Retreating straight to the farthest reef closest to the sea, Peng Fengcai asked, "Chief, what do you say?" ”

"Oh......" Ke Li turned his head to look at Scarlet. He barely saw anything.

"It's probably eating." Scarlet shared the ball pattern on her recorder with everyone, lit the small-scaled shrimp, and explained responsibly, "It's in its mouth, does it look like it?" ”

Everyone stared at it, and there was a big black stone ball with a round grunt, how could there be a mouth. Peng Feng looked up at Ke Ideal again: "Chief ......"

Ke Ideal was silent.

As soon as Peng Feng saw it, he immediately said: "The terrain here is unfavorable, Chief and Chief Yan should retreat to the cliff first, we will monitor and lock there, and tell the robot to test it first." ”

This is the first rule of the Guardian Code, and if the expert cannot determine the safety at the first time, then the escort team must assume that there is no security at all and respond quickly on this premise.

Ever since the casualties of the Rawang landings, this code has become an iron rule in the field.

The auxiliary guards spread their arms, two people each, and flew directly to the cliff through the low altitude of the swamp.

"Look." Scarlet pointed down against the wind.

The Fellows and Hunters who remain behind the reef near the Black Ball will wait for the Auxiliary Guards to bring everyone up to the cliff before they begin to hunt and observe. Perhaps it was because the surroundings had been clean for a long time that the position of the ball had changed.

The ball is no longer round, it is slowly opening.

"Tell the auxiliary guards to go back over the reef, and I'll take a look." Ke Li said busily.

"Chief, we have to go back." Peng Feng was unmoved, and ordered the auxiliary guards to speed up and fly back to the cliff.

As soon as he landed, Ke Li quickly ran to the observation station. Needless to say, follow the chief to see the surveillance. She had just seen the ball unfold in the sky, its body was long, made up of many smooth and dark pieces of armor, and its belly was light pink, close to flesh color, soft and bulging.

The beetle had now spread out, lying on the small hollowed reef where the scarlet had stood, slowly swaying its long body. The water in the hollow overflowed with its pressure and flowed down the surface of the reef.

On the monitoring screen, it can be clearly seen that the head of the insect is sticking to a lot of animal residues, not only small-scale shrimp, but also a lot of young snails that they have just seen on the surface of the mire, mixed with mucus and mud, which makes the scarlet stomach a little nauseous.

The Hunter Robot walked over and probed.

Under the gaze of everyone, the long beetle immediately rolled up on its own, and all the food that was still eating was twisted into his body, and not a single trace was missed. This explains why the animal carcasses looked crumbling and glued together when it was opened.

It can flexibly shrink itself into a ball, and if something is contained in it at this moment, how strong the twisting force must be.

Peng Feng didn't wait for Ke Li to characterize this long beetle, and raised the defense on the cliff to a higher alertness.

"Push that ball." Scarlet ordered the hunter.

The hunter reached out and touched it, and without the slightest resistance, the black ball was pushed off the reef, fell onto another reef, and then, rolling all the way, it quickly rolled to the reef closest to the sea, and fell into the water.

It floated on the surface of the water for a long time like a float, and finally was pushed up the tidal flat by a small wave, and held the sphere on the mudflat for a long time, before slowly reopening its body and moving forward one by one, along the way, it did not let go of the small scale shrimp and other creatures it encountered. That body shape is also peculiar, after eating so much, there is no change at all, it seems that no matter how much it is, it can swallow it.

Finally, it climbed up to the upper half of the intertidal zone and basked beside dry gravel. The hunter went to alarm again, and it immediately shrank into a ball again in a second. If you look down from mid-air, you can only think that this gravel beach is scattered with a large boulder.

"Interesting." Ke Li frowned and commented. "It was frightened and twisted up, barely discerning what was beside it. Care should be taken not to get in close proximity. And if it is at the bottom of the black cliff wall, or other open-air environment, its body is very camouflaged. However, this carapace on the body cannot be detected by our biological detector, which adds to the camouflage function. At present, I don't know its food preference, well, there is still a certain danger. I'm going to report this species to the biology database and add a safety risk warning. ”

Everyone nodded.

"Chief Yan, as the first discoverer of this species, you give it a name." Ke Ideal said.

Most of the species in the Tamarind database are discovered by robots, and then identified by relevant researchers, and the Department of Species Taxonomy of the Ministry of Science will follow the common systematic nomenclature of the alliance to name them. However, the Tawang Command stipulates that if a species is first discovered by a lander, the naming rights belong to the person who found it.

“…… Tide rat woman. After only a little thought, Scarlet gave her a name.

Xu Jincai looked speechless, but secretly thought that the group leader should think about it for a while and give the strange ball a catchy and beautiful name, after all, it will be written into the textbook in the future.

Within a few minutes, the entry of the tide rat woman was added to the Tamarind biological database. Scarlet glanced at the content of the new entry, and paused on the second line.

Chaosheng rat woman, also known as Yan's rat woman.

Speaking of which, it's no wonder that the Species Taxonomy Division is. It is true that according to the naming convention of the species discovered by man, she took the name, and after the big name she took, she was given another honor, and a common name was automatically generated with her surname.

This common name is not good. Scarlet is a very serious person who doesn't think crookedly, and at this time she couldn't help but respond for a while.

By the afternoon, fog had risen over the sea. The sky and water in the distance are colorful, and it looks like a light veil. Brother Qiong's light lingered outside the light veil, and seemed to retreat step by step on the surface of the sea.

It's time for high tide.

As planned, it was time for the team to go back.

Peng Feng and Ke Ideal talked a few words in one place, and Ke Ideal called the team: "Everyone, today's inspection task was completed very smoothly and successfully. I have just received instructions from Minister Kim, and the environmental parameters are very good now, with temperature, wind direction, and tides ...... All indicators are suitable for overnight attempts. So we changed some of the order of the follow-up departmental operation plan, and stayed here at the Berau Observatory tonight, resting in batches, and at the same time collecting data on the dynamics of the high tide currents in the Beroe Bay, as well as identifying the activity of tidal flat organisms during the high tide. Tomorrow morning, we will enter the inland Bimang Hill Observatory to prepare for the troops in the future. ”

"Everyone has worked hard," Ke Li looked around, and said to the only female member of the team, "Chief Yan, we all have to work harder." ”

"Okay." Scarlet nodded.