The color of normal sandworms is very similar to that of yellow sand.
This one is different; it is entirely white and transparent.
You can even see the internal structure of the body.
But that's not the point. The point is that this sandworm isn't very aggressive, and I'm quite curious about it.
Seeing the white sandworm crawling rapidly towards her, A-Yuan took out her weapon and prepared to attack, her eyes fixed on the sandworm.
Unexpectedly, the sandworm scurried up to about half a meter away from her, then suddenly hissed at her, rolled over on the ground, exposed its belly, and frantically waved its tail as if begging to be petted.
A-Yuan, "???"
A-Yuan looked puzzled and muttered, "Something feels off."
"Ha~~~"
Seeing that she didn't move, the sandworm wagged its tail at her again.
Ah Yuan couldn't hold back any longer and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Ah Yao, Ah Sheng, come quick! There's a mutated sandworm here!"
Upon hearing this, Ah Sheng and his colleagues, who were picking sand cotton nearby, immediately dropped what they were doing and ran over.
Then--
"Strange, why is this sandworm white?"
"It's mutated. But this color is really not good for sandworms to survive. Not only are they easily spotted by humans, but they are also bullied by their own kind. It's a miracle that this guy has survived until now with his snow-white armor."
"Why do I feel like this sandworm isn't aggressive at all?"
As Ah Sheng spoke, he reached out his hand towards the sandworm. Ah Yuan and the others were immediately terrified and shouted for caution. But what happened next shocked their entire family.
Just because the white sandworm saw Ah Sheng reach out her hand, it cleverly raised its hard and cold head and offered it to her hand to rub against her.
Ah Sheng's eyes widened suddenly, and she subconsciously rubbed it. The cold touch spread from her palm to her whole body, and her sluggish brain was completely awakened.
But instead of being scared, she exclaimed excitedly, "It feels amazing!"
"real?"
Yao Yao also became interested and ran up to pet the sandworm's head, getting petted in return.
Amu picked a leaf from the sand cotton plant and held it to its mouth. "Want some?"
"Sand worms are carnivorous; they don't eat leaves, damn it..."
Seeing the sandworm open its mouth and eat the leaf, Ah Sheng was so shocked that her jaw dropped. She murmured, "This is impossible, this is not scientific. Sandworms are carnivorous insects, why is this one eating vegetables?"
"It has mutated."
Yao Yao reminded her again.
In a flash, Ah Sheng realized what was happening and a thought popped into her head, instantly changing the way she looked at the sand worm.
"So... how about we keep this sandworm as a pet?"
She said, her breathing a little rapid, "We've failed at sandworm farming before, could we try using this sandworm?"
Everyone exclaimed, "!!!"
Everyone was shocked by her line of thinking.
After thinking about it carefully, I felt it was worth a try.
"Contact Uncle Lin and ask him to come over and see if there's any potential."
When it comes to understanding and researching sandworms, Uncle Lin is the real expert.
Ningning always says that everyone has their own expertise, and that professionals should do what they are good at to maximize profits.
Laymen shouldn't get involved.
Therefore, Lin Zhengquan was summoned.
Meanwhile, Sang Ning and his group were also heading this way.
Sang Ning was quite surprised to run into Lin Zhengquan on the way.
"Uncle Lin, aren't you busy with sandworm farming? How come you have time to come to the sandy cotton area?"
"Ah Sheng and the others discovered a mutated sandworm that was entirely white and summoned me to see if I could come up with a solution from it."
Lin Zhengquan, who had uttered a long sentence without even taking a breath, was blown away by a gust of wind before he could finish speaking.
Sang Ning and the others exchanged glances and quickened their pace to catch up.
Soon, the destination was reached.
A group of people surrounded the sandworm, examining and touching it, and discovered that it was truly a unique sandworm.
It doesn't have much of an aggressive tendency. It eats meat, but doesn't seem to have much interest in meat. It's the kind of person who eats it when it's available and doesn't crave it when it's not.
On the contrary, I prefer the bolls and leaves of the sandy cotton.
They ate with great relish.
Watching it grab leaves with its two short, tiny paws and stuff them into its mouth, Sang Ning stroked her chin hesitantly and said, "Could this thing be a variant of the bollworm?!"
"Bollworm?"
in unison.
She nodded. "Yes, bollworm, a pest that is harmful to cotton."
"But these are sandworms."
A-Yuan asked疑惑地, "Where did you see that bollworm you mentioned? Does it look like a sandworm?"
"no the same!"
Sang Ning showed them information about cotton bollworms, explaining, "Before the mutation, they were fleshy worms without shells. After the mutation, they developed shells, and their appearance is somewhat different from that of sandworms."
"But this sandworm..."
Sang Ning frowned, somewhat puzzled, and said, "No matter how much sandworms mutate, their original main genes determine that they are carnivorous insects, and they shouldn't mutate into herbivorous insects."
"That's not absolute."
Lin Zhengquan, who was examining the white sand worm inside and out, replied, "This kind of mutation in sand worms is normal; it has happened several times in history."
Has this happened in history?
Sang Ning asked in surprise.
Lin Zhengquan hummed in agreement. "It has appeared before. The last time it appeared was more than eighty years ago. You little brats didn't even know where you were back then. That time, a nest of snow-white sandworms appeared. Before we could even hunt them down, they were killed and eaten by other sandworms."
This aligns with the survival instincts of sandworms.
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