Agyha's Bug Legend

Agyha, an oasis located near the planet's equator, recently received a strange visitor.

This person could command a Horned Beast to help them drag supplies or monster carcasses, and they also brought a slave girl.

However, their methods were quite cruel and brutal. Upon arriving at the oasis, they initiated a massacre, causing even the local administrators, known for their cruel methods, to not dare to interfere with this strange person.

This strange person was naturally Dan Lei. After arriving at Agyha and obtaining the stellar-energy desert vehicle and a series of supplies he had pre-ordered from the Ming Huo merchant guild, Dan Lei drove directly out of the city.

Dan Lei knew very well that in the big cities managed by the IPC, he would absolutely not find a place to set up his formations.

Although in Luofu, Dan Lei had earned a lot of money selling toy Automatons and was considered wealthy in Golden People Alley, he was nothing in the IPC's network.

Agyha, despite its remote location and lack of inherent value, was the site of the "Agyha Aventurine Case," which caused losses not just to the Genius Society; in fact, the Genius Society was merely the largest among many investors defrauded by Aventurine.

Therefore, after this incident, the IPC essentially plundered Agyha as if seeking revenge.

The land prices in the major cities of Agyha were driven sky-high by various investors, all in an effort to trick a few unlucky souls into taking over.

So, Dan Lei didn't plan to stay in these big cities for long. After downloading the map, he drove directly towards the surrounding oases.

To Dan Lei, the environment of Agyha wasn't as exaggeratedly harsh as described. The Cloud Chant Technique and water elemental Magic could directly summon water from the air; it just consumed more energy than usual.

As for food, with desert creatures all over the place, how could he starve? To a small creature like Dan Lei operating alone in the desert, he was the best food, and they would definitely line up to deliver themselves.

For Dan Lei, the most troublesome thing was underestimating the desperation of the interstellar refugees in the unmanned gray industrial zones.

Can you imagine? Driving in the desert, listening to music, and eating local charcoal-grilled sandworm jerky, only to be suddenly ambushed by sand bandits!

These guys didn't play by the rules. To avoid triggering the high-energy detectors of high-end vehicles, they buried a metal plate in the sand and then calculated the timing to use the simplest lever principle to flip the desert vehicle.

Dan Lei said he was stunned. After getting out of the car, he instantly refined over a dozen sand bandits into Magic Crystals and then kept one to lead the way to destroy their lair.

However, just like how a hero leaving the novice village immediately encounters a clue or person to guide them forward.

Dan Lei also gained an unexpected reward when he destroyed the sand bandit's nest.

A local girl from Agyha named Ashley.

This frail teenage girl had been branded as a slave by the sand bandits and had been bought and sold several times, traveling from near the planet's equator to here, near 30 degrees north latitude.

This young girl might have seen members of the Genius Society active on this planet a few years ago. She recognized Dan Lei's uniqueness at a glance and shouted in Galactic Common upon seeing him:

"Sir! I know the legend of the bugs! Save me! I'll take you to find them!"

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei immediately felt his luck was in. Information about reproduction, which he had searched for everywhere, had come to him effortlessly.

Then, Dan Lei decisively hypnotized Ashley and extracted all the information she knew.

However, Ashley had less information about the reproduction bugs than Dan Lei had imagined.

The girl had never seen the reproduction bugs. She had only overheard conversations between the Genius Society and her grandmother about ancient legends while sitting nearby. She remembered that people from outer space were looking for bugs, and that providing information about them would earn them food and daily necessities.

However, the reproduction information the girl knew was still somewhat useful. Her tribe had a legend that when sandstorms simultaneously covered seven oases, the temple of the bug god would appear in one of them. If the temple was worshipped, the tribe would welcome the arrival of a batch of newborns.

Honestly, this myth sounded quite plausible. The local people of Agyha had never left the planet, so it was unlikely they would fabricate such a legend.

The so-called temple of the god, combined with its priestly function of childbirth, perfectly matched the Destiny of reproduction.

Furthermore, the Genius Society would not have mobilized such vast resources based solely on the legend told by a native tribe. There must have been more legends from surrounding tribes, and perhaps even more concrete evidence.

This was why the subsequent "Agyha Aventurine Case" had caused such a stir.

However, the entire planet had been scanned by now, and the so-called sandstorms must have passed through as well.

The Genius Society had not found the so-called bug god temple, and the IPC had surely dismissed this legend as rumor.

Nevertheless, Dan Lei found it interesting and decided he could go check it out.

A sandstorm capable of covering seven oases proved that these seven oases were not far apart.

On a planet where most of the land area was covered by wasteland and desert, the presence of oases indicated active Ley Lines.

An area with seven oases would definitely be a good place to set up a Ley Line absorption formation.

So, Dan Lei took Ashley with him, asking her to lead the way based on her memory, and he would take her home.

The rest of the journey was predictable. What could a teenage girl remember about the way? She led Dan Lei on a wild goose chase.

It was only because Dan Lei knew that no matter how they went, heading towards the equator was always the right direction that they didn't end up going completely in the opposite direction.

However, during their journey, the desert vehicle Dan Lei had bought at great expense was attacked and destroyed by a giant Horned Beast (a Horned Dragon from Monster Hunter with its wings removed).

Annoyed, Dan Lei defeated it and then refined it into a familiar to use as transportation.

It had to be said that creatures like Horned Beasts, as long as they were fed enough, were faster than desert vehicles in sandy terrain.

Moreover, they were excellent at digging, and at night, they could easily dig out a shelter.

The only problem was that as the apex predator of this land, it scared away all the "small animals" in the vicinity, severely affecting Dan Lei's hunting efficiency.

However, with its help, Dan Lei managed to reach the largest oasis in the equatorial region of Agyha, as recorded by the Jade Seal.

Dan Lei had been in the wilds of Agyha for some time and knew the most efficient way to communicate with people here.

So, upon arriving at the oasis, Dan Lei directly followed the path of the first person who provoked him, killing their way up until the gang leader was eliminated.

This way, the people of this oasis would absolutely not dare to provoke a completely lone, god-like madman.

As for whether Dan Lei would directly provoke someone he couldn't afford to offend.

Dan Lei could only say that not all places were like Luofu; Pathstriders were extremely rare in the universe.

Agyha was a place the IPC had repurposed, and the treasure hunters who came here were, to put it nicely, looking for treasure, and to put it bluntly, scavenging for scraps.

It would be a good showing if ten Pathstriders could be found on the entire planet.

And Dan Lei was no longer the novice he once was, who possessed the Power of the Path but didn't know how to use it.

Dan Lei, now capable of fighting Yan Qing, might have to reconsider claiming to be the strongest on the entire planet, but he was definitely in the top three.