After all, once Tuanzi sealed off the surroundings, no air could get in. She would have to travel underground for several minutes, and during those minutes,
she would be deprived of oxygen. If she got too nervous,
she could easily pass out.
But I no longer had time to worry about all that. After stuffing her inside, I had Tuanzi go underground to deliver her,
while I turned and headed in another direction.
When I memorized the map, I had also memorized the location of the food storehouse. That was where I was going now.
My goal was to have Tuanzi devour some things and increase its volume, so it could form a sufficiently large network of roots underground
to hold me firmly in place.
I trudged forward, each step a struggle. With part of Tuanzi gone, I moved even slower now. Getting from here to the food storehouse took nearly ten
minutes. It was only a street away, yet I had spent a full ten minutes getting there.
Once inside the warehouse, I wasted no time and had Tuanzi start devouring things. Its tissue rapidly increased, but I didn't
let its body swell to the point of going berserk.
I kept it at just fifty percent of that threshold.
Meanwhile, as Tuanzi's tissue expanded, the Dark Knight armor on my body changed rapidly as well. It gained more detail than before, and the edges gradually sharpened.
A blade extended from each knee, and the armor grew thicker. Its overall bulk felt slightly greater
than that of my own body.
To cope with the fierce wind, the armored skirt disappeared, replaced by a two-meter-long tail composed of individual triangular segments.
To keep my hair from flying everywhere and blocking my vision, Tuanzi tied it into a long ponytail, and
the