Astral Gods

Chapter 103 A Beetle the Size of an Elephant

Chapter 103 A Beetle the Size of an Elephant

Yew won the victory, and all the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors were overjoyed.

"Come on, come on, hurry up and get the food."

The Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors, along with Yew and Blue Rain Orchid, went to carry food. They were the biggest contributors to securing food shares this time. More importantly, they dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the insects in the Thousand Star Islands, making them no longer dare to underestimate the insects from Banana Island.

A group of over thirty rhinoceros beetle warriors returned in a grand procession to the food storage warehouse.

At the food storage warehouse, the Zerg who had gone to observe the battle earlier had all returned, their attitude now completely reversed. Even elites like Jin Teng couldn't defeat Zi Shan and had to back down, so these worker Zerg dared not say a word.

A blue-armored warrior came to greet Zishan and the others. Before they could speak, it said with a smile, "You all displayed your might in the arena, truly broadening our horizons. Now you've returned to collect your food, haven't you?"

As it spoke, it took out a bag of tokens made of gold and handed it to Zishan, explaining, "These are tokens enhanced by the Insect King's metal abilities. Each token can be exchanged for one ton of food. There are fifty tokens in total. You can come and exchange them anytime after you get them."

Zishan took the bag and examined a token. The token was about 1000 centimeters in diameter, round in shape, and golden in color. The originally soft gold had become very hard after being strengthened by the Insect King; at least it was indestructible.

The token has a large character for "food" written on it in the Flame Spider Merchant script, and the word "1000kg" is also written in the corner of the token.

It looked around but didn't see the giant-winged red dragonfly warriors. It must have been too afraid to face the yews and the others, so it deliberately hid and had the blue-armored warriors come to greet it.

The blue-armored warrior who was staying here was obviously related to the white-headed armored king in some way. Since we were using the white-headed armored king's name, we couldn't be too rude to it, so we politely said, "Thank you, blue-armored warrior. We'll go get our food now."

"No problem, no problem."

Zishan handed the bag containing the tokens to Tiannanxing: "Exchange for ten tons of food first, and we'll talk about it if that's not enough."

After making a name for himself, he could clearly feel that the Zerg warriors around him looked at him differently. Most importantly, he used to be able to receive 40 tons of food at a time, and it was all fruit. Now he could receive 50 tons of food at any time. The difference between the two was huge.

Just as Zishan was about to leave with the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors, she was stopped by the Blue Infantry Warrior: "Rhinoceros Tortoise Warrior Zishan, please wait a moment."

Zishan asked, somewhat puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"A little bit," said the Blue Infantry Warrior. "After joining the coastal defense training camp, the Zerg warriors will be assigned to training teams based on their own strengths and talents. Because the Zerg warriors have different talents, potential, and evolutionary directions, they are divided into seven elemental teams plus life and strength teams, for a total of nine teams."

You all possess the potential for strength-based talents, so I can assign you to Team A, where you will train together from now on.

If you have other arrangements and evolutionary directions to choose from, I can also arrange you into different teams according to your needs.

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Zishan turned and looked at the rhinoceros beetle warriors behind her. The two-pronged rhinoceros beetles possessed potential for metal and earth-type talents, the sea god rhinoceros beetle for water-type talents, the war god rhinoceros beetle for fire and lightning-type talents, the mammoth rhinoceros beetle for wood-type talents, and there were also the tumorous rhinoceros beetle and the forked rhinoceros beetle—

These warriors possess different talents and potentials, but the only thing they have in common is that they all have the potential to develop strength-based talents.

The Blue Infantry Warrior reminded them, "You all joined Team A last year, so unless there are special circumstances, it's best not to switch teams casually."

"Then let's continue to join Shenhao's team!" Zishan was not familiar with the situation of the teams here, so she felt that it would be best to join a team that suited all of their insects and continue with their previous habits.

"Then I'll register you. Remember to report to Team A later."

"Tell me your names, ethnicity, and age so I can register them and they will verify them later."

"Purple Robe, a high-level warrior of the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe, age one!"

"Zi Ai, the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise Tribe—"

After registering, the thirty-three Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors eagerly entered the food storage warehouse to move food.

Upon entering the warehouse, one is greeted by rows of perforated metal baskets, each measuring one square meter and filled with all sorts of food.

A Huaxing Longhorn Beetle warrior led them the way and explained, "This place is divided into two main areas: one for meat and one for herbivores. Some Zerg warriors like to eat meat. We catch marine fish, salt them, and then dry them to preserve them."

"Vegetarian food includes various nuts, such as pine nuts, walnuts, cypress seeds, hazelnuts, lotus seeds, chestnuts, and water chestnuts."

There were also fruits, such as pears, watermelons, bananas, oranges, and pomelos.

"These fruits are mostly purchased from the Zerg warriors on the Thousand Star Islands. They cultivate various trees to form forests and seas of trees in order to cultivate the divinely bestowed seeds, which is why they can produce a lot of fruit every year."

Zishan twitched her antennae, seemingly lost in thought, then suddenly asked, "What's the price of the fruit here?"

"It depends on the type. Fruit-type stones are cheaper, about 500 kilograms per rough stone, while nut-type stones are about 400 kilograms per rough stone."

Upon hearing the price, Zishan was slightly surprised: "So cheap?"

This price is cheaper than the fruit price on Banana Island. It originally thought that the fruit would be more expensive here in the Thousand Star Islands because of the Zerg warriors who had connections.

The Huaxing Longniu warrior seemed to see through Zishan's purpose in asking the question and said with a smile, "There are too many Zerg warriors on the Thousand Star Islands, and too many trees are planted, so the amount of fruit that can be harvested each year is even greater."

If they didn't sell it cheaper, there would be no repeat customers. Even so, many Zerg warriors envied this business, since some fruits had a huge yield, and the demand from the coastal defense training grounds was also high. Once they made a move to buy them, they would purchase hundreds or even thousands of tons at a time.

Zishan twitched her antennae, understanding what the other party meant. Those who could survive in the Thousand Star Islands were basically large tribes, and they all had connections in the coastal defense training camp. The fact that everyone had connections actually created a balance, so people could only buy from whoever sold the cheapest, otherwise it would be difficult to gain the support of the masses.

Zishan and the others followed the Huaxing Longhorn Beetle warriors and roughly toured the entire warehouse. After inspecting the various types of food, Zishan took out ten gold tokens from her bag and handed them to the Huaxing Longhorn Beetle warriors: "Let's take a thousand tons of food first. Give me a ton of walnuts, a ton of pine nuts, four tons of chestnuts, two tons of coconuts, and two tons of oranges, which I see are in good condition."

Fruit just doesn't keep very well; if fresh fruit is available, they'd still prefer to eat it.

The Huaxing Longhorn Beetle warrior put away the token and said with a smile, "This basket of food weighs about 250 kilograms. You can carry it yourselves. Just bring the basket back after you finish eating."

"No problem!" Zishan gave the order, and the insects all began to work.

One basket weighs 250 kilograms, so four tons would be 40 baskets. The rhinoceros beetle warriors began to carry the baskets onto their carapaces and shoulder them. Some rhinoceros beetle warriors even carried five or six baskets stacked on their backs, and then tied them to their backs with vines stored in the warehouse, walking out quite easily and comfortably.

For them, which are about 3 meters long, this amount of cargo is nothing.

If you don't have a concept of what 3 meters means, imagine what a beetle that is slightly larger than an African elephant and can carry dozens of times its own weight would look like.

And here, there are a whole bunch of these large beetles.

The Rhinoceros Beetle warriors, carrying the cargo on their carapaces, walked triumphantly back to their hives along the road, much like victorious warriors, amidst the astonished gazes of the many Zerg warriors.

In fact, they did win the battle.

Inside the nest, everyone lay in front of an iron frame, constantly picking oranges from the frame and putting them into their mouths. With just a gentle chew of their mouthparts, the oranges were crushed into pieces and then swallowed.

Zerg warriors don't have huge appetites, but they can easily eat a hundred or two hundred kilograms of food if they really eat to their heart's content.

In reality, although they are huge, they do not consume much food. This is not only because they can extract all the nutrients from their food, but more importantly because they survive by absorbing natural primal forces.

It is the primal force of nature and primal food that sustains their survival. Otherwise, given their size, they would have to eat half a ton of food every day. Even if there were pink mountains and white mountains on the Thousand Star Islands, they would be eaten up by so many Zerg warriors.

As they ate and chatted, Zishan looked at Qingyulan's broken horn with some concern and asked, "Qingyulan, that broken horn on your head shouldn't affect your evolution, right?"

Qingyulan raised her paw and touched her special horn, where a large piece of thirty or forty centimeters was missing. It had been smashed by the euonymus. However, the euonymus was not unscathed either; one of its giant pincers had also broken off. It would take at least two more growth stages and two molts to fully recover.

"It's not a big problem. I can recover to my original state after advancing one age. Besides, even if I lose a horn, it won't affect my combat ability."

Zishan was quite satisfied with Qingyulan's words. Their Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors were not lacking in fighting spirit, and every warrior dared to fight. The only thing that limited them was the evolutionary resources that could enhance them.

"When we trade with the Flame Spider Merchant this year, we'll buy more Force Foods to restore our bodies, and also some Force Foods to strengthen our bodies."

Qing Yulan said cheerfully, "That's what I think too."

It advanced to the advanced stage earlier than the yew trees, and many of its life seeds have already begun to produce fruit. It also has a Rain Orchid God-given Seed, so buying some Force food is no problem for it.

Having received the Life Imprint, they didn't have anything else to do. After traveling for so long between Banana Island and Thousand Star Islands, and then fighting and carrying goods, everyone was quite tired.

After lunch, everyone returned to their respective nest chambers to rest.

To the surprise of the yews and their companions, the Green Bamboo King arrived shortly after they lay down to rest. Numerous Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors greeted the Green Bamboo King in the first-floor lobby.

Zishan asked with some confusion, "King Qingzhu, weren't you supposed to be going to Sang Island? Why are you here again?"

The Green Bamboo Armor King looked around the hall and saw the iron baskets they had brought back to hold food. He then looked at the broken piece of Green Rain Orchid's special horn and said, "After I finished talking with the White-Headed Armor King, I heard that you had caused a big commotion here, so I came to see what was going on."

Upon hearing the words of the Green Bamboo King, the insects swayed their antennae triumphantly: "We didn't expect the news to spread so quickly, even you, Green Bamboo King, know about it."

"King Green Bamboo Armor, you don't know, these insects from the Thousand Star Islands look down on us insects from Banana Island and want us to keep eating rotten fruit."

"Exactly, they're awful, they bully us at every turn."

"Luckily, the yew and the blue rain orchid defeated them. Let's see how they dare to swagger in front of us again!"

Taking advantage of the moment when King Qingzhujia arrived, everyone took turns complaining.

Hearing the complaints from the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors, the Green Bamboo Armor King felt a little heavy-hearted. To be honest, no insect would not be angry to see its juniors being bullied by other insects in a strange place.

When it first heard the news, it even considered taking all its juniors back to Elephant Banana Island in a fit of anger.

After much deliberation, it held back. As a mature group composed of countless Zerg warriors, xenophobia was normal for the Thousand Star Islands.

As invasive species, it is quite difficult for them to integrate, but as difficult as it is, they have no choice but to integrate.

After all, their tribes are now trapped by the land, and if they want to continue to develop, they can only find land on the main continent of Thousand Trees or the Thousand Star Islands.

The main continent of Thousand Trees is more xenophobic, and land disputes are more intense, making it difficult for small tribes like theirs to acquire complete land there.

The Thousand Star Islands are different; there's no space for wild Zerg warriors to live here. Only large tribes occupy island after island, leaving many Zerg-free islands vacant.

They can get an allocation of island land as soon as they arrive, which is already the best option.

The rhinoceros beetle tribe is now in the molting stage, which is like the emergence of an adult from a larva. In this stage, struggling to molt is a painful process, but one that must be experienced.

King Qingzhu remained silent. If they were to withdraw from the Thousand Star Islands now, not only would their previous investments on Sang Island be wasted, but the difficulty of reintegrating in later would increase tenfold, or even twentyfold.

"Please bear with us. Not all the insects in the Thousand Star Islands are hostile to us. It's mainly some insects that want to expand towards Sang Island. Some of them are trying to exclude us and take over the islands we started to develop."

"Don't worry, everyone. As long as we demonstrate our strength, the Zerg warriors of the Thousand Star Islands will know how powerful we Rhino Tortoise warriors are and give up their idea of ​​ostracizing us."

"Ultimately, coastal defense training is all about combat effectiveness. If we are strong, no one can bully us!"

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