76: Incredible Gold-level Larvae

"Biting again?"

Ye Tian was stunned for a moment.

"When he had just let out his blood to nourish the Gu earlier, Blade had already fed on his blood. What was going on now? Double the happiness?"

However, Blade could not provide a concrete explanation.

After a gentle bite, Ye Tian didn't even feel anything. Blade had already flown back to the table.

Its body started to shake.

"Eh!"

"Has it broken through its limits?"

Ye Tian watched with bright eyes as another golden ootheca was laid by it, his spirit stirred.

Feeling Ye Tian's joy, Blade proudly twirled its two antennae into circles to show its excitement.

Then, it seemed to sense something.

With a flap of its wings, it flew into a box Ye Tian used to store things.

It carried the first ootheca it had laid and flew out.

Not long after placing the ootheca in front of Ye Tian,

Ye Tian saw that thin golden ootheca crack open.

Little pure white, translucent sesame-sized grains slowly crawled out from within.

After all the Blade cubs crawled out, Ye Tian counted them, and there were about one hundred.

"The yield is low, and the quantity isn't remarkable, so what exactly is the difference between this and the Strong-Grade Cockroaches larvae?"

Ye Tian frowned slightly as he looked at the Money Gu larvae, which looked similar to the newly hatched common Strong-Grade Cockroaches larvae.

Blade sensed Ye Tian's confusion.

It hurriedly shook its antennae.

The newly hatched larvae immediately began to crawl back.

They all lay on top of the ootheca shell.

A moment later, the ootheca shell began to melt slowly, like a capsule encountering water.

After waiting for a few minutes,

the ootheca disappeared.

The Small Cockroaches' body color began to turn slightly yellow.

They seemed to have grown a size larger.

However, there were still no conspicuous features.

Blade also seemed unsatisfied with this result.

After searching the table with its gaze,

it landed on the shell of the Money Gu it had just eaten.

It hurriedly flew over, carried it back, and placed it in front of the larvae.

The next moment, the Cockroach larvae became excited as if they were kittens that had smelled something fishy.

They rushed forward quickly.

But what surprised Ye Tian was that the Money Gu shell, which was countless times harder than the ootheca, actually began to dissolve after these little guys crawled onto it.

"That's right, it's dissolving just like ice and snow."

"What kind of ability is this?"

Ye Tian widened his eyes.

He hurriedly brought over the toolbox and found a magnifying glass inside.

He moved close to the Small Cockroaches and began to observe.

After a long while, Ye Tian finally discovered something unusual.

"These Small Cockroaches look like they are eating, but in fact, they seem to be spitting things out."

"No, to be precise, they are eating and spitting at the same time."

"Damn it, what kind of behavior is this? The larvae of a dignified Gold-level Cockroach are actually so uncivilized when eating."

Ye Tian couldn't help but complain powerlessly.

However, there was no look of disgust on his face.

Because he also realized that the reason the Small Cockroaches could shake this food, which was as hard as rock for their larval stage, was precisely because of the substance they spat out.

"How should I put it? The substance they spit out seems to have extremely strong corrosive or softening properties."

"After the food softens, they can suck it in, then spit it out again, repeating the process."

"Are they raising Xenomorphs?"

Marveling at the scene before him, Ye Tian couldn't help but think of the astonishing corrosiveness of the Xenomorph's saliva and blood in the movies.

Subconsciously, he picked up his phone and checked some information about how Cockroaches eat.

Then he was dumbfounded.

"It turns out that the creature known as a Cockroach really does have such a habit—eating and spitting at the same time."

"It is precisely for this reason that Cockroaches have become pests that everyone loathes."

"After all, anyone who thinks about a Cockroach spitting on their food while eating it would never be able to eat it."

"However, this disgusting habit, when it comes to my own Gold-level Cockroach larvae,"

"seems to have transformed from purely disgusting into a powerful advantage."

"If they are this impressive in their larval stage, then when they grow up, what could they possibly not be able to eat?"

Thinking of this, Ye Tian couldn't help but want to compare whether the Strong-Grade Cockroaches larvae also had such an ability.

Unfortunately, he only had the Strong-Grade ootheca at hand, and they hadn't hatched yet.

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Tian turned his gaze back to Blade and the Strong-Grade Cockroaches.

For this reason, the lazy Ye Tian specially ran to the convenience store next door and bought a bag of instant duck necks to let Blade and a Strong-Grade Cockroach eat for him to see.

"But the result!"

Adult Cockroaches don't need to spit to eat such bones, especially Blade; the duck neck was like paper under its teeth, getting crushed to pieces in a clatter and swallowed directly.

The Strong-Grade Cockroaches were a bit slower, but still relatively easy.

This made Ye Tian quickly tell them to stop.

He ordered Blade to spit saliva just like the Small Cockroaches.

Blade, however, looked at the duck bone in front of it with disdain, then flapped its wings and flew toward a tool bucket nearby.

The bucket contained some simple tools that might be used for housekeeping, such as screwdrivers, pliers, scissors, etc.

They were left behind by the previous landlord, Wang Gang.

Among them, the pliers seemed not to have been used for a long time and looked rusty in some places.

After some selection, Blade climbed directly onto the pliers.

It spat a little liquid onto the connecting screw where the rust was most severe.

Ye Tian hurriedly leaned in to take a look.

Then his eyes grew wider and wider.

In his view, small bubbles began to emerge from the spot that had been moistened.

Before long, all the rust disappeared, completely corroded away.

Ye Tian picked up the pliers and tried to clamp them to test their sensitivity.

Who knew that as soon as he applied force, the screw connecting the two sides of the pliers suddenly fell off.

The pliers split into two.

"Damn! That powerful?"

Ye Tian swallowed his saliva.

Looking at Blade, which was shaking its antennae, he felt that he might have discovered something incredible again by accident.

Then, unwilling to believe it, Ye Tian rummaged through the tool bucket and found another pair of slightly rusty scissors.

He tried to pull them, feeling a bit of resistance because, like the pliers, the screw nut at the joint of the scissors was also a bit rusty.

After all, they were mentally connected.

When it sensed Ye Tian's consciousness, Blade understood and crawled up, spraying another mouthful of saliva at the joint.

Amidst the churning white bubbles, the rust disappeared again.

Ye Tian began to open and close his fingers.

He instantly felt that it was much smoother to cut with.

He even felt it was a bit too loose, so much so that the blades on both sides of the scissors didn't quite meet.

"Using this to cut things, it definitely wouldn't work."

However, whether it could cut or not was not the problem Ye Tian needed to care about at this moment.

It was that Blade's saliva was actually this powerful.

"No wonder it disdained using saliva to eat bones; that would be like using a bird gun against a cannon."

Ye Tian happily put down the scissors and couldn't help but reach out to touch Blade's metallic, smooth shell.

"This little treasure of mine really can constantly give me surprises."

Looking back at the Small Cockroaches still eating the Cockroach shell, there was no longer any complaint in Ye Tian's eyes.

"Just based on this ability, even if their fertility rate is low, they are definitely worth cultivating and waiting for."