Three Symbiotic Links hung quietly in the depths of Lu Yuan's perception.
They were still alive.
They were eating.
Lu Yuan had intended to put the sample bottle back at the bottom of the toolbox, but the moment his hand touched the bottle, the situation inside changed.
The faint glow on the Crystal's surface suddenly pulsed faster. The interwoven gray-green and dark gold became violent, as though some intense reaction was taking place inside.
Then... it stopped.
Three Worms of Knowledge fell away from the Crystal's surface.
They had dropped down.
One after another, they peeled away from the Crystal's surface and fell dazedly to the bottom of the bottle.
It took less than a few seconds.
Lu Yuan stared at the three tiny creatures in the sample bottle.
Their bodies were covered in a very distinct layer of green, identical to the Crystal's own grayish-green color.
Their originally translucent bodies were no longer translucent, and the flow of color had slowed as well.
As though they had eaten their fill.
[Target detected: Worms of Knowledge (larvae ×3)] [Absorbed an excessive amount of knowledge density in a short period of time... currently growing...]
"Thank goodness."
Lu Yuan looked at them and let out half a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness they had not eaten themselves to death. It seemed these little things were far tougher than he had expected.
However, the Worms of Knowledge he had caught seemed somewhat different from the ones Laurina had acquired?
And their growth rate... was far faster than expected.
Inside the sample bottle, the three Worms of Knowledge crowded together, the green sheen on their bodies slowly spreading.
Then Lu Yuan saw something he had not expected.
The three worms moved together.
Their rice-grain-sized bodies met, colors converging and boundaries dissolving, like