National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 46 Blood-sucking Demon Ants
Lin Zhi's face changed drastically, and he quickly expanded the source earth field, revealing the tree house and courtyard, blocking the tide of insects outside the fence wall.

The moment these ants touched the fence, they were silently melted away.

Only the ants at the fence gate were safe and sound.

Lin Zhi didn't expect that the fence of the tree house was so easy to use. In this way, he only needed to resist the tide of insects from the front yard gate.

Just like the Plants vs. Zombies game in my previous life...

Lin Zhi moved his mind, and the ice moss covering the entire front yard became active, emitting frost that froze and slowed down the ants that rushed in.

Then the old sputum peas planted in the red source soil in the front yard launched an attack.

An overwhelming amount of pus the size of a basketball flew out of Old Phlegm Pea's mouth in an instant, clearing out the incoming tide of insects in an instant, leaving no corroded residue behind.

Only then did Lin Zhi have time to look at the ants further away.

By comparing it with the knowledge about wild beasts in the wild beast world in his mind, he found the information about this ant.

The blood-sucking demon ants feed on flesh and metal. Ordinary worker ants are generally at the green level, and have a kind of fungal spiritual plant called parasitic robe in their bodies.

The soldier ants among the blood-sucking demon ants are generally at the Blue Star Realm in strength, but there are also some powerful ones that have reached the Red Moon Realm.

Lin Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the demon ants were generally of low levels, so the only pressure from the insect swarm was their endless numbers.

With the tree house and villa creating a favorable terrain, he is full of confidence in the old pea.

You should know that the foundation of Old Phlegm Pea's evolution has been laid at the star level. It has a total of five evolutionary abilities: splash attack, terminal differentiation, multiple beads in one shot, increased firing rate, and rotating attack.

Spin attack allows the old pea to rotate 360 ​​degrees without dead angles, and the terminal differentiation allows it to have 10 heads. One shot multiple beads allows each head to fire 10 peas at the same time, and the firing rate increase allows it to fire 10 times a second. Splash attack allows each pea to explode and cause damage to more units.

If this were a game, Old Phlegm Pea could be said to be able to deal 1 damage per second.

As soon as it opened its mouth, in Lin Zhi's eyes, he saw a series of "water dragons" rushing into the insect swarm.

The water dragon smashed into the insect swarm like firecrackers, splashing everywhere and hitting the shells of the blood-sucking demon ants, making crackling sounds.

The Moon-level spiritual plants planted in the red soil possessed the true strength of the Red Moon. These were just ordinary worker ants of the Green Star Level and were instantly corroded by the thick phlegm, like melting ice and snow.

Thick phlegm flowed on the ground, forming a foul-smelling swamp, swallowing up the insects that squeezed in from behind. These insects were melted by the swamp, and the most refined nutrients were absorbed by the ice moss below. The rest was absorbed and filtered by the soul soil, and the waste was expelled into the void.

However, the ants outside were overwhelming and seemed inexhaustible. They stepped on the corpses of their companions and advanced several meters despite the impact of thick sputum and the slowdown of ice.

Even though the Pea Shooter can absorb energy from the void and recycle ant corpses to replenish nutrients, it is still unable to withstand such a high-intensity attack.

Lin Zhi could only drive the tree house warehouse and move in various fertilizers and psychic energy to replenish the Pea Shooter.

At this time, Fu Hua, Yan Ruyu and the other two girls had also walked out of the tree house.

There was a flickering light behind Fu Hua, and blue halos appeared behind her head.

As the halo flickered, a new piece of soul soil suddenly appeared not far from the old phlegm pea. However, it was only blue, and an identical old phlegm pea grew on it.

Her halo is called "Replica Halo", and its five halo abilities are respectively called: Soul Soil Simulation, Perfect Copy, Void Energy Supply, Continuous Growth, and Backtracking State.

However, since her soul level is only Blue Star, the simulated soul soil is only blue. Although the copied Old Phlegm Pea is of Moon Level, it only has the combat power of Blue Star.

She continued to activate the halo, and two more pieces of blue soul soil were squeezed out, on which grew two old phlegm peas.

These three old phlegm peas are powered by the void. Due to the limited energy conversion efficiency, they cannot fully exert the power of moon-level spiritual plants.

Despite this, with the addition of three blue star-level castrated old phlegm peas, Lin Zhi felt that his pressure was much lighter, and he pushed the ant tide back one meter.

However, the crisis was temporarily resolved and Lin Zhi discovered new problems.

That is, the resources recovered from killing ants are not proportional to the resources consumed by the output of the old phlegm peas. Because the swamp formed by the old phlegm peas corrodes the ant corpses, it directly dissolves them and converts them into the most basic nutrients and energy, which is very inefficient and will decompose some "high-nutrition" substances.

For example, some exoskeletons that could have been used as evolutionary materials will only be broken down into nutrients such as "super calcium".

Every time he attacks, he loses some resources and his expenses are not enough to cover his income.

If a gardener consumes more than he gains in each battle, he will surely become impoverished and his chances of promotion will be cut off.

Lin Zhi glanced at the tool kit on the ground that Meng Xingchen "forgot" to take away, and suddenly saw a book.

"Research on the variation of clay moss, on the application value of fungal blanket farm"

Ok?
Lin Zhi instantly thought that this book must have been left here by Meng Xingchen on purpose.

He immediately picked it up and checked it, and found that the book introduced a formula on how to use clay moss to mutate into a fungal farm.

In addition to the basic capabilities of clay moss, the fungal farm can also grow "spore-type spiritual plants" to generate various fungi.

In human civilization, it is mainly used in agriculture, but it is also a mutated spiritual plant favored by gardeners who explore other worlds.

Although his clay moss has evolved into ice moss, it is still very valuable for reference.

If Lin Zhi is really a genius, it is possible that he can come up with an improved formula.

Unfortunately, Lin Zhi just had a cheat.

As soon as he finished reading the book, a text prompt popped up in front of him.

[90% of the positive mutation formulas matching the Frost Moss have been detected and the materials are sufficient. Please make your choice. 】

[Choice 1: Give up mutation and evolution]

[Option 2: Based on the original formula, add Ice Flame to fine-tune the formula and start the evolution immediately.]

[Option 3: Based on the original formula, add fire to fine-tune the formula and start evolution immediately.]

[Option 4: Based on the original formula, add five-color sand to fine-tune the formula and start evolution immediately.]

[Option 5: Based on the original formula, add the Heart of the Forest to fine-tune the formula and start the evolution immediately.]

Lin Zhi frowned as he looked at the last four options, especially from the words alone, he couldn't figure out what they meant.

If he combined his knowledge of the four materials with the original formula of the fungal farm, he found that these four materials seemed to be able to participate in fine-tuning.

Ice moss has the ice attribute. Adding ice flame may increase its mutation success rate?
On second thought, wouldn’t it be better if we added fire to neutralize the ice and fire?
Since it is a farm, maybe we should add five-colored sand representing the earth attribute?
Wouldn’t it be better if the Heart of the Forest came from the heart of the ancient tree of life and represented vitality?
Lin Zhi was hesitant, but after careful comparison and verification of the knowledge in his mind, he decided that the Forest Heart was the most suitable.

"Alas, it's a pity that there is no Heart of the Forest... No... I was told just now that there are enough materials..."

Lin Zhi suddenly caught a glimpse of a green object sticking out of the tool bag underground. He turned it over and saw a green heart that came to life.

"Good fellow, good fellow!"

Lin Zhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, his mentor Meng Xingchen had already fine-tuned the formula and was just waiting for him to discover it.

Seeing that all the materials were available, he made his choice.

Following the steps in the book, the mutation formula mainly includes forest heart, ambergris, cage fruit, hollow sea snake, caustic soda...

The moment the ice moss mutated, his eyes widened in shock.

(End of this chapter)