Spore Story

Chapter 30 A New Morning... Lazy Sleep

[In order to meet the needs of more complex body systems, the brain evolved again. 】

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In the dim space, a few streaks of lightning flashed from time to time.

"I didn't expect the brain to evolve like this."

"Speaking of which, I didn't notice when the brain appeared, review."

Shaking the two flagella behind his back, it seems that he is still in his infancy, and the seven lightning bugs not far away have clearly appeared in the pair of lens eyes in front of the evolved lightning bug's head.

"This is the colorful world in my memory. Sure enough, lenticular eyes are the most suitable eyes for me."

After living in the dark for a long time, Lei Jian was finally able to open his eyes and see the world.

There was a burst of hunger from the body, which made Lei Jian unable to continue to sigh.Nearly a hundred lightning larvae swarmed up, using a racial instinct-like ejection and jumping movement, rushing towards the piles of food that had been chewed by the seven lightning worms. The little guy is constantly showing his vitality.

Swallowing a piece of minced meat into his stomach, the lightning strike of something at the bottom was relieved from hunger.While continuing to eat, think about the next situation.

"Although it is more dangerous during the day, there are many more opportunities. In the current situation, although species branches have begun to appear in large numbers, they are still wandering around at night. There are only a few similar creatures, and there are not many components and evolution points. And It’s been a long time since I came to the shallow sea, and I can’t record the time. But there should be a lot of species during the day.”

He opened his mouth to swallow a piece of minced meat, and squeezed away the little lightning bug who jumped in line beside him.

"The main purpose now is to solve the bone problem, but..."

He twisted his body and looked around.When he just came out of the creature editing space and looked around with his eyes, Lei Jian noticed that the range of telepathy hadn't increased much.Although there are various problems such as the blockage of water flow, the eyes can see far less in the sea than on land, but now the distance that the eyes can observe has exceeded the telepathy, so the telepathy has naturally been downgraded to become the second line of defense. .

In addition, there is no sense of hearing, smell, and taste. The latter two can wait for the accumulation of evolutionary points to install the chemical perception system.

"Well, let's take one step at a time."

More than 100 small lightning bugs crowded in this narrow crack to compete for food, and feeling full, Thunder decisively withdrew from the competition circle.

"It's still a larva, so it seems to be able to fit, but it will not work when it grows up."

Looking at a bunch of small lightning bugs in the small cave, Lei Zhen had to think about the nest problem.

"I don't know if it's a problem with the evolution of the brain. In addition to feeling some faint emotions, the absolute control over these guys has decreased a little. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

"However, they must have self-awareness before they can develop better."

At this time, Thunderbolt is looking forward to the further evolution of the racial brain until the time when fully autonomous consciousness appears, although it does not know whether the individuals in the group will still listen to it at that time.

"The question now is whether to continue the small group activities like before or gather hundreds of them together."

Seeing the fed little lightning bugs retreating to the periphery one after another, it turned out that they were scrambling for food one by one just now. In the end, after most of them were full, the real reduction in food was limited.This made Lei Jian a little funny, if it weren't for those little guys who would automatically move away when they crowded around him, maybe he wouldn't be able to eat now.

"Hundreds of them gather together, and it looks like a large scale. There should be fewer small predators, and it may be safer for me, the main creature. But this has no deterrent effect on those large predators at all. On the contrary Is it more attractive? Facing those guys who open their mouths, they will be swallowed by a group. It doesn’t look like a good deal. And now it’s not like a bunch of large clusters at the single-cell stage, there are also a bunch of them, everywhere. The current aquatic Most of the organisms live in small groups, and it is not easy to obtain food in large groups."

Seeing that the little lightning bugs were full, the lightning bugs waiting on the side began to leave the cracks one after another to go out for food. It was night, the time for the lightning bugs to forage.

"And a group of more than a dozen is less attractive to those large predators, and can have a certain counterattack ability against small predators. Although it seems dangerous, it is probably only for the group I control. As far as the lightning bugs who kill new components are concerned. Relying on the current physical conditions, ordinary lightning bugs usually only need to satisfy survival and reproduction. It should be no problem, otherwise the evaluation of the boss level will be too watery."

The thunderbolt who was walking behind when they went out to look for food actually used gravel to block the crack and drove back a few curious little lightning bugs that tried to escape.It seems that they have all learned the larva protection strategy of the phantom during lightning and thunder.

"Moreover, it is possible for everyone to live in more than a dozen groups. Usually, the groups move separately, and the nests of more than 100 can be as large as agglomeration. Living together in this way, there is also a care when breeding. If you want a large group to look for food, you can also wait for the spine to appear. Think about it when you swim nimbly and quickly through the water, like a school of fish. Well, that's it."

When they made up their minds to pay attention, seven lightning bugs had already blocked the crack, and a few little guys were still dissatisfied and put a few currents on the crack to express their dissatisfaction.Lei Jian slowly selected a few not very active guys from nearly a hundred Thunder Bugs and took them behind him, and then began to group the remaining little Thunder Bugs running around.

This is a wonderful way, and even now Kong Huan can't understand its principle.Previously, Konghuan discovered that although the absolute control over the group has declined, he can give simple commands to the creatures of the group, and they will complete the corresponding simple tasks according to their own arrangements. This is probably due to the appearance of the brain and the weak memory of the body. the benefits of it.Of course, the command still has the spiritual power of Kong Huan's continuous proficiency to directly command the individuals of each ethnic group.

"This should be a kind of ability of the main consciousness of race, but when I asked 8051 during the break, it turned out to be 'please explore by yourself'. Tch, don't tell me I can use it very well."

While discussing, Lei Zhen used the privilege of racial master consciousness to divide the remaining dozens of Thunder Bugs into six groups, and let the more active and flexible Thunder Bugs be the dispensable leader.Then, these little guys started to get together and circle around their corresponding leader worms.

"It's really convenient. Although the control ability has been reduced, but with this ability, you don't have to bother to control them one by one."

The cool moonlight shining through the gap between the blocked cracks showed that it was still night outside.After being active for a while, the little ones went into hibernation one after another.

"After that, we will act during the day, and we must concentrate. But from this point of view, the lightning bug will continue to be active at night."

There was a burst of exhaustion in the body. Anyway, it would take a while to grow up to be able to go out for activities, and Thunderbolt also slowly fell into a dormant state.

———————Separation line: It’s really comfortable to sleep——————

Sunlight shone in through the cracks, covering the nearly transparent Thunderbolt with a light coat of light.

"Ok?"

"Is it daylight again?"

Quite humane waving tentacles to stretch, and a new day begins again.

"I really want to try the feeling of sleeping late again. By the way, how did the eyelids appear? I'm not used to seeing the light in my eyes at dawn."

Lei Jian stared at a pair of big eyes and rolled his eyes to look around.

"Probably appeared after a relatively safe time. Now it's not safe at night. I can't say when I will be attacked at night."

The bright light woke up the lightning bugs one after another through the eyes that could not be closed.Slightly released a current to eliminate the drowsiness that had not completely receded, and also woke up the snoozing partner beside him. Lei Jian twisted his soft and transparent body a few times.

After growing to a certain level, the previous cracks could no longer hold nearly a hundred lightning bugs, so Lightning took his companions who had grown to the same level, and left the original nest when the lightning bugs foraged again and returned to the crack, and by the way opened the crack into The seven lightning bugs that had entered dormancy inside were blocked with gravel to prevent them from being discovered by daytime predators.

As soon as he left the nest with nearly a hundred lightning bugs, he took advantage of the sunlight and when many creatures were still inactive, he found a rock group near the lightning bug's nest. There were many cracks suitable for nests, and The gaps between the rocks also facilitate the concealed entry and exit of the lightning bugs.After destroying more than a dozen hidden creatures inside, Lei Zhen led the Lei Zhen insects to occupy the "mountain" as king.

"It's time for work."

Leaving the nest with a few lightning bugs behind him, he walked concealedly along the rock gap.All the lightning bugs left the nest like this after a few days of adaptation, which greatly reduced the chance of being discovered by other predators, but the lightning knew that it was only a matter of time before they were discovered.So I need to work hard to evolve, complete this stage, and make the population better able to survive.

"Then, although the lightning bug is still a little dangerous, its survival is no problem, and it has basically stabilized. This is the time to consider the bone problem."

Swinging the tentacles with muscles, higher strength and long-term exercise made the speed of the Thunderbolts increase again, and the shuttle between the rocks made the Thunderbolts have the refreshing feeling of running Need for Speed.

"'Produce the original carapace by accumulating minerals on the back', now I can think of the method of this snail's appearance, but how to accumulate? What minerals to accumulate? It's all a problem."

"Try it, there will always be a way."

After thinking about it for a while, combined with the approximate method that he had come up with in the past few days, Lei Zhen decided to go to the mud and sand where the thunder beast was dormant before.

Now I don’t know what minerals should be the best to accumulate, and I don’t know what the mineral calcium looks like, so the mineral I saw before at the Thunder Beast’s location can effectively conduct electricity. The race of means should be a better choice.

Lei Jian felt that he could no longer confine himself to thinking about the races of today from the perspective of human beings in the past. It is the kingly way to walk out of the road of race development with his own style.Every time I think back to the heroic appearance of Thunder Beast wrapped in thunder and lightning at night, while deeply fearful, it is more of Kong Huan's envy and curiosity for Thunder Beast's strength.

With a few companions behind him, Lei Jian carefully avoided more predators than at night.After hunting and avoiding for a long time, Lei Zhen also discovered that for civilian-level creatures, they will resign themselves to their fate to live leisurely in this shallow water, trying to reproduce the next generation before being eaten one day; miscellaneous soldiers will accumulate experience and live cautiously In this world; and the boss level is actually considered a master among ordinary predators, except to be careful of super predators, they can generally survive better; above the level, probably the huge predator is considered a BOSS; So what level is Thunder Beast?Lightning strikes sometimes raise such questions.

The piece of sand that encountered the Thunder Beast before gradually emerged in the distance.After installing the lenticular eye, Thunderbolt's mental induction has been downgraded to an all-round small-scale early warning mode around the body, while the eyes have become the main detection system directly ahead.

The shallow sea world is not as colorful and vibrant as the earth's shallow seas in the past.Now it is mostly a piece of marl gray, and occasionally a few creatures swim by to bring out a little life.

"I don't know what the land looks like now. Let's go to the land after this stage is completed."

PS: Recently, the speed of turning the pages of books at the starting point is so slow, I am depressed...

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