Chapter 9
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Chapter 9: How to Solve the Food Crisis?
Five days later.
The big brown bear with long fur still didn’t look like it wanted to go out hunting.
It can really go a long time without food!
Even though she often joked about it, Lin Yu was already very anxious inside.
In five days, most of her mom’s body had been eaten, and only about one-tenth of the meat was left, along with some green thick liquid scattered on the ground…
To save food as much as possible, Lin Yu hadn’t used her skill "Lay Eggs" in these five days, and she only ate enough to feel a little full.
Eating her mom’s body would give her experience, so she tried to keep the Weak Ants and her Experience Bar in check before leveling up, and then she started to go hungry.
Wait until the Health Value starts to drop to a certain level before eating again, and at that moment, just a bite or two can help level up immediately.
Health Value and Hunger Level fill up completely.
If this is not done, the ant colony will probably have eaten all the food two days ago.
Of course, during the five days, Lin Yu also tried to let the Weak Ant go out to hunt while the big bear was sleeping, but that time, as soon as it made the slightest noise after leaving the ant hill, the big bear woke up immediately.
Frightened, Lin Yu quickly ordered the Weak Ant to come back, narrowly avoiding having the bear discover the ant hill.
In addition, all Weak Ants currently have reached LV.3, and their Experience Bar is almost at the edge of leveling up.
LV.2→LV.3, all Weak Ants level up with the same Health Value Limit.
The attributes are as follows:
Non-qualified Weak Ants: Health Value 28/28
The two Weak Ants of D Qualification: Health Value 30/30
As for Lin Yu, she has reached level 4.
However, in these two upgrades, the Gift Options did not include any new skills.
In the process of leveling up from level 2 to level 3, the Gift Options were:
① "Health Value Limit +10"
② "Magic Value Limit +5"
③ "Intelligence +1"
Similarly, the first option was excluded. From the upgrade results of the Weak Ants, it is clear that increasing the Health Value Limit is the most basic gift.
Next are the second and third options.
Lin Yu struggled for a long time between these two options.
If her guess is right – that intelligence is a trait that increases magic power – then improving this trait would undoubtedly boost the skill "Laying Eggs." Of course, the skill "Laying Eggs" doesn’t have a concept of power, so instead, this trait is likely to increase the "amount" or "quality" of the eggs laid.
If her guess turns out to be true, then this choice would definitely be a good deal!
Also, the option "Magic Value Limit +5" has appeared twice, so it is probably easier to obtain than "Intelligence +1."
Thinking this way, Lin Yu chose to improve her intelligence.
Then it was LV3→LV4, and the Gift Options were:
① "Health Value Limit +10"
② "Magic Value Limit +5"
③ "Strength +1"
The reappearance of "Magic Value limit +5" confirmed Lin Yu’s guess that this attribute is easy to obtain, but the third option left her more struggling.
…
Strength… is not useful to me.
Why?
Because I don’t want to fight! Strength probably means close combat skills, right? I can’t face my enemies directly and fight! I am confident that if an enemy just looks at me, I might freeze in place.
Besides, I never thought I would be the main character in a story!
If I accidentally die, everything is over.
In any case, I don’t plan to focus on improving the "Strength" attribute.
So the strength section on the status panel changed from 0 to 1.
Huh? Didn’t they say that strength is not useful for me?
Come on, even if it’s not useful, I can’t ignore this chance to increase my strength! First, I need to test the right use of strength, and this is a boost from 0 to 1! This kind of improvement must be very significant.
Besides, my mom’s strength when she was alive was only 2.
So, before getting "Strength +1," she tested her own strength.
First, she took a strong bite of her mom’s ant shell, leaving two shallow marks on its surface.
Then she got "Strength +1," and the moment she received it, she clearly felt her strength increase.
She took another strong bite at the ant shell.
"Snap"
With a crisp sound, a piece of the shell broke off, and the remaining force was transferred to Lin Yu’s white jaws, making her shiver all over.
Her strength was likely about five or six times greater than before her upgrade.
As expected, the increase from 0 to 1 was very large.
Although her Health Value Limit was still only 10, Lin Yu felt that her current strength was already much higher than that of the Weak Ants. Of course, if the Weak Ants came at her all at once, it would be a different story.
…
Back to the current situation.
The reason Lin Yu upgraded to LV.4 was not to get ahead, but because she just couldn’t stand being hungry.
If it was just normal hunger, she could bear it, but once her hunger level dropped too low and started to decrease her Health Value, she couldn’t take it anymore.
The pain of extreme hunger was like a slow torment, and the level of suffering would only get worse over time.
So she couldn’t help but eat.
Because they can endure hunger better than the other Weak Ants, they naturally eat more rotten meat, and thus they quickly reached Level 4.
By the way, Lin Yu found that the amount of meat needed to level up increases a lot with each level.
In other words, after reaching each new level, more Experience Value is required to reach the next one.
Currently, the Experience Value progress of the Weak Ants is also close to Level 4, but since there is not much rotten meat left, they can only endure hunger for now.
There are two ways to break the current deadlock:
The first is to follow the previous strategy and go out to look for food after the bear leaves to hunt.
The second is to find a chance to kill that bear.
The first method is certainly the safest, but if the bear does not go out, the whole ant colony may starve to death.
The second method could solve the problem once and for all, but it carries huge risks. Considering that the bear is three to four times bigger than their mother, Lin Yu truly doubts the current strength of the ant colony can defeat it.
However, Lin Yu was also ready to fight fiercely against the opponent.
When the Weak Ants start to lose Health Points because their Hunger Level is too high, it will be the time to start the battle!
At that time, let the Weak Ants eat all the rotten meat, and then quickly level up to LV.4 before attacking while the opponent is sleeping.
Although the chance of winning still feels very low, there is nothing we can do about it.
Huh, me?
When the time comes, um, I will see how it goes!