Ashen God
Chapter 284 - 283: Invaders (Happy Labor Day)

Chapter 284: Chapter 283: Invaders (Happy Labor Day)

As for the reason, it wasn’t because Zhang Yanhang had given up on one of his few hobbies, it was simply because he now possessed the "Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil" skill, and although this skill couldn’t yet hear sounds, it could already see colors.

Therefore, compared with the motionless bystanders in the Time Pause status, Zhang Yanhang recently preferred to observe the moving bystanders using "Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil."

With his robust physical fitness, when observing some bystanders who were closer to him, although "Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil" couldn’t perceive sounds, he could passively receive the conversations between the bystanders using his ears, which he found really interesting.

If a normal person gained the ability of "Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil," they might enact a drama like "Urban X-ray Eyes," "Top-grade Young Master’s X-ray Vision," or something like "Special Perspective Soldier King in the Village."

But unfortunately for Zhang Yanhang, doing such things was just a waste of time; he would rather spend more time researching human body modification technology.

Zhang Yanhang thought of some strange things because of Time Pause, but soon he stopped his wild speculations. Although it was Time Pause and there technically wasn’t such a thing as wasting time, he still felt he should quickly find the remaining Crimson Iron Ants in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu.

Zhang Yanhang quickly ran towards a path leading directly to the third stage of the final target of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest clearing plan, relying on the memories from his previous exploration.

As for why he headed for the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box first? That was because the location of the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box was on a necessary route leading to the inner area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.

So, before exploring the inner area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, he could first take a look at the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box to see if there were any Crimson Iron Ants there.

If not, he might head over to the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box to check his current progress and Evaluation Level, and then proceed to clear the remaining Crimson Iron Ants. Mainly, he felt that this could help him estimate how many Crimson Iron Ants were left in the nest.

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"I choose Option One, a First Tier One Star Crimson Iron Worker Ant." What surprised Zhang Yanhang a bit was that he had found the location of the remaining Crimson Iron Ants after just one use of Time Pause.

Well, the location of this remaining Crimson Iron Ant had been mentioned by Zhang Yanhang before, but if you asked him to evaluate this location, he could only say, "Indeed, I guessed it, but didn’t fully guess it."

Among the three scenarios Zhang Yanhang had previously estimated, he thought the most likely was the third scenario, which was that there were passages inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest leading to other ant nests, and the location of these passages was where the remaining ants in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu were. Unfortunately, he was entirely wrong in this regard.

The situation turned out to be the first possibility Zhang Yanhang had predicted, where the Crimson Iron Ant Queen summoned all the ants to guard herself against Zhang Yanhang, the invader.

Although this situation was also not bad for Zhang Yanhang, as it allowed him to quickly clear the entire Crimson Iron Ant Nest, he would have to deal with the task of creating passages to other Crimson Iron Ant Nests himself.

"After clearing the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu, directly seamlessly starting to clear other Crimson Iron Ant Nests? Such good luck really doesn’t exist, haha, but fortunately, I do have Alchemy, so creating passages to other ant nests probably won’t be very difficult... well, probably."

Because he had found the location of the remaining Crimson Iron Ants in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dala Gu with just one use of Time Pause, Zhang Yanhang then began to continue clearing the slot machine’s prize pool.

But this time, Zhang Yanhang didn’t need to specifically dig a pit for quickly clearing the third prize pool of the slot machine, not only because he found digging pits with Alchemy a bit troublesome, but also because Crimson Iron Worker Ants could climb walls, and digging pits probably wouldn’t be very effective.

Moreover, more crucially, aside from the eighty wall-climbing Crimson Iron Worker Ants, the slot machine’s third prize pool also contained twenty winged Crimson Iron Flying Ants, which made digging pits even more pointless since it couldn’t trap the flying ants.

The thin exoskeleton wings on the Crimson Iron Flying Ants allowed them to hover at low altitudes, but how deep could Zhang Yanhang dig a pit? At most, it would be a few meters, which was a depth that the Crimson Iron Flying Ants could easily escape with just a slight flap of their wings.

Aside from the reason that pits were useless against the Crimson Iron Flying Ants, another reason Zhang Yanhang didn’t dig pits was because monsters wouldn’t try to escape anyway. As soon as they saw him, they would continuously attack him, and because of this, he thought he could simply let them swarm around him.

After all, one shot of the Death Wave Skill would clear them all at once, and he could also take this opportunity to test how much reducing the coverage area of the Death Wave Skill would lower his energy consumption.

By the way, the Crimson Iron Worker Ant he had just drawn was currently standing next to Zhang Yanhang, incessantly spitting ant acid at him, but Zhang Yanhang chose to ignore it since it couldn’t breach his defenses.

To avoid being covered in Crimson Iron Worker Ants while clearing the prize pool, Zhang Yanhang had switched his Energy Shield to an eggshell shape. It was precisely because it had nowhere to bite that the just mentioned ant was only standing beside him spitting ant acid.

Otherwise, according to the normal attack behavior of the Crimson Iron Worker Ant, it would have already pounced on him and continuously used its mouthparts to bite his calves or arms.

Zhang Yanhang started pulling the metal lever on the side of the slot machine again. Since both changing the slot machine’s patterns and popping eggs needed time, just extracting the monsters from the prize pool took him several minutes.

After confirming that the prize pool had been completely cleared, surrounded by countless Crimson Iron Worker Ants and Crimson Iron Flying Ants, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but sigh, "Ah, I really wish there was some auto-draw or ten consecutive draws feature, drawing one by one really wastes too much time."

As Zhang Yanhang had predicted, none of these monsters that emerged from the eggs attempted to escape; they were all attacking him at the moment. The surface of the energy shield was completely covered by dense ant acid.

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