Chapter 76: True Flame (1)
The caterpillar's anger comes and goes as fast as it comes.
Except for Zhang Le and Jesse, the rest of the people were all traveling from south to north all day long, knowing the truth that "if you want a horse to run, you must eat well", and seeing that the caterpillar blocked the harassment of the migratory biota, they took out all kinds of food from their belongings for the caterpillar to eat.
Seeing the food in a pile, although many of it is meat that caterpillars don't like to eat, this attitude is still worth affirming. The caterpillar showed her signature kind smile again and began to choose the best food to eat. Apple, good! Bananas, not bad, too! Well! What is it? After the caterpillar ate the mutant wild bee honey, her eyes narrowed into a line.
"These humans are good, much better than you!" While eating, the caterpillar did not forget to send a message to complain about Zhang Le.
Zhang Le didn't have time to talk to the caterpillar, and concentrated on mastering the new ability. After more than an hour, the great migration of creatures was basically over, and Zhang Le's head also became groggy, just like emitting a destructive white light, this ability to actively release needs to consume the energy in the body.
The whole team moved on. Half an hour later, Saeed retrieved his goods, large wooden boxes of sealed cereal seeds. In addition to cold weapons, genetic mutation agents, dominant mutant foods, and dominant mutant fruits, the most profitable goods exported by the postal union are the seeds of dominant mutated grains, and most of the imports are daily necessities, medicines, and luxury consumer goods.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the team arrived at a commercial bunker, and although it was still more than an hour before it got dark, this was definitely the camping spot for tonight.
Hearing that Zhang Le and Ms. Jesse were still in a hurry at night, the people of the two caravans were a little reluctant, and the handsome guy White was standing beside Jesse and had a lot of love words. Said was more generous and gave the caterpillar three cans of mutated wild bee honey, if it wasn't for Zhang Le's forced blocking, the caterpillar would almost have run away with Said.
The caterpillar did not collect anything in vain, returned a large lump of green poop to Said, and told Said the function of the poop through Zhang Le. After hearing this, Saeed thanked him for his kindness, and then eagerly ate a piece of poop in front of everyone. Sure enough, in less than a minute, the tiny insects hidden in Said's hair, beard, and clothes fell to the ground one after another, leaving Said, and even including roundworms and pinworms in his body, etc., the scene was extremely uncomfortable, and everyone avoided it. Five minutes later, after a brief wash, Saeed was refreshed, as if he was ten years younger.
Zhang Le and Jesse moved on. After walking a long way, Zhang Le can still hear the hot scene of the caterpillar poop auction held by Said.
Zhang Le and Jesse traveled sixteen hours a day, and finally came to a place called Ximu Town after the tenth day. From here, it's three kilometers ahead and you're on the beaten trade route.
Along the way, Zhang Le and Jesse's team became more and more famous, among them, the caterpillar was the biggest star. There was propaganda from official patrols, and the caravans knew about the caterpillar's existence, and knew that its favorite food was honey, and as long as honey was provided, there was nothing that could not be done. Driving away mutant organisms is a small business, and caterpillar feces have become the most sought-after goods.
The caterpillar, which is popular with humans, suddenly sent a strange message to Zhang Le one day: "I found a possibility from my biological genetic code, that is, when I transform into a butterfly, I can adjust my appearance according to my own wishes, I want to become a human, do you think Fei'er looks good?" ”
Thinking of Director Zhao's character, Zhang Le had a feeling that sooner or later he would be killed by this caterpillar.
The interrupted trade route began with a road-rail bridge across the river, which is currently occupied by a population of pythons. After crossing the river, it is a semi-swampy land, which is also the territory of pythons. Beyond the marshland, there is a long and narrow forest, currently occupied by a group of monkeys. This journey is all viaducts, through the forest, back to the plains, and the railroad and road are separated again.
To the east of the town of Creek, upstream of the river, are sparsely planted mountains. The current temporary trade route is in the upper mountain range, thirty kilometers away from the town of Ximu, all of which are mountain roads, the terrain is dangerous, and the goods are moved to higher places by manpower, and then slid down the foot of the mountain in the north by temporary ropes, and then continue to the north. The same is true for urgent goods from the North if they want to be transported to the South.
Because of the interruption of the trade route, a large number of goods were piled up in Ximu Town, and the profits and shortages of many goods were not high, and the benefits of hiring people to carry the goods outweighed the losses, so many merchants simply stored the goods in Ximu Town and waited for the trade route to be opened before transporting them. Rock Town regards all Radiant and Deformed Mutants as enemies, but in Creek Town, no one cares about this, and the shortage of labor has made Radiant people appear on the trade routes of the Super Human Alliance, as long as these people do not enter the territory occupied by Rock Town and other human supremacy alliances.
Due to the detention of a large number of caravan personnel and the addition of hunter squads, Ximu Town, which originally had a population of only more than 300 people, gathered more than 2,000 people. There are not enough houses in the town, and many people are confined to makeshift tents. Due to its proximity to large rivers and swamps, as well as a lot of rain, the tent area is less hygienic. The main street of the town is a broken asphalt road, flanked by very old stone buildings of considerable age, which are a bit dilapidated but still quite clean.
The environment here is humid, and the wild creatures that prefer moisture are more variable, such as locusts, snails, snakes, toads, frogs, and nocturnal creatures such as centipedes, grasshoppers, and horses. In addition to the snail becoming a special delicacy of the town, several others pose a threat to the survival of humans.
The arrival of Zhang Le and Jesse's team immediately aroused the curiosity of the townspeople, especially the muscle caterpillar, but soon, everyone remembered the news brought by the patrol team that the magical bug was coming!
Jesse took Zhang Le to visit the mayor of Ximu Town first, Andrew, a gray-haired old man in his fifties and sixties with thick hair and a little unkempt, who was still wearing a formal suit despite the hot and humid weather, although the white shirt was full of sweat stains, and the slightly wrinkled suit was missing a button.
Jesse first showed his mission card, indicating his official identity. Jayson and Andrew met once when they went to Rock Town, but neither of them had a noticeable impression of the other.
Andrew was very enthusiastic about Zhang Le and Jesse, but he was even more enthusiastic about the caterpillar that accompanied him, and specially asked the town staff to prepare a bucket of honey for the caterpillar, and it seems that the caterpillar's reputation has spread here. The caterpillar is a pure baby, and he has always been grateful and revenged.
The caterpillar thanked Mayor Andrew through Zhang Le, the translator, and asked if there was anything he could do to help. Andrew waited for the caterpillar's words, and immediately proposed: "I hope the caterpillar can go around the town and drive away the mutated creatures." Also, if the caterpillar has poop, can you drop by a little? "Recently, more and more people have been bitten by mutant bugs, especially those living in tent areas, which has greatly affected the combat effectiveness and morale of freelance hunters. It is said that many hunters are ready to give up this mission.
The caterpillar pointed to the huge head in agreement, and at the same time asked Zhang Le's interpreter to tell Andrew: "The poop is available now, and you can provide it without waiting to finish eating!" Andrew was overjoyed, and immediately took the caterpillar to a hidden corner to "trade".
The lunch was hearty, with vegetable bread and oatmeal beer, as well as local specialties, salt-baked snails, which were as big as a basin and were not well seasoned, but did not affect the wonderful taste of the dominant variants. After the meal, Zhang Le took the caterpillars out to clean up the bugs, and Ms. Jesse stayed at the mayor's house.
Housing is tight in the town, and Andrew specially vacates a bedroom of his own for Zhang Le and Ms. Jesse to rest. Andrew saw that Ms. Jesse didn't mind living in the same room with Zhang Le, and couldn't help but secretly envy Zhang Le's good luck.
After many days of practice, Zhang Le's brainwave skills have become more and more proficient. Not only does it last longer, but the patterns also become more diverse. Fire is still the mainstream, and it is a very good "group attack" skill, there are almost no creatures that are not afraid of the fire environment, and all creatures have this fear gene in their genetics. The effect of rain is average, and the effect of flood is better, but it is only effective for certain organisms. As for the imaginary ice and blizzard skills that are useless, Zhang Le only remembered afterwards that this is near the equator, and many creatures have never seen ice and blizzard, which is really called "Summer insects can't talk about ice".
In addition, Zhang Le's biggest gain is that he has developed a super single attack skill, which is "giant" fear. No matter what kind of creature he encountered, as long as Zhang Le imagined a huge version of the same creature in his brainwaves, he could scare the creature into running away.
Compared with the destructive white light generated by the fluctuations in his body, Zhang Le prefers this invisible and colorless "fear" attack, which is also more in line with Zhang Le's low-key personality.
The biological coercion that the caterpillar said is really true, the caterpillar who ate the big barrel of honey is in a good mood, and actually really uses the so-called biological coercion, from what Zhang Le observed in the information hormone network, biological coercion and the anger that the caterpillar once mentioned are indeed a bit similar, but it is not comprehensive, after all, powerful creatures do not need to express anger to show deterrence to low-level creatures, but it is more like Zhang Le's huge fear of the group "attack".
Unfortunately, biocoercion doesn't work as well as it seems. Only larger, more intelligent creatures feel fear, and smaller creatures are ignorant and don't know how death is written. Zhang Le's "Agni" brain waves can drive away all kinds of creatures, but they will still be repeated and cannot be sustained, and Zhang Le can't stand here all the time to repel insects.
"It's better to directly control some of them and drive some of them away!" Zhang Le sent a message to the caterpillar. The caterpillar replied, "Agreed! It's long overdue, I've been stupid after staying with you for a long time. Zhang Le pursed his lips, but did not refute, otherwise it would be endless, the caterpillar is a cautious guy.
All arthropod insects are included in the Zhangle information hormone network, and these insects are used to drive reptiles and small mammals. As expected, a giant centipede at the level of a bug colony commander was found in a stone pile on the edge of the town's wall, and Zhang Le handed over the command of a group of bugs to the centipede chief, and gave it an order to stay away from the town and attack the snakes.
The caterpillar is hot-eyed, it doesn't have the ability to integrate insects of different races, last time it intercepted Zhang Le's Hu and connected to different races with the help of Zhang Le's existing network.
The residents of the town, who had been watching the deworming on the sidelines, applauded enthusiastically when they saw Zhang Le and the caterpillar return.
On the second day, Zhang Le followed the hunter team to the mission site to observe the situation, and Jesse stayed in the town. Andrew saw Zhang Le's methods yesterday and volunteered to be Zhang Le's guide today.