Chapter 604: Centipede's Great Transformation
Because of the space, countless fluorescent insects were flying around him, and some were even attached to his body. Suddenly, Zhang An felt a strong sense of satisfaction in his heart.
This may be because he liked catching these little things when he was a child, but it was not easy to catch them, so there was some regret hidden in his heart that even Zhang An himself was not aware of.
After fiddling with the fireflies, Zhang An put away the satisfied smile on his face.
Then we came to the back of the courtyard, and we could see that the trees planted some time ago had changed their appearance. Now they have grown quite tall, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are towering trees.
However, although these trees have grown very tall, none of them are too thick and their diameters are still too small.
No wonder these trees become sought-after premium wood after they grow up. Their growth rate alone is shockingly slow.
This is because in space, there are the dual blessings of the speed of time flow and the magical birth-promoting effect.
If it is placed outside, I am afraid there won’t be much change even after one or two years.
Especially the small-leaf red sandalwood, which is the thinnest among all the trees. It will probably take many years for them to grow up.
However, Zhang An was not in a hurry about this. Although he was a carpenter, he always maintained an attitude of "it doesn't matter if you have it or not" towards these top-quality woods.
Anyway, there are already so many Davidia involucrata trees planted in the space now, and before, he had secretly taken some to the sawmill to turn them into wood, which are now piled up in the space.
This amount of Davidia involucrata wood alone is enough to meet all his needs.
After all, Davidia involucrata wood is only slightly inferior to those difficult woods, but compared with most other trees, its advantages are more than enough.
So let these things grow slowly in the space. Anyway, when they grow up, Zhang An plans to save them as a guarantee for the future generations at home.
Although he now has the space in his body, Zhang An still hasn't figured out what this thing is. The instability is always too great, and who knows what will happen in the future.
After looking around the grove, Zhang An was not in a hurry to leave the space.
Because he also had to go and see another more urgent thing in the space.
After passing through the grove, there is a bamboo forest.
Before, Zhang An only dug a little bit of bamboo and planted it in the space. If so much time had passed, these bamboos had completely settled in the space, and the small bamboo forest had become a large bamboo forest.
Looking at the bamboo shoots popping up here and there on the ground, Zhang An felt happy, knowing that he would be able to eat fresh bamboo shoots at home anytime in the future.
And these are not ordinary bamboo shoots, these are authentic bamboo shoots grown in space. I think they should be very fragrant.
When Zhang An dug the bamboo in, he didn't expect this layer to grow into a shade tree.
Thinking about the delicious young bamboo shoots, Zhang An's throat rolled unconsciously, so he started to dig out some fresh bamboo shoots from the ground to take out when the time comes.
After all, it has been more than half a year since I last ate this thing since I started digging spring bamboo shoots at the beginning of the year.
Throwing the bamboo shoots aside, Zhang An walked into the bamboo forest. The bamboo forest was originally very quiet, but as Zhang An entered, a series of "swish" crawling sounds were heard.
If you pull apart the bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots on the ground, you can see huge centipedes hidden underneath.
If it happened outside, most people would be scared to death when seeing such a scene.
The centipedes that were caught at the beginning were only about one foot long, less than twenty centimeters.
But now, a drastic change has taken place. What caught Zhang An's eyes were several giant centipedes that were more than one foot long.
Behind them were many small creatures of different sizes, which were probably their descendants.
When Zhang An saw those centipedes that were over a foot long, he suddenly felt happy and thought that he had successfully raised the centipedes.
But when he grabbed the largest one to take a closer look, he was greatly disappointed.
After counting carefully, he found that the big creature in front of him, with its fangs and claws bared, constantly touching the two long red whiskers, had less than seventy pairs of legs and feet in total.
Compared with the ordinary centipedes with more than a dozen pairs of legs outside, this number is already a very terrifying number. If it were released, it would probably become the centipede king in the purple bamboo forest.
But Zhang An's purpose in raising them was to use them as medicine for Zhang Yihang to give to Miss Yan Qian.
With less than seventy pairs of legs, this insect is just a small Karami compared to the three-hundred-legged giant insect.
Then Zhang An put the frightened big guy back to the ground and began to search in the bamboo forest.
In the end, it was discovered that the largest centipede in the space was less than two feet long, and had only eighty-eight pairs of legs, a total of one hundred and seventy-six legs.
Although in terms of quantity, one hundred and seventy-six is only less than half the distance from three hundred.
But Zhang An knew very well that it was not easy for the centipede in the space to grow to its current size.
Later on, every time they grow an extra pair of legs or every extra centimeter they grow, the task will become countless times more difficult than before.
Not to mention that the ancients once said that a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. Now we are not even ninety miles away, so one can imagine how difficult the journey will be.
But after a while, Zhang An immediately shook his head, getting rid of all the messy thoughts.
Now that these centipedes have grown like this, it means that it is not impossible to cultivate a giant centipede with three hundred legs, but it will take a long time.
And even if the growth ceiling of these guys cannot reach that level, Zhang An will not be discouraged.
Because he felt that even if the current centipedes were not capable, the offspring they raised in the space would definitely have a chance, because the space would transform them generation after generation.
If the next generation can’t do it, then the next generation will do it. There will always be a generation that can do it, but this is also a project that takes time.
Only then did Zhang An understand why he himself had not had much hope when Zhang Yixing prescribed such a prescription for Miss Yan Qian.
Because this giant centipede with three hundred legs is really hard to find, and it is possible that it cannot be found.
You know, if such a big guy really exists and the country knows about it, it will probably be protected. At that time, any idea of using it as medicine will be in vain.
No wonder Yan Peifeng was so cautious and careful when searching, and tried his best to find those who could not stand in the light to help him look for it. It was obvious that he also understood the reason behind it.
Suddenly, Zhang An thought of the Lingquan Crystal Dew he had just used.
Zhang An thought about feeding these centipedes some Lingquan crystal dew. Since it has such a great effect on fireflies, it will definitely have the same effect on these centipedes.
He did what he said. After Zhang An got the Lingquan crystal dew, he immediately began to summon the centipedes in the space.
You wouldn't know until you call them, and once you do, you'll be shocked to see that the ground is densely packed with centipedes of various sizes. Some big ones are as big as a human arm, while others are very tiny.
If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would go crazy immediately.
Adhering to the principle that too much is as bad as too little, Zhang An took a bucket of water and added Lingquan Crystal Dew.
Because the number of centipedes is relatively large, and the individual centipedes are not small, Zhang An dripped more than ten drops at a time, which can be said to be a huge investment. You know, he didn't collect much Lingquan crystal dew after saving for so long, and this time he directly took away one-fifth of it.
But now he does not feel reluctant at all, but is full of anticipation.
If it can be successfully cultivated, then this experiment will be very worthwhile.
After mixing the ingredients, Zhang An removed the restrictions on the centipedes, and they immediately headed towards the bee pupae in the large basin.
Fortunately, Zhang An had exchanged enough of them, so all the centipedes could basically get equal benefits.
Most of it was absorbed by those extraordinary guys, while the small centipedes did not take in too much because their bodies were only that big.
At the beginning, he thought about giving all the spiritual spring crystal dew to those big centipedes.
But in the end he changed his mind, because he was worried that the centipedes' growth limit would not be enough, and the spiritual spring crystal dew would be wasted, and the centipedes would die of old age.
If that were the case, his heart would probably bleed.
So he chose to let all the centipedes try it, at least the hope would be much greater.
Then Zhang An began to stare at them intently, afraid of missing any details.
After a while, most of the centipedes on the ground began to twitch right under Zhang An's eyes.
Zhang An thought something bad was going to happen at first, and just when he was feeling regretful, he discovered that the centipedes were twitching not because something was wrong, but because they were shedding their skin.
In this way, Zhang An witnessed a striptease with his own eyes, and it was a very large group of people.
But this scene was so horrifying that he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
I don't know how long it took, but these centipedes finally finished molting.
The smallest individual shed its skin several times in a row, grew several times longer, and had more legs and limbs.
Some individuals are relatively large centipedes. They only shed their skin once, and when they grow a little bigger, they will no longer change.
Only the old guys in the entire centipede group, who could be regarded as the ancestors of centipedes, did not shed their skin, but just grew a little bigger.
However, because they were originally larger and longer, their growth was not obvious.
After getting this result, Zhang An gritted his teeth and poured out another portion of the Lingquan crystal dew, but this time he did not dilute it with water. He fed it directly to the largest centipede in the group.
Sure enough, where there is input there is output.
After Zhang An fed the big creature nearly half of the spiritual spring crystal dew, it quickly changed.
The molting process that was absent just now has now hurriedly arrived.
But the process of it shedding its skin is similar to when those things on TV crawl out, which is very scary.
With Zhang An's full anticipation, it quickly completed its molting.
During the whole process, the other centipedes, regardless of size, simply coiled into a circle and did not move at all. They only stretched out again after it was over.
Finally the molting was complete, and the old guy was once again left with a very empty shell.
It was really big, so big that Zhang An could almost put his hand inside.
Zhang An originally thought that since this guy had taken in so much spiritual spring crystal dew on his own, he should be able to shed his skin more times and grow more.
After molting, the old centipede did not undergo any other changes. It was obvious that it only planned to molt this once.
Such a result made Zhang An very disappointed, and he suddenly felt that half of the Lingquan Crystal Dew Flower was not worth it.
But when he moved his gaze from the empty shell to the centipede, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He found that although this guy had only shed his skin once, he had grown a lot.
If its body length was less than two feet just now, he estimated that it was almost one meter now. Even if it was a little shorter, it wouldn't be much.
After counting carefully again, the result made him even more confused, because all the legs of this guy had increased from eighty-eight pairs to the current one hundred and thirty-six pairs, an increase of forty-eight pairs of legs and ninety-six legs.
This result made him so excited that he almost invested all the spiritual spring crystal dew he had saved during this period of time into this centipede.
But in the end, Zhang An calmed himself down, because Lingquan Crystal Dew could save lives in emergencies, and he didn't dare to use it all.
But now he was more confident. One hundred and thirty-six was only fourteen pairs away from one hundred and fifty, which was not so far away.
The big guy, who had undergone a great change, kept twisting his body to please Zhang An.
But they were all sent back by Zhang An, who allowed them to return to the bamboo forest with their centipede offspring.
Because he was cultivating this thing with the intention of using it as medicine from the beginning. If there were too much interaction and they developed feelings for each other, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to let it go.
Moreover, centipedes are different from little tigers and flower heads. Zhang An thinks that he does not have such a unique hobby.
After leaving the space, Zhang An contentedly hugged his wife beside him and fell asleep soundly.
When I woke up again, it was already dawn and the roosters in the village were crowing for the last time that morning.
When he walked into the yard, Zhang An found that there were many people on the road outside the door, staring at his yard.
"What's wrong, what's going on, everyone?"
Zhang An didn't understand what was going on, and asked the people at the door with a confused look on his face.
"It's okay, little brother. The loudest rooster crow just now came from your house."
Many people in the crowd saw Zhang An's confused expression and hurriedly explained with a smile.
"Yes, it's a big rooster that I raise at home."
Zhang An was still a little confused at this moment, wondering what was wrong with his big rooster that attracted so many people's attention.
"Then can you take us to see your big rooster? Its crowing sounds so majestic. The other roosters in your village only make sounds after it finishes crowing."
It turned out that when these people passed by here in the morning, they found that the crowing of Zhang An's rooster was a little different, as if it was the king of chickens in the village.
"Of course, as long as you don't mind the smell in the chicken coop."
Zhang An didn't know whether to laugh or cry at first, but he still agreed.
(End of this chapter)
Because of the space, countless fluorescent insects were flying around him, and some were even attached to his body. Suddenly, Zhang An felt a strong sense of satisfaction in his heart.
This may be because he liked catching these little things when he was a child, but it was not easy to catch them, so there was some regret hidden in his heart that even Zhang An himself was not aware of.
After fiddling with the fireflies, Zhang An put away the satisfied smile on his face.
Then we came to the back of the courtyard, and we could see that the trees planted some time ago had changed their appearance. Now they have grown quite tall, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are towering trees.
However, although these trees have grown very tall, none of them are too thick and their diameters are still too small.
No wonder these trees become sought-after premium wood after they grow up. Their growth rate alone is shockingly slow.
This is because in space, there are the dual blessings of the speed of time flow and the magical birth-promoting effect.
If it is placed outside, I am afraid there won’t be much change even after one or two years.
Especially the small-leaf red sandalwood, which is the thinnest among all the trees. It will probably take many years for them to grow up.
However, Zhang An was not in a hurry about this. Although he was a carpenter, he always maintained an attitude of "it doesn't matter if you have it or not" towards these top-quality woods.
Anyway, there are already so many Davidia involucrata trees planted in the space now, and before, he had secretly taken some to the sawmill to turn them into wood, which are now piled up in the space.
This amount of Davidia involucrata wood alone is enough to meet all his needs.
After all, Davidia involucrata wood is only slightly inferior to those difficult woods, but compared with most other trees, its advantages are more than enough.
So let these things grow slowly in the space. Anyway, when they grow up, Zhang An plans to save them as a guarantee for the future generations at home.
Although he now has the space in his body, Zhang An still hasn't figured out what this thing is. The instability is always too great, and who knows what will happen in the future.
After looking around the grove, Zhang An was not in a hurry to leave the space.
Because he also had to go and see another more urgent thing in the space.
After passing through the grove, there is a bamboo forest.
Before, Zhang An only dug a little bit of bamboo and planted it in the space. If so much time had passed, these bamboos had completely settled in the space, and the small bamboo forest had become a large bamboo forest.
Looking at the bamboo shoots popping up here and there on the ground, Zhang An felt happy, knowing that he would be able to eat fresh bamboo shoots at home anytime in the future.
And these are not ordinary bamboo shoots, these are authentic bamboo shoots grown in space. I think they should be very fragrant.
When Zhang An dug the bamboo in, he didn't expect this layer to grow into a shade tree.
Thinking about the delicious young bamboo shoots, Zhang An's throat rolled unconsciously, so he started to dig out some fresh bamboo shoots from the ground to take out when the time comes.
After all, it has been more than half a year since I last ate this thing since I started digging spring bamboo shoots at the beginning of the year.
Throwing the bamboo shoots aside, Zhang An walked into the bamboo forest. The bamboo forest was originally very quiet, but as Zhang An entered, a series of "swish" crawling sounds were heard.
If you pull apart the bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots on the ground, you can see huge centipedes hidden underneath.
If it happened outside, most people would be scared to death when seeing such a scene.
The centipedes that were caught at the beginning were only about one foot long, less than twenty centimeters.
But now, a drastic change has taken place. What caught Zhang An's eyes were several giant centipedes that were more than one foot long.
Behind them were many small creatures of different sizes, which were probably their descendants.
When Zhang An saw those centipedes that were over a foot long, he suddenly felt happy and thought that he had successfully raised the centipedes.
But when he grabbed the largest one to take a closer look, he was greatly disappointed.
After counting carefully, he found that the big creature in front of him, with its fangs and claws bared, constantly touching the two long red whiskers, had less than seventy pairs of legs and feet in total.
Compared with the ordinary centipedes with more than a dozen pairs of legs outside, this number is already a very terrifying number. If it were released, it would probably become the centipede king in the purple bamboo forest.
But Zhang An's purpose in raising them was to use them as medicine for Zhang Yihang to give to Miss Yan Qian.
With less than seventy pairs of legs, this insect is just a small Karami compared to the three-hundred-legged giant insect.
Then Zhang An put the frightened big guy back to the ground and began to search in the bamboo forest.
In the end, it was discovered that the largest centipede in the space was less than two feet long, and had only eighty-eight pairs of legs, a total of one hundred and seventy-six legs.
Although in terms of quantity, one hundred and seventy-six is only less than half the distance from three hundred.
But Zhang An knew very well that it was not easy for the centipede in the space to grow to its current size.
Later on, every time they grow an extra pair of legs or every extra centimeter they grow, the task will become countless times more difficult than before.
Not to mention that the ancients once said that a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. Now we are not even ninety miles away, so one can imagine how difficult the journey will be.
But after a while, Zhang An immediately shook his head, getting rid of all the messy thoughts.
Now that these centipedes have grown like this, it means that it is not impossible to cultivate a giant centipede with three hundred legs, but it will take a long time.
And even if the growth ceiling of these guys cannot reach that level, Zhang An will not be discouraged.
Because he felt that even if the current centipedes were not capable, the offspring they raised in the space would definitely have a chance, because the space would transform them generation after generation.
If the next generation can’t do it, then the next generation will do it. There will always be a generation that can do it, but this is also a project that takes time.
Only then did Zhang An understand why he himself had not had much hope when Zhang Yixing prescribed such a prescription for Miss Yan Qian.
Because this giant centipede with three hundred legs is really hard to find, and it is possible that it cannot be found.
You know, if such a big guy really exists and the country knows about it, it will probably be protected. At that time, any idea of using it as medicine will be in vain.
No wonder Yan Peifeng was so cautious and careful when searching, and tried his best to find those who could not stand in the light to help him look for it. It was obvious that he also understood the reason behind it.
Suddenly, Zhang An thought of the Lingquan Crystal Dew he had just used.
Zhang An thought about feeding these centipedes some Lingquan crystal dew. Since it has such a great effect on fireflies, it will definitely have the same effect on these centipedes.
He did what he said. After Zhang An got the Lingquan crystal dew, he immediately began to summon the centipedes in the space.
You wouldn't know until you call them, and once you do, you'll be shocked to see that the ground is densely packed with centipedes of various sizes. Some big ones are as big as a human arm, while others are very tiny.
If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would go crazy immediately.
Adhering to the principle that too much is as bad as too little, Zhang An took a bucket of water and added Lingquan Crystal Dew.
Because the number of centipedes is relatively large, and the individual centipedes are not small, Zhang An dripped more than ten drops at a time, which can be said to be a huge investment. You know, he didn't collect much Lingquan crystal dew after saving for so long, and this time he directly took away one-fifth of it.
But now he does not feel reluctant at all, but is full of anticipation.
If it can be successfully cultivated, then this experiment will be very worthwhile.
After mixing the ingredients, Zhang An removed the restrictions on the centipedes, and they immediately headed towards the bee pupae in the large basin.
Fortunately, Zhang An had exchanged enough of them, so all the centipedes could basically get equal benefits.
Most of it was absorbed by those extraordinary guys, while the small centipedes did not take in too much because their bodies were only that big.
At the beginning, he thought about giving all the spiritual spring crystal dew to those big centipedes.
But in the end he changed his mind, because he was worried that the centipedes' growth limit would not be enough, and the spiritual spring crystal dew would be wasted, and the centipedes would die of old age.
If that were the case, his heart would probably bleed.
So he chose to let all the centipedes try it, at least the hope would be much greater.
Then Zhang An began to stare at them intently, afraid of missing any details.
After a while, most of the centipedes on the ground began to twitch right under Zhang An's eyes.
Zhang An thought something bad was going to happen at first, and just when he was feeling regretful, he discovered that the centipedes were twitching not because something was wrong, but because they were shedding their skin.
In this way, Zhang An witnessed a striptease with his own eyes, and it was a very large group of people.
But this scene was so horrifying that he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
I don't know how long it took, but these centipedes finally finished molting.
The smallest individual shed its skin several times in a row, grew several times longer, and had more legs and limbs.
Some individuals are relatively large centipedes. They only shed their skin once, and when they grow a little bigger, they will no longer change.
Only the old guys in the entire centipede group, who could be regarded as the ancestors of centipedes, did not shed their skin, but just grew a little bigger.
However, because they were originally larger and longer, their growth was not obvious.
After getting this result, Zhang An gritted his teeth and poured out another portion of the Lingquan crystal dew, but this time he did not dilute it with water. He fed it directly to the largest centipede in the group.
Sure enough, where there is input there is output.
After Zhang An fed the big creature nearly half of the spiritual spring crystal dew, it quickly changed.
The molting process that was absent just now has now hurriedly arrived.
But the process of it shedding its skin is similar to when those things on TV crawl out, which is very scary.
With Zhang An's full anticipation, it quickly completed its molting.
During the whole process, the other centipedes, regardless of size, simply coiled into a circle and did not move at all. They only stretched out again after it was over.
Finally the molting was complete, and the old guy was once again left with a very empty shell.
It was really big, so big that Zhang An could almost put his hand inside.
Zhang An originally thought that since this guy had taken in so much spiritual spring crystal dew on his own, he should be able to shed his skin more times and grow more.
After molting, the old centipede did not undergo any other changes. It was obvious that it only planned to molt this once.
Such a result made Zhang An very disappointed, and he suddenly felt that half of the Lingquan Crystal Dew Flower was not worth it.
But when he moved his gaze from the empty shell to the centipede, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He found that although this guy had only shed his skin once, he had grown a lot.
If its body length was less than two feet just now, he estimated that it was almost one meter now. Even if it was a little shorter, it wouldn't be much.
After counting carefully again, the result made him even more confused, because all the legs of this guy had increased from eighty-eight pairs to the current one hundred and thirty-six pairs, an increase of forty-eight pairs of legs and ninety-six legs.
This result made him so excited that he almost invested all the spiritual spring crystal dew he had saved during this period of time into this centipede.
But in the end, Zhang An calmed himself down, because Lingquan Crystal Dew could save lives in emergencies, and he didn't dare to use it all.
But now he was more confident. One hundred and thirty-six was only fourteen pairs away from one hundred and fifty, which was not so far away.
The big guy, who had undergone a great change, kept twisting his body to please Zhang An.
But they were all sent back by Zhang An, who allowed them to return to the bamboo forest with their centipede offspring.
Because he was cultivating this thing with the intention of using it as medicine from the beginning. If there were too much interaction and they developed feelings for each other, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to let it go.
Moreover, centipedes are different from little tigers and flower heads. Zhang An thinks that he does not have such a unique hobby.
After leaving the space, Zhang An contentedly hugged his wife beside him and fell asleep soundly.
When I woke up again, it was already dawn and the roosters in the village were crowing for the last time that morning.
When he walked into the yard, Zhang An found that there were many people on the road outside the door, staring at his yard.
"What's wrong, what's going on, everyone?"
Zhang An didn't understand what was going on, and asked the people at the door with a confused look on his face.
"It's okay, little brother. The loudest rooster crow just now came from your house."
Many people in the crowd saw Zhang An's confused expression and hurriedly explained with a smile.
"Yes, it's a big rooster that I raise at home."
Zhang An was still a little confused at this moment, wondering what was wrong with his big rooster that attracted so many people's attention.
"Then can you take us to see your big rooster? Its crowing sounds so majestic. The other roosters in your village only make sounds after it finishes crowing."
It turned out that when these people passed by here in the morning, they found that the crowing of Zhang An's rooster was a little different, as if it was the king of chickens in the village.
"Of course, as long as you don't mind the smell in the chicken coop."
Zhang An didn't know whether to laugh or cry at first, but he still agreed.
(End of this chapter)
