Chapter 83： Phantom beast

Sheng Heng pilots the black soul to fly low above the mountains. Every time he flies for a certain distance, he will fall from the air, come out of the cockpit, and stand on the ground to explore the ground veins with mental power. After repeating this a dozen times, he flew thousands of miles away, and he could not find a more obvious place for the absorption of mental power than the lapis lazuli vein just now.

"Brother Heng, the squad leader is almost finished, ask us if we should go back today, and tomorrow he will come out and look for us together." Cheng Wenkang got off the mecha and walked to Sheng Heng's side and asked.

"After exploring this area, we will go back." Sheng Heng took the map and circled the place where he had just noticed the ore with his pen.

Cheng Wenkang glanced down at the map, and saw that there were already more than a dozen large and small circles on it, and each circle was marked with a letter next to it: "Brother Heng, what do you draw?"

"This is where I came all the way to explore where there may be high-purity mineral veins. In the future, Xiao Hao will definitely come to Resource Star to collect ore. This map will be used in the future." Sheng Heng said.

It’s not a secret that mental power can detect mineral veins. Others don’t know just because they don’t pay attention. As a mecha maker, it is basic common sense to use mental power to explore mineral veins and even perceive the internal structure of metals. It's just that people who can do these two things need to have strong mental power and perception at the same time. It's just that most people either don't have strong mental power or not enough perception, so they rely more on scientific instruments when exploring mineral veins.

Sheng Heng is a natural S-level mental power and has a natural advantage in this regard.

"If your map is seen by other people, you will definitely not be able to keep it." With this map, you can find any ore, just come and dig it directly.

"If you don't talk too much, who would know." Sheng Heng said.

"But you can use your mental power to explore the mineral veins, the monitor and Xia Liu already know about it, and they will definitely say it when they go back." Cheng Wenkang said.

"They know that I will use my mental power to explore the mineral veins, and know that I have a ready map, is it a matter of a while?" Sheng Heng glanced at him.

"..." Cheng Wenkang.

Yes, after all, people use S-level mental power to help scan the mineral veins. This is too violent, and normal people really can't do it. Only the person in question is willing to ruin his talent for love so much.

"Go ahead and take a look." As he said, Sheng Heng walked to a place with vegetation in front.

It was a hill, not high, with some green vegetation sparsely distributed on it. The two climbed to the top of the hill, Sheng Heng let go of his spiritual power, followed the arc of the mountain, and drew down.

"Huh?" Sheng Heng twisted around, looking at the other side of the mountain with some uncertainty.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Wenkang looked over curiously. There was a lake on the other side of the mountain. At this time, the sun had not yet set, and the setting sun reflected a golden wave of light on the reflection of the lake.

"A ray of mental power just disappeared over there." Sheng Heng said.

"There are mineral veins over there?"

"No." Sheng Heng shook his head, "The spiritual power dissipated before it dived into the ground."

"This?" Cheng Wenkang looked around the lake again. The surrounding area was quite lush and green. It really didn't look like a landform with ore on the surface.

"Go down and take a look." Sheng Heng decided to go on.

The two of them walked down from the top of the mountain and came to the place where Sheng Heng had just disappeared. Sheng Heng knelt down and swept his eyes around the grass, then his eyes shrank, and then he stretched out his hand and pulled away a piece of wet dad. The green grass reveals a plum blossom-like footprint inside.

"This seems to be an animal's footprint." Cheng Wenkang watched for a long time and couldn't tell which animal it was. Fortunately, the footprint was not big, it shouldn't be a large animal.

"Fatty, what animal can devour mental power?" Sheng Heng asked.

"You mean... the phantom beast!!!" Cheng Wenkang almost shouted out the three words of the phantom beast.

Sheng Heng glanced at him silently, Cheng Wenkang also immediately realized his gaffe, and quickly covered his mouth.

Phantom beasts are currently the only animal discovered by the Federation that can devour human spiritual power. Because of this feature, the Pharmacy Research Institute has carried out research on Phantom Beasts for a long time, and finally extracted them from the blood of Phantom Beasts. A material that can stimulate mental power a second time. Sima Mingxuan's mental power was able to break through to the S rank because he took the medicine made with the blood of the phantom beast as the main material. And this kind of potion, also named after the phantom beast, is called the phantom potion.

Ever since the Phantom Potion was developed, the Phantom Beast has ushered in a catastrophe, but in just two years, the small number of Phantom Beasts have completely become endangered animals. Later, in order to prevent the phantom beasts from being completely extinct, the Federation sent a large number of mecha fighters to raise the remaining phantom beasts together with zoologists, and only provided a certain amount of phantom beast blood for production every year. Medicament. And these blood can only be obtained without affecting the health of the phantom beast.

"You mean there are wild phantom beasts here?" Cheng Wenkang whispered.

"I have been to the Phantom Beast Garden, and I have seen the Phantom Beast once. The Phantom Beast’s paw prints are very similar to plum blossoms." Sheng Heng pointed to the footprints and said, "And I just explored it again. There are no high-purity mineral veins."

Without high-purity mineral veins, there is nothing that can absorb his mental power, plus this footprint, the probability of an Eidolon beast here is very high.

"Wild phantom beast? Then shall we catch it?" Cheng Wenkang said heartily.

"The blood of the wild phantom beast is several levels better than the captive one. If you can get a little bit of its blood, your mental power should be able to increase by another level." Sheng Heng said.

"Thank you, boss." Cheng Wenkang looked grateful.

"The phantom beast moves extremely fast, and is good at hiding its whereabouts. It is impossible to find it. You can only lure it out with spiritual power." The phantom beast likes to eat spiritual power, and the more pure and powerful the spiritual power, the more it is. like. So if you want them to take the initiative to show up, you can use mental power to lure them.

"Then I will come, I will release my mental power to lure it out." Cheng Wenkang said.

After that, the two found a hidden place and started to set up traps. The trap is very simple, it simply dug a pit, and then placed a small stun gun at the bottom of the pit. Once the phantom beast falls, it will be stunned by the stun gun.

After the arrangement was completed, the two hid behind an uncle three meters away. Cheng Wenkang began to release his mental power, and the release range of the mental power has been hovering around the trap.

So, ten minutes later, the woods are still quiet, not to mention the phantom beast, even a bird has never appeared. However, Cheng Wenkang's face became tired and pale because of the uninterrupted release of high-intensity mental power.

"Could it be that the phantom beast is not around here?" Cheng Wenkang said with a blank face.

"It's also possible that your mental power level is not enough." Sheng Heng said, showing Cheng Wenkang the information about the phantom beast he had just checked on the Internet.

Cheng Wenkang said: "The phantom beast **** mental power and likes high-level mental power. Once you taste high-level mental power, you will no longer use low-level mental power in a short time. So when feeding, you must... …In other words, because it just swallowed up your S-level mental power of your boss, so now I don’t look down on my A-level mental power at all. You said it earlier, wasting my mental power for a long time."

Cheng Wenkang wanted to cry. You must know that his mental power was not distressed at all just to be able to draw out the phantom beast. At this moment, he only felt that his body was weak.

"I'm coming." Sheng Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Thank you, boss." Cheng Wenkang was waiting for this sentence.

"Don't be too happy too early. I just lost a lot of mental energy to explore the veins. I am not sure if I can attract the phantom beast." Sheng Heng was vaccinated in advance.

"It's okay. I can't catch it today. Let's come back tomorrow." Cheng Wenkang said shamelessly.

Sheng Heng twitched his mouth, but did not refuse. Cheng Wenkang is his good friend. He will definitely help.

Sheng Heng closed his eyes and released his mental power again, and in order to allow the phantom beast to discover the existence of mental power more quickly, he divided a total of dozens of tiny spiritual powers wandering in the woods.

After about a minute, a ray of mental energy disappeared silently.

Sheng Heng opened his eyes and winked at Cheng Wenkang.

Cheng Wenkang would like to see, the whole person tensely looked in the direction of the trap, ready to rush over at any time.

Sheng Heng took back the extra mental power, and then appeared one after another between the phantom beast's position and the trap, and step by step led the phantom beast towards the trap. Finally, after the twelfth strand of mental power was swallowed, a white velvet beast about the size of a cat appeared in the sight of the two.

Sheng Heng breathed a sigh of relief the moment he saw the phantom beast, his mental power was continuously swallowed by the phantom beast, and if the phantom beast couldn't come, he would not be able to hold it anymore.

It's almost the last one.

Sheng Heng released the last ray of spiritual power, allowing the spiritual power to swim back and forth along the trap's position. At the moment when the mental power appeared, the head of the phantom beast immediately looked over, and then the whole body leaped forward, rushing towards the direction of the mental power, which is the trap.

But at this moment, another surging mental power suddenly appeared, rushing toward the phantom beast, Sheng Heng secretly said a bad cry, it was too late to withdraw, the two mental powers collided, Sheng Heng was backlashed, and suddenly The sea of ​​knowledge is about to explode.

"Hmm!" Sheng Heng cried out in pain, his eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.

"Boss?!" Cheng Wenkang, who had already rushed out to catch the phantom beast, saw that Sheng Heng was wrong, ran back and anxiously helped Sheng Heng up from the ground, "Boss, what's wrong with you?"

At the same time, he immediately used his optical brain to send out a call for help.

"Someone..." Sheng Heng said difficultly.

At this time, a rush of footsteps also came from the other end of the forest, and a group of five people appeared in front of Cheng Wenkang, two of whom Cheng Wenkang recognized at a glance.

"Sima Mingxuan, Yan Fei?!" Cheng Wenkang shouted.

Sima Mingxuan looked at Cheng Wenkang and Sheng Heng supported by Cheng Wenkang with a look of surprise. And Yan Fei, who was standing beside him, had already ran to the edge of the trap and picked out the phantom beast that was stunned by the stun gun.

"Sima senior, it's a phantom beast." After Yan Fei confirmed, he directly put the phantom beast into the cage they had prepared.

Cheng Wenkang's face turned black suddenly: "Are you trying to grab something?"

Sima Mingxuan scanned the surroundings and asked instead: "Two schoolboys, why are they here alone?"

Sima Mingxuan naturally knew that sophomore students came here to look for mineral veins, but there are very few mineral veins here, even people from the local base of Resource Star would not come to this area.

"The phantom beast was caught by us." Cheng Wenkang was not easily distracted.

Sima Mingxuan frowned, just about to say something, three mechas suddenly roared in the air, and when they found them, they immediately landed from the air and stopped.

"Fatty, what happened? I came over as soon as I received your distress signal." Sun Chu got off the mecha and ran towards Cheng Wenkang, "What's wrong with Sheng Heng?"

"The boss was beaten up by the spirit in order to help me catch the phantom beast." Cheng Wenkang said.

"Phantom beast?!" Sun Chu shouted in shock, and subconsciously looked in the direction of Sima Mingxuan and others.

It was too late for Sima Mingxuan to hide the phantom beast, so he could only stop in place with an ugly expression.