Chapter 124: Artillery Bugs
Time passed, and Luo Wen’s seed experiments began to yield promising results. Among them, one creation stood out as his favorite.
This was a hybrid organism composed of genetic material from various spore plants.
Spore plants include algae, lichens, fungi, mosses, and ferns. Luo Wen’s new seed combined the genes of all these spore plants into a single entity.
The resulting organism was highly adaptable, requiring minimal environmental conditions to thrive. It was resistant to cold, heat, and drought, and it could efficiently extract nutrients from the surrounding soil. Remarkably, it could even secrete a specialized acidic substance to corrode and decompose rocks and minerals.
This made its yield per unit area significantly higher. Most importantly, almost all parts of the plant were edible. It tasted good too—rich in protein and sweet to the Swarm’s palate.
This new crop had replaced the previous white mycelium plants, greatly enhancing the yield of the underground farms.
However, it still fell short of Luo Wen’s original goals, necessitating further refinement.
With the Swarm’s triumph over the giant pythons, they had firmly established themselves as top predators. Their territory was recognized by the surrounding powerful creatures, and no more apex-level creatures came to challenge them at their base.
Most of these apex predators were solitary beings that staked out their territories. Their daily routines involved filling their bellies, occasionally picking fights with their neighbors for exercise, and then waiting for old age to replace them with a new generation of apex predators.