NOVEL NEXT Chapter 9 - Hunting the Mouse by the Ant!
Chapter 9: Hunting the Mouse by the Ant!
[Eating… gained 1 point of experience…]
[Ding! You have consumed the flesh of a worm and gained 1 point of worm genes.]
[Ding! You have consumed the flesh of a worm and gained a skill fragment.]
Accompanied by the prompts from within, Su Bai swallowed the last piece of worm flesh.
“The last skill fragment, finally obtained!”
Slightly delighted, he opened his second panel.
【Gene Points】: Frog genes 7 points, Praying Mantis genes 17 points, Cricket genes 9 points, Grasshopper genes 12 points, Worm genes 10 points, Bee genes 2 points…
【Evolution Points】: 5 points
【Skill Fragments】: Healing 10/10
Two days’ time.
Su Bai’s footsteps traversed over a hundred meters centered around the ant nest, hunting down hundreds of insects and other creatures.
Except for the initial praying mantis that gave him 1 evolution point, he didn’t gain any evolution points from killing other insects. Even skill fragments didn’t drop again.
It wasn’t until he encountered a half-dead frog, and after exerting all his strength to kill it, that he gained 4 evolution points.
Up to now in his evolution, in the Tiny and Dim levels, Su Bai’s strength had become formidable enough. Continuing to hunt weak insects brought minimal returns, even the experience gained from devouring their bodies was pitifully small.
Only by hunting creatures similar to or surpassing his own strength could he continue to evolve.
Realizing this, Su Bai didn’t waste time hunting insects anymore, but turned his focus to worms. Once he fused the 【Healing】 skill, he would start hunting more powerful creatures.
[Ding! You have obtained ten skill fragments, do you want to fuse them into a skill?]
“Fuse!”
When the prompt sounded in his mind, Su Bai chose to fuse without hesitation.
The next moment.
The skill fragments disappeared, and a new skill appeared in his skill panel.
[【Healing】: Passive skill. With this skill, the bleeding and severe injury effects you suffer are slightly reduced, and your wound healing speed is slightly increased. When food is abundant, you can slowly heal your injuries by eating.]
Another powerful passive skill.
Without looking at attributes, just considering talents and skills, Su Bai’s attribute panel at this point was more splendid than many formal monsters’, even surpassing elite monsters.
“Next, it’s time to hunt stronger creatures.”
After staring at the attribute panel for a while, Su Bai nodded in satisfaction and crawled towards his pre-selected hunting target.
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Night fell.
Silver moonlight spilled onto the earth, adding a bit of brightness to this dense jungle.
Among a pile of rocks dozens of meters away from the ant nest, Su Bai lay quietly behind a rock.
His pitch-black body, five centimeters long, laid motionless behind the rock, like a delicate craft, completely unlike a living creature.
Beside the rock was a small hole.
This hole was the battlefield Su Bai had chosen.
The creature inside the hole was the prey Su Bai intended to hunt this time — a mouse that had just entered its prime!
An ant hunting a mouse sounded like a joke.
But as the Overlord Ant, Su Bai’s four-dimensional attributes were no less than those of a mouse now, and he possessed three major passive skills. With a bit of caution, ant hunting a mouse was entirely feasible, and the success rate wasn’t low!
Su Bai estimated that if he could successfully hunt this mouse, he could bring himself at least 4 evolution points, even making it possible to gather enough evolution points for his second evolution at once.
So, this adventure was completely worth it!
As the night grew deeper, a chill descended, and tiny dewdrops formed on Su Bai’s dark shell, yet he seemed to feel nothing, still lying motionless on the ground.
After a long time, faint rustling sounds came from inside the hole.
Then, a sharp head poked out from the hole, its two pea-sized eyes scanning around vigilantly, ready to retreat into the burrow at any sign of danger.
After observing for a few minutes until it deemed the surroundings safe, the head cautiously crawled out of the burrow.
It was a mouse about a dozen centimeters long, tiny enough for a human to crush with a single step, but a true giant to an ant.
Leaving the burrow, the mouse listened again for a moment, then relaxed, preparing to leave the burrow to begin its daily foraging.
Just at that moment, a dark figure suddenly pounced out from behind the rock, landing on the mouse’s back!
After lurking outside the burrow for hours, Su Bai leaped out and pounced on the mouse’s back. His mandibles, two centimeters long, fiercely pierced into the mouse’s neck!
Splut!
With a crisp sound, the mouse’s neck was torn open without any surprise, and blood gushed out.
Squeak squeak!
Suddenly attacked, the mouse screamed in panic, struggling desperately. Its sharp teeth bit fiercely into Su Bai’s shell.
A wave of pain spread, and a crack appeared in Su Bai’s shell.
But this was just the mouse’s final struggle. After biting through the blood vessels, Su Bai’s mandibles, which could crush rocks, continued to delve in, directly snapping the mouse’s spine.
With only the cost of his shell cracking, Su Bai killed this large mouse in just a few seconds.
A complete victory!