Chapter 217: Grown Mud Fruit Clone
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Just as he returned to the cave entrance, a huge explosion suddenly sounded, and the entire ground seemed to tremble.
In the depths of the forest far away, a scarlet flame soared into the sky and rushed to the rock layer in the sky.
Lin Yan wiped his forehead. This commotion was too big!
It made him a little worried. Could it break through the rock layer in the sky and bury the entire underground plain?
The distance was too long, and there were not many clones scattered in the underground plain, so he did not know what had happened.
Therefore… it was better to create more clones and monitor the surrounding situation as much as possible!
As Lin Yan sat quietly and waited, he spread out his clones.
Soon, he sensed that the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches in the entire underground waterway were boiling again. This time, they had changed their formation. More than half of them were still guarding the outer layer of the underground waterway, but half of them were swarming towards the inner layer, as if they wanted to search the entire inner underground waterway.
“Looks like Issuer Liu’s harassment has worked. However, there are too few gaps. I have to wait and see…”
Lin Yan was not worried at all and sat quietly.
Ignoring whether the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches in the inner layer could find his cave entrance, even if they did, he could quickly evacuate and return after the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches left.
In any case, most of the underground waterways were under his surveillance, so it was extremely difficult for him to be discovered.
After about an hour, the clones scattered around sensed that a figure was quickly approaching.
Lin Yan opened his eyes and went down the cave. He happened to meet Liu Lanqing, who had returned.
Liu Lanqing didn’t look injured at all, but her face was slightly pale. It seemed that the consecutive battles had consumed a lot of her energy.
Martial artists were not immortals. They needed food and essence to replenish their strength. Liu Lanqing had fought consecutively, so her strength must have been exhausted very severely. She was definitely not in a good state.
“Issuer Liu, rest for a while. I brought some jerky here. Eat some.”
Liu Lanqing nodded and did not refuse. She took the jerky and roasted it with flames. She took off her gas mask and ate it.
Although the poisonous fog was dense, she could use her strength to block it for a moment.
After eating quickly, she put on the mask again. “I’ll rest for a while. Watch the surroundings. Call me if there’s a problem.”
Lin Yan nodded. Liu Lanqing lay sideways on the stone ground. Soon, her breathing became long.
Lin Yan also sat down cross-legged. With Liu Lanqing by his side, it was not good for him to use his clone as an experiment.
He might as well sense the movements of the Corpse Buddha Cockroach in the underground waterway while controlling his clones to explore the depths of the forest.
The clone’s legs were thin and it ran very slowly, but it was inconspicuous. Even under their noses, it might not be discovered.
With so many clones scattered into the depths of the forest, Lin Yan’s expression became even more solemn.
There were indeed many Corpse Buddha Cockroaches!
It was not just 100,000 at all. It was at least hundreds of thousands!
How did such a huge number of Corpse Buddha Cockroaches survive?
They all fed on Mud Fruits?
However, the Mud Fruits in the forest couldn’t grow so quickly, right? There weren’t that many of them!
How could they feed so many large Corpse Buddha Cockroaches?
The clones gradually moved inward. Lin Yan couldn’t use them to see the surrounding world and could only barely sense it. Soon, he felt increasingly dense water vapor.
This was probably near the lake!
Lin Yan controlled a clone to walk into the lake, but as soon as the clone touched the lake water, its entire body dissipated and was corroded cleanly.
“That lake water… is also poisonous!”
Lin Yan hurriedly controlled the other clones. They only stood by the lake and didn’t go into the lake.
“That’s true. This space is filled with poisonous gas. How can the lake water be ordinary?”
As he was thinking, Lin Yan raised his eyebrows. In his perception, a clone had suddenly lost contact!
It seemed like… it had been bitten and swallowed by some creature!
That creature was definitely not Corpse Buddha Cockroach. This was because its body was at most the size of a palm. It was more like… a fish that had jumped out of the lake?
There were actually living fish in the poisonous lake?!
He controlled his clones to retreat a little before spreading out and hiding.
Lin Yan clicked his tongue in wonder. He didn’t expect that there would be Corpse Buddha Cockroaches and Mud Fruits. It was fine if they could survive in the poisonous fog, but there were even living fish in the poisonous lake.
Just like that, he controlled the split clones to spread out in all directions.
After about an hour, Lin Yan was suddenly stunned.
A signal came from the four Mud Fruit clones. It seemed that the four Mud Fruit clones were waiting on the spot for his new orders.
But hadn’t he set them to eat the Corpse Buddha Cockroach on its own?
Could it be that these four Mud Fruits had already… finished the Corpse Buddha Cockroach?
Lin Yan hurriedly sensed the body of the Mud Fruit clone. A heavy feeling that was even harder to control came from the Mud Fruit clone.
After spending a lot of effort, he controlled the Mud Fruit clone to move its body left and right, but he actually couldn’t touch any Corpse Buddha Cockroach.
Had they really finished eating?!
It couldn’t be. The Mud Fruit was smaller than a grain of rice, and the Corpse Buddha Cockroach was three stories tall. How long had it been?
Done eating?!
Liu Lanqing was still asleep, so he couldn’t leave.
Lin Yan sensed that there were still two clones nearby. He simply switched to controlling the clones and controlled them to run near the Mud Fruit.
It was impossible to see, but with the help of the airflow, Lin Yan indeed sensed that four oval worms that were half a person long were lying motionless in the middle of a group of Corpse Buddha Cockroach corpses.
There seemed to be a pool of mucus under them, but the four Corpse Buddha Cockroach corpses that were originally where they were had already disappeared.
“These are… four Mud Fruit clones? They’ve become so big?”
Lin Yan was slightly shocked. He had indeed not paid attention to the Mud Fruit clone just now, but it had grown too quickly!
“Ordinary clones won’t change their size no matter how much they eat. But the Mud Fruit clone can actually become bigger? And so big?”
Lin Yan recalled that in the battle between the Mud Fruit and the Corpse Buddha Cockroach, after the Mud Fruit swallowed the Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s corpse, its body indeed became bigger and heavier.
Could it be that as long as this Mud Fruit kept eating food, it would keep growing?
With a thought, Lin Yan began to control one of the Mud Fruit clones to squirm.
The enlarged Mud Fruit clone was even harder to control. Lin Yan used all his strength to barely squirm it slowly and stick it to the corpse of another Corpse Buddha Cockroach nearby.
The Mud Fruit immediately attached itself to the Corpse Buddha Cockroach’s corpse and secreted digestive fluid. It quickly devoured a corner of the Corpse Buddha Cockroach.
Perhaps eating quickly was also one of the talents of the Mud Fruit?
I remember that at that time, the Mud Fruit could extend its body and turn itself into a thin membrane, greatly increasing the area of contact. My Mud Fruit clone should be able to do it too…”
Lin Yan gathered the other three Mud Fruit clones on the other Corpse Buddha Cockroach corpses and focused on the original Mud Fruit clone. He tried to control it and extend its body.
This was not easy. It was not that the Mud Fruit clone could not do it, but how could a person control his imagination and pinch his body like plasticine?
After a long while, Lin Yan barely pulled open the Mud Fruit clone a little. He couldn’t pull his body back and forth freely like a real Mud Fruit.
“I still have to slowly familiarize myself with controlling it…”
Lin Yan’s eyes flashed slightly. He suddenly remembered that the Corpse Buddha Cockroach was afraid of the Mud Fruit. If he could pull the Mud Fruit into a large area and wrap it around his body…
Wouldn’t he be able to enter the Corpse Buddha Cockroach group as if it was nothing?!
In fact, there were no obstacles in the entire Underworld!
At the thought of this, Lin Yan was full of motivation and focused on controlling the Mud Fruit again.
Not long after, Liu Lanqing woke up.
How long have 1 been asleep?”
“About two hours.
Liu Lanqing stood up and stretched her soft back. “Has there been any movement in the underground waterway during this period of time?”
The small Corpse Buddha Cockroaches in the waterway are still searching closely, but they haven’t discovered us yet.”
Liu Lanqing nodded and was about to leave.
“Issuer Liu, I suggest… why don’t we wait for the time being?” Lin Yan said. “If the reinforcements from the outer layer attack again, we might be able to coordinate from the inside and break through the encirclement of the Corpse Buddha Cockroaches.”
Liu Lanqing raised her eyebrows slightly. “This underground waterway is so spacious. Even if Ling Shuangxue brings people in, we wouldn’t know. How can we coordinate from the inside?”
Lin Yan nodded and said, “When the Corpse Buddha Cockroach moves, it will produce a different vibration that will affect the airflow in the entire waterway. As long as you stick close to the wall and carefully sense it, you can hear the difference. It’s also because of this that 1 have some understanding of the movements in the entire waterway.”
As he spoke, Lin Yan even stuck his ear to the rock wall and demonstrated.
“You have the ability?”
Liu Lanqing was skeptical, but she was wearing an anti-poison suit and couldn’t use her ear to test it. Moreover, what Lin Yan said seemed to make some theoretical sense, so she nodded. “Alright, let’s wait a little longer. I’ll let you try.”
Liu Lanqing sat down cross-legged again.
Lin Yan was also sitting cross-legged. Apart from practicing controlling the Mud Fruit clone, he would also listen for a few minutes on the wall from time to time. As a disguise, it made Liu Lanqing look at him strangely and suspiciously.
Another two hours passed.
Lin Yan’s eyes suddenly flashed. Ling Shuangxue and the others were here again!
He pretended to stand up and leaned against the rock wall to listen for a few minutes.. His eyes pretended to flash as he said in a low voice, “Issuer Liu, reinforcements are coming from outside again!”