Chapter 485: Identification and Departure
"Here we are, right here."
The tentacles pushed away the vegetation that obscured the view, and entered a group of several large lakes, with a wide variety of biological groups moving around the lakes.
The most striking of these is a black arthropod that resembles a stick insect, with an elongated torso and knuckled legs, but more than two dozen legs in total, allowing them to expand their maximum body with minimal mass.
These huge arthropod creatures rely on their massive bodies to enter the lake directly, reaching a height of 135 meters just above the water.
In addition to these, the other striking thing is that it is flying around, like a swarm of bees, and the first powerful dynamic vision can easily catch these creatures hovering and flying in the air.
It has a pair of compound eyes, four pairs of wings, three pairs of large wings and a pair of small wings that control the direction, which part of the eye is not the head of this creature, its head is in the abdomen, there is a round mouth shaped like a lamprey, different from the lamprey, this round mouth also extends several large volumes, unknown tusks.
With a dark-brown complexion and three pairs of claws, these creatures are very aggressive just by looking at their hideous appearance.
In addition to these two, the shores of the lake are home to a wide variety of creatures, as if they were having a cross-species gathering.
"At the beginning, what you see now is less than one thousandth of all species on this planet, this is only a small part, we haven't finished investigating, according to our preliminary estimates, there should be more species than on Selene."
When I first looked around at this, the collector explained the explanation.
After a moment of silence, Chu retracted his gaze and nodded to his fellow clansmen who were leading the way.
"It is indeed a planet that deserves to be left behind by the race, and this planet is special enough."
"The material resources of this star system are very sufficient, and the survival of such a planet will not have much impact on the development of the population in this star system."
At first, I simply replenished my water and prepared to return to the universe from the gimbal creatures, and the clan still had a lot of work to do.
The gatherers began to return the way they came.
"Huh? Is it my delusion? Why didn't I remember we didn't walk through here? ”
On the way back, the gatherers, who were still leading the way, walked in front, and followed behind.
At first, I noticed that the environment of returning the original way was different from the original, and the memory ability of the collector was very strong, and I didn't forget to say anything wrong, so it was easy to find out that something was wrong on the return route.
But the gatherers who led the way shook their heads.
"No, that's the route we're coming from, and we've marked it."
The collector hands a tentacle to Hatsu, who recognizes a special pheromone from the tentacle, and based on this pheromone, Hatsu sees a straight path.
"What's going on?"
The current situation means that someone is deliberately misleading them, but the problem is that there should be no other intelligent beings on this planet besides them.
And in order to change the environment, it is impossible not to cause some movement, and if there is movement, the gatherers will immediately notice it.
The gatherers who led the way signaled that they didn't need to be nervous at first, and they explained as they went.
"This is a survival strategy for the plants in the forest, when there are no animals, the plant's mobility will increase, the original position will not change, but the direction of the branches, the bending degree of the tree, etc., will change, so as to mislead the animals and make them lose in the forest."
"It is precisely because of this change that some animals cannot find the water source they have been to before, and they still walk around the forest during the peak of stellar light, and in order to replenish water, hungry and thirsty animals can only eat the fruits of plants to replenish water, and at first we were also shocked, thinking that some intelligent species was behind the trouble."
Chu looked around and nodded a little understandingly, but he still had a question.
"Some vegetation has no fruit, they shouldn't have such an evolutionary tendency, why are they the same?"
"In order to induce the death of animals, the species on this planet are eating each other, animals eating animals, animals eating plants, plants eating animals, plants eating plants, and that's it." A collector replied.
"And, of course, there's the microbes that together make up the planet's diverse and complex ecosystem."
"On the prairie, such fierce competition should be relatively small, right?" First question.
"That's right, there are no tall shrubs in the grassland, which can't obscure or disturb the view of animals, so it's a very different mode of survival from the forest."
"When night falls, the low temperature will stimulate the low plants on the grassland to harden, which is not much different from steel, and to put it more figuratively, the whole grassland is a knife field."
"The predators of the steppes take advantage of this by hunting their prey at night, and the prey moves in order to escape, and then it is scratched and bleeding by the plants, and this blood moistens the low bushes."
"Aren't predators scratched by low plants?" At first, I was a little puzzled.
"Predators are scratched, but they heal quickly, and some of the ingredients inside the low plants can speed up the recovery and sterilization of predators, just like the medicine of the Seren."
"Because of this blessing, predators can also be injured with impunity, without worrying about the consequences of injury, while those vegetarian prey are different, the internal components of low plants cannot help them, and if they are injured, they will face the consequences of injury."
The gatherers explained to Chu.
"Isn't the prey of the vegetarian diet going extinct soon?"
"It's not like extinction, it's just a disadvantage, and in order to avoid their own destruction, the vegetarian animals that are their prey tend to grow very tall, and each step is a great distance, and it becomes easy to escape, although they are still scratched by low bushes, but the injured area heals itself in a few days."
"However, it is precisely because they are too tall that the center of gravity of the vegetarian animals on the grassland is generally unstable, and once they are pounced on by predators or accidentally tripped, it is no longer possible to get back on their feet, and the low plants on the ground will also cause penetrating damage to the fallen vegetarian animals."
Speaking of which, the gatherers proposed to Chu.
"Speaking of which, the pedestal of the gimbal creature is also considered prey by those predators from time to time, and it is very interesting to come to us every night to hunt."
"At the beginning, would you like to stay on this planet for one more night?"
After pondering for a moment, Chu shook his head and rejected the proposal of his kind.
"I still have my tasks, the construction of the ethnic group cannot be delayed, and I will come back when the construction is over."