Chapter 98: Shell Breaking
Captain Madara carefully opened the pouch, and the pet egg inside was shaking slightly.
"It's almost time for the baby to come! It's almost time for the baby to come!"
"Ooooooooooooooooooo!"
“I’m really curious about what this is!”
Xiaozhen and Mr. Cat stood by, curiously waiting for the pet in the shell to break out.
An hour passed. There was no movement from the pet egg.
Two hours passed, and there was still no movement from the pet egg.
"Could it be that the hatching failed?"
"No! It's just not time yet!" said Captain Madara.
Six hours passed.
Eight hours passed.
A day passed.
"Let's go. You're wasting our time. It looks like we can't get out today." Xiaozhen and Mr. Cat strongly condemned Captain Madara's false warning.
That night, Captain Ban squatted on the bookshelf, holding the pouch with a wronged look on his face. He firmly believed that the pet egg was almost ready to hatch, but this little thing was just late.
The pet egg in the pouch shook again, and Captain Madara excitedly took the egg out.
Knock knock knock!
Knock knock knock!
This was the sound of the small creature inside the eggshell hitting the egg wall. Captain Ban turned on the flashlight and shone it towards the egg, only to see a black mass of things wriggling behind the egg wall in the translucent eggshell.
Captain Ban was delighted and placed the egg in front of him, using a heat lamp to watch the mass inside the egg break the wall. However, the small thing inside the egg knocked for a long time, but there was no crack on the egg wall, which made Captain Ban anxious.
By midnight, the shell of the egg was still intact, but the knocking sound inside the egg was getting weaker and weaker.
Captain Madara quickly flipped through the guide on how to hatch pet eggs, and it said:
[If the pet fails to break the eggshell after a long time, it is very likely to suffocate and die in the eggshell. If you find that the pet takes a long time to break the eggshell, it is recommended to use a tool to directly make a hole in the eggshell. It is worth mentioning that the pet egg professional hole-turning drill of Ika Toy Company is extremely safe and convenient, and it is strongly recommended (bold large font) to buy and use. ]
He slammed the guidebook shut. Captain Madara raised his paw, strengthened one toe, and poked it at the light-transmitting part of the eggshell.
Crack. A small hole was poked in the eggshell.
Captain Ban carefully used his claws to dig the hole a little bit at a time and peeled off the eggshell around the hole. As long as he tore off the light white film, he could see the small thing inside the eggshell!
Bang!
The pet egg suddenly spun and flew out.
The big face of Pension appeared in front of Captain Spotted. It jumped to the ground and began to play with the eggs with its cat paws.
Captain Madara jumped down angrily and drove away the pension with his strong and powerful wings.
The pet egg fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
Captain Madara approached the egg cautiously and checked what was inside. A small creature moved and crawled out from the translucent light-colored film.
…
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…”
Xiao Zhen rubbed her eyes and sat up from the bed, "It's so noisy. What are you shouting in the middle of the night?"
“My balls aaaaaaaaaaaah!!”
"Oh, are your eggs finally finished?" Mr. Cat stretched out from the cat bed.
“It’s hatched.”
"Isn't that a good thing?"
“Aa ...
"What's wrong?"
Xiaozhen turned on the light, got out of bed, and came to Captain Ban. A soft caterpillar crawled out from the broken eggshell fragments and the wet semi-permeable membrane. It was about the size of an index finger, and its body was covered with fine gray hairs. It raised its little head timidly and looked curiously at Mr. Xiaozhen Cat and Captain Ban who were watching it.
Xiao Zhen immediately understood the reason for Captain Madara's scream. He said, "You hatched a caterpillar."
Mr. Cat followed up with, “And this worm’s face looks exactly like a pension.”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…”
Xiao Zhen opened the collection of Egg Baby pet illustrations provided by Ika Toy Company and quickly found the illustration description of this caterpillar.
"This is a face-changing monster insect. Its inherent property is that its appearance will be based on the first creature it sees after it breaks out of its shell."
"No wonder, the first thing it saw was the pension," said Mr. Cat, "so it turned into a caterpillar with a cat's head."
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” Captain Madara was still screaming.
Xiao Zhen said, "Well, I can understand its feelings to some extent. In local slang, it means that after ten months of hard work, the baby ends up looking like Lao Wang next door."
"It's miserable. It's so miserable."
"You all shut up!!"
"I think this is a good thing, Captain Madara." Xiao Zhen comforted it, "Think about it, this worm looks pretty cute now. It would be so strange if it turned into a chicken-headed caterpillar."
"Or I could turn into a little caterpillar with a real head, which would be weird too," said Mr. Cat. "This is not bad for now."
"You just think cats are cuter, right?!"
Xiao Zhen continued to look at the Egg Baby pet illustrations. "Well, I knew it was a dream to expect a miracle. This face-changing monster bug is the most common low-level pet species. In local card-drawing mobile games, it is like an R card. If you draw it, you can feed it as an experience card." He clicked on the Egg Baby second-hand trading website. "Sure enough, this kind of bug can't be sold in the second-hand market."
“…”
"Anyway, congratulations on the birth of your baby."
"If you don't like it, you can use it as chicken feed. I think your host will like it."
The next morning.
Captain Ban walked on the floor with a clattering sound, and the cat-headed caterpillar followed behind him, moving its body up and down.
"Your child is crawling behind you."
"It's not my child!" Captain Madara shouted viciously, turning his head to look at the caterpillar. The caterpillar raised its little head and blinked at Captain Madara. Captain Madara sped up and shook it off.
The cat-headed caterpillar found that the chicken in front of it was gone, and immediately raised its little head to look around for it, but Captain Ban was nowhere to be found. The cat-headed caterpillar was frustrated and began to look for the father it had identified on the ground.
It climbed tenaciously from under Xiaozhen's bookshelf to the door of Xiaozhen's room.
An Tianxin's head, which was soaking in the nutrition box, could not help but sing loudly when he saw this scene: "I am not afraid of the rain, nor the snow. Even if it is cold and snowy, as long as I can see him, I can see him every day. I am not afraid of any snowstorm. I want to find my dad..."
"What are you singing?"
"A heartwarming old song about a local looking for his dad."
"It's a pity that the father doesn't want to recognize this child." Xiao Zhen saw the caterpillar trying to crawl out of the door, so she walked up and picked it up. If it crawled outside and was seen by Yan Zhu, it would be fine. If it was seen by Aunt Li or An Yuan, he would be killed on the spot.
The cat-headed caterpillar was very obedient. When Xiao Zhen caught it, it didn't move at all and obediently let Xiao Zhen do whatever he wanted. Its body was very soft, and the fluffy gray hair felt very comfortable to touch. Xiao Zhen felt that he could crush it with a little force. It tilted its head and looked at Xiao Zhen with its innocent face. Xiao Zhen found that his host's brain had a very strange chemical reaction, which was probably the feeling of An Yuan when she saw a cute cat rolling around and rubbing against her. The products of Ika Toy Company really have a brainwashing effect. He admitted that he thought this worm was cute enough even if it was not a rare item, so cute that he wanted to spend money on it.
Xiao Zhen put in a plastic box. It was too dangerous to let it crawl around outside. In any case, the worm was now the property of Captain Madara, and even if Captain Madara himself had a bad attitude, he still had to keep it well.
Next, he had something to ask An Tianxin.
"An Tianxin, do you have other reliable brothers of the same clan in this city? Like the ones you recommended to my dad as security guards last time?" Several former bar security guards who were unemployed and recommended by An Tianxin last time have now found jobs in Yan An's company. Judging from Yan An's feedback, the work attitude of these Gnus people is quite good.
An Tianxin's face was filled with the look of looking at a savior again, "Is your father still short of people? I have a few brothers who were owed wages by unscrupulous bosses and ran away. They are chasing the boss while looking for a job."
Why do I feel like the local Gnus people have bad luck.
"It's not my dad, it's me who needs people." To be exact, Xiao Zhen needed crew members. When Ze Jin's ship was built and given to him, it was impossible for Xiao Zhen to drive an empty ship. The Gnus people of An Tianxin's tribe were all very reliable employees once a contractual relationship was established. Before the ship was built, Xiao Zhen decided to recruit a group of crew members for observation and backup.
He and An Tianxin obtained the information of these Gnus people and registered them, preparing to notify them to come for an interview when they had time.
Afterwards, he inspected the working status of the mosquito search aircraft unit. There are more than 500 search aircraft that can still maintain full working status. Pu Pu, 70% of Cui Mingzhi's family's solution has been recovered, and only 30% can be fully recovered.
Xiao Zhen checked the performance of the mosquito searcher. Although it was made by Ross craftsmen, it was repeatedly downgraded , so its lifespan was still a bit worrying. He shut down 90 searchers as emergency backup, and the remaining searchers continued to run at full capacity to collect the solution of Pu Pu and Cui Mingzhi's family.
Just as An Tianxin said before, the recovery of An Tianxin and Wei Jingjing's body tissues in the nutrition box has completely stopped. Their recovery must wait for Pu Pu to return. Now they can only wait for the exploration machine to collect the remaining 30%.
Xiao Zhen was in a bad mood when he thought of Pu Pu. Thanks to the jelly monster, the damn cockroach farm was still being raised and operated. Xiao Zhen didn't even want to look at it and directly handed it all over to the clay people to take care of it. He didn't care about the living conditions of these alien cockroaches at all. Anyway, he just needed to wait for Pu Pu to come back and have enough food for him.
After True reviewed the instructions for the clay figurine, Mr. Cat walked into the room. He said, "Where's the caterpillar?"
"In the plastic box." Xiao Zhen said. He looked up and saw that the plastic box was empty and the caterpillar was gone .
After searching the room in vain, Xiaozhen came to the door.
The Cat-Headed Caterpillar was indeed outside on the floor, but it was trying to make contact with the Blue Cat Pension.
The cat-headed caterpillar raised its head, looking a little timid, but finally crawled towards the pensioner. The pensioner was shocked, and it obviously couldn't understand what this caterpillar with a cat's head was. The cat-headed caterpillar crawled closer and closer to it, and the pensioner was frightened and kept backing away until he retreated to the corner, with no room to retreat.
"It seems that after being abandoned by our Captain Madara, the Cat-Headed Caterpillar decided to find another father."
"Obviously this dad doesn't like it very much either."
The pension has been forced into a corner. It arches its body, its fur stands up, and it makes a humming sound from its mouth to scare away the approaching caterpillar.
But the caterpillar kept approaching it, and finally it got close to the pension's little cat's paw, and it raised its head to rub against the pension's cat's paw.
"Meow!!!!" Pensioner swung his cat claws and slapped the cat-headed caterpillar! !
Captain Madara flapped his wings and descended from the sky. He blocked the Pension's cat claw attack with one wing, and then used the Roc Spread Wings attack several times to intimidate the Pension, and the cat was scared away.
The caterpillar was so happy that it climbed directly onto Captain Spotted's chicken leg and rubbed it against the chicken leg. Captain Spotted pecked it up and threw it onto his back. The caterpillar quickly found a place in the feathers and buried itself comfortably.
"Wow...are you finally recognizing this child?"
“That’s good news.”
"No." Captain Madara said, "I just looked through the Egg Baby Encyclopedia again. The Face-Changing Monster Bug is indeed the most common pet, but it can evolve."
"evolution?"
"Yes, there is a chance that it will evolve into a high-level species. Look!" Captain Madara has recovered his spirits. He clicked on the screen and showed Xiao Zhen and Mr. Cat a detailed description of the cat-headed caterpillar. The attribute description of the face-changing monster insect really has a special attribute of evolution.
"..." Xiao Zhen said, "Excuse me, generally this kind of promise has a certain chance of evolving into a high-end product, especially when it comes from a company like this. There is only one possibility."
Mr. Cat continued: "That's just cheating you out of your money."
"But it can really evolve. As long as I keep it, it won't just be a caterpillar!"
"Let me see what the conditions for evolution are. Sure enough." Xiao Zhen pointed at the screen and said, "You see, you have to buy the special feed provided by Ika Toy Company. These feeds are divided into various grades, high, medium and low. The higher the grade and the more expensive the feed, the higher the success rate of high-level evolution. This is obviously a scam to cheat you out of your money!!!"
"This is also the way to play the idiotic pay-to-win game on this planet that harvests elementary school students and coal bosses." Mr. Cat nodded.
The cat-headed caterpillar poked its head out from the feathers on Captain Madara's back and looked at them curiously. Xiao Zhen admitted that it looked a little cute.
"Why don't you just let it be a cute caterpillar?"
"What if!" Captain Madara's eyes were full of anticipation, "What if it evolves into something other than an ordinary caterpillar?"
Xiao Zhen said, "Excuse me, but you have already used up all your luck for the rest of your life by having the honor of meeting me." He pointed at Mr. Cat, "And knowing Mr. Cat, your luck has been deducted to negative numbers! Face the reality, Captain Madara!"
"Sorry, my hand just shook and I placed an order for the feed."
“…”
Mr. Cat whispered to Xiao Zhen: "I tell you, this is what African leeks who want to earn money are like. You really can't save them."
"Okay, I totally understand."
