Lin Xiaolou: "Nobody believes you!" With that, he raised his hand and grabbed a bit of the egg's skin, and with a thought, he put it into his spatial artifact.

only……

Chu Nian noticed Lin Xiaolou's expression change drastically after she collected the egg; she seemed rather... stiff. She asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Lin Xiaolou hesitated, somewhat incredulous, and said, "It... seems to have hatched."

"Huh?" Chu Nian was surprised. What did this mean? She had been eating and drinking at her place for so long, practically consuming tons of spiritual herbs, but the herbs just wouldn't hatch. Yet, as soon as she left and came to Little Forest, they all hatched?

They're doing it on purpose! Picking on the weak!

"Come and take a look." Lin Xiaolou said, pulling Chu Nian into his spatial artifact.

Chu Nian only saw a deflated hot air balloon lying on the ground, with a pool of liquid on the ground, making it wet...

Chu Nian was puzzled and tilted her little head to ask Lin Xiaolou, "You said it hatched, where is it? Where is the worm?"

Lin Xiaolou's lips twitched, and she pointed to a spot in the bushes, saying, "It...it looks like it's here!"

Chu Nian looked in the direction he pointed, and after looking carefully again and again, she finally saw a green caterpillar the size of a fingernail lying in the green grass.

Perhaps realizing that Chu Nian had seen it, it wriggled a few times and actually crawled towards Lin Nian.

Chu Nian got goosebumps, pulled Lin Xiaolou back several steps, and pointed at the caterpillar, saying, "Just this one?"

Lin Xiaolou nodded and said "Ah".

Chu Nian: "Are you sure?"

Lin Xiaolou nodded again and said "Ah".

Chu Nian: "Such a big egg hatched into a caterpillar that's smaller than a nail?"

"Oh no, I've been mistaken for a caterpillar."

"We are not caterpillars, we are caterpillars."

Chu Nian looked down at the caterpillar that had crawled right in front of her, then took a few steps back, her face stiff as she said, "Isn't it all the same? Besides, what's this 'you all'? There's only one of you."

The insect exclaimed in a horrified tone, "How could there be only one? There are clearly so many!"

"I just noticed there's something wrong with the eyes on this knife."

"No, it's not a problem with her eyes; she might be unable to count."

Chu Nian:......

Lin Xiaolou said, "You may be limited by your weak physical body, which restricts your mental power and prevents you from exploring its true nature. Every hair on this worm has brain cells, and each hair is pore-like, like a passage."

Chu Nian then began to understand: So each hair on this worm was a separate worm itself, wow, how complicated!

Lin Xiaolou asked in bewilderment, "Why do they call you Knife?"

Chu Nian's lips twitched slightly. "Sigh, it's a long story, so don't ask." After a pause, she asked the insects, "What kind of insects are you?"

Insect: "Didn't I already say it? Caterpillar."

Chu Nian: "You're so small, why are your eggs so big?"

Insect: "This is enough to show that we are all concentrated essence."

Chu Nian:......

Lin Xiaolou: "Since they've already hatched, you should keep them. They might be of some help to you in the future!"

Chu Nian nodded and said, "Why do you think it hatched after it came to you?"

Lin Xiaolou: "I guess they don't want to stay here with me."

Chu Nian: "Why?"

Lin Xiaolou: "Shouldn't you ask them this question?"

Chu Nian then turned to look at the insects in the grass.

The insect quickly wriggled and shrank behind Chu Nian's heels, saying, "We don't like him."

"That's right, we don't like defective products."

"He doesn't even have a body."

"He's just a spare part; he definitely won't live long."

“We have no future if we follow him.”

"We just want to follow you, the one who will always exist."

"That's right, only by following you can I always have food and drink."

Chu Nian was speechless: So, they really just wanted to freeload!

Lin Xiaolou was furious and questioned, "What do you mean I'm just a spare part?"

Bug: "A component is just a component. You don't even know what you are, yet you act all high and mighty all the time. Hey!"

A bunch of insects actually started to jeer.

Lin Xiaolou paused for a moment, then pressed on, "What do you know? Tell me quickly."

Insect: "We will not do anything that violates the laws of space and time."

Lin Xiaolou: "What does this have to do with the laws of spacetime?"

The insect said, "You wouldn't understand even if I explained. Once you comprehend the laws of space and time and see through past and present lives, you'll naturally understand everything."

Then it started burrowing into Chu Nian's shoes, and Chu Nian was so frightened, as if she had been electrocuted, that she quickly threw her shoes off.

But after she finished shaking her shoes, she found that the bug had already crawled onto her socks, and she started shaking her feet hard again, trying to shake the bug off.

Insect: "What are you doing? Stop shaking me! Your feet stink! We're going to get on your legs!"

Chu Nian: "Get out!" In her anger, she finally threw her socks out as well.

Lin Xiaolou said, "This bug is so annoying, why don't we just smash it to death with a rock?"

"Bullshit, we can't be killed by smashing."

"We are the apex predator in the food chain, and no one can kill us."

"If you dare to move, we'll send you to the primordial world to undergo tribulation!"

"cut!"

...

Then, a chorus of disdainful and contemptuous voices rose and fell for quite some time.

Chu Nian used a small twig to pick the bug off her sock, put her sock and shoes back on, and said, "I've decided to leave the bug with you."

Lin Xiaolou: "I don't want it, take it away right now." I'll be driven crazy by them in a couple of days!

"Knife, we really want to eat sashimi."

Chu Nian: "Don't call me Dao, call me Nian Nian."

"Okay, Niannian, we want to eat sashimi. Can you take us to your fishpond?" Chong Ban raised his upper body, seemingly trying to please Chu Nian and act cute.

However, it was too small, and Chu Nian's mental probing ability was very weak due to his physical limitations, so he could not detect anything too subtle or expressive, and therefore did not notice anything at all.

Chu Nian hesitated, wondering whether to take it back into her spatial artifact: she shared the same thought as Lin Xiaolou, and was a little worried that she would be driven crazy by this caterpillar in the future.

Seeing her in a daze, Lin Xiaolou angrily shouted, "What are you thinking about? Take it away right now!"

Chu Nian had no choice but to reluctantly use a wisp of spiritual power to envelop the little thing and throw it into the pond in the spatial artifact where Tuoba and the others were located.

Lan Dian said without any concern, "Master, if you bring it here, it might steal all the spiritual herbs."

Tuoba Hongyuan also said with a dark face, "I don't know if insect repellent spray will work on this stuff!"

These guys had clearly witnessed the insect's infuriating power before, and they all hated it to the core.

Chu Nian was genuinely worried that they would devour all the spiritual herbs, so he cast a spell to move the fishpond to the spatial artifact where the eggs had been located.