Spore Story

Chapter 39 Calcium carbide is super important =－=
"Calcium carbide is a good thing."

The sabretooth that was swimming sighed while shaking its head to search left and right.

Calcium carbide can be called a "life element" for saber-toothed fishes, or for all species that use calcium carbide as a skeleton component element in the future.

As important as calcium was to life on Earth once.

The calcium carbide in the body of the saber-tooth fish mainly exists in the form of crystals in the bones and saber teeth, and a small amount is also distributed in the blood, intercellular fluid and soft tissues.

Conversely, these places are also the main parts of the demand for calcium carbide.

What happens with calcium deficiency?
The most obvious is that human children will suffer from malnutrition, short stature, and growing pains; adults will suffer from fatigue, cramps, allergies, etc.;

So what will happen if the "calcium" of saber-toothed fishes is lacking, even calcium carbide (because calcium carbide can also strengthen the electric attack of saber-toothed fishes) is more important than "calcium"?

Speaking of this, everyone understands it.

Yes, the saber-toothed fish schools are short of calcium, no, they are short of calcium carbide.

When Thunderbolt initially chose calcium carbide as the bone composition element, besides its good auxiliary power attack performance, factors such as the hardness, lightness, and purity of calcium carbide bones are also important reasons.As for its distribution, since there is a calcium carbide mine next to the lair, although there is a super monster living in it, except for the long hunting time between going out and hunting, you usually don't mess with it, and it doesn't care whether you are To dance on its head or to sleep.

Then, perhaps because there is a calcium carbide mine next to it, with the calcium carbide mine as the center, the sediment in the surrounding large area contains more or less calcium carbide, and the area where lightning strike insects were often active at that time was just right. In the area surrounded by this calcium carbide.

This gave the lightning strike at that time and the current Saber Tooth an illusion: the distribution of calcium carbide on the double moon star is as broad as the distribution of calcium on the earth, and there are pure mineral veins of calcium carbide on the surface.In addition, apart from the bones, Void doesn't remember what calcium looks like at all, so how can such a good element of calcium carbide not be used.

And not long ago, Saber Tooth, who had been far away from the calcium carbide mine with the school of fish, finally began to feel wrong.But it is not that it did not find calcium carbide in the sediment.The body of Saber Tooth has now grown up and is very healthy. It needs very little calcium carbide. I don't know if this is the benefit of the main consciousness individual, although it has not discovered this by itself.

It was the dozens of small sabretooth fish that had survived the earthquake that first went wrong.

After leaving the original nesting place, their bodies continued to grow, and then not long ago, this rate began to slow down, but their body size was far from the standard size of adult individuals.While sleeping, some juveniles began to scurry around occasionally. Fortunately, they were surrounded by adult individuals in the middle of the school of fish, so they did not fall behind; and the color of their bodies began to become dull, especially those covered with calcium carbide. The crust begins to break down.

Of course, all this was discovered by Saber Tooth who had been paying attention to his own group, but Saber Tooth could not do anything about it without finding out the reason for this situation.

However, this is not a fantasy world where expectations can change the world.

After the juvenile saber-tooth fish had some problems, the adult individuals that had survived for a long time also began to have problems.The bodies of several older sabretooth fish began to shrink, their movements became sluggish, and even the electric light emitted when hunting for prey seemed to have dimmed.

"Could it be old, but until now I haven't seen the aging problem of that creature, it's strange."

The problems of young individuals may be explained by shock, and the problems of older individuals may also be explained by aging, but the problems of both parties have to be paid great attention to by Saber Tooth.Although it is not ruled out that older individuals may also be frightened, in this biological world that must be careful every step of the way, Saber Tooth is still caught off guard by problems with its own group, so it has to be careful.

Especially when the saber-toothed fish prey on dangerous small and medium-sized predators, the combat effectiveness of these individuals began to be greatly reduced due to these problems, resulting in a lot of casualties, which had to make saber-tooth feel that the problem was difficult .

At this time, perhaps out of instinct, the older individuals began to dangle in the mud and sand on the seabed. Even when Saber Tooth wanted to control them to stay away from the mud and sand where there might be predators, the other party sometimes resisted.This increases the possibility of being hunted by predators hidden in the sand, but it is a wake-up call for Saber Tooth.

Swallowing sand + body atrophy + sluggishness = minerals in the sand + growth problems = bone problems = lack of "calcium" = calcium carbide
Why swallow the sand? Before this, the saber-toothed fish would only do this when looking for calcium carbide in the sand beside the nest. In other cases, at least the saber-tooth has not found it.

"Is it looking for calcium carbide?"

This is a strange association for Saber Tooth, and there may be other conclusions, such as swallowing sediment to aid digestion.But the closest thing Saber Tooth can think of at this time is the lack of calcium carbide. Fortunately, it is right.

After drawing the conclusion that calcium carbide deficiency may occur, Saber Tooth began to recall the physical problems of older individuals, and further discovered the problems of juvenile Saber-toothed fish. Calcium” symptoms, as well as my own calcium deficiency in my vague memory when I was a child.

Calcium is a major part of human bones, and calcium carbide is a major part of saber-toothed fish bones.

Therefore, Saber Tooth finally confirmed that there was a lack of calcium carbide in the Saber Tooth fish school.

This may be the first diagnosis on Double Moon, although it is very imprecise and even full of mistakes.

But at this time, Saber Tooth didn't have the time to think about other things.After discovering the problem, Saber Tooth reacted quickly.Regardless of whether there is a lack of calcium carbide in the older individuals, they take the juvenile saber-tooth fish to rest in a location that can be used as a temporary nest found by saber-tooth; while saber-tooth leads the remaining more than 200 adults that can still move normally The saber-toothed fish began to search for calcium carbide mines around this temporary lair.

Saberfish might be able to find calcium carbide, but they can't communicate with each other, so they can't tell Saber what they found.And in this perilous sea, if you spread out the saber-toothed fish and let them search separately.When calcium carbide mines were finally discovered, it was a big question how many sabretooths were left in the school.

Therefore, it is Saber Tooth himself who is mainly looking for calcium carbide ore. Fortunately, although his spiritual power does not seem to have grown much when he entered the stage of aquatic life, at least it can cover the center of the sphere with Saber Tooth as the center, and the radius is three times the length of Saber Tooth. This is far below the line of sight of the eyes, but the mental power is all-round, and it is possible to know whether there is calcium carbide on the surface after scanning this place.This saves the time of sabertooth inspection in pieces of mud and sand.

"Calcium carbide is really not a good thing."

Saber Tooth, who had been searching fruitlessly for several days, expressed emotion; at the same time, the rogue expanded the search area again.Even with more and more "calcium"-deficient individuals in the nest, Saber Tooth had to ruthlessly force the other party to maintain their lives with plankton and plants; at the same time, they searched for the fine calcium carbide in the mud and sand around the nest, so as to slightly delay the body's recovery. disease; and then let some healthy saber-tooth fish guard around the nest, waiting for the good news that seems to be far away.

This has increased the search range of Saber Tooth, but the risk factor has also increased over the same period.

———Long search dividing line———

A ray of lightning cut through the silent shallow sea, attracting the attention of Saber Tooth who was searching for calcium carbide mines.

It may be dangerous, but let’s not say that the electric shock may be of the same species, just seeing the only calcium carbide mine that Konghuan has encountered so far and the only electric shock species that is not under his control appear in the same place, which is enough to make the suffering Sabertooth, who searched for calcium carbide mines and hadn't met the electric shock race for a long time, gave orders.

Swimming towards the direction of the electric light with less than a hundred adult saber-toothed fish beside him, Saber-tooth did not miss any place where there might be calcium carbide mines.

"If I had brought the saber-toothed fish back to the previous nest site when I first found out that there was a problem with the young saber-toothed fish, then maybe the current situation would not have happened." Saber-tooth once thought this way, and now the big Some saber-toothed fish hid in temporary nests because of their greatly reduced combat effectiveness, while saber-toothed fish could only continue to search for calcium carbide mines with a school of healthy saber-toothed fishes whose numbers were decreasing.

But Saber Tooth knew that even if he went back to the period when the juvenile Saber Tooth Fish became ill, he would not make the decision to return to the nest.One's own pride is not important at all. What is important is that Saber-toothed Fish wants to develop further. From Saber-tooth's point of view, if it wants to go out, it will encounter the current problems sooner or later.

Maybe we can make some preparations after returning, but what about time?Totally wasted.

The lack of calcium carbide did not kill the sabertooth, or anytime soon.The current losses of the sabre-toothed fish are all due to predators attacking the nest after the combat effectiveness has declined, which directly leads to the fact that the current temporary nest is already the sixth one.

"Six. I hope it is a number that can bring good fortune."

The saber tooth that was swimming smiled bitterly.If you can’t find it anymore, there are only two ways for the saber-toothed fish to go: one is to return to the original lair, but according to the current situation, the number of saber-toothed fish that can successfully reach the destination can reach the current total number. One-tenth is considered to be blessed by the system; the second is to immediately enter the breeding period, and then return to the biological editing space to see if 8051 can provide a method or replace the elements of the skeleton, but such dangers are greater for saber-toothed fish, especially for breeding The demand for calcium carbide from the saber-tooth fish in the medium should grow to an unacceptable level for the current saber-tooth.

Of course, it's better to find the calcium carbide mine immediately, so Sabertooth is still insisting on hunting for food while responding to the predator's attack, while leading the fish to increase the search for the calcium carbide mine.

In this way, Saber Tooth, who was thinking, brought the school of fish to the place where the lightning flashed before.

This is a crack, which seems to have been formed by continuous earthquakes some time ago, and it should have been a flat land before.

And around and inside this crack, a large piece of silver-white crystals reflected the brilliance of the moon, igniting Saber Tooth's heart that was about to freeze.

"Calcium carbide mine, you bastard, I finally found you."

After a long time, the pressure of the entire ethnic group made Kong Huan, who used to be just an ordinary student and was only a monitor at most, almost breathless.The calcium carbide crisis may be just a test.

Excited, Saber Tooth was about to rush forward, but suddenly stopped the movement of himself and the school of fish.

That flash of light that drew me here just now was...

enemy?companion?
(End of this chapter)