Spore Story

Chapter 32 is about to take shape...skeleton

"Then what should be done?"

Looking at the fading sunlight outside the nest, Lei Jian couldn't fall asleep.Although it was the last body's work to shed the carapace that was about to form, but the back of this body still seemed to be aching.

"Now it is proved that calcium carbide and the method of accumulating minerals can form bone carapace, and calcium carbide may also be the most suitable mineral for my race. But..."

"Do you want to continue accumulating on your back?"

"Except for the snails, then there was a lightweight carapace. How did that form? Make the shell thinner?"

Twisting his relaxed and soft body again, Thunderbolt moved to the opening of the lair, observing the outside world through the lens eye, night is gradually falling.

"As far as the light carapace is concerned, those beetles seem to be able to float in the water with a little force. Excluding the mineral factors that form the carapace, it is probably because the gap between the minerals increases and the carapace becomes thinner. But in this way, the main part of the carapace The function is to really support the body's exoskeleton, not a snail-like defense."

"But is the exoskeleton really enough? For me. And the defense of those light beetles is not low."

The outside has completely darkened, and through the gaps in the rocks, one can occasionally see a large predator swimming through the water above, and even some small and medium-sized creatures pass by not far from the nest, maybe they also need to rest.

"As far as the creatures on the earth are concerned, the spine of the endoskeleton should be the best. Large and medium-sized creatures on the earth such as dinosaurs and humans are supported by spines rather than exoskeletons, while insects did not occupy a high-end position in the later stage. "Han Huan is a person who believes that 'existence is reasonable'. Since I used to be a creature on the earth, as far as I know, the endoskeleton is definitely better than the exoskeleton, so why not use the endoskeleton?So "it seems that we should try to form an endoskeleton from the beginning."

But here is another problem.

"So, how did the endoskeleton form?"

The water has completely darkened, and it looks like it will be another dark cloudy night.

"Those lightning bugs should be able to forage better."

"I don't know what happened to the lightning bug."

"Why do you think of them, let's continue to think about how to form the endoskeleton."

"Hey, I'm so sleepy."

I don’t know if it’s because of the long night’s dormancy that the lightning bugs have developed a habit. When the night falls completely, the lightning can’t stand the drowsiness, and enters the sleep with a companion, but if you want to dream with the current brain level, it’s possible Not yet.

———————————Long night dividing line———————————

For the next period of time, Lei Zhen didn't go to the sandy ground of Thunder Beast again.

It's not because of fear, except for the reverence for the thunder beast's coercion, Lei Jian can also see that as long as he doesn't make the opponent sleep, there is no danger.

The reason why I don't go to the mud and sand to collect ores is because Thunderbolt has to think carefully about how to form the spine, and hunt and kill to accumulate some evolution points.

Then today, Lei Jian brought his current companions to this sandy land again.

After ordering his companions to forage for food by themselves, but never getting close to the calcium carbide range, let alone discharge, Lei Zhen swam to the rock where the calcium carbide was obtained before.

"Let's try to put a thinner layer of thick skin on the surface of the skin first, and use the mesh as the frame to increase at least some defense. It has not reached the defense level of the carapace, and the weight is to the extent that I can bear it now."

The amount of calcium carbide collected is very small, and there will be no traces left under the action of the water flow, and the lightning strike will not pay attention to these.Using mucus and electric current in the body, plus lightning strikes under the observation of mental power, use the micro-movement of the body cells to adjust the distribution of calcium carbide on the skin.In the next period of time, the bristle skin of the lightning strike gradually became hard and smooth under the action of calcium carbide.Among the soft and transparent companions, the slightly solid and crystal-clear Thunderbolt is covered with a thin layer of fine mesh skin, gradually revealing a bossy aura.

"Fortunately, the last stage was the single-cell stage, and now I can slightly control the body cells. Maybe it won't work after this stage is completed."

However, the accumulation of minerals in the epidermis should stop here. Although the continuous exercise of the electric shock tentacles has made the muscles able to withstand the current body, and the speed has not slowed down much, but if it continues, the skin can become a carapace, but the defense is not as good as that of a snail. It might not be as mobile as the beetle's carapace, and the Thunderbolt might be directly reduced to the civilian level.

"Even if you want to complete this stage as soon as possible, you must complete it well. I don't want to make a defective product and be ridiculed by 8051."

"Then, let's try to form a spine now. I don't know if there is a spine on this planet now?"

Feeling that the food he ate before was enough for tomorrow's consumption, Lei Jian took a few companions who were still soft and swam to the mud and sand.

"The hardening of the skin has proven to be feasible and beneficial, so these few lightning bugs can also be carried out."

This kind of improvement is very simple, so you can also put a layer of hard skin on your companions that can increase your survival rate.

"But for the time being, it's better not to let them get close to the mud and sand, so as not to accidentally draw the thunder beast out again."

"So it's better for me to transport the calcium carbide to them, it won't take much anyway."

With a flick of the two electric shock tentacles that were exercising every day, under the effect of the gradually formed hardened skin, the slightly streamlined body quickly rushed through the water.This is probably also a major benefit of hardening the skin, which can effectively reduce water flow resistance.

For the soft-bodied lightning bug, although the body is edited to appear streamlined in the biological editing space, it appears in various shapes in the water under the influence of various forces after it comes out.Now after being wrapped in hard leather, it finally has a streamlined appearance, which can effectively reduce the impact of increased weight on speed when swimming.

Carefully use electric shocks to separate the pure calcium carbides from the brought out sand, and instruct his companions to distribute the calcium carbides beside them, sticking to the skin in a fine mesh like himself, and the lightning strike looks at him again These calcium carbide particles around.

"So, now start the bone assembly in the body."

Swallow a calcium carbide into the mouth, and then concentrate the mental power to carefully pay attention to this tiny particle in the body.

"By the way, is this the legendary inner vision? Now I'm so good at talking."

The electric current is released again in the body to purify the calcium carbide several times, and the impurities in it are thrown away. Lightning carefully regulates the cells in the body, and slowly pushes the purified calcium carbide to move to the position near the back in the body.

First, form a calcium carbide wire connecting the head and tail in the body, which is the first step considered before.The process was not as difficult as imagined, except that the companions had to pay attention to the small predators passing by so as not to be disturbed. This step was quickly and smoothly completed under the condition of being able to control the body cells to a certain extent.

I felt the thin thread in the lower body made up of mucus and calcium carbide, the front end of which was connected to the simple skin behind the brain, and the rear end was connected to the interface of the two flagella edited by emptiness like a tail.

It is not so much the product of the first step in the formation of the spine, as it is the original tendons, which gave Lei Jian a pleasant surprise.However, the assembly of the spine needs to continue, but this does not prevent Lightning from embedding this primitive tendon in the two electric shock tentacles below, and connecting with the muscle fibers therein.As for the electric shock tentacle on the head, Lei Jian felt that it was almost forgotten.

The 'tendon' in the body is still a foreign object, but it is the key to the completion of this stage.And the hardening of the skin of several companions also seems to be a big project. Without the mental power and fine-tuning ability of cells, the hardened skin of ordinary lightning strike insects is not as smooth and beautiful as the hardened skin of lightning strikes.However, it is not for the purpose of forming a hard shell, but for a thin layer of hardening work on the skin, so there is no obvious unevenness on the bodies of these companions.

Seeing the sun weakening again, Lei Jing returned to the lair with his companions who had begun to harden their skin. It is not a day to succeed in forming a spine.

—————————Several long night dividing lines——————————

"Then continue with the formation of the spine."

After taking a few companions to fill their stomachs, the Thunderbolts went to the mud and sand again, and after transporting the newly purified calcium carbide back to their lair, they accumulated it again on the bone spine that had begun to take shape.

The spine in his memory is connected joint by joint, and can rotate on all axes, but Kong Huan can't remember the spine clearly, and he doesn't know the details at all. Ordinary people would not know what their spine looks like.

Under the rogue, Lei Jian had to install the spine section by section in a cylindrical shape at intervals on the previously formed tendon connecting the head and tail. The gap set in the middle was tested by continuous movement, and then used the fine-grained Calcium carbide fills it.Although it is simple, it is very effective, but this kind of experiment consumes a lot of time and energy, so that sometimes the food of the lightning strike is other lightning strike insects near the nest. After killing ordinary gentle creatures, bring their corpses back to the nest The lightning strike in the middle test is edible.

"It feels a bit like a scientific worker, ha ha."

Sometimes Lei Zhen laughed at himself like this.

"And the workshop is your own body."

Time kept beating fast and slow, night and day alternated continuously, the race also had a breeding, and the total number increased to thousands, especially hundreds of lightning bugs were shunted out, and their departure direction was exactly what Thunder thought land direction.

"Let them be the forerunners of my landing plan." This is Lei Zhen's idea, although his landing plan still stays on the sentence of "going to land after completing this stage".

Of course, in order to improve their survival rate, the Thunderbolts, who are bosses and have high survivability, have all completed the work of skin hardening under the leadership of the Thunderbolt.

In the following period of time, during the continuous adjustment of the spine by the lightning strike, the remaining nearly one thousand lightning strike insects also completed the skin hardening work one after another.

"Maybe I will be the first creature on this planet to evolve a spine, ha ha."

When the experiment reached the depths, Lei Jian always gave out such a proud smile when he felt the increasingly perfect spine in his body.Because until now, within the walking range of the lightning strike bugs, there is still no creature with an endoskeleton system, but most of them have become exoskeleton creatures.

Then one day, a commotion startled Lightning, who was concentrating on the spine that was about to take shape, engrossed in it.

(End of this chapter)