Chapter 19: The Precious New Model

At this moment, Baichuan once again opened his panel.

【Name: Baichuan.】

【Species: Yanjingwangshe.】

【Length: 5.3 meters.】

【Lifespan: 7 years, 4 months.】

【Points: 26 (61%).】

【Abilities: Zhongchang LV2, Sedu LV2, Minjie LV2, Strong LV2, Clairvoyance LV2, Linpian LV2, Energy Saving Storage LV1, Danger Perception LV1, Flexibility LV1, Swimming LV1, Xiaohua Xishou LV1, Wadong LV1, Heat-Sensing Pit LV1, Diving LV1, Underwater Breathing LV1……】

【Ability Structure Library: Jinshe, Qingwa, Grasshopper, Tengshe, Yuan, Water Snake, Rat……】

【Kedianji……】

The above was everything Baichuan had harvested over the past half year.

What was worth mentioning was that the data displayed on his panel had finally grown considerably richer, and he could now clearly confirm his current body size.

This ability had appeared one day over the past half year, when he had been rather vexed watching his body grow ever larger without knowing exactly how long he had become.

But unexpectedly, the panel seemed to have picked up on his vexation, and the moment he opened it, a new function suddenly updated.

Namely, the body size statistics function.

This led Baichuan to discover that this panel probably still had many hidden functions he didn't know about.

For example, the Minjie LV1 that had mysteriously appeared half a year ago, as well as the Linpian that had suddenly upgraded to LV2 during this recent period, both left him somewhat baffled.

Unfortunately, this thing was just a dead object — it didn't even come with a panel manual or anything.

Apart from that, his greatest harvest was that over half a year, he had finally saved up 30 points.

However, since during this period he had occasionally strengthened a few auxiliary abilities — such as the Heat-Sensing Pit and Wadong and Diving he had been looking forward to — in the end only 26 points remained.

But these points were also especially abundant; after all, a single LV2 ability was only worth two points.

The only slight pity was that over such a long period of time, he had not found a single ability above LV3.

Coupled with the fact that he was a Yanjingwangshe with virtually no natural enemies in the food chain, his ability levels had only just reached LV2.

Baichuan guessed that perhaps LV3-level abilities were something only the Banzhu at the very top of the biological pyramid were worthy of possessing.

If the truth really was as he guessed, then LV3 might well mean the power of a king.

After recalling the harvests of this period, Baichuan finally looked once more at a particularly precious model he had only managed to prey upon through great luck in the past few days — a model whose analysis had only just been completed today:

Rat.

This was an animal whose very name was thought-provoking.

It had once made Baichuan wonder whether the place he was in was the world he was familiar with, or perhaps another continent of the world he had once inhabited.

But the clothing on the human corpse he had seen earlier had left him somewhat confused.

Unable to figure it out either way, Baichuan couldn't be bothered to think about it; rather than wasting time on such things, he might as well think more about how to grow stronger.

As for why this model was said to be extremely precious —

that had to do with his abilities.

【Species: Rat.】

【Abilities: Fanzhi LV2, Xiuque LV2, Forced Shedding LV1, Regeneration LV1, Intelligence LV1, Wadong LV1, Climbing LV1……】

Many of the Rat's abilities were no different from the rodents Baichuan usually saw, but it uniquely possessed two special abilities: Forced Shedding LV1 and Regeneration LV1.

【Forced Shedding: When the host encounters a dangerous predator, it can forcibly shed most of the skin tissue on its body to attract the predator's attention, thereby escaping.】

【Regeneration: When the host is in an injured state, it will rapidly consume Biological Energy to heal the wound.】

The first ability wasn't of much use — it was an ability belonging to the weak — but the second ability, Regeneration.

This was no ordinary usefulness.

Regeneration!

This was the ultimate ability that so many powerful predators sought but could not obtain.

In this dangerous jungle, even the Banzhu at the top of the pyramid like tigers and brown bears dared not claim they would never be injured; all they could do was be careful, careful, and careful again.

Because once injury occurred, it meant one's condition was poor and combat power dropped sharply.

At that point, whether dealing with intruders of the same species or hunting prey, everything became far more difficult.

And if one were unlucky enough to encounter wound inflammation or infection, even the king of the jungle might perish from a single mishap.

After all, those microorganisms were the true killers that took lives without a trace.

Therefore, in wilderness survival, preserving oneself was the highest priority.

This was also why the dignified king of the jungle, the tiger, would ambush whenever possible when hunting.

Everything was done to take the highest gain at the lowest cost under the premise of not getting injured.

But once one possessed Regeneration, not to mention anything else, those Banzhu would even dare to clash head-on with you, trading injury for injury, without the slightest worry about being wounded.

One had to know that under normal circumstances, those Banzhu would never go all-out in order to avoid injury.

Being able to put out seventy percent of their full strength was already impressive.

Only when facing a desperate situation, in their death throes counterattacking, would they display their full power.

But now, with this ability, it would basically allow those Banzhu to go full strength at any time and any place.

In short, this was an ability where the strong grew ever stronger and the weak ever weaker.

The effect it produced on different hosts was simply worlds apart.

If Baichuan strengthened this ability, not to mention anything else, at the very least his survival ability would skyrocket.

Just thinking about it was thrilling.

And this ability once again added several layers of insurance to Baichuan's plan for the near future.

The long-familiar process appeared once more; the difference was that this time two models shot skyward — one was the Yuan model he had strengthened before, which he had caught again later, and the other was the Rat model he had just obtained.

Baichuan was the first to extract the Regeneration ability from inside the Rat's model, then placed it into his own body. Perhaps because the ability belonged to the genetic aspect, with no external limbs, the moment he put it in, it spontaneously fused, and the compatibility reached as high as 90%.

So the moment it was placed in, it spontaneously fused on its own, and the compatibility was as high as 90%.

Right after that, he once again extracted the Qiangzhuang LV1 (Xiongqiang Yihua) from inside the kite model and placed it into the snake's body, at a position one-third of the way down from the snake's head.

That is, when the Yanjingwangshe raised its head and propped up one-third of its body, this muscle happened to be at a position close to the ground.

This was the best position he had found through his constant attempts during this period of Time, and the reason he had not strengthened it in advance was also because of the issue with strengthening the Regeneration ability, fearing the two would conflict.

As the ability fused, a massive muscle bulged out, and at the same time, the Minjie LV2 on his ability panel dropped to LV1.

However, Baichuan paid it no mind.

The next moment, he once again drew out the Lizhua LV2 from inside the kite model, and the placement was exactly at that muscle block's position.

In an instant, accompanied by the merging of the two abilities, a miraculous scene appeared.

Seeing that several readers from the previous chapter had questions about why Baichuan didn't kill the ants and bring them back for scanning and the like, let me explain here.

Baichuan's body size at that time had already reached nearly 4 meters, and he was still a snake with no hands or feet, attacking with his mouth, so killing an ant the size of a grain of rice was actually very difficult.

I don't know if everyone has actually touched a snake? A snake's scales are not actually presented on a single flat plane; his scales overlap with some subtle bumps and hollows, and with these bumps and hollows, it was very difficult for Baichuan to use his body to crush an ant to death.

Anyone who as a child has used what looks like a very flat brick to press down on an ant thinking they could crush it to death would know that doing this is useless against ants.

As for poking with the snake's head? That also won't work. Anyone who has carefully observed snakes knows that a snake's mouth cannot close completely like a human's; there is a small hole in the middle for the snake's tongue to extend out, and the snake's tongue is very sensitive.

Baichuan, as someone who values his life, would not risk poking with his snake's head when there was no external life-or-death pressure.

Even if by chance he managed to kill one, it would be very difficult to bring it back. As for holding it in his mouth, a snake's mouth structure is different from a human's. Humans holding something in their mouth have saliva and hands, so they can very easily take it out, but snakes easily swallow it down.

No one knows whether something bad will happen if a snake eats something it shouldn't; some ants are also poisonous, and added to that, being in the wild, they might also carry all sorts of strange microorganisms.

Baichuan dared not gamble; he could succeed by playing it steady and safe, with no need to be a gambling dog. Not to mention he had earlier discovered that conflicts would arise between the strengthening abilities on the panel, requiring rationality.

(End of this chapter)