(Two in one) It’s like its trying to break out of the cocoon
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Qin Qi rubbed his arm that was grasped in pain, then heard what Lu Liran said, and couldn’t help but put aside other thoughts. He curiously looked at Lu Liran: “Sand cocoon? That thing is called a sand cocoon? It sounds really vivid…”
As he spoke, he lowered his head and muttered to himself thoughtfully: “But why do I always feel as if I heard something coming…”
Lu Liran didn’t care about Qin Qi’s words, he hurriedly looked at Xian Dan and asked: “Where did you find Qin Qi?”
“It’s on the other side of the sandy slope.” Xian Dan paused, and recalled, “The location of that place is parallel to the forest we walked out of just now, but one is on the slope and the other is on the bottom. It’s only four or five hundred meters away.”
Hearing this, Lu Liran made some calculations in his heart. He has some intention to venture over and take a look while the sky is not too dark.
A round trip is estimated to take an hour to go. Although the sky has darkened now, there is still a period of time when it is completely dark, so he can take a risk.
His heart was restless and was about to move, he looked up, and saw Ke Ji looking over.
Lu Liran paused, and without Ke Ji opening his mouth, he could guess that the other party probably disapproved of his actions.
Lu Liran frowned unconsciously, if Ke Ji wanted to persuade him……
He opened his mouth, and when he was about to say something, Ke Ji said: “If you want to go, I will accompany you.”
Lu Liran was taken aback, this was beyond his expectation, he didn’t expect that Ke Ji not only didn’t persuade him to give up that idea, but directly asked to go together?
Lu Liran reacted after two seconds, and immediately understood Ke Ji’s intentions.
Ke Ji knew that he couldn’t shake Lu Liran’s thoughts, so he might as well go together, and he would take care of him anyway, so he could rest assured.
Lu Liran frowned, and retorted decisively: “No, it’s too dangerous.”
Shu Hua twitched the corners of his mouth as he listened, was he worried about Ke Ji?
He just heard the story of Little Six and the others. Mr. Lu brought three people up, and the other four were pulled up by this Omega, and the rope broke during the last one.
In such a dangerous and dire situation, this Omega can bring people up unscathed, and he still looks like he still has strength to spare…Shu Hua unexpectedly thought of the incident where he was pressed in the sand and beaten by the other party, and felt his face still hurt a little.
If one ask him, among all of these people, the one Mr. Lu needs to worry about the least is this Omega.
Little Six heard what Lu Liran and Qin Qi were talking about, and couldn’t help asking curiously: “Is this the cocoon that Mr. Lu is looking for?”
He spread his palms.
He saw three oval brown cocoons lying on his palm with thin, pointed upper and lower ends, and he could vaguely see something beating inside, as if something’s heart was beating slightly.
Lu Liran looked over subconsciously, and immediately opened his eyes wide: “Where did you find it?”
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Little Six scratched the back of his head, and just about to point, he thought of what Mr. Lu said before—— he can’t act without his consent, and he shouldn’t run in front of him—— he couldn’t help but said in a low voice:
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But then he just didn’t manage to gather up the courage to eat it. Little Six was thinking about it, and he didn’t know whether this food was awful or the barbecue was worse.
Lu Liran looked in the direction of Little Six’s finger. He hadn’t explored that area yet, and when he came back, it was already in the dusk of night, busy with lighting a fire and grilling meat, and he didn’t look at the surrounding landforms at all.
He didn’t expect that he would almost miss this easy-to-reach thing.
Lu Liran heaved a sigh of relief thankfully, he nodded his head slightly to Little Six in thanks, and immediately set off and ran over.
“Mr. Lu actually said thank you to me…” Little Six dreamily grasped the sand cocoon in his hand and murmured.
This is Mr. Lu, has anyone ever receive a thank you from Mr. Lu? Except when the captain gives money! He is the first person!
Ke Ji glanced at Little Six in a hurry, and quickly followed Lu Liran without saying a word.
“Hey Mr. Ke!” The other members of the merchant fleet hurriedly shouted upon seeing this.
“Why did Mr. Ke keep up? Didn’t you say it was dangerous?”
“Come on, Mr. Ke is different from us.” Little Six smiled and waved his hands, “You guys were rescued by Mr. Ke, can it be the same?”
“……” Can’t refute.
Shu Hua wondered and picked up the cocoon in the palm of Little Six. He frowned slightly in distaste, and asked in doubt: “Is this a cocoon? Why do those two people look so excited, as if they found a treasure.”
Qin Qi clapped his hands suddenly, with a crisp “pah”, his eyes lit up: “I just said that the name of the sand cocoon is so familiar, I must have heard it somewhere!”
“Xiao Qi knows?”, “What is that? It looks like a bug, so it shouldn’t be worth much, right?”
Qin Qi nodded affirmatively, and said: “This is a bug, and it’s also a cocoon, but it’s different from ordinary bug cocoons.”
He then went on to say: “I heard people say that this thing is a bug during the day, and it clings to the vines, and it will form a cocoon at night. On the next day, the bug will got out of the cocoons and continued to lie on the plants to suck the plant sap.”
“Bugs at dawn and cocoon at night?”
Qin Qi let out a “wu” and said: “I guess it’s not entirely related to day and night, it should be related to the temperature and humidity, otherwise, I wouldn’t have seen bug cocooned in that area during the day.”
“Then what can this thing do? How can Mr. Lu mind it so much?” Shu Hua asked.
“The bugs are useless, but the empty cocoons are still useful, but their medicinal properties are not many, and they have miraculous effects on heart problems.” Qin Qi said, “It seems that the cocoons also have different ages. The older the cocoon, the more medicinal it is. Well, I don’t know how to calculate this……”
As he was talking, he suddenly understood what was happening, he opened his eyes wide and took a deep breath: “Could it be Mr. Lu’s heart…”
“Probably not.” Little Six was the first to react, and said, “I also remembered what Xiao Qi said. Before I set off, I had seen Salba’s bounty list, and someone had just offered a reward of 5,000 star coins for sand cocoons. I just don’t have any idea about this thing, so I didn’t check it out for a while.”
He scratched the back of his head and smiled naively: “I guess Mr. Lu is aiming at the reward list?”
He squeezed the sand cocoon in his hand, is this one worth five thousand star coins? That’s really amazing!
If it weren’t for the fear of Salba, Little Six would have gone back to pick up some more.
“Go, anyway, Mr. Lu and Mr. Ke are over there, there’s someone looking after you.” Someone urged, if Little Six goes, then he will go too.
Little Six shook his head cleverly, put away the cocoons he had picked up preciously, and said: “No, no, no, even if Mr. Lu and Mr. Ke can go over, it doesn’t mean that they are safe. How much weight do I have, so I won’t make trouble.”
He happily held his sand cocoons, he picked up six and seven of them and brought them back. Rounding them up, they were worth at least 30,000 star coins. As long as he could go back alive, he would have it!
He is not greedy, so he won’t cause any trouble!
The person who couldn’t persuade him sighed regretfully, but he didn’t dare to go.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji soon arrived at the small sand dune Little Six mentioned, which was only four or five meters high. The two easily climbed to the top of the sand dune, then they lay on the sandy slope and quietly observed the low-lying land below.
The drone also rose to the shoulder height of the two, operating silently.
[Hey, I don’t think I saw any bugs?]
[The light is too dark, I can’t see anything clearly]
[+1 for Brother Lu’s eyesight]
Lu Liran couldn’t see clearly either. He pursed his lips and controlled the drone to change to night mode, observing the low-lying land over there through the camera lens of the drone.
In the camera of the live broadcast room, the originally dark low-lying land suddenly became bright——
It’s not that the light has become brighter, but in the night mode in the lens, it is unknown what function has been added, and it can see things with vital signs emitting a faint green light. Whether it’s a plant or those caterpillars clinging to plants, or insects that have formed cocoons.
Immediately, the low-lying land glowed green.
[Damn it, don’t tell me that those little things that glow green are bugs]
[Brother Lu, is this a fight with bugs!!!!]
[Good guy, have you fallen into a bug nest?]
[I’ll go, it’s already like this in here, I can’t imagine what the medical brother saw]
Lu Liran squinted his eyes, and whispered to Ke Ji: “Don’t touch those bugs, or cocoons with bugs, just pick up empty cocoons.”
Ke Ji nodded in response.
No one knows when those cocoons with bugs will come out suddenly, but it may not be until daytime. Maybe when the heat is high and the temperature changes slightly, it will cause problems with the hatching of those cocoons.
Even though he didn’t know what harm these bugs would cause, he thought that all things that could survive in the Salba desert had their own set of abilities, so they shouldn’t be underestimated.
Lu Liran didn’t expect to have to deal with bugs along the way.
The two carefully turned over the small sand dunes, slowly stepping into the low-lying land, and carefully stepped over the vines, and caterpillars that glowed fluorescent green in the camera.
He doesn’t know how long this place has been the base camp of these bugs, the vacant cocoons fell all over the ground, and Lu Liran swept them all into his backpack indiscriminately.
It’s a pity that the terminal’s storage function can’t be used, otherwise the place could be emptied by him.
A backpack was filled with hundreds of sand cocoons. Lu Liran was thinking about packing some more with his clothes, when Ke Ji handed over his bag: “Put it in here, it’s all yours.”
Lu Liran nodded upon hearing his words: “Okay, thank you, this is indeed very important to me.”
Ke Ji’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Lu Liran’s chest. He remembered that he seemed to have seen a scar about the length of a knuckle on Lu Liran’s chest. His heart tightened slightly, and he asked in a low voice: “You want to use these sand cocoons?”
“It’s not me.” Lu Liran replied.
Ke Ji breathed a sigh of relief, it’s fine.
He felt much more relaxed, he didn’t ask any more questions, and filled his backpack for Lu Liran, and the two of them went back to the camp satisfied.
[This is the first time I saw Brother Lu take so many things 0.0 Is this sand cocoon really worth the money?]
[Now the highest price is 5,000 star coins, so it is much more profitable than the antelope horns sold before]
[I originally thought that the cocoon would be golden or crystal-like, but I didn’t expect it to be a chrysalis of various colors…]
[Laughing to death, do you want another colorful glass caterpillar?]
[Vomit]
[Brother Lu’s mission is complete, right? Did you say you came here to find this thing?]
[Brother Lu’s desert treasure hunt ENDING√]
Sunnyshies: That “ENDING” in the barrage is in English so I didn’t change it, even if its kinda off in the sentence. Anyway, the nightmare is starting. Man, the author likes this kind of scene very much, really. The author wrote the same thing in her other novels. If you guys have read the author’s Ancient Invasion, you’ll see one of the worst way to die there, and its terrible. I remember Mummy Returns again, its one of my childhood favorites, but the way Ankhesenamun die became my nightmare.
Sheesh, I hate bugs the most.
BTW, just to clarify, I’ll use bug here instead of insect. Before I posted this, I actually used mixed of bugs and insects in this chapter, but I decided to use bugs. Bugs are insects as well, but bugs are known to have three legs (six legs total). I won’t spoil the fun, but the author specifically gave a name, so I use “bug”, that’s it!
🇵🇭𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓟𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓘𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝔂! 🇵🇭
¸¸♬·¯·♪·¯·♫¸¸ 𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓕𝓲𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼!!¸¸♫·¯·♪¸♩·¯·♬¸¸
Oh hell… I hate bugs/insects, I’m not ready for this… 😫
The Mummy…. oh. Oh no.
I’m going to wait a while until all the chapters for this horror show are up, I can’t stand horror cliffhangers.
Know that I love and adore you but I’ll be back in a month or so.
Thanks for the chapters!
Not the Mummy 😭😭😭
At least I will have some time to prepare myself, not that it’s enough… All the time in the world isn’t!
Death by bugs… eugghh 😬🤢
Sorry merchant fleet people, it was fun knowing you 🙏🏻
R.I.P. Merchant Fleet…looks like your bug chow… Good luck!
Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🪲🪳🦟👀😳
».. and just about to point..« was just about (?)
Oooh well….. I guess I’ll try to sleep first before I continue reading x’D Even if it’s too hot in here, I’m melting..
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶
At least before the nightmare they got the cocoons so i cand die peacefully.
happy independence day, even if it’s late☺️🤣🤣🥶
ah pei– I thought this was gonna be the face reveal arc because he completed the face restoration process even landing at an extra 3%, the face reveal gotta be soon right?