Then… Poker Face spoke, but the voice was not only muffled, it also carried no emotion at all. It sounded like a machine speaking without any emotional fluctuation.
"I… need… this…"
"I know."
The moment Ethan heard it, he immediately guessed it was the worm queen inhabiting Poker Face's body speaking.
He stopped sprinkling the remaining life spring crystals and instead put all of them away for now, saving them as bargaining chips!
So he smiled at Poker Face and said, "And I have plenty more."
"If… you… agree… every day give…"
The worm queen spoke with difficulty.
Most likely because it didn't quite understand how to operate the human nervous system used for communication, but Ethan wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he waited quietly for it to finish speaking.
"…this… I… can… cooperate…"
[Sun Worm Queen, tamable.]
[Tame?]
'Here it comes!'
A prompt that hadn't appeared for a long time suddenly showed up at this moment!
Looks like even the system didn't want him to let this sun worm queen go. But Ethan didn't rush. Instead, he calmly looked at the worm queen and said, "I can give it to you every day, until all my life spring crystals are used up. But you have to agree to one condition."
"You… say…"
"Sign a master-servant contract."
Ethan stated his purpose without hesitation.
Of course, he had already thought it through. If the worm queen refused, he would not hesitate to use the Queen Bee's power to have it bitten to death, then use the Queen Bee to replace it and control the swarm.
That would work too, but it still wouldn't be as good as the original worm queen.
Especially since… The Queen Bee was already in charge of two swarms. Sometimes, through their mental connection, Ethan could even sense the pressure it was under.
Even if a single insect was strong, controlling too many swarms at once was still a bit too much.
So…nEthan preferred to cooperate with the original queen of the swarm. That would naturally be the best outcome.
"No…"
After hesitating for a long time, the worm queen refused.
At the same time, Ethan received a system notification!
[Sun Worm Queen: Refuses to sign master-servant contract. Force tame?]
[PS: There is a chance of failure, which may cause the worm queen to go berserk.]
'Not yet.'
Ethan rejected the system's suggestion.
He knew very well how much the worm queen needed the life spring crystals in his hand right now. If he could take it down easily with this, why force it?
Besides… Once he used the force-taming skill, it would definitely consume a large amount of the worm queen's energy.
And where would that energy come from? Naturally, from Poker Face's body.
This was exactly what Ethan wanted to avoid.
"You should agree, because I know you need this very much right now," Ethan directly took out a hundred portions of life spring crystals, placed them in an empty basin, and pushed it in front of the Queen Bee, "And if you sign a master-servant contract with me, not only will I not treat you poorly, I'll even give you the same treatment as the Queen Bee."
"You've stayed here long enough to see clearly that I don't abuse my pets. I treat them like family, even giving them the best living conditions and the best food."
"I even protect them when necessary."
As he spoke, Ethan deliberately walked to the entrance of the Pet Park and pushed the door open.
A gust of cold wind immediately swept in from outside, causing the sun worms that had been outside to instantly retreat back into Poker Face's body.
The fart bees and mutated killer bees also quickly flew back into the hive.
The Extreme Cold Night was simply too cold.
These fire-attributed creatures simply couldn't withstand such freezing weather.
Sure enough… When Poker Face felt the temperature difference outside and saw the thick layer of snow beyond the Pet Park, although his expression didn't change at all, Ethan could see a ripple flicker in his eyes.
The worm queen hesitated.
"Think about it," Ethan seized the moment to persuade it, "It's the Extreme Cold Night outside, and this kind of weather might last for a long time."
"If you're unwilling to cooperate with me, you might be able to endure it yourself, but what about your entire swarm?"
"They need to have energy as strong as yours."
"And besides…"
"If you leave me, where could you even go?"
[Sun Worm Queen, tamable!]
[Tame?]
As expected, with Ethan's words, the system's prompt changed again.
He guessed his silver tongue had kicked in once more. The worm queen had already fallen into hesitation, and now it just needed one final push.
"I, Ethan, swear!"
Seizing the moment, Ethan spoke again, "As long as you sign a master-servant contract with me, I swear to provide at least one portion of life spring crystals to you every day, until all my supply is exhausted."
[Sun Worm Queen has intent to submit. Tame?]
It changed again.
Ethan was overjoyed and continued persuading, "And I guarantee I will never mistreat your swarm. When necessary, I'll even help your swarm reproduce…"
"I… agree…"
Just like a successful proposal, the sun worm queen finally agreed to Ethan's terms.
In the next instant, the man and the worm formed a master-servant contract.
And at the very moment the contract was completed, Ethan suddenly sensed that the worm queen inside Poker Face's body was undergoing a mutation. And that mutation seemed to be a change in form, so strange it was almost impossible to describe.
How to put it? The worm queen was disappearing, and its soul, or rather its consciousness, was directly merging into Poker Face's body, as if preparing to replace him entirely and become a new…
'Human?'
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