Because these insects have very hard shells and like to hide under the hard surface, it is very troublesome to catch and eat very hard, so in the past, no one was willing to catch them. It was not until recent months that people of the "Dragon Pushers" suddenly started to purchase firecracker insects and promised to use them for food. So, the firecracker insects that were originally not paid attention to began to be caught by people. The firecracker insects around the muddy area were swept away.

In the notorious and famous muddy slums in the Union, in addition to the living area of ​​a very incomprehensible land and life, the living environment here is also very dangerous. The rotten soil on the upper surface cannot provide people with any food source. People can only hide underground, relying on digging minerals to exchange for food with the Union, and advancing northward, looking for cold-resistant animals and plants in the frozen land area that is covered with cold wind all year round. Compared with the inferior food provided by the Federation, the flesh and blood of the animals living in the frozen land area is obviously more nutritious.

But people did not dare to go deeper into that area. Because it is said that on the frozen land, there were those "exiled people" who were driven away - those indigenous people who lived on this planet earlier.

For this reason, the activity area of ​​people in the mud area has always been very small. Except for the mud area above their heads that cannot be tolerated, the only place where they can move is the underground and a small part of the frozen land area north of the mud area. Further north, it is the forbidden area that people nicknamed the "land of the frozen dead". It is also a zone where they and the "exiled" rumored by the federal military to buffer each other.

Zhao Zhuo is a person who cherishes his life, so he never thought of going to such a place to seek death. The farthest place he has been to was just eight kilometers north of the mud zone. If he goes further north, he would say he would go nothing.

Fortunately, if he was just catching firecracker bugs, he would not need to run that far away. However, it still takes a long walk for a five-kilometer distance.

About an hour and a half later, Zhao Zhuo, who finally heated up his body due to running, stopped in a depression. The cold wind above his head was too strong, which greatly affected his walking speed. Moreover, the cold wind shaved on his face like a knife carved on his face made people want to turn around and go back all the time: Although the air here is much better than the underground world, Zhao Zhuo would rather endure the stenchy air than lose all the heat in his body by being frozen by the low temperature.

After looking around, he found that there were no obvious traces of human staying around him, so Zhao Zhuo decided to try his luck here.

Putting down his backpack, Zhao Zhuo took out the shovel and chisel from it, and casually chose a place that looked "approximately available". After venting, he began to chisel.

Firecracker insects live underground. Every winter, they will enter a semi-hibernation state and will not come to the ground at all. If you want to find their hiding place, you must at least dig up the top layer of soil that is frozen into ice by ice and snow and cold.

On the frozen wasteland in the extreme north, in the whistling cold wind, the sound of "dingding" and "dangdang" suddenly sounded.

A long distance away, someone who heard the sound stood up and looked here. After a moment, he bent down and ignored it. Doing his own thing is the king of survival in the mud zone. Meditation on others will only cause trouble.

After working hard for ten minutes, the layer of soil with a thickness of only five centimeters was finally chiseled by Zhao Zhuo with a chisel to open a thirty-square-centimeter open space.

After reaching out and pushing away the ice-slag-like soil, Zhao Zhuo was immediately overjoyed: There were three small holes the size of an index finger on the gray-brown ground. The holes of these three small holes were blocked without exception. Zhao Zhuo saw clearly that this was the pupa shell that faded after the transformation of the firecracker insects! And judging from the completeness of the pupa shell, the firecracker insects in the hole must still be hibernating!

One bread, this is!

After licking his lips, Zhao Zhuo carefully lay on the ground, reached out to clean up the soil around the hole, and then took off the pupa shell and put his nose to the hole and sniffed it gently.

A faint pungent smell of gunpowder.

"It's true that there is something!" He rubbed his hands excitedly, turned around and took out a thermos cup from his bag, unscrewed the lid, and carefully poured the hot water from the cup into the hole of the firecracker worm.

Immersing insects with water is definitely the only way to catch firecracker insects.

In this weather where even peeing can freeze into icicles, the speed of a cup of hot water will definitely not exceed one minute.

Soon, the hot water injected into it cooled down quickly under the influence of the surrounding temperature, and then formed ice without accident. The entire insect hole was immediately filled with such an icicle.

After doing all this, Zhao Zhuo rubbed his hands and waited quietly. He grabbed a large tweezer in his hand. There were very small spikes at the tip of the tweezer, which greatly improved its biting power. It is very suitable for dealing with things like firecracker insects.

Not long after, the wormhole blocked by ice water in front of me reacted. A few faint sounds of ice breaking came, and the icicles that blocked the entrance of the firecracker wormhole began to retreat out little by little. The broken ice chips quickly scattered around the entrance of the cave. Then, a worm that was dark red, about one finger long, and like an earthworm that looked like a three-fold swollen, crawled out excitedly. Before it could clean up the ice slags at the entrance of the cave, the disaster suddenly fell from the sky. A pair of big tweezers easily clamped its body, and then quickly threw it into a transparent glass bottle.

The angry firecracker insect made a "bang" sound like a firecracker explosion, and its whole body suddenly rose from the ground and hit the bottle cap of the glass bottle. The iron bottle cap was deeply bulging under the impact of the firecracker insect, highlighting more than three centimeters!

Zhao Zhuo was not surprised by this situation. He calmly put the bottle aside and then locked the target at the next hole according to the previous method.

Three minutes later, the second firecracker insect was thrown into the glass bottle by Zhao Zhuo in the same way.

But...when he was about to catch the third firecracker bug, something strange happened.

After lifting off the firecracker insect blocked the pupa shell used to isolate the temperature at the entrance of the cave, Zhao Zhuo poured hot water into it again. But after only a few drops of it, the hot water overflowed from the entrance of the cave.
Chapter completed!