BXBX NOVEL Chapter 84 - Black Eye Bug!
"ELDER, STOP!"
The Elder Red-Panda immediately halted its movements the instant it heard Ban\'s scream. If it was any other human that screamed just now, the Elder Red-Panda would surely ignore it and continue attacking the Black Eye Bug. However, because it was Ban, the human who helped identify the root of its problem, the Elder Red-Panda decided to listen for the reason why he stopped it first.
The Elder Red-Panda turned its head towards Ban\'s direction. It\'s green eyes landed on him and even though Ban still felt fear upon seeing it, he nevertheless endured it as what he needed to say was more important than.
"Elder, do you perhaps know the name or the information of that Beast?" As they were far away from each other, Ban shouted at the top of his lungs to let the Elder Red-Panda hear what he said.
"No! No need to know its information if it will die in the next second right?" The Elder Red-Panda said in a low voice, but strangely enough, it still traveled towards Ban\'s ears as if the Elder Red-Panda was just beside him.
"Well, that\'s certainly true, Elder! However in this case, you shouldn\'t kill it directly as it would only create more problems for us, or more precisely you, and your other Elder Monk Trees."
The Elder Red-Panda tilted its head as it waited for Ban to continue. "Why?"
"Elder, that Beast is called the Black Eye Bug. They multiply easily after the mother bug already settled itself on a host, and in this case, the Black Eye Bug had already settled itself on the oldest Elder Monk Tree. Meaning, it had already spread its offspring towards the other Elder Monk Trees." Ban said.
"So? What\'s the problem? I can just kill them one by one after I\'m done with this puny bug." The Elder Red-Panda said as it shook the Black Eye Bug heavily as if shaking a tree.
"No, Elder. The offsprings have a telepathic connection with the mother bug and the moment they realized that their connection was suddenly cut off, they would immediately suicide by creating an explossion. And with that explosion, the roots of the Elder Monk Trees would surely be damaged and sooner or later, they would die as well."
The Elder Red-Panda turned its head again on the Black Eye Bug in front of it. It dispersed the green chaos energy ball on its right and the moment the chaos energy ball disappeared, the Elder Red-Panda immediately slapped the Black Eye Bug forcefully which caused the latter to feel relieved for a moment and then fear the next second due to the incoming slap.
SLAP!
"Even after your death you\'re still gonna give me trouble? Tsk" The Elder Red-Panda clicked its tongue before it descended to the ground. It then clasped the center tentacle tightly before forcefully pulling its other end from the split on the ground.
The tentacle got pulled from the ground without any hindrance. Blood flowed at the ripped part as the Elder Red-Panda floated again to the air before it went towards the root of the Elder Monk Tree. The Elder Red-Panda then beckoned for Ban to come over.
"Get over here, young-one!"
Ban nodded his head and immediately complied with the request of the Elder Red-Panda. With Eva on his shoulder, he ran towards the Elder Red-Panda without delay. It did not take long for Ban to arrive near the Elder Red-Panda and he could not help but cover his nose upon smelling the putrid smell that came from the Black Eye Bug.
"What should we do, young-one? Can you explain it to me? And how confident are you with your claim that this is really the Black Eye Bug? I tried to ask it earlier but it won\'t answer a single thing about it." The Elder Red-Panda asked.
Ban nodded his head, "Of course, Elder! Aside from the method of harvesting the Elder Monk Tree branches, I also obtained the information of some Beasts from the same scroll The Black Eye Bug was one of the Beasts listed there and it included all of its information, from its strength, weaknesses, skills and even the method on how to kill it flawlessly…"
"From the information I read from that scroll, in order to avoid the offsprings from doing the suicide explossions, we need to trick them that the the mother Black Eye Bugwas still safe and sound. And in order to do that, we need to weaken the mother Black Eye Bug first, to also weaken its connection from its offspring. However, you already achieved this requirement so we only need to do the last one..."
"It\'s simple really… We just need to bring the mother Black Eye Bug near the infected Elder Monk Trees. The offspring near that area will be able to sense the mother bug and they will emerge above ground to welcome the mother bug. At that exact moment, we must eliminate the offspring bug\'s as fast as possible so that they won\'t have any chance to communicate with the other offspring…"
Ban explained carefully what they needed to do while the Elder Red-Panda also listened attentively to him.
"That\'s all!" A while later, Ban finally finished explaining the things he learned from the knowledge injected by the System.
"You said that we should weaken this mother bug first to weaken its communication with its offspring, but what if this one decides to let the offspring bugs explode immediately?" The Elder Red-Panda said.
"It won\'t, and it can\'t do that. Their explosion [Skill] will only activate after the mother bug dies. And even if the mother bug already communicated to them that it\'s in danger, the offspring bugs would still come out of their hole to welcome the mother bug if distance between them are near enough." Ban explained.
The Elder Red-Panda nodded its head in understanding. "Alright, let\'s do it. What\'s the rank of the offspring bugs again?\'
"According to the scroll, their rank ranges from…"