Chapter 29: Clearing the Harvest

Liang Qu laughed until he became short of breath, and the wound bled, becoming more painful.

He smoothed his breath, sat up straight, and untied the cloth strip on his waist.

"Hiss!"

Liang Qu's mouth twitched.

The rough hemp cloth was soaked with blood, and under the blowing of the cold wind, it hardened rapidly, and had long been firmly stuck to the scabbed wound.

Tearing it open is to forcibly uncover the scabbed wound.

But it won't work if you don't uncover it. The rough hemp cloth is not only soaked with blood scabs but also infiltrated with a lot of mud and sand, which were raised and infiltrated during the battle. It would be troublesome if it grew into the flesh or got infected.

Still poor, Liang Qu sighed.

If he could afford brocade and silk, there would be no such problem. How comfortable smooth silk is, and it is good for the skin. If he was injured, tearing a piece off would be enough to use as gauze.

Uncovering the bloody hemp cloth, Liang Qu threw it into the water, and it would be hard to explain if it was seen by others when brought back.

After cleaning the wound again, Liang Qu gnawed another piece of lotus root containing Water-Marsh Essence, watching the wound on his waist heal slowly.

Fortunately, it only hurt some muscles and skin, and it was not serious. The lotus root took effect very quickly.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the bright red muscle tissue could no longer be seen, the dermis layer had completely grown out, no longer bleeding, and a thick blood scab was formed, leaving only a slight pain and intense itching.

The intense itching made Liang Qu want to tear off the scab, but he knew this was proof that cells were rapidly dividing to fill the wound, so he still held back, only scratching the skin around the wound a few times to relieve the itch.

Regardless, the itching was much better than the pain; without pain stimulating the brain, Liang Qu felt completely comfortable.

It's like the severe abdominal pain suddenly disappeared. Clearly, it's just returning to the normal state, but compared to it, it is inexplicably refreshing, floating as if on the clouds.

The wound healed more than half, and Liang Qu couldn't wait to get into the water.

If you want to say what he is looking forward to most after this battle, it is undoubtedly the harvest link, just as he thought at the beginning.

A spirit monster, how much Water-Marsh Essence can it provide?

In his previous life, he lived for more than twenty years in vain. Let alone eating king crab, he hadn't even seen it with his own eyes. Now he is going to eat a super giant crab taller than one person, which is greedy.

Back at the water bottom, the two beasts guarded the crab monster's corpse like house dogs, one lying on the scattered stones on the side, and one lying in the silt.

Seeing Liang Qu, the two beasts got up and shook off the dust, showing the same excitement.

According to the previous rules, the Heavenly Father would reward the scraps he didn't want. This time the crab was so big, there must be a lot of scraps.

But the two beasts guessed wrong.

Liang Qu prepared to share the delicious crab meat with them, not because he was suddenly generous.

It was really because this crab monster was too big!

Before it went bad, he couldn't finish all the meat alone.

One person and two beasts began to dismember the huge crab monster.

Liang Qu pulled out the broken spear inserted into the crab monster's body, took off the flint at the very front, and cut the joint membrane at the connection of the giant pincers.

Below, Cannot-Move bit the crab leg of the crab monster, death rotation, dismembering one by one.

The fat catfish was on the side, trying to find the two crab legs taken down earlier. Its bite force was not as strong as Cannot-Move, and it couldn't unload at all, so it could only cheer on the side and wait for meat to eat.

Taking all the giant pincers, Liang Qu cut open the joint membrane on the back shell, reached into the big back shell of the upper body of the crab monster, and tried hard to pry it upward.

It was too difficult, harder than carrying things at a construction site.

Liang Qu's face flushed, bubbles emerged from his mouth, and he used all his strength to pry it up little by little.

Click click.

The internal flesh and fascia tore away from the back shell, the resistance became smaller and smaller, and finally Liang Qu used all his strength to pry it open, and finally took off the back shell completely.

In an instant, the huge crab roe, as long as a human arm and as wide as a human head, came into view, and Liang Qu's eyes were dazzled.

The two beasts drooled, and Cannot-Move even forgot what it was going to do. It wasn't until Liang Qu came back to his senses and prepared to collect the crab roe that it remembered to report the situation.

"Hmm, Cannot-Move, what did you find?"

Liang Qu received the information in the spiritual link and stopped his movements.

The Pig-Mother Dragon's upper body was in a semi-upright state, holding up its short claws and pointing at the abdomen of the lower body of the crab monster.

Liang Qu looked in the direction of Cannot-Move's short claws and found that there were many translucent round balls the size of fists held under the navel cover of the crab monster's front body, a full dozen or so.

Is this crab roe?

Liang Qu was shocked, hurriedly uncovered the navel cover, and took out a round ball to observe carefully.

The crab roe is large, as big as an adult's fist, translucent orange-yellow, somewhat like the dragon balls in Dragon Ball, and because it is large enough, one can directly see the small crab monster that has already taken shape inside.

Crab species are different from fish species

The small crab monster was almost identical to the large one, with an upright upper body and six legs on the lower body, like a fearless chariot, only its shell was milky white.

Normal crabs carry thousands of eggs, but there were only thirteen here; Liang Qu guessed it was because the crab had become a spirit monster.

After becoming stronger, the crab monster naturally shifted from an r-strategy organism—that is, an opportunist that wins by quantity—to a K-strategist, steady and solid, cherishing every life.

Otherwise, wouldn't tens of millions of crab monsters have occupied the Jianghuai marshlands long ago? How would humans still survive?

Speaking of which, can I control the crab eggs?

Liang Qu had a bold idea.

Directly controlling the crab monster was impossible; the mental shock would probably kill him, but the unhatched cubs shouldn't be a problem, right?

Liang Qu's mental link value was approximately between two and three "Cannot Move" units; the Fat Catfish was tougher than "Cannot Move," and after controlling two, only 0.2 to 0.3 of a "Cannot Move" unit of space remained.

Although the space wasn't large, controlling a fertilized egg shouldn't be an issue.

"No rush, leave them for now; I'll talk about it after I finish eating the crab monster's meat."

Having left the martial arts hall in a hurry in the morning and arrived at the marshlands, he hadn't even eaten lunch, and Liang Qu was already starving.

He took out the crab roe and one crab leg, returned to the boat, set up a stove to boil water, and after the water boiled, he added the crab roe and crab meat.

Once thoroughly cooked, he scooped out the crab roe and meat, making two meatball-sized portions of equal weight.

After aquatic organisms die, their meat rots very quickly, especially crustaceans, because they have many internal organs, bacteria, and liquid moisture; once dead and the body's balance is destroyed, they will completely spoil within a few hours.

Liang Qu's stomach capacity was limited; he had to select high-value parts to eat as soon as possible.

Eating the two meatballs separately, the golden crab roe was mellow and rich, while the snow-white crab meat was fresh, fragrant, and sweet.

【Water Essence +0.9】

【Water Essence +0.5】

The first prompt was for eating the crab roe, the latter for eating the crab meat.

The crab roe was indeed more valuable, but the intake value was also too high—it was almost the same as half a treasure fish!

Liang Qu, having obtained the verification results, had red eyes; he immediately added more crab roe and threw the remaining crab meat to the two beasts.

【Water Essence +1】

【Water Essence +1.1】

【Water Essence +1.2】

Fusion degree! Fusion degree! Give me all the fusion degree upgrades!

Liang Qu ate with a vengeance, watching the Ze Ding glow incessantly, an unprecedented sense of satisfaction surging into his heart.

He was about to become invincible.