Chapter 174 Volcanic Ash Disaster

In the following time, Han Ning experimented with Egg Pan's other two soul skills in this barren rocky area.

After releasing the original power, dark lines like dark red lava will appear on the egg cake. The body will expand outward again by about 10 meters, and the strength will be enhanced. However, due to the current proficiency problem, it can only maintain about 10 meters. 10 seconds is somewhat similar to demonization.

Moreover, every time he exerts his raw power, Egg Pancake will consume a lot of physical strength. According to Han Ning's estimation, the current Egg Pancake may only be able to release it once a day.

The red lotus breath is more like a particle beam like the silver ripples of the Aoki glow, but compared to the Aoki glow, the power of the red lotus breath is much greater, and the burning flames are like gangrene attached to the bones, and are extremely powerful. It has strong penetrating power and will not be completely extinguished until the spiritual energy inside the flame is exhausted.

“Wanpan’s previous soul skills were focused on defense and close attacks, but now he finally has a highly lethal soul skill.

However, these soul skills are now difficult to control even with egg pancakes. If you want to master them, you will probably have to work hard. "

Han Ning withdrew his gaze, stood up and smiled at the two soul beasts beside him:

"We'll stay here for today, let's go back first."

"Ling~" "Chiji~"

"By the way, egg pancake, can you fly?"

Looking at Egg Pan's huge body and relatively petite wings, Han Ning had long wanted to try the feeling of soaring in the sky on a giant dragon.

Although Egg Pancake is still not the legendary dragon at all, it is just a sub-dragon at best, but it is already somewhat impressive.

"Chiji..."

Hearing this, Omelet couldn't help but wave a pair of red wing membranes more than 30 meters long, bringing up gusts of wind.

Immediately afterwards, a pale yellow halo suddenly lit up on its body, and the dragon's wings slowly flapped, driving the huge body into the air.

"Hypergravity?"

When Han Ning saw this, he suddenly realized that although the egg pancake is heavy, it can control gravity within a certain range and can also control its own weight. With these wings, flying should not be a problem.

He no longer hesitated, refused the help of the two soul beasts, walked to the feet of the egg pancake, hugged the scales on its legs, and climbed up with all his strength.

Although the space on the dragon's back is very spacious, except for a spot on the back, other places are covered with large and small sharp bone spurs, which is obviously not suitable for standing.

Han Ning stood directly at Egg Pancake's head, held the pair of dragon horns that were taller than others, pointed to the direction of the academy, and said loudly: "Yinyi, Egg Pancake, let's go!"

"Roar!!"

A startling dragon roar echoed through the sky.

The egg cake broke through the clouds, and a frost-white energy shield enveloped its back, resisting high-altitude air currents and protecting Han Ning on the dragon's head.

The stream of flames visible to the naked eye passed through the gaps between the egg cake's scales, wrapping around its body like a huge red meteor, rubbing against the atmosphere.

…

"Han Ning, have you noticed that since the volcano erupted, the number of soul beasts wandering around the academy has suddenly increased a lot."

In the open space in front of the college dormitory, Han Ning and Dean Wu stood together, looking at the volcanic ash falling in the sky.

The egg cake was lying in front of Dayan's rock house, and dozens of classmates were lining up in a row, taking turns to take photos around it.

"Indeed it is……"

Han Ning recalled what he saw along the road when he returned to the academy yesterday. There were suddenly more types of soul beasts wandering in the swamp, and there were even types of soul beasts that had not appeared in the swamp before.

For example, birds, beasts...

"Maybe the disappearance of Trembling Peak has caused many soul beasts living nearby to migrate to the periphery?"

"Probably for this reason, I'm worried that the signal relay station we set up will be destroyed by some wandering spirit beasts."

Dean Wu looked at the sky with some sadness.

"And... I don't know how long it will take for this volcanic ash to dissipate. Today's temperature has dropped by at least 8℃ compared to the previous two days."

The accumulation of volcanic ash under the clouds will prevent the star's light from reaching the earth and cause the temperature to drop sharply.

Although Han Ning didn't know whether there were stars outside this world or whether they were in the form of planes as described in the novel, according to his observations during this period, there was still light with temperature shining in the sky, which showed that In the extremely distant sky, there are existences similar to stars, which bring light and heat to the earth.

Just because it is shrouded in fog all year round, it is difficult to see the outline of the sky clearly.

"Gold-eating insects and electric artillery bugs are very sensitive to changes in temperature. If the temperature is too low, they will fall into a state similar to 'hibernation' and their body growth will be greatly slowed down."

"If the temperature continues to drop below zero, even if there is a greenhouse or constant temperature equipment, it will not work."

Hearing this, Han Ning raised his hand and looked at the sports watch he had just found from other dormitories: 10℃

"What a bad time." He sighed.

After a moment of silence, Han Ning broke the silence: "Dean Wu, how many crude oil oak worms have been collected? How much electrical energy is needed to cultivate an extraordinary electric cannon worm?"

"Currently, we have collected a total of 43 female oak worms and 57 adults. After 8 days of cultivation, these female worms have basically grown up and reached the stage where they can lay eggs."

"The substances excreted by their bodies are indeed similar to crude oil. On average, each adult can produce about 5 kilograms of 'crude oil' a day."

"So many?" Han Ning was stunned.

If a 5-kg insect excretes 57 adults at the same time, then it can produce nearly 300 kilograms of crude oil in one day.

"Regardless of how much they produce, they eat more. A crude oil oak worm as big as a basin can eat 30 kilograms of rotting soul beast corpses in a day to produce less than 5 kilograms."

While the two were talking, Dean Wu led Han Ning to the place where crude oil oak worms were raised.

Now, all the scattered soul beasts wandering in the entire southern area of ​​the college have been cleared away.

And what surprised Han Ning was that during the eight or nine days he was away, the teachers and classmates in the college worked together with Dayan to strengthen the wall surrounding the college and raise it by one section.

The stones used for reinforcement and heightening are all made by solidifying the earth elements by controlling the big rocks.

After the spirit beasts were cleared, the outer guardrails were reinforced, which ensured the safety inside the academy. Some logistics personnel who were not proficient in combat could walk inside more safely without having to worry about being attacked by spirit beasts that suddenly appeared.

The first batch of cultivated silver-spur damselfly pups have begun "service" and are responsible for flying around the fence to detect nearby situations.

The area for cultivating crude oil oakworms is located to the east of the dormitory area, near the machining center.

Here, a piece of land with a radius of 1,000 square meters has been renovated, the asphalt road on the ground has been dug up, and turned into dark brown soil rich in nutrients. The curb stones next to the green belt have been smashed, so that the entire green belt and the ground can be integrated. Together.

It has the meaning of withdrawing from technology and becoming a primitive society.

When the two came here, a classmate wearing a jacket was holding a xun-shaped instrument, standing in the cultivation area surrounded by anemone vines and wooden blocks, and gently played a tune. Weird tunes.

Dean Wu did not disturb the student, but explained to Han Ning:

"We call this tune an 'Insect Control Song', attaching mental power fluctuations to the tune to control the actions of insects with relatively simple brains."

"The Insek tribe divides the insect control song into three stages. This is a bit like the musical instrument grade test before we traveled through time. The first-level insect control song can only control insects at entry level and below."

"The second level is awakening, and the third level is extraordinary. As for the higher level, it is not even passed down by the Insek tribe. After all, most of the people who play insect control songs are insect servants. Extraordinary level insects are already very powerful for them, let alone A transcendent existence.”

As soon as Han Ning got the inheritance of the Insek tribe, he directly read the insect master's description of spiritual power. He really didn't know much about this strange insect control song.

I just think it's amazing to control insect swarms with sound.

After a pause, Dean Wu continued: "The Insect Control Song also requires the mental strength of the player. Those who have a certain amount of mental strength, but have not entered the first level, can only control the existence of the highest awakening level. Only those who have reached the first level can Only by level can you control the extraordinary level.”

"Playing the insect control song will continue to consume mental energy. The more insects you control, the faster your mental energy will be consumed. If the insect swarm lives with you day and night, you basically don't need to control it. Just play a few simple commands and they can I understand what you mean, but if you want to control an unfamiliar insect swarm, it will take a lot of effort."

"And the tunes used to control different insects are also different..."

Han Ning listened with interest, then pointed to the xun in the opponent's hand and asked: "Different insect master families use different instruments. Is there any difference?"

"The difference shouldn't be big. It's just that some insects prefer the sound of the xun, and some insects prefer the sound of the flute. Maybe it's because the sound waves have different frequencies?" Even though Dean Wu is very knowledgeable, he seems to have the same temperament as Han Ning. I haven't even reached entry level yet.

The structure of the Xun is relatively simple. Although bugs and humans are two different civilizations and live in different time and space, this arc-shaped instrument with several holes drilled on the surface does not require much difficulty to make.

The deep and desolate tone surrounds the gloomy sky, adding a bit of sadness.

Each flat insect with a brown carapace, the size of a palm or a washbasin, was bathed in the sun, as if it had received military training. They all lined up in a row and aimed their tails at a small wooden bucket. Start excreting in an orderly manner.

Crude oil is unprocessed petroleum. On Blue Star, it is an important strategic resource that many countries are fighting for.

It looks like paint, is dark in color, and exudes a pungent smell, somewhat similar to rotten eggs.

Soon, the barrel was filled with crude oil, and another person closed it with a wooden lid and tied it to a bee with light blue wings and blue hair on its head.

A large wooden basket woven with vines hangs underneath this blue-ringed bee, which already contains 5 barrels of crude oil.

"The crude oil will be sent to the processing center for preliminary refining and decomposed into diesel, gasoline, kerosene, and other residues. Due to limitations of the industrial level, the crude oil can only be simply distilled to take advantage of their different boiling points. , distill the above three substances.”

"These oils will be used to generate electricity and drive cars..."

It only took a little more than a week to establish the insect breeding base, but the number of insects that can actually be put into use is still relatively small. For example, Han Ning only saw one or two blue-ringed bees used for transportation.

Seeing that the college was developing in a good direction, Han Ning couldn't help showing an expression of joy on his face. He pointed to the other side of the crude oil oak worm breeding base, a row of wooden troughs that looked like stone troughs for cattle and sheep, and said: "Currently, the rotten souls Where did the beast’s carcass come from?”

"You can only rely on the teachers and classmates of the combat team to go out to hunt soul beasts, and after a few days of fermentation, or collect rotten grass leaves and roots, stir these things together, and add a certain amount of insect crystals, it becomes Crude oil is what oakworms like to eat.”

"They don't like to eat ordinary fresh blood food. They have to eat smelly and rotten food."

As they talked, in the breeding area, after the crude oil oakworms excreted, under the influence of Xunqu, they began to fly and jump around their companions, as if they were dancing and entertaining.

"Although he is a tool bug, proper physical exercise can also increase the output rate of crude oil." Dean Wu smiled when he saw this scene.

After seeing the crude oil oak worm breeding base, Dean Wu and Han Ning walked to a smaller area outside Building D, where electric cannon worms were cultivated.

The Electric Cannon Insect Breeding Base is located 20 meters deep underground. The foundation of this place was originally transformed by Egg Pancake and Big Rock. Along the simple and compacted soil stairs all the way down, the buzzing sound of vibrating wings and the power of electricity can be heard in your ears. The loud noise produced by the machine.

A total of 5 diesel generators are placed side by side 3 meters underground, and the surrounding area has been waterproofed and rainproofed.

"The power of these five generators is not very large, about 100kw. One generator consumes about 20 kilograms of diesel per hour, and five generators are 100 kilograms. They can convert a total of 500 kilowatt hours of electricity."

"The electric energy consumed by a female electric cannon bug in a day is about 50 degrees. With the help of insect crystals, the first batch of female electric cannon bugs are about to enter the growth stage, that is, the entry level. I estimate that in the growth stage, they consume The power will increase again.”

"Not even entry-level, 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity a day... is still acceptable." Han Ning calculated and found that even if the power increased by 10 times, with the current strength of the college, it could still barely afford to raise them.

As long as the number of crude oil oak worms is increased, it is easy to raise a dozen electric cannon worms.

Just as the two were about to walk down the dirt steps to take a look at the electric cannon bugs.

Outside, there was suddenly a burst of noise.

The two looked at each other and quickly walked to the ground.

A gray-black raindrop wrapped in volcanic ash clicked, but Han Ning raised his hand to block it. .

In the gloomy night sky, a patter of "black rain" began to fall.