Chapter 425 Mineral Veins and Larvae

If there really is a uranium vein here, everything will be fully explained—and Mongolia has a lot of uranium reserves. Adding a monster that "eats" radiation to increase the difficulty of the game for players is completely logical and routine.

The monster that attacked the Herons power station used radiation energy as food, and only a whole uranium vein could support this guy to grow to such a terrifying level.

As Qi Lin got deeper and deeper into the cave, the radiation concentration in the surrounding environment was also steadily rising.

And on the wall of the cave, lumps of asphalt-like dense ore began to appear—these ores were all high-purity pitchblende, pitch black in color, showing a resinous luster, and extremely radioactive.

Pitchblende is one of the main channels for human beings to obtain uranium from nature. Generally, pitchblende contains 40% to 70% uranium—such a large amount of pitchblende in this cave, if Putting it in the real world, it is undoubtedly a wealth that is enough for various forces to grab their heads.

Uranium itself is an extremely rare radioactive metal element, with an average content of only two parts per million in the earth's crust. In the old days, China, as the fifth country with nuclear weapons in the world, was actually a country that was extremely deficient in nuclear fuel. Although the country with uranium reserves ranks among the top ten in the world, there are not many high-quality uranium mines, and very few can be mined to make nuclear fuel, and the cost is frighteningly high.

Most of the nuclear fuel used in the nuclear power plants built by Huaxia needs to be imported from countries such as Australia and South Africa. Occupied by the hostile camp, China's annual nuclear fuel imports have shrunk by a large amount in those few years, and nearly two-thirds of China's nuclear power plants have been forced to shut down. Coupled with the shortage of fossil fuels, conventional thermal power plants have also failed It became a decoration.

The coastal areas are fine, and many inland cities often experience insufficient power supply. Many times, the city is in darkness at night.

In addition to electricity, the price of gas has also risen to an extremely terrifying level. It is even no exaggeration to say that the gas cost of a car of about 100,000 yuan for a few round trips between the imperial capital and the magical capital is already Enough to buy that car.

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This cave was excavated completely along the trend of the uranium mine veins. The radiation concentration in the cave has reached over 110. If ordinary people are here, it is no different from being immersed in a pool full of highly toxic substances. , but for Qi Lin, standing in this cave feels like a spring breeze.

The energy storage of the radiation battery in the body has long been full, and the overflowing energy forms a heat flow that travels quickly among the limbs and bones—at this moment, Qi Lin's basic physical attributes have fully reached the level of an ordinary fourth-level evolutionary. standard.

Qi Lin went deeper into the cave for more than 300 meters, and finally met the first living creature after he fell into the cave.

It was a small "slug" - of course, the "small" means that compared with the guy in the reactor of the Herrons Power Station above, the length of this "slug" reached half a meter, The thickest part of the body was about as thick as the thighs of an adult fat man, and it was clinging to a piece of pitchblende exposed from the soil above the cave roof, wriggling slightly.

"This little thing... is it the juvenile body of the monster above?" Qi Lin glanced at the little "slug" and walked a few steps further.

However, before Qi Lin could get close to the 10-meter range of this juvenile body, the other party had already sensed Qi Lin's existence, and a finger-thick tentacle grew on his body in an instant, stabbing towards Qi Lin's forehead .

Qi Lin immediately activated the partial metallization of his body, and the tip of the tentacles jabbed heavily on his metallic forehead, making a sound unique to metal collisions.

When the blow failed, the tentacles of the juvenile quickly retracted, but how could Qi Lin let him go like this, he quickly reached out with his right hand, and grabbed the thin tentacle in his hand.

The starting point was full of sticky touch, Qi Lin pulled it hard, and the larva was pulled off from the adsorbed pitchblende and fell to the ground.

Qi Lin took a step forward, drew out the Gauss pistol, pointed at the young body and pulled the trigger.

Naturally, the larval body couldn't compare with the monster above. With just one shot, the whole larval body was directly exploded, splashing with corrosive pus, and two drops splashed on the back of Qi Lin's hand , There was a needle-like pain immediately.

The body fluids of the young body... Well, or the blood is extremely acidic, and the blood concentration is much higher than that of the big guy above, instantly burning two scars on the back of Qi Lin's hand.

Qi Lin wiped off the contaminated liquid, and the body's self-healing function began to operate immediately. It didn't take long for the dead skin and blood scabs on the two injured parts to fall off, revealing the new tender skin underneath.

Qi Lin continued to walk towards the depths of the cave. Along the way, he encountered more than a dozen such young creatures, all of which were blasted by Qi Lin with a Gauss pistol.

This is already the place where the pitchblende is the most abundant, a large amount of ore is exposed from the cave wall, and the radiation concentration in the environment has reached over 170.

After passing through the last section of the tunnel, the cave suddenly opened up, and an underground cavity with a diameter of more than 100 meters appeared in front of Qi Lin.

In this underground cavity, several tons of ore stripped from the permafrost layer are piled up. At a glance, on these dark ore piles, almost every few meters, there is a fat larva lying on it—these larvae Compared with what Qi Lin met outside, it was several laps older.

To use an inappropriate metaphor to describe it, the juveniles here are like the first-born sons of those big families - they are in the safest place and enjoy the best resources in the whole family, while those outside belong to the family. Not only did those "bastards" not get the best resources, but they had to stand in front of these "bastard sons"—when Qi Lin, the "intruder", came in, they were the first to be killed.

The larvae here enjoy more abundant resources, and their development is more mature than those in the tunnels outside—most of the larvae that Qi Lin encounters outside can only give birth to one or two tentacles, and the most one has only three tentacles. That's all, and the larvae in this cavity have more than a dozen tentacles on almost every back, constantly transporting ore from a little distance to their side, and even some larvae will snatch ore situation occurs.