Chapter 640
by fanqienovelChapter 640: Bringing Smiles to BBQ Ingredients with Trilobite’s Dark Side
"Azhi Oil Slash West!"
Mayor Trilobite, obsessed with barbecue, spotted a pack of raging beasts across the desolate wilderness.
These creatures charged fiercely and unreasonably, as though Trilobite owed them gold.
Clearly, they’d lacked smiles since childhood.
Unacceptable!
The ever-helpful Mayor Trilobite resolved to use an ecologist’s dark side to gift future barbecue ingredients with heartfelt grins.
After all, smiling prey means good meat!
"Heheh."
"Time to show them my darkness!"
"Forestification!"
"Go——!"
Forestification proved simple: modify some bracken ferns he’d cultivated—at least a portion of them.
Upgrade them from stubby shrubs to towering trees.
This cost little Chaos Energy, since plant modification projects in the "Evolution STEAM" mall were ridiculously cheap.
Hundreds or thousands? Trilobite’s spare change exceeded that.
The real Chaos Energy drain came from accelerating growth.
Left alone, both modified "tree bracken ferns" and original "shrub bracken ferns" grew swiftly—but "swiftly" meant months or years.
Trilobite needed speed measured in hours, moments, even minutes.
That demanded torrents of Chaos Energy.
"Luckily…"
"I’d just gotten a million Chaos Energy from Lady Ornitholestes."
"Invest one point two million then…"
Between the "evolution fee" paid by Moon Valley Ornitholestes and accumulated barbecue energy, Trilobite’s Chaos Energy reserves overflowed.
Still, tossing 1.2 million hurt.
But for instant forests? Worth every drop!
"Forest! Now!"
"Forestify! Everything forestify!"
…
"Thud… Thud… Thud…"
As Trilobite roared, colossal tree bracken ferns erupted skyward. Sturdy trunks pierced the earth while umbrella-like canopies unfurled, weaving dense shade.
The shrub bracken ferns refused to be outdone. They carpeted the ground voraciously, plugging every gap between their towering kin.
Trilobite had specifically obtained three plant projects for the "tree bracken ferns" from the "Evolution Steam Mall": "flood resistance," "anti-lodging resilient branches," and "lodging recovery."
This way, even if large animals accidentally trampled them down (a common occurrence in forests), it wouldn’t matter. Not only would their branches resist breaking, but they’d also quickly recover from being flattened.
As for the "scalebark forests"—already sparse after recently claiming this territory and further ravaged into "bald patches" by Plateosaurus—they were now entirely overwhelmed by the two types of "bracken fern" forests.
They had completely become "minor tree species."
The "Scalebark Ferns" never anticipated Trilobite would disregard all fairness and activate a rapid-construction cheat code.
Of course, Trilobite hadn’t targeted them specifically.
After all, he held no deep grudge against the "Scalebark Ferns," and he’d never recklessly squander all his Chaos Energy on illustration-less plants unless absolutely necessary.
Wouldn’t it be better to upgrade Administrator Themis and see if she’d release a new skin?
Or help those five "Spawn Young Ladies" modify their animal bodies and watch them twitch, pant, and roll their eyes?
Failing that, saving up to evolve his "saber-toothed Xuanhan Dragon" into a larger theropod dinosaur would be preferable, right?
Pouring so much Chaos Energy into plants…
That was purely a last resort.
“Hmm…”
“If I succeed in eliminating some targets, I should net over one million Chaos Energy!”
“Anyway, if the invested Chaos Energy plus my labor cost—er, ‘dragon labor cost’—is less than the final harvest, I’d come out ahead!”
“Time to prepare for battle!”
“The jungle is my battlefield!”
“And it’s better suited for my lovely Spawn to shine!”
“Right!”
“For jungle warfare, I’ll need to spend Chaos Energy on new equipment.”
“Though I only have a little over two hundred thousand Chaos Energy left…”
“That should suffice!”
“That project doesn’t involve organ modifications, so it shouldn’t cost much Chaos Energy.”
“Ah, almost forgot!”
Trilobite suddenly remembered something. He tilted his head, looking at the "Small Bird" beside him—actually, Gu’s Small Dinosaur.
“Ms. Gu, I can assign you another project.”
“This one benefits us both.”
“We’ll… both win!”
—-
“Ah!?”
“What… is happening!?”
“Just now, this area wasn’t here!”
“No! Did we take the wrong path?”
“Yes, we must have taken the wrong path!”
…
Trilobite had planned everything, but he never expected that many deities would be so foolish, beyond his wildest dreams.
Seeing the newly risen “forest,” they thought they had come to the wrong place.
Then…
“Let’s go…”
“He isn’t here.”
“Yes, the ‘Tyrant’ proclaimer seems absent. Let’s look elsewhere!”
…
As they spoke, many deities scattered on their own… they drifted away…
They left the main group, wandering across the Primal Wilderness like stragglers.
Even Lady Xidi was stunned by this!
“This…”
“I never saw this coming!”
“What incredible transformative power!”
“A small realm made of the ‘World Tree’ had sprung up in an instant.”
“Though this realm was still tiny and clearly a fortress for the Giant God to fight enemies, it was amazing!”
“This capability had already surpassed that of the Chaos Council!”
In the “Chaos Swamp Realm,” deities of the Chaos Council could also spur the growth of the Fantasy Tree of Subspace; the chaos invasion of the “Bubble World” happened when some chaos deity sped up the Fantasy Tree’s roots, letting them pierce the “Bubble World.”
But the Chaos Council had never done such massive spurring!
What shocked Lady Xidi more was that the Giant God had partly broken up the coalition of the primordial gods of the Primal Wilderness with just this one move!
“Did He plan all of this?!”
“He really had thought of everything!”
“Then…”
“Follow them!”
“Whoosh—whoosh—!”
A few dark shadows flew past as Lady Xidi’s divine bodies moved in different directions; some tracked the scattered ones, others headed toward the Chaos Swamp Realm.
Amon was about to arrive.
Valaharl should have finished his intercepting battle too.
It was time for them to help the Giant God wipe out those scattered pests!
“So, Giant God…”
“Next, the two of us should work together well!”