qiao Zuo himself, the team that entered the ruins consisted of more than 50 people, all of whom were elites from the association.

These people are scattered around, or riding pet beasts to patrol the air, or line up to defend the surrounding area, with strict order.

"This building is called Metal Labyrinth. Where did the name come from?" Cao Yan asked suddenly.

Qiao Zuo explained in person: "In the past when the ancient continent was born, when someone was exploring this ruin, they found an incomplete atlas, which introduced the names of some locations of the temple ruins, and mentioned the name of this metal labyrinth."

Cao Yan snorted, frowned and stared at the metal symbols that appeared on the door of the maze, thinking for a while.

On the other side, Wei Jicheng observed Cao Yan's brows tightly, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

In fact, before Cao Yan came over, Wei Jicheng, as the semiotics expert who followed the team into the ruins first, had already carried out a wave of technical breakthroughs and tried to open the door after discovering the door of the maze.

Because of the pressure brought by Cao Yan's opening of the outer barriers of the ancient continent before, Wei Jicheng was very eager to open this maze door.

Before Cao Yan came, the old man worked hard without any secrets, and several strands of his hair were tired and gray.

But technology is something that cannot be faked at all, and it is almost a thousand miles away.

Wei Jicheng went through the knowledge of semiotics he had mastered in his mind, but he still couldn't find a clue, and he didn't know where to start to open the door.

It's too difficult, this door is too difficult to open... Wei Jicheng gave up unwillingly, saying that he couldn't open the door by himself.

If Cao Yan opened the door in public, Wei Jicheng would worry that there would be no place to put his old face, and he would be very worried.

Seeing Cao Yan staring at the door and frowning, only Wei Jicheng was secretly happy, gloating and thinking: It's okay, it looks like this kid can't open it...

Before he could finish his thoughts, he was shocked when he saw Cao Yan walking towards the door of the maze.

The door of the maze is square in shape, nine meters long and vertical, embedded in the walls of the metal maze, and almost seamlessly integrated with the metal walls of the maze, with no visible seams, giving it an ingenious look.

As Cao Yan walked towards the door, he thought: The person who first built this maze must be a wealthy family.

The door of the metal labyrinth, the metal symbols that emerged on the surface, can maintain the operation of supernatural energy after such a long period of time, without stagnation or damage, which fully demonstrates the elemental conductivity of the door itself. Incredible.

In other words, this door is an excellent elemental energy carrier and a precious raw material of rare metals.

Just imagine, such a large metal door, and even such a large maze, are all cast out of the same metal material. If it is dismantled and made into a high-quality trapping ball, or a magic artifact, How much is that worth?

Who is the prodigal who built a labyrinth with this top element conduction metal?

Cao Yan already had an idea for opening the door of the maze.

Although the opening structure of this door is complicated, the difficulty is similar to that of the outer barriers of the ancient continent, and it is not far from the barrier to Cao Yan.

He walked to the door and shot without hesitation. In the next half an hour, after trying several times, he found some patterns.

When the sun was high and the time came to around ten o'clock in the morning, Cao Yan used a method similar to opening the outer barriers of the ancient continent, and successfully offset the energy operation system inside the gate by means of hedging elemental energy.

Eliminating the supernatural energy inside the door, Cao Yan touched the raised metal symbols on the door one by one, like opening a combination lock. Soon after, the door trembled slightly. The sound of the ancient machine button stopped several times in the process, as if it was in disrepair, and finally slid open to the sides, revealing a dark passage behind the door.

Cao Yan's ability to open this door was not beyond Qiao Zuo's expectations. After all, Cao Yan had already coquettishly opened the outer barriers of the ancient continent before, and his status as a top scholar in semiotics had long been revealed.

Seeing Cao Yan open the door, Wei Jicheng had mixed feelings in his heart: This kid's ability in semiotics can't be concealed even if he wants to, what should we do...

The door opened, Cao Yan stood by the door consciously, and did not go inside.

Sure enough, Qiao Zuo said in the next moment: "Cao Yan, you retreat to the back first, let the action team go in to explore the way, and find out what's going on."

The members of the surrounding associations released their magic pets one after another, and they explored the maze passage behind the door like wolves and tigers.

In a corner that no one noticed, a group of ants hid under the soil layer and crawled into the maze passage.

"Cao Yan, the evolution of the ant colony has changed a lot in terms of ability. You can send more ants to the ancient battlefield, which will help your attendants climb to the summit of the Bone Mountain." False system Say it out loud.

Cao Yan opened the attendant system calmly, and glanced at the progress of the attendants on the ancient battlefield.

Even if the fake system didn't mention it, he was going to send a batch of ants to the ancient battlefield to try their evolved abilities.

While checking the attendant system, Cao Yan casually asked: "Fake system, do you know the origin of the metal labyrinth and this ruin? It can't really be the palace of the gods, right?"

"Tracing back the origin of the ruins involves the penetration of time rules, which is quite expensive, so there is no need to try it. But this maze itself is actually a purgatory." The fake system responded.

Cao Yan made a sudden move, Purgatory? This Nima doesn't sound like a good place. He opened the door of a purgatory by himself?