I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early-Chapter 550 - 404: Unknown Civilization, Appears!

Chapter 550: Chapter 404: Unknown Civilization, Appears!

The terrifying battle in the crack seemed to erase even the fundamental laws of nature.

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Luckily, it didn’t affect the humans standing on the mountain.

People were merely watching it as if watching an exciting drama… just like watching a “StarCraft” movie, these insects were incredibly crazy, even evolving various tactics, which meant that indeed, a “Mother Worm” was controlling these massive armies from behind.

The only pity was that many mushroom forests seemed to have been destroyed in the war…

Greedy Demon God·Lu Yuan saw the destruction of the mushroom forests one after another, his face showing an expression of constipation, please! What are you fighting for? You really deserved to die!

Well, it was just him nagging there, others actually did not care much because mushrooms, after all, would regrow, and humans hadn’t obtained them yet… You can’t count the resources you haven’t secured as your own, right?

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“Ding Ding Ding!”

Suddenly, an alarm went off, and a large swarm of insects scrambled to the surface in the chaos and charged straight towards the direction of the reconnaissance fortress.

These guys actually fought from the ground up to the surface, exceeding ten thousand in number, all of which were not very powerful.

Lu Yuan looked closely and instantly got excited: “Quick, lure these insects into the fortress!”

“Use cold weapons as much as possible, do not attract the hatred of those things. Try to capture them alive, we need to breed these insects to cultivate mushrooms.”

These senseless creatures, seeing the tender humans, rushed into the fortress wildly, showing their teeth and claws wanting to eat people.

“Biga!”

Originally not strong and having been weakened once by the “irregular mountain”, they were quickly captured by soldiers armed with cold weapons and locked up in special glass rooms made of special materials.

This time it really was a full harvest, although these were useless insects, at least there was no shortage of experimental materials!

However, soon a large number of insects overflowed from the crack again, it was not possible to keep capturing them alive continuously, Lu Yuan could only issue an extermination order, store more bodies, and transporting them back as feed for the insects was also a good choice.

The underground war was extremely fierce, while the human side was relatively relaxed, only somewhat tormenting.

Even in the primitive forest, a small number of insects from the insect race overflowed.

But since these guys had no reproductive abilities and leaving the crack would weaken them, they basically couldn’t become a significant problem, Lu Yuan simply dispatched his own insect soldiers to clear them up, so the problem wasn’t too big.

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Thus, after six months, the intensity of the war finally decreased. Insects killing each other, half had died.

Whereas the human side captured 100,000 insects and even stored over one million bodies, piling up into a full mountain. All these were transported back by the Sky Fortress for the insect soldiers to enjoy.

Once the crack settled down, drones were once again dispatched for reconnaissance.

Scientists had a simple thought, whether they could take the opportunity to steal some mushrooms or something, and if they could grab the legendary-level inspiration mushrooms, that would be a huge gain.

“I wonder how the mushroom forests are now…” whenever Lu Yuan remembered that his wealth had been destroyed, a pain haunted his heart, almost triggering “collapse art.”

Inside the command center of the frontline fortress, hundreds of screens displayed images sent by the drones.

The number of insects had really decreased a lot, and most of the powerful insect race gathered at the very bottom of the crack, as if something kept attracting them.

Only near the mushroom forests, there were still some small insects, tending these delicate fungi.

Most of the mushrooms had been eaten clean, only some leftovers messily scattered on the ground.

However, for humans, picking up some trash was actually quite good.

The drones were equipped with mechanical arms, able to flexibly pick mushrooms.

One plane picking up a kilogram, wouldn’t 100 planes be a hundred kilograms?

Even if the quality of the upper layer of fungi wasn’t great, the joy of a bountiful harvest still permeated the command center.

“Getting 1 Spirit Essence of resources a day, that’s also acceptable…” Lu Yuan kept consoling himself.

Just then, a captain suddenly widened his eyes, issuing an A-level alert: “Report… Report! I think I’ve found something strange…”

Lu Yuan hurried over to look, his pupils dilated, and he was instantly stunned.

On the large screen appeared…

A gray-black drone!

Its design resembled a small insect, with a thick mimetic shell, two long antennas, and several propellers on its body.

The key point was that the gray-black drone was also using its mechanical arms to secretly pick up the scattered mushrooms on the ground, the “click click” sounds of the scissors crisp and clear.

That gray-black drone quickly noticed the human one and slowly turned its head, its two indicator lights flickered.

The human side’s did the same.

The two drones, staring eye to eye, confirming each other’s identity.

“This design, doesn’t seem like one of ours,” a soldier muttered.

“Obviously not…”

“Then… where did it come from?”

“This civilization… really is cunning, able to survive in such an environment?” Lu Yuan was almost incredulous.

What does this mean?

After the period of calm following the war with the Insect Soldiers, humans finally discovered that unknown civilization!

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In the meeting room, everyone was suddenly shocked, followed by a surge of tension.

Alien Civilizations could sometimes be more dangerous than Anomalies!

While it was possible to coexist harmoniously with Anomalies, peaceful coexistence between civilizations was incredibly challenging.

“Where are they?” Lu Yuan thought immediately.

The other officers also murmured to themselves, “How is it possible? Could they be hiding thousands of kilometers away? We’ve been searching for so long and found nothing… Could they really be underground?”

“How did they survive?”

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On the human side, the drone spun around on the spot, its spotlight flashed a few times, but it did not discover any strange buildings nearby.

The opposing drone also flashed a few times, waving its mechanical arm, seemingly making some gestures.

Then, it wrote a series of characters on the ground.

Thus, the two sides started to communicate with great difficulty.

Gradually, Lu Yuan seemed to understand the other party’s intention: they were actually inviting our drone to follow them?

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“Report!”

“We might have discovered a technological creation of the alien civilization!”

Clearly, when they saw the human drone, the members of this “unknown civilization” were also a bit confused; they were happily gathering mushrooms when suddenly a competitor arrived…

Well, they weren’t really competitors, considering the rifts layered upon each other made the total area several times larger than Earth, and treasures are obtained by those destined to find them.

However, not many civilizations could survive here… where do you all come from?

The two drones faced each other silently, without horns or a common radio device, they just stayed quietly on the ground, communicating by waving mechanical arms and writing and drawing on the ground with difficulty.

Just then, an insect crawled by and with a slight “click” sound, it stepped directly on the human’s drone.

Both immediately played dead, not moving at all, like thieves!

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This unknown civilization… no, it’s not just one civilization, but a total of twelve civilizations!

Named—Underground Alliance!

A large group of soldiers controlled 100,000 drones, happily collecting garbage, mushrooms, ore, and the bodies of insects; they wanted everything!

Underground Alliance, as the name suggests, is a military, political, and economic alliance formed by a group of races living underground.

“God” really knows how to pick locations, the living environment of a civilization before and after crossing does not change much.

Where they originally lived, they lived in the same place on the Pangu Continent after arriving… and they might even give you a bit of fate, whether you can grasp it depends on yourself.

As a result, these twelve races were exiled to this remote corner!

The technological levels of these races were uneven, some were still in the feudal era, and others had entered the Information Age, capable of creating rockets and cannons!

Fortunately, at the beginning of the Ninth Epoch, the insect population here was not so active.

The Mother Worm was still in a period of extreme weakness due to the Epoch Disaster, with little combat capability and poor reproductive ability.

Thus, these civilizations did not think the outside environment was very dangerous; some feudal civilizations even opened the Safe Zone during a great famine!

These low-level civilizations naturally encountered a wave of fortune; the abundant extraordinary resources rapidly strengthened their individuals.

Seeing these feudal civilizations thriving, the more advanced technological civilizations could not resist either, and they wanted to collect mushrooms, so they too opened their safe zones.

The two sides could even exchange peacefully and amicably—this world is so magical, there was truly no need to exterminate each other when everyone knew nothing.

Additionally, there are twelve underground species here; a good reputation is much more important than a bad one!

Thus, the Underground Alliance, this alliance of 12 civilizations, gradually formed over the past century.

However, good times did not last long; as time passed, the insect population crazily proliferated, increasing in number, and the twelve species combined were not a match!

To survive, they fought while relocating a large portion of their population, eventually hiding in a very strange location, a mysteriously discovered place by the “Dark Steel Civilization” called Grotto Heaven!

It was equivalent to a mysterious and vast “Different Space”.

Inside Grotto Heaven, there was actually the heritage of the Gear Civilization!

Thus, all twelve races shrunk within the “Grotto Heaven”, only venturing out during gaps when the insect armies were slaughtering each other, gathering some mushrooms and ore.