Chapter 205: "Taking Turns in Pairs to Kill"
"If that's the case, I know what to do." Biscuit lifted her skirt and pressed her right palm against the smooth stone pavement, striking a pose like a rugby player about to start a play.
"First, Shizuku and I will set a little trap."
A few minutes later, a green caterpillar taller than two train cars stacked together wriggled out from the gap between two enormous stone pillars.
Its body was large enough to fill the entire road, yet its soft, pliable form allowed it to move its massive green body forward with surprising agility.
The caterpillar had "scented" the delicious Nen Energy from far away and tracked it here—or, more precisely, it was already half dead. The "tumor" on its back was what had scented it.
Within the caterpillar's segmented body, a round, black tumor-shaped shadow rolled back and forth as it crawled along.
This "tumor"—the "fruit" of the Plant Weapon Gold Silver Ingot—had nearly matured.
One day, when it burst out of its shell and "bloomed," it would shoot out "spores" like a pea plant, parasitizing nearby living creatures.
The time was almost right. It needed to find a new living host to reproduce.
At that moment, the caterpillar's antennae rose, and it sensed almost immediately the life form hiding behind a cubic stone pillar.
Gold Silver Ingot rolled forward, straight into the caterpillar's head. It raised its stubby legs without hesitation and charged toward the cubic pillar with a rumble like a locomotive.
Shizuku stepped out from behind the pillar. She had deliberately released her Nen Energy to reveal her location.
Seeing that the caterpillar had crawled to the predetermined spot, Shizuku raised the Evil Tenderfoot in her hand.
"Evil Tenderfoot, eat those chunks of rubble!"
Evil Tenderfoot immediately