Chapter 2870: Accumulating Resources

The grandmaster-level psychic advancement book still existed among the team’s exchangeable items.

In addition, the contribution points of the spawns seemed a bit harder to obtain, and exchanging for one only required twenty million contribution points.

Unfortunately, the current contribution points of the spawns were 0, so it couldn’t be exchanged for now.

“Looks like the battlefield contribution points from the previous game couldn’t be directly shared with the spawns’ contribution points…”

There hadn’t been any discovery yet of where to exchange for a Black Fog core.

It might be under the personal exchange category, still not unlocked.

Fang Heng pondered and switched to check the missions issued by the ship.

“Annihilation missions huh…”

Unlike most previous resource-type gathering missions, this time the missions provided by the Star Map mainframe only included three types: destroying mutant worm nests, killing elite-level and above mutant worms, and gathering energy ore.

Gathering energy ore gave very few contribution points. It was estimated that the ship wasn’t in much need of energy ore.

Fang Heng thought for a moment and carefully checked the exchange options again.

Good, there were multi-functional combat shovels available for exchange.

However, this game world didn’t seem to have other mercenaries. All entrants were official teams from the Western District Federation, so the energy ore mining work was likely already being done by federal teams.

Could he go help?

Might be a bit slow in terms of efficiency.

He decided to try.

First, he needed to accumulate some resources.

Fang Heng casually took more than twenty multi-functional combat shovels provided for free nearby and walked to the ship’s automatic transition device. He left the ship through the transition passage.

Huh?

After leaving the ship, Fang Heng made a light surprised sound.

A hive-like fortress with a diameter of up to three kilometers stood ahead. It had an alloy skeletal structure. The scales appeared transparent and were probably some kind of defensive barrier.

Inside the fortress, prisms stood in rows, each prism surrounded by faint yellow dots of light, forming independent prism defense networks.

“Defensive barrier huh…”

Fang Heng murmured softly to himself.

He had thought it was just a simple ship, but now he realized the ship was actually docked inside the defensive fortress.

Fang Heng tried taking a few steps forward.

Since he possessed an identity card, he wasn’t recognized as an invader. As he approached, the defensive barrier ahead automatically opened an arc-shaped passage for people to walk through.

Fang Heng directly pulled an energy crystal hoverboard from his backpack and left the spawns’ defensive fortress.

Passing through layers of defensive barriers to the outside of the fortress, Fang Heng slightly furrowed his brows.

The air was filled with light red spores, making the outside world appear to be covered in a layer of pink mist.

Fang Heng tried extending his hand to perceive.

The spores were also a special ability of the mutant worms? It didn’t seem dangerous.

Whatever.

He would mine first and accumulate a wave of resources.

Fang Heng quickly opened the survey map.

At present, 99% of the entire world had already been explored. There were thousands of scattered danger zones with mutant worm nests, but the only region truly classified as SSS-level danger was a still-unexplored black area.

As for the periphery of the black region, it was densely packed with danger zones resembling black dots–huge clusters of worm nests.

However, it seemed the worm nests didn’t show signs of actively attacking.

Was it dangerous?

It seemed a bit different from Benny’s description.

Fang Heng quickly headed toward the nearest mining area shown on the map.

Along the way, he didn’t encounter a single mutant worm. In less than an hour, Fang Heng arrived at the mining area.

No one?

A bit unexpected. Not a single person could be seen in the entire mining area.

There were signs of previous exploration in the mining area, but the Federation seemed to have lost interest in it.

Fang Heng extended his perception to confirm, then pulled out a stack of sealing rune papers from his backpack.

“Bang! Bang bang!!”

Lickers quickly leapt out from the exploded sealing runes. After landing, they condensed flesh cocoons, transforming into zombie clone form, struggled out of the cocoons, walked over to Fang Heng’s side, picked up the combat shovels, and began searching for mining points to collect ores.

Some of the Lickers used the stealth skill to dig into the ground, preparing to open a return passage to the Federation ship.

Fang Heng thought for a moment and began controlling all zombie clones from the previous world to self-destruct.

For now, he would focus on this world.

Grind a wave.

Next, it was just a matter of waiting.

Once the zombie group was fully revived, he would first mine a large batch of energy ore to exchange for points and solidify his foundation.

After finishing the zombie self-destruction task, Fang Heng lifted his head and looked to the right.

There was still some time before the zombie clones revived. He couldn’t just wait around.

He would go check out the worm nest situation.

Fang Heng directly transformed into bat form and quickly flew toward the nearest worm nest marked with a D-level risk rating.

After flying at high speed for twenty minutes, Fang Heng furrowed his brows.

Found it.

The ground ahead was covered with a black-brown sticky substance.

It resembled the creep from the death realm and the Nest of Disaster.

However, the disaster in the death realm was red.

In this world, the root-like tumor bulges on the ground were much smaller in size compared to the Nest of Disaster in the Death Realm, but their density was at least double–almost one every few meters.

“Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!!”

Huh?

Just as Fang Heng approached, he suddenly raised his eyebrows.

What?!

Dark green orbs suddenly sprayed out from the uneven mouthparts of the tumors!

They could attack proactively?

Fang Heng was surprised and immediately dodged sideways, dropping from the air to resume human form.

“Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!!”

The tumors’ attack speed and frequency weren’t low, and they had a slight projectile lock-on effect.

And the attack range was very far!

Almost at the same time, the tumor-like creatures gathered on the ground continuously released skills. A large number of orbs flew straight at Fang Heng.

Too many.

He couldn’t dodge them all!

“Whoosh!!!”

Fang Heng furrowed his brow and directly entered secondary space projection state, dodging all the orb attacks and rapidly approaching the tumor creature rooted in the ground.

Here it came!

As he stepped out of secondary space projection, Fang Heng clenched his right fist and punched forward!

“Bang!”

The tumor-shaped Nest of Disaster instantly exploded!

[Hint: The player killed the mutant worm nest offshoot creature – Plague Mother.]

Before Fang Heng had time to check the creature’s detailed information, another wave of dense orbs quickly chased after him. He immediately switched to sacred study.

“Buzz…!”

A holy shield instantly activated around Fang Heng.

“Bang! Bang, bang!!”

The orbs bombarded the outer defense. The newly activated defensive barrier quickly shattered.

Such high damage!

Fang Heng was struck with realization, and a glance at the damage numbers confirmed it.

The orb lock-on ability was limited, and the speed was just fairly fast, but there were a lot of them. Their damage was high. Under the area-coverage ritual-like attack of numerous orbs, getting hit once would cost a big chunk of health.

If an ordinary player encountered this, they’d probably die after three hits.

Of course, to him, the damage was still far from threatening.

With the undead effect, he could tank it!

Whoosh!

Fang Heng’s figure quickly flashed forward, dodging most of the orb attacks. While forcibly tanking some, he charged toward the next Plague Mother.