It was just a pity that the pet cage was another item that couldn't really spark interest among players.
After all, not many players could get a bunch of pets like Ethan.
Having a fox or a dog as a pet already made someone a pretty impressive player, and if you had those kinds of pets, you didn't even need a pet cage.
They'd just follow you around anyway.
'Continue!'
"There are a hundred spirit stones below."
"But there's nothing much to say about that. They're just ordinary spirit stones."
"Alright!"
"Next, we should focus on these eggs."
"I really wonder what kind of pet eggs these are. It's honestly pretty exciting!"
While talking to the video, Ethan picked up a white egg about the size of a chicken egg.
To be honest, he was genuinely curious too.
After all, up to now, every egg he had obtained had turned out to be something good.
The first batch of eggs he got were eagle eggs, which hatched into a white eagle. It had now evolved into a firebird. As a flying pet, it was already pretty impressive.
The second batch of eggs were sunworm eggs. Without those eggs, he probably wouldn't even be able to go out now.
As for the third batch, they were these slime creature eggs. Originally, he had no way to deal with those carrion moles underground, but after dropping a batch of worm eggs, they were wiped out instantly.
Besides that, there was actually still one egg inside Ethan's witch tail ring.
But that egg hadn't shown any movement so far. Ethan had taken it out and studied it for quite a while. At one point, he even suspected the egg might be spoiled. But later, he discovered that as long as he pressed his ear against it, he could hear a heartbeat inside.
So the egg was definitely still alive. He just had no idea what kind of creature was inside.
However, based on the rule that the bigger the egg, the longer it takes to hatch, and the stronger it is, Ethan felt that egg, which was bigger than a basketball, definitely wasn't something simple.
And now, the dozen or so eggs that came out of this treasure chest were naturally not going to be simple either.
However, the moment Ethan touched the egg, what showed up was actually—
[Chicken Egg]
"???"
Ethan was instantly dumbfounded.
'What the hell is this? Sure, these eggs do look a bit like chicken eggs, but I really… really have never thought they would actually be chicken eggs!'
'What, did this platinum treasure chest think I haven't eaten enough eggs lately, so it is rewarding me with some to eat?'
Then, Ethan lowered his head and glanced at the last remaining book in the platinum chest, titled "Roasted Chicken Secret Recipe," and immediately rolled his eyes.
'So, this platinum treasure chest wants me to hatch chicken eggs?'
'Then wait for the chicks to grow up so I can have roasted chicken to eat?'
"I…"
Ethan wanted to curse, but couldn't even find a refined word for it.
But just at that moment—
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The chicken egg in Ethan's hand suddenly made faint cracking sounds.
He looked down and saw that the entire eggshell had split, and a small beak had broken through the shell, revealing a wet, sticky little chicken head.
"Even if it hatches, it's still just a chicken."
Annoyed, Ethan threw the cracked egg straight onto the ground.
This video was getting impossible to continue.
But right then, the moment the egg hit the ground, the chick inside not only wasn't harmed, it quickly crawled out of the broken shell. The instant it came out, it pecked at one of the slime creature worms crawling around Ethan with fast, precise force.
"Holy shit!"
Ethan was startled, but it was already too late to stop it.
The little yellow chick opened its beak and directly swallowed the slime creature that Ethan had painstakingly hatched.
But in the next second, something completely unexpected happened. The chick began to grow rapidly in an instant.
Just like when Ethan had hatched the white eagle back then.
The chick, originally the size of an egg, quickly expanded into the size of a normal chicken. And it didn't stop there. It kept growing.
Growing, growing, growing… the chick kept getting bigger.
In the end, the chick actually turned into a… giant chicken over one meter tall.
"Huh?"
Nostradamus and Genie Sylas had somehow come to Ethan's side.
Looking at the chicken, Genie Sylas suddenly exclaimed, "Isn't this an ancient species chicken? I think it's called an Ancient Giant Chicken, right?"
"Yeah! The strongest trait of this kind of chicken is that it can eat creatures from the dark world," Nostradamus nodded and said, "And it can convert the energy of dark creatures into nutrients. The greater the energy, the bigger it grows."
"I think I heard that this kind of chicken also reproduces really fast, right?"
"Exactly!", Nostradamus confirmed again, "But there's one strange thing. I heard this species has been extinct for a long time! How did it suddenly appear again?"
"This chest seemed to be taken out of the tyrant's body just now," Genie Sylas stroked his chin and said, "Could it be that before this species went extinct, the tyrant swallowed the chest containing these Ancient Giant Chickens, which is why they survived until now?"
"That's very possible! Then this kid really got lucky. I've heard the meat of this Ancient Giant Chicken is tender, juicy, and extremely delicious."
'So that's how it is?'
After hearing the conversation between Nostradamus and Genie Sylas, Ethan finally realized that the chicken from the platinum chest actually had such a big background.
But just then, this grown Ancient Giant Chicken lowered its head again, preparing to eat the remaining slime creatures on the ground.
Those slime creatures immediately fled in panic, scrambling to Ethan's feet and trembling.
Startled, Ethan quickly took out the pet cage in his hand and shouted, "Collect!"
Only then did he store all the slime creatures back into the cage, preventing them from being eaten by the Ancient Giant Chicken.
The Ancient Giant Chicken seemed very dissatisfied that Ethan had made all the worms disappear. It actually used its massive beak to peck down toward Ethan's head, as if planning to eat him like a bug.
Naturally, Ethan didn't hold back. He swung his hand and slapped the Ancient Giant Chicken flying.
"Cluck!"
The Ancient Giant Chicken let out a miserable cry, kicked its legs twice, and died on the spot.
Ethan hadn't expected that despite its size, the Ancient Giant Chicken's combat ability would be so ridiculously weak.
But whatever. It was meant to be eaten anyway.
So he simply took out the last recipe book from the platinum chest.
He opened it.
Inside, there was actually only a single alchemy formula.
'Isn't it way different from what I expected?'
He thought it would be some kind of cooking recipe for roasted chicken, but in this world, making roasted chicken was actually done directly through an alchemy formula?
'What a genius!'
Ethan looked at the requirements listed in the alchemy formula.
It needed one Ancient Giant Chicken, some sweet flowers, some salt, some lava chili peppers, and some sludge, along with some charcoal.
Fortunately, Ethan had all of these.
'Then let's do it. Let me see what kind of chicken you can turn this into.'
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