Chapter 56
Even the Sand Trolls aren't willing to provoke them?
Klein's heart sank when he saw this.
It was already difficult enough to deal with a Sand Troll. If they were stronger than the trolls…
"Let's check the information on the mutated insects first."
Klein opened the ill.u.s.trated handbook.
A simple search.
The information appeared.
[Swarm Mutated Insects: Large insects covered in rotten flesh. They have fat bodies. They can survive even if they are cut into a dozen pieces. They tumble among the root shavings, searching for anything edible, even the droppings of their own kind. When it encounters an enemy, it will release a disgusting stench that will fester the skin of the enemy upon contact.]
[Ability: Putrid Odor]
[Weakness: Intelligence is almost zero]
[Danger Factor: 23]
[Putrid Odor: Rapidly ejects green gas. Upon contact with the odor, the skin will fester. The ejection range of 10 meters. Duration of 3 seconds. Cooldown time: 5 minutes.]
Klein felt a chill when he finished looking at the image in the ill.u.s.trated handbook.
It was somewhat like the enlarged and fatter version of an earthworm.
‘It's not that powerful. It's just disgusting. Its vitality is tenacious.'
Klein heaved a sigh of relief.
Who knew how many of these things were in the abandoned Earth Dragon nest?!
‘With a low IQ, it'll eat anything…'
Klein thought of an idea and muttered, "I wonder if I should make it eat poison? Or anesthetic?"
As long as he could paralyze them and not give them a chance to spray their stench, he could easily obtain the treasure chest.
He thought for a moment before saying, "I'll station them in place and make some bait. When I enter in the afternoon, I'll sprinkle it on them to eat."
Klein pondered for a moment and decided to do so.
If he couldn't turn the medicine on them, they wouldn't be able to do anything to him even if he flew in the air.
Klein could simply dig a tunnel and leave. He would only lose the meat and anesthetic.
It was almost noon.
The runic base unfolded.
Klein didn't cook immediately. Instead, he went to the balcony to take a look.
The Fragrant Rice Tree had already borne fruit this morning. At this point, it was unknown whether it had matured or not!
"A portion of it has split open."
Klein was pleasantly surprised to find that a few fragrant Rice Tree fruits had cracks on their skin.
This was a sign that the fragrant Rice Tree fruits were ripe.
The Bread Tree was still growing.
The Sweet Fruits had already bloomed and had yet to produce any fruit.
"Only these few are ripe. The rest aren't."
Klein picked six round fruits.
Through the cracks, he could see the white rice grains inside.
Klein took a wooden barrel and smacked the fruits.
The white and plump rice grains fell down one by one.
"Tsk, it's really not that different from real rice. It
Klein couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Six fruits, and the rice grains that were revealed from the shaking could fill three stone bowls.
He could eat quite a few meals!
"I've decided. I'll have lunch and prepare some meat dishes."
Klein's fingers moved.
It had been a long time since he had white rice, and he missed the taste.
He soaked the rice and cut the meat…
He put it in the pot, and roasted the meat.
In less than half an hour.
The rice and meat were already prepared.
It was divided into three portions.
He opened another bottle of pure milk and gave it to Little Fox and Little Wind.
Klein took out the only bottle of c.o.ke.
"Wu!"
Little Fox looked at Klein when she saw the novelty of the drink. The pure milk in the bowl was no longer fragrant.
It was Little Wind's first time drinking pure milk. He was engrossed in licking it and didn't pay attention to the matter at all.
Klein looked at her and said, "Little friend, uh, no, it's something that you crypt creatures can't drink. It affects your growth."
With a straight face, Klein said in all seriousness, "If you crypt creatures drink this, you will die. We humans can drink it, so be obedient and drink your pure milk!"
"Wu, wu, wu?"
Little Fox was dubious as she gestured with her little paws, as though she was saying to take a small sip.
"No, go drink your pure milk."
Klein carried the bowl of rice, took the c.o.ke, and went to the side to slowly taste it.
The fragrant white rice was plump and emitted a delicate fragrance.
One mouthful of rice, one mouthful of roasted meat, and another mouthful of c.o.ke.
Awesome!
Every cell in his body was dancing.
Lunch ended.
Klein continued selling anesthetics.
Not long after, people came forward to trade.
As for the healing medicine, it was no longer exchanged for plants. Instead, it was only exchanged for runes. Furthermore, one portion of the healing medicine was exchanged for one rune.
Klein also used meat and water. Similarly, he only traded runes.
Two pieces of meat or 800 ml of water were exchanged for one rune.
During this period of time.
Klein smeared the Sand Troll blood on his body.
He smeared it twice.
The blood gradually disappeared, and the hardness of his skin increased once again.
Klein spent some more time making bait.
First, he made a total of thirty portions of anesthetic.
Then, he cut up some of the flesh of crypt creatures that he wasn't prepared to eat.
Some of the flesh of crypt creatures wasn't easy to cut, so he wasted some time.
After tossing it back and forth, he poured in the Yellow Sand Octopus blood that was previously useless.
Finally, he poured in all the anesthetic and stirred it thoroughly.
‘This bait should be enough for the Mutated Insects to have a good meal. I wonder if it'll work on them?'
Klein looked at the basin full of minced meat bait and wasn't completely confident.
Little Fox and Little Wind were by the side and kept sniffing. They seemed to have been attracted by the Yellow Sand Octopus blood.
Klein smiled and said, "Don't eat this. It's laced with anesthetic."
Klein said with a smile, "Let's go downstairs and see if the fis.h.i.+ng machine has harvested anything. It's already been more than an hour. If it's really as effective as described, we should be able to harvest something.
The requirements to forge the fis.h.i.+ng machine were easier to satisfy.
It only required two earth runes, as well as some copper and iron blocks.
In the morning, he left a copper treasure chest in the base but didn't open it. In the afternoon, he opened it and replenished it with two earth runes.
After dinner, Klein buried the fis.h.i.+ng gear under the sand outside the rune base.
He set off for the next catacomb to retrieve the fis.h.i.+ng gear.