Chapter 246
by fanqienovelChapter 246: Earthquake? Food First!
"Ahwu… Ahwu…"
"Ugly as sin, but not half bad."
Two "beasts" lay stacked on lakeside mud.
The larger corpse bore a drilled hole in its forehead; the smaller one had its head torn off, neck brutally snapped!
That demon god never dreamed some creature would dissect it like dinner, nitpicking its flaws.
With visible disgust.
"But archosaurs aren’t tasty—especially post-Late Permian ones."
"Those ‘advanced’ types."
"Fur? Seriously?!"
Pig trotters and ears are delicious, but finding hairs kills the appetite.
Feathered archosaurs pose similar issues.
Plucking birds is tedious work.
River fish taste fresh, but scales need scraping. Fried with cumin and salt, they make crispy snacks—yet tiny bones everywhere.
Getting your mouth jabbed mid-meal ruins the joy.
Mackerel, tuna, salmon—now those are ocean champions.
Plump flesh, rich flavor, minimal bones…
"Slurp…"
"Ah, drifting off-topic."
"But…"
"Since I ditched being human, I’ll commit fully."
"Rare for the System to let me raise spawn—gotta use them right!"
"Mutual benefits!"
"Hmm!"
Trilobite peered down happily. Blue Dots swarmed in his system vision.
His growing size didn’t sharpen his sight—why bother with ten-centimeter prey?
Yet he could spot ancient jumping spider-sized creatures.
Trilobites dwarfing jumping spiders remained visible too.
Through calcite eyes, trilobites and ancient jumping spiders resembled pixelated Pokémon on an old GBA screen.
Distinct shapes were clear enough.
Good enough!
"Ah!"
"Look at my little cuties."
"How hardworking they are!"
Trilobite thought to himself that since he was too clumsy to pluck the hair from his prey, why not let his capable spawn handle it instead?
It seemed that except for the "fourth symbiotic creature," who pursued a solo path to strength, the other young ladies all maintained their own spawn.
So when his sharp teeth proved useless, it was time for the "symbiotic creature" sisters and their spawn to take action!
Trilobite watched as countless trilobite creatures slowly crawled ashore from the "lake," with swarms of "ancient jumping spiders" skittering off their backs. Though far smaller than his "white-haired, aloof yet alluring sister’s" true form, these spiders remained recognizable.
Like an ant colony, they meticulously used their venomous fangs and claws to strip hair from the food, revealing smooth skin beneath.
"Seems ‘Agrobacterium’s little trick’ worked wonders—the spawn keep improving!"
"Well then…"
After clearing a fresh patch, Trilobite prepared to feast.
But just then…
【Yahou!】
A bright, energetic voice chimed.
【Yo! Young man!】
【Fine work!】
"Tch, the customer service lady…"
"That unhinged customer service lady," he mentally added.
【Hmph! Such insolence toward the demon god! How bold!】
"Uh…"
"You heard that?"
【Naturally! The primordial core demon god is all-powerful—all creation rests in my grasp!】
【Hehe… Haha… Bwahaha!】
"Which pharaoh’s tomb did you crawl out of?"
"Anyway, if you’re sick, go pester your doctor. Don’t interrupt my meal."
"Omnom… Omnom…"
Trilobite ignored the deranged creature.
Unlike Valaharl or Themis—actual system support who at least tried helping—she hadn’t contributed anything. Not even little Zizi, that "junior technician," was this useless; at least she’d provided a radio for some extra income.
This one? She just indulged in her madness, reveling in delusional fantasies.
Endlessly babbling "Tata Kai" day after day.
Trilobite humored her occasionally, treating her as mere comic relief.
【How cold it was.】
【But it was fine; anyway, this world was about to be destroyed!】
【An unprecedented disaster was about to strike here! Only the strongest warriors could survive!】
“Oh…”
Trilobite reacted coldly.
But he didn’t completely ignore the words of this “crazy” customer service lady.
“Hmm…”
“Indeed…”
Whether it was the Lateral Line, Olfactory Membranes, or the Lorentz Jar, they all told him a big change was brewing.
A huge pressure was slowly pressing down, the Earth shook, like a flood wildly hitting and squeezing the dam!
The “magnetic field” was also shifting wildly, becoming very messy, making Trilobite a bit dizzy; if it weren’t for his eyes, which had poor vision but could still tell direction, he would have been totally lost.
The air was full of anxious smells.
All this made Trilobite feel the disaster coming closer!
“Oh my God!”
Anxious feelings brewed inside him.
Before earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, many animals often felt uneasy, either buzzing around crazily or running with their young ones.
This wasn’t because those animals had supernatural senses, but because they relied more on smell, touch, and even “magnetic sense” than sight.
When an earthquake was coming, the ground’s movement caused the magnetic field or the stirring earth to release smells buried deep down, and many animals sensed it early.
Trilobite wasn’t human anymore.
He had a shark’s sense of smell, a shark’s “magnetic sense,” fish-like sensitivity to shakes, and…
calcite eyes.
Vision was the least useful thing for predicting disasters.
“Was an earthquake coming?”
“The natural dam of the old landslide lake was about to break, and a lot of water would rush in?”
“This…”
【Now!】
【Face the earth-shattering disaster!】
【What would you do?】
Trilobite rolled his eyes and walked over to two piles of “meat”…
“Hmm, not bad.”
“My spawn worked quite efficiently.”
The fur on those two long-haired archosaurs had already been completely plucked.
Faced with the two piles of “pure meat,” Trilobite acted without hesitation…
“Ah-woo… Ah-woo… Ah-woo…”
An earthquake?
Who cared!
He would finish the meal first!
—-
While Trilobite was lost in eating…
“What is this…?”
Ancient Blood, the battle leader Kukukwanquak, painfully opened his eyes…
He looked around with sorrow.
The priests sitting in a circle had faces twisted in pain, each filled with despair and fear.
“It’s over…”
“The Sotiko have abandoned us.”
“The Crystal Walls are collapsing!”
“The Bubble World Sotiko… is finished!”
“We Sotiko people are done for too!”
Kukukwanquak painfully closed his eyes.
He and all the Sotiko warriors did not understand the purpose of those cruel trials, or why their brothers and sisters had died at the jaws of jungle beasts…
What were their years of fighting and sacrifice all for?
…
“It’s over…”
Just as everyone was in despair…
“Tap… Tap… Tap…”
The sound of high heels echoed in the pyramid temple.
“That’s not necessarily true.”
The gathered Sotiko people looked up toward the bright light…
The Giant God’s “First Living Saint” Sulya stood before them.
Behind her were two tall women, one with silver hair and the other with red hair.
The red-haired woman had a fiery figure, and her eyes seemed to burn with endless flames; while the silver-haired woman had a different air, her beautiful Double Eyes pure and flawless, radiating an icy aura.
“This world may not be saved, but you!”
“Must never lose hope!”
“There is still a deity who has not given up on you!”