Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
While the people around were exploring the abandoned nests, Bai Yu was imparting knowledge about life in Dimension to Han Ning.
Han Ning was also listening attentively.
Many of his knowledge came from paper, and his understanding of many things was too one-sided.
For example, the Longevity Worms and Divine Blood Ants. The information only stated that they moved in groups and that their lifeforms had reached the Origin rank. However, it did not indicate that the individual combat strength of these two lifeforms was actually very weak.
Other than these two types of dimensional beasts, beasts like the Stone Hawk Moths, the Red Spotted Wolves, and many other dimensional beasts were all at the Origin level. However, their individual combat strength was not even comparable to humans who had just reached the Ultimate Strength Realm.
What Bai Yu said was another eye-opener for Han Ning.
While the two of them were talking, the two teams had finished exploring this area.
Just as Bai Yu had said, the nest had long been abandoned. They did not find any Divine Blood Ants or Longevity Worms. The members of the Qin family searched for a long time but found nothing.
On the other hand, on the Sun family’s side, when they were searching the surroundings, they saw two dimensional beasts that were suspected to be Longevity Worms.
However, the two dimensional beasts disappeared in a flash. The team members did not even have time to report before the creatures hid deeper into the caverns.
What made An Bixin the most aggrieved was that these abandoned nests actually hid a type of slender and swift dimensional beast!
They were good at sneak attacks and had the ability to kill in one strike.
In the process of searching for the Longevity Worms and Divine Blood Ants, two members of the Qin family were ambushed by this type of dimensional beast and died on the spot!
At this point, six members of the Qin family had died, but there was no harvest at all.
This result made An Bixin very frustrated.
Seeing that they had gained nothing here, An Bixin could only order them to continue on their way.
Bai Yu, Han Ning, and Tong Bi returned to the center of the team.
This time, An Bixin did not ask his team members to lead the way.
Aside from Bai Yu and Han Ning, a total of sixty-one members had come to the caverns.
But now, before the team even encountered any real danger, seven members had died!
Other than the six members of the Qin family, one of the members of the Sun Family had also suffered a sudden attack from a dimensional beast during their patrol earlier and died instantly.
Thus, An Bixin also realized that instead of sending people to their deaths in such a meaningless manner, it was better for everyone to gather together. At the very least, they would be able to maintain their combat strength.
Regarding An Bixin’s decision, Han Ning did not say anything, but Bai Yu was full of disdain.
This fellow had been tyrannical all along the way and insisted on displaying his authority. He deserved to suffer heavy losses with his subordinates.
Fortunately, the rest of the journey went smoothly and no one was attacked.
Along the way, everyone was pleasantly surprised to discover that the number of genetic origin energy crystals attached to the walls was gradually increasing.
When they first entered the caverns, these crystals were only sparsely attached to the stone walls on both sides. Although there were quite a number of them, the distance between the crystals was very large. Furthermore, their sizes were very small, making them look like stars.
But now, as they went deeper, not only did these crystals become brighter, but their size also gradually increased.
The bigger ones were even similar to a tennis ball.
Looking at his surroundings, Bai Yu couldn’t help but say, “The quality of the genetic origin energy in the surroundings is getting better and better, and the quantity is increasing. I wonder if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.”
Han Ning was a little confused. “Professor, why do you say that? With more genetic origin energy, wouldn’t our harvest be richer?”
However, Bai Yu shook his head. “Don’t think so simply.”
“As I said, these origin energy crystals are formed from the energy of the dimensional beasts’ cells. The more crystals there are, the larger they are, which means that the energy of the cells here is much denser.”
Han Ning was enlightened.
“Does Professor mean to say that we might encounter large-sized dimensional beasts here?”
Bai Yu took a deep breath.
“Not only that, but the dimensional beasts will also be stronger. Weaker dimensional beasts do not have such rich genetic energy.”
As the two of them were talking, someone in front of the group suddenly shouted.
“Look, this is another nest!”
Bai Yu and Han Ning looked up.
A series of nests appeared in front of them. However, compared to the abandoned nests from before, these nests were in perfect condition. The low mounds of the Divine Blood Ant’s nests were gone, leaving only the towering Longevity Worm’s nests.
What was even more surprising was that on the surface of these nests, the genetic origin energy crystal had formed a hard shell!
An Bixin’s eyes lit up and he quickly called out, “Researcher Bai, are these all intact nests of the Longevity Worms?”
Bai Yu replied loudly, “It should be. Everyone, be careful. There might be groups of Longevity Worms here.”
As he spoke, An Bixin could not wait any longer.
A large amount of genetic energy, perfect Longevity Worm nests!
All these were telling him that he was going to be rich!
Arriving before a nest, An Bixin lowered his head to take a look.
The nest was filled with wriggling larvae and unhatched eggs of the Longevity Worm!
An Bixin was overjoyed!
“These should be the larvae of the Longevity Worm. With so many of them, we can extract a large amount of vitality genes!”
Bai Yu nodded after taking a look.
“These are indeed the larvae and eggs of the Longevity Worm.”
“However…”
Before Bai Yu could finish, An Bixin couldn’t care less.
Along the way, all he saw were ambushes and deaths. He was even humiliated by a bodyguard.
Now that he saw a large number of Longevity Worms and genetic origin energy, An Bixin was excited and shouted, “Everyone, don’t make this public. We will come and capture these worms next time. The corpses of the Longevity Worms are hard to preserve, and we can’t bring so many of them out.”
At that moment, most of the members of the Qin family and Sun family had spread out and saw the scene inside the nest.
It had to be said that the scene before their eyes made them very happy.
After seven team members had died, they had entered the caverns in fear. Now, they have finally obtained a great harvest.
He Shengliang was grinning from ear to ear.
At this moment, he had fully experienced what it meant by heavens would not let down those who put in the effort.
The places that they had been to previously all ended up empty and they had even suffered heavy losses. However, now that they were here, they had both obtained genetic origin energy and the Longevity Worms. Wasn’t this a blessing from the heavens?
Joy filled the air. The team members were all eager and they were just waiting for An Bixin’s order to collect the genetic origin energy.
However, Han Ning noticed Bai Yu’s expression.
At that moment, everyone was overjoyed. However, Bai Yu’s expression was extremely solemn.
Seeing this, Han Ning walked over.
Along the way, most of Bai Yu’s words had come true. Hence, seeing Bai Yu’s worried expression, Han Ning realized that this place was probably not as peaceful as it seemed.
“What are you worried about, Professor?”
Bai Yu looked at the protruding rocks and the deeper tunnels around him and exhaled. “I was wondering where the adult Longevity Worms in the nest went.”
“Also, this place is filled with genetic origin energy.. This means that there are a lot of dimensional beasts nearby so where are these dimensional beasts?”