BGM: Sassy running Tonegawa

Yellow earth.

Desert.

Rough weathered rocks are everywhere, and the remains of broken buildings occasionally emerge from the ground, waiting in the wind and sand for the moment when they will erode away.

Desolate, flat, with no greenery present on the surface.

Very few creatures survive here.

Yellow sand covers the sky, water is so scarce that only lichens can barely survive.

In the flat desert, a small hole grows in the ground.

It's weird.

How can there be a hole in such a place where the visibility is less than fifty meters?

It should have been landfilled.

But it's there.

Wind and sand cannot hide its whereabouts.

A small worm passed through the black hole, and it looked inside.

The compound eyes on both sides rotate in different directions without movement.

“￥W%&￥￥！！”

Suddenly, a strange sound came from the cave, shaking the surrounding sand and stones.

It's a certain kind of musical note that is different from "language".

Bugs have no auditory organs, no wings, and no claws, but they are sensitive to vibrations.

Startled by the sudden movement, it quickly took a few steps back, and after a while crawled forward again.

Then its entire body turned vertically and tumbled into the cavern.

Dark.

Inky darkness.

It cannot see in the dark, and its well-developed compound eyes cannot receive light.

The lower ganglia are unable to respond to higher emotions such as fear, and even then, it begins to recede instinctively.

Just as its forelimbs touched the hole, a small, but sharp, golden light flashed.

The worm was swept by the golden light and immediately began to retreat, then lost its balance and fell off its head.

The tentacles danced, and the mouthparts that couldn't make a sound fluttered rapidly, falling into the hole with gravity.

The six-legged body that had lost its head flipped upside down, rolling down with its skull, instinctively dancing its arthropods.

The golden light left a bottomless nick on the wall of the cave entrance.

Syllable.

The head fell to the ground.

Dust splashes.

At the bottom of the dark pit, a glimmer of golden light flashed from time to time.

The light shines on the insect's compound eye, which allows it to see what is at the bottom of the pit.

It was a little "spider".

But there was no such creature in this desert, and it had never seen it.

The reaction engraved in its instinct caused it to move its tentacles and mouthparts, and it reacted violently to get out of the place.

Unfortunately, without a body, its head can only spin in circles.

It has very little water in its body, and no juice will spill out if it struggles desperately.

For about four hours before that, the worms could still maintain this state of movement, and then the various organs and tissues failed one by one.

The "lack of food" reaction causes the worm's head to look for food, which in turn sees its own body moving.

It can't tell if it's its own body, and in fact, even if it is, the bug will eat a section of its tail to replenish its energy when it is extremely hungry.

After a period of ineffective gnawing on itself, it puts an end to this unconscionable action.

The head that loses its body will first bite the arthropod that looks "threatening" and will try to swallow it.

The acidic corrosive fluid in the mouthparts comes from the stomach, and the worm in this state is of course unable to digest its own exoskeleton, and then the hard arthropods will get stuck in its mouthparts.

Thirty hours is enough to cause the worm to lose most of its ability to move, the ganglia are inactive, and the parts of the body will only occasionally bounce when stimulated, and only the tentacles of the head can still swing.

After about three days, the last remaining energy is depleted, and it will die completely - because it has lost its throat and cannot eat, for a very straightforward reason.

Insects, not sentient creatures, are much simpler.

Simple raw.

Simple death.

People make all sorts of incredible and unpredictable choices for complex reasons. But bugs don't.

The compound eyes on its head have not changed much from the time it was alive, reflecting the world of golden shimmering light.

The strange spider-like creature was very delicate.

It's not big, it's even smaller than a bug—but it seems to be made up of something different from this world, not fitting its size.

The black arthropods have a metallic sheen at the top, and they grow out of their tiny bodies in a number that is difficult to count.

At the end of each arthrop are five fingers, and these enoki-mushroom-like bunches of "hands" resemble trees, many of which reach into holes in the walls.

The "spider" makes an upright motion similar to that of a humanoid creature, lying on the wall.

A large number of hands squirmed, trying to reach into the hole.

They are so positive, so eager, that they form a bulge in front of the "spider", tangled into a ball.

Snakes mate after hibernation and will get close to each other in order to warm up quickly, basking in the sun.

The first male snake to move smoothly will likely be eligible to have sex with the female.

The guy in front of me is doing something similar.

A small worm is very strange to say.

Of course, the little worm with only the head behind it didn't understand what the strange creature with the white mask on its belly on the other side was.

Its reaction became more and more violent, and a deadly sense of threat existed ahead.

The bugs spin wildly in place.

It was a smiling face that grew on its belly.

Pale colors.

A man's face

The dark gray skin struggled to move like a wave, and the indescribable darkness around it sucked and surged with its movements.

This wriggling, bizarre creature is like a weirdo groping its way through the worst, most remote gutter.

Its body was filled with a heterogeneous texture that did not belong to this world, not counting those twisted limbs and unnatural smiling faces, the very existence of that thing exuded an indescribable aura.

- "—— Uproar"

There was a sticky sound.

The golden light in front of the "spider" continued to burst out from the enoki mushroom group.

The hand behind it stretched back with large five fingers, bent and twisted in the direction of the reverse joint.

The fingers were torn apart, revealing the internal tissue of bright red raw flesh, the red flesh full of bumps.

Blood-colored ducts are present in each arm, the fingers themselves falling off and drifting out, and mouth-like cavities turning out.

Fine, sharp, white teeth are scattered all over the inner flesh wall.

This scene is simply a tingling of the scalp.

Nausea, which cannot be summed up in the word nausea – also implies a danger that is instinctively perceived by living beings.

In the next moment, these thousands of strange fleshy cavities quickly stretched forward, blocking the golden light instead of the tissues in front of them.

Boom –

A golden red light that escaped flashed by, instantly piercing the head of the small insect on the ground.

This time it's completely dead.

The golden ripples were like light waves, or water ripples, and in a diffuse manner, the head of the insect was cut into fine powder.

The powder piled up there as if it weren't dead,