Chapter 32 - Millipede (2/2)

Seeing that he was about to be attacked by the millipede, Zhou Ji tossed the plant in his hand up into the air, locked it in place with his spiritual powers, and immediately turned into his animal form, then caught the plant with his trunk.

His human form was too small and weak to take the millipede’s attack, but his animal form could probably withstand it.

Zhou Ji started running away immediately, and that millipede quickly chased after him after a moment of initial surprise.

His four legs couldn’t seem to run as fast as a human with two legs…? He was forced to make some abrupt turns, but for better or worse, that millipede had been unable to catch up so far. Zhou Ji basically used all of his strength to run as fast as he could.

However, not only was he being chased by a huge millipede, he also had to take care of the plant-as soon as he stopped sending power to the plant, the plant that was rolled up in his trunk would begin to wither!

It was a very unique sensation to use his abilities through his nose.

The trees around him were too dense; it wasn’t a problem for Zhou Ji to pass through the obstacles in his human form, but his animal form couldn’t get through at all. He couldn’t escape into the forest and could only run around near the pool in an attempt to avoid the millipede’s attacks.

His animal form was extremely big. Although the millipede was very large, there actually was a chance that he could trample it to death. However, Zhou Ji had a psychological aversion to trampling such a thing.

It couldn’t really be called a psychological aversion… The giant mammoth’s spiritual and plant powers were almost all exhausted, and his eyes were a little red…

Fortunately, at this exact moment, the fruit of the plant that had been absorbing energy without showing any change at all, suddenly turned red.

The fruit was ripe! It finally didn’t need his powers anymore!

Just as the plant reached maturity, it sucked in all the available energy from the surroundings.

At the same time, the fruit that hadn’t even been as big as a strawberry abruptly grew to the size of an apple and turned an unusually bright shade of red.

At the moment it ripened, it absorbed all the energy around it. The trees in the area turned listless, but the fruit itself became even more attractive. When Zhou Ji looked at the fruit, he also couldn’t help but want to eat it.

Obviously, he wasn’t the only one who felt this way.

The huge millipede that had been following behind him abruptly went into a frenzy, and at the same time, many of the millipedes that had been lurking in the leaves around them jumped out as well.

All of the millipedes that Zhou Ji had seen in the cave before, regardless of size, all rushed towards him, seemingly aiming for the fruit he had with him.

Even though Zhou Ji had changed into his animal form, he still had a feeling that he wouldn’t be able to deal with so many millipedes all at once. His giant mammoth legs already carried several bite wounds, and not only was he out of energy and spiritual strength, he was also exhausted.

Zhou Ji’s eyes turned red again. He had a very ominous feeling.

The apocalypse and the end of the world was a place that could drive people mad.

The zombies were no longer human, but still carried traces of human appearance. After killing a lot of them and surviving in such a depressing environment, some people would no longer be able to distinguish between humans and zombies, and began attacking everything around them out of despair, until they exhausted all their strength and died.

As a spiritual ability user, he hadn’t been like that at the start and could even use his powers to soothe those who had such problems. Later, however, when humans had basically gone extinct, and he no longer had any food to eat, no clean water, and nobody to talk to… In that endless despair, he had given up on treatment and would occasionally allow himself to turn on a ‘mass slaughter mode’ in order to vent.

Later, after switching to this mode more and more frequently, it became a natural habit-at the time, he had wanted to kill off all the zombies in the world.

In mass slaughter mode, all aspects of his strength would be greatly improved, but he would be unable to recognize even his own closest relatives.

There was nobody left at the end of the world, and it didn’t matter if he did that back there, but in this place…

After he arrived at in this world, he was very afraid that he would suddenly enter this mode and had simply chosen not to kill anything anymore. Now… Zhou Ji had a very bad feeling.

It had only been two months since he transmigrated into this place. He hadn’t had a chance to adjust his mental state and cure his psychological and spiritual problems. If he were to really go crazy…

When it rains, it pours. The situation had already reached this point, but then the fruit that had been rolled up in his trunk went so far as to fall out!

He had wrapped his trunk around the stalk of the plant, but it had withered without warning, and the fruit dropped out.

In order to avoid the millipedes, Zhou Ji had raised his long nose high up in the air. Now that the fruit was falling, he instinctively went up and used his mouth to catch it as it fell.

A warm current of energy tingled in his mouth, and the fruit melted directly into liquid on his tongue.

Zhou Ji: “……”

He had spent so much effort to obtain a wedding present for Xiong Ye, but now it was gone just like this?!

It was bad enough that the wedding present was gone, but he was still surrounded by a big crowd of giant millipedes!

Although these terrible big fellows were all vegetarian, they were now in a frenzy and might end up switching to eating meat.

Zhou Ji felt really helpless against this situation.

The only fortunate thing was that after the fruit entered his belly, his physical and spiritual strength began to recover, and he almost immediately returned to his peak state. When he became aware of this point, Zhou Ji immediately flashed back to his human form, ran towards the forest, and used his spiritual and plant abilities to climb up to the top of a tree and run along the canopy.

The millipedes behind him that had originally been about to catch up gradually fell behind-these insects’ vision and sense of smell were apparently not very good.

After an hour of running, even that huge millipede could no longer be seen.

Not only that, he had also run out of that stretch of forest.

Zhou Ji heaved a sigh of relief, then helplessly found out that he had lost all his clothing.

That was bad enough, but when he used his spiritual powers to make a sweep, a millipede suddenly came up beside him…

Zhou Ji was startled but quickly discovered that this millipede wasn’t from the previous group.

Those millipedes hadn’t caught up.

This millipede didn’t have any intention of attacking Zhou Ji, but Zhou Ji now had a psychological shadow regarding millipedes… He wrapped a vine around the two meter long ‘little millipede’ and tossed it far, far away. Feeling better, he wrapped leaves around himself and headed back towards the tribe.

The millipede, which had innocently encountered undeserved misfortune, was tossed out of the forest that it had lived in since it was a child. It didn’t take it seriously and was instead pleasantly surprised to discover that there was a lot of food out in this new place that it had never eaten before. It burrowed under the fallen leaves and began to eat.

As it ate and ate, a group of two-legged animals came by. They looked like the one who had thrown it so far away before.

That was fine, but one of them had a scent on its body that it really liked…

The millipede lunged at that person.

Shi Li, who had been harassed by all sorts of insects today: “……” Why were even the big ones coming now?!

Juurensha: ….I have to say the last millipede sounds weirdly cute….