Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: Identification
Which one to choose? No need to say, it must be the third one!
Although the first one can improve Health Value to help with survival, and the second one can increase the number of Weak Ants by raising the Magic Value Limit.
But!
For survival, the children are enough protection for now, besides, I won’t go out casually!
Improving the Magic Value Limit is indeed great, but if the number of Weak Ants increases, the food problem will become more serious.
Also, having the Identification skill means I can know information about the enemy!
Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never lose a battle!
And I haven’t forgotten, the effects given by the "Unique Skill – Queen Ant!"
This means that this skill can be given to the children.
Thinking this way, even a fool would know which one to choose.
/Please choose your blessing.
Alright, alright, I understand. Can you please stop bothering me?
Please give me the third blessing!
/The blessing is granted.
In the next moment, a faint light separated from the air and then entered Lin Yu’s body.
On the Status Panel, a new text appeared after the skills "Unique Skill – Queen Ant" and "Laying Eggs," ultimately revealing a new skill called Identification.
After receiving the skill Identification, Lin Yu couldn’t wait to try it out.
She activated Identification on a Weak Ant.
Then, a familiar Status Panel appeared before her.
It was similar to when she looked at her own Status Panel and the Weak Ants.
After careful observation, Lin Yu noticed a new item beneath the Magic Value section.
/Experience Value: (Progress Bar) 0%
She could see the Experience Value displayed!
There was an added progress bar and percentage value, probably because she had just leveled up. At that moment, the Experience Value progress bar for the Weak Ant was at zero, so the percentage was also 0%.
And it seemed that the skill Identification didn’t use any Magic Value. Is that true? How convenient!
Let’s try again.
So she identified all thirty-one ants, including herself.
There is just an Experience Value progress bar and percentage, and then it all resets.
Besides that, there is a brief description of myself and the Weak Ant.
/Unique Queen Ant: A special individual in the Queen Ant family, with the rare ability to lay eggs of all kinds of ant species.
Able to lay eggs of all kinds of ant species…
It feels a bit like a card-drawing game… By the way, I have only laid, ahem! I said it, laying eggs and having babies should not be said out loud! I’m still not an adult!
Oh no, I accidentally said it out loud…
W-Well, anyway! Let’s think about that later.
There is not much food right now, so I definitely can’t test that skill.
Next is the explanation of the Weak Ants.
Weak Ant: A very weak race that is almost wiped out by other races before its numbers can grow. However, once their numbers increase, they become a force that no one can ignore. Also, the low-quality Weak Ant Tribe usually does not have self-awareness and only has basic instincts.
Hmm, that’s true.
Moreover, if the Queen Ants feel a terrifying hunger like I do when laying eggs, they might eat the eggs they just laid.
Ah, speaking of which, Queen Ants belong to a separate race… which means they are another race…
Could even my mom be an enemy? If that’s the case, the Weak Ant Tribe has too many enemies!
But not me, I will only feel sorry for you all.
As for the part that says "usually does not have self-awareness and only has basic instincts."
That must be why they look so silly, right?
However, if I remember correctly, most insects seem to lack self-awareness.
Never mind, let’s not think about those things! By the way, let’s try the effect of the Unique Skill next!
She tried to use the skill "Unique Skill – Queen Ant" on one of the Weak Ants.
/Skill activation failed.
A window popped up in her view with this message.
"Each skill held by the skill user can only be granted once, and the success rate is influenced by the quality of the target." — This is the explanation of the skill granting effect.
In other words, you have no chance now, Lin Yu looked at the granted Weak Ant with sympathy.
By the way, activating the granting effect used up half of Lin Yu’s Magic Value.
The current status is:
/Health Value: 10/10
/Magic Value: 6/12
Because it was just a trial, and she did not expect the silly Weak Ants to use a skill like Identification, which was a cheating-level ability, she no longer granted it to them.
The testing for granting effects ends here!
Now let’s turn our attention back to Identification.
First, the item!
She used Identification on her egg shell, which still had some leftover egg liquid, but most of it had already been eaten.
/Skill activation successful.
/Fragmented white Queen Ant eggshell: Rich in nutritional value, it is usually eaten by newborn Queen Ants right away and is highly tempting for the offspring laid by the Queen Ant.
Huh? What does it mean that it is highly tempting for the offspring?
I had given them some before, but I didn’t see these silly ones react at all.
That’s true; they are silly after all.
The next words…
Examine the eggshells taken from the Weak Ants after they were born.
Most of the Weak Ants’ eggshells have been eaten by Lin Yu, leaving only two small piles of eggshells.
/Skill activated successfully.
/Broken Weak Ant eggshell: Rich in nutrients and usually eaten right away by newborn Weak Ants. In terms of taste, it is slightly better than Queen Ant eggshells.
Yes, that is a fact.
But is such an explanation really necessary?
Continue to identify the last "item" in the current ant nest.
Lin Yu’s gaze turned to the battered, foul-smelling corpse of her mother.
/Skill activated successfully.
——
Name: None
Species: Queen Ant (Dead)
Qualification: D
Rank: D
Level: LV.1
Health Value: 0/110
Magic Value: 0/30
Skills, "Lay Eggs", "Bite"
Strength: 2
Agility: 1
Intelligence: 1
Physical Resistance Ability: 0
Elemental Magic Resistance Ability: 0
Abnormal State Resistance Ability: 0
——
The first thing I see is my mom’s traits from before she passed away. Honestly, she doesn’t seem very strong.
Just looking at the Health Value, the Weak Ants together have a much higher value than my mom.
Only the skill "Bite" and the strength of 2 catch my attention a little.
Even though the "Bite" skill doesn’t seem very rare, it is definitely stronger than the Weak Ants that have no skills, and I’m not sure what a strength of 2 means.
The strength of Weak Ants is 0.
The difference between 0 and 2 feels really big…
Besides the display window, there is also a note about my mom’s body.
/ Slightly rotting Queen Ant’s body: The body has been dead for nearly seven days. Disturbing the body will produce a strong, terrible smell. Even though eating its rotten flesh can give experience, most creatures will stay away.
The rotten flesh that has been dead for seven days… ugh… disgusting!
It was alright until we mentioned it, but now it really smells bad!
I can’t stay in this ant hole anymore!
…
There’s a wild beast near the entrance due to the food shortage.
Adding a room that smells terrible doesn’t matter; things can’t get much worse than they are now.
I’m sorry, I lied.
It smells so bad… If the girl’s room is this stinky, it just won’t do! Absolutely!
But right now, there’s nothing I can do. Is it just my imagination? It feels like sand got into my eyes, sob…
…
Hmm, it took some time, but I finally cheered up.
Alright, alright, everyone don’t look so sad! Everything will get better!
Lin Yu said to a group of Weak Ants.
She saw that the Weak Ants still had blank expressions on their faces.
Can you at least show some reaction? Comfort your mother, please?
Okay, okay, I just knew you were a bunch of fools.
Really, it has only been three days, but down here it feels like a very long time.
It’s a little lonely…
Hmm? I, I don’t feel lonely at all!
Talking to myself is quite nice, and to be honest, having someone next to me can feel uncomfortable. It’s true! I have gotten used to it!
Someone like me, who is shy and quiet, yet beautiful like a school flower, is just a person on the edge.
I’d say it’s already lucky that I haven’t been bullied much!
…
Back to the point.
Since everyone is full now, let’s stop eating for a moment.
Keep watching that lazy bear!
Okay, let’s break up!
Hey, wait a minute, can we check that lazy bear? Um, it seems like we can’t. If we check it, it will feel something… If we do check it, it will definitely be found out.