Chapter 1265: Insects Steal Food

Ripple's clone and friends were digging ore diligently, while Ripple and Duoduo had already reached the inner area, where they happened to see the sandworms "holding a meeting".

All the sandworms were diligently providing food to the queen worm in the center, and the red queen worm in the middle was working hard to absorb nutrients, and then kept wriggling its body to discharge the eggs in its stomach.

"Tsk tsk, this scene gave me trypophobia."

Lianyi felt it was a bit eye-catching.

"Master, please hide your breath."

Duoduo reminded dutifully.

"I know. The purest gold sand ore you found is the one under the queen insect's body?"

Lianyi continued to ask via voice transmission.

At this moment, she was caught in a net woven by Duoduo, sticking to the wall of the mine, and moving little by little towards the top of the wall just above the center of the queen insect.

In order to avoid being discovered, Lianyi also activated his innate skills, disguising himself as gold sand ore, and Duoduo was disguised as a root that accidentally emerged from the ore.

"Has Lian Xiye come?"

Ripple asked.

"He is sneaking over here. It will take another half an hour."

Duoduo replied immediately.

"We will start when the queen worm starts laying eggs. You cooperate with me to lead Lian Xiye into the sandworm's sight."

"clear!"

Duoduo was also eager to make a move. She was a little excited to be able to trick the son of luck.

After Lian Xiye separated from the others, he walked towards the center of the gold sand vein based on his feeling.

As he walked along the way, he found that the quality of the ore was getting higher and higher. Now he has come to the place where high-quality gold sand ore appears. Occasionally, there is a piece of top-quality gold sand ore mixed in, which makes him more and more excited.

"Sure enough, my good luck is back. This time, as long as I can find the best gold sand ore, even if I don't go to the cave of the Divine Transformation cultivator, my trip will be worthwhile."

A slight "swish" sound passed by Lian Xiye's ears. Something was passing along the wall of the ore cave, which immediately caught his attention.

Lian Xiye's expression changed. He teleported continuously and chased in the direction of the noise.

Then he saw a branch with a small red flower on it, quickly disappearing around the corner of the pit.

“It’s that plant!”

Lian Xiye is very familiar with this plant. He has seen it twice since entering the Endless Desert. The first time was when it killed the sandworms, and the second time was when it helped them eliminate the blue mushroom. Now it appears here again. He feels that it was sent to help him.

If Duoduo found out what Lian Xiye was thinking, she would probably curse him, saying that he was so ugly but had such beautiful thoughts. From the beginning to the end, the only person Duoduo wanted to protect was her master.

"Master, I led him here!"

Duoduo immediately sent a message.

"He is quite courageous. He actually dares to go deep into the enemy territory alone."

Lianyi said with narrowed fox eyes.

"He is so foolish and bold! Or maybe he is just too greedy. He doesn't even bother to dig up the top-quality gold sand ore on the road. I guess he is also eyeing the top-quality gold sand ore."

"The queen insect has started giving birth!"

Lianyi watched as a white egg with a fetal membrane was discharged from the mother worm's buttocks. The sandworms surrounding it immediately began to twist their bodies excitedly, as if celebrating the successful delivery of the mother worm.

Then came the second insect egg, the third, and the fourth. The moment Lian Yi saw the corner of Lian Xiye's clothes, she suddenly released her spiritual sense, and her target was the piece of top-quality gold sand ore under the mother insect that was nourishing her.

The moment the spiritual consciousness enveloped the ore, it immediately caused a commotion among the sandworms. After Lianyi put the gold sand ore into the space, the queen worm that was attacked by the spiritual consciousness howled and emitted high-decibel screams.

At this point, production was interrupted. The queen insect had lost the gold sand ore under her body, and her body had become twisted into a doughnut. She no longer laid eggs and just rolled around there.

This sudden change caused the surrounding sandworms to panic, and they quickly identified the culprit.

Lian Xiye, who had just tried to release a trace of his spiritual consciousness, was in trouble. Not only was his spiritual consciousness swallowed up, but he was also exposed.

Looking at the sandworms rushing towards him madly, Lian Xiye's face turned frighteningly pale. He directly crushed a teleportation talisman and disappeared instantly.

Lianyi cursed inwardly, but her expression remained unchanged. She used her talent as the Phantom Fox to exchange with the main body, allowing the distraction to temporarily attract the firepower of the sandworms while she prepared to remind everyone to run away.

Ripple's figure that was hovering above the queen insect instantly became ethereal and then solidified again, then released its spiritual sense to attract the sandworms' attention, keeping those crazy sandworms in the center.

Mo Shangchen felt the fluctuations in the air around him, and he looked keenly at the ripples that had stopped digging.

"Fellow Daoist Elaine, what happened?"

"That idiot Lian Xiye actually provoked hundreds of sandworms, crushed the teleportation talisman and ran away, leaving us behind as scapegoats!"

Ripple said in a cold voice.

"What?"

Mo Shangchen was shocked.

"Now is not the time to go into detail. Tell everyone to leave immediately. We have dug up a lot anyway, so we won't lose anything."

Lianyi quickly put away the mining shovel, stored all the gold sand ore that his clone had dug out into the space, then turned around and called Du Yan.

Mo Shangchen called Mu Sheng and Ye Qing, and the five of them quickly returned along the same route.

When leaving the gap, Mo Shangchen waved his sleeves to fill it up, and the group returned to the center of the deserted island.

Lianyi was the last one to go up this time. She had already communicated with Duoduo. After coming out, she stood in the air, and the magic formula in her hand had already left an afterimage.

As she cast one spell after another, the nest of the blue-capped fungus was filled with sand. Then she fell to the ground again, her palms pressed against the ground, and circles of green light spread out from her palms to the entire deserted island.

Lianyi's expression was relaxed because it was Duoduo who was really exerting the power.

The energy that Duoduo had previously absorbed from the blue-capped fungus and from those black puppets was all fed back to this deserted island.

Mo Shangchen and his companions felt a pure wood-type spiritual energy spreading out around with ripples as the center. The half-dead plants before were now full of new vitality, and many green grasses sprouted out of the sand. The puddles that were almost dried up before turned into lakes again. The breeze blew across the water, bringing up ripples and fresh water vapor. The entire deserted island turned into an oasis again.

"Master, the spiritual energy you asked me to accumulate has been used up. Do you want to continue? If you continue, Duoduo will lose money."

Duoduo transmitted the message.

"No, this is fine."

Lianyi didn't have the habit of letting her pet pay for her, so she withdrew her hand and walked towards Mo Shangchen.

Everyone looked at Lianyi with complicated eyes, as if they didn't know how to start.

"Fellow Daoist Moshang, you should be able to find the direction now, right? We'd better leave immediately!

All I'm doing now is delaying the time it takes for the sandworms to lock onto us and catch up to us. Our luck won't always be this good."

"I see!"

Mo Shangchen was not a pretentious person. He took out the compass he usually used and determined the direction after a quarter of an hour.