Lin Sanjiu felt that she would have nightmares for the next few days as the gigantic worm, which was as tall as a two-story building, slowly lowered its body. As the target of its gaze, Lin Sanjiu felt that she would have nightmares for the next few days.
This time, Number 43 had already used up his opportunity to talk to the beetle. Seeing that her time was almost up, Lin Sanjiu knew very well that the beetle had not heard a single word she said.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether the beetle could "smell" or not, but when it stretched out one of its furry legs and waved it beside her ear as if it was fanning her, she did hear a sharp intake of breath coming from the face on top of the beetle.
"Just like what Number 46 said," the beetle retracted its legs and rubbed them back and forth for a while. The beetle retracted its legs and rubbed them back and forth for a while. Its tone was full of regret. "Ah, I didn't expect you to come up with such a method to avoid contact with me."
"I'm so sad," the beetle said as it placed its two legs in front of its "chest". "After all, you are the first sprout that I've bitten. I thought that our relationship was special," Lin Sanjiu said as she glared at the beetle.
Lin Sanjiu glared at it with an ugly expression. Her throat felt dry, "If you want me to die, I have to think of a way to stay alive. What's so strange about that? "
"Oh, my lady, you have misunderstood me." Unexpectedly, the beetle laughed again, "I'm not sad that you lied to me. I'm sad that a beautiful lady like you is going to disappear from this farm soon."
As soon as Lin Sanjiu heard the beetle's words, her body reacted faster than her brain. She leaped backward, but the beetle's "bite" was unavoidable. With a ripping sound, Lin Sanjiu's sleeves were torn off and fell to the ground as the beetle's gigantic body pounced on her.
Then, all the eyes that were looking in her direction saw clearly that the beetle's shadow had pierced into her arm.
Number 43 instantly let out a scream. Seeing the first casualty of the germination stage, even Number 46's group couldn't think of anything to be happy about. The sound of people inhaling sharply could be heard one after another. Then, Lin Sanjiu's body landed heavily on the ground, and the dull thud struck their hearts.
"Oh …"
The beetle straightened his back and stared at Lin Sanjiu for a while as his gaze fell on the ground below the fence.
"What else does it want?" Number 48 asked blankly. His voice was so loud that even No. 43 on the other bridge could hear him clearly.
The beetle swayed its numerous legs a few times and opened its mouth as if it wanted to say something. Just when everyone, including Number 47 who had just woken up, stretched their necks and pricked up their ears to listen to what the beetle had to say. Its small building body suddenly shook a few times.
Without any warning, the beetle slowly fell backward. With a loud thud, a cloud of yellow dust rose into the air. For a moment, the dust and soil particles were so thick that they couldn't even open their mouths. The soil bridge shook violently as if it was going to break under the weight of the weight. Number 43, who had just escaped from the beetle, staggered and fell to the ground.
"Ah, the pests are dead."
Before Number 46 and his team could understand what was going on, Harry's voice sounded in the air, revealing the answer to them.
"I didn't expect that. You guys did a good job," he praised in a cheerful tone. "Wait for me. Let me deal with this situation. I'll be back soon."
Then, Harry's voice disappeared once again, leaving behind a confused crowd.
"The beetle is dead?" Number 46 was the first to shout in the direction of the other bridge, "What's going on?"
From where he was, he could still see a large half of the insect's abdomen poking out from above the fence, its countless hairy and fine legs still continuously trembling. Its enormous body occupied most of the earth bridge, making it strange that the earth fence on the bridge actually didn't shatter.
From the other bridge, Number 43 didn't reply. There was no response from Number 43 for a few minutes. Number 46 called out a few more times. Suddenly, an arm stretched out from the other end of the soil bridge and slammed on the railing. "Bam!"
When Lin Sanjiu's pale and sweaty face gradually appeared in front of everyone's eyes, everyone was so stunned that they didn't know what to say. Everyone was so stunned that they didn't know what to say.
"Did I guess wrong? Did you … did you really spray the pesticide on yourself? "Number 46 asked in a daze after a while. "That's not right … That's not right. This doesn't make sense!"
"I'm not that stupid," Lin Sanjiu replied while panting, "Harry said that the consequences of spraying the pesticide are worse than being bitten by the beetle. I don't want to take that risk."
Another face appeared from under the railing. It was Number 43. He looked around and quickly went over to help Lin Sanjiu up.
"Hey, hey, that's not important," Lin Sanjiu shook her head and stopped him. Her body was still hanging on the fence. Her arm, which was bitten, drooped down, "Hurry up and untie me. It's disgusting."
"Untie me? Untie what? "
While Number 46 and the others were still puzzled by Lin Sanjiu's action, Number 43 immediately responded and extended his hand to Lin Sanjiu's arm. Lin Sanjiu's arm was now fair and clean. There was no trace of the blood-red marks left by the bug bites.
"No, that's not right." If one took a closer look, the color of her arm was obviously different from the color of her head, face, and the back of her hand.
Number 43 grabbed Lin Sanjiu's wrist and pulled with all his might. He tore off a corner of Lin Sanjiu's arm. The corner grew bigger and bigger until a thick layer of white skin was peeled off. Once the skin was peeled off, the skin that belonged to Lin Sanjiu was immediately revealed. It was stained with dried body fluids and blood.
"Hurry up and throw it away," Lin Sanjiu said with a frown. She looked extremely uncomfortable, "I don't want to see human skin ever again."
"Human … Human skin?" Number 46 finally understood. "You sprayed the pesticide on human skin?"
"Where did you get the ready-made human skin?" Lin Sanjiu scoffed, "I got it from a corpse."
"A corpse?"
Just as Number 46 frowned, the tall woman in front of him laughed again, "You don't know me. I don't have a lot of valuable things on me and I'm always in need of something … The only thing I don't lack is corpses."
As she spoke, she shot a glance at Number 45, "Speaking of which, the reason I came up with the idea of skinning the corpse was because of you. I was inspired by you. "
Number 45 bit her lip. Her face was gloomy and she didn't say anything.
"In other words, you sprayed the pesticide on the corpse and then skinned the corpse. You wrapped the skin around the area that the beetle always bites? " Number 48 stammered as if he had forgotten that they were enemies just a few minutes ago.
"Don't explain the process so clearly," Lin Sanjiu rubbed her arm with her sleeve unhappily, "Even the bad memories are coming back to me. However, that was indeed the case. We just wrapped the human skin ten minutes before the beetle came. In order to conceal this step of our plan, I changed into a long-sleeved shirt a long time ago. "
"Then, how did you know that the beetle would bite you and not Number 43?"
"He has a piece of it on his arm!" Lin Sanjiu looked at Number 48 as if she was looking at an idiot, "Fatty might be a duoluozhong, but he has two arms."
Number 48 shut his mouth awkwardly. He stole a glance at Number 46. Number 46 couldn't tell what kind of expression was on his face. He thought that he was in a situation where two groups were fighting each other, so he racked his brains to come up with a solution. In the end, he didn't expect that the two groups would be defeated by the other group in such a simple way.
Number 46's face alternated between red and white. His mouth opened and closed a few times, but he couldn't speak for a long time. Lin Sanjiu looked at him with a smile. She didn't seem to want to relax at all. Fortunately, Number 43's question helped him resolve some of the awkwardness, "Now that the beetle is dead, is the germination stage over?"
Naturally, no one could answer this question except for Harry.
For some reason, Number 43 asked Harry a few more times before Harry, who had no idea what she was doing just now, answered quickly.
"I'm back, I'm back … Oh, you're asking what we should do next? That's true, "he sighed and laughed," The presence of the beetle or not doesn't affect the germination time! You have three days left in the germination stage, so you should make good use of these three days. Try to absorb as many nutrients as you can! "
Everyone could not help but be taken aback.
Lin Sanjiu didn't expect this outcome. Initially, she thought that the germination stage challenge would end naturally after the beetle was dead. However, when she thought about it, she realized that it would be better if she could rest and recuperate in peace for three days. That was indeed a good thing.
"Um … About that …"
Suddenly, Number 45's hesitant voice came from the bridge where Number 46's group was. Ever since she found out that her identity was already known by everyone, she rarely spoke. This was the first time she spoke today, "Hey, is there any change to the beetle's carcass?"
Reminded by her words, everyone immediately shifted their attention to the gigantic beetle carcass.
Just now, a large part of its abdomen was exposed above the railing. However, Lin Sanjiu didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she vaguely felt that the height of the beetle's abdomen had dropped a little. She lowered her head to look at the ground, but most of it was covered by the beetle's oily limbs and hairy legs. Furthermore, the soil was splashed everywhere, so she couldn't figure out what had changed.
"Oh, by the way, I haven't told you guys," Harry seemed to have just remembered something, "Even though the plants in nature will be affected by the insects, they will also benefit from the beetle's benefits. Of course, in this farm, you guys don't have any seeds for the beetle to spread. Correspondingly, after the beetle dies, its carcass will be decomposed by microorganisms, and the pesticide will be filtered by the soil. Finally, the beetle will become a rich source of nutrients in the soil. In turn, it will be used as energy to nourish your body. Number 43, Number 49, you two should be feeling it now, right? "
Lin Sanjiu blinked her eyes. She was still a little dazed. She took a closer look and finally confirmed that the giant beetle's carcass was sinking slowly like a melted ice cream. At the same time, the soil under her feet was getting warmer. It was as if there were countless streams of heat flowing into her veins from her feet.
She looked down and saw that the yellowish skin on her feet, which was dry and shriveled due to the lack of food for a long period of time, was slowly filling up. Wherever the warm stream passed through, the bulging veins gradually smoothed out. Starting from her toes, her skin finally regained its honey-like luster.
"I can feel that my strength has returned a little," Number 43 looked at his hands in surprise. He clenched his fists, "I'm feeling a little energetic now!"
Looking at Lin Sanjiu's expression, he seemed to have recalled something. He let out a bitter laugh, "Indeed, it's a little disgusting to look at the beetle's carcass … Don't think too much about it. Just absorb it."
Number 46 and his group stared blankly at Lin Sanjiu. For a moment, no one said anything. After a few seconds, Number 45 was the first to react, "What? Only their side has nutrients?"
"The beetle died on that soil bridge. Of course, it can only nourish the soil on that side," Harry answered matter-of-factly.
If it weren't for the fact that she felt a little nauseous when she recalled that her energy came from the beetle's carcass, Lin Sanjiu would have laughed at them three times. She was especially delighted when Number 46 angrily sat back on the soil bridge.
It took two days for the beetle's carcass to completely melt into the soil. When it completely disappeared from the soil bridge, Lin Sanjiu felt that she was about to return to her peak condition. Not only her physical strength, but she could also feel that her Higher Consciousness and Potential Growth Value had increased significantly. However, the consequence of this was that her hallucinations were gradually fading away.
When there was only one day left in the germination period, Number 43 walked to her side and sat down.
"I know, if it wasn't for you this time …" He had put on his headscarf again, and his face was full of sincere gratitude. "I'm afraid that I wouldn't even be left with my bones. No matter what happens during the germination period, don't worry, I will always be with you — "
Before he could finish his sentence, his face disappeared.
After wrapping around Number 43's head, an evergreen beetle that was a few times bigger than a human head replaced his head.
Lin Sanjiu jumped up and waved her hand. The [Vibroblade] slid off the body of the evergreen beetle as if it was smeared with oil. Ignoring the meaningless attacks around it, the evergreen beetle swallowed the struggling body of Number 43.
"Thank you, young lady," the evergreen beetle stared at Lin Sanjiu, who was still charging at it and attacking it crazily with its toy-like eyes, "That talkative beetle is my natural enemy. Now that it is dead, I can finally come out and eat the sprouts. I'm different from it. I like to eat a whole sprouts at a time."
The next thought that came to Lin Sanjiu's mind made her feel a deep disgust for herself.
"Fortunately, the germination period is coming to an end." (To be continued.)
PS:
"No matter what you say, I like the way the germination period ended! That's how capricious I am.
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