Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 560 - 556 Yan Jinsu Missing Record 08 [Explosive Update 85]

Chapter 560: Chapter 556 Yan Jinsu Missing Record 08 [Explosive Update 85]

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Yan Jinsu swore that she had just casually pointed, merely to relieve her own embarrassment.

However, Xie Jingchen’s expression changed, and he immediately enveloped that area with his spiritual power.

Underneath that huge rock, revealed by the spiritual power, was actually hollow, filled with countless ’Black Head Ants’ beyond measure!

Moreover, the location where the flare had exploded earlier was this very rock. At the edge of the rock, a slightly blackened glossy spot could be seen, a vestige left by the flare’s fire point.

Despite the rock’s large and seemingly heavy appearance, Xie Jingchen discovered through his spiritual power that anyone approaching the rock, even with a slight weight, could trigger the mechanism, causing the massive rock, supported by obviously man-broken branches, to tilt—

Xie Jingchen cautiously took a step back. If he hadn’t followed his wife’s words and checked for anomalies with his spiritual power, approaching it could have triggered the mechanism, causing them to be covered with ’Black Head Ants’ the size of thumbs, whose bites could rot the skin and would require burning to neutralize the ant venom!

Whoever could conceive such a trap surely enjoyed unconventional strategies!

Yan Jinsu, not using spiritual power, immediately realized she had dodged a bullet upon seeing Xie Jingchen backtrack.

"Brother Chen, what’s inside?" Yan Jinsu, resting her ’Soul Crystal’, could only be figuratively ’blind’ now.

"Black Head Ants!" Xie Jingchen replied, exploring further with his spiritual power: "Underneath the ants, there’s black oil."

If it were merely Black Head Ants, a fire would suffice to deal with them.

However, the designer of this trap profoundly understood the nature of Black Head Ants, even thinking to add black oil inside, which not only enhances the toxicity of the ants’ venom but is also their favorite food.

"Black Head Ants are afraid of fire, but the placement of sufficient black oil by the opponent clearly bets on you not burning down the forest just to kill these Black Head Ants! However..."

They had just discovered the enemy but were already facing the first challenge!

"Does wife have any clever ideas?" Xie Jingchen’s eyes sparkled, sensing an implication in Yan Jinsu’s words.

"Although Black Head Ants feed on black oil, they are most afraid of fire, which everyone knows. But there’s another thing they fear, which is unknown to others!" Yan Jinsu smiled, whispering into Xie Jingchen’s ear:

"It’s simple, the ants’ greatest fear is ’white vinegar paste’!"

"White vinegar and paste?" What on earth...?

Xie Jingchen couldn’t figure out how these two things could become the nemesis of Black Head Ants.

"Hmm, let’s just try and see. I’ve got a lot of white flour in my Space. Let’s pour the flour inside that rock now, and Brother Chen, you smash the white vinegar into the rock. Oh right, you need to add water to make the flour into ’paste’!"

Yan Jinsu, seeing that Xie Jingchen had understood, moved out five big bags of white flour from her Space, making two cuts in each bag before seeing Xie Jingchen toss the five big bags of flour into the rock.

Plain white flour is not feared by Black Head Ants. But when flour meets water and becomes paste, it turns extremely sticky, preventing the Black Head Ants from moving freely.

White vinegar serves as the crucial ’Detoxification’. Because the ants feed on black oil, their bodies contain fiery toxic substances. Biting humans, the pain is unimaginable, like cutting flesh with simultaneous itching and burning sensations, making it hard to believe that such a small Black Fire Ant can cause so many side effects.

And such headache-inducing poisonous creatures are, most of all, afraid of vinegar! Once they come into contact with vinegar, they will automatically expel their venom, much like humans with gastroenteritis, defecating to death...

Despite the detestable nature of the Black Head Ant, it is indeed a type of traditional medicinal ingredient, particularly effective for treating rheumatism in the elderly [fictional].

Upon Yan Jinsu’s command, Xie Jingchen hollowed out a huge rock, turning it into a pot-like structure, currently using white vinegar to boil Black Head Ants.

True to Yan Jinsu’s description, Black Head Ants continued to expel a tiny amount of black pigment, about the size of cockroach droppings, unfortunately not in a solid form.

After dealing with the disgusting creature that is the Black Head Ant, Xie Jingchen carefully inspected the rock and discovered that the signal flares found there were neither the original signal flares from his department nor from his subordinates.

Could it really be a trap set for him? Xie Jingchen surveyed his surroundings, his body on high alert.

Following that, Yan Jinsu was treated like a large doll attached to Xie Jingchen himself. Due to her previous compliance, her desire to dismount now was met only with refusal from Xie Jingchen.

Well, if someone wants to be her personal rickshaw, why should she resist? In the end, Yan Jinsu could only console herself, though her face remained sullen.

As daylight brightened, the setting around them was peculiar, with special animals occasionally ready to give them a ’big surprise,’ but Yan Jinsu, as if equipped with sensors, always managed to detect issues in advance and eagerly scavenged for ’easy pickings.’

"Brother Chen, wait!" Yan Jinsu suddenly spoke up.

Having been firmly denied her request by the man beneath her earlier, Yan Jinsu was a bit annoyed. Throughout their journey, she hadn’t spoken again until now.

"Did you find something?" Xie Jingchen, having switched on ’turn calamity into an opportunity’ mode after several reminders from Yan Jinsu, highly trusted her intuition.

"Yes. I smell oranges!" After swallowing saliva, Yan Jinsu said with a stony face.

She felt that the scent triggered an overwhelming secretion in her mouth, completely disregarding the fact that she actually isn’t very fond of oranges!

"Oranges?" Xie Jingchen heard the term and was genuinely surprised; he instinctively stepped back several steps before turning right into a small grove filled with several orange trees.

He had smelled oranges a few times before, but this was the first time Yan Jinsu had mentioned it.

Carrying his young wife, Xie Jingchen, hearing his wife frequently swallowing saliva, almost let out a stifled laugh as his lips curled.

It was December already, the season when oranges bear fruits.

However, due to the colder mountain temperatures, the oranges still had a hint of green. Fortunately, they had been frosted, making each orange as big as his fist, which invited one’s appetite.

"Wife, do you want to eat oranges?" Xie Jingchen looked at the few orange trees; because they grew in the deep mountains, the tree was full of fruits, and surprisingly, apart from the marks left by migratory birds, hardly any had fallen off.

Looking at the slightly green oranges, Yan Jinsu definitely nodded her head, "Yes, I want the green ones! That scent, it’s driving me crazy!"

She never knew that after her rebirth, her taste preferences had undergone a big change! Previously, she disliked eating oranges the most!

Especially the greener they were, the less she liked them! Because greener meant sourer!

Earlier when her husband used white vinegar, she had already been swallowing saliva secretly, because Yan Jinsu herself was stubborn, feeling that their relationship wasn’t close enough and she didn’t want to embarrass herself in front of him.