Chapter 61 The Nemesis of the Mutant Leech

   Transaction ends.

  After leaving the Wetland Park.

  Sun Shiqi, who looked resentful, finally couldn't help but started to complain loudly.

   "Unbelievable!"

   "I've never seen such a stingy blue coat, what about the modesty of a civilized person? What about reciprocity? These greedy gophers!"

   "I shouldn't have fantasized about them!"

  In the tavern in the trading center of Honghe Town, four of the ten most talked about stories are related to the blue coat.

Some people once got big bags of good things from those blue coats because of a few words of flattery, and some people went in with a pile of colorful papers to cheat food and drink, and when they were thrown out, they still had a big bag in their hands. The "survival supplies" he prepared.

  These blue coats have almost become synonymous with people who are stupid and rich, and stories about them are often inseparable from the word rich overnight.

  Sun Shiqi never imagined that he could pry open the treasures in the shelter with just one mouth like the rumors in the market. It seems that normal business is also a good choice.

However…

  The reactions of these people were beyond his expectation.

   So much so that he couldn't help wondering whether these guys were a group of refugees pretending to be.

   Will there really be a blue coat building a house on the ground?

  Besides, he didn't see where the refuge was in the end...

  The gunman walking in front looked back at him, then at the bulging package on the back of the two-headed bull, and asked puzzledly.

   "So the deal is a loss?"

  He has worked as a bodyguard for many years, has dealt with many businessmen, and has rarely seen them lose money.

   "It's not a loss," Sun Shiqi said angrily, "but I could have earned more!"

   "..."

  The shooter was speechless, and his attention was taken away from him, and he continued to look around for vigilance.

  Sun Shiqi took out the ledger from his pocket, with a painful expression on his face.

  10 kg of salt was only exchanged for 30 kg of bacon.

  If it wasn't for the fact that there was no plan to go to Boulder City during this trip, even if someone pointed a gun at his head, he would definitely not accept such a harsh price!

   But unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world.

  It is also impossible for him to drag the salt to Boulder City, exchange it for daily necessities and electrical appliances, exchange it for grain at the farm, and then exchange the grain obtained from the farm for meat here.

   After going back and forth like this, it would take him at least four days, or even a week, to say the least!

  The roads in the city are much more difficult than outside, not to mention that winter is coming soon, both humans and aliens are frantically preparing for the coming winter.

  In the wasteland, this time node is more dangerous than ever.

   Regardless of the time cost or the risks involved, it is impossible for him to adopt the detour plan.

   And that man obviously saw this.

   Not only the 10 kilograms of salt, but also the ten revolver rifles and two bags of ammunition that he carried on his body were all undervalued by that guy with various reasons.

Arms may not be worth much in Boulder City, but any survivor stronghold will not refuse to hoard this kind of easy-to-maintain, durable and cheap weapon. It is more than enough to exchange for 3 to 4 corpses of mutant hyenas. Just hire a butcher Sixty to seventy kilograms of meat can be slaughtered.

   That's 70 kilograms of meat!

  It's not too much to exchange 30 kilograms of air-dried meat, right? If it doesn't work, 20 kg is not a loss!

  However, that man is only willing to give him 10 kilograms of uncured bacon jerky for each gun!

  Even though he was exhausted, the man only nodded for the sake of friendship and asked him to take an extra kilogram of smoked fish.

  The **** groundhog!

   "I don't understand very well, but isn't it enough to make money?" The gunman said nonchalantly, "Contentment is always happiness, I always hear people say that."

   "Hehe, what do you know? You can't make a lot of money if you are content with yourself."

  Sun Shiqi didn't bother to pay attention to him, but just waved his pen impatiently, and continued to count the books while burying his head in his way.

   "... These air-dried meats must be exchanged for at least 60 kilograms of coarse salt. No, at least 80 kilograms is not a waste of time. I have to think about which mine to do this business with."

  The gunman glanced at him, then at the cargo on the back of the two-headed ox, and said in a relaxed tone.

   "Then you should be devout and grateful."

   "At least I, who accompanied you this trip, am a contented person."

  …

  130 kg of bacon and 10 kg of smoked fish were exchanged for 10 kg of coarse salt, 10 revolver rifles, two large bags of bullets, and game coins.

   Chu Guang himself is very satisfied with this transaction.

  Of course, it was also a coincidence of timing.

  Winter is approaching, whoever has food will be the father, and the prey has gone to hibernation, and occasionally game can be preserved by throwing it in the snow, but salt is not so important.

  But when the next spring begins, it will be another situation.

   After all, it is a bit whimsical to make air-dried meat in spring and summer, and want to store it until winter without any salt.

   But then again, at that time, will the outpost still need to make money by selling food?

  Chu Guang thinks not necessarily.

  In short, for Chu Guang, the production cost of 130 kg of bacon and 10 kg of smoked fish is only 60~80 silver coins.

  Even if it is calculated based on the purchase price of the granary, it is only 140 silver coins.

  However, at present, players are selling their prey directly to the granary. For the time being, they have not slaughtered their prey and smoked their meat. Therefore, it is more appropriate to directly use the production cost to calculate.

   In fact, it doesn't matter which price is used for calculation.

   After all, Chu Guang now has an extra 500 kilograms of the same game currency.

   "Money" is really just a number to him as a manager...

  …

  Alone, he dragged these coins into the shelter and put them in an empty room with no one there. Looking at these shiny coins, Chu Guang couldn't help but smile with relief on his face.

   It would be great if they could all be exchanged for chips.

   Not to mention power armor, buying a plane is probably enough, right?

  If anyone sells…

  Money that has not entered the market circulation has no meaning.

  Chu Guang just admired his masterpiece for a while, then turned and left the shelter, returned to the surface, and began to ponder over the glass jar he got from the businessman surnamed Sun.

  Ants the size of fists huddled together in a glass jar, flapping their legs and antennae indiscriminately, looking for an exit.

   One of the iron-backed ants facing outwards was the most energetic. It was using its pincer-shaped mouthparts to knock on the inner wall of the glass jar time after time.

  However, the inner curved surface of the glass jar is too slippery, and there is no place to bite. No matter how strong the bite force is, it will not help, so we can only worry about the transparent "wall".

  Chu Guang was not interested in insects, but he wanted to know how this little thing became the natural enemy of mutant leeches.

   You should know that even the cubs of mutant leeches are much larger than their size.

So, Chu Guang went to the fishermen by the lake, borrowed a cub of a mutated leech, picked a strong and vigorous ironback ant, and put them both in the same bottle inside.

   Something interesting happened.

  The mutated leech did not immediately attack the prey in front of it, but tentatively stretched its mouthparts forward.

Seeing that the edge of the mouthpart was about to touch the ironback ant, the mutated leech suddenly shrank back as if it had touched a switch, then twisted its plump and round body, and arched to the other side of the bottle , as if hiding something.

   And the ant is also very interesting, and seems to realize that there is a big guy nearby.

  However, it didn't panic at all. It neither attacked immediately nor turned around to run away. Instead, it circled the inside of the bottle while shaking the tentacles above its head.

  What is this doing?

  Could it be...

  Chu Guang, who was squatting on the ground observing, touched his chin, and suddenly a hint of bewilderment appeared on his face.

"I see…"

   "It should be looking for companions."

  He seems to have guessed the reason why this kind of ant can restrain the mutated leech.

   And just as Chu Guang was about to further verify his conjecture, players not far away were watching and whispering.

   "What is the manager doing?"

   "I don't know, it seems to be playing with ants."

   "I think he asked the anglers to get a baby leech. Could it be that he wanted to watch the ants fight with the leeches?"

   "Gan, why do you have such a strange hobby?!"

   Yaya, who was walking towards the granary with the mushrooms in his arms, happened to hear the conversations of nearby players. His back felt cold and he couldn't help shivering.

  Water, leeches?

  How could someone play such a disgusting thing? !

   This is too scary...

  …

  After repeated controlled experiments several times, Chu Guang finally verified his conjecture.

   First of all, leeches have no eyes and rely mainly on smell to find prey. The same is true for mutated leeches, and because of their more sensitive sense of smell, they are quite sensitive to smells.

  After the ironback ant finds its prey, it does not choose to attack at the first time, but like other ants, it immediately releases pheromone to tell its nearby companions that there is a fat sheep here, everyone come and eat together.

  Although the digestive juice of the mutated leech can corrode most prey, it is almost ineffective against the ironback ant. Even if it is swallowed whole, it cannot be digested at all, and will be bitten from the inside instead.

   Therefore, this fear of natural enemies has almost been written into the genes of the mutated leeches, so that when they smell the pheromone released by the ironback ants, they almost instinctively run away without daring to look back.

   "...The case has been solved."

   "It's really because of this stuff."

  Looking at the translucent jelly-like substance the size of a thumbnail in his hand, Chu Guang squeezed it lightly, a bit like spoiled sago dew.

   This thing is the pheromone gland of the ironback ant, which grows under its buttocks and can be torn off without much effort.

  After removing the pheromone gland of the big ant, Chu Guang threw it back into the bottle and shared the same room with the mutated leech.

   This time, the performance of the mutated leech was much braver.

  After several trials, it probably felt that the smell of this thing was not quite like its natural enemy, so it finally mustered up the courage, swallowed the prey in one gulp, and then wriggled like waves.

   About five or six minutes passed.

  The mutated leech cub, which was still wriggling, suddenly stopped moving.

  Chu Guang poured it out of the bottle and cut open his stomach with a knife.

  I saw that the ants inside had been suffocated to death, but there was still a piece of meat in its mouth, which was probably torn from a certain part of the mutated leech cub.

  This small injury is not enough to kill the leech. What is really deadly may be the formic acid injected into the leech or something else.

   "It's not realistic to kill a leech in a nest."

   "But if you can apply the pheromone gland extract on your body and pretend to be the natural enemy of the mutated leech... wouldn't you be able to pass the mutated leech's nest without injury?!"

   Realizing this, Chu Guang's face was filled with excitement, and the way he looked at the glass jar aside changed.

   Got rich!

  20 kilograms of blue umbrella mushrooms can be exchanged for 2000 chips. If you can pick 200 kilograms...

   Of course, 200 kg may be an exaggeration.

   But a hundred catties should be fine, right?

  It's a pity that these ironback ants are worker ants, and there is no queen who can reproduce, otherwise they would be able to squeeze the wool of the mutated leech nest every day!

   "...you need to find a player with high proficiency in gathering skills to do this job."

  Chu Guang's gaze began to wander around the outpost, looking for this lucky guy.

  Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a player not far from the granary.

   Crow Crow!

  The moment he saw this little player, Chu Guang's eyes lit up.

so close.

   Almost forgot about her!

   If I remember correctly, this player named Yaya has the talent of "toxin intuition", and the blue umbrella mushrooms he sees all emit green light!

  Others have to turn on the light to find the cave. This guy has a night navigation system when he enters the cave. Just stare at the green light and it’s over. Don’t you just get a hundred catties out of it?

  Feeling the gaze from the manager, Yaya, who had just completed the punishment task, was shocked all over.

  The intuition of the perception department allowed her to predict the danger in advance.

  However, just when she was about to rub the soles of her feet and run away, Chu Guang predicted her prediction and stepped forward to trigger the plot.

   "How is your punishment mission done?"

  Hearing the voice from behind, Yaya turned her head cautiously, looked at the manager and said tremblingly.

   "It's over, it's done... just finished, and 100 kilograms have been paid."

  Chu Guang nodded.

   "It's just finished. From now on, your status level will be restored to a resident. In addition, I have a glorious and arduous task to entrust to you."

  If it is normal, Yaya will definitely follow up with a happy face, puff up his chest and offer his loyalty, after all, who would not love hidden missions?

  Maybe it can increase the favorability of NPC!

  However, from just now, her right eye couldn't help jumping, telling her that there might be a big pit waiting ahead.

   "I might not be able to finish it, why don't you find someone else—"

   "Believe in yourself, you can do it, and this task can only be done by you!"

   Never giving Yaya a chance to refuse, Chu Guang interrupted her soft beep with a serious face, paused for two seconds, and continued.

   "I'll give you a bottle of special powder that you apply on your body."

   "It can ensure that you enter the mutant leech's lair without incident. What you have to do is to collect the green glowing mushrooms inside."

  Yuya was so anxious that she was about to cry, especially after hearing the words "mutated leech lair", she was so scared that she almost dropped the connection on the spot.

   "Then that, then can I come out safe and sound?"

  Chu Guang said in an affirmative tone.

   "Theoretically yes."

  Crow Crow: "???"

   In theory? !

  Chu Guang didn't give her a chance to protest, and continued.

   "The theory is just for the sake of rigor. Don't worry, the success rate is as high as 90%. Even if you fail, you will die in a special mission, and there will be no punishment other than the resurrection CD."

   Then there is still punishment!

   The most uncomfortable thing is the resurrection CD, okay?

   Yaya said pitifully: "Can you also waive the resurrection CD?"

  Chu Guang paused for two seconds, selectively ignoring her words.

   "The content of the task is very simple. You have 10 minutes of absolute safety time and 20 minutes of relative safety time."

   "After entering the nest, don't worry about anything, avoid those leeches, and collect the blue mushrooms that glow green that you can see."

   "How much can be harvested before the time ends."

   "Every catty of blue umbrella mushroom—"

   "I will count you 4 copper coins, 5 contribution points!"

  (end of this chapter)