Spore Story

Chapter 20 The Deep Sea World...Ascension

"Um……"

Floating bored in the turbid space, Lightning thought that his consciousness might be about to dissipate.

"Evolution, development."

However, that should just be a feeling.

"I still have to evolve and develop. If I don't continue quickly, I will be overtaken or even eliminated by other creatures."

A voice echoed in his consciousness, it was his own voice, but it didn't seem to be his own voice.

"What's the rush? It's okay to float leisurely for a while without worrying about food." I answered my own question like this, "From the time I first passed through, I was looking for food, destroying enemies, and evolving; looking for food, and then destroying enemies, Evolve again."

"It's boring, I'm bored." The long mouth moved lazily, allowing a pile of turbid water full of nutrients to be rushed into the digestive tract. As for food hygiene and so on, the current Lightning doesn't think about it at all. "Only the fragile stomach of a higher creature has food hygiene problems. Why is that stomach that looks worse than myself as a bug now considered a higher creature?" Lightning felt a little tired.

"I used to just want to be a carefree rice bug, but now it's so hard."

"Lonely or something, it should be an experience that travelers all have. They are completely separated from the original society, strange world, strange groups, and strange creatures. Some guys like me are even unfamiliar with their bodies."

"However, they have the finished body directly, and my body has to be assembled from the parts. It's hard to say who is good and who is bad. The situation is different."

Feeling the empty space, Lightning sighed in consciousness.

"It is said that other small cells have evolved successively, but I haven't encountered any of them in such a long time." (Its current body is.)
"Although it doesn't feel like a long time has passed, about a year or so, but the record is more than a billion years. How long will it take for this race to evolve civilization?"

From time to time, the soft body that drifted with the tide gave out troubled doubts.

"In the editing space, only 8051 can talk, and what kind of spores are needed to get in."

The whining keeps echoing in the consciousness, which makes people feel bored.If it is a human being, Kong Huan should be lazily lying on the grass, staring at the sun, with his hands on his pillow.

"It's useless, I won't just be so useless."

From stillness to movement only in an instant, Lightning's whole body trembled.

"Sick, why are you so depressed all of a sudden. Life seems endless now, but who knows if the system will have a time limit at the multi-cellular stage."

"It's not finished by then, and I have nowhere to cry."

A string of electric lights flowed through Lightning's almost transparent body, and his consciousness seemed to be a little clearer.

After twisting his soft body a few times, he felt that his consciousness gradually condensed, and Lightning was ready to continue the road of evolution.

"Huh, lightning?!"

While reflecting on the wrongness of the depression just now, Lightning's eyes suddenly felt a burst of lightning from a certain direction. (Here, let me explain that the range of telepathy is far less wide than the range of vision at this time.) So far, except myself, I have not encountered a creature that can emit electric current, so that Kong Huan almost thinks that only he can emit electric current.

And electric light = electric discharge = electric polarized cells = known to exist in our own race, then the tentative conclusion is:
"companion!"

Coming to the conclusion that it should be the same kind of evolution, a series of lightning flashes began to flash on Lightning's body, immediately using flagella and tentacles, Lightning swam vigorously in that direction.Dissatisfaction with low speed has also increased again.

……

"Where are people? Ah no, is it a bug? Why is there nothing?"

Swimming to the approximate location, there was nothing in the telepathy except the muddy water.The lightning that had guided the direction before had stopped when it had just reached the small halfway.

"Damn it, you learned the tactics of hitting me and running away better than me." Lightning, who couldn't accept it, swam around again, but still found nothing.

Discharge?

Lightning suddenly thought of this method, and immediately controlled his body to start emitting lightning intermittently, hoping that this would attract the attention of his companions, and the rich supply of nutrients around him also met Lightning's needs.

"Why haven't they appeared yet, they won't all travel far away."

"That's right, it's still close to the volcanic area, maybe they all escaped, and the one just now was just the guy who ran behind." Once again, the power of the whole body burst out, and suddenly found such completely useless lightning, stopped the movement, turned around and swallowed it. Pile floats to supplement nutrient consumption.

At this time, there was a sudden reaction in the unchanging induction.

"What, is there really a companion passing by?"

However, Lightning, who was completely hopeless about his previous actions, was cautious about having a companion passing by and discovering his own flash, while swimming towards him.In fact, the action just now was far more venting to Lightning than attracting his companions.

Slowly adjust the state of the body, and carefully sense the other party again.

"Sure enough not."

In the telepathy of the lightning, a soft-bodied, octopus-like creature propelled by six tentacles was swimming towards it at a not-so-slow speed.The two huge protrusions that look like eyes on the front of the other party's pointed body indicate the reason why the other party found himself.

"Sure enough, emotions must be controlled. After venting, another creature was attracted. By the way, this must not be the ancestor of the octopus." Without turning around and evacuating, Lightning knew very well that if he wanted to run at his current speed, he could not escape. , and for the current self, relying on the high electric shock ability is not without the power to fight. "I don't know if I can advance like this to an octopus. Maybe I can try to adjust the position next time I evolve."

The distance between the opponent and himself keeps getting closer, and Lightning slowly accumulates energy in his body. Even if the opponent is a gentle pacifist creature, Lightning does not intend to stop.

Courage cannot be developed by running away alone. Many people know the truth, but not many can do it completely, and Lightning is just trying.In this dangerous world, it is absolutely impossible not to have guts.And Lightning knew that as time went by, there would be more and more creatures, and they would become more aggressive.If you don't take advantage of the current effort to evolve and wait for a large number of more aggressive creatures to appear, the current self will have no ability to fight back.Electric shock is not a panacea.

The octopus-like creature hesitated after the lightning stopped shocking, as if wondering why the target flash disappeared.But at this time, it was not far from the lightning, and soon discovered the lightning not far away.However, the opponent did not have any offensive posture, but continued to move forward along the route that Lightning had already moved away a little.

"It seems to be a gentle creature." Now that there are not many organs with better perception of the world, it is impossible to detect the enemy's attack earlier, so the competition between creatures is not strong, and the aggressiveness of creatures is not high.

It is also unlucky to encounter aggressive multi-cells during lightning evolution.

"But I'm sorry, let's change it to my evolution value. Look at me, the power burst!"

Light blue lightning instantly flooded the small area of ​​water, and the creature that was about to pass by the lightning just now seemed to have no ability to defend against the electric shock, and its whole body froze the moment the lightning flashed.

But just when Lightning thought that the other party would hang up like a steel pliers.The opponent did recover quickly after a short period of stiffness, and then opened six tentacles to the lightning.

If it was a human, Kong Huan might be taken aback, but don't forget that Lightning has two tentacles growing on his body at this time, and he assembled them by himself.

Ready the power, Lightning waited, planning to give the opponent a fatal blow when the opponent rushed up.In my memory, creatures like octopuses seem to use their tentacles to restrain each other before attacking (also from the movie). As for how to attack, I don’t know, because the octopus monsters in the movie are cut off after restraining people. Tentacles, cupid octopus monsters, so there is no time to attack.

However, after the six tentacles opened suddenly, they quickly closed, and the resulting water flow pushed the opponent's slightly bulky body away from the lightning for an instant, and after a few pushes, it disappeared from Lightning's perception.

"..."

"Halo, it's too fast to escape."

Looking at the direction in which the other party disappeared, Lightning had no choice but to express admiration or even approval for this guy who was suspected to be the ancestor of the octopus.

"It seems that speed is really important. Isn't there a saying that everything in martial arts is invincible, and only speed can't be broken?"

"In this world now, life-saving is the most important thing."

"Of course, the fate of the entire race."

"To increase speed, you have to evolve. To evolve, you need better components and more evolution points, so..."

"I'd better go and trouble the multicellular organisms I can afford."

Shaking the flagella behind him, Lightning swam deep into the water.

—————————Long time dividing line, experience is rising——————

Below the steep continental shelf, in a dark water, a tentacle worm is hiding in the crack of the cliff waiting for the arrival of food.

They usually seldom move, and usually stay in a certain place to hide their bodies, only revealing the inconspicuous and light tentacles floating in the water. Through this tentacles, they sense the changes in the water flow and the passing creatures.

Usually they feed on the substances floating in the water and the nutrients in the sediment, and if they are lucky enough to have bullying soft-bodied multi-cells passing by, they will quickly throw out two powerful tentacles to capture each other, and then use the tentacles on the The needle-like organ injects a toxin that renders the creature incapacitated.Afterwards, they can swagger in front of the already limp prey, chew and digest each other slowly, and accumulate energy for the next hunt.

This tentacle worm was devouring part of the nutrients contained in the sand, suddenly it felt the tentacles were touched lightly, and through the brief contact of the tentacles, the tentacle worm judged that it was the touch of a soft-bodied creature.The body reacted quickly, the tentacles with needles flicked, and quickly rushed to the direction where the prey was sensed.

However, it didn't have much luck today.The moment the popped out tentacles emerged from the sand, they went numb for an instant.The tentacles that felt bad were about to withdraw their tentacles, but the tingling feeling quickly spread all over the body again, and there was no chance to cut off the tentacles and tentacles that were released urgently. The tentacles were hit by continuous electric shocks Its short life is over.

[Get 10 evolution points]

"This guy who just sits and waits is actually a leader. I really don't know how powerful he is." Feeling that the two soft-bodied insects that he easily eliminated during this period of time did not provide him with any components except for 4 points of evolution, As well as these five tentacle worms, Lightning found that the leader-level self still looks quite powerful (the tentacle worms cried out: Let us try to prick you with a needle!).

Except for the discovery of new components when the first tentacle worm is killed, the subsequent tentacle worms do not have any hints about the components.But Lightning is known to be on the tentacle worm, and there are components that he should not have: the tentacles plus more powerful non-electric shock tentacles, it doesn't matter whether there is a difference in the internal system.This confirms that a population will only provide hints of one component for itself, and the selection of components should go back to the biological editing space.

Lightning skillfully divided the opponent into several sections with his long mouth.Although it will still take a certain amount of time, the density of living things is still very low in this space, which provides ample time for Lightning to eat these foods.

Eliminating the opponent is easy for Lightning who found the method.The current vision is completely unable to see things clearly, so when he found this tentacle in the mental induction, Lightning used the electric shock tentacle to slowly touch the opponent to draw out his tentacles. At that moment, the electric power exploded and paralyzed the opponent. To destroy the opponent, even if it is paralyzed, it will only be for a short while.But this moment is enough.Use the electric shock tentacles to grab the exposed tentacles of the opponent, and then use the electric polarization cells in the body to conduct group discharges through the electric shock tentacles, so that the opponent will die in continuous electric shocks.

Why not just shock the tentacles directly, this is what Lightning has done before.After discovering the tentacles, they were exposed to electric shocks instantly, but the tentacles broke off, and the tentacled insects hidden in the sand did not even move.And if he gets too close to the sand where the opponent is hiding, Lightning is worried that he will not be able to react. After all, his physical condition is only like this now. Even if his consciousness can react, his soft body cannot hide.

Therefore, the lightning that wiped out the five tentacle worms has not been pierced by the opponent's target, which has to be said to be lucky.On the other hand, if you can't attack, no matter how powerful the attack is, it will be useless.But this is also something that can only be done by lightning with a faster electric shock attack.

After encountering the octopus-like creature, Lightning planned to swim back to the bottom of the sea to find his target.However, it was found that the shock wave of the volcanic eruption seemed to be a little far away from the bottom of the sea, and the lightning, which had been swimming in one direction for a while along the water, accidentally found this steep place. Although it is not sure whether this is the continental shelf, after all I don't know how big his body is, maybe it's just a mound of dirt, but Lightning still decides to swim upstream along it.And the boss-level tentacle worms and civilian-level soft-bodied worms that appear in the cracks of this cliff also provide Lightning with good training objects and mobile nutritional value. As for many miscellaneous level creatures, although they hardly provide any components , but it also provides a lot of evolution value for Lightning.

And in the lightning induction that was slowly eating, a steel tongs that attacked him when he evolved and was wiped out tragically appeared on the edge.

"It's a serious crime to disturb people's meals, and they are still incapable of providing any excellent components. So, go to hell with me!"

Facing the steel tongs that finally found himself, and then twisted his body and rushed towards him, Lightning calmly turned to the other party, and then burst out another strong electric shock.

(End of this chapter)