Where are the “useless things” we were talking about?!
It’s just hatching, Angel actually said it was suspected to be a female worm!
Kanter only felt that the inner defense was like a collapsed snow wall, peeling off little by little, revealing his mottled and old heart.
"Mother worm? How is this possible! The mother worm went extinct earlier than the soft deformed worms, so there is no way that there are still fish that have slipped through the net." Kanter said dryly.
"But if it's not a female insect, why can it lay eggs and hatch?" Angel wondered.
Egg laying and hatching?!
Kanter felt the corner of his mouth begin to twitch, "You must have made a mistake. Maybe that's not a soft insect."
Angel became even more confused: "But, wasn't this insect egg given to me by the Lord?"
Kanter was speechless. Although he was extremely resistant to the fact that he might have sent a "mother insect's egg" in his heart, he still couldn't help but look into the insect nest.
At this sight, he was completely confused.
Before he could peer into the deepest part, just by seeing the layers of soft insect corpses outside, he had already determined a fact in his heart.
At first, he only gave Angel a few insect eggs, but looking at the corpse of this soft insect, there were at least dozens of them!
There is no mother worm to reproduce new eggs, which is simply unexplainable!
When he clearly saw the hall containing the "snot monster" deep in the insect nest, he immediately closed his eyes, and at the same time, he began to curse himself for mistaking the pearl for the fish.
This is the mother worm of the soft worm!
It was exactly the same as what was recorded in the information he had seen!
"Master Kanter, is this really not a female worm?" Angel asked again, as if fate opened a bow and shot another arrow, hitting Kanter's chest.
Kanter resisted the urge to vomit blood and said with difficulty: "This... this is indeed... a female worm."
"Really?!" Angel's eyes lit up.
"Really." Kanter felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, but he still maintained the demeanor of an elder on his face, and even praised him against his will: "You raised... very well."
Seeing Angel holding the insect nest with a surprised look on his face, Kanter felt that his wandering heart was being hit by the rain and wind again, and at the same time he was being crushed over and over again with his feet.
He was really blind back then! Kanter couldn't help but blame himself.
However, after the drama in his heart was over, Kanter returned to reality. Was he really blind? Carefully recalling the situation when he got the eggs, he actually checked them carefully.
They even gave it to other wizards for identification, and the final result was that they were ordinary soft insect eggs, not too vigorous. The only thing worth mentioning is that the insect nest is very good, and there is even a mother insect in it.
the breath.
Could it be that the aura of the female insect contained in the insect nest encouraged the hatching of insect eggs, and even a female insect appeared?
Kanter personally doesn't believe it.
He took the insect nest again from Angel and prepared to observe it carefully.
When he got serious, many details that he had ignored before were brought back to the case: "Why are there so many soft bug corpses outside? Why do soft bugs always guard in front of an invisible border, as if there are natural enemies on the opposite side?
?”
Regarding these two questions, Angel said with some embarrassment: "Actually, it's because I raise a dream-weaver ant that likes to occupy magpie nests."
Angel's narration gave Kanter a general idea. But this was the first time he heard that dream-weaver ants eat soft insects?
"Although the dreamweaver ant is not a precious thing, it has been extinct for many years. I didn't expect that you still have one." After Kanter said this, he continued to look inside the insect nest.
This time, he discovered another important clue.
The interior of the insect nest was filled with the smell of energy essence and blood. He searched carefully and finally saw the storage hall of Axl's essence and blood on the side of the hall.
"Is this wizard-level magical beast essence and blood?"
"Yes, both dream weaver ants and soft bugs like the essence and blood of World of Warcraft. Previously, the dream weaver ants put the blood essence under the soft bug eggs, which allowed the soft bug eggs to hatch.
Condition."
Now, Kanter was even more confused. Dreamweaver ants not only eat soft insects, but they also feed insect eggs?
Moreover, Kanter also knew at the beginning that the energy of some magical beast essence and blood was very rich, suitable for raising demonic insects. Therefore, he also used the magical beast essence and blood to raise these insect eggs, but none of them had ever been absorbed. Therefore, he
Some of his friends will judge that the eggs are not very viable.
When he used the essence and blood of Warcraft, there was no abnormality in the soft insect eggs, so why could Angel do it?
Is it related to the dreamweaver ants, or is it the blood essence?
Kanter shamelessly asked for a drop of blood essence from Angel. Looking at the rich and vibrant blood crystal in his hand, Kanter hesitated and took it into his mouth.
In an instant, a powerful force of life flowed out of the blood essence.
After this kind of life force came out, it immediately conflicted with Kanter's own vitality. Although Kanter successfully rejected this life force in the end, in the early stage of defense, the explosive power of life,
It almost broke through his defense line. It can be seen how powerful the energy contained in the essence and blood is!
What's more, this is just a drop of blood.
A strange look flashed in Kanter's eyes, and he carefully explored the information revealed in the blood. After a while, Kanter's face suddenly dawned.
There is a strong vitality in the essence and blood, and its abundant vitality is the rarest among the essence and blood of monsters he has seen.
Although for a wizard-level life form like him, this drop of blood essence is like a poison. But for mortals or elementary beings, the vitality in it is enough to keep people alive forever.
In other words, this drop of essence and blood is enough to give the insect eggs continuous and long-term vitality.
In this way, it is very likely that the eggs will be revived and hatched.
Moreover, Kanter also felt an extremely secret and strange smell in this drop of blood. This smell was very obscure, a bit like the smell that Kanter smelled in some medical schools he went to when he was still a mortal.
Kanter couldn't help but ask: "Which kind of magical beast's blood essence is this?"
"I don't know either, but it is said to be the essence and blood of a snake."
Looking at Angel's wandering eyes, how could Kanter not know that Angel was lying. However, the snake's blood and essence should be real.
Kanter didn't press him. After all, he was an apprentice of his old friend, and he also valued Angel's potential.
"This magical beast essence and blood has a very good effect on primary life, and can even keep people alive forever." Kanter sighed with emotion.
After Angel heard this, he remembered that Akso's essence and blood had maintained Dudolo's lifespan for thousands of years, and even his functions were still young.
Thinking of this, Angel couldn't help but think of Jon.
Is Axl's essence and blood useful to Jon? Perhaps, we can ask after Sanders comes back.
"The vitality in the essence and blood of this monster is indeed possible for insect eggs to hatch, but I think it's still a step ahead of the insect eggs hatching into female insects." Kanter looked at the corpses scattered outside the insect nest, but his heart moved.
: "Perhaps the dream weaver ants have some effect on the eggs of the soft insects."
Do dreamweaver ants have a promoting effect on insect eggs? Angel looked at Kanter in confusion.
"According to some records I have seen, although the female worm is responsible for the reproduction of the entire insect colony, its fertility rate is actually affected by the outside world. Generally speaking, the female worm will not produce a large amount of food, which will consume a lot of energy.
energy."
While Kanter was explaining, he was also thinking. Moreover, with the rapid rotation of his thinking, many things that he couldn't figure out became easier to understand.
"However, because of the emergence of the 'natural enemy' of dream weaver ants, female worms will reproduce in large numbers and avoid threats to themselves through a war of attrition."
When Kanter said this, Angel understood it instantly.
Just like a link in the ecological chain, they are hostile, but at a certain level, they also promote each other.
Perhaps, the original birth of the mother worm was also the result of dream weaver ants "raising eggs". Because from the beginning, the insect swarm understood that soft insects could not deal with dream weaver ants, and they would only become dream weaver ants when they were born.
of nourishment.
Not willing to die at birth.
Therefore, it may be that one of the eggs mutated under the stimulation of a certain hormone or pheromone.
And this mutated egg became the later mother worm.
This can also explain everything that happens later. When the female worm knows that she is an "egg", the dreamweaver ants will not touch it, but nurture it, so it refuses to hatch. It keeps absorbing Axl's essence and blood,
to accumulate strength.
Once they hatch, they immediately compete with the dream weaver ants.
It has been maintained until now.
There are actually two major prerequisites for the entire relationship to be established. The first is the abundance of vitality.
Angel received a whole coffin of Axl's essence and blood, which solved the problem of vitality. It also allowed the female worms to lay a large number of eggs without any worries.
The second premise is the number of natural enemies.
If there are a lot of dreamweaver ants, then the swarm knows that it has no hope of winning the battle, so the female ants will not be born at all. Even if the female ants do hatch, they will not lay a large number of eggs because they are completely
There is no hope of victory.
These two premises ultimately lead to the hatching of insect eggs and the smooth birth of the female insect.
After understanding the truth, Kanter no longer felt sorry for himself, because even if the eggs stayed with him, it would be impossible for them to hatch like Angel, or even hatch out a female worm.
After all, it was Angel's luck that led to this result.
"I once accidentally learned the name of a legendary wizard of the summoning system. His name was 'Heart of the Swarm'. I used to scoff at how the swarm could have a heart. Now that I think about it, maybe this is the Heart of the Swarm.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope for survival, his heart will never die."
After Kanter sighed, his eyes became gentler when he looked at Angel.
Although he was also very jealous of Angel's good luck, it could not be seen from this that his original vision was not wrong. Angel not only had great potential, but also had great luck.
"Ahem, Angel."
Angel looked over doubtfully.
Kanter said with a smile: "Speaking of which, you are the only one of your Phantom Demon lineage who has never been to Lilith's House. After things get over here and you return to the wizarding world, you might as well come and stay at Lilith's House for a while?
It just so happens that you and Qili can also develop a relationship."
Angel shuddered. Why did his conversation with Kanter always involve Qili?
"We'll see about this later." Angel said vaguely, and then quickly changed the subject: "Master Kanter, since this is a female worm, can it give birth to a deformed soft worm?"