Natural God's Gift
#167 - Heartbroken
Angelica felt extremely distressed and said, "The fruits of my life-seed have already formed; some will be ripe in just over a month. I thought we'd have a bumper harvest this year, but now so many have fallen."
Clover still didn't know what its life-seed looked like. God-given seeds are certainly precious, but life-seeds are the foundation. If the life-seed has problems, its evolution will be ruined.
Thinking of this, it couldn't stay put any longer. "Angelica, you watch over the God-given seed. I'm going to check on my life-seed."
Without waiting for Angelica's response, it hurriedly left.
Angelica didn't waste words, simply flying to the plum tree to take Clover's place, curiously observing the grafted Myli God-given seed.
It was pondering a question. Both the Greenlands Mountain Lord and the Qingfeng Lord had said that its ability was related to time, and should be able to accelerate the growth of certain things. Could it be used on this God-given seed?
If it were used on this, would it cause the God-given seed to ripen prematurely?
Thinking of this, the heartache it felt for the lost primal energy food lessened somewhat.
Angelica's claws were itching to try, but Clover wasn't here, and it didn't dare to act on its own.
After Clover and Angelica switched posts, Clover hurried back to its territory.
Closest to the Hundred Fruits Forest was Lucky Clover. Lucky Clover had been protected by Lord Silverfang's ability and was fine, so it wasn't too worried about it. It was worried about the other life-seeds.
Clover ran to the chinquapin tree. The chinquapin tree had been planted for two or three years and had grown to three or four meters tall. This year, it had specially asked the Artemisia bee queen to leave it three hundred flowers, which formed three hundred fruits.
Seeing the ground under the chinquapin tree covered in green, spiky chestnuts, Clover felt its heart breaking.
The shells of these chestnuts had already grown to the size of apples, and in another month or two, it would be able to harvest them and exchange them for primal stones as reserves, to replenish primal energy to other life-seeds when necessary. Now, a typhoon had blown away most of its efforts for half a year.
Clover silently opened its silk sack, picking up the fallen chinquapins one by one. Primal energy fruits that weren't ripe didn't have a very good primal energy effect; they were considered lower-quality primal energy food and could be used for composting or feeding semi-primal energy worker bees.
Clover counted as it picked them up; fifty-four chestnuts had fallen, nearly a fifth of the fruit. If it hadn't received a God-given seed as consolation, it felt like it would suffocate.
After collecting the chestnuts, it came to the papaya tree with a heavy heart. It had left ten fruits on the papaya tree, but three or four had been blown off.
Fortunately, the papayas would be ripe in about half a month, and although they weren't fully ripe, they could still be eaten as low-level primal energy food, so the loss wasn't too great.
Clover's mood improved slightly. It picked up all the papayas on the ground. These could be eaten by itself, fed to the Artemisia bee queen, or brought out for gatherings; they wouldn't be wasted.
Continuing along the territory, it soon arrived at the location of the rapeseed God-given seed. The rapeseed God-given seed had been divided into fifty-seven plants, looking like a small vegetable garden.
Previously, it had piled branches and soil around the God-given seed, and Lord Qingfeng had even jadeified it a bit.
Now that the typhoon had passed, all the piled-up soil had been washed away by the rain, and most of the branches blocking the rapeseed had been blown away.
Before it even got close, its vision, far exceeding that of ordinary insects, saw broken branches and leaves of rapeseed on the ground.
It ran forward quickly, carefully examining the rapeseed. Of the fifty-seven rapeseed plants, including the main plant and its offshoots, many had their leaves broken by the rain, and some even had their branches broken. Seeing this scene, Clover's heart ached.
Clover emitted a mental wave, enveloping the God-given seed. "Rapeseed, are you alright?"
After a long time, a rather tired mental wave emanated from the God-given seed. "Clover?"
"It's me. Are you alright?"
"Not good. I feel like I've lost a lot of branches and leaves, and there hasn't been any sunlight for the past few days. Primal energy is constantly being consumed, and I can't carry out photosynthesis."
Clover quickly comforted it, "The wind has stopped, the rain has stopped, and the sun has already come out. You can start accumulating energy and growing again."
"Mm!" The rapeseed God-given seed had suffered a lot in this typhoon in order to resist the storm, and was very tired at the moment, not wanting to communicate too much with Clover.
Seeing this situation, Clover knew that the rapeseed needed to recover, so it didn't disturb it further. After collecting the broken branches and leaves on the ground and burying them back at the base of its plant, it went to check on the other God-given seeds.
This year, it had only allowed the chinquapin tree, papaya tree, and morning glory, three life-seeds, to bear fruit. Now the chinquapin tree and papaya tree had suffered heavy losses, and it hoped that the morning glory wouldn't have problems.
The value of God-given primal energy food was much higher than that of ordinary primal energy food. Its heart had already been shattered into eighteen pieces, and it couldn't afford to shatter any further.
The more Clover walked, the more worried it became. Originally, it thought that it would be best if the morning glory hadn't suffered any losses, but as it walked, it felt that the probability of that was too small, so it lowered its expectations. "I can accept it if only a little fruit has fallen."
Seeing the trees that had fallen and the broken branches and trunks along the way, the hope in its heart gradually diminished. "It's nothing to lose some fruit; the morning glory God-given seed must not be injured."
Arriving at the yew tree, Clover walked around the yew, looking left and right. Seeing that the morning glory God-given seed hadn't been injured, it felt a little more relieved.
Then, it counted the fruits on the vines entwined around the yew tree one by one. The morning glory had bloomed two hundred flowers.
During this time, it would come and count the fruits whenever it had time, knowing exactly where each fruit grew.
The morning glory God-given seed watched Clover circling around it, and immediately questioned, "Clover, what are you doing?"
"I'm seeing if you've been injured."
"I'm fine," the morning glory's mental wave became serious. "I felt a very strong wind in the forest. If this yew tree wasn't big enough, I might have really been injured.
What? Have your other life-seeds been injured?"
"The rapeseed God-given seed has been slightly injured."
The morning glory God-given seed criticized, "Clover, not that I'm saying, but how can you be so careless about your life-seeds? You don't know how to protect them. If other life-seeds are injured or die, wouldn't we have to be buried with them?"
"Yes, yes, yes," Clover rarely humbly accepted instruction in front of the morning glory God-given seed.
"Morning glory, have you lost any fruit?" It hadn't finished counting the fruits on the vines yet.
"Yes, a little," the morning glory God-given seed said dejectedly. "The wind was too strong, and some of the fruits were knocked off. I estimate about twenty or so. If it weren't for the yew tree sheltering us from the wind and rain, I'm afraid even more would have fallen."
Ordinary morning glories could have already finished fruiting and ripening, but the God-given seed fruits needed to absorb more primal energy, so they had been left on the tree waiting to ripen, but unexpectedly, disaster struck.
Hearing the morning glory say this, Clover slumped to the ground in frustration, searching little by little. "Heavy losses, heavy losses!"
The fruits of ordinary morning glories are only about four or five millimeters in size, with a layer of skin on the outside and the fruit inside.
The God-given morning glory fruit is much larger than ordinary morning glory fruit, with a single fruit being two centimeters in size. However, relative to the vast territory, it is still an inconspicuous small dot, and Suye still has to search carefully.
The morning glory didn't care whether Suye was looking for the fruits that had fallen on the ground, and babbled, "Suye, is the place you chose to plant the life seeds not quite right?"
"What's wrong?" Suye responded perfunctorily while searching for the God-given fruit.
The morning glory argued eloquently: "So many life seeds are planted by the sea, and there are always typhoons here. What if a super typhoon comes one day and uproots all of our life seeds?
Wouldn't everyone be dead then?"
Suye was speechless:! "You really think too much. Typhoons don't come here every year, just occasionally.
Besides, the God-given seeds can protect themselves with Primordial Energy. The reason they can't protect themselves now is because you are still too small.
The morning glory refused to accept this: "Your kingdom has small warriors born every year. Are their life seeds also planted by the sea? Do they all have the power to protect themselves?"
"The life seeds of small warriors are protected by high-level Flame Spiders. Once they become high-level warriors, there is no need to worry about it."
"Why don't you need to worry? Aren't you afraid of typhoons anymore?"
"Um," Suye said honestly: "The reason why typhoons can damage the warriors' life seeds now is because there is no Spider Queen in the kingdom. It will be better when there are more Spider Queens."
"What? Can the Spider Queen break up typhoons?"
"Typhoons are the power of the Nature God. Of course, the Spider Queen can't break them up, but when there are more Spider Queens, they can use various different abilities to avoid typhoons and protect the life seeds."
The morning glory was speechless.
Suye only found a dozen fallen morning glory fruits. The fruits were too small, and the others were probably blown away. It didn't look for them anymore, and it still had to look at other God-given seeds.
The date palm tree, long bean vine, and Phoebe zhennan trees were all in the forest. With the surrounding trees blocking them, and no fruit, they only lost some leaves, so the situation was still good.
The purple eggplant God-given seed had only been planted for a few months and was also in the forest. It also buried the purple eggplant in thick fallen leaves. When the typhoon came, it only blew away the surface layer of dead leaves.
Suye poked around and found that the purple eggplant God-given seed was safe and sound. This God-given seed had not yet given birth to a soul consciousness, so it was good that it was okay, and there was no need to nag too much.
When it was in the forest, it also saw many planted sunflowers lying on the ground, but it didn't have time to take care of them now.
What Suye was most worried about was the mangrove tree God-given seed. It was on the front line of the coast, and although it had made many preparations, it was still very dangerous.
As soon as it arrived at the beach, its originally furry face immediately turned black.
The beach was full of dead fish and shrimp, not to mention the small ones, some of the big fish were three or four meters in size,
just dying on the beach like this.
The mangrove forest looked okay, and there was not much loss. These mangroves have been living in the intertidal zone, so they naturally have ways to deal with various risks on the coast, otherwise they would have gone extinct long ago.
It's just that these mangrove trees are also covered with dead fish and shrimp, which looks particularly ugly.
The mangrove tree God-given seed was no exception. Various dead fish fell and died on it. Fortunately, the mangrove tree only broke some branches, and the damage was not very serious.
Suye cleared all the dead fish from the tree and buried them under the tree as fertilizer. As for the other fish and shrimp on the beach, it couldn't manage them, but it still had to clean them up, otherwise this place would become stinky in a few days.
It's just that it hasn't reached the Mountain Master level yet, otherwise it would transport a few batches of small Flame Spiders to eat all these fish.
Suye chatted with the mangrove tree God-given seed for a few words and comforted it. The trouble with having too many God-given seeds is that you have to care about them one by one, otherwise it will throw a tantrum if it doesn't agree with you, and a bad mood will also affect its growth and yield.
Alas, it's difficult!
After looking at all the life seeds, Suye walked back with a not very good mood.
On the road, it also ran into Bai Zhi, who was also dejected.
"Bai Zhi, what's wrong with you?"
Bai Zhi, who was on the verge of tears, no longer had her usual cheerfulness: "Suye, I lost more than half of my life seed fruits!"
Suye couldn't even squeeze out a smile at this moment: "Is the life seed okay?"
"The life seed is protected by the Polygonum cuspidatum Mountain Master's ability. There is some damage, but it is not fatal."
"My and Angelica's life seeds also suffered heavy losses. This year's life seed production is bound to be reduced."
Suye felt very uncomfortable. It was just a typhoon, and it had such a big impact on their lives.
Moreover, it believed that there must be more than just a few spiders in the kingdom that were affected.
Originally, when it saw other insect tribe clans, it couldn't help but feel a little proud of the strength of its own kingdom.
But a disaster completely made it realize why many lords often said that they needed a top Spider Queen to bring the kingdom back to its peak state.
If it became the legendary top Spider Queen, would it be able to protect the kingdom from harm in this kind of situation?
At this moment, Suye clearly realized the responsibility on its shoulders.
"Have you collected the fallen fruits? Although the Primordial Energy concentration of these immature fruits is not high, they can be given to the semi-Primordial Energy worker bees of the Artemisia annua small bee queen to eat."
"I've collected them." Bai Zhi naturally wouldn't miss this.
"Then I'll go and let Angelica notify the Artemisia annua small bee queen to come over. There are some things here that still need its help."
Although Artemisia annua is Bai Zhi's symbiotic insect tribe, with Bai Zhi's number of life seeds and economic situation, it is obviously difficult to support the small bee queen and the bee colony under its claws.
The small bee queen has become a symbiotic insect tribe shared by Suye and Bai Zhi, which can be considered as using one insect for multiple purposes.
Bai Zhi looked around: "Where is Angelica? When I passed by its life seed, I saw that its life seed also suffered a lot of damage. Why didn't I see it?"
"Angelica is guarding the Hundred Fruit Forest." Speaking of this, Suye couldn't help but reveal a smile: "We picked up a God-given seed at our doorstep, but it is not fully mature yet.
Lord Qingfeng took that God-given seed to graft it onto other trees to see if it could grow again."
Bai Zhi widened its eight eyes: "Picked up a God-given seed at the doorstep?"
Suye told it about the whole thing,
Bai Zhi said in disbelief: "There is such a thing?"
Suye breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm also lucky. I barely had some gains in this disaster to recover my costs."
Bai Zhi said sourly: "Where are you recovering your costs? You're making a fortune. I'm afraid the entire Flame Spider Kingdom has suffered losses because of this typhoon, and only you have made a lot of money."
"Let's go, let's go, take me to see what the newly obtained God-given seed looks like. Why don't I have such good luck?
My request is not high, just give me a Bai Zhi God-given seed — —"
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