Chapter 67: Gathering, II

Chapter 67: Gathering, II

Chapter 67: Gathering, II

A couple of hours had been spent in the forest.

Kris had found some food, but most of the fruits found weren’t part of the Database, which made consuming or even touching them too risky.Fịndd new updates at novelhall.com

‘I could have Raya run some tests, but that would probably take too long. We still have some food left, and these that I found will already be a nice change of pace...’

The group went back to the spaceship.

Sixteen hours before take-off.

The Paru, followed by the female Granilith, remained around the area for a bit, before leaving for the forest once again.

It didn’t take too long before the Paru found them.

‘The red berries that Kris talked about...’ The Paru stood in front of a bush filled with them. ‘It can’t be that-‘

The Paru reached for the berries and,

Slap-

‘Huh?’

The female Granilith had swatted his hand away. She stared at his confused expression, before pointing at a tree.

‘Seriously...?’

Having her against a tree had become one of their favorite pastimes, but the Paru was still surprised that she would slap his hand and be that aggressive about it.

The next second, the female Granilith hit the tree with a front kick, and some kind of fruit fell to the ground. It resembled an orange with a purplish peel.

‘Oh... Yes, that works too.’

The Paru took hold of that fruit, pointed at it, and gestured to the female Granilith.

Her eyes sparkled and she turned away, eager to gather as much as she could find.

‘Alright. She should know best what we can eat and what we can’t... Whether they can eat the same things as Graniliths though... Well, they can run tests or something. Some things could be poisonous to them but not to us. In any case, these red berries seem to be bad for Graniliths too. Therefore...’

The Paru grabbed a handful of those berries,

Gulp-

And ate them.

‘Eating berries would take too long though. I need to eat large quantities of the poison if I want it to develop into anything... If it even will.’

The Paru took hold of the bush, and pulled it clean off the ground.

Leaves and roots, the Paru ate all of it.

‘Why didn’t I get sick by the way? I’m not immune to poison, am I? I assume I have some resistance, since Parus can eat everything and anything.’

[Through your “Venomous Fangs” Skill, you already hold immunity and resistance to certain kinds of Poisons and Venoms.]

‘Right. It’s safe to assume that the Venom I can produce wouldn’t hurt me. If I remember right, the body produces random combinations to deal with antigens. Having Resistance to something, might mean having Resistance to others. Immunology is a funny thing.’

...

By the time the two left the forest, the female Granilith was holding a small hill of fruit in her hands.

Towards the end, it was the Paru who took the fruits under her guidance, and placed them at the top of the hill she was holding.

‘It’s important for them to see her bringing the food. Since they still have trouble accepting her...’

“Oh, that’s amazing!” Kris shouted upon seeing the large pile. “Many of them I managed to find in the Database. And they’re edible!”

It was usually the job of the newer females of the tribe to bring food, but the female Granilith didn’t mind. The females of the tribe were so small, they might as well have been children.

The female Granilith thought of this exclusively about the male Worka.

...

Fourteen hours before take-off.

Guns, ammo, and food had been stored inside the spaceship.

Ten hours for all to get plenty of sleep.

Two hours to bring the heavy machinery back into the ship.

Two hours to prepare for take-off.

All parties within the spaceship felt rather nervous about it. Not just because they were going back to the planet of Visero, but also because some things had changed.

The presence of the Paru and the female Granilith changed many things.

One of those things was...

‘Will we give him a room? Or will he sleep in a storage room? Or...?’

‘It was fine here, but seeing him all the time inside will be...’

‘Tsk. I need to focus. I won’t let his swinging distract me from...’

Additionally, Al hadn’t let go of the arousal that had risen within him since seeing them.

‘I think I might go pay one of them a visit.’ He thought to himself and chuckled.

Al had, after all, rejected the advances of one of the female Workas at the start of their mission.

‘I feel so dirty saying this... But I think it’s time I got some.’