Chapter 627 - Nuptial flight (1/2)
Translator: Doggotranslation
The middle-aged man and Yuan Xiaoyi finally gathered their own people respectively. Chu Yunsheng elaborated on the characteristics of the awakeners and then asked them to group with Luo Dalian to examine the people in the crowd.
And he himself followed the safe pa.s.sage, directly went upstairs, found a quiet room, hung the flashlight, and took out the oval-shaped ice crystals and red-sh.e.l.led insects’ bodies, and compared them carefully.
The bodies of the red-sh.e.l.led insects were too large to be taken out and placed in the room at the same time. Only two of them could be taken out and be compared at the same time. The light of the flashlight was not very good, but even so, Chu Yunsheng still found some clues.
The first insect seemed to be somewhat different from the last two insects. It would be impossible to find out if he didn’t look carefully. The broken sh.e.l.l on the back of the first insect seemed to have a black backline. However, the damage was too severe, so he was not completely sure. He could only make a rough a.s.sumption based on the fragments that were still there.
Without a live one, Chu Yunsheng’s research on why the red-sh.e.l.led insects only attacked him could only be temporarily stopped at this point. But he believed that he would encounter them again in the future, so he still had many chances to figure it out.
With only three red-sh.e.l.led insects’ bodies, it was not enough to make combat armor, so they were temporarily kept in the storage talisman. Once he gathered enough in the future, he would then consider making one.
The oval-shaped ice crystals were also good things. After using absorption talisman to absorb energy from those crystals, the remaining crystal could still emit frost, it was strong and it didn’t lack toughness. The only drawback was that it was too small, so it was still unrealistic to quench the much-needed armor, but he could try to make an ice sword out of them.
To deal with the red-sh.e.l.led insects that wanted to kill him, the best weapon was the weapon that contained the ice elemental attribute. The frost arrow was suitable for long-range combat. At present, there was only a flaming sword that he could use in close-range combat, but the sword and the insects both contained the fire elemental attribute, so it would not be as effective as an ice elemental weapon.
Chu Yunsheng also had no choice. Unlike those awakeners, who had good talents, without the help of absorption talismans, their energy recovery speed would be much quicker than him. But once he used up absorption talismans, he would be in endless trouble.
If he could make one ice sword, and kill red-sh.e.l.led insects at a minimal cost, he would be able to save a large amount of energy and use the saved energy on some other much more important places.
However, at present, he only had seven oval-shaped ice crystals. One of them came from the floating monster he killed in the commercial building, and the other six came from the monster he just had killed. The oval-shaped ice crystal was very small, if he wanted to make a sword out of it, he needed at least hundreds of them.
After putting these things back to the storage talisman again, Chu Yunsheng noticed that the room became very messy. It was no longer a suitable place to rest, So he changed another room, locked the door, and decided to take a good rest and then think about how to leave Nanjing.
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In the lobby on the ground floor of the hotel, the “trio” was checking the crowd of people if they were awakeners or if they had any special experience on the edge of the city.
A girl raised her head and looked at the dark world outside the gla.s.s wall. Gradually the world reflected in her eyes was lit up by one after another blue light spot.
“Look!” said the girl while covering her mouth.
However, the reason she covered her mouth was not because of fear, but the stunning beauty. She was completely amazed by it. In the dark night sky, many “b.u.t.terflies” that flapped their delicate wings exuded elegant blue light, like fantastical fairies, gathering, and dancing in the dark sky above the city.
Even if they knew the danger behind that beauty, they still couldn’t help but be amazed by their stunning beauty.
“It is the king of floating monsters, we met one a few days ago, oh my G.o.d, there are so many of them!” One person with gla.s.ses exclaimed.
“What are they doing?” Luo Dalian walked to the gla.s.s wall, looked up at the blue ocean over the city, and said with vigilance.
“Nuptial flight! They are breeding!” the man with gla.s.ses thought for a second and said.
“Breeding? Why do they float to the sky to breed? And what is a Nuptial flight?” Luo Dalian was confused. But at the same time, he was also very worried. With this many floating monsters, once they noticed them, they would be dead.
The middle-aged man in the “trio” seemed to have a little bit of biological knowledge. He explained to Luo Dalian, “When some animals mature, they will fly together in large groups, looking for matches during the flight. Unfortunately, most of the time, there are often more males than females, so the compet.i.tion is very fierce. Only the stronger males are eligible to mate with females. Then they shed their wings, reproduce the next generation, and form new groups.”
Yuan Xiaoyi was standing between them. When she heard them talk about animals mating so blatantly, her face instantly turned red.
However, her embarra.s.sed feeling was quickly stopped by Luo Dalian’s next question, “so, will the number of those floating monsters increase again?”
In fact, this was just one of many other ways that those floating monsters used to reproduce themselves. The floating monsters that could reproduce as.e.xually were actually reproducing every day, as long as there were food and nutrition, they were like an uncontrollable breeding machine.
Hearing what Luo Dalian said, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became gloomy again. No one knew how long they would be able to survive in this city…
Chu Yunsheng, who had just fallen asleep no long ago, woke up again and appeared in the hallway.
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