"It's a porter." Moria once proposed to name the bugs a worker bee, but Shuer refused on the grounds that he felt too strong and sounded stupid. Before Moria decided to name them Shuer, she gave them this name first. Although it was quite stupid, once the captain used his power to seek personal gain, it was quite helpless. "What are they hiding in it for?"

"I know that when I was raising the worker bees, I didn't expect that they would be shy and would hide in a place where no one was, and would not dare to have sex in public..."

"Call the porters, and they are mutated from cocoons and cannot produce small insects." Shuer cruelly interrupted Lin Jing's association, and saw more than a dozen porters slowly climbing out of the target building. Compared to what he saw before, they were bigger, or a lot fatter, and even their movements became a little slow.

"Of course they can't give birth if they don't mate. Are they working hard?" While talking nonsense, the two of them stared at the porter's movements. Their actions were not going well. There were bugs in the target building, which was not beyond their expectations, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they were still a little disappointed.

Moreover, compared with the number of life breath sensed in the building, there are very few bugs, and there are at least dozens of times the bugs in front of you. Thousands of bugs larger than human heads are entrenched in a building. Thinking about it makes people feel numb, just like hell on earth.

The chubby porter passed by the two and climbed to the supporter of the only nest building dozens of meters away. In their surprised eyes, they pressed their abdomen covered with dense holes onto the supporter, and then stopped moving.

"What are you doing? Imagine that you are strengthening..."

"I don't think there will be bugs who have special interest in a building." Before Moria could say anything, Shuer guessed her bad words and quickly stopped her. "Is it my illusion? They seem to be shrinking, just like a balloon is deflated."

"It's not an illusion, I saw it too." Moria affirmed, "I understand that they sent the essence of life into the supporters, so they became exhausted."

"Although your words are regrettable in all senses, I think you are right." Shul sighed, "What do they seem to be delivering, is energy?"

"However, bacterial blankets have energy delivery functions. Wouldn't they just lie on the bacterial blanket?"

"Maybe the energy delivered is special. For example, the intensity is very high, the conveying pipeline of the bacterial blanket cannot bear it, or the amount is very large, and it will take a long time to transport the bacterial blanket, which is not impossible."

"Well, indeed." The two of them turned their eyes to the target building again. The porters came out of it. If they were really transporting something, they would definitely find the answer when they entered the building.

Fortunately, the door was open, and the two of them stole the thief and crept into the building, fearing that they would not touch something.

In the imagination of the two, the target building should be divided into several different workshops like the factories I saw before, filled with various equipment. On the production line, there are still many puppet parts that have not been completed. On the other side, there are huge assembly racks for the last process to assemble the mechanical body.

However, it turns out that this is not a factory at all.

The largest building has no partitions inside, just a giant empty house. There is almost no mechanical equipment in the empty house. There is only a translucent glass column with a diameter of three meters every ten meters, which runs from the ceiling to the ground. The glass columns are arranged in a matrix, occupying almost all the internal space of the building.

If you look closely inside the glass column, you can vaguely see many pipelines of special texture, some of which are still flashing with a faint flow of energy.

In the building, there is only one area that is not filled with glass columns. Just in the center of the building, there is a circular area with a radius of more than 30 meters. There are indeed no columns here, but a large number of crystal clusters drill out from the ground and almost reach the ceiling. From the crystal clusters, some huge and strange energy can be sensed. The energy is too strong, so that Shuer and Moria feel deep pressure, as if facing a demigod powerful man who is beyond the scope of biological categories.

There are dozens of mechanical bodies of the soul tribe scattered next to the crystal cluster, but this body has never been seen before. It is about the same height as that of a human, and is even shorter. A probe extends from its head. The probe is hollow and connected to the body.

"Ha, the guys from the Soul Clan still have this kind of thing hidden." Xiuer recovered from his surprise and breathed heavily, "Such a huge amount of energy is enough to blow up several cities. However, why is such a strong energy not perceived outside? Is it possible to isolate energy fluctuations because the building is special?"

"Shuer, look at those bugs." Moria pulled the corner of Shuer's clothes and lowered her voice, "Don't even let their special habits go wrong with crystals?"

On the huge crystal clusters, there were a large number of porters, with the same posture, they all pressed their abdomen against the crystal and kept them motionless. Are there a few swelling bugs that fell off the crystal like leeches that were full of blood, and slowly walked towards the supporters outside as they saw them not long ago.

"They are collecting the energy of crystals for the supporters?" Shul thought a little further, "and then, using the unknown method mentioned by Militi, to deliver energy to their nests in the air."

"I'm afraid that's true. I finally understand why the worker bees grow into such a strange appearance. The small holes in their abdomen are probably used as energy pipelines." Moria stumbled, "And looking at the appearance of this building, the soul clan also needs crystal energy. Look at the probes on the heads of these mechanical bodies, I think the function is similar to that of the worker bees."

"Call the porters, and maybe it's just for these crystals that the insects occupy the Soul Clan's base. You see, you can't feel the energy fluctuations outside the building. It should be the Soul Clan's tricks to deceive the insects. But for some reason, it was exposed, and it led to a tide of insects."

"Fortunately, there are no crystals in the human fortress, otherwise the bugs would probably have to tear it down there." Moria stuck out her tongue and said with gratitude, "We will be the one who is unlucky at that time."

"Are you sure?" Xiuer said with a smile, "Do you still remember? Wei mentioned a noun several times, mining."

"Of course I don't remember, and I don't understand her words. I only remember a bastard mentioned that he would encounter some kind of moss when mining, which can be eaten as food."

"Haha, moss is delicious." In order to avoid being beaten, Sulgan explained with a smile, "I always thought that mining was just literal, just like the dwarves' most passionate activities. But seeing the insects' actions, I suddenly felt that perhaps what Wei mentioned is mining not only to dig metal, but also to collect crystal energy?"

"Just like the magic tower of Pavatiga absorbs energy from the vein nodes?"

"Well." Shur nodded, "Otherwise, humans don't need to build a lonely fortress inexplicably near the insects, probably just to occupy the crystal."

"But why don't the bugs conquer human fortresses? And, if there are such important energy resources, why would humans abandon the hard-built fortresses? Didn't it mean that they have been abandoned for several years?"

"I don't know this. Maybe it's better for humans to hide. Who knows what the bugs are thinking and what the humans are thinking." Shur shrugged indifferently, "The only thing I care about now is that there is obviously no room for a breaking point here. The glass pillar is really too hindering."

"So we need to find the entrance to the underground part of the base?" Moria asked in confusion, "I have always wanted to ask you, what can I do if I find it? If there is no insect trap, the gate will definitely be closed. How do you plan to open it? Moreover, it seems that the base of the Soul Clan has been shut down. Are you sure the entrance to the underground base can still be opened?"

"In fact, there is no stop. Look, you can feel a faint energy fluctuation in these glass columns, and it is constantly changing." Shur pressed his hand on a glass column and carefully experienced the indefinite energy fluctuation. "This shows that the base is still collecting energy hidden at the doorstep of the insects' homes. If it is stopped, the energy fluctuation here should also disappear."

"Okay, even if you're right, how do you open the door? And it's the bugs that are hiding it?" Moria asked, "Knock on the door, and then say, "Open the door, is it me? Even if the door is opened, the bugs are not fools, they can't find it? Well, they are really fools."

"Ha, I naturally have a way." Xiuer said mysteriously, and began to walk around in the huge room. "According to Wei, several important buildings have entrances to underground bases. Where such an important place as a collection room must be talented, right?"

"What is the entrance?" Moria glanced at the location where Shuer was meaningfully. It seemed that this guy's bad habit could not be changed in a short time. "Tell me about it, I'll find it for you."

"Well, the entrance is hard to describe." Bypassing a glass pillar, Shuer paused, and regardless of whether Moria could see him, he pointed ahead and said, "Here, that's it."
Chapter completed!