For nearly a month, she maintained a hunting frequency of once every three days at the top of the tree canopy. Her combat strength has changed from mainly ambushing and stealthing to now being able to directly defeat red and white birds one against many.
Compared to the lizard farm, the red and white aviary has a much higher edible value, which is why Wen Jing spends the most time in the giant tree.
In no time, the three red and white birds vanished from her mouth, and even their tough beaks and claws were swallowed up by her.
Wen Jing spent 10 Skill Points to evolve his mandibles to level two. His pincers were now as sharp as those of a horsehair worm, capable of biting through the bark of giant trees. Combined with his mastery-level Energy Amplification Method and Intermediate Rapid Digestion, his devouring efficiency reached the level of a vacuum cleaner, leaving nothing behind in his wake.
All attributes have also steadily improved, and speed, which used to be a weakness, has now surpassed spirit.
Life: 52
Strength: 43
Speed: 35
Spirit: 31
At the same time, her appearance has changed dramatically compared to the past.
Originally, her body was spindle-shaped, but after evolving Gravity Silk, her abdomen became larger, resembling both a spider and an ant.
However, after her speed attribute was improved by using the Red and White Bird, her body began to become slender.
The forelimbs and hindlimbs of the six-legged creature become thicker and longer, with a hard exoskeleton, but the structure is hollow, somewhat similar to a praying mantis or cricket. However, it retains its past flexibility and can perform actions such as standing upright, jumping, and attacking.
The middle pair of legs are relatively slender, which can be used for fine operations such as pulling and rubbing, and can also be tucked into the abdomen to reduce wind resistance when moving at high speed.
This change is something that wasn't present in previous enhancements of other attributes.
When her speed broke the 30 mark, her physical form was completely different from before.
It is five times the length of an ant, but only twice the width. It looks bigger than before, but its weight is extremely light. If you study it carefully, you can also find that every part of its structure is designed to minimize air resistance.
After quickly devouring the three red and white birds, Wen Jing didn't stop, leaping a few steps to the center of a tree branch not far away.
That was the nest of a red and white bird.
Inside the bird's nest, four pale yellow eggs lay quietly, radiating an alluring energy.
If she hadn't been near the bird's nest, she wouldn't have attracted three red and white birds at once.
Having already eaten the parents, Wen Jing certainly wouldn't be polite when faced with bird eggs.
A family should always be together.
"Sizzle..."
It took a bite with its mouthparts, accompanied by the sound of the eggshell cracking, and tiny arcs of electricity appeared on its surface.
The Red and White Bird's innate talent is lightning; even its eggs are electrified.
However, this amount of electricity is practically nothing to Wen Jing now. After each meal of the Red and White Bird, she can feel her resistance to lightning increasing.
Ten days ago, she gained ' Lightning Resistance I ' by eating a large number of red and white birds. The taste of the bird eggs was not even slightly numbing; it was just like clear soup.
However, bird eggs are extremely nutritious. Unlike fully grown red and white birds that only increase health and speed, bird eggs increase all attributes!
The only regret was that bird nests were few and far between in the vast sea of green leaves in the canopy; this was only the second bird nest she had found.
Besides the bird nests, the cherry-like red berries growing on the tree canopy are also a valuable find.
The red fruit looks the same as the first blue-purple fruit that Wen Jing ate from the tree trunk. The blue-purple fruit is a clearly toxic mutant, while the red fruit is the normal form.
However, unlike the Fluorescent Flower Field, the red berries don't move around. Their growth time and location are unpredictable, and they are also on the diet of the red and white birds.
Wen Jing's field of vision is limited, so he often has to fly to the top of the treetop to find things, and often finds that the birds have already eaten him by the time he gets there. So he can only hunt the birds in anger, but the lost attributes can never be recovered.
If we judge the value of this type of treasure that can increase all attributes based on the attributes increased, then bird eggs are greater than or equal to red fruits, which are greater than Emerald Crystal Rice Grain.
Of these, the latter two ate the Wen Jing, but out of curiosity, one brought back a red and white bird egg.
Xie Ming then told her that bird eggs cannot be hatched. All Ancient Wilderness eggs, once brought back to the material universe, lose their life force and become ordinary rare items, regardless of whether the bird eggs themselves are fertilized.
Just as only the meat of Wilderness Beast can be brought back from the Ancient Wilderness, the bird eggs brought back still contain active energy, but they cannot be hatched. This seems to be a cosmic rule.
Although the eggs couldn't hatch, they still sold for a whopping 40 Integral!
In comparison, the beak of an adult red and white bird is only worth 8 Integral, about the same as the scorpion tail that was once extremely venomous.
Moreover, if Wen Jing were willing to sell it for credit points, he could easily pay off his life loan with five million yuan.
However, she naturally wouldn't make such a losing deal as exchanging points for Integral. After becoming Awakened, the Life Loan, which used to be her biggest source of stress, inexplicably stopped bothering her. Besides, she was the one who owed money, so she wasn't the one who should be anxious.
With a crisp "crunch," Wen Jing the four bird eggs in front of him, shell and yolk intact.
She's not that short of Integral now; selling the bird eggs once is enough. Improving her own attributes is more important.
Unexpectedly, after finishing a Red and White Bird family meal, a notification suddenly appeared on the panel in my mind:
[Gained Trait: Basic Lightning Immunity ]
"It's directly turned into immunity?"
Wen Jing was overjoyed.
She originally thought that after ' Lightning Resistance I ', she would continue to upgrade her level, but unexpectedly she directly became immune.
Immunity and resistance are different; one means being completely unaffected, while the other means being able to withstand it. The former is definitely stronger.
Unfortunately, she only gained immunity, but not the ability of the Red and White Bird to unleash lightning.
Thinking of this, Wen Jing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized something—
Is it that the greater the racial differences, the harder it is to acquire abilities?
The more she thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. It was like how she ate the Vine Lizard and gained Basic Mimicry, but didn't get the effect of regenerating her head after being decapitated, because there are many insects that are good at Mimicry.
If that's really the case... Wen Jing immediately thought of the Queen Ant.
Since they are both insects, if she devours the queen ant, could she gain the same mind control abilities as the queen?
The more Wen Jing thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
After obtaining the Isolation Layer, Wen Jing had considered exploring the anthill again, but ultimately decided against it out of caution.
Recalling how she genuinely cared for the queen ant and even considered evolving to meet her needs, she felt that the mind control was far more than just pheromones; it had reached the level of supernatural abilities.
Having survived a devastating crisis in the Ancient Wilderness night, she had no desire to be controlled again and end up in a completely unfamiliar nighttime area.
Of course, she's determined to eat the queen ant someday!
Wen Jing wasn't completely clueless about this; he was certain that he needed to improve it in the direction of ' Abnormal Status Immunity '.
However, there are other ways for her to upgrade this trait besides using Skill Points to force an evolution.
After estimating the time for the day, the Red and White Bird Assassin left the canopy area, like a phantom in the wind, and arrived at the lower level of the giant tree in just a few breaths, a place that used to take more than ten minutes to reach with full force.
Wen Jing Jing's current movement speed is almost the same as moving using the strongest Gravitational Field through the Gravity Silk. Combining the two can achieve an effect greater than the sum of its parts.
Passing through the lizard ranch, the insect continued deeper, its silhouette shrouded in mist, its invisibility even stronger than when it was in the treetops.
Wen Jing was still not immune to the poisonous fog in the lower levels, but her health was much higher than before, and she was fully capable of withstanding the fog for a short period of exploration.
In the hazy mist, green, purple, and white moss grew—something that looked very strange at first glance.
Wen Jing blew through the mist, a beautiful, bright red mushroom came into view.
Upon seeing this thing, she immediately avoided it with lingering fear, keeping her distance.
During her first exploration, she subconsciously wanted to taste it to see if it would increase her poison resistance. However, she didn't expect that when she got within ten centimeters of the mushroom, it released highly poisonous spores, instantly reducing her health by half.
If her Isolation Layer hadn't been effective, and she hadn't retreated quickly enough, she would have become a zombie on the spot.
Bypassing the crimson mushrooms, Wen Jing estimated the area.
"Whoosh!"
A long, purple tongue suddenly shot out from the mist, attacking the airspace where the small insect was located.
However, the long tongue only struck the lingering phantom in the mist; the moment it attacked, Wen Jing had already dodged to the side.
As the attack missed its target, a long spear materialized from the small insect's mouthparts and slammed down.
"Laugh!"
The blow pierced the poisonous frog, splattering purple blood.
Wen Jing immediately deployed a shield to prevent the equally poisonous blood from touching him. He then repeated this process, using various methods to hunt down all five or six poisonous frogs he saw, before using Gravity Silk to pull them out of the area.
These poisonous frogs are highly toxic from their skin to their insides, and she is not immune to them, so she did not eat any of them.
The reason for doing this is to benefit oneself at the expense of others.
During her last exploration, she discovered the overlord of the mist beneath the giant tree—a venomous snake, the creature that had previously posed the greatest threat to her.
Although she doesn't have a natural enemy like the Red and White Bird to suppress her when facing venomous snakes, Wen Jing needs to resist the poisonous fog and cannot fight here for long. In addition, the opponent has the advantage of terrain, so she has no chance of winning.
So Wen Jing used the "[Cut Off Supplies]" skill on the venomous snake—he would make a special trip every time, not to do anything else, but to hunt and drag away the snake's food in advance.