Chapter 108 Although it is a pest, it is full of treasures

  Chapter 108 Although it is a pest, it is full of treasures

  . Devil moth.

  One of the deadly and high-risk alien species in the wasteland.

  Although its individual combat power is not strong, a gnawer may be able to fight it to a standstill, but if it is ranked according to the degree of danger, I am afraid that even crawlers will have to admit defeat.

  Danger factor, at least B level or above!

  This creature usually appears in groups. Its larvae feed on spirit leaves, and the adults are omnivorous and mainly carnivorous.

  The larvae have no combat ability, but the mouthparts of the adults are extremely sharp and have a strong bite force!

  It is said that the strongest devil moth queen in the group can even tear steel. And ordinary devil moths can bite through several bulletproof vests.

  Of course, not every nest of devil moths can give birth to a devil moth queen, just like not all split claw crabs have their queens.

  But even so, it is dangerous enough.

  What is more interesting is that although this kind of alien species is nothing more than a pest, it is not completely useless.

  For example, the larvae of the devil moth will secrete a kind of silk thread called “devil silk” to make cocoons.

  It is said that the strength of this devil silk is very high, even exceeding some high molecular biopolymers, and its material is light, so it is often used to make high-performance armor. This material is not only popular among wastelanders such as mercenaries and caravan guards, but also very popular among the upper class of Boulder City.

  However, this kind of alien species is not common, and its requirements for the living environment are even more demanding than those of mutant leeches.

  First of all, they need enough light and heat, and secondly, their larvae need to feed on spirit leaves, otherwise the tribe cannot reproduce at all.

  As for spirit leaves, it is said that they can be used to make a stimulant with mild addiction. If you just make tea, it has a refreshing effect far better than ordinary coffee and tea.

  Why would there be such a thing as spirit leaves in an abandoned greenhouse site?

  This is what Chu Guang can’t understand the most.

  Judging from the description of brother [Macabazi] on the forum, they encountered quite a lot of devil moths in the greenhouse…

  Macabazi: “Fuck! You can’t imagine how unlucky I am! Brother Bianjie and I originally planned to go to the ruins of the greenhouse to see if there are any good things that can be recycled, but as soon as we entered, we were pounced on and eaten by moths!”

  Ye Shi: “It’s okay to poke your face into the bushes, it always reminds me of someone. (Funny)”

  Ya Ya: “Hahahaha! This person has died twice! Noob! Frog! Hahahaha! o(*≧▽≦)ツ”

  Macabazi: “(#`Д)!”

  Fang Chang: “Don’t worry about the question of noob or not, how did you get in?”

  Kuangfeng: “I’m curious about this question too. If I remember correctly, the door outside the greenhouse is an electric switch? And it has been rusted. Lao Bai bent two steel pipes and couldn’t pry it open. It didn’t move at all when he blew it with gunpowder. We all suspect it was a game sticker.”

  Macaba Zi: “Brother Bian is a firefighter, and he is also a perception system. This guy walked around the tower-like greenhouse and kept muttering to me that there must be a fire escape to get in. I thought it made sense, so I searched with him for a while, and sure enough, we found a safety door in the warehouse!”

  Fang Chang: “Safety door in the warehouse? I seem to have seen that, but it can’t be opened, right?”

  Kuangfeng: “Well, that thing is also electric.”

  Makabazi: “This is the magical part! We tried and couldn’t pry it open, but we found a distribution box in the room. Brother Bian checked the distribution box and found that the switch inside was stuck and the fuse was burned. Brother Bian wanted to fix it, but he didn’t understand it at all. We scratched our heads for a while and came up with a stupid way. We unplugged all the replaceable plug-ins in the box, and then found replaceable parts around and replaced them all.”

  ”We didn’t even think we could succeed, but after replacing a few things, I don’t know if they were batteries or fuses, the light on the door magically lit up! Then we couldn’t wait to open the security door and walked into the greenhouse… and then I bumped into the faces of those big moths!”

  Edge Paddy: “It’s called the Devil Moth! I asked!”

  Macabazi: “Yo, brother Edge is back? Are you okay?”

  Edge Paddy: “Hehehe, it’s okay, I brought the VM back, and my equipment was saved. It’s just that my injuries were too serious and were repaired by my teammates.” Crow

  : “o(*≧▽≦)ツ” Fang

  Chang: “I just saw that the official website has updated the information on the Devil Moth. It said that the silk thread produced by the Devil Moth larvae is a textile material with excellent performance, the Devil Moth’s teeth can be used to make tools such as daggers and scissors, and the spirit leaves eaten by the larvae can be used to make stimulants.”

  WC really has mosquitoes: “Fuck! Advanced equipment materials?! Doesn’t that mean I’m rich?!”

  Canyon Escaping Mole: “No matter how rich you are, you have to live to spend it. Look at Brother Ba and Brother Edge, one is a strength department and the other is a perception department, both of them are LV4, but they just died for nothing, isn’t that enough to explain the problem?”

  Fang Chang: “Well, what surprised me most was that the LV4 perception department didn’t even have a search judgment. The concealment of the devil moth is probably higher than that of the creeper!”

  Lao Bai: “This is indeed terrifying when you think about it, and there are crops in that greenhouse? In other words… there is electricity in it?”

  Fang Chang: “This possibility is very high. The power supply system of the gate and the cultivation system inside the greenhouse may be two completely different power supplies. Let’s make a bold assumption. What is the most worrying safety issue for this highly integrated greenhouse?”

  Lao Bai: “Power outage?”

  Fang Chang: “That’s right! Unlike traditional agriculture, once this kind of greenhouse loses power, it means a complete interruption of the ventilation system, water supply system, and lighting system. It only takes a few hours for the crops to die in an environment of temperature, air, and light that they are not adapted to. So in addition to relying on the public power grid, this facility should also be equipped with an independent power supply. ”

  Kuangfeng: “Well, and the backup power supply for the internal facilities should not be the same as the external facilities.”

  Ye Shi: “What power supply can work for two hundred years? !”

  Canyon Escape Mole: “Are you stupid? The pre-war era in the game background is already half a utopia, right? Controlled nuclear fusion is not basic operation? One kilogram of helium-3 can generate 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, and one hundred tons is enough for the world to burn for a year. What’s the concept? Assuming that there is a one-ton fusion fuel rod inside, let alone two hundred years, I estimate that it will be no problem to use it until the next century. ”

  Kuangfeng: “Even without nuclear fusion, even the solid-state hydrogen batteries that often appear in science fiction works are enough for a long time. Since hydrogen itself is not active, as long as the battery structure is not damaged, the battery can be preserved for a long time in theory. ”

  Ye Shi: “How is it possible? ! Even if it is controlled fusion, the equipment does not need maintenance?”

  Canyon Escape Mole: “Then what else do you want, do you want the game developer to build you a machine for verification? Does EVE have to build a star gate for you? Does JK Rowling have to cast a spell for you? ”

  Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Fang Chang hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

  ”Okay, okay, the setting of Night Ten Diamonds is a dead end, let’s ignore it for now and tell me what you think.”

  Canyon Runaway Mole continued typing.

  ”It’s very simple. I guess this should be considered a monster spawning point. The official website said that Devil Silk is a good thing, and there are also materials for Devil Moth, as well as those spirit leaves that can be used as stimulants. It is obviously a high-yield project. The problem now is how to spawn monsters safely. Head-on attack is definitely not possible. Even a LV4 strength guy can’t stand it. I guess it will be difficult for others to go.”

  The players discussed it for a full 10 or 20 pages, and Chu Guang read it all the way to the end.

  The group initially decided to try fire attack, which happened to restrain insect-type aliens, but the disadvantage is that the spoils will also be burned, and I’m afraid it will be difficult to leave anything.

  Someone also mentioned putting air conditioning in.

  But the building itself is durable enough, and it may not be so easy to demolish the greenhouse. In addition, if the facilities inside are still working and there is enough heat generated, it is hard to say how much effect a window-sized hole will have.

  Finally, after some discussion, a group of people decided to lead the devil moths out of the safe passage, and then destroy them one by one outside.

  When the number of devil moths in the nest is reduced, they will rush in to plunder quickly and then retreat.

  As for Mosquito…

  He chose not to be a human being, leaving a sentence that I am best at this job, and then logged off the official website early and ran into the game.

  Chu Guang didn’t know what he was doing, but he didn’t interfere with the players’ gameplay. Now the active material reserves in the outpost are sufficient, allowing them to be a little bit dead.

  Devil silk can not only be used as armor, but also as a specialty to trade with other survivors’ bases. It’s so cool.

  Especially as mentioned by this group of players, there is a high possibility that there is a recyclable controlled fusion battery hidden in this greenhouse.

  If this is true, then it will really make a fortune!

  …

  The players have strong execution ability.

  A convoy was pulled on the official website, and a group of people went online on time at 6 o’clock in the morning on the wasteland time, and surrounded the greenhouse ruins with a large group of guys.

  It is too much of a loss to shoot moths with a gun. When bullets are not luxurious enough to be fired at will, cold weapons with larger wound surface and lower cost are more effective.

  A group of people acted separately and soon found the structural diagram of the greenhouse and searched for some replaceable parts that had not been looted.

  The round tube with the thickness of the thumb is probably some kind of solid fuel cell, which can power independent equipment such as gates and fire-fighting equipment. The round tube with the thickness of the index finger is probably some kind of fuse used in professional equipment, but the specific material is unclear.

  Not all settings of this game are exactly the same as reality.

  The cattle and horse teams did not participate in this operation. The one who served as the combat commander was the book brother “Canyon Runaway Mole” with a relatively high prestige in the forum.

  When everyone heard that he was a painter who changed his career after losing his job, they immediately invited him to the position of commander.

  Brother Mole lived up to expectations and quickly formulated a combat plan.

  ”The entire greenhouse is divided into an above-ground part and an underground part. The above-ground part has only 5 floors, and the underground part has 10 floors. According to unreliable analysis, the location of the 9th underground floor is probably connected to the paralyzed urban drainage system. I guess the devil moths came from there, and the spirit leaf seeds are probably brought by them!”

  ”The 10th underground floor should be the location of the backup reactor! The devil moths may have turned it into a mother nest!”

  ”According to the description on the design drawing, there is an active closing valve connecting the first and second greenhouses.”

  ”Strategically, we close the valve and cut off the connection between the first and other floors, so that the entire first floor is ours!”

  [Construction Site Boy and Brick] nodded excitedly.

  ”What a good idea! Close the door and beat the dog! Go down layer by layer, and you will definitely be able to hit the mother nest! Those devil silks and materials are not ours!”

  [Elf King Fugui] excitedly cheered.

  ”Sell it to the rich woman Teng Teng!”

  A strength player asked.

  ”The question is how to do it?”

  [Canyon Runaway Mole] tapped the map and drew a cross at the end of the passage with a charcoal pencil.

  ”Tactically, we need two tanks in the front, using concrete waste and wood as shelters to block the devil moths outside the passage, and then two agility players will follow behind and poke out through the gaps with spears! These insects don’t have much brains, they will just swarm over here. If we cooperate well, there should be no problem!”

  ”Let’s do it!”

  The two strength players cooperated, taking the temporary shelter made by carpenters, and set up simple obstacles along the way in the safe passage leading to the greenhouse ruins.

  These obstacles are mainly to facilitate their retreat and avoid being surrounded by the devil moths that pounce on them.

  When they were about to approach the exit of the passage, the two strength players threw the sacks of concrete fragments on the ground and used the wood sent in from behind to build temporary fortifications.

  Those interlaced wood were like layers of nets, supported by several main beams, locking the entire half-meter wide space tightly. It took two hours to complete this fortification.

  These moths are as long as arms, and the small ones are half an arm long. There is no need to worry about them drilling through the holes left.

  ”Everyone get ready, I’m going to pull the monsters in!”

  As he said that, a strength player took out a Molotov cocktail from his waist, stretched it out of the bunker, lit it, and threw it towards the open space in the greenhouse.

  With a crisp snap, the bottle broke into pieces.

  The flames jumped up with a sizzling sound, immediately attracting the devil moths lying on the wall around.

  There was no flammable material around, and the fire did not burn for long and soon went out.

  But then these aliens discovered the “dazzling” heat sources hidden behind the simple roadblocks. A

  tooth-grinding friction sound was heard.

  The moths smashed over like bullets, hitting the wooden bunker hard, and knocking the arm-thick wooden sticks and making them squeak.

  The two sides collided solidly!

  ”Damn! These moths are really strong!”

  ”Hurry up! I can’t hold on any longer! Damn!”

  ”It’s moving, it’s moving! Just bear with it!”

  The agile player squatting in the back did not dare to hesitate, and immediately thrust out the spear in his hand, retracted it, and thrust it out again, repeating the simple and primitive piston movement.

  Although not every shot can accurately hit anything, but if you stab it randomly, you can always kill two unlucky guys.

  The devil moth’s advantage is not its defense. Its soft abdomen is like paper. When the spear is poked, the spear head will instantly become wet, with the blood and intestines of the insect, as well as the cilia rubbed off the wings.

  ”Is this going to end?!”

  ”Please use some strength!”

  ”Fuck! I’m trying harder, but there are too many!”

  ”I can’t hold on any longer! Stop poking, come and help me–”

  However, the unfortunate child had only said half of his words before the wooden fortifications were like a broken dam, washed away by the insect tide.

  Even if the strength players tried to hold on, the bunkers could not hold on.

  The wood was bitten to pieces.

  Soon, the bones and flesh were also broken.

  The four little players didn’t even turn around before the connection with the clones was instantly disconnected, and they rolled back to the official website to OB.

  Since there was no chance to retreat, the roadblocks they left along the way were completely useless.

  The passage was filled with short wails and deafening humming of wings.

  The players guarding the entrance of the passage exchanged glances and looked at each other.

  ”It’s gone so soon?”

  ”I don’t know… but from the sound, I guess it’s gone.”

  The first round of attempts ended in failure.

  However, these players did not give up, but became more and more courageous, and soon started the second round of action.

  This time, the front row became three strength players, followed by two strength newbies as substitutes, responsible for repairing the bunkers and replacing the exhausted players in the front row.

  In the back row were three agility players, each carrying four spears, and a physical player carrying the “Hellfire 0.3” of Goblin Technology, holding the line behind.

  This thing was sponsored by Mosquito for free, and it was free. As long as you use it up, you can go back to the official website and write a user experience.

  It is said that this version of “Hellfire” is equipped with a backfire valve, and the flame will no longer burn back along the fuel.

  However, even Mosquito, who swore to brag about how fierce this guy is, did not dare to guarantee that there would be no other accidents.

  Otherwise, how can it be called a trial product?

  It’s already free, what else do you want?

  In short, if you can avoid using things made by goblin technology, don’t use them, and don’t use them unless you have to. This is also what the frontline commander, Brother Mole, taught the soldiers.

  The nine players were finally ready and headed into the passage together. The crowded formation blocked the road.

  They were completely at odds with these moths and would not stop until they got their place back.

  However, judging from the current battle situation, the progress does not seem optimistic.

  These moths seemed to be endless, rushing over in waves.

  In the end, the 9-man team could not stand it anymore and had to use goblin technology. Before the flamethrower exploded, everyone withdrew and temporarily closed the entrance to the safe passage.

  The battle lasted from morning to evening. Counting the team that was wiped out before entering, the players paid the price of 4 deaths and 2 injuries.

  And the devil moths on the first floor probably died hundreds of them, or even more.

  As for the exact number, it is not clear. After all, in this case, it is impossible to count the results of the battle, and it can only be estimated by feeling.

  The casualty ratio is 4:100+, which can be said to be very strong. Ordinary survivors, let alone facing such monsters, would hardly have the courage to even enter the nest.

  The only drawback is that there is no loot today, and only a wave of the opponent’s manpower is consumed…

  Looking at the late sky, the players who have been frustrated can only wait until tomorrow even if they are unwilling.

  Chu Guang, who was OB throughout the whole process, was completely expecting the result of “4 dead and 2 injured”, and he didn’t take it particularly seriously.

  The great victory over the predators a few days ago made the players a little arrogant, and it is not a bad thing to suffer a little loss.

  Fire attack is a good idea, but the number is a problem, and hunting is different from war, the former needs to preserve materials.

  Maybe you can try smoke next time?

  As the price of growth, a small amount of casualties is completely acceptable to Chu Guang. Anyway, as long as the VM is picked up, it is not too bad.

  Especially Chu Guang recently discovered that the gnawer can also extract active substances.

  Although the quantity is pitifully small, one can only provide 0.1~0.2 units, and the waste discharged is useless and can only be thrown into the septic tank as biological waste, but it is better than nothing.

  Killing the gnawers is not very difficult.

  As long as they are not encountered in narrow terrains such as subways and ruins, even a new team can easily kill a few by kiting.

  So far, more than 70% of the 100 new players have reached LV1, and the highest level among the old players has even reached LV6, and they are almost touching their taillights.

  Chu Guang’s own “Manager” sequence has been developed to 9%, which is LV9 in game terms, and is only a little away from LV10.

  Maybe if he commands another battle or follows the players to gain experience, he may break through.

  A leader of a force like himself who is not only smart but also brave is indeed quite rare in the survivors’ strongholds outside the barbarian tribe. It is

  not too much to be a little proud.

  Chu Guang thought so in his heart as he patrolled the industrial area with a sledgehammer on his back.

  At this moment, Brother Levin from the No. 81 Steel Plant suddenly trotted towards him.

  The little player’s face was as red as a furnace. It was unknown whether it was caused by the northwest wind or out of respect and admiration for himself.

  ”Dear Administrator! I have an important matter to report to you!”

  Chu Guang said, stopping and looking at him.

  ”Go ahead.”

  Brother Levin clenched his fists excitedly and took a deep breath.

  ”Your customized armor!”

  ”We’ve finished it!”

  (End of this chapter)