Spore Story

Chapter 52

Most of the open flames have been extinguished, and countless escaped animals hid in safe places, staring blankly at the destroyed world. At this time, none of the animals attacked each other, even though they might be hunting the moment before fleeing. other side.

Inadvertently, or impotently.

There is no way to find out the cause, and it can't be found out.Maybe it was a bolt of lightning, maybe a volcanic eruption, maybe even a thermal attack from a living being, like...an electric spark...

What Gaga didn't know was that due to too dense fire, the entire fire covered nearly 80% of the forests in the Central Continent.It's not that Quack couldn't think of it, but it didn't dare to think about it.

"How many lives have been destroyed by such a fire?"

"If the forests are destroyed, what about the oxygen, will it return to the ocean?"

At this moment, Gaga once again strengthened his belief in the development of civilization, "At least, civilization has the ability to resist when facing them."

Looking back at the dark land behind him, Gaga heaved a sigh of relief.The hundreds of quack beasts in their own group basically survived because of their quick reactions, and only a few who couldn't dodge were choked to death by the thick smoke.

But this is not the main reason, probably because the small piece of land behind him is not far from the sea, and the humid air prevents the smoke and sparks from the opposite bank from igniting the woods behind him hidden in the darkness created by the smoke.

"In the end, did the ocean protect us?" Gaga looked at the hell-like opposite shore with emotion, and turned to look back at the ocean hidden behind the darkness and confusion. "That's why it is said that the ocean is the mother that breeds life, and the land is the object of life's conquest."

Looking back at the other side of hell again, and then looking around at the countless animals still immersed in fear, shaking off the smoke and dust on their bodies, turning back, Gaga led hundreds of Gaga beasts to avoid these animals, and gradually disappeared in the In the forest full of mist and ocean atmosphere.

"I'll let you off this time, don't take advantage of it, and come back to be my prey after you recover, hmph!"

……

———Smoky Dividing Line———

The thick smoke filled the air for several days. Since the time of his consciousness was different from the actual time of this world, Quack didn't know how long it took for the smoke to dissipate this time. He just hid in the cool forest because he hated the scorching air. Quack beasts, when they woke up from the cold one morning, the sky was already clean.

But the land was not so lucky. The thick smoke that filled the sky did not disappear suddenly, but slowly landed on the ground after losing buoyancy, covering the entire land with a thick layer of gray and white.

"It's really thick!"

This is the first testimonial after Quack woke up from hibernation and struggled to crawl half of his body out of the dust.Then, one after another, the quack beasts crawled out from the dust around quack's body, and at the same time hurriedly shook off the ashes that made them uncomfortable, choking them so that they kept coughing.

"Fortunately, they are cold-blooded animals. As long as you don't do too much food at a time, you can last for a long time. Otherwise, if you don't hunt for so long, you might starve to death." Everything has two sides, good and bad, "But I I still like warm blood, that way I have more time to act, and I don’t have to sit and wait like this. Ah—cry—"

"These guys don't know how to be careful, there will be dust everywhere!"

With a long sneeze, Quack immediately avoided the Quack beasts who had just crawled out of the dust, and started patrolling around the Quack herd with the Quack beasts that had already reacted.

I don't know whether it's the dust or the decrease in oxygen. Gaga feels that he and the quack animals are breathing heavily. This has caused many animals to sense the danger and run away before quack approaches, which makes quack extremely depressed.

"Why didn't I realize that my body was so heavy before?"

Dragging his heavy body, Gaga crawled to the river bank with the quack beasts who had calmed down, "Let me see what the post-disaster world looks like under the sun."

————Restore the normal dividing line———

Time continues its unscrupulous beat, ignoring everything that stands in its way.

The ruined forest was gradually covered by the sand, and most of the once green Central Continent turned yellow, the yellow of the desert.Fortunately, the quack beasts didn't go deep into it, and they were lucky enough to hide in a surviving forest, so they didn't exhaust themselves for water like the animals in the desert.

With a little resistance, I sneaked into the big river that once had millions or tens of millions of corpses, and was named the River of Life by Quack.Originally, when Gaga thought of the hellish scene on the opposite bank and the river, he wanted to name it Santu River, but after thinking about it, he still had to live around it, and most of his animals depended on its isolation and the wetness of the ocean. Qi was the one who escaped, fortunately, he named it the River of Fate, the River of Life, "Ah, why do you think of the River of Styx?"

Quack suddenly felt cold, and quickly shook his head to throw away the thoughts in his mind, "Forget it, let's commemorate these dead lives, Styx, Minghe, hehe, coincidence?"

After swimming for a while and replenishing the water on the body surface, Gaga swam to the opposite bank with dozens of quack beasts.

After combining his memory and his own thinking, Gaga believes that there should be animals with waterproof skin on the opposite side, which can greatly enhance the range of land activities of his race, instead of going back to the water to replenish skin moisture after moving for a period of time like now.

As for warm-blooded components and body temperature control, "you have to eat every bite."

Quietly lurking in the water by the river beach, Gaga had no intention of going ashore.Even with waterproof skin, life needs to replenish water in the body after all, and this river beach is the most convenient place to drink water on this long river bank. There is no place to replenish water for a long distance from the shore, so there are many people every day. Animals come here to drink water, this is the conclusion Gaga came to after observing in the river for a long time.

Of course, not only the quack beasts noticed this, many large predators were also lurking around, but most of them stayed quietly on their own one-third of an acre of land, not to provoke them or appear prey, they looked like I won't move.And the quack beasts also bypassed the powerful animals wisely, led a group of quack beasts when no prey appeared, drove away a few weak carnivores, occupied an ambush point on the river beach, and began to wait for rabbits.

The scorching sun at noon gradually passed, a round of red sun slowly descended towards the west, two round moons faintly revealed the silhouette, and several prey appeared not far from the river beach.Quack immediately cheered up, and the quack beasts who sensed the arrival of the prey also consciously held their breath, waiting for the approach of the prey.

However, the reality made Quack a little disappointed. When the prey was approaching the ambush site of the Quack beasts, an animal waiting for the ambush seemed to be inexperienced. Get scared off.And before the quack beasts could react, this reckless guy was roared by the same kind lurking next to it and rushed into the river behind him. It seemed that he wanted to hunt here again today.

"Novices, forget it."

Quack, who had no chance to react, turned his head to look at the dejected little guy, who was paying the price for his recklessness, quietly staying in the water looking for agile aquatic creatures.

The sun slowly disappeared below the horizon, and night fell under the illumination of two bright moons.

Visibility was extremely low at night, and due to the cold, all the amphibious hunters hid in the river with little temperature change, and even most of them left the ambush point, it seemed that they were resting at night.

However, although Gaga also started to feel sleepy, he still stayed in the river by the river bank. The departure of some hunters just allowed the Gaga beasts to expand the ambush area, and under the cold moonlight, a few black shadows appeared in the distance, It seems that they want to take advantage of the cover of the night to replenish water by the river.

The black shadow gradually approached, revealing its shape. It was more than [-] reptiles of the same kind. Judging from the blunt teeth in the short mouth that was occasionally opened, it should be a herbivore, with stubby limbs and slightly Smaller than Quackmon, it has slightly dry skin on top.

"It's nothing special, well, let's call it a puppy." Quack

Perhaps there are fewer hunting animals at night, and the hunters on the river beach are not densely distributed. In addition, the cover of night prevents the puppies from noticing the danger. Under the leadership of a few puppies, all the members are close to the river beach , began to drink water cautiously.

The small head made ripples on the river surface, and one of the little dogs happened to be not far from where Gaga was, so he ordered the few quacks that were closer to sneak carefully to the edge of the ripples made by the little dog, and surrounded them. into a small circle.

Long-term thirst seems to give the puppies some kind of water storage component, because the puppies in front of them actually drank a huge amount of river water, and it can be clearly seen that the upper part of its abdomen has slightly bulged .

"Another good component."

Quack's eyes were shining (fog==), and he carefully followed the sound of splashing water every time the puppy drank water, and moved forward step by step.

Standing up its head suddenly, the puppy seems to have noticed something, the two small round holes on the back of the head, and the parts that seem to be ears rotate with the head.

On the river beach under the quiet night, there were basically no other sounds except the sound of the puppies drinking water, and the slight walking of a few herbivores coming behind them.

Feeling it carefully, the puppy, who didn't find any abnormalities, bent its neck again, and brought its short mouth closer to the river surface, and Gaga, who was already only a body away from the puppy, relaxed slightly from the tense state, and squeezed through his fingers. The front paws that clamped the underwater plants were released, and the prohibition on the actions of the quack beasts that were ambush nearby was also released.

Only at this time did Quack realize that due to the prohibition of actions directly ordered by the main consciousness, several quack beasts that were slightly upstream, under the impetus of the water flow, silently reached the water that was only half a body away from the puppy beast. Suddenly, the unicorn on the top of the head almost pierced the water.

"Halo, I knew we would have moved directly with the current."

After discovering a good ambush method, of course, it must be used immediately. After feeling the fluctuation of the water flow, and calculating the approximate pushing position, Gaga used the water flow to approach the prey step by step while skiing slightly.

Suddenly, there was a sound of heavy objects entering the water, and all the animals on the river beach were startled.

(End of this chapter)