Become a sea squirt larva and eat a brain first

"This is……"

The brand-new creature in front of him was completely different from what Chen Mu had imagined.

It was half the size of a lion, with a pair of wings and a fluffy body. It looked like a giant bumblebee.

"What's going on?"

When Chen Mu uses gluttony evolution, he uses lions to eat ants.

But something like this evolved in front of me, and it turned out to be a bee?

Chen Mu didn't understand, but this was actually not surprising.

Gene mutations can lead to a variety of conditions, or the evolution of characteristics that have never appeared before, or they can cause atavism, which means the emergence of genes that were previously abandoned.

The ancestor of ants is a creature called a wasp.

The overlord ant wasp is the ancestor of ants and the ancestor of bees. Later, with the subsequent evolution, it became ants and bees.

Chen Mu's gluttonous evolution caused the ant genes to mutate into genes similar to those of bees.

"Forget it, let's see how long this thing can live first." Chen Mu also knew that genetic mutation was highly uncertain. Although he was a little surprised, he was only slightly surprised and continued his experiment.

Under Chen Mu's control, this giant hornet flew in mid-air for about three minutes.

The giant 'bumblebee' stopped flying immediately, fell to the ground, and became motionless.

dead.

"Sure enough, it's like this again." Chen Mu approached and touched the bumblebee, and the bumblebee turned into golden light and was swallowed by Chen Mu.

This time, the ‘bumblebee’ did not exceed Chen Mu’s expectations.

Chen Mu found that as long as his experimental subjects had too many ant-like appearances, they would not be able to last for an hour even if they looked normal.

The result analyzed by the system was death from lack of oxygen.

Insects... that is, ants, bees and the like, their breathing methods are completely different from humans.

Insects do not have lungs, so humans need lungs to breathe.

Insects do not have lungs, and their way of breathing is through "spiracles."

These valves are similar to human nostrils and are in direct contact with the outside air.

The oxygen obtained by the valve is directly transported to the whole body through the trachea in the insect's body.

But the problem is that when the insect is too large, the oxygen obtained by the valve cannot be transported to the whole body through the trachea in time.

The difference between valve respiration and pulmonary respiration means that insects cannot be too large, otherwise they will die.

In Chen Mu's experiment, due to genetic reasons, the ant's genes will take the initiative. When the ant's genes gain a larger size and turn into valve breathing, they will die because they cannot adapt to the environment.

For Chen Mu, it didn't matter. What he wanted was not the body of the ant, but the ability to reproduce as a queen.

In Chen Mu's opinion, the best result is that the experimental subject maintains the appearance of a lion and has the reproductive ability of a queen ant. This is what Chen Mu wants most.

However, Chen Mu knew very well that this would require too many experimental subjects.

Chen Mu didn't care either.

Even if he kills all the lions in Africa, he still wants to breed lions with the genes for queen ant reproduction.

A full month passed in this way.

During this month, Chen Mu conducted thousands of experiments.

Finally, a brand new creature appeared in front of Chen Mu.

This creature, from the looks of it, is a lioness.

It may seem like nothing.

Chen Mu subconsciously asked: "System, what genes did it acquire?"

The system said in that unique mechanical tone: "Its reproductive system is combined with the reproductive system of the queen ant, and it also acquires some genes from the queen."

Chen Mu's eyes lit up.

Isn't this exactly what he wants?

"good."

Chen Mu released his control over the creature in front of him.

The creature came back to its senses, glanced at Chen Mu subconsciously, and quickly turned around and ran away.

Chen Mu opened his consciousness and stared at it.

"We have to give it a name. Since it is a combination of ants and lions, and lions are the main ones, then... ant lion? Ant lion seems to be called that by another creature, so let's change it..., then If the ants build such a temporary nest, they should be called marching ants."

The marching lion apparently still had memories of being a lioness, so it returned to its pride.

The other lions accepted the lioness as usual.

Chen Mu observed the female marching lion through his conscious vision.

Over time, like the rest of the pride.

The leading male lion breeds with the female marching lion.

Seeing this, Chen Mu suddenly became excited.

"Has it started yet?"

At first, the marching lion was no different from other lions, but after mating, the changes began.

The female marching lion's abdomen began to swell.

The back of the abdomen bulges, and the belly bulges with it.

The other lions in the pride looked at the appearance of the female marching lion, and they were a little confused and confused.

At first, the female marching lion was still walking.

But as the abdomen grew larger and larger, it directly touched the ground, and it completely lost the ability to move.

When the lions saw that it was a female marching lion, they abandoned her.

The female marching lion could only lie quietly and wait for death.

See this scene through the vision of consciousness.

Chen Mu knew that if he didn't intervene, the female marching lion would be dead.

At present, it seems that the female marching lion has a bulging abdomen like the queen ant because of the child, but it is different from the queen ant. The queen ant of the marching ant has her abdomen at the back, so she can move, but her abdomen is in the middle, which makes it impossible to use the hind legs and can only lie on the ground and wait for death.

It will not die directly because of losing its mobility. If no one saves it, it will die, and the cause of death is starvation.

Just when the female marching lion felt that it was doomed, it closed its eyes.

At this time, accompanied by a gust of wind.

As a griffin, Chen Mu fell beside the female marching lion with the body of an adult zebra in his mouth.

The female marching lion was stunned and looked at Chen Mu.

Chen Mu tore off a piece of meat and threw it in front of the female marching lion.

The female marching lion looked at Chen Mu in confusion, but the food was in front of her, and as an animal, she did not hesitate much and opened her mouth to eat directly.

The female marching lion seems to have a very large appetite.

An adult zebra was enough to feed a lion group, but Chen Mu found that it ate the adult zebra and was almost not full.

However, this is not surprising.

After all, it is pregnant, and it must be pregnant with more than one cub.

The energy required is huge.

In order to prevent accidents, leave the clone behind and go hunting and feed it.

This thing is the result of Chen Mu's more than a month, and Chen Mu doesn't want it to die.

You know, there are not many lions in Africa now, and they can no longer support Chen Mu to continue his experiments.

If this thing dies, then Chen Mu's plan will be in vain.

When it is unable to move, Chen Mu decides to feed it himself.