197: Stones? Insect eggs!

A day later, Gu Qinghan woke up from his bed feeling refreshed.

He had already changed into clean clothes and recovered his energy.

There was no movement next door, indicating that Luo Mu still hadn't returned.

"That kid, his stubbornness is acting up again..."

He pulled out the insect tide secret realm key, hesitated for a moment, then chose to use it.

A milky white light appeared, forming a slowly rotating vortex in front of him.

The key in Gu Qinghan's hand also turned into powder at this moment, slipping through his fingers.

Gu Qinghan took a deep breath, slowly stepped into the vortex, and his body gradually disappeared.

At the same time, within the borders of China, a scruffy man opened his eyes and cursed,

"Someone opened a secret realm again, damn it, I wonder which country's person opened it this time."

He sighed, and a milky white vortex slowly appeared in front of him.

He stepped into it without any hesitation and then disappeared from there.

At the same time, similar situations were happening in many other parts of the world.

They could enter secret realms opened by others at will, without the aid of a secret realm key.

And judging by their familiar expressions, it was clearly not the first time they had done such a thing...

"Is this the Insect Tide Secret Realm?"

Gu Qinghan looked at the scenery before him, a hint of awe in his eyes.

The moment he felt his feet on the ground again, Gu Qinghan had already summoned his Death Swordsman.

However, he didn't suffer any attacks.

What lay before him was a desolate landscape.

On the ground, there were round, smooth stones everywhere, as if deliberately polished.

Each stone was at least half a person's height, scattered casually on the ground, forming a unique scenic line.

Most importantly, Gu Qinghan could clearly see many familiar monsters not far from him.

"Red Armored Beetle Beast? Gold Armored Insect Beast?"

Even from a distance, Gu Qinghan could recognize these monsters.

To be safe, Gu Qinghan didn't charge in directly.

Instead, he hid behind a rock and surveyed his surroundings.

There were no traces of monsters within a large radius, so it seemed he was still very safe.

However, Gu Qinghan's brow suddenly furrowed.

He looked back at the stone behind him, which had some dried traces of an unknown viscous substance on it.

"This isn't those bugs' excrement, is it? Do monsters also poop and pee?"

Thinking this, Gu Qinghan led his Death Swordsman towards a direction with fewer bugs.

There happened to be a relatively high slope there, where he should be able to gather more information.

Gu Qinghan had originally planned to fly up with the Crow King.

But when he looked up and saw countless black dots in the high sky, he decisively gave up on that idea.

Fortunately, the ground was covered with those round stones; aside from the unpleasant smell, they provided good concealment.

After more than ten minutes, Gu Qinghan successfully reached his destination without encountering any monsters.

It must be said, the breath concealing cloak was truly a great help to Gu Qinghan.

And when Gu Qinghan looked around, he realized that he seemed to be in a basin.

He was probably near the edge of this basin, only able to see many caves along the edge.

Those caves were irregularly arranged along the edge, with many monsters going in and out of them.

"The monsters here don't come from the gate of calamity, but have their own nests?"

Gu Qinghan had long suspected that the gate of calamity was just a medium.

Its purpose was to transport monsters to Gu Qinghan's original world and then give people some rewards.

Now it seemed that the gate of calamity Gu Qinghan encountered in the supermarket must have been connected here.

But why were there no Poison Spiders here? Were they in another place?

Were those black dots in the sky also some kind of insect monsters?

Many other questions remained in Gu Qinghan's mind, and he could only explore them slowly.

He vaguely felt that this might be another world, yet he could still breathe and move normally.

None of this could be explained by common sense, as if he were truly in a game world.

Unfortunately, the cost of making a mistake in this game was most likely death.

Gu Qinghan hid behind a huge stone; although the smell was not pleasant, he didn't care.

He began to think about how to kill these bugs, but for a moment, he didn't have a definite plan.

He had many skeletons, and he could even use Death Toxin for a prolonged battle.

But according to the information he had just observed, the number of bugs here was definitely beyond his imagination.

Tens of thousands was a conservative estimate, not to mention the black dots in the sky that were suspected to be other monsters.

Just then, his gaze suddenly swept across an open space not far away.

There, too, was a stone.

However, this stone seemed to be shaking slightly, pushed by something.

Gu Qinghan narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the bottom of the stone, wanting to see what it was.

At the same time, he hid his body behind the stone, to prevent being attacked by a suddenly appearing monster.

The stone moved twice and then became still; when it shook again, the frequency became more intense.

Until a certain moment, a crack suddenly appeared on the stone, and a hint of red was revealed from within.

Immediately after, more and more cracks appeared on the stone, and it suddenly began to peel off in large chunks.

In just a few seconds, Gu Qinghan saw a wrinkled monster crawl out from inside.

Even though its carapace didn't seem to have hardened yet, and there was a lot of mucus on its body, Gu Qinghan could still recognize what this thing was.

What crawled out of the stone was clearly a Red Armored Beetle Beast!

After it appeared, it immediately ate the stone fragments, and even ate a layer of mucus from its body.

This process also lasted less than ten seconds, and the newly appeared Red Armored Beetle Beast had already grown considerably in size.

And with this creature's movements, Gu Qinghan silently moved away from the stone he had been behind.

All the hairs on his body had bristled, because he had realized a problem.

These round things were not stones at all!

These were completely the eggs of these monsters!

Gu Qinghan had also inspected these stone-like eggs, but he hadn't obtained any information from them.

Before hatching, if Gu Qinghan hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have guessed they were eggs!

"Calm down, these eggs can't all hatch at the same time; I need to find a safe position first..."

Gu Qinghan tried his best to remain calm, but in this situation, even he had sweaty palms.

Originally, he had places to hide, but now, he couldn't possibly hide near these eggs, could he?

In an instant, Gu Qinghan felt as if he had been stripped naked and thrown into a bustling market, without any sense of security.

And what made him most desperate was that the stone in front of him also slowly swayed.

At this awkward moment, this egg was about to hatch!

"Damn..."