Chapter 2

Since getting this phone, Zhou Wen has been constantly playing games to farm monsters and obtain various dimensional crystals.

In the past, his strength was 7, speed was 4, physique was 7, and his energy was only 1. In this short period of over a month, he has improved to his current values by farming dimensional crystals through the game. If it were in the past, it might have taken several years to achieve such rapid progress.

After using a large number of dimensional crystals, Zhou Wen discovered a pattern: regardless of the type of dimensional crystal, if the value of the crystal is higher than his own, using the crystal will directly increase his value to match the crystal's value.

However, if the value of the crystal is lower than or equal to his own, it can only serve as an energy supplement. He would need to practice the Energy Cultivation Technique to possibly improve his values, rather than directly enhancing his physical attributes.

In other words, the higher the value of the dimensional crystal, the better it is for Zhou Wen. However, after killing so many Strong Ants in the ant nest, the highest strength crystal he has seen is 9, the highest physique crystal is 8, the speed crystals are generally low, and the energy crystals are very rare. Today, he obtained a level 5 energy crystal, which is the highest level energy crystal he has seen.

Zhou Wen considered that this might be related to the innate abilities of the Strong Ants. The strength and physique of Strong Ants are excellent, but their speed is not very fast, so the strength crystals they drop are relatively high-level, while the speed crystals are not.

However, even low-level dimensional crystals can be used as energy supplements, which helps Zhou Wen quickly practice the "Bitter Zen" technique, so they are not entirely useless.

The only regret is that the crystals dropped in the game, once touched by the blood-colored avatar, are directly absorbed and cannot be brought into reality. Otherwise, just selling some of the low-level crystals he doesn't need would be enough for Zhou Wen to live a comfortable life.

There are many ants in the ant nest, and more and more ants gather after discovering the blood-colored avatar controlled by Zhou Wen.

After killing over a hundred Strong Ants, another dimensional crystal dropped, but it was only a level 3 strength crystal, which can only be used as an energy supplement during practice.

The drop rate of dimensional crystals is not high, and most are level 3 or lower. The higher the level, the lower the drop rate. Zhou Wen can only increase his chances of obtaining high-level dimensional crystals by farming a large number of monsters.

This is also why he often sleeps in class and no longer practices. Apart from class time, he spends all his time, even at night, farming monsters, leaving no time or energy to listen to lectures or practice.

Even so, his rate of improvement is incomparable to the past. If he were to practice the "Bitter Zen" technique as before, it would take him several times, or even dozens of times longer, to increase his energy value to 5.

The number of Strong Ants is increasing, and Zhou Wen is starting to find it difficult to handle them. Soon, the blood-colored avatar was overwhelmed by the Strong Ants, and the game screen turned black.

Zhou Wen had to restart the game and drop a bit of blood on the screen. His blood acts as a resurrection token in the game, with each drop representing a life.

Re-entering the game to farm monsters, he killed one Strong Ant after another. However, this time his luck was not good, and he did not get a single dimensional crystal after killing over a hundred Strong Ants.

Zhou Wen remained calm and continued to farm monsters in the ant nest patiently.

Suddenly, Zhou Wen noticed a particularly unique Strong Ant among the group.

This Strong Ant was entirely blood-red, like it was dyed with fresh blood, clearly different from the other black Strong Ants. It was also slightly larger, making it easy for Zhou Wen to spot it.

As the red Strong Ant charged out, Zhou Wen cautiously probed it and quickly discovered that its strength and speed were significantly higher than those of the black Strong Ants, but still within his ability to handle.

After several maneuvers, the blood-colored avatar attacked the red Strong Ant several times, causing only minor damage and failing to kill it.

However, it was clear that the red Strong Ant's health bar was slowly decreasing, and it would take over a hundred attacks to kill it.

Fortunately, the red Strong Ant's speed was only slightly faster than the average black Strong Ant, giving the blood-colored avatar enough time to maneuver and dodge. Killing it was just a matter of time.

However, the number of black Strong Ants was increasing, and Zhou Wen was worried that at this rate, he might be overwhelmed by the ant swarm before he could kill the red Strong Ant.

But there was no other option, so Zhou Wen tried to speed up the movements of the blood-colored avatar and attack the red Strong Ant as much as possible.

As the red Strong Ant's health bar was almost depleted, the surrounding Strong Ants were also increasing, leaving the blood-colored avatar with little room to maneuver.

Crack!

The blood-colored avatar failed to dodge in time and was bitten by a black Strong Ant, losing nearly half of its health.

Zhou Wen knew it was almost over and controlled the blood-colored avatar to use its last strength to strike the red Strong Ant.

Boom!

With this punch, the red Strong Ant was hit in a vital spot, and the last bit of its health was drained. Its red carapace suddenly burst open, and two crystals exploded out of its body.

Zhou Wen didn't have time to check the attributes of the two dimensional crystals and immediately controlled the blood-colored avatar, which was almost out of health, to pick them up.

Just as the blood-colored avatar picked up the two dimensional crystals, it was overwhelmed by the ant swarm, and the game screen turned completely black.

Zhou Wen saw two messages on the screen and breathed a sigh of relief. He already knew from experience that as long as he could pick up the dimensional crystals before dying, they would be useful to him.

"Killed a mutated Strong Ant, discovered an energy crystal."

"Killed a mutated Strong Ant, discovered a Strong Ant crystal."

Seeing the two messages on the phone screen, Zhou Wen was slightly taken aback. He had seen many energy crystals before, but this was the first time he had seen a dimensional crystal named after a Strong Ant.

After a moment of surprise, Zhou Wen immediately realized that although he had not seen such a dimensional crystal before, he had heard of its existence. In the school textbooks and online videos, people had used similar crystals, though they were not Strong Ant crystals but crystals from other dimensional creatures.

"Could this be the legendary dimensional crystal?" Zhou Wen was overjoyed as he felt a strange power surge from the phone, instantly spreading throughout his body.