Spore Story

Chapter 89
Lightscale territory, lair.

Lightscale looked suspiciously at the team returning from the southern investigation. They seemed to be strong but friendly to the upright race.

friendly?In addition to enemies, food, and food reserves, is there any kind of friendliness?

Lightscale shook his head and told the team members to return to the team.

The upright race in the south does not seem to be a big threat.

With the help of the forelimbs, Guangscale controls the hind legs to support the whole body, but the balance is very difficult to grasp, but fortunately there is a tail.The powerful long tail kept the body from falling backwards, and after shaking it a few times, Guanglin finally stabilized his figure.

This seems to make the field of vision better.

He turned his head curiously, but Guanglin, who was not used to it, still could only tilt his head up and swing his head left and right, looking ridiculous.

But all the light-scaled beasts here cast curious and reverent gazes at the light-scale, and even a few of them imitated the light-scale's movements, intending to stand upright, but most of them just swayed from side to side.

No, it's hard for the hind limbs.

The strength of the legs was exhausted, so Guanglin had no choice but to lie down again, and turned his suspicious gaze to the south. At this moment, it found a strong light flashing in the forest on the right.

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The eastern part of the calcium carbide mine.

"Just choose here."

Standing on a rock, Quack looked at the mountain stream carefully. A small mountain seemed to be split in two, and the hills on both sides extended several kilometers from north to south.

In other words, if there is no intention of climbing the slope for a long time or detouring for more than ten kilometers, at this distance, animals from the east or west need to pass through this mountain stream with a width of more than 30 meters.

And just beside this mountain stream, there is a flat land with a slightly higher terrain, which is suitable for the tentacle quack beasts to build their lairs.

"Start preparing the ground!"

Roaring and calling the surrounding tentacle quacks, more than 30 tentacle quacks began to run around the flat ground, expelling and squashing some of the small bugs or weeds through their own actions.

The requirements for the lair are not high, it only needs a flat ground for the herd to rest, and it would be even better if there is a cave, but until now, Gaga has not found a cave that can accommodate the minimum standard of [-] tentacle quack herds. They have no choice but to choose these flat places that are slightly against the wall or have tall trees to block the rain.

"Over the years, I've gotten used to the wind and the sun, haha."

Laughing self-deprecatingly, Gaga ran while looking at two butterflies flying on a tree.

"Have you started building nests, too?"

"Hey, it's time!"

[Main task [-]: The expansion task of the ethnic group is completed, and the brain is upgraded to the third level. 】

Suddenly there was a feeling, Quack felt that there seemed to be a wave of fluctuation in the space, not an entity like the air wave, but at this moment, the area of ​​the wave seemed to suddenly expand.

At this time, Quack suddenly felt that everything was still, the flying spores, the dust, the running tentacles and the hell butterflies that were building their nests.

"The reaction this time is good..."

Before he had time to continue thinking, Quack felt that his thinking stopped temporarily.

There was a wave of fluctuations in the space, with Quack as the center...

Sweep across the still tenth nest...

Sweeping through the static phantom territory, calcium carbide mine territory, double sickle territory, hell realm...

Sweeping over the stationary giants, light-scale beasts, steel phantoms...

Sweep all the tentacle quacks...

Everything was swept away... no wonder.

At this moment, the brains of the still tentacle quacks began to change slowly, their eyes became clearer, and their limbs became more flexible...

It seemed to be just a moment, and it seemed to have passed for a long time. After blinking his confused eyes, Quack felt his head sink a little, and the world in front of him became richer...

[Three levels of the brain: memory system expansion, learning system expansion, language system expansion, emotion system expansion, desire system expansion, and self-awareness expansion. 】

"This……"

At this moment, Quack was shocked by a bunch of system extensions.

"Language system, can complex languages ​​appear?"

Although it has been able to directly communicate with other individuals, emotions are very basic and not as specific as language.For example, the same fear emotion may be facing an invincible enemy, but it may also be some kind of harmless bug that the fear-generating individual is afraid of.

Only when language emerges and individuals take language as the main mode of thinking can Quack's spiritual communication be able to better tap its potential.

Only with the emergence of language can life become richer, not as in the previous billions of years (decades ==), only 8051 can communicate with itself normally.

Only with the emergence of language can civilization be further developed.

"However, what's going on with this desire system, desire, no matter how it sounds, it feels bad."

The stillness of the world was like a dream. Quack raised his head and looked around. The tentacled quacks continued to move as if nothing had happened, but Quack found a difference.

Their heads have become a little bigger, their movements have become more flexible, and the most representative ones are their eyes.The eyes turn from time to time, as if they are thinking about something, while the second-level brain, they only think about this and that occasionally, and usually rest idly or follow Quack's orders.

"In other words, they have become smarter? Well, the pressure is so great."

Quack, who has little confidence in his own intelligence, feels that he needs to work hard.

……

"Okay, now the third-level brain has also appeared, let's enter the breeding period."

"System, enter the breeding season."

[The breeding season starts. 】

[The appearance of the third-level brain is detected, the first breeding period starts, and the reduction of the system time difference begins. 】

[The first stage of time difference reduction is activated, the time ratio is reduced to 10000:1, and the weather system is stable. 】

...Quack once again felt the fluctuation of space...

[The first stage of time difference reduction is completed, please choose whether to set a stable breeding period in the main consciousness?whether】

"Eh?"

Just started a breeding season, unexpectedly such a thing appeared again, Gaga was a little confused at this time.

"Wait, let's talk slowly, maybe something will pop up later."

"Huh? A stable breeding period is like an animal's regular quaking every year. This is okay now. After all, it was a bit unnatural before. Now these guys can solve it by themselves when the time comes, quaking."

"We choose yes."

[The stable breeding period of the main consciousness species is open, and the breeding law of the main consciousness species is detected. Based on this breeding period, the current main consciousness perception time is once every [-] days. 】

"..."

"Is there nothing wrong now?"

After standing still for a while, the system did not continue to issue upgrades.

At this time, the beast herd had already begun to be noisy and chaotic, and the tentacle rattling beasts in courtship were making moves one after another. Some made various calls to attract targets; some waved their tentacles to touch the tentacles of the opposite sex;

"Uh, is this our mistake? The first function of the third-level brain after its appearance seems to be to figure out a way to attract the opposite sex, huh..."

Speechlessly looking at the herd, what Gaga didn't see was that the three females in the team beside him were also fighting at this time, and Chu Lin Zheng heroically surrounded the females around Gaga and the male tentacled Gaga beast that surrounded him. drive them away.

Quack, who was thinking about the third-level brain problem, was satisfied with the peaceful environment without other female harassment, and didn't realize that it was just because the forest drove away the competitors. (Tea--)
"Phew, then we can go back and chat with 8051 after waiting for the female to lay eggs."

"No, before the main task appears or returns to the space, let's build the language as the main goal now."

"but……"

Quack landed on a rock, and Chu Lin, who had already won the victory, followed immediately behind him.

"As the main consciousness of the tentacle quack species, we actually only control... um... it seems that there are about [-] tentacle quack beasts, and based on my current total consciousness, the entire tentacle quack species should have No fewer than [-]."

"That is to say, my main consciousness is very unqualified, and I haven't even realized the basic control of my own species, so what should I do?"

As far as the eye can see, what are the tentacle quack beasts hiding in the hills, mountains, deserts and rivers doing?

Are their lives as stable as the tentacle quacks in the calcium carbide mine?
At this moment, Gaga used the identity of a main consciousness for the first time to think about the status quo of the species.

"Eh? Stop dangling around!"

Quack was walking back and forth in front of his eyes, expecting Chulin to draw his attention out of his consciousness. Looking at this strong female tentacle quack, Quack realized that the breeding season was started by him. As a male, he was still Had to deal with the female tentacle quack.

"My cat, if it's not enough, I want to suppress it. Let's solve the gender issue first when I go back this time, and wait until I'm civilized before thinking about satisfying my male desires, huh."

"Those who are so eager are the most annoying."

Ignoring Chu Lin beside him, Quack was depressed by being harassed, and simply covered the opponent's brain with mental power, and found the strong desire to reproduce in the opponent's spirit at this time.

"It's just you, it's just right, this time, just give up as always."

In Quack's words, the mental power slowly calmed down the strong fluctuation in Chu Lin's mind, which was expecting to breed with the big boss.

Looking around suspiciously, Chu Lin looked at the tentacle quack beasts who began to sway their youth for the great cause of race reproduction, while he stayed quietly like the big leader and those old tentacle quack beasts. side.

Not in the mood to breed, why?I'm just an adult, right?But the boss seems to be too.

After thinking about it depressedly, Chu Lin, who couldn't find the problem, could only temporarily attribute the reason to the fact that he was a leader, and according to the habits of big leaders, he didn't have the mood to reproduce.

Roughly came up with such a conclusion, Chu Lin waved the tentacles behind his head and swept up two stones, found a comfortable position and leaned against the big leader Gaga, and scratched the ground with his paws bored under the conflict between body and mind sediment.

"We can't control the natural reaction of the body, but we can still control the mind, hehe."

Quack looked proudly at Chulin shaking his head and jumping not far away from him, while the other female tentacled quacks seemed to be afraid of Chulin and did not come forward.

"However, excessive repression is not a good way, so when entering the editing space this time, let's take into account the appearance issue while considering the individual combat effectiveness."

(End of this chapter)