Spore Story

Chapter 49 The Hunter's Action

"Well, my stomach is really full."

Quack turned his head and looked at the four-toothed fish bones that were pushed to the river bank because of a bunch of quack beasts eating. Surrounded by hundreds of quack beasts who had a full meal, they were lazily facing the afterglow of the setting sun. huddled on the edge of the river beach.

There are still a few shreds of meat hanging on the huge remains of the four-toothed fish. Several small carnivores are shuttling among the quack beasts, competing for the food left by the quack beasts. Animals are completely unable to arouse the interest of the quack beasts next to them.

Even Gaga is indifferent to these guys.

Because when a small thing passed by Quack's mouth fearlessly, it was swallowed by the expectant Quack in one gulp, but Quack found depressed that these small creatures were completely unable to provide any evolutionary value to Void, let alone the components. Afterwards, the unbelieving Quack finally confirmed this point after swallowing a few small things again.

"Does the evolution value and component acquisition on land have to be obtained by creatures of the same level or even higher level?" Gaga decided to ask 8051 the next time he returned to the creature editing space.

The red sun slowly disappeared under the distant horizon, and after absorbing the last trace of the sun's temperature, the quack beasts gradually integrated their bodies into the river water that was warmer than the cold night.

Drowsiness began to strike, and Gaga, who wanted to think about other things, slowly closed his eyelids, soaked in the water by the river beach, and fell asleep.

————The dividing line between dreaming and dreaming———

The scorching sun scorched the surface world, and most of the quack beasts who couldn't stand the high temperature were immersed in the river whose width was reduced by one-fifth. The breath of ashes.

Gaga opened his mouth to swallow a small fish that passed by, and after satisfying his slightly empty stomach, he swam to the water by the river beach again.

"It's really sad to be cold-blooded." Opening his mouth and spitting out a mouthful of hot air, Quack took a sip of the river water with a relatively stable temperature to wash away the high temperature in his body.

Since the blood flowing in the body has no constant temperature, although this greatly reduces the food requirements of the quack beasts, it also reduces the range of activities of the quack beasts.When the temperature is high, you can't move, you need to cool down; when the temperature is low, you need to keep moving and bask in the sun.A small amount of action during the day, diving and sleeping at night.The stability of body temperature requires you to actively find a suitable environment to adjust.

And that's why the quack beasts don't want to leave the current river beach.

But in this way, Gaga will not be able to lead the race to the inland to find important components and become a real terrestrial creature.

But speaking of cold-blooded influence, it actually only restricted the activities of the race.

The main reason is that today's land seems to be forests besides forests, and the forest environment makes it impossible for the quack beasts to take advantage of the large group, and the internal temperature and humidity also make the quack beasts disliked.

But Gaga still intends to replace it after finding the warm-blooded components. Although that will increase the food demand, Gaga believes that the food acquisition ability of his race is still very strong. After replacing the warm-blooded components, the activity time will be greatly improved. , which is an important help to the evolution of civilization.

Therefore, Gaga intends to bring only a few quack beasts into the forest this time. Of course, it would be even better if he could get warm-blooded components, egg-born or viviparous components, and waterproof skins at the edge of the forest.

Because there is no waterproof skin, the quacks have to rush into the water from time to time to replenish their skin moisture, otherwise they will turn into dry quacks. "The forest is still quite humid, so it should be fine."

Choose a few quack beasts that are not too big or small. Quack is the first to crawl to the forest. After a little hesitation, a few quack beasts follow.

"By the way, entering the forest or something, why did I forget this!"

Quack, who had just stepped into the edge of the forest, suddenly stopped, and several quack beasts that were rushing fast couldn't react in time for a burst of confusion.Ignoring the clumsy Quack beasts, Quack turned around and rushed towards the river beach, "It's not the only way to enter the forest by land. It's impossible for such a large forest to have rivers running through it."

Indeed, you don’t have to worry about the waterproofing of your skin, and you don’t have to worry about what might go wrong if you venture into an unfamiliar dense forest, not to mention that the temperature difference in water is much smaller than that on land.

However, this is why quack beasts are not terrestrial creatures.

Shaking its limbs, Quack plunged headlong into the water, and the quack beasts behind him looked around suspiciously. One of them saw the half of Quack's head protruding from the water, and hurriedly followed with the other quack beasts.

Because it is in the water, the road is much wider than the forest. After several quack beasts followed, quack beasts called more than a dozen quack beasts playing in the water. A total of more than 20 quack beasts traveled inland along the river bank. go.

……

A thick forest of ferns blocked the sun's rays, and only a few fish slipped through its dense defenses and landed on the surface of the creek.

At this time, several quack beasts were carefully hiding among the plants under the water.

This does not mean that the quack beasts want to ambush a certain prey again, on the contrary, quack realizes unwillingly that he is the prey at this time.

Some time ago, the quack beasts finally found a branch of the river on the bank of the river. After the quacks endured the dryness and climbed to a high ground on the bank to confirm, the quack beasts turned into this crooked creek deep in the dense forest.

At that time, Quack had no idea what was waiting in the dense forest, and when they reacted, two Quack beasts had already been wiped out by hunters hidden in the dense forest during the previous landing. The quacks hid in the water, and maybe this inland search ended without a problem.

And Quack in the water also saw the appearance of one of the hunters.

insect.

"How can there be such a big insect, or is it that the size of the quack beast is actually small." The long-term survival made the quack beast believe that the size of the quack beast should be considered medium in the animal world. If it is replaced by the previous earth world, there is also a The length is one to two meters, which is also the reason why Gaga set the length of one meter as an approximate measurement.

So based on the previous fixed length, Gaga, who has grown up for a while, is now about 1.3 meters long.In contrast, the hunter insects observed were at least one meter long, and more importantly, the opponent was a flying unit with a wingspan of at least two to three meters.

Hunter beetle, a creature with three pairs of membranous wings, three pairs of arthropods with sharp blades on the abdomen, and two huge compound eyes on the head.With a wingspan of 1.1 meters and a body length of [-] meters, it flies and attacks at extreme speed.

"Is this still an insect? Meow's."

As humans, the largest insects have only seen pictures of spiders about the size of a palm on the Internet.At this time, Quack couldn't accept such giant insects at all. Although I have seen many strange creatures in a mess before, or I have never seen creatures that are exactly the same as those on the earth, but these giant insects are like the nemesis. With the landing of the quack beasts.Even the occasional surface is attacked by flying insects quack-named hunter beetles.

And the saddest thing is that with the power attack, with the amount of energy stored by the quack beasts, they must touch each other in the air to successfully attack.

"Okay, you guys are amazing." Depressedly biting off a dead tree beside him, Quack is not afraid that the other party will find out, because the two sides are in water and the other is empty, as long as he does not surface or even land, then the other party will have nothing to do with him . "But I'm not reconciled. It's okay to meet people who can't beat them before, but they are much stronger than me. No matter how you look at it, this guy is showing off his might with a single wing."

Looking at the shadows in the dense forest through the water, "I'll try to ambush once, if it doesn't work, I'll go back to the river bank and think of another way, cat."

"Even if it doesn't work, I'll let you know that the quack beast is not easy to bully." Wagging its tail, quack approached the surface of the water, but did not surface.The giant insects wandering in the dense forest by the small river seemed to have noticed the fluctuations in the water surface, and approached the small river slightly, but quickly hid in the shadows.

"Do you have any weaknesses, you?"

The physical strength of the flying unit, or the weight cannot be too large, well, although the size is not much lower.Membrane-like wings should be similar to dragonflies. Although they are not very afraid of water, such wings should be very vulnerable to the power of quack beasts. As long as they can attack...

"Attacked, with that guy's speed, how can he attack?" Gaga scanned the surroundings, and then looked back at the hunter beetle that was flying between the trees.

"Above the water's surface is your world, but below the water's surface is our world."

At this time, Quack noticed the three pairs of arthropods on the opponent's abdomen, the main attacking component of the hunting beetle.

"It seems that when it attacks, it uses its speed to rush towards the prey, then straightens its jointed limbs, and uses the sharp blade-like components on the jointed limbs to cut through the prey's body. Uh, what a sad attack. When encountering a bigger prey, it's not a thousand cuts what..."

"It seems that the two Gaga beasts fell like this." Gaga felt that he was breaking out in a cold sweat.And a bold ambush idea also came to mind.

"Come and be my guest, Hunter."

(End of this chapter)