While ordinary heavenly materials and earthly treasures didn’t have much effect on him now, accumulation over time could still increase his stamina limit considerably, as long as he consumed a significant amount.
However, triggering such an adventure would have to wait until Zhang Yanhang returned to the Main World, which was still four days away.
During these four days, he had three tasks to complete: the first was to clear the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, the second was to excavate a passage to other Crimson Iron Ant Nests, and the third was to take advantage of the remaining time after the excavation to see if it was possible to clear out the new Crimson Iron Ant Nest.
For now, since Zhang Yanhang had already located the remaining Crimson Iron Ants within the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, he felt confident that he could eliminate these ants within an hour and thus clear the entire nest.
After that task, he would need to start excavating the passage to the other Crimson Iron Ant Nests as fast as possible to ensure enough time for cleaning out the other nests afterward.
After testing the Death Wave Skill, Zhang Yanhang picked up four White Treasure Boxes and one Green Treasure Box from the ground and put them in his Waist Bag.
Breathing in a breath of clean air, filtered of any bloody smell by the Energy Shield, Zhang Yanhang quietly ran towards the fork in the path that he had already traversed once during the Time Pause.
As for the slot machine inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, Zhang Yanhang felt there was no need to move it just yet, mainly because it was out of the way. If it became convenient later, he might relocate it next to the Transmission Channel so that on future visits to the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, he could immediately clear out the slot machine prize pool. Thɪs chapter is updated by novel✦fire.net
For now, the slot machine was roughly in the middle section of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest. If the prize pool needed to be refreshed daily, this location was rather suitable and barely acceptable.
If possible, Zhang Yanhang really wanted to put the slot machine into his Waist Bag and carry it with him, but sadly, such a thing was impossible. Although the slot machine was easily movable, it couldn’t be placed into the Waist Bag, nor could it be taken out of Ashen World.
Even an attempt to use Alchemy to modify it and eliminate its attribute of not being transportable had become an entirely unfeasible task due to its indestructibility.
Minutes later, after navigating through numerous forks, Zhang Yanhang successfully arrived at the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box. The Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box in the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu looked identical to the one in Raccoon City, emanating golden light, defying the laws of physics by floating in the air, and being immovable.
Zhang Yanhang quietly gazed at the huge Golden Treasure Box big enough to fit two or three people. He was about to check the attribute list of this Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box to ascertain approximately how many monsters remained inside the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.
[Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box (Small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu)]
[Quality: None (Generated by Ashen World, no quality)]
[Origin: Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu]
[Current Area Comprehensive Evaluation Detail List]
[Crimson Iron Worker Ant (First Tier One Star Ordinary Monster): 5702/8000]
[Crimson Iron Flying Ant (First Tier One Star Elite Monster): 900/1200]
[Crimson Iron Soldier Ant (First Tier Two Star Ordinary Monster): 15/800]
[Crimson Iron Breeding Ant (First Tier Three Star Ordinary Monster): 0/300]
[Crimson Iron Ant King (Second Tier Two Star Elite Monster): 0/3]
[Crimson Iron Ant Queen (Second Tier Four Star Lord Monster): 0/1]
[Current Area Completion Rate: 54.5%]
[Current Area Comprehensive Evaluation Level: B (F-EX)]
[Special Attribute: Ashen Treasure Box — User can obtain an Ashen Treasure Box related to the evaluation level after settlement completion]
[Usage Requirements: Current Area Comprehensive Evaluation Level F and above.]
[Introduction: An Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box generated by Ashen World, capable of real-time calculation of the current area’s comprehensive evaluation level and generation of a corresponding level Ashen Treasure Box.]
"The small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu originally had a total of 10,303 Crimson Iron Ants, and I’ve already killed about 6,617 of them, roughly 64%.
However, since most of the ants I killed were low-level Crimson Iron Ants with low value, although I have killed a large number, the overall completion is only 54.5%. The evaluation level is just B.
I remember that the first time I checked an Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box in Raccoon City, it was only a B level. Actually, it was even lower than that, just a B-, so by some measure, there’s been a slight improvement.
6,617 Crimson Iron Ants, if converted to zombies, that’s almost the equivalent to the total number of monsters in Raccoon City. I believe Raccoon City normally has only about 7,000 monsters."
Zhang Yanhang did a quick calculation. There were still about 4,000 Crimson Iron Ants remaining in the nest, which matched his previous observations in the inner area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest.
Thus, if nothing unexpected occurred, once he had cleared the inner area of the Crimson Iron Ant Nest, the Evaluation Settlement Treasure Box’s level should smoothly reach 100%.
Then, Zhang Yanhang could once again obtain an EX-level Ashen Treasure Box. Considering the many great things he found in the Ashen Treasure Boxes in Raccoon City, he was equally looking forward to the Ashen Treasure Box from the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu.
"Although I had sensed that there were many Crimson Iron Worker Ants inside the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, I didn’t expect there to be as many as 8,000. All the other monsters combined account for only about a quarter of the number of the Worker Ants."
But even though the number of ants in the current area exceeded the number of zombies in Raccoon City by several thousand, Zhang Yanhang still wasn’t quite satisfied. He felt that a normal ant nest should have tens of thousands or even a six-figure number of ants.
Therefore, after clearing the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, he hoped to encounter some more normal (and significantly larger) Crimson Iron Ant Nests, such as large Crimson Iron Ant Nests.
Zhang Yanhang theorized that if the small Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu had 10,000 ants, then a large Crimson Iron Ant Nest, without tens of thousands of ants, would really be somewhat unreasonable.