Chapter 18: The Thing of Destiny
In this world, is there a special thing called a 'ledger'?
No, there is no ledger in this world, at least not the White Skeleton Dragon, but in order to record the large amount of storage income and removal, the White Skeleton Dragon uses a special thing to record.
This kind of thing is a special kind of creature, something called a 'transiter'.
Transitives are color-changing creatures, five centimeters long, and are bees that like to eat the seeds of plants, and each time they eat a seed, they will show a brightly colored spot on their abdomen.
This kind of spot, which tells the kind of food that the same kind of person has around, is usually shown by only one color spot, and the size of the spot determines its number.
Usually a transiter has only a few small spots, as they don't find much food nearby.
It seems that the white skeletal dragon has known about the insects for a long time, and used them to keep track of the harvest of nearby plants, but can also be used to record the number of stored goods, etc.
Now, the pups show them this worm, and it's very special......
The relay bug held by the pup had extremely large spots on its body, which covered almost its entire body, covering its original color, and it was not one color, it was a mixture of dozens of colors, which made its entire body colorful and rich......
And this phenomenon is impossible to happen outside, in fact, even if the transmission worm sees enough food for hundreds of white skeleton dragons to eat, it will only show a relatively large spot, and it is impossible to cover the whole body.
And there are dozens of colors on it, which means that a huge amount of food is gathered in one place. Only one sprawling pantry has this possibility......
Almost every white skeletal dragon knew about this bug. The underground storage room of the castle also used this insect to keep track of the amount of food around it.
Crystal Maniac had tried to get rid of the bugs. In order to keep them from sneaking out and being spotted by other dragons, and they are too small to be cleaned up, there will always be some leftovers.
The bug was spotted by the white dragon who had fallen into it, and it put it in the hands of the cub.
Although the transiter has frozen to death after all this time outside, its color is still very good, because the discoloration of this insect is used in a special way.
And it also secretes a substance that seems to make the scorpion worm feel sick to its stomach.
"It can't be...... Is there really that much food? The two white dragons looked at the worm in the cub's hand in amazement. Because there is a big difference between the discoloration and the coloring of this one, it is impossible to 'fake'.
"Is there really a lot of food hidden in the castle? Or did you find a place where there was a lot of food? The two white dragons still didn't quite believe it......
"This is in the castle! The food that the king hid was in it! The young cub's full shout stunned the two white dragons...... They also seem to have some of the impression that this is true......
"I see." One of the white dragons said, "If it's true, we'll help you......"
At the same time, Crystal Maniac doesn't know what's going on, and it's preparing some troops to go to the sea in search of food, but in fact, Crystal Maniac himself thinks it's a very difficult thing to do.
I don't know if there are so many fish in the water, and the situation is very unclear, so Jingmad decided to let some special soldiers be the team for this hunt.
The so-called 'special' means 'special and useless'. This hunting party is a team of new recruits, and if anything goes wrong, they can rely on them anyway.
Crystal Mania soon began to move. It gathered the recruits in the castle and asked them to bring some fishing tools to hunt with other dragons.
The recruits almost didn't want to go, but they couldn't complain in front of the Crystal Maniac.
However, Crystal Maniac decided to spend a day and night to make some special hunting tools, because in fact, it also expected the hunt to be successful, so that the key food problem would be solved, and Crystal Maniac went to the library to investigate it.
After a day and night, Jing Mad walked to the square with his equipped troops, but at this moment......
"King!" A soldier suddenly rushed in through the small door next to the castle gate, and said to Jingmai, "There are so many dragons gathered outside! It's all about storing food! ”
"Gah?" Jing Mad was shocked and said, "What's going on?" ”
"We want food!" "There must be an explanation, king!" "Gah! Don't hide your food! ”
Crystal Maniac walked up the stairs to the top of the city gate, where there was a 'balcony' that could be overlooked below, and there, it saw a large number of white dragons gathered in front of the castle and kept shouting, and they all asked Crystal Maniac questions, which made Jingmaniac's mind slightly panic.
"Don't scream!" "There is indeed a storage room under the castle, but it is full of that deadly ...... Strength! You'd die if you went in, and there's no food in it, and that's all you saw in that hole last time! ”
"Won't die!" Suddenly, a cub came out of the group of white dragons, it looked at Jing Mad and said, "There is nothing going on in there, but you are afraid that we will tell the story of the storage room and let the two dragons kill us!" There's food in it that can feed a lot of dragons! ”
"yes." At this time, a white dragon came up and said, "I was there at the time, and I saw that it had indeed fallen." ”
"Ga ......" At this time, there was a commotion among the group of white skeleton dragons, in fact, most of the white skeleton dragons were more trusting of the crystal madness, but they also had doubts now.
"...... that puppy?" Jing Mad looked at it and was stunned for a moment, it remembered very well that it was eaten by worms, but Jing Mad quickly calmed down and continued: "You see, after falling into it, you will go crazy, after the last incident, didn't the pups almost not die?" But it's common to go crazy! ”
"Gaga...... That's right. "By the way, a lot of pups went crazy after that." The white dragons remembered that when the brain waves affected the island, it was true that the pups had a higher chance of surviving than the adults, but this did not mean that the brain waves could not affect them, and it was common for them to go crazy.
"It turned out to be crazy." "It must be so, how can the king lie to us?"
"Ga ......" Under the words of the white skeleton dragons around him, the cub became a little nervous and scared, but at this time, two white skeleton dragons stood up from the dragon group and said, "It's not crazy! This is what it brought out of the pantry! ”
As they spoke, they took out a colorful bug, although the bug was small, but in the hands of the white skeleton dragon, with the light of the scorching sun after the blizzard passed, the colorful luster on this bug was particularly dazzling.
"It's a delivery bug!" "Gah! It's the first time I've seen a transfer bug show this color! "Is this true?"
"This is only possible if a large amount of food is piled up in a small place!" The white dragon continued, "There must be a great deal of food hidden underground, and the king refuses to give it to us, but lets us go hunting in the cold and dangerous seas!" ”
When Jing Mad saw the insect reflecting in the sun, its previous panicked emotions quickly calmed down.
"Wait a minute!" Jing shouted wildly, "No dragon has ever seen a transition worm have that color, has it?" Because it's not a delivery bug! Just a very similar kind! ”
Because Crystal Maniac has long known that these bugs will always escape, so it also has countermeasures.
As he spoke, Jing Mad turned to a guard and said a few words, and the guard quickly ran away, and after a while, it brought a jar.
"Look!" Crystal Maniac grabbed a handful of bugs from the jar, all of them were colored transiters, and sprinkled them off the balcony, and said, "These were caught on the top of the castle, and there are no plants there!" ”
"These bugs just look very similar to the transfer worms, but they are another species entirely, they should be born with this color, and the crazy pup may associate a lot of food after seeing this worm, and this qiē is just the delusion of the madman!"
"Gaga...... Indeed, although they look alike, they have never been seen to change their colors like this. "That's right...... It could be another kind. ”
The group of white dragons below looked at the transmission insects that Crystal Mania had left behind, and once again believed Crystal Mania's words, these insects of Crystal Mania were actually caught from the underground storage room, anyway, if there were really worms running out, then just take out some other species that were said to be caught somewhere else.
In this case, no dragon will suspect Crystal Mania.
But......
"Isn't this a magic mushroom?" Suddenly, the white skeleton dragon who had been talking to the cub before said.
"Magic Mushroom?" The surrounding dragons all looked over and saw a strange yellow mushroom growing on the head of the passing worm in its hand......
This mushroom is a parasitic fungus that parasitizes some insects, including the passer, and absorbs its nutrients to grow a mushroom on its head.
It's not surprising that the Relay Worm grows these mushrooms, but the problem is ......
"This mushroom will only grow in a shady environment." The white dragon said, "But why did the king say that it was caught in the castle?" ”
Jing was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Maybe it has been to a dark place before." ”
"But as soon as you get sunlight, the symptoms go away quickly." The white dragon turned the worm in his hand around, and saw that there were many hairy mycelium all over its body......
"These threads prove that it has been in a very dark environment all along, and that it is only possible to get infected if it eats seeds!" The white dragon said, "King, where did you catch this?" (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you ~Liuyan~for the tip~
Thank you ~lixuening~ for the commuter pass~