Chapter 209: Mud Fruit and Corpse Buddha Cockroach
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Everyone’s eyes burned as they looked at Liu Lanqing and Bai Ling.
Liu Lanqing also clearly showed some excitement. “Old Bai, you have a lot of experience. Take a look. What grade of Unusual Item is this?”
Bai Ling walked to the purple-black bead and picked it up to identify it carefully. “It should be Yellow Grade. 1 have to go back and specially test what feature it suits.”
“Yellow Grade…”
Everyone was not disappointed. To be able to obtain a Yellow Grade Unusual Item so easily was already an extremely unexpected surprise.
Liu Lanqing clapped her hands. “Good! It seems that there are really Unusual Items in this dense forest. This is a Great Merit! Old Bai, keep it well first. After we get out, we’ll discuss everyone’s contributions!”
Bai Ling nodded and placed the purple-black bead into the pouch wrapped around his waist.
“Let’s go. Continue inward!”
Not long after, Old Wu also said in a low voice, “Issuer Liu, look there!”
Looking up, there was another similar hammer-shaped yellow fruit hanging high!
“And there!”
Lin Yan also raised his hand and pointed. On a high branch on the right, there was a similar blue-purple fruit.
Liu Lanqing let out a long breath, and her eyes lit up. “Old Wu, Xiaopeng, lure these two ‘fruits’ down. I’ll deal with them!”
Not long after, two balls of flames burned, turning the two piles of mud into charcoal. In the charcoal, two more beads were discovered. They were both Unusual Items.
The colors of the two blobs of mud were different. The Unusual Items produced from them were also different in color. One had a yellow halo, while the other had a blue halo.
Following that, everyone carefully continued inward. Soon, they discovered that although the fruits in this strange forest were sparse, they were not rare. Moreover, they were of different colors.
Among them, there were also a few fruits that were only the size of apples or papayas. They were clearly immature. Even if strangers approached, there would be no movement, as if they were dead.
There were no Unusual Items even if someone shot it down and burned it to ashes.
On the other hand, there were more watermelon-sized fruits.
They were probably considered mature. Not only would they turn into mud and blood shadows of various colors to attack people, but one would also obtain the bead Unusual Item after they were burned to death.
The deeper they went, the more fruits they burned. In a short period of time, they had actually collected nearly 20 bead Unusual Items. It was a huge harvest!
“The Prefecture Administration is right. The ruins in the poisonous fog really have Unusual Item treasures!”
“Didn’t they say that this is the ruins of the Ancient Fan Nation? Why are there only towering forests and no ancient ruins?”
“Who cares? Isn’t it enough to find and collect Unusual Items?”
“You’re right!”
Everyone continued deeper and collected two more round Unusual Items. Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from afar.
“Shh.”
Everyone immediately lowered their bodies and found a huge tree to cover their bodies.
Lin Yan said softly, “It’s the sound of the Corpse Buddha Cockroach!”
Liu Lanqing narrowed her eyes. “Let’s go and take a look!”
Everyone slowed down and paid attention to the changes in the surrounding environment. Not long after, they gradually approached and the sound became clearer.
“Lin Yan, listen carefully. What’s the situation there?”
Due to the barrier of the anti-poison suit, Liu Lanqing and the others couldn’t hear clearly and could only look at Lin Yan.
Lin Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and listened for a moment, revealing a hint of surprise. “These Corpse Buddha Cockroaches seem to be fighting intensely?”
The sounds that came were all Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s screams. Some were sharp and hurried, while others were extremely terrified. It was like a chaotic battlefield.
“No, that’s not right either…”
Lin Yan pricked up his ears and carefully identified it. He gradually frowned. “There’s only Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s sound inside?!”
At this moment, everyone had also heard some of it. Indeed, the Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s voice in the distance was noisy and chaotic, like an army fighting. However, other than the Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s voice, there was no other sound.
Liu Lanqing made a decision after a moment. “Let’s go closer!”
Everyone became even more careful and slowly approached. Finally, an extremely chaotic forest battlefield in the distance entered everyone’s eyes.
“Those Corpse Buddha Cockroaches are actually so huge!”
Everyone was shocked and subconsciously approached the huge tree, hiding their figures even more secretly.
On the chaotic battlefield in the distance, dozens of Corpse Buddha Cockroaches were fighting in chaos under the forest.
They were what Lin Yan had seen in this plain last time. They were three to four times taller than the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches outside. Just the saber arm in front of them was ten feet long!
Not to mention, the carapace on their body was dark and cold. One could tell at a glance that it was extremely hard. It was definitely not something the Corpse Buddha Cockroach outside could compare to!
Lin Yan originally thought that this group of Corpse Buddha Cockroaches had an internal strife and were fighting each other.
After all, he saw two Corpse Buddha Cockroaches waving their terrifying knife arms and cutting their own kind into pieces. They looked like they were fighting to the death.
However, after taking a closer look, Lin Yan felt that something was wrong.
He looked around. There were only two Corpse Buddha Cockroaches that attacked their own kind. Furthermore, the attacked Corpse Buddha Cockroach wouldn’t resist.
As for the other Corpse Buddha Cockroaches, they were either climbing high on the tree trunks and doing something, or rolling on the ground and howling, as if they were enduring extreme pain.
However, Lin Yan could clearly see that there were only towering greenish-blue trees around the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches. There were no enemies!
Everyone also noticed this strange situation. They looked at each other and felt a chill run down their spines.
Suddenly, Lin Yan’s pupils constricted slightly. “Look, on the back of the Corpse Buddha Cockroach!”
Due to the distance and the fact that the other four were blocked by the anti-poison suits, they could not see clearly.
With Lin Yan’s instructions, they exclaimed, “It’s that Mud Fruit!”
Mud Fruit was the name they gave to those hammer-shaped Unusual Item fruits.
The Corpse Buddha Cockroach that Lin Yan was pointing at had a colorful mark slowly squirming and expanding on the back of its huge body. It was the soft mud formed by the Mud Fruit!
As for the Corpse Buddha Cockroach that was attached to the Mud Fruit, it kept rolling on the ground in pain and wailing. Its saber arms swung around, leaving marks on the entire gray stone ground.
However, no matter how hard it tried, it could not swing the knife arm onto its back. It could only let the mud slowly expand!
Looking around, the dozen or so Corpse Buddha Cockroaches that were rolling and howling on the ground were actually covered in soft mud formed by these Mud Fruits!
Some even had more than one piece. There were two or three!
As for the two Corpse Buddha Cockroaches that specialized in attacking their own kind, they were also attacking the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches covered in Mud Fruits.
Lin Yan originally thought that they were chopping up their own kind, but now, he could see clearly that they were cutting off the parts of the Corpse Buddha Cockroach that were covered by the Mud Fruit!
However, the Mud Fruit covered an extremely large area. Once it was cut down, a large piece of shell would appear, often causing serious damage to the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches.
Therefore, not long after, half of the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches that had their shells cut off lay on the ground, and stinky pus and blood flowed all over the ground. What was worth mentioning was that the blood of these Corpse Buddha Cockroaches was pure black, like oil.
At this moment, Liu Lanqing raised her hand and pointed up. “Look, what are those Corpse Buddha Cockroaches doing?”
Everyone looked up and was stunned. They couldn’t recognize it in a hurry just now. Now that they thought of the Mud Fruit, everyone immediately recognized it. “So many Mud Fruits?! No wonder! These Corpse Buddha Cockroaches are picking immature Mud Fruits!”
In the forest ahead, the number of Mud Fruits on the greenish-blue trees was extremely dense!
Furthermore, most of them were immature. A few ripe Mud Fruits shot towards the other Corpse Buddha Cockroaches and enveloped them tightly.
However, the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches were huge, and there were quite a number of them. The Corpse Buddha Cockroaches that had dodged the Mud Fruits lay on the tree trunk and carefully waved their saber arms. With every swing, they could hack down one or two immature Mud Fruits.
Below, there were other Corpse Buddha Cockroaches receiving them. They swallowed the Mud Fruits into their huge mouths, but they did not chew them. Instead, they stored the fruits.
Once there were enough fruits stored in their mouths, they would immediately retreat to avoid the Mud Fruits and leave the battlefield.
Liu Lanqing said in a low voice, “Are those Corpse Buddha Cockroaches gathering Mud Fruits? Are they vegetarian?”
Lin Yan said, “On the way here previously, we saw that there were few immature Mud Fruits. They must have been ravaged by the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches like these greenish-blue trees in front of us!”
Everyone looked up. There were so many Mud Fruits on the greenish-blue trees. If they were all ripe, how many Unusual Items would there be?
However, they were wasted by this group of Corpse Buddha Cockroaches!
“What a waste, what a waste!”
On the tree trunk, the Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s movements were gentle and not fast, perhaps for the sake of sustainable development.
Only at this moment did they wreak havoc on the twenty to thirty greenish-blue giant trees, leaving only a few sporadic ones. Then, they left behind corpses on the ground and quickly retreated.
“Wait, look at those Mud Fruits!”
The dozen or so ripe Mud Fruits that had fallen to the ground were like pools of squirming mud as they swam towards the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches’ corpses. After sticking to them, they spread out like a blood membrane and completely covered them.
The surface of the blood membrane squirmed and shrank. It was like a huge blood-red stomach or a huge blood cocoon, brewing a terrifying creature.
Everyone did not immediately go forward. On the one hand, the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches might not have gone far, and on the other hand, there were many Mud Fruits, so they could not escape. It was better to observe first and not take the risk.
Not long after, the huge blood cocoons actually shrank, as if the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches inside had been completely digested and devoured.
As for the Mud Fruits that had finished absorbing, they became much bloated. They slowly squirmed towards the greenish-blue trees beside it.
“These are all Unusual Items, and we can’t miss them… Stay here. Old Bai, come with me!”
Bai Ling’s Force Feature seemed to have the power to isolate and restrain the Mud Fruits.
The two of them went forward. Soon, blazing flames burned. Although the Mud Fruits pounced on the two of them and almost enveloped them into a squirming ball of flesh, the blazing flames still ignited them and burned them into hammer-shaped charcoal.
Wu Qinglei and Fan Xiaopeng looked at each other. They knew that if they were surrounded by these Mud Fruits, they would probably not be able to escape.
Lin Yan’s expression was also solemn. Unless he activated the Azure Dragon Riding Wind and Thunder, he would not be able to avoid the encirclement of these Mud Fruits.
The two of them took out Unusual Items and returned. They took out the newly obtained beads and displayed them. Their size was clearly a little larger.
“The quality of the bead Unusual Items this time is even better than the previous ones!”
Fan Xiaopeng was speechless. “So after these Mud Fruits absorb the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches, they can increase the quality of Unusual Items?”
Lin Yan said coldly, “Absorbing humans can probably increase their quality too.”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then they shivered. These words really made one’s imagination run wild.
Lin Yan’s gaze gathered on the charred Mud Fruits again.
Because just now, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
His Formless True Self special effect could transform a drop of blood essence into a Formless Clone, and this blood essence… was not limited to his own blood essence!
During this period of time, Lin Yan had also tried to use other people’s blood essence to create a Formless Clone.
Not to mention that the consumption was a hundred times higher, controlling it was far less smooth than his own blood essence. Therefore, he temporarily put this function aside and ignored it.
However, when he saw the Mud Fruit, especially when he saw the Mud Fruit flowing like blood, Lin Yan suddenly had an idea.
Was there any so-called blood essence in the Mud Fruit?
Or perhaps, what would happen if he threw his own Formless Clone into the thin openings of the Mud Fruit?
