Astral Cockroach

Ban Bu's nest design was quite scientific.

The rain poured in incessantly, and the drainage reservoir was constantly seeping, but the accumulated water ultimately failed to flood the storage warehouse.

Summer thunderstorms come fiercely and go quickly.

By afternoon, the rain had passed, and the scorching sun shone brightly.

Through the changes in plant growth, Ban Bu roughly deduced that it should now be late spring and early summer, and that he had been asleep for a little over a month.

Currently, he was too weak, and the jungle was full of dangers, so he didn't dare to go out rashly.

He dragged two rotten leaves that had been washed over by the heavy rain to fill his stomach, and silently lay at the somewhat narrow entrance of the cave, waiting for nightfall.

This molt was related to the level of his life, and his body length had soared, reaching about 15 centimeters, and his body shape had widened accordingly, making the previously opened nest passage no longer fit well.

In his soul memory, many new inherited memories of the Red Cockroach Tribe were imprinted. The initial awakening was very vague and chaotic.

Ban Bu pondered carefully and roughly divided them into two categories: cultivation and survival.

With Ban Bu's knowledge and learning as a human being, he couldn't be sure whether the growth of the Red Cockroach Tribe could be considered "cultivation." It was very unique, incredible, and a growth and evolution method that he had never heard of.

After ordinary cockroaches transformed into Force creatures, a brand new organ would grow in their bodies, called the "Life Sac." By incorporating an ordinary plant seed into the Life Sac for gestation, after a complete growth cycle, the ordinary plant seed would become a Force plant seed, called a "Life Seed."

The Force plants operated by the Red Cockroach Tribe warriors that Ban Bu had seen were Life Seeds, not naturally generated, but gestated by the Life Sac.

This time, the awakened inherited memory solved the previous doubts.

Sow the Life Seed and carefully nurture its growth.

The Life Seed will absorb Force, part of which is used for its own growth, and the other part will be fed back to the gestator.

Therefore, the Red Cockroach Tribe warriors that Ban Bu saw never needed to exercise. After eating their fill, they would lazily lie under the Force plants, seemingly motionless, but in fact, they were absorbing Force and growing all the time.

The symbiotic relationship between Force creatures and Force plants, the word "wonderful" is not enough to describe it, it can be called the "divine mystery" of life evolution in the vast universe.

Of course, the most miraculous thing is the ability of the Life Sac to cultivate ordinary plant seeds into Force plants. The fruits condensed by Force plants are Force foods with special gene-enhancing effects.

However, these cultivated Force plants also have certain drawbacks. The Life Seed can only replicate the gene abilities of the cultivator. For example, the Red Cockroach Tribe warrior Ban Bu had seen and the raspberry he planted. The ability of the raspberry fruit is to enhance cell activity, which is actually a basic ability originally possessed by all cockroach genes.

Naturally evolved Force plants are different. They uncontrollably and randomly derive some kind of Force effect, with a wide variety of patterns, and their effects are mixed.

… …

In the inherited memory, knowledge about survival is even more complex. Most of it is vague and unclear. The basic things that can be vaguely remembered are all the identification, classification, and simple descriptions of plants, insects, and animals by the cockroach ancestors.

For example, the green grass at the entrance of Ban Bu's nest is called "Xunwei Grass," and it will bear grass seeds in late summer and early autumn, called "Xun Grass Seeds."

Ban Bu has a nest of ant neighbors next to him called "Big-Headed Harvester Ants," big-headed guys who like to eat "Xun Grass Seeds." They are very interesting and belong to the agricultural nation among insects.

In the spring, they sow seeds near their nests and even know how to remove weeds, and they usually collect the feces of other animals and decayed leaves to fertilize their "farmland."

After the Xun Grass Seeds mature, they will be collected, dried, and stored.

Most of the seeds are eaten, and a small portion of plump and strong seeds are selected for sowing in the spring.

In the inherited memory, ants are a race of insects that are neither delicious nor easy to mess with. The vegetarian Big-Headed Harvester Ants are no exception. Their big heads and developed mandibles give them super tearing and armor-breaking abilities.

How can other insects sleep soundly beside my bed?

Ban Bu's original plan was to wipe out this nest of big-headed ants after evolving and possessing some combat strength. Don't look at their large numbers, they are actually very easy to kill. Find the queen ant, kill her, and the remaining ones will lose their ability to reproduce, and the colony will quickly wither and perish.

These ants have a docile personality, are not aggressive, and mainly eat seeds. Occasionally, they pick up the corpses of dead insects to supplement protein, and will not actively attack and prey on living insects.

Now it seems that they can be kept, they have some uses.

The ant nest of the Big-Headed Harvester Ants was also affected by the heavy rain. In the afternoon, they moved out the stored Xun Grass Seeds and placed them in a dry and sunny place to dry.

Ban Bu observed for a long time and decided to be a robber. He quickly rushed forward, swallowed a Xun Grass Seed that he liked, flapped his wings and flew away, detoured, and sneaked back to his nest.

The big-headed ants shook their antennae angrily, and hundreds and thousands of companions heard the news, opened their mandibles, rushed out of the ant nest, and spun around in a frenzy, searching for the enemy, but they ultimately did not dare to easily approach the location where Ban Bu lived.

They look fierce, but in fact, they are a group of cute little guys. A single one is only 1 to 3 centimeters long, and only a few soldier ants can reach 3 centimeters. They don't have the guts to challenge a "giant" that is 15 centimeters long.

Ban Bu's size is not considered large, and the capacity of his Life Sac is really limited. Small particles of Xun Grass Seeds are just right.

What's more, in the current season, jungle plants are all in the flowering and fruiting stage, and only the Harvester Ants have seed storage. Besides Xun Grass Seeds, there is no second choice.

"The first Life Seed to choose is Xun Grass Seed. The advantage is that it grows quickly, and the disadvantage is that it has no future."

"Actually, the most ideal choice is still raspberry, but that thing is only available in the mountains, and it is only suitable for planting in the mountains…"

Ban Bu considered whether to return to the mountains, but quickly dismissed the idea.

After an entire spring, the cockroaches on the mountain have probably been eaten by various predators, but by nature, those animals will settle in places with abundant food, and it is still a deadly place of right and wrong.

The key is that raspberry fruits will only ripen in the autumn, and if he ventures over now, he won't be able to get seeds.

… …

Endured until dark.

Endured the lively and noisy late night.

It wasn't until the transition period between night and dawn that Ban Bu hurriedly went out, climbed a big tree, and began to search.

He searched several tree holes, but they were all empty.

"All the longhorn beetle larvae have pupated into adult longhorn beetles!"

"Then, the moth and butterfly larvae should have all turned into moths and butterflies."

Ban Bu suddenly realized and reluctantly continued to search for a few laps, but found nothing. He finally came to the conclusion: "At this time of year, no nutritious and fat larvae can be found in the trees."

He did encounter a few resting locusts along the way, but Ban Bu's evolution was a semi-failure, and he was deficient in nutrition and physically weak, and had no ability to prey on living things at all.

His luck was not very good. After wandering around until dawn, he failed to pick up any insect corpses. There was no other way, so he returned to his nest in disappointment and ate rotten leaves to fill his hunger.

Plants contain too little protein, and he must ingest meat to quickly get through the period of weakness.

The weather in summer is also very bad. After a whole day of sultry heat, there was a heavy rain overnight, and the rainwater almost flooded the drainage reservoir and entered the storage compartment.

There is no problem with the nest design, it's just that the scale is too small to withstand the test of heavy rain. It needs to be re-planned and expanded, but he doesn't have the strength to do these things for the time being.