Sheng Heng flew the Black Soul at a low altitude over the mountains. Every time he flew a certain distance, he would drop from the sky, get out of the cockpit, stand on the ground and use his mental power to explore the ground veins. He repeated this more than a dozen times, flying thousands of miles, but he still couldn't find a place that absorbed mental power more obviously than the lapis lazuli vein just now.

"Brother Heng, the squad leader is almost done, and asked us if we want to go back today. He will come out tomorrow and look for it with us." Cheng Wenkang got off the mecha, walked to Sheng Heng and asked.

"After we explore this area, we'll go back." Sheng Heng took the map and circled the place where he had just discovered the ore.

Cheng Wenkang looked down at the map and saw that it had already been circled with dozens of circles of different sizes, and each circle had a letter next to it. "Brother Heng, what did you draw?"

"This is where I found some places with high-purity mineral veins along the way. Xiaohao will definitely come to Resource Star to collect minerals in the future. He will need this map in the future," said Sheng Heng.

It is not a secret that mental power can detect mineral veins. Others do not know it because they do not pay attention to it. As a mecha manufacturer, using mental power to detect mineral veins and even perceive the internal structure of metals is basic common sense. However, people who can do these two things need to have strong mental power and perception at the same time. However, most people either do not have strong mental power or insufficient perception, so they still rely more on scientific instruments when detecting mineral veins.

Sheng Heng was born with S-level mental power and has a natural advantage in this regard.

"If other people see your map, you will definitely lose it." With this map, there is no need to look for ore. You can just come and dig whatever you want.

"If you don't say anything, no one will know." Sheng Heng said.

"But the squad leader and Xia Liu already know that you can use mental power to detect mineral veins. They will definitely tell you when they return." Cheng Wenkang said.

"Is it the same thing for them to know that I can use mental power to explore mineral veins and that I have a ready-made map?" Sheng Heng glanced at him.

“……”Cheng Wenkang.

That's right. After all, asking someone to use S-level mental power to help scan the mineral veins is a waste of talent. Normal people really can't do it. Only the person involved is willing to waste his talent for love.

"Let's take a look ahead." Sheng Heng said as he walked towards an area with vegetation.

It was a small hill, not very high, with some sparse green vegetation on it. The two climbed to the top of the hill. Sheng Heng released his mental power and probed down along the curve of the mountain.

"Hmm?" Sheng Heng turned around and looked towards the other side of the mountain with some uncertainty.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Wenkang looked over curiously. There was a lake on the other side of the mountain. The sun had not set yet, and the setting sun reflected a golden ripple on the lake.

"A trace of mental power just disappeared over there." Sheng Heng said.

"Is there a mineral vein over there?"

"No." Sheng Heng shook his head, "That trace of spiritual power dissipated before it penetrated into the ground."

"This?" Cheng Wenkang looked around the lake again. There was a lush green forest around it. It didn't look like a landform where there were minerals on the surface.

"Let's go down and take a look." Sheng Heng decided to go down.

The two walked down from the top of the mountain and came to the place where Sheng Heng's mental power disappeared just now. Sheng Heng squatted down, glanced at the grass, and then his eyes became stern. Then he reached out and pulled aside a piece of wet grass, revealing a plum blossom-like footprint inside.

"These look like animal footprints." Cheng Wenkang looked at them for a long time but couldn't tell what animal they were. Fortunately, the footprints were not big, so they should not be from a large animal.

"Fatty, what animal can devour spiritual power?" Sheng Heng asked.

"You mean... Phantom Beast!!" Cheng Wenkang almost shouted the word Phantom Beast.

Sheng Heng looked at him silently, and Cheng Wenkang immediately realized his gaffe and quickly covered his mouth.

The Phantom Beast is the only animal that the Federation has discovered that can devour human spiritual power. Because of this characteristic, the Pharmacy Research Institute has conducted a long period of research on the Phantom Beast, and finally extracted a substance from the blood of the Phantom Beast that can stimulate spiritual power again. Sima Mingxuan's spiritual power was able to break through to the S level because he took a potion made with the blood of the Phantom Beast as the main material. This potion is also named after the Phantom Beast and is called the Phantom Potion.

Since the development of the phantom potion, the phantom beasts have encountered a catastrophe. In just two years, the phantom beasts, which were already few in number, have become endangered species. Later, in order to prevent the phantom beasts from being completely extinct, the Federation sent a large number of mecha warriors and zoologists to keep the remaining phantom beasts in captivity, and only provided a certain amount of phantom beast blood to the outside world every year for making potions. And this blood can only be obtained under the condition that it does not affect the health of the phantom beasts.

"Are you saying there are wild phantom beasts here?" Cheng Wenkang whispered.

"I've been to the Phantom Beast Park and saw a Phantom Beast once. The paw prints of the Phantom Beast are very similar to plum blossoms." Sheng Heng pointed at the footprints and said, "And I just explored it again. There are no high-purity mineral veins underground here."

Without high-purity mineral veins, there would be nothing that could absorb his mental power. Coupled with this footprint, the probability of a phantom beast appearing here was very high.

"Wild phantom beast? Should we catch it?" Cheng Wenkang said excitedly.

"The blood of wild phantom beasts is several levels better than that of captive ones. If you can get some of its blood, your mental power should be able to rise to another level." Sheng Heng said.

"Thank you, boss." Cheng Wenkang looked grateful.

"The phantom beast moves extremely fast and is good at hiding its whereabouts. You can't find it by looking for it. You can only use mental power to lure it out." The phantom beast likes to eat mental power, and the purer and more powerful the mental power is, the more it likes it. So if you want them to show up on their own initiative, you can use mental power to lure them out.

"Then I'll do it. I'll release my mental power to lure it out." Cheng Wenkang said.

After that, the two found a hidden place and began to set up a trap. The trap was very simple, just digging a pit and placing a small electric shock gun at the bottom of the pit. Once the phantom beast fell, it would be stunned by the electric shock gun.

After the arrangement was completed, the two hid behind a big man three meters away. Cheng Wenkang began to release his mental power, and the range of the mental power release was always hovering around the trap.

Ten minutes later, the forest was still quiet. Not to mention the phantom beasts, not even a bird had appeared. However, Cheng Wenkang's face turned pale from the continuous release of high-intensity mental power.

"Could it be that the phantom beast is not around here?" Cheng Wenkang said with a pale face.

"It is also possible that your mental power level is not high enough." Sheng Heng said, showing Cheng Wenkang the information about the phantom beast that he had just searched on the Internet.

Cheng Wenkang read it out: "The Phantom Beast absorbs spiritual power, and prefers high-level spiritual power. Once it tastes high-level spiritual power, it will not use low-level spiritual power for a short period of time. So when feeding it, you have to... In other words, because it just devoured your S-level spiritual power, it now doesn't care about my A-level spiritual power at all. If you didn't say it earlier, you would have wasted my spiritual power for a long time."

Cheng Wenkang almost wanted to cry. You know, he had just released all his mental power without any regret in order to lure out the phantom beast. Now he just felt his body was much weaker.

"Let me do it." Sheng Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Thank you, boss." This is what Cheng Wenkang was waiting for.

"Don't be too happy too soon. I have just consumed a lot of mental energy in exploring the mineral veins. I am not sure if I can lure the phantom beast over here." Sheng Heng gave a heads-up in advance.

"It's okay. If we can't catch him today, we can try again tomorrow." Cheng Wenkang said shamelessly.

Sheng Heng twitched his lips, but did not refuse in the end. Cheng Wenkang was his good friend, and he would definitely help.

Sheng Heng closed his eyes and released his mental power again. In order to allow the phantom beast to detect the existence of his mental power more quickly, he released a dozen tiny strands of mental power to wander in the woods.

About a minute later, a wisp of mental power disappeared silently.

Sheng Heng opened his eyes and winked at Cheng Wenkang.

Cheng Wenkang understood, and he looked towards the trap with tension, ready to rush over at any time.

Sheng Heng took back the extra mental power, and then continuously appeared between the location of the phantom beast and the trap, leading the phantom beast step by step towards the trap. Finally, after the twelfth mental power was devoured, a white and fluffy animal about the size of a cat appeared in the sight of the two.

The moment Sheng Heng saw the Phantom Beast, he also breathed a sigh of relief. His mental power was continuously devoured by the Phantom Beast. If the Phantom Beast didn't come over again, he would not be able to bear it anymore.

Just one last push.

Sheng Heng released the last bit of his mental power, letting it flow back and forth along the location of the trap. The moment the mental power appeared, the head of the phantom beast immediately looked over, and then the whole body jumped forward, rushing towards the direction of the mental power, which was also the trap.

At this moment, another surge of mental power suddenly appeared and pounced towards the phantom beast. Sheng Heng secretly said that it was not good, and it was too late to withdraw. The two mental powers collided, and Sheng Heng was backfired. Suddenly, his sea of ​​consciousness seemed to explode.

"Ouch!" Sheng Heng cried out in pain, his eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.

“Boss?!” Cheng Wenkang, who had already rushed out to catch the phantom beast, saw that Sheng Heng was not right, and hurried back, anxiously helping Sheng Heng up from the ground, “Boss, what’s wrong with you?”

At the same time, he immediately used his light brain to send out a distress signal.

"Someone..." Sheng Heng said with difficulty.

At this time, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the other end of the woods, and a group of five people appeared in front of Cheng Wenkang, two of whom Cheng Wenkang recognized at a glance.

"Sima Mingxuan, Yan Fei?!" Cheng Wenkang shouted.

Sima Mingxuan looked at Cheng Wenkang and Sheng Heng, who was supported by Cheng Wenkang, in surprise, as if he didn't expect there were still people here. Yan Fei, who was standing next to him, had already run to the side of the trap and pulled out the phantom beast that was stunned by the electric shock gun.

"Senior Sima, it's a phantom beast." After confirming, Yan Fei directly put the phantom beast into the cage they had prepared long ago.

Cheng Wenkang's face suddenly turned dark: "Are you trying to steal something?"

Sima Mingxuan glanced around and asked instead of answering, "Two juniors, why are you here alone?"

Sima Mingxuan naturally knew that the sophomore students came here to look for mineral veins, but the mineral veins here are very rare, and even the people in the local base of the resource star would not come to this area.

"We were the ones who caught the phantom beast." Cheng Wenkang was not easily diverted.

Sima Mingxuan frowned and was about to say something when three mechas suddenly came roaring from the sky. After discovering them, they immediately landed from the air and stopped.

"Fatty, what happened? I came here right after receiving your distress signal." Sun Chu got off the mecha and ran towards Cheng Wenkang. "What happened to Sheng Heng?"

"The boss suffered a mental backlash while trying to help me catch the phantom beast." Cheng Wenkang said.

"Phantom beast?!" Sun Chu shouted in shock, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Sima Mingxuan and others.

It was too late for Sima Mingxuan to hide the phantom beast, so he could only stay where he was with a grim expression.