Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 28 The Unpalatable Sea

After exploring the shipwreck, it broadened Yuan's knowledge of the ocean.

However, Yuan still has no clue about the ethnic enemies.

And, there is one more.

land.

What is land?
Not long after Yuan woke up among the tribe, he heard the word "land".

Yuan is undoubtedly unfamiliar with land.

And after such a long time, Yuan has never seen land.

However, Yuan is not in a hurry about this.

There will always be many unknown things in life.

I don't know this, I don't know that.

But everyone will find out eventually.

Yuan is not in a hurry.

Perhaps, "land" is not a good place after all.

The pack moved forward again.

As they rounded the trench, Yuan took one last look at the sunken ship.

This ship sank at an unknown time and has been in this trench for a long time.

Its surface is covered with silt and algae, and it becomes a habitat for marine animals.

It has changed from the habitat of the group's enemies to the habitat of the group's blood relatives.

It becomes part of the ocean.

The group just walked over the ship and finally moved away from it.

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After bypassing the trench, Yuan's destination is still the warm sea.

They head toward warmer temperatures.

Along the way, the cubs have reached one-half the size of adults and can actively hunt creatures smaller than themselves in the ocean.

If they hunt in groups, the creatures they can hunt are larger.

However, what these little things like to eat most are their blood relatives.

This blood relationship even includes adults, as well as those in the growth and evolution stages.

Because the behavior of larvae is still succumbing to instinct.

However, no one will tolerate them.

Even if it is a blood relative in the newborn stage, it is quite simple to kill a larvae.

But don't forget that they were killed from many larvae.

Those larvae that dare to offend them will be torn into pieces without mercy and become their food.

Yuan also did nothing to stop this.

Why stop such stupid behavior?Even if he is not killed now, he will definitely die later.

It is better to become a ration of the tribe now and support the tribe to continue to search for new sea areas.

In today's sea area, although the ocean temperature is not low, perhaps because of the proximity to the trench and the cold sea, the creatures living in this area are in a completely different situation from the other side.

Although Yuan can also see some creatures from the previous sea here, such as winged fish and rock-eating turtles.

But most of them are small creatures that have never been seen before.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about sea worms. Even on the other side of the trench, Yuan felt that he had not seen all the sea worms living in the gravel and stone crevices.

Of course, Yuan also saw some larger sea insects here.

Although Yuan is not sure whether this thing is called a bug, after all, his size is larger than the cubs in the current group.

It had more than a dozen short and thick limbs, crawling on the gravel just like Yuan and the others.

The front limbs of this sea worm have tiny pincers, which are tools used to dig out ocean gravel or seaweed on rock surfaces.
Yuan tried eating a sea worm.

It tasted so bad that Yuan knew why this sea worm could survive in this sea area.

Not much meat, just bones!

One bite is like chewing on bones!
To Yuan, the taste of this creature is quite unpleasant.

So when he saw this kind of creature crawling slowly on the gravel and rocks eating seaweed again, Yuan didn't want to eat them.

In addition to sea insects, there are fish.As the group advanced, the ocean began to return to warmth.

The types of fish began to increase.

There is a silverfish whose body is red, but there is a silvery-white line in the middle of its torso.

Silverline fish swim so fast that even the fastest finwalkers in the group can't keep up with these guys.

There are those that move fast, and there are naturally those that move slow.

A broad-finned fish with a large body and a flat body paired with two pairs of exaggeratedly large fins.

However, although the fins are large, the broad-finned fish moves very slowly, and it is not clear whether it is due to the body structure or something else.

These guys don't even react after being chewed a few times. They are like a buffet in the ocean, and anyone who comes can take a few bites.

Yuan doesn't even know how the broadfin survives in this ocean.

According to this habit, they should have been eaten up long ago.

Or, this should be a kind of creature that is quite capable of giving birth.

For example, a single broad-finned fish can give birth to hundreds of millions of offspring. In this way, the number of offspring that all broad-finned fishes in the entire ocean can give birth to at the same time is an astronomical number.

Even if a lot of them are eaten, there are still a huge number of platyphyll fish larvae that can survive in the end.

Just like a group reproducing offspring, a large number of pups are born, but in the end, not even one thousandth of the original ones successfully survive to become adults.

Even if only one in [-] of a life form like the broad-finned fish can survive, it is still a considerable number.

In addition, Yuan also saw a flat fish with eyes on one side of the body. It was surprisingly ugly, so he called it the ugly-eyed fish.

As for the taste, the meat quality is good.

At least it tastes better than broadfin fish.

The cortex of the broad-finned fish is wider than the body of the ugly-eyed fish!
That feeling of being covered in skin after one bite makes Yuan just want to spit it out.

And in these thick cortexes, you can even eat meat that does not belong to the broad-finned fish - a kind of sea worm that lives in the skin of the broad-finned fish.

Even though it is meaty, the meat of broadfin fish has a strong sour taste when eaten.

It feels like the digestive juices from the stomach pouch returning to the mouth.

Very unpalatable.

If it weren't for the complete inclusion of the broad-finned fish in the evolutionary catalog, Yuan Cai would not endure this feeling and eat the whole broad-finned fish.

In addition to these three types of fish, there are many more fish.

However, Yuan found no trace of any leader among these fish schools.

"Perhaps they haven't yet reached the growth stage of life."

Looking around, these fish schools are basically in the nascent stage.

And it’s not just fish that appear in groups.

There is also a long strip-shaped creature, Yuan named them pseudo-grass eels.

Because these guys will use their powerful tails to fix themselves to rocks or the seabed and drift with the waves. From a distance, they look like seaweeds without blades.

But these things are carnivorous.

They drift with the current, and when they camouflage themselves with marine plants for a long time, unsuspecting fish will come here, thinking that this is an area that can provide them with shelter.

But as the fish came here, what greeted him was the attack of these long creatures.

These "seaweeds" that had drifted with the current would immediately attack.

Often a fish will be attacked by all the pseudograss eels in the surrounding area at the same time.

These pseudo-grass eels will dismember any fish that accidentally enters them as quickly as possible and carve them up cleanly.

However, in front of Yuan, these pseudo-grass eels chose to quietly become seaweeds. If possible, they would rather become real seaweeds.

At least if they become seaweed, Yuan won't eat them like snacks.

But after eating one, Yuan didn't want to eat anymore.

Although the meat is rich, the meat of pseudo-grass eel is quite bitter.

It's like eating real seaweed.

Just arrived.

Yuan's first impression of this sea area was that there weren't many good things to eat.

(End of this chapter)