Chapter 34

While Qi Heng was on his way back to District 49.

The blue-tailed butterfly accepted his instructions and flew across the wilderness at night. After concealing its own light, it seemed to blend into the darkness.

It followed the Lord's order and flew into a mine entrance yesterday. In the dark tunnel under the mine, it sensed the breath left by the Lord, and finally flew to the abandoned mine tunnel No. 1.

The spiritual fluctuations belonging to the blue-tailed butterfly vibrated, and the gray grid connected to it in the abandoned mine tunnel was the first to sense this fluctuation, so the huge rock blocking the road was moved away to reveal a gap large enough for the blue-tailed butterfly to enter and exit freely.

Among the thousand mining bug engineers, only Gray Grid was qualified to contact the Blue-Tailed Butterfly. It moved its body closer to the Blue-Tailed Butterfly, and then learned its mission from the Blue-Tailed Butterfly.

Without hesitation, Huige selected three hundred adult mining bugs from the ones digging ore, and headed to the mine tunnel where he had taken the Lord. Then, following the instructions of the blue-tailed butterfly, he determined the digging direction.

Considering the mining speed of the Miner Bugs and the total number of Miner Bugs here, even if the underground tunnel digging is a bit tortuous, it will definitely not take too long.

After all, the order Huige received was "suspend ore mining and give priority to opening this tunnel at full speed."

Within the forty-nine district.

Qi Heng fooled Yan Ning with just a few casual words, and he was not surprised by this.

He could see that Yan Ning's trust in him was increasing over time. Most of the time, Yan Ning would not even question what he said.

But it was precisely because of this that he noticed that something was wrong with Yan Ning in recent days, as if she was vaguely afraid of something happening.

Qi Heng is not a nosy person.

It can be seen from the fact that although he sympathizes with the current plight of the Zerg, he does not rashly agree to A0.

Compared to those stranger Zergs who aroused his sympathy, in the confrontation between emotion and reason, it was obvious that the latter prevailed.

If it was when he first met Yan Ning, he wouldn't ask even if he noticed it. After all, Yan Ning at that time was no different from other Zerg.

But now, Yan Ning is somewhat different from other unfamiliar Zergs... It's like having a half-brother, so it's inevitable that he will give him some care and attention.

"You haven't been in a good mood these past two days. What are you worried about?" Qi Heng said firmly.

Yan Ning was shocked: "No, nothing, I'm just worried that, uh, Lek and the others will show up."

"Humura told me they would take care of it. Let's leave this matter to them for now."

He had been out all day today and had just returned except for saying hello to Yan Ning. He had not told Yan Ning about what happened with Yan.

"That's great." Yan Ning looked relieved.

"Is that really what you're worried about? Not anything else."

"What else do I have to worry about? If I have to worry about anything, I'm more worried about you, Brother Qi, going into the wasteland with them tomorrow." Yan Ning couldn't help but sigh at this and said worriedly, "Why do you have to join them? The wasteland is very dangerous."

"A lot of bugs can't get out once they get in. Brother Qi, why don't you just not go?"

"I have already promised them." Qi Heng rarely goes back on his word. Besides, it was not the first day he knew about the dangers of the wilderness.

Rather than breaking the contract, he wanted to know why Yan Ning repeatedly stopped him from entering the wilderness.

Yan Ning's fear of the wilderness didn't seem to be caused by rumors, but rather by personal experience of danger... or perhaps something had happened that made Yan Ning stay away from the wilderness.

Qi Heng tends to the latter.

It’s not that he looked down on Yan Ning, but Yan Ning didn’t seem like the female insect that could enter the wilderness and come out intact - his strength was too weak.

Knowing that he had made up his mind by saying this, Yan Ning hesitated, not knowing what to say, and finally racked her brains to come up with something.

"Then Brother Qi, be careful when you enter the wilderness. I know the captain of the hunting team is very powerful. Follow him closely after you enter the wilderness."

It sounded like Yan Ning knew Yan. Qi Heng thought to himself, "Are you talking about Yan?"

Yan Ning nodded, hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, brother, my brother once said that he is very powerful. He is one of the few insects that can survive safely in the wilderness..."

"I see."

"It's getting late, go to bed." Qi Heng could tell that Yan Ning was hiding something from him, but he didn't ask.

Everyone has things they don't want to talk about. Given his relationship with Yan Ning, it's far from the point of digging into the past, even though he has already guessed the general content from the information Yan Ning leaked.

After a while.

Only then did Qi Heng hear a low "hmm" coming from Yan Ning's direction.

Then, the room became quiet.

Qi Heng folded his coat casually to use as a pillow, and lay down with his arms behind his head.

He emitted mental force to sense the star power flowing around him. The star power was continuously absorbed into his body with every breath, eventually forming a cycle in the body and finally flowing into the sea of ​​qi three inches below the navel.

In this world, no matter what civilization or race, there is the possibility of cultivating star power. The methods of cultivating star power for each race are different, but in the end they all reach the same destination.

Only those star force manipulators who can refine star force, break through the 365 acupoints and open up the sea of ​​qi can be called star refiners. Those who have not opened up the sea of ​​qi can only be regarded as reserves and are not in the mainstream.

The difficulty of opening the acupoints in the body is innate. For some people, their acupoints are blocked and they can only open a little to let the star power pass through even if they try their best. For others, opening the acupoints is as easy as eating and drinking.

The former is a mediocrity, the latter is a genius.

Is Qi Heng a genius? Yes and no.

Unlike other high-level Zerg who had to painstakingly open up the 365 acupoints in their bodies and open up their sea of ​​qi to gather star power, on the first day of his star power cultivation, the gathered star power automatically broke through the acupoints in his body.

It's not about opening a tiny acupoint to allow the star power to pass through, but about breaking through all blocked acupoints 100%.

The more completely the Star Refiner's acupoints are opened, the faster the star power will be gathered, and the more star power will be absorbed at the same level.

It can be said that the completeness of the opening of the acupoints and the acupoints represents the upper limit of future cultivation.

Qi Heng was even more exaggerated than the so-called genius. He didn't feel any pain from breaking through the acupoints that night. He just completed a star power cycle and opened up the Qi Sea.

This is entirely thanks to the Lord.

He knew this very well.

Among tens of thousands of civilizations and trillions of intelligent life forms, the Overlord is the only one who has been born with a complete understanding of the mysteries and secrets according to the system's statistics.

The Lord had already stood at the top of the Star Refiners more than 10,000 years ago, and his strength was unmatched in the world.

The "Half-Step Galaxy" displayed on the system interface means that the master's original strength has already surpassed the known level of Star Refiner, far higher than the ninth level of Star Refiner established by the Star Sea Council that year.

From this perspective, the Tianjia civilization really played a good hand badly.

Qi Heng couldn't feel dissatisfied when thinking about this. After all, the blame for abandoning the game, which led to the mysterious disappearance of the Lord, and agreeing to the commander's second reincarnation, must be put on him.

This wave is a case of self-destruction.

[Civilization Simulator]...If only this were just a game. If it were just a game, I wouldn't be in this state now.

Qi Heng stopped absorbing star power after he felt a slight swelling pain in his dantian, which meant that the star power that his dantian could store was full.

He used his mental power to look inward at his own Qi Sea and could see a faint white mist filling the entire Qi Sea.

Qi Heng drove the star power that turned into white mist to get close to the black area on the edge of the qi sea. The way to expand the qi sea was to control the star power to continuously erode the black part. This process consumed his mental power.

There is gain and loss. Because of the fusion between him and the master, all the acupoints in his body are now connected. However, because of the fusion, his Qi Sea is slightly different from that of ordinary star refiners.

The limit to which your Qi Sea can expand does not depend on your own strength, but on the progress of fusion.

According to the explanation given by A0, the expansion limit of the Qi Sea opened by the 50% fusion degree in the first stage is to accommodate 1,000 units of white quality star power. Therefore, before his first stage fusion degree reaches 100%, even if his strength reaches the level required for promotion to the second level, he will not be able to expand the Qi Sea further.

The Qi Sea should have continued to expand with strength, but now the degree of fusion is like a lock that locks the upper limit of the door. Only by opening the lock can the Qi Sea be expanded to a higher level.

However, this restriction is still a distant possibility for Qi Heng.

His current Qi Sea can only accommodate 90 units of star power, and this is the result of continuous practice to expand the Qi Sea these past few nights.

You should know that when he first started practicing, the amount of star power that his Qi Sea could accommodate was only a pitiful 30.

That is to say, later on, he used his mental power to control the absorbed star power to expand his qi sea every night. After it was completely consumed, he would meditate to restore his mental power and star power. This process would be repeated several times until he could no longer continue.

This kind of practice can not only expand the Qi Sea but also increase mental strength. Every time he exhausted his mental strength and then recovered, he could see that the number in the mental strength column on the system interface had increased slightly compared to before.

This night was destined to be like every night before when he was immersed in cultivation.

The reason why Qi Heng works so hard is not because he is hardworking by nature. In addition to increasing the safety factor when encountering danger, the biggest reason is that he hopes to be able to control the direction of things to the greatest extent possible in his own hands except when encountering accidents.

The latter is entirely due to his personality.

As an ordinary human being on Earth, nothing would exceed his expectations in life. However, in this unfamiliar world where no one knows what will happen tomorrow, there are too many possible accidents.

This is something Qi Heng cannot tolerate.

He could be said to have a strong desire for control, or be too clever, overthinking, or simply worrying too much, but he simply believed that only if he was strong enough could he face all unexpected accidents calmly.

Of course he could rely on the system. After all, the system was his greatest confidence in living in this strange world, but he never thought of becoming a useless person who could do nothing without the system.

The system is an auxiliary tool. It was so when I was playing games, and it is still the same now.

But the system is so powerful, its AI so intelligent it can perform autonomous analysis and calculations. If we continue to rely on the system to solve all our problems, we will inevitably lose the ability to think for ourselves.

Therefore, Qi Heng understood very well that between the system and himself, he must be the dominant one.

Therefore, in addition to not over-relying on the system, you also need your own strength. If the system lacks energy, it cannot do anything and will shut down when it has no energy. Who knows whether there will be an accident in the future where the system energy is exhausted.

If such an accident really happens, and I encounter danger and don’t have the ability to deal with it... I don’t know what unknown outcome is waiting for me then.

Qi Heng was multitasking as he flipped through the system's database. The database, which once contained the entire civilization from scratch, was extremely large. It was so large that even after seven or eight tenths of it was destroyed, the remaining data was still vast.

Cultivating and increasing star power and mental power is one way to improve strength. There are also other methods, such as the star refiner's use of star power to perform star combat techniques and the spiritual method of manipulating mental power to interfere with the real world.

Unfortunately, most of them are incomplete.

Even with the help of a system, it is difficult to get the information you want. Most of them are incomplete, with only the bottom and no top. Some of them only have theoretical explanations but no star power operation routes.

At present, he has only successfully practiced the auxiliary combat skill "Speed ​​Run", which can increase running speed by gathering star power in his legs.

It’s not that Qi Heng doesn’t want to try other complete star combat skills, but the main reason is that the total amount of star power he currently possesses does not allow it. With 90 points of star power, he can only try zero-level star combat skills... and even if it is a zero-level star combat skill, his meager star power cannot last for long.

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early morning.

Under the misty blue sky, Qi Heng stood at the entrance to the wilderness in Area 49 with his hands in his pockets, waiting.

The female insects of the hunting team came together, and they saw the black-haired female insect standing at the entrance at a glance.

"Qi Heng, you're here really early."

Mo Nan greeted him, holding a very sharp bone knife in his hand that was about the length of an adult's arm.

"Come earlier if you're afraid of being late." Qi Heng smiled.

The period from the first appearance of the morning star to dawn is a very general concept. The female insects in Area 49 have a vague concept of time, and dawn is dawn.

His eyes swept over the eight female insects in front of him and found that each of them was holding the same weapon as Mo Nan.

At this time, Yan threw the extra bone knife in his hand to him: "Do you know how to use it?"

Qi Heng raised his hand to catch it, gestured a little and said, "You can try it."

Hunting requires a suitable weapon. The throwing knife made of obsidian crystal in his hand certainly cannot be used in front of Yan and the others. Using a bone knife... is better than nothing.

As far as I can remember, there seems to be no weapon that the Overlord cannot use, but whether it will work or not can only be determined after trying it.

They ran towards the wasteland at a rapid speed, and only slowed down when they were close to the edge of the wasteland.

Before entering the wasteland, Yan said, "Today we are going to hunt Sawtooth beasts and some small game."

"With any luck, we'll be out of the wasteland before sunset."

"You've been to the wasteland before, so you should know the dangers there. I won't say anything more. Anyway, you need to be careful about everything in the wasteland."

Upon hearing this, Qi Heng, who had been lucky the last time he entered the wasteland and had cheated with the system, fell silent.

"I've only been to the wasteland once." His words attracted the attention of other female insects.

Facing their incredulous gazes, Qi Heng remained calm and continued, "Luck played a large part last time. Contrary to what you might think, I actually have no experience surviving in the wilderness."

The fact that he knew nothing about the wasteland must be made clear up front. Concealing it would only mislead Yan and the others' judgment.

Probably they didn't expect Qi Heng to have no experience, and for a moment Yan, Mo Nan and the others were silent.

They looked at each other, and finally looked at Yan, the captain.

Yan came back to his senses and waved his hand nonchalantly, "Why are you all looking at me?"

"No, then no. It's not a big deal."

"If it were you, you would definitely learn how to survive in the wilderness very quickly."

Qi Heng didn't know where Yan got the confidence from. This was only their second meeting.

"Anyway, I'm sorry to bother you next," he said.

Mo Nan said with a smile: "Don't say that, you taught us a lot yesterday."

"If you feel sorry for me, how about you teach us a few more moves when you have the chance later?"

As soon as Mo Nan finished speaking, Qi Heng found that all the female insects, including Yan, looked over at him, not trying to hide their expectations of him.

"sure."

He agreed with a smile, thinking that this could be considered an initial investment for them.

"You just have to help me keep the secret. Well, I don't want too many bugs to know the moves I know." Qi Heng added. Of course, his real idea was not to keep it to himself and not want to spread it to others, but he just didn't want to spread it and attract unnecessary attention.

Hearing that he was willing to teach, Mo Nan and the others excitedly promised, "No problem, we will definitely not tell anyone else."

Does Qi Heng trust them? To say that he trusts them completely is impossible.

It was because he observed yesterday that these female insects were quite reliable that he decided to continue teaching them. After all, they were just some basic fighting skills, and there was nothing to worry about if they were spread out.

...Having said that, there must be a backup plan to solve the problem. He is used to making worst-case plans and preparing for both situations.

During this time, only Yan looked at him with complicated eyes and said nothing.

"Okay, let's talk about these things when we get back."

"It's almost time, we should go in." Yan changed the subject.

Qi Heng went into the wasteland with them. He was very interested in the sawtooth beasts they were going to hunt in Yankou.

That saw-toothed beast requires the coordinated efforts of several female insects, so it's definitely difficult to deal with. And then there's the hunting method used by Yan and the others.

Well, it turns out that we still need to let the system monitor and analyze their strength throughout the process, so that we can know whether they are worth training.

If the results achieved by Yan and his team's collaboration do not meet his requirements, joining them will only make him further away from his goal.

Qi Heng used Yan and the others to achieve his own goals, but he would not use them in vain.

The principle that you have to pay for what you want has remained unchanged from ancient times to the present.

As long as Yan and the others' abilities are not so bad that they are beyond help, Qi Heng is confident that they can transform themselves into what he wants, and he will also ensure that what Yan and the others get is far more than what they have paid for.

After all, this is a mutually beneficial thing.

Qi Heng's gaze fell on Yan, who was leading the group in front of him, and passed by him without stopping. He looked calm and thought to himself that he must not let himself down.

ahead.

"The activity area of ​​the Sawtooth Beast is still some distance from here. When we get there, we should first look for traces left by the Sawtooth Beast..." Yan lowered his voice and led the way with light steps.

Qi Heng knew that these words were directed at himself, who joined in halfway.

"What does the Sawtooth Beast look like? Is its trunk huge?" He asked the brown-haired female insect walking beside him with some interest, recalling the other's name in his mind, which seemed to be Luo Shen.

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