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Chapter 308 Swallowing Gecko [2]

At this time, Zhang Wufeng did not worry about the violent swelling feeling between his eyebrows. Instead, he tried to multitask by focusing one part of his mind on practicing the Tianyan technique, and the other part on gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the gecko.

Zhang Wufeng learned from the encyclopedia that on the toes of geckos, each square millimeter contains 1.4 tiny hairs called spinous hairs. Each hair has about 500 forks like miniature spatulas, and the thickness of each fork is actually smaller than the wavelength of visible light.

Using these invisible, atomic-scale fibers, geckos are able to exploit the Van der Waals forces of molecular interaction and climb any surface except Teflon. Their grip is so strong that, if they exert all their strength, an adult gecko can lift 290 pounds. It is important to note that among all gecko species, there are very few that weigh 290 pounds.

In other words, their grip can easily support the weight of their own bodies!
Zhang Wufeng also learned that the gecko's ability, in addition to being able to lick its own eyeballs with its tongue, is to also spray feces to attack when in danger.

With this understanding, Zhang Wufeng immediately took back the encyclopedia, and then used his own consciousness to completely enter the crystal space between his eyebrows, in order to carefully sense the entire process of this swallowing from beginning to end.

At this time, the slight chill in the air and the sense of emptiness and tranquility around me disappeared, replaced by a warm and harmonious feeling.

When this feeling appeared, Zhang Wufeng knew that he had arrived at his own crystal space. Because all his consciousness was immersed here, Zhang Wufeng no longer had any reaction to the outside world. It can be said that he was actually in some danger at this time, but Zhang Wufeng was not worried about anything.

Perhaps it was because he had been practicing like this all the time, or perhaps nothing had ever happened to Zhang Wufeng during this practice, so Zhang Wufeng also believed that he would not have any problems with this kind of practice. Although the crystal force had always been surrounding him, Zhang Wufeng also felt that perhaps in this situation, the body had a special level of protection, and at this time, the body might also be in a special passive protection state.

There is no way to verify this idea, so Zhang Wufeng can only make such a conclusion. The specific situation still needs to be analyzed specifically. When the strength reaches a certain level, then this point should be easy to prove.

Zhang Wufeng's consciousness was wandering. In this space, he could only feel the vastness and emptiness of this space, as well as a mellow, warm and holy feeling, but there was no other bad feeling. However, it was obvious that this time the swallowing had increased from one centimeter to about three centimeters, so this increase was actually quite large.

He could feel the expansion between his eyebrows before, but he couldn't feel it now. This feeling was naturally different, which made Zhang Wufeng understand that external feelings are one thing, and internal feelings are another.

Zhang Wufeng's consciousness wrapped around the gecko that was magnified to the size of the entire space, and a different feeling arose spontaneously. Through this feeling and what he saw, many more things involuntarily appeared in Zhang Wufeng's mind.

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Geckos live in rock crevices, caves or tree holes in mountains or wilderness, and sometimes move around the eaves and walls of people's houses. They have strong hearing, but poor vision during the day. They are afraid of strong light stimulation, and their pupils are often closed into a vertical slit. They come out to move and forage at night, and their pupils can expand 4 times, their vision is enhanced, and their clever tongues can be extended out of their mouths to occasionally lick the dust on the surface of their eyes. They are agile in movement, and when they crawl, their heads leave the ground, and the back of their bodies move forward with their limbs twisting left and right alternately. The soles of their feet have a strong ability to absorb, and they can crawl freely on walls. It was originally believed that there were suction cups under their feet, but in fact, the enlarged foot pads at the end of their toes are not suction cups, but rows of bundles of micro-villi like velvet on the foot pads and scales under the toes, like small curved hooks, so they can easily grasp objects and crawl on walls and even glass. The secretions of the glands at the top of the micro-villi can also enhance their absorption. It mainly preys on insects and their larvae such as locusts, cockroaches, wood beetles, dragonflies, moths, crickets, and occasionally eats other lizards and small birds. It often does not let go of something it has bitten.

Its tail is easy to break, but it can regenerate. This is because there is a smooth joint surface in the coccyx that connects the front and back halves of the coccyx. The muscles, skin, and scales in this area are relatively thin and loose, so when the tail is attacked, it can swing its body violently, and through the strong contraction of the tail muscles, the coccyx breaks at the joint surface, so as to escape from the enemy. Since the tail stores energy in the form of glycogen rather than simply in the form of fat, and glycogenized fat is easier to release energy, the nerves and muscles of the tail that has just been broken off are not dead yet, and will tremble on the ground, which can play a role in diverting the attention of natural enemies. Therefore, there is an absurd saying among the people that the broken tail of the gecko will drill into the ear of a person. After the tail is broken, the wound on the self-mutilation surface will heal quickly, forming a tail bud base, which will go through a period of cell division and growth, and then enter the differentiation stage of forming scales, and finally grow a brand new regenerated tail, but compared with the original tail, it appears short and thick.

However, geckos will only cut off their tails when they have no other choice, because cutting off the tail is a serious injury to the body. Not only will it lose the fat stored in the tail, but it will also lose its status among its peers. Especially when courting, large geckos with intact tails have a great advantage over geckos without tails...

When this knowledge was wandering in his mind, Zhang Wufeng discovered that the huge gecko surrounded by crystal power had disappeared without his knowledge.

The entire space was filled with only two huge double-helix crystal mist frame structures. Looking at these special structures, Zhang Wufeng began to think for the first time.

"Why is this structure like this? If I combine the crystal power into my body during cultivation and form a structure like this, will I make any progress?"

Zhang Wufeng pondered for a moment. He immediately grasped the idea that suddenly came to him, and then he temporarily recorded it. He still had a lot of things to deal with, and he couldn't withdraw to try this process for the time being. After all, this process was not something he could try in his current state. After forcibly swallowing, his consciousness felt a little tired and drowsy, like he couldn't breathe and felt a little suffocated. This feeling was not good. Zhang Wufeng's consciousness gradually felt this sense of pressure. After this feeling existed, Zhang Wufeng knew in his heart that he had indeed swallowed too much.

Zhang Wufeng's consciousness swept through the double helix structure of the space bag, and then recorded it completely. Then he began to use his consciousness to touch the crystal ring that had reached great perfection. After the crystal ring reached this level, after Zhang Wufeng's consciousness touched the crystal ring, there was a sudden muffled "boom" sound, and Zhang Wufeng's consciousness was like ashes and was suddenly pulled into a vortex-like darkness. In such darkness, Zhang Wufeng found that he suddenly turned into a gecko.

But it's a little strange, after becoming a gecko, he is like a bystander with his own consciousness.

This feeling is very strange.

However, this feeling soon disappeared, and when the darkness dissipated, Zhang Wufeng crawled in the grass, enjoying the warmth of the sun.

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During the day, my eyesight is very poor, which is a common problem among us geckos. It is not just me, because I am actually very proud of this because my eyesight is much better than that of my companions.

Today, I ate one hundred and eight mosquitoes. I ate too much and then I couldn’t sleep.

I wondered why I couldn't sleep. It turned out that I ate too much and was too full.

Although mosquitoes taste good, they are not as delicious as flies. When you take a bite, thousands of fly sons wriggle in your stomach. That feeling is so wonderful.

I miss this feeling so much that every time I face the issue of eating, I feel distressed.

What if I eat too fast or too leisurely? The female geckos will all like me and won’t be able to like other geckos. Then Xiaolu will be very sad.

I am not a gecko who likes to write a diary, because I never leave my name behind when I do good things, unlike Xiaolu, who likes to brag and boast about his abilities in his diary and then spread it everywhere, even though he has a broken tail! Even so, he still wants to compete with me for a partner, which is really funny.

He also said that he wanted to fight with Brother Centipede. He was not worthy of fighting. Brother Centipede said that even if he was poisonous, he was not as scary as the monsters that ran around with two legs standing upright. There were too many monsters like this. They even had two eyes, a nose and a mouth. This was really amazing.

Since I can't sleep, I'll go out for a walk again. What I like most is the night...

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After recovering from the inexplicable mess of memories, Zhang Wufeng almost cried. This gecko is so talented. What the hell is going on? The consciousness of this gecko is so weird, absurd, speechless and funny.

(End of this chapter)