pertwk Chapter 44: Ant Silk Flying Blade
Chapter 44: Ant Silk Flying Blade
For Ye Zhi, whose colony size is gradually increasing, the sleep of his main body no longer causes his entire consciousness to fall into a deep sleep, and he still maintains control over the other individuals in the ant colony.
This feeling is somewhat similar to what I heard in my previous life about the ability of some marine animals to alternate between dormancy of their left and right hemispheres. Even when their main body is dormant and evolving, they can still perceive the outside world through worker ants.
However, he was not in a hurry to sleep at this time. Instead, he carried out the next stage of planning, which was to produce golden eggs and expand the size of the ant colony.
After the first golden egg was produced, Ye Zhi felt that she still had some energy left, but obviously, the "space" energy stored in her body was not enough to generate another golden egg, so she could only continue to produce ordinary ant eggs.
With his pores wide open, strands of natural primal force surged into his body, transforming into that "space" type of primal energy. This primal force seemed to be able to be transformed into ordinary natural primal force within the body, but the transformation efficiency was very low.
But the next second, a rather pure primal force containing that "space" aura surged into Ye Zhi's body along an invisible connection, startling Ye Zhi.
"This is... 'Force Resonance'?"
The direction of this invisible connection is that of the semi-primal force queen ant that hatched from the golden egg it laid in its first instar. It seems to have actively absorbed natural primal force for a period of time and transformed it into this "space" primal energy.
He suddenly understood what Wu Yuan meant by the "force resonance" between the termite king and queen. It turned out that his own "resonance" was happening here.
This amount alone is not enough for the next golden egg, but Ye Zhi felt that the future development potential of this ability was immeasurable.
After all, I'm not a true termite queen or ant king with a two-way connection, but a one-to-many multi-way connection. As my number of queens increases in the future, won't I end up with a bunch of "power banks"?
While pondering, three ordinary eggs were laid and carried away by small worker ants at the entrance of the nest chamber, placed in the incubation chamber of large worker ants, awaiting subsequent pheromone catalysis.
Having completed all this, Ye Zhi finally shook his body twice, controlling a large worker ant to come forward and feed him, replenishing his energy, before preparing to let his main body enter hibernation.
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The first rays of sunlight fell upon the earth. The worker ants sensed all of this, and Ye Zhi slowly awoke, moving her six limbs to leave the nest, spreading her membranous wings, and leaping into the air.
With a flap of its membranous wings, it flew down to the ground, greeted the "Chimera" tree spirit beside it, and then prepared to continue testing the idea it had come up with the night before: using extremely fine ant silk as a means of attack.
Some memories from his past life led Ye Zhi to name the extremely fine ant silk, which became sharp after being infused with the Force, "Flying Blade," which can be seen as his expectation for this ability.
The goal of today's test is to keep the ant silk taut as it whips the target to create a lethal effect.
This process requires the use of mental power to manipulate the ant silk, which is a highly difficult maneuver. However, it is the key to whether the ant silk can be used flexibly against the enemy. If it fails, it can only be used as a trap-like method.
Cut off a few thick branches, sharpen one end with the mandibles, and stick them upright into the soil as "stakes" for today's practice. Then, Ye Zhi shook her abdomen and pulled out an extremely fine ant silk "flying blade," ready to begin the test.
He envisioned two methods: one was to add a small weight to the end of the ant silk, like a meteor hammer, and then use mental power to fine-tune it, so that the taut ant silk "flying blade" could directly cut through the air.
The second is similar to the previous ant silk lasso, except that the lasso part is made of extremely fine ant silk blades. When tightened, it can directly sever the enemy's head from a distance, just like the legendary blood-dripping guillotine.
After two years of practice, the lumbar nodule area became more flexible, which laid the foundation for practicing ant silk as an attack method.
A faint whooshing sound rang out as Ye Zhi's abdomen swayed, sending out extremely fine ant-silk flying blades. Immediately, a slanted cut appeared on a wooden stake in front of her.
The upper part of the wooden stake, about two fingers in diameter, broke and fell to the ground. The break was still smooth, and the process was clean and efficient, which pleased Ye Zhi.
He pondered for a moment, then looked at the second, thicker wooden stake in front of him. He continued to twirl his abdomen, unleashing the ant-silk flying blades, striking from a different angle to test a more flexible attack method.
"Hey, little guy, are you practicing combat? What a peculiar fighting style." A mental wave entered Ye Zhi's mind. Turning his head, he saw Qing Yuan, who had come to "deliver food."
Today I brought a few wild rabbits. Ye Zhi thought for a moment, flapped her wings and stepped forward: "Qingyuan Zuo Wang, I am practicing my abilities. Why don't you leave the prey here and I will butcher it myself?"
"Is it the ability that cut the tree branch just now?" Qingyuan shook its antennae, causing the worker ant beside it to put down the rabbit carcass it was carrying in its mouth. Then it pointed with its antennae, signaling Ye Zhi to come forward.
Ye Zhi responded by nodding his antennae - he was just planning to practice his fine control over ant silk, and now he had a perfect practice subject.
This time, he simultaneously drew out two extremely thin ant silk "flying blades," using his mental power to guide the two ant silks to sway up and down in the air twice, moving flexibly like tentacles to reach the corpse.
This feeling is also quite wonderful, as if an invisible force is acting on your own ant silk, pulling it to make various movements that ordinary swings cannot achieve.
The ant-silk flying blade, pulled by mental power, precisely sliced through the fur and cut through the flesh. Then another blade joined in the cutting, and a piece of flesh of a suitable size was immediately cut off, with the cut still smooth.
But for Ye Zhi, the direct feeling of manipulating ant silk with mental power was that it was mentally taxing. After cutting off several pieces of flesh, he had to stop temporarily, cut with his jaws, and swallow a small piece to replenish his strength.
Qingyuan, who was watching from the side, had his compound eyes gleaming: "Little guy, your ability is extraordinary. It's somewhat like the spider silk controlled by the Flame Spider Merchant, but stronger than spider silk. It should be enough to be used as a means of combat."
Ye Zhi's mental energy was somewhat insufficient, so she did not reply. Instead, she continued to inject primal force into her extremely fine ant silk, manipulating it to cut off flesh and blood.
But then Qingyuan suddenly realized something and sent out a mental message: "Wait, little guy, your primal energy aura seems to be metal-based, not one of the normal earth and wood dual-types of the Leaf-Weaving Ant tribe."
Ye Zhi suddenly looked up—if he remembered correctly, the wild citron seed in the Tree Ant Kingdom was a combined metal-type enhanced plant. In other words, the elemental food produced by this wild seed actually had compatible attributes?