Chapter 271: The Insect Swarm’s Expedition

Ling Pingan spent the entire afternoon staring at the author’s backstage access site, waiting for the approval notification.

As he waited, he started to fantasize about his future.

Rising in popularity, he would be sought after by tens of thousands of people.

After tens of days of publishing, he would sweep through the top leaderboards.

With this kind of beautiful vision, he waited until roughly five o’clock. Finally, he received the notification of approval.

Ling Pingan was elated, and his expectations further rose.

At 5:15, fifteen minutes after he received approval, he refreshed his site again.

0 bookmarks, 0 recommendations, 0 messages.

At 5:30, he refreshed the site again. It was still 0..

At 5:45, it was still 0..

He scratched his head as he couldn’t quite understand.

“What’s with this situation?” He wondered.

So, he opened his book and scanned through the pages. Everything was normal!

But why was there nobody reading it?

He truly couldn’t quite understand!

Meow..

The Little Cat Bastet walked up to him and gently rubbed against his arm, as if to comfort him.

“Little Darling…” but Ling Pingan didn’t need to be comforted. He caressed his pet, “Don’t worry, gold will always shine!”

Meow!

The kitten meowed softly as if agreeing with its owner.

Ling Pingan picked up the little guy and gently stroked its soft fur.

After waiting for another roughly five minutes, he refreshed the site again.

Finally, he saw an exciting number.

Bookmarks: 1!

Ling Pingan immediately cheered and said to his pet, “Little Darling, Look!”

“Big Brother said so…”

“Gold will always shine…”

“Every treasure still needs a talented person to recognize it!”

Meow!

The Little Cat Bastet meowed softly and seemed to agree with this.

Ling Pingan immediately uploaded another chapter happily.

Then, he happily said, “Tonight, let’s have an extra serving for dinner!”

From 0 to 1, this was a great victory that deserved to be celebrated.

Hence, he picked up his phone and immediately ordered the most expensive Supreme Set Meal from Chiba Michiko’s house.

Then, he thought about it.

He had already uploaded two chapters today, leaving roughly 30,000 words left in the draft.

Thus, he had to begin writing about the plot.

“Oh right, I wonder how the ants colony in the Blessed Land are doing…” as he spoke, he clicked on the tribe indicator on his phone.

As he clicked on it, multiple system notifications about his tribe appeared.

Ling Pingan took a look and realized that his tribe was really fierce!

They had actually conquered the capital of the Demon Rat Empire, one of the gaming powerhouses.

For this, the tribe had paid him a tribute consisting of more than 50,000 dimensional stones.

This also allowed the Gangba tribe to successfully upgrade to the level of a God-chosen tribe.

Following this, a physique called ‘Green Skin of the Starry Sky’ was gained.

According to the description, it seemed that his tribe would gradually have the ability to survive and fight in the starry skies!

Ling Pingan was puzzled when he saw this.

“Is the fantasy setting going to develop into the science fiction setting?”

He thought of those expensive green skin flagships, any one of them would be worth tens of millions of nightmare points and tribe points!

“That would just be an approximate cost…” he said.

However, this was not his focus right now, so he only browsed through it roughly and clicked into the Blessed Earth interface.

Then, there was another series of notifications.

“Dear player, your creation, [ Unnamed Insect ] , has completed its Super-Adaptive evolution…”

“Dear player, your creation, [ Unnamed Insect ] , has completed its Stealth evolution…”

Looking at these notifications, Ling Pingan was stunned.

After taking a closer look, he found out that the ant colony had encountered the Tardigrades in their habitat and fused its genes into their own bodies.

As a result, not only could his ant colony actively hibernate, they could also adapt to countless harsh environments, including surviving in vacuum environments.

“Are they really that strong?” Ling Pingan scratched his head.

However, these were not the key points. The key point was that the system told him because his creation has already achieved a certain level of survival ability, a passage to the World of Trials has been opened.

He could choose to use 5% of the Blessed Earth Realm’s energy to send the ant colony into a designated world. He could then defeat the enemies within that world to obtain more genes for his ant colony, further strengthening their combat strength and potential.

“If that’s the case…” Ling Pingan thought for a moment. “Once I finish eating, I’ll send the ant colony to fight…”

This was a good opportunity. The battles of the ant colony could also be used as reference for writing a plotline.

……………..

Blessed Earth Realm.

The Queen Mother seemed to sense something.

Her massive body slowly trembled.

Pheromones formed from psionic power spread throughout the colony.

Countless worker ants received the order and quickly returned.

Within a short period of time, tens of thousands of worker ants had returned to their Queen Mother’s side.

These worker ants crowded onto the mossy ground formed from the mucus secreted by the Queen Mother.

One by one, they started to commit suicide. Their blood and flesh dissolved rapidly and passed through the moss, absorbed by the Queen Mother.

This is the how the colony operates. If the Queen Mother requires something, the ant swarm will sacrifice anything to fulfill it.

Everything is for the benefit of the ant colony.

If necessary, even the Queen Mother can be sacrificed.

Just like right now, whereby tens of thousands of worker ants started committing suicide, their entire beings absorbed by the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother’s body soon began to radiate with a faint halo of psionic power.

Under the cover of this layer of psionic power, the Queen Mother’s body, which had expanded to the size of a large bull, rapidly shrunk in size.

After a moment, the Queen Mother’s body was only the size of a hare.

This was the talent of the Tardigrade: Stealth!

This talent allowed the Tardigrade to adapt to almost any environment.

Unfortunately, the Tardigrade had no intelligence, so their talent could only be used for survival.

However, the Queen Mother was different.

She already possessed a certain amount of basic intelligence.

Under the pheromone network formed by psionic power, the Queen Mother and her ant swarm were like a computer network.

A single individual was stupid.

But under the effects of the psionic power network, all individuals were linked together.

This allowed the Queen Mother to have the thinking ability of a four-year-old child.

So, she began to crawl slowly, towards the birthplace of her predecessors.

She crawled very slowly. As the worker ants have all committed suicide, her thinking ability was restricted. She moved entirely based on her instincts, to crawl over and wait for her master.

………………..

A little past six o’clock, Chiba Michiko arrived at the shop with a large takeout box in her hands.

“Ling-san, this is your Supreme Set Meal!” She placed the box on the counter and looked at Ling Pingan reverently.

She knew that this guest was actually a sage who lived in seclusion here.

A true gentleman.

A sage-like figure!

Just the basic requirements for the first dish recorded in the book “Spiritual Food” was enough for her to admire him.

Ling Pingan took the food box and looked inside.

The first dish was Peony Shrimp!

The second dish was Puffer Fish Fillet!

The third dish was Steamed Egg with Sea Urchins!

The fourth dish was his favorite Caviar!

Ling Pingan rubbed his hands as he saw this, and immediately started eating.

Chiba Michiko just watched from the side. She felt extremely happy.

“To be able to serve a great sage like Ling-san…” she couldn’t help but think, “It really is my good fortune!”

A thousand years ago, the Tang Dynasty’s envoy, Abe no Nakamaro, could become friends with great sages like Li Bai and Wang Wei in this country.

Thus, his statue was built in Jingdou.

Then, what about her?

The Little Fox Girl’s heart couldn’t help but start pounding.

Ling Pingan raised his head and realized that Chiba Michiko was still staring at him.

“What’s wrong?” He couldn’t help but ask. “Miss Chiba, Is something the matter?”

Chiba Michiko immediately lowered her head and blushed. “Ling-san, I wanted to thank you once again…”

“The book you gave me last time was too valuable…”

“I don’t know how to repay your kindness!”

Ling Pingan laughed when he heard this. This was the bad thing about the people of Fusang Kingdom.

A trivial matter could become a big matter in their mouths.

“It’s just a small matter…” Ling Pingan ate the Sweet Peony Shrimps and vaguely said, “If Miss Chiba really wants to repay me, then work hard to become a good chef and use delicious food to heal the world!”

“This is also your wish, right?”

When Chiba Michiko heard this, she was extremely moved. She bowed and said, “Ling-san is truly a gentleman!”

Ling Pingan smiled. He gladly accepted this compliment.

The men of the Federal Empire were all self-proclaimed gentlemen.

The country of etiquette and gentlemen, this was not just empty words!