Chapter 35: Little Furball
“This… is the scent of that bottle of essential oil you gave me.” Sheng Rong looked at the verdant mint with a face full of astonishment, taking a deep breath. No, he was going to get addicted!
Turning his head, Lin Jinmo and Shi Lele had already crowded over the mint and were inhaling frantically.
Shi Anxin was looking at the cracked stone together with Shi An’an, and Sheng Rong also walked over. Looking at the shattered stone and the absence of the larva inside, he stared at Shi An’an in shock.
“You… how did you do it? You killed the Devouring Worm!” Sheng Rong was filled with shock and fear.
“Larva! I really can’t kill an adult Devouring Worm!” Shi An’an added.
“I just discovered that these larvae can stay alive because there’s a massive amount of energy in these stones supporting their lives.
And after these insect eggs absorb that energy, they gradually take form. Given time, once they fully absorb the energy, they can break out of their shells.”
“Stones?” Sheng Rong looked at the stones on the ground. “They don’t seem special at all…”
“Let me see!” Lin Jinmo stepped forward, picked up a stone from the ground, and began studying it.
Shi An’an looked around, scanned the area, picked up a palm-sized stone with faint spiritual energy inside, and handed it to Lin Jinmo. “The one in your hand is an ordinary stone. This kind is the real deal.”
Lin Jinmo tossed away the stone in his hand and reached out to take it, but suddenly thought of something and pulled his hand back.
“Cough, inside this stone…”
Shi An’an shook her head with a smile. “There’s no worm inside this one.”
“Oh, that’s good.” Lin Jinmo breathed a sigh of relief, took the stone, pulled out a mini instrument from his space button, and began scanning.
“? So complete?” Shi An’an looked at the various tools Lin Jinmo took out and exclaimed in admiration.
Shi Anxin smiled. “I forgot to tell you, Jinmo’s family specializes in developing mining for various ores.”
Shi Lele was still circling that pot of mint. “An’an, why did this pot of mint suddenly become so big and robust?”
Shi An’an turned her head and explained, “Because I pulverized the Devouring Worm larva and transferred the energy from its body to the mint. That’s what caused this change.”
“Energy? From the Insectoid Race’s body?!” Shi Lele was astonished, and then she immediately thought of something, excitedly saying, “So you mean, as long as we extract energy from the Insectoid Race’s bodies, we can make green plants survive, even thrive extremely well, providing high nutrition for green plants…”
“An’an, can I pick a leaf? I want to take it back to study…” Shi Lele said, feeling a bit embarrassed, increasingly feeling her request was unreasonable.
“Forget it, sorry An’an, I got a bit too excited. This is your discovery, and my request is a bit excessive.”
Shi Lele solemnly apologized to Shi An’an. In the interstellar era, any discovery related to green plants had enormous impact, even earning the highest honors…
Shi An’an didn’t know about these things, but even if she did, it wouldn’t matter. She only cared about spirit stones!
And planting green plants was effortless for her.
Therefore, Shi An’an directly gave that pot of mint to Shi Lele. “This pot is yours. Research it well.”
“Uh…” Shi Lele was stunned and murmured, “An’an, do you know how much this pot of mint is worth? It might be a priceless treasure!!! And you’re just giving it to me like that???”
Shi An’an waved her hand. “No problem, I’ll make another pot in a bit.”
With so many spirit stones here, she was the one who hit the jackpot. As for those Devouring Worm larvae, she couldn’t touch them at all—they were too disgusting, covered in tentacles. She couldn’t bring herself to devour them, so she let her green plants benefit instead.
Sheng Rong on the side looked at Shi Lele enviously. Such a large pot of mint, with growth surpassing S-grade. The S-grade bamboo his grandpa had at home reportedly cost tens of billions to acquire, and he treasured it immensely every day.
This pot of mint had quality far superior to his grandpa’s pot of bamboo by more than ten times!
And it was given away so casually!!!
Sheng Rong’s legs went weak as he looked at Shi An’an expectantly. “An’an, can I be your friend?” I want the green plants you give away casually too!!!!
Shi An’an: “………” Her face was full of speechlessness.
After confirming multiple times that An’an had really given her this pot of mint, Shi Lele was deeply moved. She hugged the mint tightly like a treasure, secretly vowing in her heart that from now on, whatever she had, An’an would have too! Whatever An’an wanted, she would get it!!!
Shi Lele quietly took a photo of the mint and smugly sent it to her dad. “Look, Sister An’an gave me mint! Gave it! To me!”
Shi Lele had already guessed that An’an was the older sister from her little uncle’s family who had been missing for eighteen years and was the same age as her!
Moreover, she had already told her dad, and dad knew—her sister gave her mint oh~~~
Here, Shi An’an agreed to kill a few more larvae in a bit and give each of her little friends a pot of green plants!
“An’an, I already have a rose. I don’t need one.”
Shi Anxin didn’t know if killing Devouring Worm larvae would affect her sister, so she was somewhat worried. But since her sister had decided, she didn’t say anything.
Shi An’an saw the worry in her sister’s eyes, shook her head to indicate it was fine. “Then later, take out your rose and let it absorb some energy to grow even better!”
Shi An’an took out the various green plants from her space button that she could no longer fit, letting Sheng Rong and the others choose.
“Ah!!!”
Sheng Rong and Shi Lele looked at the green plants all over the ground, their eyes bulging in shock.
Lin Jinmo, who was scanning the stone on the side, was also stunned by this scene.
Shi Anxin went without saying—she had already seen it at home, so she wasn’t excited now.
Equally shocked were Lin Xi and He Rui, who were watching the surveillance, as well as An Yi, who had linked the surveillance to himself.
The three of them looked at the green plants Shi An’an took out, their eyes stinging, tears nearly flowing from the corners of their mouths.
Not to mention the little furball not far from Shi An’an and the others, who could no longer hold back. It stared at one of the green plants and dashed over rapidly. It wanted it too!!!
Shi An’an, who first sensed something rushing over, immediately locked onto the furball. When she discovered it had no malice and was heading straight for one of the pots of mint, she didn’t pulverize it.
Sheng Rong and Shi Anxin, who secondarily discovered the furball, quickly drew their weapons and aimed at the uninvited guest.
“Careful!” Sheng Rong blocked a shield in front of everyone, staring intently at the furball pawing at the mint.
Shi Anxin protected her sister behind her, her laser gun aimed straight at that little yellow thing.
“What is this thing?” Lin Jinmo stood up, looking at the fluffy little thing partially obscured by the green plant.
Shi Lele was a bit nervous. “It isn’t a Devouring Worm, is it?”
“No!” Shi An’an looked in surprise at the little furball endlessly pawing at that pot of mint. “It’s a lion cub that was born not long ago.”
