Traveling to Ancient Times: My Space Contains Weapons

Chapter 401 Entering the Cave to Harvest Jade Essence

The flames shot rapidly into the cave entrance.

The Yeti, who had just finished delivering the jade essence and was about to go out for a second trip, saw a ball of flame coming towards it.

The monster at the very front was unlucky enough to be hit by the flames and instantly roared as it rolled on the ground.

As the air filled with the aroma of roasting meat, the other Yetis that were about to emerge saw a humanoid monster gleaming with a bright white light rushing into the cave.

He turned and rushed into the cave.

And so, Chu Chen observed his surroundings as he entered the cave.

He had already put away the flamethrower. He had only come in this time to collect jade essence, so the faster the better.

Experiments have shown that the so-called Yeti is afraid of strong light and fire.

The only thing he couldn't understand was why the Mo family didn't use fire to drive them away, but he didn't think about it too much at the moment.

After all, getting the jade essence is the most important thing.

As for these creatures, since they haven't provoked me, killing them all wouldn't be of any value to me.

Walking past the yeti, which had been burned to a crisp, Chu Chen nudged it with his foot and found that it was completely burned beyond recognition.

Only from its outline can one vaguely discern that it resembles a bear, but its size is more than twice that of a normal bear.

Perhaps the people who kept these creatures in captivity back then imposed similar restrictions on them as the Mo family did; otherwise, if even one of them were to descend from the mountain, it would become a disaster for humanity.

Chu Chen, radiating white light, walked into the cave as if no one else was there.

Apart from the stench emanating from the cave, there was nothing in the cave to bother him.

With something so powerful inside, there probably isn't anything else in this cave.

Chu Chen put on a mask, enduring the stench as he made his way deeper into the cave.

Along the way, besides animal droppings, there was jade essence everywhere.

However, it was mixed with animal feces and looked a bit dirty, so Chu Chen ignored the jade essence on the ground.

What he was looking for was their storage warehouse for jade essence. You see, social animals are just like humans; they will gather and store anything they care about.

The premise is that they don't eat it.

But looking at the jade essence mixed with feces on the ground, Chu Chen couldn't figure out whether this thing actually consumed jade essence.

The deeper Chu Chen went, the more puzzled he became.

All that could be seen on the ground was jade essence mixed with feces, but no pile of it could be found.

It wasn't until about half an hour after they walked inside that Chu Chen's eyes slowly lit up.

But then he became very puzzled, because he saw a cave filled with jade essence, and in the shadows of the cave, a small snow monster was devouring the jade essence piled up inside.

"Holy crap, so this thing eats jade essence!"

No sooner said than done, Chu Chen darted forward and pinned the snow monster to the ground before it could even react.

The Yeti turned its head and saw the two-legged beast that was glowing all over, and was immediately pinned to the ground by Chu Chen and unable to move.

His body trembled as if he were terrified, and he made a frightened whimper like a rhubarb, but he dared not open his eyes to look at Chu Chen.

Only then did Chu Chen take a closer look at the thing in front of him.

From its appearance, this thing was not much different from a bear. Of course, Chu Chen's concept of bears was limited to those in zoos.

The only difference is that their eyes are blood red and they have long fangs at the corners of their mouths, which I don't recall bears having.

It has white fur all over its body, but a sharp horn on its head, and strong, well-developed limbs.

Long, sharp claws grew on its broad, thick palm, but Chu Chen didn't delve into the creature's appearance.

Instead, I was curious about how it could swallow such hard jade essence and how its flesh and blood body could digest it.

The yeti cub must have been frightened; with a rumbling sound, it defecated a pile of stool from its rear end.

Chu Chen looked at the pile of things with disgust, but was immediately surprised.

"Damn, what's the point of eating it if you eat it and poop out the same stuff again?"

After Chu Chen finished speaking, he took out a section of climbing rope and tied the little snow monster tightly. Then he pulled out a dagger and, suppressing his nausea, pulled out the jade essence that the little snow monster had just excreted.

After washing the jade essence with a bottle of mineral water, he held it in his hand and began to study it.

"Wait, something's not right. The energy inside seems to be much purer."

"Could it be that this thing eats jade essence, then absorbs other things from the jade essence, and then excretes the useless ones?"

After Chu Chen finished speaking, he took the jade essence and walked to the pile of jade essences to compare it: "Indeed, it is much smaller than the previous one."

Thinking of this, Chu Chen turned around and walked out of the cave.

For the next two hours, Chu Chen collected jade essence from the excrement.

This was a tedious task. With a guess in mind, Chu Chen didn't care about the dirt or the mess and collected the jade essence piece by piece.

Although he could collect the excrement along with the feces, he didn't want the space to be filled with that smell.

After collecting the jade essence, Chu Chen walked up to the little snow monster, picked it up, and collected the pile of jade essence in front of it before leaving the cave.

Then they surrounded it with a circle of solar-powered lights facing outwards.

In the middle, however, there was an empty space.

The goal was to prevent other Yetis from disturbing his experiments.

Walking into the open space, he took out an iron cage, put the little snow monster inside, and casually untied the ropes binding it before throwing in a pile of jade essence.

Then cover the iron cage with a black cloth.

The little snow monster seemed to be acting like a child, or perhaps it was extremely hungry. Upon seeing that the restraints on its body were gone, it hugged the jade essence inside and began to swallow it.

Gradually, a glimmer of light appeared in the sky.

Chu Chen also started getting busy.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that these things had all hidden in the cave, and he wanted to temporarily set up a bunch of lights outside the cave to prevent them from coming out again tonight.

Then we can slowly study these monsters. If they do not cause any damage to the jade essence, and if we can find a way to raise them, then finding jade essence in the future will be too easy.

The key is figuring out how to utilize these things.

Although I don't yet know the effects of the jade essence after it's absorbed by them, none of that matters.

At night, countless jade essences appear densely in the river in the basin.

If these animals are used properly, then one will have an inexhaustible supply of jade essence in the future.

Without further ado, Chu Chen jogged all the way to the cave entrance.

Then, with a wave of his hand, many solar-powered searchlights appeared at the cave entrance.

Chu Chen only stopped after setting up over a hundred lights.

Next, we need to install these things at the entrance of the cave. This is something anyone can do. Anyway, the sun will be very strong after daytime, so there's no need to worry about running out of energy.

Thinking of this, Chu Chen produced a portable electric drill and drilled down into the rock wall at the cave entrance.