125: Chapter 125 Nuclear Fire Crystal Vein

The smart assistant's scanning beam hit the crimson strange stone in Wild King's hand.

[Name]: nuclear fire crystal

[Grade]: Rare Strategic Resource

[Properties]: Contains extremely pure and violent fire-attribute energy. Suitable for forging high-level equipment, constructing fire-attribute magic arrays, serving as a high-tier energy core, and can also be sensed and absorbed by those with fire spiritual roots and fire-attribute mages...

[Reference Market Price]: 1 million Credits/kg

Gu Han looked at the long list of usage information on the panel, his breath suddenly hitched, and his eyes widened.

"One million per kilogram? And that's not even counting the market scarcity premium."

He turned to look at Wild King. The big guy was holding the scorching hot nuclear fire crystal, and the surrounding air was distorted by the heat, yet it acted like it was nothing, not even its carapace changing color.

Gu Han couldn't help but pat Wild King's thick limb, sighing inwardly: "As expected of Wild King, still smart and reliable, actually knowing how to patrol the battlefield. It didn't eat all those transcendent crystals for nothing; this heat resistance is truly no joke!"

Receiving affirmation from its God Lord, Wild King shook its head, stroked its antennae, and a human-like pride appeared on its face.

Gu Han suddenly realized.

"No wonder this group of Cataclysm-type Candle-Demon Dragon Lizards were huddled in this underground cave; it turns out it was because of these nuclear fire crystals."

"Everyone, attention! Adjust formation!"

Gu Han immediately issued the order.

"Ant-Fist Shrimp-Man, all withdraw to the outer passage of the cave to provide support."

"Shield-Armored Ant-Men, gather and transport all the dragon lizard corpses on the ground."

"Black-Armored Ant-men, follow Wild King deep inside and mine the nuclear fire crystals with full effort!"

The army quickly mobilized.

Gu Han didn't idle either; braving the terrifying heatwave rushing towards him, he followed the Black-Armored Ant-men into the newly dug tunnel.

The deeper they went, the more ridiculously high the temperature became.

Although Gu Han was currently in the Cataclysm Realm as a consciousness entity, he still possessed his main body's five senses. The scorching heat, which felt like it would ignite his trachea with every breath, tortured him until he was breaking out in cold sweat, feeling like he would suffer heat dehydration the next second.

In front, the rock layers were being crazily excavated by the Black-Armored Ant-men, who feared no heat.

Before long, the soil and rocks were stripped away, and huge nuclear fire crystal veins emitting blinding light were completely exposed to the air.

The red light illuminated the entire underground as if it were purgatory.

The suddenly erupting high temperature instantly swept over the front row of Black-Armored Ant-men.

Rows of Black-Armored Ant-men didn't even have time to struggle; their carapaces cracked directly, and their internal bodily fluids instantly boiled and evaporated, causing them to fall one after another.

In just a few minutes, over thirty thousand were scalded to death!

Gu Han gritted his teeth and pulled out a stack of blank loading cards.

Enduring the intense stinging pain from his fingertips, he used the loading cards to collect those huge nuclear fire crystal blocks.

Wild King also joined the mining team, smashing the huge nuclear fire crystals with one hammer strike, eliminating the need to dig away all the soil.

After working for a full three hours, Gu Han felt his consciousness entity was about to be roasted to a crisp, and his vision began to blur.

He roughly counted the loading cards.

There were over ten tons!

This was only mining the surface layer of the vein; deeper areas with higher temperatures could not be mined with current methods.

If he stayed any longer, his consciousness would be scalded to death, and his brain would truly go into shock and die.

"That's enough, leave the rest for next time."

Gu Han wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his face and ordered the team to withdraw.

As long as he didn't proactively submit the kill data for the official cleanup mission, the military wouldn't send specialists to inspect this area, so this treasure trove was temporarily safe.

However, he still needed to come back and mine it sooner rather than later. With no Candle-Demon Dragon Lizards suppressing the area, if someone really came, it would easily fall into someone else's hands.

Returning to the upper layer of the cave, Gu Han rode on the Earth Rampager, panting heavily while calculating this windfall in his heart.

Over ten tons of nuclear fire crystals!

Calculated at the base price of one million per kilogram, that was over 100 billion Credits!

If the scarcity premium of such strategic resources on the black market was included, doubling that would be no problem.

Gu Han's heart rate accelerated, but he quickly calmed down.

Once this kind of strategic resource appeared on the market in large quantities, it would definitely cause a stir among the higher-ups. Even if he only sold parts of it sporadically, his movements in the Cataclysm Realm were recorded on the software; if those people investigated, they could easily trace the clues back to this place.

Gu Han decisively dismissed the idea of liquidating it.

Hoarding such a large quantity of nuclear fire crystals directly in the Volcanic Zone of his Divine Kingdom was the choice that maximized benefits.

High-purity nuclear fire crystal veins were enough to spawn massive amounts of ordinary fire crystals in the surrounding area. There was even a tiny probability of nurturing a "crystal seed" for nuclear fire crystals.

As long as he could find a way to obtain a "Heavenly Fire" and plant it inside, as time passed within the Divine Kingdom, nuclear fire crystals would be produced continuously, forming an inexhaustible treasure basin.

"Go home and reorganize first, get the dragon lizard Ant-men out, then come back immediately to mine."

Gu Han pulled up the software and directly deducted 10 million Credits for the return trip.

A white light flashed, and Gu Han, bringing his massive Ant-men legion and piles of loot, returned to his Divine Kingdom.

Stepping on the familiar land of his Divine Kingdom, that scorching heat that felt like it was going to roast him finally dissipated completely.

Gu Han immediately arranged the logistics work.

"Classify and process all the corpses of the Crystal-armored Scorpions and Candle-Demon Dragon Lizards!"

Hundreds of thousands of logistics Ant-men swarmed up.

The hard crystal armor, the highly poisonous scorpion tails, the dragon lizards' highly resistant scales and lizard skin, as well as their claws and teeth, could all be stripped off.

These were top-tier materials that could be used to forge equipment. Gu Han planned to wait until the entire Wild Sand Realm was swept before slowly handing them over to the software to sell.

As for the remaining mountains of Cataclysm flesh and broken corpses, Gu Han ordered the Ant-men to transport them all to a glowing S-rank Divine Structure to be deposited.

S-rank Divine Structure [Bean Planting, Melon Harvesting].

This was a rare facility he had previously looted from the Divine Kingdom of that Cyst Demon demigod.

Any flesh, corpses, remains, or even essence blood put into it could be completely converted into gentle and untainted pure heaven and earth nutrients.

It could nourish the earth veins, spawn spiritual ores and crystals, and also transform into spiritual rain to irrigate the Divine Kingdom's territory, greatly accelerating the growth of plant life.

This was also why that Cyst Demon's Divine Kingdom could grow such dense and diverse poisonous plants.

The monster meat from the Cataclysm Realm—who knows if it had radiation or viruses? Whether it was edible was still an unknown. Rather than taking the risk of feeding it to his believers, it was better to use it all as fertilizer.

Anyway, there was no shortage of food in the Divine Kingdom; the Chicken Mushroom Tai Sui he had brought out was already flooding the Divine Kingdom.

Pile after pile of flesh was pushed by the Ant-men into the bottomless devouring mouth of [Bean Planting, Melon Harvesting].

The surface of the structure rippled with dark red light halos. Subsequently, faint spiritual mist began to condense over the entire Divine Kingdom, and a drizzling spiritual rain fell, nourishing the ninety thousand-plus square kilometers of the Divine Kingdom's land.

Gu Han patrolled the Divine Kingdom, and the scene before his eyes almost made him laugh in anger.

Author Note: Still shamelessly asking everyone for book reviews and comments. The platform hasn't given me any traffic to increase new readers, and others' books are growing like crazy. I am working hard to update more, hoping that good results will allow me to keep writing. Thank you all; it was the support from readers before that allowed this book to be recommended to more people. ( ˶ ｰ ̀ ֊ ｰ ́ ) ✧ Concentrated will can pierce through stubborn stone.