Spore Story

Chapter 72 Predators
It was very troublesome to drag the corpses, especially on the battlefield of the primitive animals at this time, many of them had broken limbs and turned around. When Quack dragged more than 30 animals, they were already exhausted.

Looking at the darkened sky and a large number of tentacle quack corpses, quack returned to the herd.

"Continue tomorrow and call these guys together, so you don't have to worry about spending too much time."

……

When a round of red sun rose to the highest point, Gaga looked at the small pile of corpses of more than 100 tentacle quack beasts, and suddenly became curious about how the small pit held so many corpses before, "These The ubiquitous pits are indeed full of unknown mystery... But, let's consider how to bury them next?"

soil
Quack stared at his claws covered with sharp blades, and then looked at the soil under his feet...

"By the way, back kick, quack."

Recalling the actions of little animals digging the soil when they were humans, Gaga thought it was very fun, so it was time to give it a try.

These tentacle quacks learned the movement of dragging the corpse very quickly, no, in some respects, they just did this movement in the same way that they dragged the prey back to the lair before.

And kicking the legs to raise dust, thus covering the corpse...

Ga Ga stared at the sprinters who started sprinting as soon as they kicked their legs, and said that the pears were too big, and as a meat eater, he couldn't eat them.

Then, the sun slanted and sank a little bit in the rising dust.

In the end, when the sky was dark again, Gaga realized that the biggest gain of the herd of beasts was not the grave that was slightly raised above the ground and covered with a thin layer, but the sprinting of the herd that had been well trained. ability……

At this time, Quack, who finally stopped, just saw the cliff in the distance, and occasionally there was a slight beast roar from inside, which could only be heard by Quack, whose mental strength was extremely high and his perception had been strengthened a little with the help of electricity.

"Speaking of which, it's fine to just throw the corpse under the cliff before." 囧
———————Segment Haunts Again ———————

Standing on the top of the hill, looking down at the herd of more than 400 tentacle quack beasts, quack inadvertently recalled the little pitiful single cell when he first came to this world.

"Life was so simple back then."

On this higher hill, through several low hills, Gaga saw the hill where the calcium carbide mine was located, the small plain area just left, and the long canyon beside it.

Then, Quack turned his head and looked behind him, a drop of cold sweat broke out.

Such a dense forest, such a wide mountain, and... such a strong dangerous atmosphere!
The areas where I was active before were all hills below a kilometer, but at this time, almost all the mountains in front of Gaga were above a kilometer. In the faint mist, all kinds of plants were dense and flourishing. When encountering beetles, Gaga even suspected that there might be many giant insects like the double scythe beetle.

and so……

"Turn around and move all to the north."

With a long roar, Gaga led the group to move northward. Before he had a certain strength, Gaga didn't plan to enter the high mountain area so early. "Speaking of it, the magnetic sense is really a good ability."

The northwest is where the original calcium carbide mine is located, and the previous double-scythe territory is in the west. Gaga once again sent a small team of tentacle quack beasts as the forward team, but unexpectedly, these guys somehow picked out a few of them. Dissatisfied mood swings emanated from the individual's brain.

"What's going on here, don't you already have the mentality to avoid the battle now?" Thinking back to the previous teams sent out before, it seems that many of them have suffered major losses or even been completely wiped out. What kind of shadow? This made Gaga feel helpless.

However, it's impossible for Gaga to come forward in person, "Who knows what will happen to the ethnic group during the buffer period of my resurrection after I die, and maybe I have to fight for the leader again, Sinai !"

As they left the original double-scythe territory, the herd of beasts gradually penetrated into the dense hilly area, and the more they went forward, the more predators there were, and the tentacle quack beasts who came forward had only one thought for these predators——food!

Now the team going forward has restored the basic number of eight again. This is a more appropriate number after considering the impact of the surrounding hilly environment and the fact that there will be no high loss if they are all wiped out.

But at this time, the eight tentacle quack beasts were completely unable to scare off the predators, so, along the way, the tentacle quack beast team that came forward had the function of a hunting team instead.

Instead, the herd hangs behind with peace of mind, eating the animals left by the front team after they are full, and even accidentally starts several predator hunting missions for Gaga.

But gradually, the team in front also began to suffer casualties. A group of more than 20 thorn dogs were attacking the team ahead. The Prickly Dog made a sneak attack, and the tentacled Quacka Beast, which had lost strength due to the long-term battle, had no time to react, and was stabbed into the neck by the Prickly Dog's claws and died.

Seeing this situation, Gaga immediately asked the other two teams to step forward to replace the exhausted original team.

"My cat, the tentacle quacks won't use their numbers to deal with the double-scythe beetles, but now they are attacked by the enemy with their numbers."

As the team gradually penetrated into the territory, the predators attacked more and more, but no higher predators appeared.

"Could it be that there are no advanced predators in this area, but are all occupied by these ordinary predators?"

Think about these ordinary predators, relying on the advantages of numbers and terrain, Gaga will rotate as soon as he feels the fluctuation of fatigue from the front-runners. Up to now, he has replaced the front-running team twice. Gaga thinks this is really the case possible,
The predator's attack time interval is not fixed, and the species of a single attack is not fixed, and as the number of team replacements continues to increase, when watching more and more tentacle quack beasts resting beside him, Gaga also noticed something wrong.

"Could it be consuming the strength of the herd?" It's not that I didn't have this thought before. In fact, when the team was replaced for the third time, Gaga thought about whether this was the reason, but the predators' attacks were too strong. , each attacking predator basically fights to the last one.

"However, although the time of the predators attacking is uncertain and the races are different, the density is too high."

I carefully recalled the details of the previous attack. When I first entered this territory, the team that came out encountered eight short-tailed beasts of similar size for the first time, and easily resolved it; the second time I encountered thirteen mixed predators. , It was still relatively easy to solve; but the third time there were [-] spur dogs, this time Quack had to use [-] tentacle quack beasts to replace one of the front-out teams that died in battle, and then.

Afterwards, there were no fewer than [-] predators in each attack, and the highest one was a mixed group of [-] predators, and as the herd continued to deepen, the frequency of predator attacks continued to increase.

Somehow, Gaga sensed a hint of conspiracy from the attacks of these predators, the conspiracy of exhausting her huge herd, but...

"Do these creatures have this kind of intelligence now, and there are often situations where predators cooperate to attack, and even predators of so many races attack together in the same direction when attacking, and the will to fight is only the same as before. Mermaids can match, is it possible?"

Summoning the exhausted team to return again, this time the team was not being released. Gaga made the herd form a circle in a slightly wider area and began to rest.

Although it is a bit negative, more than half of the tentacle quack beasts are exhausted now. If this continues, who knows what dangers will arise, so it is better to rest first, and then expand the team or the whole herd to act together to search this area region.

……Rest……

The pack of beasts gathered together, but the attacks of the predators did not stop.

However, the number of predators attacking each time and the time interval between attacks are gradually increasing. When the sun rises again, on average, each individual in the herd has swallowed food that is almost half the size of the body.

"Should I be afraid of the unknown enemy? Or should I be grateful for it?" Looking at the tired but satisfied tentacles, Gaga was quite speechless.

"One direction, attack together?" Gaga observed the attack patterns of these predators, from the front, from the left and right, but did not attack from the rear. "Could it be for a surprise attack from behind?"

Slightly expand the number of tentacle quacks in the rear, be careful of possible attacks,

Regroup the herd, gather all the individuals, and move around the edge of this hilly area.

"Is there a possibility that these predators are not so united, but controlled?" Quack, who was thinking about racing, suddenly had such a thought.

After nearly a day of attack, Gaga got some information. If there is really one or a few creatures that can control other creatures to attack the herd, then...

First, they also have upper control limits.Among the continuous attacks, only thirty or so predators attacked at most, and among all the predators that attacked, no higher predators were found.

Second, there are a lot of common predators in this territory.Because this area has been continuously attacked since it left the original double-scythe beetle territory before entering this territory. In total, more than 200 ordinary predators have launched attacks on the herd, and they are still continuing. Appeared, and until now, the herd has only moved inward for less than two kilometers.

"Is the density of this predator too high?"

However, the most important thing is that if there is such a behind-the-scenes controller, it must have a certain amount of wisdom, but the wisdom should not be great.

"Ah, why did we suddenly think of the phrase 'Brothers, go for me!'."

Shaking his head, Quack spread his spiritual power to the maximum, covering the entire herd, and every movement in it could not escape the observation of the spiritual power, but this was just the beginning.

With his own team, Quack ran on the edge of the herd, and then got out of the range of the herd a little bit. Although the mental power was reduced because more than 100 tentacled quacks were sacrificed before, compared to the entire species of tentacle quacks at this time The number of tens of thousands or even 10,000+ is not much.

Running around the herd, Quack's team moves around with the herd like satellites. The 8000 points of mental power spread in a plane circle have a radius of more than 50 meters, and the one-way straight-line scanning even reaches 2000 meters. bioradar.

Look around, and when you find an enemy, you will sound a warning to the tentacle quack beast there.

After observing six waves of Predator attacks, Gaga finally figured out the problem.

Before each attack, the opponent will gather into a small group more than 100 meters outside the herd. The different predators completely ignore the other predators around them. They are obviously under the control of some kind of will. A certain point in the swarm launched an impact, even though some of these predators were still attacking each other before.

In the observation of Quack's mental power, it is obvious that the three predators who hid because of the huge herd suddenly came out of the hiding place fearlessly as if they had received some kind of order , is completely different from the previous performance (beast).

By counting the appearance of these predator groups, Gaga found a moving line around the herd, "If there are no individuals who are lazy and do not move out, then there should be only one mobile that directs the predators to attack the herd." creatures."

Standing on a high ground and looking at the line in the distance, there are several small hills in the middle, "It seems that it should be moving on the hills, remotely controlling these predators to attack the herd, and the controller is Hide on the hills and observe the whole situation."

"Ah, damn it, I hate these guys who hide their heads and show their tails the most. We are only second-level brain cells. I hope we don't run out of them all at once."

Bouncing left and right in annoyance, ignoring the strange eyes of the dozen or so companions around him, he bit the branch in front of him depressedly, venting his dissatisfaction before gradually calming down and continuing to think.

Roaring and driving the herd of beasts back, they kept moving away from the hills suspected to be the controllers in the middle. As the herd of beasts slowly moved away, Gaga led the team to hide along various tall trees, rocks and hills possible line of sight in that direction.

Perhaps it was because they were not noticed by the opponent's sight. The predator team's attacks were all aimed at the herd, and as the herd moved away, the gathering place of the predator team was also moving away from the hill in the middle.

However, as the herd continued to move and the distance to the middle hill continued to widen, the place where the predator team gathered finally stopped at a certain point. During Gaga's observation for three consecutive times, the three waves of hunting Those who were gathered at that point, and then rushed to the herd that was getting farther and farther away.

At this time, Gaga made a new discovery again.

The gathering point of the predators that stopped moving at this time is about 100 meters away from the middle hill, and after the predators started to attack from that point, they all attacked without fear.

But when the distance between the herd and the rendezvous point is about 1000 meters, before the predators approach the herd, chaos begins to appear in the predator group, and some of them become vigilant and stay away from animals that are different from themselves. Individuals of the race even slow down the impact speed.Although they still attacked the herd of beasts, emotions such as hesitation and fear obviously appeared, instead of the previous unity and fearlessness.

Perhaps the controller has also discovered the situation here. Quack, who was hiding not far from the predator assembly point, discovered under the coordinated observation of sight and mental power that the hill with no animal activities was close to the direction of the herd. The edges began to move.

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