Upon seeing the hustle and bustle at the construction site, most of the ancient creatures immediately fled far away.

Even if a small portion of them were curious enough to come closer to see what was happening, they would retreat after seeing the powerful group of survivors here.

Of course, where there are smart ones, there are fools, but the Patrol Team responsible for the safety of this construction site were not just standing idly by.

As for those stubborn ancient creatures, they could only be allowed to face off against an iron pot to test the cooking skills of the project logistics department’s cafeteria chefs.

Zachary looked down from the sky for a while, then used his Spiritual Sense Scanning around, and, discovering no medium-sized or larger ancient creatures, he did not linger and flew directly towards Pengcheng.

Zachary first flew to Nameless Mountain, where he saw that the originally barren peak was now covered with greenery.

Landing on the Platform at the original cave entrance, looking at the entrance that had completely collapsed and was buried, Zachary felt quite sentimental for a moment.

Originally, he had paid such a high price to successfully transform this cave, but he did not expect that right after he finished remodeling the entrance, he would acquire the System.

Standing in front of the cave entrance for a long time, Zachary’s mind was swirling with many thoughts, and finally, looking at the covered entrance, a smile of understanding appeared on his face.

Then, leaving from there, Zachary entered the third ring and headed straight for his destination.

This time, Zachary did not visit People’s Square, even though he had lived there for a long time, he had no particular attachment to the place.

Passing through People’s Square, Zachary landed amidst a pile of ruins that were half covered by the shadow of the giant tree in the city center.

Looking at the dusty sign that had plunged into the ground, Zachary felt a mixture of emotions. This was where he had died in his previous life, although now he had made clear that he should have fallen at the hands (or mouths) of the Bugs Clan.

But Zachary couldn’t understand why he had been reborn; even though he had acquired the System in this life, based on his observations, his rebirth seemed to be unrelated to the System.

His thoughts whirled in his mind, Zachary stood still, staring intently at the ground near the sign, unmoving.

Days passed and months flew by, but in Zachary’s perception, he had only stayed there for a short while.

Coming back to his senses, Zachary saw that the sign that had been slanted amidst the ruins was now swallowed by the shadow of the tree canopy.

The shadow of the tree canopy did not change with the angle of the sun; the area enveloped by the shadow seemed like a barrier that did not shift with the direction of the light.

Zachary casually took out a chicken from the Cave and threw it into the shadow.

Having just come out of the Cave, the sudden change of scenery frightened the chicken into madly flapping its wings.

As Zachary tossed the whole chicken into the shadow of the tree canopy, the bird stretched its wings, flapping frenzically on the spot.

Zachary just stood there quietly watching. The chicken first pecked the ground frantically, trying to take off from the spot, but this didn’t last long. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The chicken suddenly became still as if someone had pressed the pause button, becoming motionless all of a sudden.

Then the chicken began to shrink little by little as if it were being eroded away, only, oddly enough, not a single drop of blood was sprayed out during the process.

Perhaps due to the shade, even Zachary, with his excellent eyesight, did not see the bugs devouring the chicken. But knowing the cause in advance, he wasn’t afraid.

As the chicken gradually vanished, Zachary took out a goose, but this time he tied the goose’s legs with a rope before throwing it in.

Just as the goose began to show signs of distress, Zachary quickly pulled the rope, hoping to use the goose as bait to drag some bugs out from under the shade.

What Zachary did not expect was that as soon as he pulled the rope, he felt no resistance in his hands, and on closer inspection, he found that the rope tied around the goose’s legs had already broken off.

However, when the rope left the shadow’s range, Dong Tianyu sharply noticed some black dots at the broken end of the rope, which he abruptly dragged out of the shadow.

Regrettably, these little black dots decisively left the rope the moment they escaped the shadow, swiftly returning to the darkness within.

’It seems that those little black dots are probably the raw materials for making enhanced nutritional supplements.’

Seeing that the bugs also gnawed on the rope, Dong Tianyu suddenly became interested and threw an iron bar into the shadow.

The moment the iron bar hit the ground, it vanished rapidly from Dong Tianyu’s view, but before long, the iron bar Dong Tianyu had dropped on the ground appeared again in his line of sight.

With this experiment, Dong Tianyu gained some understanding of the bugs. Their feeding speed must be swift, and the initial disappearance likely occurred when the bugs in the shadow converged on the prey, covering it.

Because the bodies of those bugs were small and also within the shadow of the tree canopy, no one noticed them. Hence, the scene of rapid decay observed earlier was actually the bugs covering the chickens and ducks.

Thinking of this, Dong Tianyu felt the matter was getting more and more interesting.

Originally, he planned to throw a chicken as a sacrifice to commemorate his former self, and tossing a chicken was merely an attempt to recreate the scene; he hadn’t thought too much about it initially.

Dong Tianyu once again took out a large goose and pushed half of its body into the shadow, leaving the other half outside it.

When he did this, the goose struggled violently at first, but after a short while, it suddenly stopped moving entirely.

Noticing this, Dong Tianyu immediately pulled the goose’s body out.

After picking up half of the goose’s body, Dong Tianyu saw many black dots again at the wound.

However, when Dong Tianyu wanted to observe these black dots closely, they acted as if startled and quickly detached from the body of the goose, falling to the ground before swiftly shifting into the shadow.

Dong Tianyu was not surprised by this outcome.

Next, Dong Tianyu carried out a second experiment, taking a steel rebar over two meters long from his storage space and tying a live chicken to one end, then he tied a rope to the rebar.

Dong Tianyu picked up the rebar with one hand and inserted the end with the chicken into the shadow.

Dong Tianyu didn’t let go of the rebar, simply allowing the chicken to flap around in mid-air.

Just like the first chicken, even though suspended in the air by the rebar, the bugs were able to quickly cover their prey with their bodies.

Since he already knew the culprit, Dong Tianyu withdrew the rebar after the bugs severed the rope.

Looking at the end of the rebar with only a little rope left, it seemed that these bugs didn’t just eat meat, they were omnivores, just not fond of iron.

After confirming that the bugs didn’t eat iron, Dong Tianyu hesitated for a long time and finally made up his mind to take out his only Flying Sword and then firmly tied a chicken to it.

After Dong Tianyu secured the chicken and ensured it wouldn’t fall off, he controlled the Flying Sword to slowly enter the shadow.

The Flying Sword entering the shadow wasn’t attacked; this time, those black dots did not quickly cover it.

Just as Dong Tianyu believed the bugs lacked the ability to fly, suddenly, the rope on the Flying Sword snapped, and the chicken that had been tightly secured plummeted to the ground as the rope came loose.

If the Flying Sword returned unharmed with the chicken in a while, Dong Tianyu could be certain that the bugs lacked flying abilities, but now it seemed that the bugs might possess some flying capability.

If that was indeed the case, then Dong Tianyu would have to temporarily halt his plans and look for another method to test.