274: Chapter 274 Harvest

That being said, Chen Fan still gave orders to the Crew Members.

The remaining Sailors inserted some monitors into the surrounding walls and fled toward the passage along with the soldiers.

The long passage was enough for all of them to hide inside, and given the Mother Spider's size, even if it could break the seal, it wouldn't be able to squeeze into the passage.

The Archers retreated, making room for the Blade Soldiers, their bows still firing incessantly.

Although the Mother Spider had broken free from the seal, its speed was extremely slow.

Watching the soldiers retreat, it roared and spat out energy orbs repeatedly.

But these things had limited damage after all; each orb could only insta-kill one Crew Member, and the hatched spiders were all instantly cut down.

Seeing its attacks were ineffective, the Mother Spider pressed against the passage entrance, snarling ferociously at the Crew Members.

Seeing this, Ruituocuipu breathed a sigh of relief,

"Hold it off; its berserk state won't last long."

"Mhm."

Chen Fan nodded slightly and turned his head to look at the edge of the shoals.

The spider clusters spitting out of the portal had already reached 20 per wave.

Even with the help of the annihilation ship and the Mechanical Dragon, the Players felt a bit overwhelmed.

"If we kill this thing, the spiders over there should stop, right?"

"Perhaps."

Ruituocuipu nodded uncertainly.

Twenty minutes passed, and the red color on the Mother Spider's body faded slightly.

And its speed became much slower as the color faded.

The sealing energy gradually pulled its body back.

The Mother Spider kept roaring.

But the more the red faded, the greater the pulling force became.

Just as thirty minutes passed, the red completely faded.

The Mother Spider's massive body was also pulled completely back to the center of the cave, unable to move.

"Go!"

Chen Fan gave a low shout, and ten thousand Blade Soldiers swarmed into the cave again, repeating their previous tactic.

The Mother Spider, having lost its berserk state, was even more listless than before, firmly suppressed in place by the seal.

Suddenly, with a crack, a massive spider leg was severed.

The remaining seven legs could no longer support its body, and it crashed to the ground.

Seeing this, the Blade Soldiers and Archers attacked even more frantically.

Over ten minutes later, the Mother Spider let out a wail, its massive head slamming onto the ground, motionless.

"It's dead?" Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

Ruituocuipu watched for a moment and nodded with a complex expression: "It's dead."

Chen Fan didn't notice his odd behavior; his gaze was fixed intently on the spider's corpse.

After a while, a massive dark orb of light floated out from the corpse.

The familiar color made Chen Fan's eyelids twitch.

"Could it be..."

Taking a deep breath to suppress his excitement, Chen Fan turned to look at Ruituocuipu.

"Stay here and don't move, I'm going to buy some oranges... wait, no, I'll go take a look."

With that, before he could respond, Chen Fan directly activated the Spirit Realm and dashed toward the cave.

Seeing Chen Fan disappear.

Ruituocuipu looked toward the cave, staring blankly while standing in place, lost in thought.

On the other side.

The further Chen Fan ran, the faster his heart beat.

That glowing orb of energy looked exactly like magic dragon crystal core energy.

Ignoring the terrain, he ran all the way into the cave and revealed himself.

With a flip of his right hand, a glass bottle appeared in his palm.

The magic dragon crystal core inside the bottle was identical in both shape and color to the one floating in the air.

The only difference was that the energy orb before him was unimaginably large.

It was a full three meters in diameter!

Chen Fan swallowed hard and slowly raised his hand, bringing the glass bottle close to the floating energy.

Suddenly.

[Obtained magic dragon crystal core energy x 120,000.]

[Remaining energy: 123,100.]

"Holy crap!"

Chen Fan exclaimed, his heart thumping wildly.

120,000 energy?

Doesn't that mean I can upgrade an SSS-Class Crew Member?

If I upgrade Ruituocuipu, does that mean he'll have million-level nuclear warheads?

Thinking of this, Chen Fan instinctively glanced at the inventory.

"Ruituocuipu, are you sure that after upgrading to SSS-Class, you can manufacture million-level nuclear warheads?"

"Of course," Ruituocuipu replied instantly.

"Great, I've obtained 120,000 energy; I'll let you upgrade in a bit."

Chen Fan pumped his fist excitedly.

Ruituocuipu's voice came again:

"No rush for that. Wait a moment, I'm coming over right now."

"What are you coming for?" Chen Fan was a bit puzzled.

However, Ruituocuipu did not answer.

After a while, his figure appeared at the entrance of the passage.

As soon as he entered the cave, he closed his eyes, as if sensing the energy fluctuations around him.

Then, his legs moved slowly as he walked aimlessly around the cave.

Chen Fan was full of confusion but didn't disturb him, turning his head to look toward the shoals.

Just as he expected, after the Mother Spider died, the portal stopped spitting out spider clusters.

The Players continued to bombard the sea surface, and over at the main city, they were still methodically killing the spiders that had slipped through.

"Found it."

Ruituocuipu let out a low cry, drawing Chen Fan's gaze back.

"Found what?"

"Here, dig this up."

Ruituocuipu rubbed his hands excitedly and pointed to the ground beneath the spider's corpse.

Although Chen Fan didn't understand, seeing him so excited, he released a group of Sailors.

After digging for over ten minutes, another tunnel appeared before them.

"This is..." Chen Fan's eyes narrowed slightly.

Ruituocuipu took a deep breath and shouted into the hole in a language Chen Fan couldn't understand.

Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

What Ruituocuipu shouted was precisely the language of the Goblin race.

In that case, doesn't that mean...

Soon, the answer was revealed.

Noisy sounds came from beneath the tunnel.

A large group of Goblins ran over quickly. Upon seeing Ruituocuipu, they all cried out in surprise.

As all these Goblins emerged from the tunnel, Chen Fan's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

There were a full three hundred of these Goblins!

This meant that the speed of his nuclear missile project and Steel Wall project could more than double.

Seeing the look Ruituocuipu gave him, Chen Fan was in a great mood.

Wait, "Recruit."

"Spirit Control."

[Recruitment successful, Goblins x 300.]

"Awesome!"

With a wave of his hand, Chen Fan recalled the three hundred Goblins into the Crew Member space.

Scanning the area once more, he smiled and asked, "Just these? Nothing else?"

Ruituocuipu curled his lip. "Three hundred is already pretty good."

With that, his eyes flickered as he continued, "We can continue the Exploration of other islands; there might be more."

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing."

Since there were Goblins beneath the Steel City and here as well...

What about the other islands? Would there be some there too?

After thinking for a moment, Chen Fan waved his hand, and the main force began their return journey.