Simulation: Start with exotic animals

Chapter 173 A Different Metamorphosis

In the phantom space, it still looks familiar,
There is no starry sky, and no surface, only the huge phantom of the human head and snake tail filling the entire space,

Glowing entries of various colors hover above the phantom, which are the entries that have been extracted from various worlds.

[Showdown (golden)]

【Gender Disguise From DNA (Golden)】

【Reproductive Isolation Challenger (Gold)】

[Cloud Inheritance (Golden)]

【Father's Love (Gold)】

【Egg-Fetal Duality (Golden)】

【Love to suck cute things (purple)】

……

Unknowingly, he has extracted a lot of entries,
All kinds of lights flickered, dazzled him,
And under the phantom, there are several white light balls and a colored light ball floating.

From nudibranchs, tassel sandpipers, dolphins, to fold-eared cats, he has simulated things, from flying in the sky to swimming in the sea, birds and beasts, and people with wet eggs and slippery spines.

"Simulation system!"

This is Zhao Meng's name for this phantom space.

But the so-called system is just a name given by him, Zhao Meng doesn't know what it is.

Human beings are always full of fear of the unknown,

As his cultivation level grew, Zhao Meng also felt extremely complicated about this 'simulation system'.

Every time he faced the simulation system, he would think of a sentence from his previous life, free things are the most expensive.

Even if a person gives money to a beggar, it is to gain sentimental value based on compassion.

Then what is the simulation system for? What is the purpose of her bringing herself into this world?
Thinking of this, Zhao Meng was confused about how he could enter this phantom space and obtain the entry function.

"What is your purpose?"

Zhao Meng came under the phantom, looking up at the existence of this human head and snake tail,

Thinking back to the beginning, the entries I obtained ranged from a fight against females, to isolation challenges, to cloud inheritance.

The phantom along the way is obviously purposeful,

This feeling of being arranged made him panic. After being able to survive with his current ability, Zhao Meng also avoided using the simulation system as much as possible.

He would not turn on the simulation system unless necessary.

But now, recalling Yunfu's begging, he still couldn't help but refuse this descendant after all.

If he hadn't told Yun Fu the fact that Hu Jiang was a fox, such a thing would not have happened.

Thinking of this, Zhao Meng said to Xu Ying:

"You may have seen the situation I encountered, and you don't know if you have a good way!"

After saying this, Zhao Meng stared at the phantom for a while, seeing that the phantom did not respond, Zhao Meng sighed silently,
From his point of view, Xuying arranged those entries for him, which obviously has its own operating logic. Since there is logic, there is also the possibility of communication, but it is a pity that Xuying never responded to his request.

"That's it!"

Zhao Meng looked at the two balls of light,
One of them is the white light ball represented by the blue-spotted sea hare, because it has been successfully done once, the next time will be Erzhoumu.

The other is a ball of light shining with colored light, which represents a new animal.

Zhao Meng took another look at the phantom of the human head and snake tail, and chose the colorful light cluster.

next moment,
Zhao Meng disappeared into the phantom space, only the great existence with a head and a snake tail flickered slightly.

……

Having simulated several kinds of animals, he felt something when he regained consciousness:
"It's the disturbance of the water flow!"

Zhao Meng felt the surrounding environment, it was pitch black, he couldn't see anything, although he couldn't see, but he could feel that he was floating with some kind of water,

It's just that he doesn't know whether it is in the sea or in the rivers and lakes.

"What animal is being simulated this time?" At this moment, a prompt from the simulation system appeared in Zhao Meng's eyes.

[In the first week, you were born from a gastrula and became a free-swimming larva of a starfish. 】

"starfish!"

Seeing such a reminder, Zhao Meng felt the wriggling fluff around him, and said in surprise:
"It's a starfish!"

"Freestyle Larval Form"

"The starfish larva looks like this!"

As a starfish larva, Zhao Meng felt that he was no different from plankton.

Fortunately, for Zhao Meng, who has simulated seahorses and sunfish, he is already familiar with this floating state.

Although such a process has already been experienced, it is not good news for Zhao Meng.

Existing in a planktonic state can only show that the reproduction of this kind of creature also follows the state of a sunfish with a large number of tubes and a probability of survival.

"I don't know if there is an entry on Haixing's body that can solve the cloud talisman dilemma."

With this thought in mind, Zhao Meng continued to simulate.

[In the second week, through continuous eating, the cilia further developed...]

[In the third week, you were caught by a filter fish, and the simulation failed. 】

Although Zhao Meng eats very seriously, the probability of surviving a large number of reproduction means that most starfish larvae cannot survive.

Even though Zhao Meng has a wealth of experience in misconduct, he successfully entered the normal simulation after several failed restarts.

……

……

[In the third week, your cilia develop further and form a band of cilia surrounding your body. At the same time, your body appears three-body compartment, and you enter the two-feathered larva stage of a starfish. 】

Feeling the speed of his body's swimming accelerated and his ability to eat further strengthened, Zhao Meng silently breathed a sigh of relief, and his survivability has been further improved.

"Unfortunately, it is still in the floating stage."

"The me now, maybe I can only see it with a microscope!"

Zhao Meng hid in the algae area, carefully filtering the surrounding things,
Compared with other plankton without self-awareness, it obviously has a higher survival rate with human intelligent creatures.

Otherwise, with plankton's pitiful adult rate of a few tenths of a percent, he may not be able to succeed even if he reopens it hundreds or thousands of times.

[In the fourth week, your body continues to develop, and some small protrusions appear on the body. 】

"Are you going to become a starfish?"

Feeling the three little things in front of him, he was full of anticipation after three weeks of boring wandering.

[In the first month, your head grew three small arms, and you entered the short arm larvae stage of starfish]

"What a strange appearance."

Feeling the three tentacles on the head and the mucus secreted on them,
Zhao Meng felt very uncomfortable. If the system hadn't told him that this was a simulated starfish, he might not have figured out what animal he was simulating until now.

[In the second month, you follow your instinct and use your arms and legs to fix near the nutrient-rich ocean current rocks, and you begin to develop into adults and begin to metamorphose]

"It turns out that the small arms and legs are used in this way!"

"But this usage is even more strange!"

Zhao Meng found that his mouth that he used to eat was "biting" the stone and the three newly grown arms and legs turned into handles.

As for the original breast, it has become a mouth for ingesting food.

If it's just upside down like this, he can still get used to it,

But just turning it upside down doesn't seem to be able to turn into a starfish.
So, as a starfish larva, he opened another mouth on the left side of his body following the direction of the ocean current, and a corresponding mouth appeared on the right side against the current.
The original digestive tract of the larva begins to degenerate, and the radiation becomes symmetrical slowly.

Feeling this change, even Zhao Meng, who has simulated several kinds of animals, felt a little uncomfortable at this point.

"Open your mouth and your body indiscriminately"

"Is this really a creature on Earth?"

Although he was complaining in his heart, the change of the starfish larva gave Zhao Meng a glimmer of hope.

But only a trace.

"After all, this kind of random opening is not as good as the back and anus of sea rabbits."

[In the third month, you grow through filter feeding, and your body size further increases. 】

The system prompts that Zhao Meng's body size has become larger, but Zhao Meng discovered through the comparison of the surrounding environment that the so-called body size has become larger,

Maybe it was from the extent that he could only be seen with a microscope before, and now he can be seen with a magnifying glass.

【Eat and grow in the fourth month. 】

At the step of fixing to the rock, Zhao Meng found that the survival rate of starfish larvae has been significantly improved.

This made him think of the hippocampus he had simulated before,
Although they are two completely different tiny creatures, they seem to choose the same way in terms of survival strategy at this stage.

Only the seedlings of sunfish float freely in the sea and become a feast for all kinds of creatures.

[In the fifth month, after continuous feeding, you have completed the metamorphosis of the larvae and entered the adult stage. 】

Zhao Meng became perverted, but not completely perverted.

"It hasn't turned into a starfish yet!"

Feeling the current state, Zhao Meng was a little dazed,
The most typical frog among metamorphosis creatures does not need to go through such steps from tadpole metamorphosis to frog, but as a starfish, he has gone through several photometamorphosis.

"It would be great if it could be more perverted!"

To be honest, Starfish's larval stage is very uncomfortable, and the various organs on his body are changing, which makes him very uncomfortable.

[In the sixth month, after continuous eating, your body structure area is stabilized. 】

"Finally a bit like a starfish!"

Sensing his physical condition, Zhao Meng heaved a sigh of relief,

Finally, his body is not changing randomly, and it is developing towards the direction of the starfish, and the shape of the five-pointed star of the starfish has also begun to become obvious.

[In the seventh month, after eating continuously, your digestive tract completes the radiation-type change, you become a larval starfish, and you complete the final metamorphosis. 】

"starfish!"

Feeling his own appearance, at the moment when the metamorphosis was completed, Zhao Meng broke away from the rock like a prison,

He returned to the free sea, and the accumulated emotions were released at this moment.

From the starfish larva to the starfish juvenile, he has experienced more than half a year,

So much time may only be a moment in retrospect, but as a witness to Zhao Meng, it is an indescribable process.

"It can only be said that the metamorphosis process of starfish is very abnormal."

Zhao Meng who regained his freedom was very happy.

……

[In the first year, your body will grow further by eating continuously. 】

"The growth rate of starfish is not bad."

Comparing the surrounding environment, Zhao Meng found that his current body shape was already as big as a thumbnail.

Although compared to normal starfish, this size is still small,

But compared to starfish juveniles that have just completed their metamorphosis and are only as big as dust, this growth rate is quite terrifying.

And more importantly, as his size got bigger, the starfish's eating method also changed,

This allowed Zhao Meng to find a way to save Hu Jiang.

"Who would have thought that the starfish would spit out its stomach when eating, which is too strange."

"I have simulated so many animals, but the starfish's situation is the most bizarre."

[In the second year, you become an adult starfish, and your instinct drives you to look for something. 】

"Tsk! It's time to breed again, what a hassle!"

At this time, Zhao Meng was lying on the bottom of the sea dealing with a clam.

Facing the starfish crawling on its body, the clam tightly closed its shell, preventing Zhao Meng from taking advantage of it.

But this didn't stop Zhao Meng from eating. Zhao Meng used his pentagonal arms and feet to pick up the shell of the clam, and then aimed his mouth at the crack of the shell.

Several arms and legs exerted force at the same time, and Zhao Meng, who is a starfish, opened a small gap in the closed clam.

Then Zhao Meng opened his lower mouth,
"Oh, oh!"

Zhao Meng spit out a large ball of stuff along the gap that was torn open on the clam's body.

And this big mass is his stomach,

With his stomach, entering the body of the clam, his stomach began to digest the clam inside.

The shell originally used to protect the clam has become an external stomach of the starfish in this way.

Soon the clam meat inside was swallowed by Zhao Meng's stomach,
At this time, the clam shell has no power,
Zhao Meng opened his mouth, pulled the intestines connected to the stomach, and sucked the stomach back into his body.

"As a starfish, I always feel like an alien creature every time I eat."

"However, if you can extract this entry and give it a cloud symbol, it will be much better than back and anus."

"But starfish are different from humans after all. What would it be like if humans could throw out their own stomachs and digest the food before taking them back?"

Some strange pictures could not help appearing in Zhao Meng's consciousness.

Zhao Meng hurriedly shook his tentacles to expel these images from his consciousness, and then thought of another question.

"I don't know if I can imitate a starfish this time. Is it the response from the phantom?"

Zhao Meng, who was lying on the clam and digesting the food, recalled the request he made to Xuying when he entered the simulation.

"Is it a coincidence, or did she really respond to my request?"

……

After digesting the food, Zhao Meng shook his arms and legs and walked in one direction.

Although he is not interested in breeding.

But the inexplicable hormones in the sea made Zhao Meng unable to control himself. In order to complete the simulation, he still headed towards the gathering place.

……

Compared with other animals, they need to compete for different breeding targets.

The breeding process of starfish is much more peaceful. Female starfish and male starfish gather together to release their responsibilities to the fullest.

As for whether the responsibilities of the two parties can be blended, we can only rely on the flow of sea water.

After seeing such a scene, Zhao Meng naturally found an upper air outlet, no, upper class, ready to brandish his arms and feet, and take due responsibility,
But when he waved his arms and legs, he suddenly discovered an extraordinary thing.

"I didn't notice before, how come there are..."

"It's amazing that a starfish has such tentacles."

(End of this chapter)