Chapter 179 A "Guest" from Another Region

The capital city received a message from the border garrison in Hua'an City that they could obtain the mother insect for research, and they would naturally pay for it. Not to mention 50,000, they would do their best to get 100,000 insect crystals and send them to Rong Yi.

The transaction was known only to the officer and a few trusted confidants, and the location was chosen to be a place where no outsiders were allowed to approach.

Two hours later, the officer arrived as promised, carrying several hundred boxes of insect crystals. Each box contained one hundred insect crystals. They knew the energy value of each insect crystal, but since they hadn't had time to manufacture the relevant testing equipment, they could only try to select the largest insect crystals.

When Rong Yi arrived, the spacious room contained only an officer and a young woman.

There was a long table next to the entrance, and the insect crystals that had been brought were all open. Rong Yi walked over and found that most of the insect crystals inside were fourth and fifth tiers. It could be seen that the official was very sincere and tried to trade insect crystals of higher tiers.

Wei Yanqing walked over to the long table; there were exactly five hundred boxes, the exact number.

Rong Yi nodded with satisfaction, "It's 50,000. So where should the mother insect be placed? I can hand it over directly."

The natives knew that players had storage items, so they didn't think the players would leave the carcass of the ghoul in Kshatriya City without taking it with them.

The officer pointed behind him and said, "Have you seen enough of this land? If you'd like, you can just leave it here, and we'll have someone transport it away."

Wei Yanqing measured the area. This room was not only large, but the ceiling was also more than ten meters high. It was probably built specifically to house the corpses of the ferocious insects. He nodded to Rong Yi.

"Move to the back of the station." Rong Yi gestured for them to move to the side.

The officer and Xiao Zhang walked to the long table. Rong Yi reached out, and the next second, a huge and ferocious mother insect was displayed in the empty room, its back almost touching the ceiling.

The two indigenous people were shocked. Although they were on the border, this was the first time they had seen such a large ferocious insect up close, and it was the most important mother insect in the ferocious insect pile.

The mother insect's head had been cut off by something, the wound was smooth and covered with a layer of black scab, and the red lines on her back were dull and lifeless, unlike the shimmering appearance in the satellite images.

Rong Yi pointed to the mother insect, "There should still be a lot of undeveloped eggs inside it. The red stripe on its back is the egg pack, which is full of ferocious insects that can hatch at any time. Because the mother insect is dead, they are temporarily in a dormant state. It is recommended not to expose them to high temperatures. It is best to freeze them and transport them away. Consider these as a separate gift to you."

She wasn't in a hurry to collect large quantities of insect corpses; helping this world get rid of the ferocious insects and paying less in fragments was the best approach.

Xiao Zhang's face flushed with excitement. "Thank you, Miss Rong. I will definitely follow your advice!"

The more in-depth the research on the ferocious insect, the greater the probability of victory.

Rong Yi began closing the boxes one by one. "We're paid to do this job. I hope you can come up with something useful. Strange people like us won't stay here forever; we might be replaced at any time."

After that, regardless of the expressions on the two indigenous people's faces, they packed up the boxes and left.

The officer pondered for a moment, then looked at the mother insect's corpse. "Do as Miss Rong said. Freeze it, and it's best to transport it to the capital within two days."

"Yes, sir!" Xiao Zhang quickly ran out of the room to issue the officer's order.

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The capital city attached great importance to the complete corpse of the queen insect that it had obtained, and that night the convoy was ordered to clean and escort it through the various provinces and cities it passed through.

Yuan Heng was also eagerly awaiting his arrival at the research institute. After studying so many carnivorous insect corpses, he was finally looking forward to a heavyweight one.

In a day and a half, the truck carrying the mother insect changed its locomotive several times, working day and night to race against time, and arrived in the capital ahead of schedule, with the city giving it the green light all the way.

When the top biologists from major research institutes arrived and saw the corpse of the mother insect, they couldn't help but gasp in astonishment. What kind of species was this, capable of evolving to such an extent?

The frozen brain of the mother worm is the most important, while the body is very dangerous, because the capable person who told the mother worm said that even if the mother worm dies, the worms inside will not die with her, but will temporarily go into hibernation.

The two parts were dissected in two separate dissection chambers so that they could see inside the alien female and see how it differed from the male.

A group of researchers in protective suits carefully removed the frozen egg packs from a ladder in a cryogenic chamber. Because the ice was transparent, they could see the worms curled up inside the egg follicles through the ice.

Yuan Heng stood in the very center and used a specially made tool to cut open the shell of the mother insect. Only a tool mixed with high-grade ferocious insect shell powder could easily cut open the ferocious insect's shell.

After removing a large piece of meat from under the shell, they saw thick layers of fat inside, as well as countless pale red dots—these were the undeveloped insect eggs that the man had mentioned.

"Disgusting," someone said with disgust.

Those with trypophobia would vomit at the sight of this, and the researchers present were already very restrained.

Yuan Heng didn't care at all. Wearing a thin film glove, he picked up the eggs that hadn't been completely frozen after two days. "Put them on a plate and freeze them completely. The mother insect's shell is really good at keeping warm."

Fortunately, these are all still in their undeveloped state; otherwise, it would be terrible if they hatched on the way and emerged from their shells.

"Cut half of it off for our research lab; we can't have come all this way for nothing."

After a bigwig from a certain research institute asked for a part of the mother insect's body, other bigwigs followed suit.

Besides assisting with the research, they also came to request research insect corpses for their own research institute.

Yuan Heng frowned slightly. "What's the rush? We'll separate them all after we've disassembled them. Right now, let's figure out the structure of this mother insect. Her body is roughly like this. Remember to continue freezing her. I'm going to the head dissection room next door."

He climbed down the ladder step by step, pulled off his gloves and threw them onto the plate next to him, not wanting to waste the mother insect's body fluids that were on them.

A group of research experts followed him to the next room, where preliminary work had already been done. The mother insect's head had been roughly cut open to reveal the flesh inside, but due to concerns about damaging the brain tissue, only a small opening had been made.

"How about it?"

The busy assistant poked his head out and said, "The female insect's brain structure is completely different from the male's. It's like a sophisticated instrument, and we dare not touch it."

Yuan Heng washed his hands, put on new gloves, and climbed up.

He glanced at the mother worm's brain, pointed to a spot, and said, "I'll take this out, and you get the container."

He acted boldly, taking out several round objects he saw, which appeared to be some kind of encapsulated liquid.

"Extract and pack it immediately, I need it later."

A group of people disassembled the mother insect into parts, wanting to examine every single cell thoroughly.

This was a huge project, and the large team worked on it until after 4 a.m.

He finally walked out of the autopsy room, and his assistant came up to him. "The substance that was extracted earlier has been preliminarily studied, and it seems to be some kind of pheromone."

Yuan Heng raised his eyebrows. "Good news! Let's go, take the stuff and try it on the ferocious insects."

Despite his physical exhaustion, Yuan Heng was energized by the good news.

The trapped gnats were still baring their fangs and claws as before, and they were especially excited when they saw Yuan Heng. The reinforced and thickened ropes were tightly fastened to their bodies.

"Take one gram of the extract, atomize it, and put it in," Yuan Heng instructed.

(End of this chapter)