Shan Hai Jing: Evolution from Mantis

The first time, the last word.

"Huh."

Su Chen took a deep breath, and a huge wave of emotion rose in his heart.

He thought that in the ordinary city world, there would actually be extraordinary games that only existed in novels. This shocked him, and at the same time, he had complex emotions such as surprise and fear.

He always looked forward to the extraordinary, but at the same time he felt uneasy because of the unknown.

Fortunately, when Su Chen opened the menu and saw the exit button except for the "backpack" and "attributes" options, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, the exit button is still there."

The sense of déjà vu of Sword Art Online faded.

At least he didn't have to worry about being trapped in the game for the rest of his life.

After calming down, Su Chen remembered that his avatar in the game seemed to be a mantis, and he quickly looked down. Sure enough, the green insect body came into view.

Su Chen felt like crying but had no tears.

Originally, he thought it was just an ordinary game, so he didn't care about starting from a bug.

But now that he found out it was an extraordinary game, it was hard not to care.

"Although I don't know if there are other players in this game, this is the most difficult start, right?"

Su Chen sighed.

Insects and animals are not the same level in terms of size, not to mention the difference in ability.

Fortunately, he accepted it quickly. After all, no matter how much he sighed, he couldn't change this start.

Su Chen took a deep breath and said. "It's just a bug. It can evolve, right? Maybe it can become powerful through evolution in the future."

In comparison, how to evolve made him more curious.

Looking around, Su Chen once again felt the insignificance of being a bug.

Looking up, the towering ancient trees around him seemed like trees of the world that supported the sky, vast and boundless.

The lush grass and the puddles in it were comparable to primitive ancient forests and vast lakes in his vision.

Even a sparrow could easily peck him to death.

Suppressing the helplessness in his heart, Su Chen carefully controlled his body and walked in one direction.

Although this is a game, it is no different from the real world for Su Chen.

At least in terms of feeling, Su Chen can feel the flow of real wind, the temperature, and even the sense of solidity when stepping on the soil.

What made Su Chen feel even more amazing was that although it was the first time for him to walk as a mantis, Su Chen did not feel unfamiliar at all. Instead, it was the same as his real body, and he could control both the forelimbs and the hind limbs as if they were his arms.

Su Chen couldn't help but sigh. "It's worthy of being an extraordinary game."

After walking for a while, there were still lush weeds around, but Su Chen stopped and listened carefully. There was a subtle chewing sound in his ears.

"Is there an enemy?"

Su Chen thought subconsciously. After listening carefully to identify the direction, he immediately walked towards the source of the sound with curiosity.

After passing through a section of grass, two black shadows came into view.

These are two ants with black hard shells all over their bodies. They look three or four centimeters long. They sound very small, but Su Chen is not looking at these two ants from a human perspective, but from the perspective of a mantis that is only ten centimeters long.

This is similar to how adults look at elementary school students.

Su Chen was surprised. "What a big ant."

The two ants were surrounding a weed, biting the roots of the weed with their sharp mouths.

It seems that they are ready to bite off the weeds and bring them back to the nest.

Probably sensing Su Chen's arrival, the two ants turned around and saw Su Chen's figure. They immediately made a sharp shriek and rushed towards Su Chen.

"Is this the first battle I will encounter after entering the extraordinary game?"

Su Chen was not afraid, but immediately took a stance, slowly shaking a pair of sharp sickle forelimbs, with a face full of eagerness to try.

At the moment when the two ants rushed over, Su Chen swung his forelimbs and chose an ant to attack, like two long knives slashing vertically, and the sharp forelimbs easily cut through the ant's hard shell and killed the ant.

The other ant took advantage of this gap to bite Su Chen's wings. Su Chen reacted quickly, shaking the ant away with his wings, and then with a puff, he chopped down with his sickle and killed it.

Looking at the corpses of the two ants, Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "It doesn't seem very powerful."

Just an ant, one knife solved it.

But it's normal to think about it.

Although they are all insects, I am a mantis after all. My body size is three or four times larger than these two ants, so it is normal for me to crush them.

At this time, a display box suddenly appeared in front of Su Chen, and a prompt popped up inside.

[Detection of your first encounter with an enemy and victory, get a prompt: After killing the enemy, you can eat the enemy's corpse to obtain evolution points, and the evolution points can be used for your own evolution. In addition to eating the enemy's corpse, you can also get evolution points by eating natural treasures. ]

"Evolution points for evolution? You actually have to get them by eating."

Su Chen looked at the two ant corpses in front of him, and without hesitation, he started eating.

He has no natural treasures now, so he can only rely on eating.

It should be said that he is still quite interested in eating ants, after all, he has never eaten them.

He took a bite, and it was crunchy.

The taste is pretty good.

The most important thing is that you can clearly feel the taste brought by the taste buds, but you can't feel bloating at all after eating it.

The display box popped up again, and a new prompt appeared.

[You got 0.1 evolution points. ]

[You got 0.1 evolution points. ]

[You have obtained 0.1 evolution points. ]

Not just one.

Instead, several prompts of obtaining evolution points appeared in succession.

Seeing this, Su Chen looked delighted and quickly increased his eating speed.

After a while, Su Chen had eaten the two ants and obtained a total of 0.8 evolution points.

In other words, one ant brought about 0.4 evolution points.

"I wonder how many evolutions are required."

Su Chen curiously opened the attribute panel.

[Player: Su Chen. ]

[Incarnation: Green Mantis. ]

[Evolution points: 0.8. ]

[Strength: Weak insect. ]

[Body: Head, chest, abdomen, feet, internal organs, hind wings, carcass. ]

[Talent: Forager. ]

Su Chen has played many games, so he can understand all the information without a teacher when he sees the panel.

"The various parts of the body should be the places where evolution can take place."

Su Chen clicked on the head, and sure enough, the next second, an option of "Strengthen the head" popped up on the attribute panel.

Su Chen quickly clicked yes.

Unfortunately, the result was insufficient evolution points.

After looking at it, Su Chen realized that it took 1 evolution point to evolve one part.

"I'm still short of 0.2 evolution points. I have to find some more ants to kill."

Although I don't know what changes will occur after evolution, it will definitely improve my strength.

As a supernatural game, I wonder if it will be reflected in my real body at that time?