124: The rooster's crow paralyzes all insects! Like a flood of snakes and worms!

"Mhm! That works too!"

Su Lie rubbed his stomach, feeling completely empty.

He immediately began eating, waited upon by Su Liya.

After eating five Blood-Nourishing Red Datess.

He then consumed five Soul Insect Pills and 1 milliliter of Golden Treasure Blood.

Following that.

He took out five big hairy chestnuts plus five monster crystals from his storage pouch, and refined them into five Chestnut Buns using the Permanent Treasure Refining Skill.

"Here! Give one each to Xuxu, Keqing, and Weier!"

Su Lie took one for himself and gave the rest to Su Liya and the three other girls.

Consuming one Chestnut Bun guarantees the eater won't feel hungry for three days and grants 1,000 Health Points.

For this breakfast, Su Lie.

Gained a total of 1,500 Health Points and 1,500 Spirit Points.

This raised his Health attribute to 9,500 points and his Spirit attribute to 10,829 points.

After the enhancement.

Su Lie could now kill a Level 20 giant insect with a single shot.

In the blink of an eye, two hours of intense fighting passed.

Just as the insect horde on the ground began to thin out.

A sound resembling fighter jets flying suddenly erupted from the scarlet Mist.

The tremendous noise caused the Mist to vibrate continuously.

Su Lie looked up and saw a vast, dark cloud overwhelming the sky, sweeping toward them.

"What is that?"

Su Lie took a closer look and couldn't help but gasp.

What was flying in the air was none other than locusts.

An army of leopard-patterned locusts, each with a wingspan of dozens of meters, swept in.

Balls of dark black light glowed in front of their mouthparts.

Even though the Little Skeletons continuously fired into the sky, shooting down locusts like rain.

They still could not stop their advance.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Just as they were about 300 meters from the Shelter, the locusts in the front row spat out streaks of gray balls of light.

"Fireball Spell!"

Seeing this, Su Lie immediately released a Fireball Spell toward the sky.

Boom!

The fireball and the gray ball collided, exploding in the air.

This strike alerted the Little Skeletons of the Black Tortoise Army and the Exploration Team, who proactively switched their attack Skill from Soul Fire Bullet to Fireball Spell.

Even so.

They still couldn't stop all the attacks.

Just as the gray attacks landed on the city wall, the Little Skeletons who had not learned the Fireball Spell took out large pots and covered themselves and their comrades inside.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

A portion of the gray balls of light landed on the iron pots, and another portion landed on the dome of the glass house.

After these balls of light shattered, they turned into black bugs with sharp mouthparts.

The black bugs did not attack the Little Skeletons or the Blazing Flame Divine Chicken on the glass dome; instead, they opened their large mouths and bit into the city wall and the glass, spitting out corrosive acid as they chewed.

Su Dabao excitedly ate a few bugs, looked up at the overwhelming locust swarm, and realized it was time to act.

Immediately, he spread his wings and flew directly to the top of the Watchtower.

Following that.

He let out a long cry toward the sky.

"Caw! Caw! Gack! ~"

The piercing, loud crow reverberated across the sky.

At that instant.

The dark locust swarm, which was about to cover the Shelter, suddenly paused.

It instantly transformed from a unified iron plate into a disorganized rout.

A large number of locusts actually turned around and flew back.

Some of the bugs on the ground also immediately turned and fled.

During this gap.

Su Lie released a large number of Fireball Spells through his Mist Pistol.

Fireballs burst in the air.

The solid block of the locust army instantly collapsed.

The sky brightened by a third in that instant.

The chicks of the Blazing Flame Divine Chicken had finished eating all the bugs on the glass dome and were now flapping their wings and running onto the city wall to eat bugs.

These bugs seemed extremely delicious to them—a delicacy worth fighting over.

Just like this.

Su Lie led the continued attack for another three hours.

Finally clearing the dark expanse of the sky.

There were also very few bugs left on the ground.

Looking down from the city wall, the ground was densely covered with insect corpses.

Seeing this, Su Lie could no longer hold back. While ordering the wula grass rope to untie the Solid Wood Bed, he instructed Su Liya: "Keep attacking! I'm going down to collect the bugs!"

As he spoke.

He took out the Invisibility Cloak from the ruyi pouch, and after separating from the Solid Wood Bed, he immediately jumped down.

The reason Su Lie did this was, firstly, he was worried the Mist would swallow his spoils of war.

Secondly, the two storage items he possessed could only be used by himself.

There was no alternative; he had to go down personally.

Pat-a!

By the time he landed, Su Lie had already entered Invisibility state.

Another half hour passed.

Su Lie completely cleared out all the insect corpses within a hundred-meter radius of the Shelter.

As he proceeded toward the area beyond a hundred meters.

He saw.

The small lake in front of the main gate was surprisingly bubbling, giving rise to one massive water bubble after another.

After the bubbles burst.

A large number of transparent small bugs splashed onto the shore.

Upon touching the soil, they instantly transformed into snake-like bugs approximately 50 centimeters long.

Whoosh!

Just as Su Lie returned to the city wall, the small lake suddenly turned into a fountain.

A large amount of lake water sprayed onto the shore.

Instantly, countless "spicy strip"-shaped bugs swarmed toward the Shelter.

Su Lie was horrified to discover.

Their bodies grew several times larger for every ten seconds they survived in the terrestrial environment.

At this time.

The bugs on the other three sides of the Shelter had been almost completely eliminated, leaving only the area directly in front of the Shelter's main gate densely packed with "spicy strips."

Most of the Little Skeletons had come to the main gate area to coordinate the defense.

The sight outside made Su Lie's scalp tingle.

Although Su Lie forgot to pull the trigger, the sound of gunfire on the city wall did not stop.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the blink of an eye, a large number of "spicy strips" were annihilated.

But the number of "spicy strips" was too great; they were densely packed together, accumulating into small hills about five meters high.

The small hills continuously moved forward in a state of agitation.

From a distance, they looked like rolling quicksand that had been brought to a boil.

The momentum was extremely terrifying.

Su Lie tremblingly raised the Mist Pistol in his hand and pulled the trigger on the disgusting mountain of bugs in front of him.

Buzz!

Before long, a golden light flashed on Su Lie's body.

He leveled up from Level 15 to Level 16.

Su Lie did not immediately check his status panel; he frantically kept pulling the trigger toward the front.

After another half hour or so.

The swarm of "spicy strips" finally completely dispersed and died under the frantic attacks of the Little Skeletons and Su Lie.

"That's utterly disgusting. I really hate these spicy strip-shaped things!"

Su Lie put away his pistol and couldn't help but mutter under his breath.

At this moment.

Su Liya gravely said to Su Lie: "Master! The bugs underground haven't come out. They seem to be digging, trying to collapse the Shelter underground!"

As she spoke.

She handed over the mountain-viewing jade mirror.

Su Lie took a careful look and instantly understood the bugs' plan.

He saw that the bugs were connecting tunnels and expanding them into larger underground chambers.

The scope of this area was extremely wide.

It covered an area with a diameter of three kilometers.

This nearly covered more than half of the oasis area.

The Shelter was located right in the center of this area.

But the Shelter had underground city walls.

The stabilizing effect of the underground city walls kept the Shelter as solid as Mount Tai.

"The bugs' plan is bound to fail! When the ground around the Shelter collapses, these bugs won't stay underground either; we can just pick them off one by one then!"

Seeing this, Su Lie handed the mountain-viewing jade mirror back to Su Liya, and he put on the Invisibility Cloak again and headed below the wall: "Before that happens, I need to collect as many insect corpses as possible!"

These were essential materials for making high-power bombs.

Now, the explosive potato had disappeared from the Gravity Oasis area.

Since a bug tide had finally appeared here.

He naturally had to cherish this opportunity.

Pat-a!

Su Lie quickly went down.

Su Liya sighed, unable to stop blaming herself: "It's all because we're useless! If we had more storage equipment, Master wouldn't have to work so hard!"

At the same time.

400 Little Skeletons left the Shelter and began continuously collecting the insect corpses, piling them into mountains for Su Lie to collect.

Just like this.

Another hour passed.

Su Lie finally completed the collection of insect corpses.

The moment he led the Little Skeletons back to the Shelter.

Rumble!

A deafening sound came from around the Shelter, followed by several tremors in the earth.

Following that.

Dust flew outside the Shelter.

Then Su Lie heard the gurgling sound of water flowing out...