I have a set of monster experience cards

The residents of Huanhai have a built-in system for "time" that allows them to accurately perceive the passage of time without relying on external factors such as sunlight.

The dolphin hunter said that after three days, there would be no need to worry about being late.

You Huan checked the map information sent to him via mental message.

It clearly marks the stone forest, a continuous rock wall, several deep trenches, and an underwater plain.

There is a yellow dot marked somewhere on the rock wall, which is the meeting point.

It looks like... this isn't the first time that dolphin has entered the deep area, right?

He was right. This sea area was connected to the deep area, and a road leading to the deep layer would open from time to time.

He already knew that there was a huge rock-armored hunter here.

The fact that the dolphin was able to pass under the hunter's territory several times and explore the environment without dying shows that it is very powerful, or that it is very good at escaping.

He became secretly alert.

Although the dolphin seemed sincere and gave him the map directly, it was hard to say what it was thinking.

Each hunter has its own personality.

Judging from the cleverness of the dolphin's previous escape, it may be a hunter with many twists and turns in its mind.

In addition to the path it provides, he should also explore the deep areas himself.

Gently waving his tentacles, he moved through the stone forest, and soon his tentacles captured the slightest movement.

He stopped moving his tentacles and fell slowly and silently until he lightly touched the ground.

The tentacles flowed along the undulations of the rocks like running water, bringing almost no vibration.

Therefore, the source of the subtle noises did not notice that there was a lurking hunter outside. After waiting for the water flow in the stone forest to subside, they climbed out with confidence.

——This is a group of pale crustaceans about the size of a palm. They look like a combination of horseshoe crabs and woodlice. Under each segment of the shell are dense limbs, and they have a hard tail dragging behind them.

They drilled out from the holes in the rocks and moved around on the surface of the stone forest with rustling sounds.

You Huan stayed where he was, motionless, and held his breath.

It was dark here, and these little guys had lost their eyesight. They mistakenly believed that You Huan was not a living creature, and began to slowly approach.

Some even climbed onto his body.

This feeling made You Huan feel nostalgic, as he recalled the days when snow and ice worms played under his fur.

But these little guys are not his symbiotic creatures.

They used their pair of gleaming front limbs to skillfully cut off some of the stone pillars, cut the fallen rocks into small pieces, and then carried them back to their nests.

There were also several groups of little guys crawling away into the distance, probably a hunting party.

You Huan waited patiently for a while, but did not see their hunting team returning with their prey. Instead, he discovered a transport team crawling from another direction, and what they were carrying on their carapaces were actually broken pieces of rock armor!

Could it be the shell of that giant rock-armored beast?

He had an inexplicable, intuitive interest in the beast.

So he stretched out his tentacles and snatched the fragment away at lightning speed.

The transport team was suddenly robbed and scattered, and the few creatures that were climbing up and down on him twisted their bodies and ran away.

One of them tripped over his tentacles as it climbed down, stumbled to its feet, and scurried into the nearest rock hole.

You Huan ignored them and focused on observing the piece of rock armor.

As he expected, this rock armor was not made of bone, but similar to his snail shell, mainly calcified, supplemented by a large number of special structures, including some biomass structures, which were used to improve the performance of the rock armor in all aspects. No, it was more than "similar", the idea of ​​this rock armor was 60% to 70% similar to his snail shell!
According to the information box, the giant beast has two layers of rock armor, an outer layer and an inner layer.

It seemed to have fully armed itself with this rock armor, which also served as support for its powerful jaws that were capable of crushing rocks.

This really is...the perfect object for learning and devouring evolution...!
If he could learn from the behemoth and completely integrate the shell with his body to form "biological armor", he would solve two major problems at once.

First, there is the problem of supporting the skeleton.

His body itself is a "soft" creature. Once it is too large, it will be a problem to support itself on land. If he has a hard shell instead of bones, the problem will be solved.

Second, there is the issue of offensive means.

In addition to the tentacles' entanglement and poison, it would be great if they could form hard sharp claws as a second means of attack.

After the initial excitement, he realized a problem:
That rock-armored beast seemed, probably, like, much stronger than him...

Whether it is the prey or You Huan himself is the prey is still a question.

Let's take a step by step.

Just as I finished thinking, I heard rustling noises all around.

The faint fluorescence on the tentacles illuminated the situation within a one-meter radius. He looked up and saw that those little shelled creatures were already densely packed and had surrounded him.

They waved their sharp and broad forelimbs in a collective warning to him.

However, due to the size difference, their demonstration is not scary at all, but rather a bit cute.

You Huan had no intention of making an enemy of these guys - they were too small, and lived in a group. The gains from hunting might not offset the energy consumed.

"Splash." The sea water surged violently, blowing over a large number of the little guys closest to it.

They raised their heads and used their hearing organs to "watch" the "giant beast" that broke into their territory and stole their building materials as it swam into the sky and quickly swam away.

Their hunting team pointed the way to You Huan, suggesting that there might be more suitable prey on the other side of the stone forest.

After fifteen minutes of advancing, he left the stone forest area.

According to the map provided by Dolphin, there is a plain behind the stone forest.

If so,

On the endless sea mud plain, there are densely packed colorful soft tubes, flowers, feathers, and fine hairs, and the colorful lights are scattered like stage show lights.

These are the tentacles of various creatures, similar to corals and anemones.

Suddenly, a dark shadow rose from the distance, blocking out a large area of ​​light.

Looking closely, it turned out that the black shadow was an extremely large jellyfish-like creature.

The wide red and black tentacles swayed wildly like a lady's dance skirt, pushing it upwards and quickly disappearing into the dark sea.

"..."

You Huan swam slowly into this gorgeous tentacle plain. The creatures attached to the rocks and mud waved their tentacles, almost as if saying hello.

Thousands of silk-like tentacles clustered around him like a cloud, blending perfectly into the environment.

Beautiful tentacles, delicate tentacles, deadly tentacles.

...The creatures here should be very closely related to him.

As he looked around, a dark shadow quietly emerged from behind him. (End of this chapter)