Zhang Mu, who had originally wanted to retreat, was suddenly awakened by the words of the obsidian worm. He fixed his eyes and looked in the direction of the mother-and-child gourd.

Sure enough, just as the Obsidian Worm said, he was so anxious just now that he didn't notice any clues, but now after a careful inspection, he found the problem. The surface color of the green and blue mother-and-child gourds was now darker than when he first saw it. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to overlook it.

"Xiao Hei, how did you see it?" Zhang Mu looked at the obsidian worm in surprise and asked.

Obsidian said with a little pride, "Just now I tried to use my wind blade to attack this broken cover from various angles, although it was useless. But at a certain moment when you threw the corpse in, I looked down from the air and felt that the color of the mother-and-child gourd seemed to have changed. I carefully observed it from other angles and confirmed that it was true."

If this is the case, it means that the mutant beast corpse that Zhang Mu threw in just now is ripening the mother-and-child gourd!

Zhang Mu decided to verify his idea again, but he had already thrown all the mutant beast corpses around him in. He couldn't just throw the mutant wolfhounds and obsidian worms in for experiments.

Yes, energy. If it is energy, then even though there is no mutant beast corpse, he has something else.

Is there any energy that is more massive and purer than Yuan Jing?

And what Zhang Mu lacks the least is Yuan Jing.

This white fox was really stupid. The mother-and-child gourd had been waiting for it to ripen itself, but it was just guarding it foolishly, waiting for it to mature naturally.

But it is also true that even if the white fox found it, it would not be able to produce a large amount of energy. Would it take the lives of its own people? It is definitely impossible. Although their names are determined by the king of a group, if too many sacrifices are made, the white fox will be left alone. Besides, it does not know the true value of this mother-and-child gourd.

As for if it is Yuan Jing, given its current delicate relationship with the zombies, it must be

You can't attack in large numbers. Once you attack too much, it will inevitably cause a war. The probability of winning or losing between several thousand mutant beasts and a six-digit zombie group is only 50-50. It's not worth it. But if the number is small, it will definitely not be enough for the mother-and-child gourd.

Zhang Mu's mind moved, and he summoned a pile of Yuan Crystals from the Epoch Merchant's Ring. He forcibly suppressed the Blood Vine Lotus's desire to devour itself, and threw them all into the colorful light shield with the vine.

A wonderful thing happened. The moment the Yuan Crystal entered the light shield, it was also decomposed, but it was decomposed into crystal drops of liquid, which were sucked towards the body of the mother-and-child gourd as if there was no gravity, slowly attached to the roots on it, and were immediately integrated into it.

After seeing what happened next, Zhang Mu's heart suddenly jumped and he clenched his fists. He had guessed right!

This mother-and-child gourd really needs energy to ripen. The light on its surface began to deepen, floating with psychedelic colors, and its rising and falling breathing felt heavier, as if it was urgently expressing its desire.

The mutant beast's corpse just now probably had little effect because most of its energy had been exploited by the Blood Vine Lotus. If it weren't for the dead Xiao Hei's reminder, Zhang Mu would not have been able to see the subtle difference at all.

But now, Zhang Mu could clearly feel the changes on the surface of the mother-and-child gourd, just because of the pile of first-order crystals he had just thrown out.

Energy, I want energy, and more!

Zhang Mu watched all this, sneered and thought to himself, "Are all mutant plants so greedy? If you want to eat, I can give it to you, but can you really eat it?"

Of course, Zhang Mu is taking a certain risk now. He doesn't know if the colorful light shield will naturally dissolve after the mother-and-child gourd is fully ripened.

However, there was nothing else to try, and this was his last hope.

If it is really useless, and the Yuanjing thrown out becomes a meat bun to hit a dog, and it will never come back, then it is really a terrible loss.

Now we can only hope that this colorful light shield is just a self-protection defense method of the mother-and-child gourd during its growth stage, and it will disappear directly after it matures.

Another hundred, another thousand, another two thousand...

How can it not be enough? How much more should I eat?

Although he was unsure, he did not give up halfway. Zhang Mu finally approached the colorful light shield and poured a large amount of Yuan Crystals from the Epoch Merchant's ring into it. Seeing the Yuan Crystals being absorbed by the mother-and-child gourd as if they were free, Zhang Mu felt his heart bleeding, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to increase the amount of investment.

As time passed, the speed at which the colorful light shield decomposed the crystals began to slow down.

Is it saturated?

Zhang Mu saw that there was hope, and he quickly increased the speed of his investment. For the first time, the Yuan Crystals that had not been quickly decomposed accumulated inside the colorful light shield, but they were still decreasing at a very fast rate.

However, how could this speed, which had been slowed down due to saturation, be compared with the speed of Zhang Mu, who was anxious and trying his best to open the Epoch Merchant Ring? Under the absorption of the colorful light shield, the number of Yuan Crystals inside increased at a steady speed and slowly accumulated.

Don't you want to eat? Don't you want to eat enough? Then I'll let you eat your fill this time!

When there were 14,000 of them, the color of the mother-and-child gourd's surface had become so deep and full in shape that the light attached to it was flickering.

Seeing that the Yuan Crystal thrown in was no longer being decomposed, Zhang Mu snorted coldly.

"Is that enough? I thought you could eat unlimited amounts of food. You almost ate all my food, why don't you eat anymore? I wanted to see how big your appetite is and how capable you are. But that's all."

However, the mother-and-child gourd would not pay any attention to his angry words, but it was true that its absorption had been saturated.

Zhang Mu finally got what he had been waiting for.

The colorful light shield began to disintegrate.

(End of this chapter)