Sheng Heng flew the black soul at low altitude over the mountains. Every time he flew a certain distance, he would fall from the sky, come out from the cockpit, and stand on the ground to use his mental strength to explore the land veins. After repeating this more than a dozen times, even after flying thousands of miles, he couldn't find a place where the absorption of spiritual power was more obvious than the lapis lazuli vein just now.
"Brother Heng, the squad leader is almost done. He asked us if we want to go back today, and he will come out to look for it with us tomorrow." Cheng Wenkang got off the mech, walked to Sheng Heng and asked.
"After exploring this area, we will go back." Sheng Heng took the map and circled the place where he noticed the ore just now with a pen.
Cheng Wenkang looked down at the map, and saw that there were more than a dozen circles, large and small, and each circle was marked with letters: "Brother Heng, what are you drawing?" "This is me
. Along the way, I found a place where there may be high-purity ore veins, Xiao Hao will definitely come to Resource Star to collect ores in the future, and he will use this map in the future." Sheng Heng said.
It's not a secret that mental power can detect mineral veins. Others don't know it because they don't pay attention. As a mech maker, it's basic common sense to use mental power to detect mineral veins and even perceive the internal structure of metal. It's just that people who can do these two things need to have strong mental power and perception at the same time. It's just that most people either don't have strong mental power or don't have enough perception, so they still rely more on scientific instruments when exploring mineral veins.
Sheng Heng is born with S-level mental power, and has a natural advantage in this regard.
"If your map is seen by other people, it will definitely not be kept." With this map, if you want to find any ore, just come and dig it.
"If you don't talk too much, who will know." Sheng Heng said.
"But the squad leader and Xia Liu already know about the fact that you can use your mental power to explore the mine veins, and they will definitely tell you when they go back." Cheng Wenkang said.
"Is it a matter of time before they know that I will use my mental power to explore mine veins, and that I have a ready-made map?" Sheng Heng glanced at him.
"..." Cheng Wenkang.
That's right, after all, asking people to use S-level mental power to help scan mine veins is too reckless, and normal people really can't do it. Only the person involved is willing to waste his talent for love.
"Go to the front and have a look." As he said, Sheng Heng walked to a place with vegetation in front.
It was a hill, not high, with some green vegetation sparsely distributed on it. The two climbed up to the top of the hill, and Sheng Heng let go of his mental strength, and followed the curvature of the mountain to probe down.
"Huh?" Sheng Heng turned around, looking at the other side of the mountain with some uncertainty.
"What's the matter?" Cheng Wenkang looked over curiously. There was a lake on the other side of the mountain. At this time, the sun had not yet set, and the setting sun reflected a golden wave of light on the reflection of the lake.
"Just now a ray of mental power disappeared over there." Sheng Heng said.
"Is there a mineral vein over there?"
"No." Sheng Heng shook his head, "That ray of spiritual power dissipated before it penetrated into the ground." "
This?" Cheng Wenkang looked around the lake again. Surrounding it is a rather luxuriant forest, lush green, it really doesn't look like a landform where ore exists on the surface.
"Go down and have a look." Sheng Heng still decided to go down.
The two walked down from the top of the mountain and came to the place where Sheng Heng's mental power disappeared just now. Sheng Heng squatted down, his eyes swept around the grass, and then his eyes froze. The green grass, revealing a plum blossom-like footprint inside.
"This seems to be the footprint of an animal." Cheng Wenkang looked at it for a long time, but couldn't tell what kind of animal it was. Fortunately, the footprint was not big, so it shouldn't be a large animal.
"Fatty, what animal can devour mental power?" Sheng Heng asked.
"You mean... phantom spirit beast!!" Cheng Wenkang almost shouted out the word phantom spirit beast.
Sheng Heng glanced at him silently, and Cheng Wenkang immediately realized his gaffe, and quickly covered his mouth.
Phantom spirit beasts are the only animals found by the federation that can devour human spiritual power. Because of this characteristic, the Institute of Pharmacy has conducted research on phantom spirit beasts for a long time, and finally extracted the phantom spirit beasts from their blood. A material that can re-stimulate spiritual power. Sima Mingxuan's mental strength was able to break through to S rank because he took a potion made from phantom spirit beast blood as the main material. And this potion, also named after the phantom spirit beast, is called the phantom spirit potion.
Ever since the phantom spirit potion was developed, phantom spirit beasts have ushered in catastrophe. In just two years, the phantom spirit beasts, which were already in small numbers, have completely become endangered animals. Later, in order to prevent the phantom beasts from being completely extinct, the federation sent a large number of mech warriors to raise the remaining phantom beasts together with zoologists, and only provided a certain amount of phantom beast blood every year to make potions . And this blood can only be obtained without affecting the health of the phantom spirit beast.
"You mean there are wild phantom spirit beasts here?" Cheng Wenkang whispered.
"I've been to the Phantom Beast Garden, and I've seen phantom beasts once. The paw prints of phantom beasts are very similar to plum blossoms." Sheng Heng pointed to the footprints and said, "And I just checked again, this underground, There are no high-purity ore veins."
Without high-purity ore veins, there is nothing to absorb his spiritual power, plus this footprint, the probability of phantom spirit beasts appearing here is very high.
"Wild Phantom Spirit Beast? Shall we catch it?" Cheng Wenkang said emotionally.
"The blood of wild phantom spirit beasts is several grades better than those raised in captivity. If you can get a little of its blood, your mental strength should be able to improve by another grade." Sheng Heng said.
"Thank you, boss." Cheng Wenkang expressed gratitude.
"Phantom spirit beasts move extremely fast, and are good at hiding their whereabouts. You can't find them if you look for them. You can only use spiritual power to lure them out." Phantom spirit beasts like to eat spiritual power, and the purer and more powerful the spiritual power, the more like. So if you want them to show up actively, you can use your mental power to lure them.
"Then I'll do it. I'll release my mental power to lure it out." Cheng Wenkang said.
After all, the two found a hidden place and began to set traps. The trap was very simple. It simply dug a pit and placed a small stun gun at the bottom of the pit. Once the Phantom Spirit Beast fell, it would be stunned by the stun gun.
After the arrangement was completed, the two hid behind an uncle three meters away. Cheng Wenkang began to release his mental power, and the release range of his mental power had been lingering around the trap.
In this way, ten minutes passed, and the woods were still quiet, not to mention phantom spirit beasts, not even a bird appeared. Cheng Wenkang, on the other hand, was pale from exhaustion due to the uninterrupted release of high-intensity mental power.
"Could it be that the phantom spirit beast isn't around here?" Cheng Wenkang asked with a blank face.
"It's also possible that your level of spiritual power is not enough." Sheng Heng said, showing Cheng Wenkang the information about phantom spirit beasts he had searched online just now.
Cheng Wenkang followed suit: "Phantom spirit beasts absorb spiritual power, and like to eat high-level spiritual power. Once they taste high-level spiritual power, they will not use low-level spiritual power in a short time. So when feeding, you must... …That is to say, because it swallowed up your S-level mental power just now, the boss, so now I don’t care about my A-level mental power at all. If you don’t tell me earlier, I will waste half a day of mental power.” Cheng Wenkang almost wanted to cry
, You must know that just now, in order to be able to draw out the phantom spirit beast, he released his mental strength without feeling distressed at all. Now he just feels that his body is a lot weaker.
"I'll do it." Sheng Heng smiled and shook his head.
"Thank you, boss." Cheng Wenkang was waiting for these words.
"Don't get too excited too early. I just spent a lot of mental power to explore the mine veins. I'm not sure if I can attract the phantom spirit beast." Sheng Heng took the vaccination in advance.
"It's okay, I can't catch it today, let's come back tomorrow." Cheng Wenkang said cheekily.
Sheng Heng twitched the corner of his mouth, but he didn't refuse. Cheng Wenkang is his good friend, so he will definitely help with this job.
Sheng Heng closed his eyes, and released his mental power again. In order to let the phantom spirit beast discover the existence of spiritual power faster, he separated a total of more than a dozen tiny strands of spiritual power to wander in the woods.
About a minute later, a wisp of spiritual power disappeared without a sound.
Sheng Heng opened his eyes and winked at Cheng Wenkang.
Cheng Wenkang understood, and looked towards the direction of the trap tensely, ready to rush over at any time.
Sheng Heng took back the excess mental power, and then appeared strand by strand between the position of the phantom beast and the trap just now, leading the phantom spirit beast towards the trap step by step. Finally, after the twelfth ray of mental power was devoured, a white fluffy beast about the size of a cat appeared in the sight of the two of them.
The moment Sheng Heng saw the phantom spirit beast, he also breathed a sigh of relief. His mental power was continuously devoured by the phantom spirit beast.
Just one last hit.
Sheng Heng released the last ray of mental power, allowing the mental power to swim back and forth along the position of the trap. The moment the mental power appeared, the phantom spirit beast's head immediately looked over, and then the whole body jumped forward, rushing towards the direction where the mental power was the trap.
But at this moment, another surge of mental power suddenly appeared, and it rushed towards the phantom spirit beast. Sheng Heng said inwardly that it was not good, and it was too late to withdraw. The sea of consciousness seemed about to explode.
"Oh!" Sheng Heng cried out in pain, his eyes darkened, and he fell to the ground.
"Boss?!" Cheng Wenkang, who had already rushed out to catch the phantom spirit beast, saw that Sheng Heng was wrong, ran back quickly, and anxiously helped Sheng Heng up from the ground, "Boss, what's wrong?
" My own optical brain sent out a location for help.
"Someone..." Sheng Heng said with difficulty.
At this time, a rush of footsteps came from the other side of the forest, and a group of five people appeared in front of Cheng Wenkang, two of whom Cheng Wenkang recognized at a glance.
"Sima Mingxuan, Yan Fei?!" Cheng Wenkang shouted.
Sima Mingxuan looked at Cheng Wenkang and Sheng Heng who was supported by Cheng Wenkang with a look of surprise, as if he didn't expect that there were people here. But Yan Fei, who was standing beside him, had already run to the edge of the trap, and pulled out the phantom spirit beast that was stunned by the stun gun.
"Senior Sima, it's a phantom spirit beast." After confirming, Yan Fei put the phantom spirit beast into the cage they had prepared long ago.
Cheng Wenkang's face turned dark immediately: "Are you trying to grab something?"
Sima Mingxuan glanced around, and asked without answering, "You two juniors, why are you here alone?"
A sophomore student came here Naturally, Sima Mingxuan knew about the search for mineral veins, but there are very few mineral veins here, even people from the local resource star base would not come to this area.
"We caught that phantom spirit beast." Cheng Wenkang was not easily distracted.
Sima Mingxuan frowned. Just as he was about to say something, three mechas roared in from the sky. After spotting them, they immediately landed from the sky and stopped.
"Fatty, what's going on, I came here as soon as I received your distress signal." Sun Chu got off the mech and ran towards Cheng Wenkang, "What's wrong with Sheng Heng?
" When I caught the phantom spirit beast, I was mentally devoured." Cheng Wenkang said.
"Phantom spirit beast?!" Sun Chu shouted in shock, subconsciously looking in the direction of Sima Mingxuan and the others.
It was too late for Sima Mingxuan to hide the phantom spirit beast, so he could only stop at the spot with an ugly expression.