【You have built a Farmer Camp, consuming 40 wood and 10 food. Estimated construction time: 10 minutes, remaining: 9 minutes 59 seconds】
【You have built a Bloodthirsty Beetle Nest, consuming 20 wood, 20 stone, and 30 fresh flesh. Estimated construction time: 10 minutes, remaining: 9 minutes 59 seconds】
The Farmer Camp was a wooden matchbox with a sloped roof, about twenty square meters in size, with only a small window and a small door that could only fit one person.
The Nest, on the other hand, was a sharp, conical structure built from branches on a stone base, with a head-sized opening left at the front.
The main road was left in front of the tree hollow, and the two buildings were placed on either side of the main road.
After building these two structures, Bai Yi's wood reserves were almost depleted. This was even after accounting for the fallen dry branches on the ground within her territory, leaving only 11 units in the trade bar.
Now, all the visible dry branches on the territory had disappeared, making it much cleaner.
However, she still had to wait for the two buildings to be completed, and Bai Yi was somewhat idle for a moment, so she decided to gather all the skeletons in her territory and clean up the camp.
The open space seemed large, but because the skeletons were naturally piled together, it saved her the trouble of searching. After tidying up these bones, Bai Yi also roughly estimated the size of this open space.
“With this tree here, I didn't notice it, but now that I've walked around, I realize it's half the size of a sports field. Luckily, there's shade, or I'd die from the heat!”
As the last few ribs were piled near the Giant Tree, the two buildings were also completed.
【Due to the peculiarity of the consumed materials (Tier 2 Giant Tusked Pig meat), your Farmer Camp and Bloodthirsty Beetle Nest have undergone unknown changes】
“?”
Could Tier 2 creature meat cause some kind of mutation?
【Farmer Camp (Tier 1/White): Can consume food to recruit units 【Farmer】. Can additionally consume wood and stone to equip recruited units with 【Stone Hoe】. Upgrade requires: 40 stone, 80 wood, 20 food, 10 iron】
【Bloodthirsty Beetle Nest (Tier 1/Green): Can consume fresh flesh to recruit (breed) units 【Bloodthirsty Beetle】. Upgrade requires: 1 Tier 2 Crystal Core, 100 fresh flesh, 100 beast bones, 10 beast hides】
No abnormalities were seen on the panel, but the initial units from both barracks quickly walked (flew) out. Bai Yi scanned the panel and saw the unit information for the Farmer and the Bloodthirsty Beetle.
【Farmer】(Tier 1/White)
Health: 150/150
Mana: 100/100
Level: lv.10 (Tier 1)
Attributes: Strength 12, Spirit 10, Agility 12, Constitution 15
Talents:
(Mutated) Robust Physique (Green): Strength +5, Constitution +5
Honest (White): Extremely high loyalty, not prone to betrayal
Skills:
Farming (White): Skilled in cultivating grain crops such as wheat and sorghum.
Cooking (White): Can cook simple meals, at least won't kill people.
Wilderness Survival (White): Won't starve if left in the wild, better than you.
【Good food creates a strong body】
…
【Bloodthirsty Beetle】(Tier 1/Green)
Health: 250/250
Mana: 60/60
Level: lv.10 (Tier 1)
Attributes: Strength 10, Spirit 6, Agility 20, Constitution 15
Talents:
Hard Carapace (Green): The carapace protects the Bloodthirsty Beetle, reducing 5 physical damage.
(Mutated) Tier 1 Resilient Life (Blue): Powerful vitality makes the Bloodthirsty Beetle difficult to kill. It can continue to act before complete death. Health +100.
Zerg (Green): The Zerg only obeys the Queen's command.
Skills:
Bloodthirsty (Green): Enters a bloodthirsty state after consuming flesh, Strength +20%, Agility +20%.
Impact (White): Strikes with force, dealing (Strength + Agility) damage.
【A flexible ball, trust me, you wouldn't want to encounter it in the wild】
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Seeing the Farmer's appearance, Bai Yi understood what “Robust Physique” meant.
“Her arm is almost thicker than my thigh…
Is Tier 2 flesh so useful?!”
The Farmer had a broad back and strong shoulders, with short sleeves on her gray cloth clothes, her exposed arms and thighs fully displaying her strength.
Bai Yi had no doubt they could slap her to death.
The Beetles on the ground didn't look particularly special. They were mostly black, with a faint, blood-red metallic glow, resembling a cool, inverted large bowl.
Although they were only head-sized, their attributes were not inferior to those of the robust Farmer, which proved their strength.
No, I can't celebrate too early. I need to test their quality.
Bai Yi glanced around and saw the small wild pig she had carried back earlier, now stealthily moving itself outside the territory.
“Go! Kill it!”
With a wave of Bai Yi's small hand, the five Beetles on the ground instantly shot out like cannonballs.
The distance was barely a hundred meters. Almost the second after Bai Yi gave the order, the Beetles slammed into the small pig like cannonballs, sending it flying five or six meters.
The subsequent Beetles quickly followed, their sharp fangs biting into the small wild pig.
Five Beetles clung to it, frantically gnawing at the wild pig's flesh, but since there were no fatal injuries, the wild pig could only feel its flesh being torn open, constantly wailing.
“Yee—”
This cruel scene made Bai Yi feel a shiver of fear, but it quickly turned into excitement.
“Mass produce! Must mass produce!”
With such powerful Beetles guarding her, wouldn't her camp be stable?
Bai Yi immediately opened the panel, took out another 15 units of flesh from the trade bar, and threw them into the Nest.
New Beetles would take another 15 minutes to be born, and the waiting time displayed on the panel calmed Bai Yi's excited mood considerably.
The two robust Farmers nearby, not having received any orders, began to act on their own. One went to weed the open space, while the other ran into the forest outside and began picking up branches.
Bai Yi was extremely satisfied, and while repenting in her heart, she hoped these two laborers would always be so diligent.
The wailing wild pig in the distance had also calmed down. The five Beetles had already begun to cooperate, dismembering the wild pig and gradually transporting it back to the Nest.
The birth of the Beetles still had to wait. Bai Yi wouldn't rush out with only the five existing Beetles. After calming down, she couldn't help but worry.
With only these Beetles, what if she encountered mutated creatures that couldn't be killed instantly? And the mutated creatures she encountered today didn't seem like something these Beetles could instantly kill.
And once they weren't instantly killed, she would be in danger!
After much thought, Bai Yi set her sights on the Farmers.
According to the panel's description, the Farmer Camp could recruit Farmers with stone hoes. Regardless of whether the stone hoe was useful, it could at least be considered a long weapon, and such a robust physique could serve well as a meat shield.
Most importantly, even if not used for combat, as long as Bai Yi planned to farm, the stone hoe would eventually come in handy.
She again took out 2 units of meat from the panel, added 1 unit each of stone and wood, and threw them into the Farmer Camp.
While waiting, Bai Yi decided to inventory her supplies.
Including the remaining 548 units of Giant Tusked Pig meat in the trade bar, her current warehouse contained:
Giant Tusked Pig meat 548, Tier 2 Crystal Core (Giant Tusked Pig) 1, Giant Tusked Pig bones 521, Tier 1 beast bones 871, Tier 2 beast bones 229, wood 11, stone 191, complete rice grain 1, iron dagger 1.
Her talent now had 4 gene entries: Agile Scent, Thick Fat, Oviparous, Iron Feather.
The first two came from a mutated dog, and the latter two from a mutated chicken.
“Iron Feather has no effect for now, since there's nothing with fur, or rather, feathers, in the territory.
Oviparous could be applied to the Farmer, hiss—
Can Oviparous eliminate the menstrual cycle?
But laying an egg regularly seems strange. Never mind, I don't have mana now, so it's pending.
Thick Fat seems useless now that I think about it. The Beetles can't use it. Should I put it on the Farmer?”
She glanced at the robust figure weeding in the distance and imagined her turning into a big fatty. Bai Yi quickly shook her head, removing that image from her mind.
“No, no, but Agile Scent seems pretty good. I can add it to the Beetles.”
Thinking of this, Bai Yi remembered the Endless Moss she had put in the warehouse. At this moment, her mana had recovered to 63 points, enough for one gene extraction.
“So, the mana recovery is probably one point per minute.”
After roughly calculating the data, Bai Yi took out the glass dish from the warehouse and used her ability to probe inside the glass dish, consuming mana.
【You used the skill Gene Extraction. The extractable genes from the current target are: Photosynthesis, Acid Secretion, Infinite Proliferation】
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Bloodthirsty Beetle: A type of mutated insect found in the forest wilderness of the south, usually living in groups led by a single Queen Beetle. They are suspected to have a special psychic connection. Upon discovering prey, they often attract a large number of their kind to attack the target. Omnivorous. Extremely dangerous.
—Bai Yang City Mutated Organism Compendium》