I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

Chapter 736 Returning to the Blue Ocean to Continue Operations

While large-capacity spatial artifacts are very precious, their value is actually not that great to Su Mo, who already has two places to use: the Small Tower and the Teaching Tower.

Su Mo wasn't sure where the four smaller ones would be used, but the larger one was probably meant for use on the battlefield, so she didn't haggle over the price.

Although she felt that there was little problem in getting ten satellites from the authorities in exchange for her doing those three things, it would be good to increase favorability by using a few storage artifacts first.

He rummaged through his space and took out four storage rings (there are many kinds of storage artifacts, but rings are the most common because they are unisex), along with a bracelet, and handed them to Jiang Qizhang.

"The points will be transferred to your account in a little while." Jiang Qizhang took the five storage artifacts and put them away.

It's normal for large transfers to take a while, so Su Mo didn't say anything and left the association.

After seeing Su Mo off, Jiang Qizhang also left headquarters. He was going to personally report this matter to the top leader.

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After leaving City One, Su Mo prepared to return to Blue Ocean.

Previously, she entered the Blue Sea from the east of Xia Kingdom because that direction was closer to those marked locations. This time, she changed her direction.

The retrieved airship turned south, this time heading from the southern province.

Whether it was luck or not, she found a mother nest after only one day of searching in the Blue Ocean.

It is located in a bay in the western part of the Blue Sea, where it almost meets the Star Sea.

As Su Mo had predicted, it took her nearly two days to deal with the insect swarm. The water sphere then continued to dive down and found the main body of the mother nest, which was rooted deep in the bay.

The terrain here is somewhat complex, and the number and quality of the secret passages are limited.

Upon approaching, Su Mo discovered only two secret passages within the area covered by the fungal carpet, and the entrances to those passages were relatively small.

But looking at the mother nest again, its size is no less than the previous ones.

Su Mo hovered the water sphere above the mother nest, observing the two secret passages and then the mother nest itself, his mind filled with doubt.

Given the current size of the mother nest, those two slightly inferior secret realms shouldn't still be in their current state. Thinking of this, Su Mo paused. Could it be that there were originally more than just these two secret realms here, and the others had been drained and disappeared by the mother nest?

I'm not sure, I'll think about it some more.

After observing from a distance, the water sphere approached, and Su Mo decisively killed the mother nest and put it into his spatial storage.

She had just sent a live mother nest back a few days ago, and she didn't plan to keep any more alive after that.

Besides, something seemed off here, so she decided to take a closer look.

The mother nest itself is huge and gets in the way, so it must be dealt with first before we can continue.

Filled with doubt, Su Mo continued to approach the seabed.

The camera mounted on the bow of the flying boat was turned on to record the passage.

Su Mo's spiritual energy threads were also probing everywhere, traversing among the spores that had begun to dissipate, trying to find traces of where more secret passages had once existed.

In terms of absorbing the energy of the secret realm, the Mother Nest is definitely no match for the Little Tower. The Little Tower can completely drain the secret realm in a short time, leaving not a trace.

But the mother nest obviously can't. Although they also absorb, the speed is very slow. Su Mo doesn't know if there will be any residue if a secret realm is really drained by the mother nest. That's what she's looking for.

In the deep, dark ocean, a faint light shone from the deck living room of the flying boat inside the water sphere, as if it might be extinguished at any moment, but it was well protected by the water sphere's barrier.

That tiny glimmer of light flickered and shifted on the seabed.

After spending some time, Su Mo did not find any traces of the secret realm she had guessed, nor did she find any marine life native to Blue Star. The situation was basically the same as the previous nests.

When the Zerg came to Earth, they didn't just wipe out humanity.

The seabed had lost its former vitality, and Su Mo had no choice but to leave.

Just then, Su Mo's mental energy detected an anomaly.

It is a fungal carpet.

In the past, the mat fungus encountered was always surrounding the mother nest body. Although the mat area did not have a fixed shape, it was basically an irregular circle with the mother nest body at the center.

However, Su Mo's spiritual energy discovered a "small path" extending out from one side of the fungal carpet.

The water sphere spun sharply, moving closer to the raised end of the fungal carpet.

Follow the sprawling fungal carpet branch, and you'll find an underwater cave at the end.

The water sphere was now suspended diagonally above the small opening. Su Mo looked down, his eyes dark and unreadable.

The location of this opening is some distance away from the main body of the mother nest, not too far but not too close either. Why would the fungal carpet extend here?

Su Mo's spiritual energy had already followed the fungal carpet extending into the cave entrance to continue its exploration, but unfortunately it soon reached its end. When the fungal carpet ended, the path inside the cave also ended.

It's blocked.

The mental energy strands carefully observed the blocked area, and judging from the marks on the stone, it was caused later.

The mother nest doesn't do anything unnecessary without a reason; there must be a reason why the creep has come here.

What was here before?

Su Mo thought of the two low-quality but still existing secret realm passages not far away, as well as other traces of secret realms that she had explored but failed to find, and she began to make a guess.

There once existed a vein of spirit stones here.

Now, not even a trace of different spiritual energy can be sensed here, because the Zerg have already mined out all the spirit stone mines here.

The mother nest devoured an entire spirit stone mine to fatten itself up.

The mine has been exhausted, and the Zerg naturally won't care about what happens next. The mine has collapsed, blocking the way in.

Su Mo felt a pity at the thought of a spirit stone mine disappearing.

But this feeling didn't last, because she caught a glimpse of the enormous mother nest corpse that had just been put into her space. Well, the spirit stone mine was gone, but it wasn't a complete waste.

She has already accumulated two gigantic mother nests in the space; breaking them would release a huge amount of energy.

Having quickly calmed his bad mood about missing the spirit stone mine, Su Mo turned and left.

Blue Star is indeed a special planet. Not only have several new spirit stone mines been discovered in the mountains on land, but now they have also been found on the seabed.

Su Mo felt that there must be more than just this one in the seabed.

Standing on the deck of the airship, Su Mo glanced back at the pitch-black cave and shook his head.

The seabed has been occupied by the Zerg for over a decade. Given the Zerg's obsession with and possessiveness of psionic energy, even if there were a second or third spirit stone mine on the seabed, it would probably have been devoured by the Mother Nest long ago.

Turning his gaze away, Su Mo was not discouraged.

As long as we capture the mother nest, even if we can't recover the spirit stone mine, we won't lose much.

She quickly figured it out.

The little tower is still asleep. Even if she finds the spirit stone mine, she doesn't have the ability to directly extract the entire vein and send it into her space, let alone hire people to go into the seabed to mine it.

If the authorities knew she was mining spirit stones without permission, they certainly wouldn't approve.

But if the mother nest is eaten up, all she needs to do is take the mother nest with her. Well... cough cough.

The water balloon flew away quickly.