“People are divided by weakness, not by good or evil.”

In the corner, unbeknownst to Wang Er and the others, a dark shadow lay stealthily on the ground.

Zhou Qi listened to the sound coming from the bugging device in his hand. “This isn’t logical, is it?”

According to the normal process, shouldn't they be seeking revenge on him, and then he would nip the danger in the bud?

“This, should I make a move or not?” Zhou Qi hesitated for a moment, then thought about it and decided to put it on hold for now, so he continued to give instructions to the Five-Tier Annam Centipede, telling it to continue lurking.

Gradually, night deepened.

Zhou Qi felt that Liang Xiaoxi was right upstairs from him, and he tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

He was originally a hot-blooded young man, and waves of warmth kept coming from his abdomen, so Zhou Qi got up and walked into the cultivation shed.

Watching the ordinary Yellow Mealworms produce at full throttle under the coverage of the Ten-Tiered Yellow Mealworms' Racial Light talent, the initial two baskets had now increased to five baskets.

It was barely enough to supply the Centipedes, and the Evolution Points provided by the Yellow Mealworms daily were also rising with the tide.

Some of the Centipedes recruited from White Snake Mountain had already started laying eggs and breeding small Centipedes.

Everything seemed to be moving in a better direction.

Zhou Qi stood there, quietly watching these scenes, until the night grew darker and he felt a little sleepy before returning to the guard room and falling asleep.

October 22, 2016

Current Evolution Points: 118,000.

When Zhou Qi woke up in the morning, he saw Liang Xiaoxi already exercising in the courtyard, dressed in a loose black tracksuit, performing a set of boxing moves similar to Tai Chi.

Zhou Qi went over and said, “Morning.”

“Sister Xi, what kind of boxing style are you practicing?” Zhou Qi asked curiously.

“This is the Swimming Dragon Eight Trigrams Palm I learned when I was a child; it’s just for physical exercise,” Liang Xiaoxi smiled slightly. After this night, she had completely adjusted.

The two started chatting off and on. It was only then that Zhou Qi learned Liang Xiaoxi was 25 years old, two years older than him.

After breakfast, Zhou Qi locked the outer door of the cultivation shed.

The Evolution Space was his biggest secret; he wouldn’t even tell his parents, let alone now that there was another person at the farm.

After eating, Liang Xiaoxi also consciously returned to her bedroom on the second floor and told Zhou Qi not to worry about her, saying she would go to town to eat.

Zhou Qi then handed her the electric scooter keys from home.

He prepared to go into the mountains by himself with his backpack.

Upon arriving at No. 1 Base, the Five-Ranked Digging Ant Queen ordered all the One-Order Ants hidden underground to be summoned.

After this period of breeding, there were tens of thousands of One-Order Ants, a vast swarm.

When Zhou Qi walked past, they all raised their forelegs, as if performing a salute, and half of them dispersed to surround Zhou Qi for protection.

Zhou Qi considered whether to bring the Five-Ranked Digging Ant Queen to Second Base, but then immediately dismissed the idea.

It’s still not good to put all your eggs in one basket, and besides, No. 1 Base still had a large amount of biological resources to develop.

As soon as Zhou Qi entered White Snake Mountain, the bushes to the side swayed and transformed into a Ten-Tiered Giant Mantis.

It had been maintaining camouflage protection nearby just now. If the Ten-Tiered Giant Mantis hadn't actively disengaged its camouflage, Zhou Qi wouldn't have been able to spot it with his naked eye at all.

Immediately, two Ten-Tiered Giant Mantises, one in front and one behind, protected Zhou Qi in the center.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at the entrance of the Second Base cave.

At this time, the vegetation near Second Base had become dense, with One-Order Army Ants either hidden underground or obscured by green plants. Undoubtedly, the concealment of Second Base had been greatly improved.

Zhou Qi squeezed out a path through the green plants, with tree branches constantly brushing against his body. An ordinary person would probably have been scratched by now.

Fortunately, Zhou Qi’s Physique had been greatly enhanced after being strengthened by the Cockroach Body, allowing him to reach the cave entrance and pass through from the inside.

The inside of the cave was pitch black, with only a small amount of light shining in through cracks at the entrance.

Zhou Qi opened his backpack, allowing the Ten-Order Fireflies that had been strengthened to Tier 10 to fly out from inside.

Instantly, a strong light emanated from one of the Fireflies.

Suddenly, the entire cave was illuminated, and it was Zhou Qi’s first time seeing the inside of the cave so clearly.

It was probably only about fifty square meters. The stone tablet stood in the center, the pit was behind the stone tablet, and further back from the pit was the underground passage dug by the Five-Ranked Army Ant Queen.

The stone walls around the cave were rough and uneven, with faint, indistinct patterns resembling murals.

Zhou Qi took a closer look, but due to the passage of time, the murals had already become quite unclear.

Only the rough outlines remained, resembling strange monsters, with several people holding spears confronting them.

Based on the size of the humans in the murals, it was even clearer how enormous these monsters were.

The small cave seemed like an ancient ruin.

Zhou Qi took a deep look, then got up and walked into the underground passage.

The passage as a whole was much wider than the last time he entered. His height of 1.8 meters didn't feel too cramped walking inside.

The cave was very deep. Zhou Qi walked for nearly an hour before finally reaching the underground Cave.

A Firefly emitted a soft white light, illuminating the interior of the Cave.

Zhou Qi finally saw the condition inside the Cave. The cave was very high, estimated to be over 20 meters, and the entire Cave was boundless. There were inverted stalactites, strangely shaped boulders, and about 200 meters ahead was the lake where he had previously encountered the nine-headed monster. To the left were various caves, similar to yaodongs (cave dwellings).

Thirty Ten-Order Fireflies were scattered for illumination, but they still couldn't light up the entire area, as if forming a hollow layer underground.

A strange aura permeated the cave, sometimes so quiet it made one uneasy, and at other times, eerie roars echoed.

Teams of One-Order Army Ants roamed the ground, but they all avoided the lake area.

Zhou Qi followed the light and saw the Five-Ranked Army Ant Queen, near the stone wall not far from the underground passage, with stark white bones on the ground.

He walked over and looked at the white bones of an unknown creature on the ground. Based on the skeleton, Zhou Qi roughly determined that the owner of the bones should have had a monkey-like Physique, with a skeletal structure similar to that of a human.

“Could this be a water monkey?” Zhou Qi muttered to himself.

The underground Cave was truly too bizarre. Was this still the world where humans had lived for thousands of years?

Just as he was thinking, Zhou Qi faintly heard a “rustling” sound and turned his head to look.

Movement came from the various cave-like stone grottoes on the left side of the stone wall.

Snake-like figures, similar in length but without scales, with gray skin and a putrid smell, were continuously crawling out from inside.

It seemed the light from the Ten-Order Fireflies had attracted them all out.