71 Prairie Silicate Beetle (1)
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Greenland Firesilk Cotton [Unranked]
Condition: Product / one of the three specialized plants found in Yan Emperor Grassland
Maturity: 7 days in a natural condition (60 hours if nourished by Spiritual Thread)
Harvest: 12 Firesilk balls with 24 seeds embedded within
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Item Description: Harvested fibrous part of the plant, the Greenland Firesilk Cotton is sensitive and highly flammable. Although dangerous, the plant is well known for the volatile quality, but because of lack of exposure in such products, the Greenland Firesilk Plant and it's cotton product became unimportant. This product's quality is too low to be graded.
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"Well, the introduction is almost the same. What I am curious about it was the kind of product I can craft using the Material Preparation Shelf." Mu Qing Lang finished his reading and went to the shelf.
[Toot!]
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[New Ingredient Found!]
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[Type: Fiber]
[Name: Greenland Firesilk Cotton]
[Amount: 1,200 units]
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[Please choose from the following option:]
[1] Produce (1) bean-sized Low Purity Fireseed using (400) units of Greenland Firesilk Cotton and (100) ml of Binding Solution
[2] Produce (1) cherry-sized Intermediate Purity Firestone using (1,200) units of Greenland Firesilk Cotton, (400) ml of Binding Solution, and (4) units of Pure Opium Crystal
[3] Produce (100) mg volume of Fire-Powder using (600) units of Greenland Firesilk Cotton, (1) unit of Solid Methane Fuel, and (1) unit of Pure Opium Crystal
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"Ho? Although I have no idea what does the Fireseed and Firestone can do, but I'm sure the Fire-Powder from the third option is equivalent to gunpowder from my own world." it doesn't need too much of imagination from Mu Qing Lang to understands the similarity between the two.
Filled with his own expectation, Mu Qing Lang tapped on the reverse option and returned to the main page for Material Preparation Shelf. Selecting his choice to produce two Pure Opium Crystals, it wasn't too long before two sachets of Fire-Powder appeared in his Storage Chest.
"Gunpowder! Gunpowder!" Mu Qing Lang moved to where the chest sits.
But before he found the chance to withdraw the product, his door is knocked furiously from the outside.
"What happened?" Mu Qing Lang tidied his robe and went outside of the WUYI Saint Carriage.
"Milord, bad news." Yulin immediately reported.
"Calm yourself before you speak," Mu Qing Lang said and had Yulin seated at the chair nearby as he took a look outside of his Chief Manor.
There's no disturbance from outside, which means it was not cases like an enemy attack. If it was an internal issue, Guan Yi should be here. If it was related to the people of this village, then Han Xi will be in charge of it.
Since it was Yulin here instead of the others, it must be related to the four platoons based on her position as the Secretary of Military Department.
"Milord, the three platoons found a tunnel leading underground, likely to be something very ancient. Because your subject is there when the path cave in, Yulin quickly came back to report." Yulin explained what was happening earlier about three hours ago.
As a lady at her age and fitness, to be able to return using half the time needed is praisable. Of course, half of the effort is contributed by the continuous uses of Recovery Ointment, Small Xian Pills, and Healing Ointment.
"We'll bring Guan Er with us. Drive the carriage, I'll make some preparations when we're heading there on the carriage." Mu Qing Lang finished his instruction and returned to the carriage. Only Yulin was left outside patting on Xiao Hui's head.
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"Guan Er, let's go!" Yulin called.
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"Aouuu!!!" the Ashen Battlewolf howled as it went in front for security reason. Their trip to the Platoon Training Camp is safe and sound, but a loud noise came instead of the three platoons of soldiers when they reach the camp.
"Guan Er, go and check what happened!" Mu Qing Lang had done the Ashen Full Armor on him and ready to fight at any moment. The twin Jian in both hands seems to be eager to fight and releases a hint of ferocity as they approached the camp.
"JIYA!" a wingless beetle covered with super-hard armored carapace at all side charged at Mu Qing Lang when the WUYI Saint Carriage came into the camp. With the size of an adult bison, the wingless beetle can be said to be gigantic for its size.
"Fool!" Mu Qing Lang's reaction is quick enough to dodge that tackle. In return for the little surprise, Mu Qing Lang gave the monster a beating it will never forget.
"JIJI!" although covered with hard armored carapace, it was nothing much to be talked about in front of Mu Qing Lang with a cap of 50 points in both Fitness and Force. Each attack from him is at least five hundred kilograms weight strong, with a little push of agility points.
About seven to eight hits later, the hard armored carapace is broken into two. It revealed the softer part of the monster body, which Mu Qing Lang will not be that fool to miss it. Without giving out any warning, his Jian stabs straight into the monster's weakest part.
"JII!" the monster cried before it is completely dead. Innards and juices flowed from the body, leaving only the hard armored carapace with a hint of shining dust if one looks at them carefully.
Luckily, only about seven of these monster came out from the tunnel.
After they cleared the battlefield, Mu Qing Lang had the three platoons gathered for the Recovery Ointment, Small Xian Pill, and Xian-Qin Pill. After the fight, the three medicinal pellets is still the best help that covers almost 80% of whatever emergency that needed some attention.
While the other rest, half a platoon is tasked with guarding the entrance while Ka-Ba and Mu Qing Lang is having their meeting.
"Reporting to milord, the passage leading deeper is now safe to explore. It seems that the few monsters earlier are the culprit behind the cave in result earlier. But it was also thanks to them that the tunnel leading underground is exposed."
"Unfortunately, nobody knows what kind of monster is this," Ka-Ba reported. With the passageway leading down is secured, it was now safe for them to lead more people to explore the underground.
"They're known as Prairie Silicate Beetle. This kind of monster possess no evolution traits and will remain like this until they went extinct." Mu Qing Lang read the report out as it was shown by the Information Table earlier.
Lack of evolution traits, they're considered as the pest in this piece of Chang Emperor Prairie. Their diet includes roots and silicon base stones, which make the prairie seems unstable and lack of proper resources such as rocky hills or mineral veins.
Because the Prairie Silicate Bettle is capable of self parthenogenesis, they can reproduce without the requirement of fertilization of their eggs. Each matured Prairie Silicate Bettle of six months old are capable of laying a thousand eggs in the gap of 30 days period.
The eggs needed fifteen days to developed into proper larvae, which will repeat the same life-cycle like their parents after growing up into a mature Prairie Silicate Bettle in six months. Their maturity can be determined by how deep is the brown earth-color on their carapace.
But Mu Qing Lang did not know that what was happening earlier is just a start of the Prairie Silicate Bettle's revolution.
They opened a total of sixteen tunnels leading outside of the underground chamber that housed the Prairie Silicate Bettle's Tribe. While the one leading to the Northeast was a failure, the opening leading to North, Northwest, West, Southwest, South, Southeast, and East is a success.
The seven success tunnel leading to the surface of Chang Emperor Prairie allowed more than seventy thousand Prairie Silicate Beetle Army to come out and start to construct seven outposts. The first casualties happened to be Mu Qing Lang's Eastern Changzhou, where the road connecting the miners back from Yulan Mountain Forest is attacked heavily!
When Ashen Wolf King's arrival over to the Northern Platoon Training Camp, it was already too late with 5,000 Prairie Silicate Beetles making their way to attack the cave of 200 miners and half a platoon lead by Han Yu!
Mu Qing Lang scratched his head, feeling threatened by the participation of a new party in this fight for Chang Emperor Prairie. But Eastern Changzhou was not alone in this case.
Northern Han Half-Town, western nomadic tribes, and southern refugees are all under attack. Even the most well prepared Eastern Changzhou and Northern Han Half-Town are not excluded from this.
After rushing here and help to kill a Prairie Silicate Beetle, Mu Qing Lang must return to Eastern Changzhou in a hurry to help resist the attack led by ten thousand Prairie Silicate Beetles.
By the morning of Day Eighty-Two, Mu Qing Lang's record, the number of Prairie Silicate Beetles came up to the surface is no longer 70,000 but increases by threefold, reaching 210,000 strong.
This sudden changes in one night shook the foundation of those living in Chang Emperor Prairie, and even Yulan Mountain Sea, Hundred Beast Forest, Yan Emperor Grassland started to prepare for their arrival.
There's no longer a peaceful period for these four sectors anymore...
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Day Eighty-Two.
"Squadron One and Two of Prairie's First Calvary Platoon! Heed my order!" Mu Qing Lang rode on top of an Ashen Battlewolf and gave his command as the Central Platoon Commander.
"Yes, Milord!" the Hobgoblins roared.
"OUUU!!!" the Ashen Battle Wolves roared.
"Follow my lead, Kill the incoming Prairie Silicate Beetle force!" Mu Qing Lang raised his twin Jian pointing at the 30,000 incoming Prairie Silicate Beetles and took the lead to a charge.
"KILL! KILL! KILL!"
