Chapter 129: Blood-earned Over Two Hundred Thousand Energy Crystals

Skeleton warriors formed groups of fifty to sixty, simultaneously entering the sixteen rooms on the left and right.

Compared to Su Hao alone, these skeleton warriors' exploration efficiency is much faster.

Although these skeleton warriors have low intelligence and lack Su Hao's Item Appraisal Technique, they struggle to determine which items are valuable.

But Su Hao never expected these skeleton warriors to be able to tell which items are useful and which are not.

The order he gave these skeleton warriors was just as simple: "Carry".

Anything that could be moved was carried out, nothing left behind; as for whether these things were useful, Su Hao would judge them himself.

These sixteen rooms were not large; soon the skeleton warriors carried out metal boxes one by one from the rooms, continuously emerging.

These metal boxes are uniform in size, about one meter long, fifty centimeters wide, and thirty to forty centimeters high, made entirely of bronze alloy; there are roughly three to four hundred boxes in total.

"Energy crystals? Not bad."

Casually opening a box, Su Hao found it filled with energy crystals.

These bronze boxes are not small; each can hold about five hundred energy crystals.

If all the boxes were filled with energy crystals, there would be over a hundred thousand! "Huh? This box actually comes with storage functionality!"

When Su Hao closed the box's lid, preparing to store it in his Storage Bag and later count it back at the shelter, he was surprised to find he could not put the box into the Storage Bag.

Neither the box itself nor the energy crystals inside are living things.

Therefore the only reason the box cannot be stored is that this bronze box also has storage functionality; it is a storage item.

Immediately Su Hao picked up the box, poured out all the energy crystals inside, and piled them on the ground into a small mound about a meter high.

After a rough count, Su Hao confirmed the box contained about two thousand energy crystals.

"One bronze box holds about two thousand energy crystals; if all these boxes were..."

Thinking this, Su Hao's heartbeat quickened a bit.

Immediately Su Hao ordered the skeleton warriors to open all the bronze treasure chests and dump out everything inside.

The good news is, all the bronze boxes come with a storage bag item that has some storage space.

After dumping out everything inside, in this huge space, over half of the area was filled with the items.

The bad news is, not all of these boxes contain energy crystals.

The number of energy crystals should only account for about one third; the rest is mostly black black-iron alloy, with a small portion of bronze-colored bronze alloy.

"There are roughly two to three hundred thousand energy crystals; that's not bad either!"

Su Hao nodded in satisfaction; with these energy crystals, he need not worry about their consumption in the short term.

After finishing this exploration and returning to his territory, he could let the proliferating meat lump and infected blood flesh begin self-proliferation at maximum speed.

Recall that initially Su Hao only had a palm-sized proliferating meat lump, actually weighing about two catties.

After consuming one energy crystal and spending a day, it could grow to five hundred catties; that is, using just one day and one energy crystal, the volume of the proliferating meat lump increased by several hundred times.

If the five-hundred-catty proliferating meat lump obtained after one day of growth is divided into two hundred fifty portions of two kilograms each, and 250 energy crystals are used to provide energy, completing self-proliferation; by the third day, each two-kilogram proliferating meat lump will have grown to about five hundred catties.

In just two days, a palm-sized, one-or-two-catty proliferating meat lump, after consuming 251 energy crystals, becomes ten to thirty thousand catties.

That's roughly a sixty-thousandfold increase in weight! This is only the growth over two days; if this continues, it won't be long before the quantity of these proliferating meat lumps becomes terrifying.

And this is merely the result of expanding the proliferation scale once per day.

Know that the self-proliferation of the proliferating meat lump is not calculated by days, but proceeds every moment.

If Su Hao assigns enough personnel dedicated to the proliferating meat lump's self-proliferation, the growth speed will become even more terrifying.

Of course, in that case, the consumption of energy crystals will also increase geometrically.

This is also why Su Hao merely lets the proliferating meat lump and contaminated blood flesh proliferate naturally, without maximizing their growth speed.

It's simply that energy crystals are insufficient! Even if he now obtains another two to three hundred thousand energy crystals, it still cannot meet the speed of full-speed proliferation of the meat lump.

However, with this many energy crystals, the proliferating meat lump can grow at its fastest speed for a few days, enough for Su Hao to create an army of thousands, even tens of thousands, of hellish demon creatures! If such an army truly existed, Su Hao's position in the Dark Forest would be unshakable.

Neither mid-low nor high-end combat power has anyone who can compare with it.

He will become one of the foremost figures in the Dark Forest; his territory will also become a dangerous forbidden zone, and no fool would easily approach his territory! "After returning this time, I'll spend a few days refining a batch of hellish demon creatures!"

Su Hao secretly nodded, his expression becoming somewhat excited, his heartbeat quickening a bit.

Being able to possess an absolutely safe territory in the apocalypse has long been one of his major goals.

Now this goal is showing signs of fruition; how could he not be excited?

Besides energy crystals, the remaining black iron and bronze alloys are also a good harvest.

These two alloys themselves have decent hardness, making them good materials for forging equipment.

If in the future we can recruit some humans or other races skilled in forging, this amount of alloy is enough to forge a large batch of equipment.

Perhaps in the future we could outfit the Tyrannical Demon Ox with a full set of armor, plus an oversized horn from Chen Chao.

If such a set of equipment truly existed, the same bull charge's destructive power would increase greatly! Of course, Su Hao hopes even more to find a robot or energy weapon manufacturing device inside the Pyramid.

If we could equip the Tyrannical Demon Ox with powered armor and have it carry two rocket launchers on its back, the feeling would be even more exhilarating.

However, such things are merely Su Hao's beautiful fantasy.

Even if we could indeed find the manufacturing devices for robots and energy weapons, lacking the corresponding technology and data, we cannot produce energy rocket launchers or powered armor, let alone the latter.

Afterwards, Su Hao waved his hand, storing all the black iron and bronze alloys on the ground, as well as the energy crystals, into his Storage Bag.

As for those bronze boxes, since they are also storage-type items and cannot be placed into the Storage Bag, Su Hao can only temporarily set them aside; if conditions allow, when leaving, he can have the skeleton warriors carry them.

However, now is not the time; the exploration of the underground level has not yet ended.

(End of chapter)