Chapter 41
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Chapter 41: A Blue Sky and White Clouds for the Unlucky
/Experience Points gained, level up.
/Level LV.10 increased to LV.11, all values restored.
/Choose one of the three gifts: ① Health Limit +10, Strength +1 ② Magic Limit +10 ③ Agility +1, Abnormal State Resistance +1
/Please choose your gift.
Chose the second one.
/Gift has been granted.
Now that I have leveled up, hmm, about the Magic Value…
/Magic Value: 67/67
I feel like I’ve improved a lot recently.
Hmm, let’s retreat now!
Why are we retreating?
Do I really need to say? Of course, we are going back to… cough, to do that thing that is a little uncomfortable but also a bit nice.
Besides, we have taken down more than fifty Granville Wolves on the way here. Their bodies are still left behind, and it would be a shame not to collect them.
Meat! The more, the better!
If our lovely daughters want to grow up, they need to eat more meat!
So, the northern exploration team collected the dead wolf bodies while escorting Lin Yu back to the stone cave.
The dead Granville Wolf bodies attracted some other small predators, like normal-sized snakes and birds.
Because the Military Ant and the Weak Ant could not fly, they could only watch helplessly as the little thieves ran away.
The snake was quickly dealt with and ended up in the stomach of the Military Ant.
After returning to the cave, the 40 Worker Ants, who were staying behind, temporarily stopped expanding the ant nest under Lin Yu’s orders. They took the prey from the victorious Exploration Team Ant and brought the meat into the nest.
Lin Yu was also “carried” into the ant nest by that C Qualification Military Ant.
She found that riding on her daughter’s back felt quite nice.
If the terrain was not very steep, it was still stable for her, with six limbs lying on the Military Ant’s back.
After taking Lin Yu home, 10 Military Ants set off north again with the 40 Weak Ants, this time accompanied by 10 Worker Ants, who would be responsible for carrying the defeated monster bodies.
Since the situation with monsters in the nearby area was mostly understood, only 10 Military Ants, 30 Weak Ants, and 30 Worker Ants remained to guard the nest.
…
Well, you have worked hard.
After getting off the back of the Military Ant, Lin Yu reached out her front leg and touched the Military Ant’s head.
Next, without delay…
After having the Worker Ants bring in a small pile of bear meat, Lin Yu squatted down beside the pile.
Activate the skill “Lay Eggs.”
Her belly slowly began to swell.
Whew… I’m so nervous. Will there be good little ones this time~ Will there be?
After a little while, her abdomen seemed to be reaching its limit.
It’s… it’s coming…
Hmm…
Suddenly, a magic circle appeared in the area of her abdomen.
When Lin Yu saw the color of the magic circle, her heart sank, just like the feeling when blue skies and white clouds appeared in a card-drawing game…
It was a white, translucent magic circle!
No… I’m tired of white magic circles, and I want a magic circle of a different color. If that’s not possible, blue would be fine!
No, I can’t give up yet; the color of the magic circle might not mean anything.
So Lin Yu began to check the result of her “card draw.”
This time, it also cost one-third of her Magic Value, which was 22 points, and she received a total of 60 eggs.
The types and numbers of the 60 eggs were—
25 Weak Ant Eggs, which include 20 without qualification and 5 with D Qualification.
20 Worker Ant Eggs, including 14 without qualification and 6 with D Qualification.
15 Military Ant Eggs, all with D Qualification.
It seems that because the intelligence attribute has improved, this time, the number of Military Ant Eggs produced is noticeably higher than in the previous times.
However, there are no C Qualification individuals in the Military Ant Eggs this time.
Nevertheless, Lin Yu’s mood has improved a bit.
At least there are 15 Military Ant Eggs! And there are quite a few D Qualification Worker Ants and Weak Ants, too.
The magic circle appeared for just a few breaths before disappearing, and Lin Yu felt her belly shrink in an instant.
Indeed, it feels slightly pleasant…
For example, it’s like finishing all the summer homework on the last night of summer vacation and then lying down on the bed, relaxing, and playing a mobile game.
Wow, I want to play a game… I want to lie on a soft bed and play a game!
Whew—
I cannot have unrealistic hopes.
Well, laying eggs is somewhat similar to a card-drawing game…
Next, Lin Yu laid eggs two more times, and her Magic Value dropped to just 1 point.
In these two times, she laid 60 eggs the first time and 50 eggs the second time.
Both times, a white magic circle appeared.
With the most recent count, she produced a total of 170 eggs: this included 50 Military Ant Eggs, along with 60 Weak Ant Eggs and 60 Worker Ant Eggs.
The Military Ant Eggs all have a D qualification, while the Weak Ant and Worker Ant Eggs have 15 and 16 individuals with a D qualification, respectively.
The ant colonies need time to hatch.
Lin Yu had estimated earlier that Weak Ants take about three to four hours to hatch, Worker Ants take two to three hours, and Military Ants take the longest, needing seven to eight hours.
After laying eggs three times, Lin Yu, aided by her extreme hunger, consumed a lot of bear meat.
However, even after eating a lot of bear meat, the Experience Bar only increased a little, and she was still far from leveling up to LV.12.
With only 1 point of Magic Value left, Lin Yu had nothing else to do, so she returned to her bedroom.
The smell of blood in the air suddenly lightened a lot.
Through the effects of her “Unique Skill – Queen Ant,” she constantly watched the movements of the three exploration teams.
Her vision felt divided into four parts, but since she had practiced this countless times, Lin Yu had somewhat adapted to this way of operating.
The exploration team in the West had an uneventful trip. They skillfully evaded some goblins that were hunting and located several areas with dense woods and grass, positioned neither too close nor too far from the Goblin Tribe. They dispersed slightly and started excavating the ground to establish watchpoints.
Those places did not have other strong predators because of the goblin activity.
As long as they let some ants keep watch and carefully avoid being seen by the goblins, there was really no need to worry about danger.
The exploration team in the south also had no obstacles since most monsters there were weak, like slimes.
The only thing to be concerned about was some poisonous snakes.
Despite having fangs capable of secreting venom, these snakes are similar in size to real-world snakes, making it difficult for their fangs to penetrate the shells of Weak Ants and Military Ants.
The southern exploration team successfully dug the ground near the fruit trees and small ponds to set up a Harvest Point.
As for the exploration team in the north…
They ran into big trouble.
Perhaps it was because the Granville Wolf Pack was hunting earlier, the smell of blood drew a powerful monster.
It was a group of monkeys.
