Spore Story

Chapter 21

"Keep going up this continental shelf."

After swallowing the steel tongs with difficulty, Lightning felt that the nutrition in his body seemed to be sufficient, making him a little full.

"It seems that the body has an upper limit of nutrient storage, and now I feel a little indigestible."

"Speaking of which, when I evolved into multi-cells, I should have enlarged my body size. Now I can't even see a single cell."

Slowly walking up the cliff that was suspected to be a continental slope, Lightning remembered what 8051 had mentioned before, that the spores of the race were needed to enter the biological editing space.

"What are spores? Something similar to biological eggs? They should be used for reproduction anyway."

Carefully calculate the evolution value you have now.

"It's almost 59 points. It seems that I need to go to the creature editing space to evolve. The current movement speed is too slow."

"But how do you find the spores? Reproduce? How do you reproduce?"

"Wait, what did you say when you read the introduction last time?"

"Asexual reproduction?"

"Yes, it is asexual reproduction. And spores are the key to the reproduction of races."

"Could it be that I let myself give birth!"

"Uh, my God!"

[The main consciousness chooses to reproduce, has it entered the reproductive period of the race? 】

The system prompt came as promised, which surprised Lightning, who was struggling with the possibility of giving birth to the next generation.

"Are you really breeding yourself? How can I do that?"

"But what should we do now?"

"It is said that I was not allowed to choose at that time, depressed."

"..."

"Forget it, anyway, the division of the single-cell stage is not like this."

"They're not human anymore, so why bother with gender?"

"Let's just treat it as a split, anyway, it's asexual reproduction."

"Yes, let's enter the reproductive period of some race. I have to go back quickly and ask 8051 what to do. Really, why didn't it directly evolve sexual reproduction?"

[Entering the race breeding period, race creatures begin to accumulate nutritional value to reproduce]

As soon as the system prompt ended, Lightning felt that the nutrition in his body began to concentrate to a certain area inside, and his body suddenly became weak for a while.

"Damn, it seems that the nutritional value is not enough, food, more food."

Thinking of this, Lightning swam along the water while carefully paying attention to the telepathic world.Lightning, who was feeling full just now, felt that the ever-decreasing nutritional value was still too lacking.

In order to prevent it from running out of nutrients and having no strength, and even becoming a motionless prey or starving to death, Lightning began to look for food again.

Food, food that provides nutrition.

A lot of things have an extremely roguelike flaw, seeming to be everywhere when you don't really need it, but always playing stealth on you when you really need it.

"Really, where did they all go? There weren't quite a lot of them before, so they were all scared and hid?"

Shaking his hungry body, Lightning kept searching.

"Hey, big mouth. Old friend, you are the only one who can be relied on at this time!"

In the induction, a creature with a big mouth opening and closing is leisurely passing by in front of it. Thinking about it for a while, except that the size is about the same or even a little smaller than the current self, if you change to the perspective of the small cells in the past, isn’t it the same as when you met a single cell? The kind of multicellular organism with a big mouth.

Without taking time to think about it, Lightning slowly approached each other, electricity began to accumulate in his body, and the two classic cars slowly approached.

Then, without any response, the big mouth that was indifferent to the world was killed by the kid who had grown up and ignored him, and casually provided a large amount of nutrition and 2 points of evolution with him.

【Acquire new components】

"Huh?! I didn't expect the commoner-level Big Mouth to have components that I didn't have. I really underestimated them." While sharing Big Mouth's legacy, Lightning expressed his sincere gratitude to Big Mouth for his generosity. (…)
"Well, although the reduction in nutrition has slowed down, we still need to accumulate more insurance." After spending more time than usual, and finally eliminated the remaining meat of Big Mouth, Lightning felt the speed of nutrition consumption in the body.

"The speed of nutrient consumption seems to have slowed down, and spores are being produced in the body. It feels like some cells are still dividing, but the speed is slow enough."

"Uh, it always feels weird. By the way, how does sexual reproduction occur in biology? I have given all my knowledge of biology to my middle school teacher. If I knew it would happen, don't forget it. Depressed."

There was a burst of lightning in the body, which was obviously weaker than usual.

"Huh? Shouldn't the power drop be played during the spore breeding period, how can I hunt for food!"

After feeling the current generated in the body, the once active electricity seemed a little sluggish.After thinking about it, it's a rascal. Now there are many problems in the whole body, and I don't even have a decent heart.However, as the current nutrition supplies the needs of reproduction, the nutrition for power generation is relatively much less.

"Evolve."

Looking at the pitch-black space, the lightning continued to swim upwards, and the bright shallow sea was still quite attractive to the illusion that had stayed in the dark space for too long.

———————————— Spore Breeding Dividing Line ———————————

The armor was climbing up the cliff cautiously with the hard and heavy carapace on it. It felt extremely depressed about the current situation, and the heavy armor on its back that used to let it run amok now seemed to have become a burden.

Armor is not a creature of this deep sea water, to be precise, it is a species of shallow sea.Relying on the evolved hard carapace and mouthparts full of striking power, this armor set that combines offense and defense, together with the six pairs of arthropods providing the speed of moving underwater and the ability of two armor pieces to glide in water for short distances, even in the In the shallow sea with a large number of lives, it can be regarded as the overlord.

However, the current armor has no dominance.Even if there is buoyancy in the water, climbing up this steep continental slope with a pair of heavy armor that is closer to snails, rather than the light carapace of those bugs, is a very depressing thing for the armor to kill, well, actually It is indeed thinking about this kind of thing now.

So why is Qianhai's Xiaobawang armor here?This can only be regarded as bad luck for the armor...

It is said that one day the powerful armor ambushed a lone swimming fish (a fish-like creature with no spine, only a soft shell), but the opponent nimbly avoided it.Angry and angry, he shook six pairs of jointed limbs and two pieces of armor, and the armor was a graceful water slide, chasing after the nasty swimming fish, but the cunning guy always kept a close distance from the armor, with The armor that had been staring at it moved forward to a steep continental slope.

As a result, combined with the previous situation, I believe everyone can think of it. The swimming fish continued to move forward leisurely, gliding like jumping while wearing the heavy armor, while staring at the armor of the swimming fish. .

Fortunately, the armor is worthy of being the overlord of one side, and the reaction is still very fast. He adjusted his posture at the moment of falling, and gave up the swimming fish in front of him, which was swaying around in a posture that would make him fall forever. Feel the depth of the faint light against a rock.

So there is the scene that started before.

"When I go back, I will eat fish every day."

Thinking bitterly in his consciousness, the armor continued to work hard.

At this time, its protruding eyes sensed a strange soft-bodied creature not far behind on one side, shaking the poor flagellum behind it and slowly swimming upwards.

"Do you want to eat it or not?" Jia Jia, who had thought about eating fish every day before, was puzzled.

Although I am a little hungry, I will fall down again if I am not careful now. The armor must first consider my own safety. Who knows when I will climb up after this accidental fall.But the one in front of me is stupid (no threatening armor at all), big (the armor is strong and slender, while the opponent is soft and somewhat swollen), weak (there is no known offensive weapon with the armor on him), slow (this does not explain 🙂 The guys are all unthreatening and delicious food.

"If you don't take it, you will be blamed instead."

A sentence that made Jiajia inexplicable seemed to sound in his mind, and then Jiajia turned around and rushed towards the opponent.

"Damn it, why haven't the spores been produced yet? How many are they going to reproduce? Don't you give me a spoof like being pregnant for ten months?"

Lightning, who had just started breeding, had already started to complain about the speed at which the spores were multiplying.After killing a few more common mollusk creatures and gaining the other party's nutrition and evolution points, Lightning now feels that his body is becoming more and more sluggish, and even his mental perception seems to have shrunk a lot. The last time he dealt with a tentacle insect, he almost Being pierced by the needle on the opponent's tentacles, Lightning finally saw the real trump card of the tentacle worm.The only thing that pleased Lightning now was that a faint light had begun to appear in the water above.

"It seems that it wasn't that far away from the shallow sea before, and now I can feel the dim light. But this eye still doesn't seem to work, it doesn't even have an outline."

"Hey, why is it getting darker in front, it won't be night so soon, will it?"

Feeling the sudden disappearance of the glimmer in front of his eyes, Lightning felt tired for a while, but the long-term hunting and escape experience did not completely relax Lightning, and the feedback information from the psychopath also surprised Lightning.A slender creature with a carapace and feet, six parts like a shrimp and four parts like a snail was rushing down from above, while the front of the opponent looked very menacing, and its mouthparts were facing Lightning itself.

"Damn it, have crustaceans evolved in the shallow sea?"

Lightning, who was in a good mood just now, was broken, and now he is full of anger.Difficultly extracting the precious nutrients due to the breeding of spores, the electricity in Lightning's whole body burst out instantly before the opponent was about to make contact.At the same time, the lightning quickly swung the tentacles on both sides, pushing the water to move the body sideways for a short distance.

After the power burst of the greatly reduced power was dispersed by the opponent's thick carapace, there was very little left.Feeling that there was only an insignificant pause, he continued to sway and rush past him. At the same time, he flicked a piece of armor to cut off the armor of a few cells at the tip of the lightning flagellum, and a trace of panic flashed through Lightning's consciousness.

"Damn, it looks like it's dangerous this time."

Concentrate on sensing the opponent, the flagella whose tip has been cut off is slowly recovering.Accumulating a large amount of power before another attack came, Lightning was ready to fight to the death like he did with the steel pincers last time.Electricity-resistant crustaceans like this are natural enemies of today's lightning.

The opponent reacted the moment he rushed past the lightning, twisted his whole body and quickly completed the head-to-tail swap, aiming the front end at the lightning again, while shaking his whole body.

Lightning sensed each other nervously, and the distance between them continued to widen.

"Ok?"

"enlarge?"

The lightning that suddenly reacted was strange.

"The distance between us is not getting closer but widening?"

And the distance between the two is still widening...

"What's going on here, is it possible to sprint away from the distance, does it need to start at its speed?"

No matter what Lightning thought at this moment, the other party kept shaking his whole body and continued to sink, and quickly disappeared from Lightning's mental induction.

……

"Why haven't you come up yet?"

After maintaining a tense posture for a long time, Lightning felt that his body was a little stiff, but the other party hadn't come up yet, and the voice of "Ah——" seemed to come from near and far in his consciousness like a spoof.

"By the way, this kid's shoe didn't fall into the water, and he just wanted me to give it a hand, right?"

Such an idea suddenly appeared in Lightning's consciousness, but Lightning couldn't accept it anyway.

"Hehe, how is it possible? It should be that the electric shock still has some effect, so it thinks the idea is difficult and changed the target. Well, it must be."

Unable to believe the previous correct inference, Lightning, who felt that the latter conclusion was more reasonable, planned to leave here quickly to prevent the other party from running back unwillingly.

"Speaking of which, it's becoming more and more slow to respond to emergencies now."

"Looking at the distance, it's probably not far from the shallow sea. It's better to find a safe place to breed and evolve before going upstream."

(End of this chapter)