Spore Story

Chapter 502 Farming Spirit Race and Conspiring Cerebral Worms

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The dark underground world, no light, breeze, quiet.

Logically speaking, there should not be many creatures here, but nature is so wonderful, even without the energy source of sunlight, there is still geothermal heat, nutrients in the land, and even fluorescent grass .

Therefore, although the style of the underground world is very different from that of the surface world, the underground world has still developed its own ecosystem, and fungi have become the basis of life in this world.

A large number of vegetarian animals obtain life-sustaining energy by devouring fungi and tasting groundwater;
Carnivores, on the other hand, obtain their own life support energy by hunting these vegetarian animals, and divide their territory in order to ensure the stability of their own food.

The vast underground caves, tunnels, and natural and unnatural caves have become the survival battlefields of these animals.

However, on top of them, there is another biological race that should not exist, that is, the civilized race-the Eldar.

They are omnivores, not only hunting carnivorous and vegetarian animals, but also collecting fungi.

If the number is not large, it seems to be nothing to the underground biosphere, but as time goes by, the number of Eldar has begun to spread throughout the underground world.

In the beginning, the carnivorous animals at the upper level were used by the Eldar as a tool of war, and they were consumed first; the vegetarian animals lacking natural enemies could have developed on a large scale, but the Eldar still had to eat, so the vegetarian animals were immediately eaten to zero All that is left is species with strong evasion ability, such as bats, giant worms, etc...

Ultimately, the Eldar's food source fell to the third tier of fungi, but their population was too large.

As a matter of course, the Eldar have less and less food sources.

If they just ask for it without planning like this, without taking any initiative to promote the increase of food, one day, they will be devoured by them because of the underground creatures, and they can only struggle to find those fungi that grow in small corners. Or simply starve to death.

However, a war many years ago, while keeping the Eldar from entering the ground again, it also promoted the development of the Eldar society.

Because, from the enemy in that war, they learned a key point: plants can be actively cultivated.

Of course, not all spirits discovered this method. The tribe that first used this method developed rapidly first, but its foundation was too weak, but they tried to keep this method secret in order to obtain better development.

So, within a few years, the tribe was burned to the dust of history by the fires of jealousy and greed.And the fungus plant planting technology they strictly adhere to has also spread step by step.

After the Great God's Punishment Earthquake, the frightened Eldar people dared not go to war again, but the food that could arrive early was less and less because of their destructive mining, and 'fungus plant cultivation' entered a big development. period.

Afterwards, "The Theory of No War" was widely spread among the spirits, and the spirits gained a long period of peace, and had enough time to carry out plant planting experiments.

Whether this kind of experiment was intentional or unintentional, but because there is no war, the tribes no longer worry about being attacked by others, so whose plant planting technology is better, whose tribe will of course develop better.

This is like a peaceful genetic screening. The tribes (good genes) that can grow fungi better are getting stronger and stronger, and the population can continue to increase; Inferior genes) due to insufficient food, not only cannot increase the population, but must reduce the population to maintain their own food and clothing.

In this way, after several decades, among the existing large organizations of the Spirit Race, the tribes that occupy the decision-making positions are basically those tribes with high fungus cultivation technology.

Of course, based on certain unspoken rules, such as the rule that the tribe with the ruler is definitely the tribe with the best fungus cultivation, the ruler of the great organization of the Eldar will not change. As for why, I will not explain here. Discussed.

However, "On War Without War" is just an argument, or a kind of thought, no matter what civilization, it seems that there has never been a single thought that ruled the entire civilization.

Therefore, after planting fungi and gradually transforming the Eldar tribe into an agricultural society and becoming stronger and stronger, among those tribes with weak strength, poor technology and barren territories, dissatisfaction gradually arose due to jealousy.

At this very moment, in a small cave, there are dozens of spirit tribe minds of weak tribes, discussing some disharmonious matters secretly.

"Those mean big tribes, who control the fertile caves, excellent bacteria, and the good technology developed by everyone, turned around and laughed at our stupidity, charged us for the items we desperately obtained, and proudly called us barbarians! This is absolutely not allowed!"

The words of urging echoed in the cave... without echo.

Because they are all using spiritual power to communicate, so the words of encouragement are just stirring up chaotic fluctuations of mental power in the cave. The emotions expressed in these fluctuations: support it, condemn it, retreat, against it...

Afterwards, most of the day passed, and the mental power fluctuations in the cave seemed to have agreed.

"We will join together to form a great tribe, so what if there is no ruler, can't our dozens of tribes find a good fungus and a good planting method!, let those bastards of the tribal alliance Eat [beep——] and go.”

"For the tribe!"

"Death to the alliance!"

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It has to be said that the theory of no war has had a great impact, especially the spirits whose average age is only a few dozen years old, who are now occupying the middle ranks of the spirit clan. They were basically born before and after the God's Punishment Earthquake, and An existence that grew up in a non-war environment.

Even when they fall into the abyss of jealousy and resistance due to uneven distribution, the first thing they think of is to rely on their own abilities to develop their own world peacefully instead of fighting a war.

If there is only such a civilized species on this planet, this non-war atmosphere is obviously very good, and it may even push the Eldar to a higher level of civilization.

It's a pity that there is more than one species like this on this planet.

—————Clash of Civilized Races—————

It doesn't know what it's called, or it doesn't care about this kind of thing at all.

It only knows that it is a mastermind, a nest mastermind responsible for the reproduction of the race and carrying some special tasks.

In its decades of life, since it died in the previous generation and became a mastermind, it began to subconsciously remember everything it saw.

When you have self-awareness, you will start to give this knowledge to the newborn spirit.

It has thought that maybe its own life will continue in such a boring and boring way until the last moment, at least its predecessor is like this, although the other party died in an accident (being smashed into pieces by a stone falling from the ceiling) meat puree).

But recently, its life has undergone very strange changes.

At the very beginning, it was just living in a simple tribe, living a life of hunger and food, breeding and other actions, except for hobbies, it probably didn't do much.

Therefore, the tribe is sparsely populated and weak.

However, in order to improve his own life, after gaining more experience as his life grows, he pays more and more attention to the education of those new souls, and of course the knowledge gained by the souls will be more more and more.

Seeing that the new souls of this tribe are getting smarter and smarter, and with the support of their own memory knowledge, the life of the tribe is likely to get better and better, those creatures suddenly appeared.

They killed all the spirits that it placed high hopes on, leaving only the breeding worms in the breeding nest, of course, including him, who was cleverly disguised at the time, and was exactly the same as ordinary brain worms.

That day, it was terribly frightened. It acted cautiously and did not dare to make any abnormal movements.

Because of its vague memory, it seems that in every tribal war, the breeding bugs in the nest were either completely killed; or only the mastermind bugs were killed.

The end result is death for it.

Although the creature in front of him feels very different from the spirit man, it can only act like an ordinary brain worm according to the experience in memory, hoping that the other party will not find itself.

Of course, don't kill all the brain worms in one go.

Fortunately, these creatures didn't seem to be the same kind as they remembered. They took away all the breeding bugs in a very strange way without even checking them.

That was the first time it saw the ground, the first time it felt the sun.

how to say?

It sucks.

The surrounding air flows too fast, and it can hardly smell its own kind, causing it to be in a constant state of fear; the sun seems to be very hot, burning its fragile skin, and it seems that it will burn in the next moment.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for them to be placed in a place where the air flow was not so large, and the annoying sunlight was blocked by something like a cave dome.

But it still didn't dare to make itself any different from the surrounding existence.

But gradually, it found that the life here, except for the bad air and the hot sun, everything else seemed to be in heaven (of course it didn't know what heaven was (=.=)), and the food was abundant. It was even more unthinkable before.

If it weren't for the unfamiliar creatures around, walking around to remind it from time to time that 'this is not an Eldar tribe', it would have almost exposed itself, and it would have received better treatment for showing its mastermind's majesty.

Although it doesn't necessarily know why it wants to hide itself and not expose it.

Perhaps, it was just an instinct to resist danger.

With a comfortable life and sufficient food, there are basically no other problems except not being able to expose yourself as a mastermind. Of course, its main "work" must be done well.

The number of new worms being bred is increasing, and it is surprising that the creatures that manage the nest do not assemble a large number of spirits, but retain a lot of ordinary breeding worms.

(Do you want to expand the nest later?)
It quickly thought of the thoughts of these creatures and didn't care about it.

As long as he still exists, even in order to keep his identity secret, he cannot teach the knowledge of the spirit race to the spirits and other cerebrates, but the brains of the cerebrates and the spirits here are all connected to him, and he is the most important person in these lairs. The real master of branches.

And the bigger the lair, the more spirits these creatures will assemble in the future, and of course the power it can master in the future will be greater. Maybe, in the future, he will be able to counterattack the underground as a ground spirit race. Maybe.

Whenever it thinks of this, it can't help being proud.

However, it is also very satisfied with its current life, and it has made a self-righteous plan. As long as those creatures continue to take good care of themselves like this, then there is no need to expose themselves; If it is a brain worm, then it has to take certain measures.

And as time goes on, the mastermind's worries seem to be becoming reality.

(It has been so long now, and they have only assembled more than 60 spirits. Should they expose themselves, suddenly control the lair and expand the tribe in a large area? Or is it better to continue to lurk and wait for the other party to expand the number of spirits?)

Thinking of this, the mastermind felt around carefully.

It found that the surrounding world in its spiritual sense was only guarded by those few regular creatures, and after the other party did not look at itself, it restored the majesty that the mastermind should have.

After all, after hiding for so many years, it is basically impossible to say that he has remained hidden.

In an instant, the surrounding brain worms, the double sickles, carefully avoided the main brain worm, while it swaggered to the corner of the house, lay down on the pile of green grass, and began to chew slowly.

(The food here is really good. Compared with those things in the ground, it is really a heaven, a ground...)
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Suddenly, the Mastermind was stunned, and some scattered and previously neglected things appeared in its memory.

(Why didn't I notice it before! Could it be that such a comfortable life made me lose my vigilance!)
The mastermind looked around carefully, and quickly surrounded the surrounding bugs with mental power, acting as if everyone was eating, so as to avoid specialization of itself, and then, it switched thoughts in its mind.

(Heavenly, underground, long war! Wingman! Damn it!)
At this moment, the images of those 'friendly', 'bringing oneself food', and 'strange' creatures gradually became clear in my mind.

Although it has never seen a wingman, but as the core lair of an Eldar tribe, among which is the core mastermind, some memory of knowledge is essential.

And the spirits of that tribe in the past seemed to have descriptions of the current creatures in the fragments of knowledge passed on to them through their spiritual power.

He didn't think about it before, because of his life without danger, even if he was hiding himself, he only thought it was his own initiative just in case, not a passive choice.

but now……

(No, it seems that we must find an opportunity to let all the spirits come back, and then everyone escapes together!)
But escape can’t be done hastily. The mastermind is very clear about the possible consequences of unprepared behavior. What’s more, since coming here, once the spirit is assembled, it can no longer see it, which shows that the other party is also Not defenseless.

Although he could sense the general direction of the assembled spirits, without the knowledge he taught, would those spirits listen to his words, or would they be controlled by his own spiritual power?

(It seems that we should choose a good time...)
After hesitating for a while, the brainworm mechanically chewed the food in its mouth, but its mental power fluctuated violently.

Finally, it made up its mind.

(The next breeding season seems to be coming soon. According to previous experience, not only will more spirits be assembled, but the previously assembled spirits will also come back. It seems that then is the best opportunity.)
Make a plan, realize that you are in the enemy's camp, and you don't know what you will become in the future, and you can't sit still like before.

(Before that, I must hide myself.)
However, it didn't know at all that just outside the observation holes on the roof of the lair hut, in the empty area it perceived, there were three people staring at it intently.

Their eyes are so... lewd?
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Next week, it will be on the list of "remuneration for attendance" in Zhoujiang. (==)

Speaking of which, when I first wrote the book, because I was a complete novice, I never applied for Sanjiang once. Later, I entered VIP, and when I thought about applying again, I was completely ignored, huh. (-)

It's a consolation prize now, but I'm also very grateful for the editor's comment, Quack. (=w=)

I hope everyone will continue to support~\(≧▽≦)/~
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