Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 751 - 522 Fertilizing Gland Fluid_2

This quantity, it must have been raised for almost half a month!

Li Zheng wore a solemn expression, realizing that Kang'er must have discovered the presence of the leaf-cutting ants at least ten days ago, but did not seek pest control help immediately.

The ulterior motives are obvious!

"Truly, merchants are driven by profit, daring to raise such a nemesis, only to think of issuing a private mission when things get out of control."

Li Zheng himself conducts business in the Matrix, and from a merchant's standpoint, the leaf-cutting ants can produce substances that accelerate plant growth, so it's understandable to risk everything for profit.

However, letting the danger grow to the point of threatening oneself is definitely deserving of punishment!

But the task at hand still has to be done; who would refuse money, after all?

Li Zheng sighed, seeing the Hu brothers causing chaos in the greenhouse, it was naive to think they could eradicate the leaf-cutting ants thoroughly.

Besides, forcing them to come was also partly to teach them a lesson, and now that they've suffered enough, he couldn't just watch them get bitten to death by the ants.

Signaling Kang'er to open the door, Li Zheng set up a layer of low-temperature chill in front of him, controlling it with his spiritual power so that it doesn't spread to the empty space, forming a barrier equal to the door.

The greenhouse door slowly opened, and several leaf-cutting ants just happened to fly there, trying to escape, but were frozen into ice blocks the moment they passed through the chill wall.

Insects are naturally afraid of fire, but low-temperature chill crushes them with power.

With a flip of Li Zheng's hand, the ants frozen into ice blocks slowly transformed before hitting the ground, compressed into needle shapes, and floated anew.

"Wait for me outside."

Li Zheng told Mirel, then applied a layer of extreme isolation on himself, and stepped into the greenhouse.

After elevating his shaping ability to the King Level, there was a qualitative change that made the compressed cold ice extremely hard, not inferior to ordinary metals of the same level.

Furthermore, as his spiritual power greatly enhanced, Li Zheng mastered an ability similar to telekinesis, and the compressed needles formed through shaping perfectly matched, giving Li Zheng the feeling of playing with flying swords like a cultivator.

The only drawback is that his current spiritual power strength allows him to control objects within a certain range of size and weight, like the needles he molded.

The reason for using needles instead of miniature swords is that he discovered during initial exploration that needle-shaped objects are inherently more suitable for flight attacks, whereas forcing a sword shape affects power and speed.

"If there's a day I need to show off, I might try using a 'flying sword'."

Li Zheng manipulated the eight leaf-cutting ant needles swiftly circling him and stepped into the greenhouse, his spiritual power locking onto a flying leaf-cutting ant, disappearing a needle from his side.

When the needle reappeared, the locked-on leaf-cutting ant seemed to get hit by something, involuntarily flying sideways and crashing into a fruit tree, shattering into pieces.

The cold ice needle not only has strong penetration, but also brings a sub-zero cold during the attack, destroying the tissue within a certain range.

The leaf-cutting ants themselves are small, and the needle can freeze them brittle in an instant when penetrating their bodies.

"Hmm?"

Li Zheng's expression shifted, raising his hand to call the needle back, suspending it in front of him for a close inspection.

The sharp tip of the needle got slightly worn out during that attack, though barely visible to the naked eye, yet observed clearly by Li Zheng's all-pervasive spiritual power.

"What a hard shell, even before being frozen brittle, its strength rivals that of modest-quality extraordinary level body armor."

Low temperatures alter material states to some extent and can even disrupt their stable molecular structures, making them more fragile.

Li Zheng gained new knowledge, though realizing it's somewhat useless.

"You three, come over here!"

The Kota trio were still bouncing around, and Li Zheng disliked how they made leaves fly everywhere in the greenhouse, obstructing his view. So he called them over to his side to take shelter, offering them a rare mercy.

Kota was overjoyed, blood and leaf-cutting ants clinging to him, quickly changed directions and ran back.

Just three meters away from Li Zheng, there came a crackling sound nearby, the sense of danger making Kota freeze, not daring to breathe.

"Alright, the rest is up to you."

A few seconds later, Li Zheng spoke again, and Kota looked down to find all the leaf-cutting ants on him had been precisely pierced, none going astray onto his skin.

Cold sweat poured down his back instantly, wetting his fur, immensely grateful that he had surrendered quickly earlier. Otherwise, their corpses would be lying in the alley by now.

"Thank... thank you for sparing me!"

Kota thanked wholeheartedly, knowing Li Zheng wouldn't have needed much effort to kill them back then.

"Hmm." Li Zheng nodded lightly, waving him away.

Kota obeyed, behaving like a domesticated cat, squatting not far from Li Zheng, gently pulling off the heads of the leaf-cutting ants that pierced his fur.

The ants, frozen solid, crumbled into shards with a light squeeze, and the extremely low temperature froze the sweat moisture within his fur, causing those shards to stick to the fur, unable to be shaken off, needing to wait until they melted slowly.

"I give you thirty seconds to call back your two foolish brothers, or I'm going to start indiscriminate attacks." Li Zheng frowned, looking displeased at Hu Er and Hu San's reckless flight.

"Okay, okay." Kota nodded repeatedly, disregarding the unfinished task of removing leaf-cutting ant heads off himself, jumped up and quickly called for his two foolish brothers to return.

Luckily, though these two were foolhardy, they weren't downright stupid. They ran back after Kota called several times.

Hu San was quite the talent, fleeing with his eyes closed and head down, and aside from the leaf-cutting ant at the start on his tail, he had hardly any on him.

Except that his tail had a deep wound exposing the bone, and he hugged Kota crying as soon as he came back.

Hu Er fared much better, with no problem on his back, all injuries were on the front.

He had about a dozen leaf-cutting ants, but they didn't bite too deep, and with a few gentle pokes after the needle attacks, all fell off.

Then Hu Er and Hu San turned into monkeys, picking fleas off Kota... Oh no, picking off the heads of leaf-cutting ants.

"What a lively bunch."

Watching the Hu brothers, Li Zheng shook his head helplessly.

For some reason, he saw a bit of himself and his friends Lu Li and the others reflected in these three brothers.

Surely, staying around trustworthy people for too long makes one carefree?

Though they had only been apart for a short while, Li Zheng was already missing Xiao Siyuan and the others, wondering if they had been attacked by the Mud Furnace players...

He needed to find a chance to go back and check. He had thoroughly searched the Task Hall today but didn't find any mission to the Matrix, indicating such missions are very rare and not available every day.

Absentmindedly controlling the eight flying needles, he slaughtered all the flying soldier ants in an instant, making the greenhouse much quieter.

However, many worker ants were still lurking among the orchard trees, and under the synergy between Old Pu and spiritual power, even those burrowing into the trunks couldn't hide, nailed one by one by Li Zheng with the fine needles.

Finally, on the trunk of the tree at the center of the orchard, Li Zheng discovered the nest of leaf-cutting ants.

This nest differed from the common ones on Earth, resembling a beehive hanging upside down on a branch.

The huge nest was like an enlarged lantern, with tiny thumb-sized holes all over, and the remaining few male ants seemed to sense danger, sticking their heads out and waving their massive jaws at Li Zheng, trying to intimidate him away.

Unfortunately, though the male ants' massive jaws were even more exaggeratedly large than those of soldier and worker ants, they were just for show, lacking any offensive capability.

Li Zheng didn't even need the needle attack; he pulled out a regular iron ingot to bait them into snapping, and the iron ingot remained unharmed while their mandibles shattered all over the place.

Easily killing the male ants, Li Zheng cut open the nest and extracted a long, infant-arm-thick, white fleshy worm.

This was the queen of the leaf-cutting ants, possessing immense reproductive capability but completely devoid of offense and defense.

Once exposed, she was at the mercy of whoever found her.

Besides the queen, Li Zheng discovered about ten liters of thick dark green liquid within the nest.

[Leaf-Cutting Ant Fertilizing Gland Fluid

Description: The excretion of leaf-cutting ants, with a peculiar effect of accelerating plant growth, could potentially enhance fertilizer effectiveness if added to a fertilizer formula.

Old Pu: You know, sometimes what's a nemesis to others is a treasure to us.]

Good stuff!

Li Zheng clasped the queen ant, presenting a kind and amiable smile.

This thing would be such a waste to give to the Vine Race!