Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6540 Crystallization
While Rome was struggling to solve its own food problem, the locust plague predicted by the Gan and Shi families officially began its second round of outbreak.

Wang Lang, who was urgently summoned from the laboratory by the local guardian, fell silent as he looked at the locusts that covered the sky. Wang Lang had seen locust plagues before, but this was the first time he had seen a plague of such a scale. It felt as if even the entire sky had become gray.

"What's wrong with the Gan and Shi families? Why didn't they notify us? These are my experiments planted outside!" Wang Lang screamed and launched an attack on the locust plague, but it was of no use. The scale of the second round of locust plague had exceeded the theoretical data previously estimated by the Gan and Shi families. Wang Lang, who had recently moved to East Africa, encountered almost the main force of the locusts.

They were no match at all. Wang Lang watched helplessly as all the exotic plants he had worked so hard to research, as well as the large tracts of millet used to feed the laboratory and security personnel, were all easily destroyed by the locusts. The Three Kings Laboratory, which had the ability to kill large beasts of the realm-breaking level, could only watch helplessly in the face of such a natural disaster.

At the same time, researchers from major families who were making a living in East Africa were hit by a locust plague. Basically, all the plants planted in the open air were destroyed. No matter whether these plants had any special properties or were rich in evil elements, it was meaningless. They were all easily destroyed by the locusts. After the overwhelming locusts swept past, there was only one layer of soil left on the ground.

Researchers like Yang Chen, who don't like to communicate with the outside world and own a bunker, and usually spend a few days researching in the bunker laboratory before coming out, experienced the most outrageous days of their lives.

"So, where is my experimental field?" When Yang Chen came out of the bunker, he fell into deep thought as he looked at the environment where there was not even a blade of grass around and all the green had been eaten up. Who had moved his bunker away for no reason? What the hell, how come the environment has changed after I spent a few days researching it? If I remember correctly, the place I chose before was not like this!

This is where the African experimenters are unlucky. It is sometimes difficult for the main body in Central Asia to contact them. In addition, after the Central Asian families received the news that the locusts were about to pass through Central Asia, they all tried their best to find ways to solve the losses in their own closed countries. As for their own researchers in Africa, they had no time to notify them at all. After all, the loss of those things in Africa was not fatal.

Besides, the number of people invested in Africa is relatively small after all, and it is easier to eat with fewer people. Even if there is a locust plague, there are various means to find a way to solve the problem. It will not be like the locust plague in Central Asia, where hundreds of thousands or millions of people starve to death.

Therefore, at this time when information exchange is difficult, the major families simply let their own people in Africa go. It is not a big deal anyway, and the local researchers can understand it. As a result, the researchers of the major families in Africa are currently enjoying the locust plague in advance.

"Have these locusts grown too big?" Yuan Xin frantically used various poisons in the Yuan family's laboratory, killing a large number of locusts. However, the dead locusts were soon eaten by new locusts. Then the toxicity contained in the poisons killed the new locusts again, and the new locusts that came later ate these unfortunate locusts. After repeating this several times, Yuan Xin gave up struggling.

"Die!" Wang Lang angrily activated the etching again. A huge amount of the essence of heaven and earth was transformed into shock and released, killing locusts within a radius of dozens of meters in a circle, but it was filled again in just a few seconds. Such a large-scale release may have killed tens of thousands of locusts, but for the locusts that are currently calculated in the billions, it is nothing at all. What's more, the energy consumption of such a move is not something Wang Lang can afford. Every shot consumes the energy reserves of the Three Kings Laboratory.

There is no way, there are too many, so many that Yuan Xin has given up struggling.

The locusts in the second round of locust plague were stronger than those in the first round in terms of both size and combat effectiveness, and they devoured the corpses of other locusts much faster than in the first round. There was no other way. The Roman Empire sacrificed dozens of sun gods, so that not a drop of rain had fallen in East Africa since the news of the locust plague was received some time ago, resulting in a serious shortage of food for the locust larvae when they crawled out of the soil.

It was not the fear caused by cannibalism, but simply because they ate too fast. Wang Lang had seen locust plagues before, but this version of locust plague was the first time Wang Lang had seen one. They were too strong, so strong that Wang Lang felt it was ridiculous. They had strong attack and combat power, were large in size, numerous in number, and ate a lot. They were simply invincible, completely and utterly invincible.

The locusts were hit by this special attack and fell like raindrops, but it was meaningless. The gaps created by the instant kills were filled in the next moment. Before the killed locusts even fell to the ground, living locusts crawled up and started to bite them. Then it wouldn't be long before they were quickly eaten by a group of locusts. Wang Lang was horrified by the sight.

As a result, these locusts had been suffering from each other from the very beginning. They were basically equivalent to the elite soldiers who had emerged from the Colosseum. Their combat effectiveness was extremely amazing. Of course, their number also dropped from the originally possible hundreds of billions to tens of billions, and the scale of the locust plague was greatly reduced.

"Die!" Special sonic vibrations were released into the sky with high-energy shock waves. Wang Lang angrily activated the defense force of his own Three Kings Laboratory. The crystalline energy body bought from Guo Zhao channeled the essence of heaven and earth contained in it into the special etching with the greatest power, converting it into special sound waves and shock waves that were released in all directions.

Yuan Xin caught a lot of super locusts as big as his hand. He had given up confronting the locusts head-on. Everything on the ground was considered a sacrifice to the locust god. As for research, other research could be stopped and he would now focus on studying locusts.

Of course, tens of billions of locusts are also very outrageous, at least they are rarely seen in the Central Plains. And tens of billions of elite locusts are something that the Central Plains families have never even thought of.

Basically, all the open-air experimental fields were eaten up, and due to the alienation of the essence of heaven and earth, the size and combat effectiveness of these locusts increased further, and their resistance to toxicity also improved. Plants rich in the breath of evil gods were nothing to these super locusts. There was nothing that they could not eat, so they were all destroyed.

"What the hell is this thing?" Yuan Xin dissected out a crystal that was twice larger than a grain of rice from the body of a powerful locust. Looking at this thing, Yuan Xin fell into deep thought. What the hell, did the Three Kings really make this?
"Hurry, hurry, test this for me, and dissect other locusts to see if they have this thing." Yuan Xin urgently notified other personnel in his bunker laboratory, and then various testing equipment was pulled out and precise testing began.

Soon a very detailed information was produced. The crystal, which was twice larger than a grain of rice, was of high purity and even refined the essence of heaven and earth, and had clear properties.

"The Taiyuan Wang family actually made it? Isn't this a joke?" Yuan Xin held the crystal with a little flame glow with tweezers and fell into deep thought. The cultivators in this world, as well as the various beasts that became fierce beasts, did not have strange energy cores such as inner elixir, Yuanying, and magic core.

Even the so-called immortal golden elixir actually refers to the immortal nature of gold and the Tao of primordial chaos, rather than the existence of such a strange thing as a golden elixir. This is why the magic stone will disintegrate, because to put it bluntly, that thing is the life essence of an immortal golden elixir strongman, and it is just the crystal formed by the remaining vitality after his death.

Therefore, the three major empires and the various boundary-breaking beasts living in the wild do not have the so-called energy core. Only a rather strange existence like Zhao Yun would invent such a thing for himself. To be honest, this thing is more of a fatal weakness than a strengthening.

The existence of an energy core in the body is actually no different from having an extra fatal point. Moreover, assuming that this energy core can be taken out and used as some high-level material, then this thing is not so much a natural energy core as it is an organ specially created by some powerful person for the convenience of harvesting.

Just like foie gras and caviar, a certain method has been specially studied to make the things that this creature originally possesses expand rapidly to ensure that the maximum benefit can be obtained, and it is also convenient for picking.

In short, this is the idea. A normal life form will not deliberately give itself a fatal weakness. Combining all the energy together to create a materialized energy core, isn't that just for people to take out?
So this kind of strange thing has never existed in this world from the beginning, but the crystals that appear in front of Yuan Xin now completely meet the settings of the so-called energy core.

As Yuan Xin, who had bought the expensive crystal of the essence of heaven and earth from Guo Zhao, she knew very well how much the major families demanded for materialized energy.

The reason why the Anping Guo family was able to develop, in addition to its fighting power, was this unique business. Guo Zhao relied on his own spiritual talent to rub out materialized crystals of the essence of heaven and earth, and apart from the three major empires, only Guo Zhao could do this.

The materialized crystal of the essence of heaven and earth can be used in many situations. The major families really love and hate this thing. They love it as an energy output device, love the high energy it contains, and love its extremely high versatility. But they only hate one thing, which is that they cannot produce it themselves, and it is too expensive.

After Lao Wang's family bought three crystals of the essence of heaven and earth, they decided to make them themselves. There was no other way. They were too expensive, so expensive that even Lao Wang's family felt the pain. And these days, if you buy this kind of thing from someone else, don't just say that they are ripping you off. If they sell it to you, they are respecting you. If they look down on you even a little, you won't even be qualified to see this thing.

But for Wang's, it was still too expensive, so they started to develop their own products after buying it. In fact, all companies did the same, but the fact that no substitute has appeared so far is enough to explain all the problems - Guo Zhao's spiritual talent does not allow him to study other things, and he specializes in the route of energy materialization, and he really can't beat others.

As time went by, other families gave up this idea, and only the Wang family seemed to have been conducting research on it. Yuan Xin's Chenjun Yuan family had always had connections with the Wang family, so they knew some inside information. The crystals in his hands, which were not much bigger than rice grains, were the bio-energy core technology that theoretically existed in the Wang family's research topics.

This topic was initiated by Wang Lang. Its goal is to give animals a biological energy core, and then rely on the animals to continuously accumulate energy so that the energy core in the body will gradually materialize and crystallize. When it reaches a certain level, it will be easy for humans to pick it.

According to Wang Lang's theory, as long as animals can consciously absorb the essence of heaven and earth, store it in a certain location to form a so-called energy core, and then gradually compress it according to a special mode of operation, it should be possible to create inner elixir or magic core, which are things in fantasy novels or science fiction novels. Of course, it doesn't matter what it's called. What matters is that this thing is a high-energy crystal.

It’s just that the Wang family has been silent, stuck at the stage of how to form an energy core. Yuan Xin originally thought that the matter had been put to rest, but she didn’t expect to see such a thing during the locust plague. Has the Wang family succeeded?

In fact, not only Yuan Xin was shocked, Wang Lang himself was also very shocked, especially when he killed two boundary-breaking locusts and dissected out two fiery red crystals the size of fingernails from their bodies. Wang Lang was dumbfounded. He had only proposed this route that year, but their Wang family had not completed it at all. The technical strength required for this technology was really too high, and their family only had theory.

Although it was indeed forced out during the later biological experiments, such forced things are, on the one hand, too expensive, and on the other hand, do not have the ability of self-inheritance.

What the Wang family wants is to develop the biological core crystallization technology and then release this thing. Then the animal will spontaneously change the form of African animals, so that all animals will naturally possess this thing. In the future, they just need to pick it instead of manually installing it on the beasts one by one.

In this way, Africa will become a farmland belonging to their own family, and various high-energy crystals can be harvested one after another, and they will no longer be subject to the control of Anping Guo family.

However, the Wang family had never developed this technology. But now Wang Lang had dissected out high-energy crystals from the corpses of locusts. They were of very high purity and had the same properties as Wang Lang had imagined back then. This was a perfect realization of his idea.

　The inner elixir in fantasy novels and the magic core in fantasy novels have been created by humans themselves.

　　(End of this chapter)