Larva Burrow

"What!" Jacob shouted in his mind. He never thought it would have ended like this after all that fighting for so long and hard. "Underestimating your opponent is the worst thing someone can do out here".

Jacob watched to see what the larvae would do, but he stayed as he was but his bleeding only got worse. Jacob being who he was wanted benefits, but he was not willing to die for it. Leaving a gene core behind didn't seem right even if he couldn't leave them.

Slowly he walked out from the corner he was hiding.

*screer*

The larva was not dead and made a low squeal. He continued to look at Jacob then made the same noise toward Jacob like he was calling out to him "Me? I don't understand you". Jacob felt this was all a ploy to make him let his guard down to kill him.

*scrrreerr*

The larva made the same squeal but Jacob didn't go over to him, he didn't want to meet the same painful ending the larva did.

He moved over to the Ants carcass. Its head was completely burned out and had no inside -or brain, It was even still smoking.

"Damn, smells like shit" The burning flesh smells repulsive. He covered his nose and started looking for the useful parts of his body. He refrained from taking apart the actual carcass. He could not preserve it well enough for him to be able to use it for anything.

He took the gene core which was the size of his fist and put it in his makeshift backpack.

*screer*

The larva was still calling out to Jacob.``What the hell do you want? Not everyone is a dumbass like this guy, I will kill you". It made the same noises over and over, and Jacob gave up and understood them. He looked past him to where the Ant was pulling him out it looked to be a burrow of sorts.

"Is this where he lives?" Jacob made sure to be wide around him and went into the burrow. It was dark, but his essence stone enabled his line of sight. He made his made down the steep hill into the burrow.

He reached down and heard some little noises. It sounded like birds chirping. "Is there something else down here?" Jacob was no on high alert. He tried to find the source of the sound, he looked around the cave until he reached the further most end, he saw what to be a nest.

"Is this?" Jacob knew what it was but he had to question himself. It was a nest with termite larvae, but there were dozens of them slaughtered. "Maybe the Ant was the one that did all this" It was bloody and only a few were left alive.

Jacob looked around longer and found a bigger corpse. It was almost as big as the one outside "I guess this dead guy was the dad". It was in a position that told him that it was protecting its child, there are other dead ants that were down there which led Jacob to believe that there were more ants involved in the attack.

Jacob admired them for saving their children at the cost of their lives. It looked like a real battlefield down there."Rest In Peace", he admired them for fighting till the end.

"Now to see if there is any good stuff" Jacob rubbed his hand together and went through the cuts on his skin. A few minutes later they came out with a gene core the size of his had.

*ptu*ptu*ptu*

"Hahaha, Nice score" Jacob spat blood from his mouth and pocketed his gains. He continued to move around and couldn't get over the incessant squeaking of the termite larvae."Dam these guys are annoying" He walked over to them and saw that they were mindlessly playing through some dirt and eating.

"If your eating then how do you have this much energy to make noise....wait….what the fuck are you eating!" Jacob kicked away the termite larvae, "Why are you guys eating this like it a snack!". He kicked away all the termite larvae who were in the soil. They were all eating genling roots.

Jacob searched the soil and he felt them upon the dozens. "Haha! I struck the motherlode", everywhere he searched were Genling roots and they were all large. Jacob looked like he had found real gold.

Jacob stuffed them in his backpack and ate them. He had plenty now so he ate some for himself. The excitement he felt drowned out the acidic taste that it had, and he continued to eat happily. He vomited a familiar foul substance, soon after he saw a prompt.

<Detoxification Complete>

<Bodily functions returned to normal>

Jacob felt his body felt like it was energized. It was a good feeling, it was rejuvenating. Jacob continued to make sure he had enough stock in his bag until it was overflowing. He was happy with what he had gotten and felt like he could leave the cave. He needed nothing more from the cave. Especially getting mixed up in the Ant war.

"This is good, It's about time I go up" Jacob was laying on the soil, basking on his gains. It would not make many people happy having these things, only he had to worry about toxins.

"It's about time I finished up this mission and leave this place" Jacob got to his feet and dusted his ass off.

*squeal*

Jacob heard a familiar noise. It was the termite larvae squirming toward him. "Get the fuck away from-" Jacob stopped his kick and thought of the larvae and how hard she had to fight then sighed. "Fine, I can at least make you see your mother" He rounded up all his other termite larvae brothers and sister from the ground and took them out of the burrow.

The little ones were worried for their mother. They instantly sharted their chirping louder when they saw her. Jacob put them on the ground and they crawled to their mother.