Spore Story

Chapter 33 Farewell to the software... attacked

"Bastard!"

Scientists whose experiments are interrupted will be very dissatisfied, because no one knows whether the long-awaited experimental results will appear in the next step. The mood is similar to that situation.

"what happened?"

Angry, depressed and puzzled, Thunderbolt controlled his body to quickly eject out of the cave, and a black shadow quickly enveloped him.

With a quick twist, using the elasticity of the whole body's muscles, the lightning strike moved sideways for a short distance for a short time, and at the same time released an electric shock as programmed, dodging the black shadow that was sweeping towards him.

Then, Lei Zhen looked up and saw the attacker.

"What creature is this?"

It might be a tortoise, but protruding from the shell are several slender tentacles.

Without thinking about what kind of creature or enemy the opponent is, it is enough to draw this preliminary conclusion.

Lei Jian is already a veteran who has encountered many battles. Although the opponent looks powerful, he is far from the power of Thunder Beast, so Lei Jian has no plans to turn around and run away.

At this moment, several unresponsive lightning strike insects were wrapped in the attacker's tentacles, and were being sent into the sharp mouth in the carapace.One of them seemed to be still breathing, releasing a slight electric shock, but the other's tentacles that bound the lightning bug only slightly loosened and then strengthened again.

In the group of nests that were suddenly attacked, there were still many lightning bugs that returned to the nest because it was getting dark. At this time, most of them were hiding in small cracks, and a few mindless guys were running around.

"What should I do? It seems difficult to deal with."

At this time, Lei Zhen had no anger at all for being disturbed by the experiment, only thinking about how to deal with this enemy.The main body of the attacker is an oval disc, which cannot enter the rock gap, but the eight pairs of tentacles protruding from the middle of the main body can easily enter. less than.

While Thunderbolt was thinking about it, one of the opponent's vacant tentacles was thrown out again, hitting a Thunderbolt bug that couldn't dodge in time.This scene attracted Lightning who was considering countermeasures.

This lightning bug didn't seem to be slow to react, and when it found that it couldn't dodge, it immediately used the racial skill of electric burst.

The waving tentacles were obviously hit by the electric current, resulting in a black spot, but the entire tentacle continued to move forward along the inertia as if unaware, and then knocked out the lightning bug, hitting the rock not far away .

Because there is no protection in the body except for a thin layer of hard skin, the lightning bug that was struck by the violent impact, its internal organs and brain were injured and passed out.

The tentacles that succeeded rolled towards the almost dead Lightning Strike Bug again, sending it into its mouth.

"Meow, that's how he attacked."

"Weakness, I need weakness!"

The opponent looks very difficult to deal with. The tentacles and tortoise shell protect the main body in all directions. As long as the eyes can see the enemy, they can't escape the tentacle whip.

"Eyes? That's right."

As if he had discovered something, Lei Ji turned his attention to the main body of the attacker, and finally found two pairs of compound eyes in the slightly protruding front and back of the opponent's carapace.

Attacking the eyes, this is the idea of ​​​​Lightning at this time.If it is one-on-one, under the opponent's strict tentacle defense, ordinary creatures can't succeed at all, even lightning bugs can't. If there are creatures that can succeed, then there is no need to attack the opponent's eyes, just destroy the opponent's tentacles. snatched.

"But I'm not alone, ah no, I'm a bug."

Yes, although the other party took advantage of the chaos to wipe out more than a dozen lightning bugs, there are still hundreds or thousands of them left.Although I don't know how the other party found this nest group, but hiding in the cracks, they will only be caught by the other party's soft-bodied tentacles and wiped out one by one.

Rather than just sit and wait, give it a go.

Let the lightning bugs form a circle around the horizontal line of the main body of the attacker, and swim around outside the attack distance of the tentacles. Wherever the opponent swims, the whole circle will move to that direction.Although the attacker's tentacles attack quickly, the main body moves slowly, which provides a good prerequisite for this method to succeed.

But how to get under the opponent and attack the four eyes?Although the fish circle can attract the attention of the four eyes, but at the speed of the lightning bug, it will probably be spotted by the other party when it reaches more than half of the vertical swim.

At this time, in the already somewhat thin human memory, Lei Jian remembered the method of throwing a bomb with an octopus-like mechanical weapon in a movie, grabbing the bomb, and then quickly turning the body in a circle, providing a high initial velocity for the bomb in a small range .

Following the opponent's method, although limited by physical conditions and unable to provide a large initial velocity, one lightning bug can provide a certain initial velocity for the other lightning bug, and then add the swimming of throwing the lightning bug, which can also be used before the opponent reacts. The attack was achieved, and without the four eyes exposed below, the tentacles could only swing randomly, and the attack power would definitely be greatly reduced.

It seems that the method is good, and the lightning strike quickly ordered all the lightning strike bugs to start operation.

The lightning bugs hiding in the lair seemed to be hesitant. They hesitated for a while between obedience to the command of the main consciousness and the fear of the enemy in front of them, and then the lightning bugs accepted the orders one after another.At this time, Lei Jian, who was busy perfecting the plan in his mind, didn't notice this.

Carefully swim out of the rocky area, and form a fish circle with the attacker as the center and a certain distance beyond the length of the enemy's tentacles as the radius.The attacker without much intelligence really spread out all the tentacles like open petals towards the food not far away, but the attacker hesitated left and right due to the lightning bugs all around him, and the four eyes were taken for granted. The attraction turns to the fish circles on the same plane.

Without further ado, Thunderbolt will form a group with three other robust Thunderbolts. Two Thunderbolts are under the control of Thunderbolt, grabbing Thunderbolt and the other Thunderbolt, turning them around a few times and throwing them directly above. attacker subject.

The attack went smoothly. Before the opponent could react, a total of four electric shock tentacles on the abdomen of the two lightning strike insects hit the opponent's four eyes, and the contact electric shock completely blinded the opponent.Well, at least it's the vision below. I don't know if there are eyes above.

Thunderbolt quickly moved away from the opponent, but the other Thunderbolt worm who reacted a little slower was hit by the tentacle of the attacker who then went crazy, and his body ruptured instantly and died.

The battle was over, and Thunderbolt didn't intend to kill the opponent, because at this time, the frenzied attacker was already waving his tentacles to form a tight body defense, while gradually moving away.

What's more, the hundreds of lightning bugs and injured attackers above the rocks have already attracted several large predators rushing towards this side.

For safety's sake, Thunderbolt had to order all Thunderbolts to hide in their nests in the rock again.

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Regardless of how the enemy discovered the nest in this battle, it was known that it would be a matter of time, but the lack of protection of the internal organs and brain was also a major reason.

So Lightning, still continuing to mend the spine, shifted the main focus to the head.

This is an extremely small and simple head for the illusion of the human brain, but it is the key to the civilization of the race.In order to protect it so as not to be accidentally injured by the soft body, Lightning used the extremely skilled calcium carbide internal assembly technology mastered to form the spine, imitating the skull in memory, combined with the shape of the head of the Lightning bug, formed several under the skin. A piece of bone wraps around the head, leaving a space for the eyes, and even the upper part of the mouth has a thunderbolt skull.

The cranium was connected to the soon-to-be-formed spine of the back using the spinal occlusation method that was tested during this period.In order to further improve the defense, the lightning strike also reduced the mineral gaps in the skull. Although this increased weight, relying on the combination of tendons and muscle fibers embedded in the electric shock tentacles, the speed of the lightning strike did not decrease much.

However, the durability of the lightning strike had to decline again.

"It seems that the visceral system of molluscs is not suitable."

"This skull is already very good except that there is no jaw. Then, by the way, the teeth should be added. Although I can't make the jaw bite, I can first make a rough outline of the upper and lower jaws, and then install a The rows of teeth use muscle fibers to bite together, although they are weak. But the teeth can increase the lethality, and under the action of calcium carbide, the teeth can be used to concentrate the electric shock when hooking the enemy."

Then, a row of sharp teeth appeared under the skull.At the beginning, the addictive lightning strike kept doing two things, and directly produced two long canine teeth on the upper jaw, a component that would take hundreds of millions of years to appear according to the earth's progress.

"I just discovered that I came from the earth that has evolved for billions of years. Even if I have almost forgotten biology, as long as I can survive, just knowing a little bit of knowledge in daily life will give me a big advantage here."

Looking at the skulls and sharp teeth that should not appear in this era, Lei Jian felt a burst of emotion.At this moment, Kong Huan is full of confidence in his own race.

—————— Time, time—————

"It's really comfortable."

Using the muscles and tendons to drive the almost formed spine, Lei Zhen shakes the slightly flat tail, pushing the water forward, and the lower body has been filled with several bones by Lei Zhen using more and more proficient techniques to connect the upper muscles and the spread of the back At this time, the electric shock tentacles pushed the body forward even more powerfully.

"Even the internal organs are protected by my bones. I am probably the most advanced creature on this planet now."

It has been a long time since the last time I started collecting calcium carbide to form the spine. The spine on the back was finally perfected after the long trial adjustment of the lightning strike, and now it can move freely.Thunderbolt, who is addicted to bone assembly, completed the spine and skull for the surviving Thunderbolts after the last attack on the nest. On the other hand, referring to the fish closest to the size of Thunderbolts, he protected his internal organs with bones. At the same time, simple bone spurs were installed on the electric shock tentacles and tail to form a shape similar to fish fins and fish tail.

During this period, the race of Thunderbolt reproduced three more times, and a large number of Thunderbolt bugs with complete skeletons were shed.The newborn small lightning insects did not produce the bones of their predecessors, and needed lightning to install and shape them a little bit, and then the other side would slowly fill in and increase as they grew. This means that the bones of lightning have not yet entered the biological reproductive system, but the bones have begun. Be racially accepted.

Lei Zhen, who was focused on assembling the skeleton, did not enter the creature editing space. It was not that the long time made Lei Zhen forget about it, but Lei Zhen decided to wait until the whole body's skeleton was completed, thus ending the current stage before returning.

However, in this water area, only the silt field of Thunder Beast has calcium carbide resources that can be used by Thunderbolt. The content of calcium carbide in ordinary sediment is small and the surrounding area is not much, which can only meet the normal needs of lightning strike insects for calcium carbide. Now the number of lightning strike insects gathered in their nests has reached several thousand, and most of them live around that piece of mud and sand.

Lei Jian is afraid that the Thunder Beast will be drawn out, and Cheng Tian is in fear.

In order to meet the body's increased nutritional needs due to the appearance of bones, the common lightning strike insects also began to hunt living creatures in groups of several during the period of eating plants.Not counting the various powerful components of the Lightning Bug, just considering the coordinated combat that has been carried out since the small cell period under the control of Void, which almost forms a major advantage of racial instinct. Most of the ancient seabed predators who still believe in individual heroism In the world, even if the Lightning Strike Bug team can't win, they can escape with relatively small losses.

Therefore, under the control of the lightning strike and various factors, the number of the group within a certain range of the nest was kept at nearly a thousand, and the rest were divided into another group.In this way, the lightning strike insects began to multiply and spread in large numbers.

Finally, one day, when he was going to visit the mud and sand, and tried to see if he could add some spikes to his body for fun, Lei Bo felt his body began to stiffen, and then the bones in his body began to fine-tune themselves.

The system prompts as scheduled.

[This is the beginning of a new day.After [-] million years of long evolution, your race has gone from deep sea to shallow sea, from simple to complex.The emergence of the brain allows your race to better regulate the body and obtain food.Then one day, as the main consciousness, you finally realized that minerals are no longer just decorations in the world, they can also support your soft body.With minerals, you assembled excellent bones for your race; and with these bones, you built a good future for your race.At this stage, you get the title of Bone Constructor, and your race gets the title of Legion Race.Now, go back to the creature editing space and say goodbye to the world of molluscs. 】

[Entering the biological editing space, the main consciousness shifts. 】

"I am back again!"

PS: So, let’s rest for another day or two =w=, (mainly because the next stage has not been modified yet.)
(End of this chapter)