Chapter 126
Su Jing sat on a rock at the entrance of Spirit Herb Valley, her fingertips swiping across the communicator screen. The dungeon countdown clearly displayed: "Savage Monster World" dungeon remaining time: 36 hours and 28 minutes.
She tore away her previous relaxation, her gaze becoming focused—although the dungeon quest had been exceeded, the most important objective of this trip, the "monster egg," had not yet been found, although the 300 chicks in the space breeding area were beginning to take shape.
If you can add monster eggs, the monsters you breed later will not only increase your combat power but also enrich your reserves. This is the key reward of the dungeon.
"Xiao Jin, next we'll look for this." Su Jing bent down and drew an oval pattern on the decaying leaves with her fingertip. "It's a monster egg, complete and alive. Can you sense it?"
The little golden cat in her arms immediately sat up, its short golden fur standing on end, its nose twitching rapidly, and its black grape-like eyes filled with seriousness. It nodded at Su Jing (as if it had learned a human action).
Then he jumped down from her arms and began to carefully explore the route around the Spirit Herb Valley. Every three steps he would stop and sniff the ground, and his little paws would dig up suspicious piles of decaying leaves.
Su Jing then reassigned tasks to the robots: "Number 1 and Number 2, continue to collect scattered spiritual herbs along the way, prioritizing the high-level varieties that were previously marked. There's no need to count the quantity; just dig them up and put them directly into your space."
Numbers 3 and 4 are responsible for guarding the area, focusing on the northwest direction (the area where the ferocious beast king appeared before), and the scanning radius is expanded to 10 meters;
Number 5 stayed by my side, ready to put the monster eggs in the incubation box at any time. The box was lined with temperature-regulating cotton beforehand.
The robot simultaneously popped up a "command received successfully" message, and robots 1 and 2 immediately deployed their robotic arms. The sponge claws precisely gripped a gathering grass hidden under the tree roots, taking it and the soil into the space.
The scanning beam of No. 3 moved quickly across the ground, and pale red spots of light swept across every depression where eggs might be hidden.
After following Xiao Jin for about 20 minutes, the robot had collected most of the scattered medicinal herbs along the way. The space notification showed that the herb storage area was saturated and the temporary storage area was automatically expanded. However, Su Jing was not distracted—her attention was entirely on Xiao Jin's actions.
Little Jin suddenly stopped in front of a bush, making rapid "squeaks" towards the inside, pointing its little paws into the depths of the bush, its tail still trembling slightly, clearly having made a discovery.
Su Jing instructed Robot No. 5 to activate its powerful beam, which illuminated the bushes—inside was only a nest of first-tier gray rabbit demon cubs, with no demon beast eggs. Upon seeing this, Xiao Jin's ears drooped instantly, like a child who had done something wrong, and it rubbed against Su Jing's trouser leg.
"It's alright, let's keep looking. You've already done a great job."
Su Jing patted Xiao Jin's head and took out a spirit herb seed from her spatial storage to feed it. At this moment, a familiar low murmur came from afar—it was the fourth-tier spirit fox she had helped before. It was standing under an ancient tree not far away, calling out twice in Su Jing's direction, then turning around and running a few steps in the northeast, turning back to signal her to follow.
"It might know where it is!" Su Jing's eyes lit up, and she followed the spirit fox. Xiao Jin also perked up immediately, hopping and skipping behind the spirit fox, as if it had an extra "guide".
The fox spirit led them to a relatively open woodland, where the trees were spaced further apart, the layer of decaying leaves on the ground was thinner, and the exposed bluestone slabs could be vaguely seen.
The fox called out twice to a blue stone slab, then swept its tail across the edge of the slab—beneath the slab was a small crack, from which a faint warmth emanated, unlike the coolness of the spirit herbs, but rather carried the warmth of life.
Su Jing instructed Robot No. 3 to use scanning light to detect, and the screen immediately popped up with the message: "[Weak life fluctuations detected, type: oviparous organism, location: 1 meter below the bluestone slab, no danger signal]".
"Carefully move the stone slab, don't shake what's underneath." Su Jing pressed down on the mechanical arm of Robot No. 1, adjusting its force parameters—the force was a bit too strong when lifting the stone slab before, this time it should be gentler. The mechanical arm slowly gripped the edge of the stone slab and lifted it upwards at a speed of 0.5 meters per minute. Sure enough, a shallow pit was revealed under the stone slab. The pit was lined with soft dry grass, but it was empty. Only the lingering warmth on the dry grass proved that there had once been a monster egg here.
"It must have been moved by the mother beast." Su Jing was not discouraged. The fact that the spirit fox could find this place meant that there must be a monster's nest nearby. She thanked the spirit fox, which hummed softly, turned around and left to continue taking care of its cubs.
Little Gold didn't give up. It lay down beside the shallow pit, sniffing the dry grass for a long time, and then suddenly raised its head and ran towards the northeast hillside—that was the area where the fifth-tier rock sheep it had helped before roamed. There were many natural stone caves on the hillside, which were likely the lairs of rock sheep or other monsters.
Su Jing immediately followed. The incubation box of robot No. 5 had been opened, and the temperature-controlled cotton was laid flat inside the box, just waiting to be used to store the monster eggs they had found.
Along the way, Robot No. 3 suddenly popped up with the message: "[Detected traces of activity of a second-tier friendly monster, 'Grass Protector Rabbit', no danger]". The Grass Protector Rabbit was holding a spirit herb seed. When it saw Su Jing and her group, it took the initiative to make way and even pointed to a stone cave on the hillside (with its short ears).
Su Jing was secretly delighted—how many times had she been helped by a friendly monster? The goodwill she had accumulated before had now become the most useful "clue".
She quickened her pace, following Xiao Jin towards the cave. Robot No. 3's scanning beam had already locked onto the cave, and three oval-shaped life fluctuations were faintly visible on the screen. Su Jing's heartbeat quickened slightly—the target was very likely inside.
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