Chapter 32 - Millipede (1/2)
Chapter 32 Millipede
Primitive society life was quite calm, unlike during the end of the world where there was fighting and killing everywhere. Zhou Ji himself didn’t like killing, and in a situation like this, if there hadn’t been for the matter of he and Xiong Ye getting married, he would’ve simply stayed in the area to cultivate with the energy that this mysterious plant had drawn in, and wouldn’t have had any thoughts of trying to obtain the plant.
He wasn’t pursuing ultimate strength. As long as he could survive and live on, he had no need for such a rare natural treasure.
However, there was now a Xiong Ye in his life.
Xiong Ye’s strength was considered strong within the tribe, but if he went outside…
There was a Seismosaurus amongst the dinosaurs that seemed to be… Around forty to fifty meters long and weighed forty to fifty tons?
And then, if these dinosaurs ate a lot of energy-rich plants and mutated to become one size bigger, they might even reach a weight of one hundred tons?
Even if his mammoth animal form was the so-called largest mammal on land, it still paled in comparison to those dinosaurs, let alone Xiong Ye.
Of course, the particularly large dinosaurs like the Seismosaurus were all herbivores and wouldn’t hurt humans for no reason, while the carnivorous were in fact a little bit smaller.
But even if they were a little bit smaller, those carnivorous dinosaurs still had very high killing and attack power. Zhou Ji didn’t want Xiong Ye to be seriously injured by them and maybe even… lose his life.
Zhou Ji’s body automatically began to absorb the energy around him even while his spiritual powers continued to observe the situation inside the cave.
The centipedes inside the cave were all piled up together. The smaller ones prevented anyone from approaching the plant, while the larger ones stayed closer to it.
His eyebrows were pulled together in a frown, and he was trying to figure out how to obtain the plant when suddenly, he noticed a huge centipede over ten meters long coming out of the dead leaves under a giant tree nearby.
Zhou Ji’s spiritual power swept over, and he discovered that these creatures that looked very much like centipedes might actually be millipedes instead.
Millipedes were also known as the ‘worm with a thousand feet’, scientific classification diplopoda. This type of insect liked wet, dark places and tended to live in groups. They generally fed on decaying organic matter, and their bodies could curl up into a disc or spiral shape when they were frightened.
Before the apocalypse, the largest millipedes were several tens of centimeters long, and the average millipede was only a few centimeters long. Some of them secreted toxic liquids, but most of them were harmless.
These gigantic millipedes actually looked quite gentle. Their intelligence shouldn’t be very high-Zhou Ji hadn’t bothered to hide himself, but these millipedes had all ignored him.
That gigantic millipede slowly entered the pool and swam towards the crevice in the rock. Meanwhile, the millipedes that were inside the cave all came outside and made their way into the surrounding forest.
This scene would make the scalp of anyone who was watching go numb.
Before long, the millipedes that had been tangled together within the stone cave had all tunneled into the nearby leaves and dispersed completely. The huge millipede then went into the cave on its own and went to sleep next to the plant.
This stone crevice should be the huge millipede’s territory. As for the other millipedes, they must have been taking advantage of the time when this huge millipede needed to go out for food in order to obtain some dregs of energy. Now that the master of this territory had returned, they had to leave.
Previously, Zhou Ji had still been worrying about finding a way to obtain the plant, but now he had found a way.
This stone crevice was very narrow. People could get in, and those long and flat millipedes could get in, but his animal form would be stuck outside. It was impossible for him to use his animal form to snatch that plant, and as for using his human form… He felt that his figure was a bit weak when compared to that of the millipede.
Fortunately, he had his spiritual powers.
Zhou Ji’s spiritual powers gathered around that huge millipede, and he began to try and control it.
There was something similar to a beastman’s crystal core in this huge millipede’s body. It was round and smooth and contained a lot of energy-at least, it had much more energy than Zhou Ji’s core.
However, this huge millipede that should’ve been a powerful opponent against Zhou Ji ended up being easily controlled by his spiritual abilities.
It could only be said that while this millipede’s body was really big, its brain capacity was too small, and its IQ too low…
After Zhou Ji had taken control of the millipede, he guided it to dig out the plant with its mouth and bring it out of the cave for him.
He didn’t intend to fight and kill. Instead, he wanted to bring the plant away using much gentler methods.
In the future, these millipedes might no longer be able to enjoy such abundant energy, but at the very least, they would still be able to live well.
Zhou Ji had great intentions but something went wrong after all-after he obtained the plant, he discovered that the energy contained within the plant had begun to dissipate, and he could see that it was beginning to wither.
He hadn’t expected that such a thing would happen. In a moment of shock, he unhesitatingly used his plant abilities to save the plant.
His plant abilities were effective; after absorbing the power from his plant abilities, not only did the energy in the plant stop dissipating, it even began to gather a lot of energy and started to grow.
Zhou Ji was caught by surprise, but he also felt rather helpless-as soon as he stopped using his plant abilities, this plant would once again start to wither!
And he was probably the cause of this situation… When that huge millipede dug out the plant, it had broken off parts of its roots.
Breaking the roots of other plants wouldn’t have posed much of a problem, but it was obviously not the case for this one.
As for why… Zhou Ji rather helplessly discovered that much of the energy that was now surging up around the plant had originally come from underground.
This plant might have grown out of something underground that contained a lot of energy…
Zhou Ji had no choice but to continue using his plant abilities.
With Zhou Ji’s current level of strength, it only took him a matter of minutes to produce plants. He could grow them very quickly, but the plant in his hand wasn’t so easy to grow.
His plant powers entered the plant at an incredibly fast pace, but the plant actually only grew by a tiny bit!
Zhou Ji could only give the plant even more of his power.
Even then, the plant still didn’t grow much.
If he had sprouted a ginseng using his current output of power, perhaps that ginseng would be a hundred-year-old ginseng by now, but the plant in his hand hadn’t even produced a fruit with all this power!
However, since this was the case, he could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Zhou Ji’s power quickly reached its limits, but the plant was still immature and would start to wither as soon as he stopped using his plant abilities.
Zhou Ji could only make use of the energy that had accumulated in his body and try to absorb the energy that was so plentiful around him while continuing to feed the plant. Only, using this method, he no longer had any attention to spare for the huge millipede that had still been under his control.
The millipede broke out of his control almost instantaneously and lunged towards him.
If it had been a modern millipede, Zhou Ji could have just trampled a good many of them under his foot with a single step. A millipede of this size, however… The shell segments on its back were like sharp blades, and its mouth looked savage. It could probably crush him to bits in under a minute.
Zhou Ji: “……”
As an insect, the millipede’s IQ was very low. However, this didn’t mean that it had no brains all at. In the current situation, there was no way that it wouldn’t hate Zhou Ji even if it was stupid.