Chapter 60 deals with cannibalism

We looked at the dense strange skin moults in front of us, and we could already be sure that this was left by those one-eyed bats, although the "behemoth" just now has shown that there are still a lot of ancient monster species outside, or the cubs that are about to grow up and become ancient monsters, but the number of skin moults here is amazing far beyond our imagination, not only on the top of the head, the more we go forward, the more we will find that there are some skin moults under our feet, and the more you go inside, the more you will go. Obviously, these skins under the feet were left earlier, and they fell from the roof of the shed after a long time, or were thrown down by the juniors, while these on the top of the head were freshly baked, and they were left by the large group that had just passed. However, there are still differences in these skin moults, some of which are very long, almost as long as a palm, while others are very short, and the shortest is only two finger widths long. Is there such a big difference in hatching rate between the same species?

We walked forward cautiously, trying to be as careful as possible on the soles of our feet and the top of our heads, because from time to time there would be a skin moult that could not be hung up and suddenly fall off, and it was about another five minutes or so, and those strange skin moults were still only increasing, and the skin molts under our feet were getting thicker and thicker, and it seemed that this was the nest where they collectively hatched and transformed, and before we knew it, we broke in. Yun Ximing in front of him has been walking quietly, always reminding us that there is nothing wrong with our feet, but the great philosopher behind him suddenly let out a scream.

"Hey, Brother Childe, stop, there's a ...... There is a ...... There is a living ......" Dazhe's sudden shout startled us, the tunnel was narrow, we barely turned around, and saw Dazhe pointing to a wriggling thing on the ground for us to see.

Maybe I didn't pay attention when I walked just now, but there was indeed a live larva in the corner of the wall, a half-dead larva to be exact. This is the first time we have seen the true face of the larvae, and the group was too fast just now to see clearly, but this time we can see it clearly. This thing looks like a tadpole, but you can vaguely see things like protruding bones on both sides, which should grow into wings in the future, and the whole body is transparent, but it's smooth and doesn't have that kind of disgusting mucus, this one doesn't know why only the upper body is left, and the lower body doesn't know where to go, so the organs in the body are a mess, and you can't see what they are at all, the only thing that can be distinguished is their long forked tongue that looks like a tongue and a genital, and the body is on the outside, almost as long as its body.

The thing obviously had no vitality, but it just twisted a few times and then didn't move anymore, Dazhe went up and kicked it, and when he saw that there was no reaction, he came closer to see it.

"Oh my God, I said comrades, this guy's tongue is so long, when he takes it back, his stomach is full of his own tongue." Dazhe sighed.

"I said fatty, why is such a disgusting thing always found out by you." Yun Ximing said.

"Not only will he find out what's disgusting, he'll find out the disgusting details behind the disgusting." Uncle Lu mended the knife fiercely.

"How do I know, I just accidentally saw it, it's called keen observation."

I'm not interested in their words, I wonder if Ji Ziyang walked here just now, if he will definitely sue me, if not, it seems that the pattern on this wall has a really big impact on Ji Ziyang, and the cubs who poured out just now don't know if there is a threat to Ji Ziyang, but they are worried about this thousand years of yin.

"I think I know what's going on." Uncle Lu said suddenly.

"What's the matter, uncle, what did you find?" I asked.

"When the girl looks at the gap in this fracture, don't you think there is anything wrong?"

I looked down and looked closely, to be honest, this thing is quite disgusting, plus it almost killed us just now, a little palpitating, I looked at the wound, it is indeed a little strange, if you must describe it, it is the kind of way where the two stamps are torn apart, it is not neat, it is not a tooth mark, but it looks like a lot of small holes were poked first, and then torn off.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Girl, you forgot, when the three of us were bitten, we had these little holes all over our bodies, and they were the work of its kind. This species turned out to be a cannibal of the same kind. Uncle explained.

Homogeneous predator is a concept in biological zoology, which refers to species that kill each other among their kind. There are many such examples, the most famous of which are the praying mantis, which, after mating, the female will eat the head of the male praying mantis. But the most brutal example is the sand tiger shark, where the cubs grow sharp teeth when they are in their mothers, and the oldest sand tiger sharks eat their younger siblings to ensure that every born cub is the best in the competition for food. It seems that in this inconspicuous ancient tomb in Shandong, there is such a strange species, how many unbelievable things are there in this ancient tomb.

"Actually, girl, it's easy to think that in the biological world, whether it's mating, competing for mates, or when there is a shortage of food, cannibalism can happen, this tomb doesn't have any food, these things reproduce so fast, obviously only by this way of survival of the fittest can survive." Uncle said.

I nodded, waved my hand, and motioned for everyone to move on.

Walking further on, not only can you see the peels, but there is even an unpleasant smell in the air, a bit like the pungent musty smell of a house facing north that has not been occupied for a long time and is opened again. There were also more and more pieces of corpses on the ground, which looked like they had just been sacrificed, and it seemed that there was a fierce battle here before we came in. A lot of the small ones have been solved in this way.

"I don't know if the big ones will come back and continue to eat, there are so many left, it's a waste." Dazhe said heartlessly.

"It's not coming back, you see some of the people down here who died here a long time ago are moldy and rotten, and the red spots on the outside before should be afraid of the bloody door, these larvae are very soft, they must be able to get through the cracks in the doors or the ground that we can't see, and they will never come back when they become outside. It's kind of like a death squad. Yun Ximing said.

I don't mind if they come back, obviously these cubs are not aggressive, and I don't care more about how much they can survive when they go out, and those red dots are their brothers, who must have been waiting for this meal for a long time.

After walking for about ten minutes without saying a word, the road conditions began to change a little, those skin moults and corpses became scarce, and at the same time, the narrow secret passage began to widen, showing a trumpet shape, and the night pearls on the wall began to dense, and the front became brighter and brighter, and we all knew that it was almost there, the end of the secret passage.