Astral Cockroach

Banbu was very cautious, cutting the muscles around the entire seven-inch position of the Rainbow Serpent before daring to flap its wings and fly away.

It cautiously squatted in the distance, waiting for a long time, and only after confirming that it was completely dead did it step forward to continue cutting the corpse.

It cut the snake meat and carried it back to the nest to hoard. After carrying it back and forth twice, it realized that the crisis had not been resolved, so it temporarily put it aside and began to busy itself searching for stink bugs to rearrange the stink defense circle.

Food was not the primary issue; the lifeblood grass seeds, which were about to fully mature, were the key.

The halo emitted when the Origin Power Fruit was about to ripen was particularly intense, releasing a unique fragrance that was extremely tempting.

Banbu was not sure whether the stink bugs' odor could mask the fragrance of the Origin Power Fruit, but trying was better than sitting and waiting for death.

If the Stone-patterned Cat could be attracted, then it was very likely that other large animals would be attracted by the fragrance. Next time, it might not be so lucky to turn danger into safety.

After setting up the defense circle, Banbu harvested the four mature grass seeds produced by the Cogon Grass lifeblood and temporarily stored them in the warehouse.

Only then did it return to cutting and transporting the Rainbow Serpent's corpse.

The scent of blood attracted the two nearby nests of big-headed harvester ants. They abandoned the work of harvesting Cogon Grass seeds in the fields, lined up in long formations, moving back and forth tirelessly, desperately cutting and carrying meat.

Big-headed harvester ants also like to eat meat. The protein-rich meat can accelerate the queen's egg production and the growth of the ant nest's larvae, and the newly born worker ants will be stronger.

Banbu did not drive them away. Such a large Rainbow Serpent, with a Stone-patterned Cat hidden in its belly, was impossible to eat completely, and the dry storage room could not accommodate so much.

In addition to cutting meat, transporting it, and drying it, there was another task: digging rocks to expand the dry storage room. After advancing to L4, its size slightly increased, and its food intake increased accordingly. Banbu planned to take this opportunity to store more food for the winter, once and for all, so that it would not have to worry about food for a long time to come.

After the Origin Power Fruit is separated from the mother plant, if it is not properly preserved, the Origin Power inside will slowly dissipate. Cogon Grass seeds, protected by the shell, will be slower than the thin-skinned, fleshy raspberry fruit. It is difficult to determine how long it can be preserved.

Banbu rested until noon, ate and drank enough, and took out a grass seed to try to swallow it.

The Origin Power effect of the grass seed was indeed to strengthen cell activity, but it was very different from the raspberry fruit that it had tried before. The raspberry fruit strengthened the vitality of the cells, and the Cogon Grass seed also had this effect, but on this basis, it added a strengthening effect on the cell proliferation rate.

There seemed to be other effects, but they were too weak for Banbu to distinguish exactly what they were.

It took Banbu about half a day to digest one grass seed, during which time it had to eat multiple times to replenish nutrition and physical strength.

It could swallow two grass seeds a day, but any more than that would be difficult for the body to bear, the effect would diminish, and it would also cause some damage to the cells.

… …

On the second day after killing the Rainbow Serpent, 11 grass seeds condensed by the Cogon Grass lifeblood matured at once. Judging by the trend, it was estimated that all the seeds would mature in another two days.

Banbu could not finish eating so many in a short time, so it learned from the big-headed harvester ants and moved the harvested mature grass seeds out when the morning sun dried the dew, and moved them into the nest for storage in the afternoon at dusk.

After repeated drying for two or three days, they could probably be completely dried.

Dry seeds can be stored for a longer time.

… …

It should be that the stink bugs' odor had worked, and it had smoothly survived until all the Cogon Grass seeds matured, harvested, and dried.

Banbu and the big-headed harvester ants also smoothly cut the corpses of the Rainbow Serpent and the Stone-patterned Cat into two sets of bones, and moved away all the edible beast meat. During this period, they were not harassed by any large predatory animals.

A full warehouse of dried meat and Cogon Grass seeds that could greatly strengthen cell activity meant that it could probably spend this winter comfortably and peacefully.

There was also a good thing to add to the cake, and that was the raspberry fruit that had already ripened on the mountain, the legacy of the Red Beetle tribe warrior who had once sheltered Banbu.

The journey was long and full of danger, and it was not easy to make a round trip. Banbu planned to stay on the mountain temporarily and eat all the raspberry fruit on the spot before returning.

For safety's sake, before leaving, it first blocked the passage with mud and then sealed the nest entrance with stones to prevent it from being discovered and occupied by other insects or burrowing animals such as snakes and rats.

After the Cogon Grass lifeblood's seeds matured and were harvested, the leaves began to turn yellow. Spring birth, summer prosperity, autumn harvest, and winter death were the natural growth laws of Cogon Grass, and Banbu had no way to change this.

The Cogon Grass lifeblood absorbed Origin Power to grow and its genes evolved, making it stronger than ordinary Cogon Grass. It could only hope that its roots could survive the cold winter and sprout and grow again in the spring of next year.

Thinking of wasting an opportunity to nurture a lifeblood, only harvesting 32 grass seeds, Banbu could not help but feel a heartache.

In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, Banbu also had a purpose for going out on this long journey, and that was to collect and reserve as many plant seeds as possible on the mountain.

Store them for use during future evolutions.

… …

When it left the mountain, it was just an ordinary cockroach, but now it was an L4 elementary warrior. Banbu felt an inexplicable sense of pride in returning home in glory.

As an L4 elementary warrior, it had considerable combat power and did not need to fear small animals such as snakes, rats, and birds. Banbu chose to set off in the evening.

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It was also worried about attracting large animals, especially the predation of aerial raptors, so it did not dare to fly ostentatiously, but ran close to the ground to hurry on its way.

At dawn, the rolling mountains appeared in its field of vision, and the problems followed: Banbu forgot to carefully identify the terrain when it left, and after more than half a year, it could not remember exactly which mountain peak it was.

This was a very troublesome matter. The mountains were not high, but they were very long, undulating, and the ends could not be seen on the left or right.

"One, two, three, four, five… The general direction is not wrong, it must be one of these five mountain peaks. I'll just have to search them one by one."

Banbu muttered, and climbed up the mountain more vigilantly.

On the mountain, the coverage rate of Chinese junipers exceeded 30%. Each Chinese juniper seed contains several usable cypress seeds, which are the best choice for cultivating a lifeblood.

In addition to Chinese junipers, Banbu found three types of plants that bear fruit and are edible in this season: raspberries, prickly pears, and mountain persimmons.

Raspberries and Chinese junipers are must-haves for lifeblood.

The mountain persimmon seeds were exaggeratedly large, and the life sac could not accommodate them at all. Banbu was very helpless about this.

The prickly pear seeds were slightly larger. Banbu estimated that when it advanced to L7 and L8, the life sac would grow with the body size, and it should be able to accommodate its seeds at that time. However, prickly pears are shrubs, with little prospect for development, and the fruits are sour and astringent, with a terrible taste, so they are not a good choice and can only be used as a backup when there is no other choice.

The inherited memories described more than 10,000 kinds of edible plants on the entire planet, and the Flying Fire Cockroach tribe had more than a thousand kinds in its ruling territory. However, except for the two or thirty most common kinds, the others were rare and uncommon varieties that needed to be found by oneself through adventure.

Banbu wandered around the mountain, surveying and examining, feeling somewhat helpless. It secretly pondered and considered, and found that good tree species were rare and uncommon, and most of the common tree species were not very good, so it decided to collect more Chinese juniper seeds. If it really didn't work, then it would nurture a few more Chinese juniper lifebloods.

Among the various plants in the mountains, Chinese junipers occupied the largest number, directly proving that this tree species had a strong ability to survive. Planting it would be easy to survive, and it would not require too much energy and labor to care for it.

Banbu also discovered a perplexing problem. After more than half a year, the number of cockroaches on the mountain that had lost their protection did not seem to have decreased. As the sky approached dawn, it could still see large and small cockroaches crawling around.

On the contrary, predatory animals such as snakes and rats were not seen.

"Could it be said that…"

Banbu suddenly thought of two possibilities.