MM Racing Chapter 38: Force Resonance?
Chapter 38: Force Resonance?
"Ye Zhi, you're here!"
I flew skillfully to the earthen slope where "Chimera" was temporarily stationed, and my excitement was immediately palpable.
"Yes, it's here."
Ye Zhi skillfully landed on a broad leaf and slowly transmitted her mental power to the tree spirit of "Chimera," saying, "'Chimera,' I'm about to evolve. You should revert to your seed form first, and let me take you back into my life sac to continue strengthening you."
Seeing that the tree spirit was still hesitant, Ye Zhi immediately added, "After you strengthen it again, the digestive ability of your insect trap will become even stronger, allowing you to absorb all kinds of food more effectively!"
Upon hearing this, before Ye Zhi could continue speaking, "Chimera" readily transmitted a mental wave of agreement. Immediately afterward, the main vine, broad leaves, and insect traps began to wither rapidly, quickly undergoing a morphological transformation.
A pale golden flower with Force patterns quickly bloomed at the top of the main vine, then transformed into a huge capsule, which finally burst open, and a large, plump seed fell from the completely withered end of the plant.
Gently picking up the seed, feeling the familiar sense of shared prosperity and loss, Ye Zhi skillfully swallowed it in one gulp and put it into her life pouch.
I tried absorbing a trace of natural primal energy and injecting it into my life sac—it worked. It's confirmed that, like the Flame Spider Merchant's life seed recorded in my inherited memories, it can be strengthened through repeated layering.
Without further hesitation, Ye Zhi flapped her wings and took flight, immediately turning around and flying towards her nest.
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Inside the nest, the semi-force queen ant, under Ye Zhi's control, had shed its somewhat cumbersome membranous wings, just like the ordinary queen ant. It had just laid another egg and was resting on the soft cushion next to it.
Eight ant eggs were already piled on the cushion. One worker ant was even a little too much to take care of, so Ye Zhi had to decide to temporarily stop laying eggs once the queen had laid ten eggs and the total number of eggs reached fifteen.
Ye Zhi planned to have a small number of these worker ants develop into larger ones to store food in their larger social stomachs. The rest would continue to develop into miniature worker ants to care for future eggs.
But for Ye Zhi right now, nothing is more important than her future growth and evolution.
Back in the nest chamber, it first transfers some of the food from its social stomach into its normal stomach to replenish its energy. Then, with a skillful "rip," it tears open the spider silk bag it had placed next to its ant silk cushion.
With its antennae twitching and forelimbs groping, it found a grapefruit seed produced by the grapefruit seed of the ant king, cracked it open with its mandibles, and then swallowed it whole.
This type of Force food has the added benefit of enhancing the digestive system's ability to absorb Force food, making it a top-tier enhancement.
Eating this first was naturally intended to improve the absorption of the Force food later. After swallowing five grapefruit seeds, Ye Zhi stretched her body and began the next step of eating.
Strengthening muscle tension, enhancing overall endurance, and improving shell toughness... There seem to be many Force foods here with equally precious strengthening effects, obtained through the Flame Spider Trader's business.
The spider silk sacs of the flame spider have the effect of isolating the Force. These Force-eating foods, which seem to have deteriorated in quality after being left for some time, are mostly in the form of seeds that are easy to store and have remained basically intact.
After eating some more, feeling her body full of primal energy, Ye Zhi stopped eating, stretched out her six limbs, and began to move her body in the nest chamber, pouncing, biting, and retreating, performing a standard set of ant-like killing actions.
This method of practice helps to better absorb the Force contained in food, and allows the Force biological evolution to make the most of the adjustments to its own structure during the next molting evolution.
Ye Zhi speculated that while the Force Food rapidly strengthens itself, it must be accompanied by the division and death of a large number of cells, gradually replacing the body's cells and tissues to achieve rapid strengthening. Therefore, nutrients will be rapidly consumed during this process.
Ye Zhi's social appetite remains full every day, and given his chimera body's strong ability to absorb the Force, there's no need to worry about this issue for the time being.
Strands of excess primal force surged into the life sac and were absorbed by the "Chimera" seed form, which was currently in a dormant state. Ye Zhi could feel that her divinely bestowed seed was also a bottomless pit, greedily absorbing primal force.
Counting the amount of Force food, Ye Zhi ate it one by one. After eating about a third of it, she temporarily stopped absorbing it for the day. After thinking for a moment, she continued to pull out a strand of ant silk and practice being her "failed ant".
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As dusk fell, in the widest "hall" of the ant colony, the carcass of a large, slaughtered animal lay flat on the rocky ground. Several worker ants cut the meat into small pieces and placed them in front of the queen ants and the command ants.
This time, however, Ye Zhi brought the queen ant hatched from the golden egg to Wu Yuan's front. At this moment, Wu Yuan was also tearing and swallowing fresh flesh and blood under Ye Zhi's control.
Its tentacles, resembling steel whips, swayed, and its compound eyes scanned back and forth between Ye Zhi and the half-force ant queen. At the same time, it channeled its mental energy, attempting to investigate the half-force ant queen.
It seemed to have gotten used to Ye Zhi, but this time, it suddenly sent a somewhat surprised telepathic signal: "Force Resonance?! Little guy, your ability is quite something."
Before Ye Zhi could react, Wu Yuan continued to transmit his mental power, but the second half of his sentence left Ye Zhi somewhat confused: "Do you know what the most powerful race is on the Dragon Bamboo Continent?"
"Black army ants?"
Although she didn't know why Wu Yuan suddenly asked this question, Ye Zhi still recalled the records in her inherited memories and her memories from her previous life, and combined them with the information she had heard about the continent beneath her feet, and tentatively gave out the name of a race.
The black army ant, inheriting the same scientific name from its past life, was also known as the "African spear ant" in its previous life, and was quite infamous. In this world, it certainly deserves the title of the number one on the continent.
"No, the Black Army Ant Kingdom is located in the tropical grasslands near the center of the continent. It is the strongest ant kingdom on the Dragon Bamboo Continent, but it is not the strongest among all races."
"Then, the Red-ringed Wasp?"
This is the largest species of wasp recorded in the inherited memories. It seems to be the official name of a regional variant of the golden-ringed wasp from the previous life, the "Red-faced Tiger Hornet," in this world. In the inherited memories, they possess the talent of fire and are extremely fierce.
"No, that's not true. Although wasps are powerful, they are solitary and it's difficult for them to unite and form a large kingdom."
Wu Yuan slowly swayed its antennae. Seeing that Ye Zhi had failed to guess correctly several times, it stopped keeping him in suspense and directly revealed the answer:
"The most powerful creatures on this continent are not ants, nor bees, but termites!"