manynovel Chapter 31: I think I can get the result!
Chapter 31: I think I can get the result!
After a short wait, countless slender worker ants, each about a meter long, appeared in pairs. Some carried enormous spider silk bags, as big as sacks from the previous life, while others simply carried the bloody, mangy ant corpses and placed them on the ground.
The large spider silk bag opened with a hissing sound, and more large-toothed ant worker ant corpses were poured out, piling up on the ground. The corpses, emitting the stench of blood and lymph, were piled up like a mound of corpses.
Looking at the hundreds of giant toothed ant corpses in front of him, and the number still increasing, Ye Zhi was secretly alarmed. His cheap boss was too powerful, directly giving the giant toothed ant a branch nest.
The tree spirit of the "Chimera" had never seen such a scene before. It was already sending waves of excited mental fluctuations to Ye Zhi, filled with intense desire, clearly wanting to devour her.
These corpses were quite large. Ye Zhi, who was only about five centimeters long, couldn't possibly take off with these nearly one-meter-long corpses. She could only cast a pleading look at Qing Yuan beside her.
Seeing this, the citron waved its antennae, and some of the worker ants guarding the "Chimera" plant stepped forward, dissected the carcass of the giant toothed ant, cut off its six limbs and antennae, and severed its body along the gap between the head, thorax, tubercles and abdomen.
With white muscle tissue visible, Ye Zhi had a similar appearance to raw crab meat, but he did not intend to compete with his divinely bestowed seed for food. Instead, he looked at the "Chimera" in front of him and sent out a mental wave signaling "Ready".
After a period of regrowth, the Chimera seems to have deliberately strengthened its traps. Its most developed lower trap is now twice the size of its wild counterpart, and its two tooth-like projections truly resemble fangs.
Amidst the waves of excited spiritual energy transmitted by the tree spirit, Qingyuan directed the worker ants to throw pieces of the carcass of the large-toothed ant into these most swollen lower cages, filling almost every insect trap before stopping.
If a normal pitcher plant is intentionally overfed, it will overload its digestive juices, causing damage to the pitcher.
However, the Chimera's extraordinary digestive ability could not be viewed in a normal way. Its strange white "roots" stretched out in large numbers and soon enveloped all the corpse parts, greedily absorbing the nutrients from the flesh and blood.
Less than half an hour later, the flesh and blood of these corpses were completely absorbed by the Chimera, leaving only pieces of broken exoskeleton floating in the digestive fluids, taking up space inside the insect trap.
These exoskeleton fragments, which couldn't be digested in a short time and only took up space, were a bit of a problem. Ye Zhi had no choice but to flap her wings and take off, landing under the insect trap cover, and slowly extending a thread of ant silk to hang down.
Mental energy and primal force were infused into the ant silk, and the end of the ant silk, which shimmered with a faint luster, bent into a lasso shape and hung down into the insect trap, gently looping around a fragment of the exoskeleton belonging to the head of a large-toothed ant.
Ye Zhi flapped its wings and took flight, flying out of the insect trap. With some effort, it dragged itself upwards, finally managing to pull a large piece of exoskeleton covered in digestive fluids from the trap's lip. It then fell limply to the ground.
After a flurry of activity, the insect trap was finally emptied, and the citron waved its antennae, directing the worker ants forward to feed them a second time.
The insect trap was once again crammed full. Amidst the "Chimera's" excited mental fluctuations, white root-like objects skillfully extended, absorbing a new wave of flesh and blood nutrients.
Half an hour later, after the flesh and blood had been completely absorbed, it was time to clean up the oversized exoskeleton fragments that filled the insect traps once again.
This process takes even longer than the digestion time of the "Chimera," but there's no other way. The head of the slender ant is too big to fit into the "Chimera's" trap, so this laborious process can only be carried out by Ye Zhi herself.
After several round trips, it was already dusk. Half of the corpses of the giant toothed ants remained, while on the other side, a mountain of broken exoskeletons had been piled up.
Ye Zhi was a little numb. His divinely bestowed seed was too voracious. It had absorbed the flesh and blood of so many worker ants without slowing down its absorption speed at all. On the contrary, he was exhausted from scooping out the shell fragments.
These carcasses of the large-toothed ants were all combat worker ants at the mountain lord level, each about one meter long. "Chimera" consumed dozens of them in a row, yet it could still eat them, as if it showed no signs of being saturated.
Even Qingyuan's gaze towards Ye Zhi carried a hint of terror, while Ye Zhi responded with a rather innocent mental fluctuation—after all, he genuinely didn't know about the situation.
"what?"
The Chimera Tree Spirit was constantly filled with positive emotions such as joy and satisfaction, but at this moment a somewhat puzzling signal suddenly came, causing Ye Zhi to look sideways.
"Ye Zhi, I think I might be able to bear fruit?"
Seeing this, Ye Zhi suddenly perked up, but then felt something was wrong - by the standards of a divinely bestowed seed, "Chimera" was only a sapling that had been growing for a few days, about the same height as an ordinary plant in the wild, so why was it bearing fruit so quickly?
"Are you sure?" Ye Zhi asked doubtfully, pondering for a moment.
"It seems... I'm not sure..." Chimera, after hearing Ye Zhi's words, seemed to lose some confidence, her mental fluctuations appearing hesitant. "But it really is, Ye Zhi, the feeling you described before..."
"How does it feel?"
"It's like something's going to grow out of it. It doesn't seem to be able to photosynthesize like a leaf, nor can it feed like a trap, but I just feel like this thing will be very important..."
Ye Zhi combed her antennae with her forelimbs, making a gesture similar to scratching her head in her past life as she pondered. It seemed that only flowering and fruiting met this standard. Her own divinely bestowed seed was like eating too much of a highly nourishing substance, taking it to the extreme.
He looked at Qingyuan beside him with a pleading expression: "Qingyuan Zuowang, my divinely bestowed seed says it shows signs of flowering and bearing fruit..."
Qingyuan was taken aback, seemingly not expecting this either. He also used his forelimbs to smooth his antennae, and after some thought, he said, "Regardless of whether it can flower and bear fruit, it's best to stop flowering and fruiting before reaching the advanced warrior stage and focus on cultivating the plant. If it really wants to flower and bear fruit, just cut it off at the bud stage."
Ye Zhi nodded her antennae in agreement, glanced at the setting sun, and decided to return to her nest first, deciding to deal with the situation tomorrow morning no matter what.
After bidding farewell to the "Chimera", Ye Zhi flew down to the top of Qing Yuan's head, hitched a ride, and returned to the main nest chamber of Wu Yuan. After saying goodbye to Qing Yuan again, she flapped her wings and took off, flying alone to her own little "Spider Cave".
She crawled into the nest chamber, skillfully glanced at the increasingly plump larvae and golden egg larvae, and replenished them with regulatory pheromones. Ye Zhi then lifted the ant silk curtain, found a comfortable position to lie on her soft cushion, sorted out the events of the past two days in her mind, and then fell into a deep sleep.