Chapter 16: Vegetation and Rats
"Zhong, don't talk about it, can't we really go back to human society and live like savages. Isn't it abandoned by Huangao, abandoned by the earth? ”
"It's too pessimistic, how can we compare to the savages, we still have the ability to speak, and we have enough intelligence. It's just our body that has changed, but if we really talk about it, we want to compare ourselves with our ancestors, and we're really getting shorter. Humans have evolved in many ways, but they have become smaller. ”
"There are too many people, the atmospheric pressure is pressing, the air is too turbid, and there are few small people who inhale it..."
"Haha, what basis did you come up with, it's really uneducated. These changes are not a joke to you. Hey, the road is good. ”
"yes, it's not so slippery, and I fell on my head. We're just mutated back to the archetype. ”
"I haven't forgotten about the mutation, it looks like there's something in front of it, huh? Zhong, you have good eyes, can you see clearly? ”
"Dude, it's night, it's cloudy just now, I have to be able to see it with infrared eyes. However, when I looked at it dimly, it looked like a layer of grass, because the surface swayed in the wind. ”
"Grass! Reliable, the place I passed by just now is moss, which means that the hillside is humid and has conditions suitable for plant growth. ”
"But it's all lava, and even the grass is reddish-brown, like the first seedlings that water has cultivated. But now it doesn't look like lava. ”
"There's nothing difficult to explain, we deduce that it's a mountain, and that lava erupted later. The soil is covered with lava, and it is normal for the soil to be exposed and regrow plants after a few hundred years of wind, frost, rain and snow. ”
"If there are plants, there should also be animals, and if small animals are not a problem, big animals are a bit of a problem. We are still resting in place, eating something to replenish our strength. ”
"Foodie, there's only a bag of dried shrimp left, okay, if you forget to eat it, you won't have to eat it, how can you go down the mountain."
"Why do you always say it's shrimp, it's a big shrimp. Those are all prawns, okay, if you don't eat them, you won't eat them, it's always okay to sit down. ”
"Hey, what's the difference between shrimp and prawns, shrimp is the child of prawns, and sooner or later they will grow up to become prawns."
He also said that he would be hungry and couldn't help it. In fact, what we just saw may also be a child of metal bugs, and we would have eaten a few bites to fill our stomachs if we knew it. ”
Hunger hits, and everyone endures. All that's left is a packet of red shrimp, and that's the only food. A dark cloud also obscured the moon, and everyone sat on the ground, back to back to warm each other and embolden each other. They all watched the unknown ups and downs of the hazy night ahead, and listened to everything except the sound of the wind. I really heard the sound of the rope in the undulating grass in front of me, which seemed very strange in the silence of the night.
"I bet if it's really grass up ahead, there's definitely something alive in the grass."
"Nonsense, we found that little pink bug just now, and it's normal for there to be living creatures in the grass. I bet it's small insects. ”
"Grasshoppers? Bee? Or butterflies..."
"It's beautiful, I guess it's just little reptiles, or flying insects like flies and mosquitoes."
"I agree with this conjecture, bees and butterflies are evolved insects, and they can't exist at this stage."
"You'll know if it's dawn, so let's nourish your spirit."
"I also want to sit down and rest, but when I am free, the places on my body that have been bitten by mealworms get itchy."
"It's true, I forgot about it just now when I was busy climbing the mountain, and now it's starting to itch again."
It was overcast all the time, and it was drizzling in the morning, which was even more uncomfortable than the baptism of the rainstorm. Fortunately, after being drenched in the light rain, the itchy feeling is gone. Finally, the sun was shining down, and the hillside was clear. Looking ahead, it was really a thick green vegetation. Looking down, everyone was amazed, the place they had just walked through was now a faint pink, and it stood out on the reddish-brown lava surface.
"Could it be that the mealworms have been killed by the rain?"
"I don't know how they died, maybe their life is just one night."
"How lucky we must have been, a creature of life at night has come into close contact with us."
"What kind of environment gave rise to such wonderful creatures? Lava, humidity, or something else? ”
"We are modern people who go back in time to explore the origin of life, whether it is irony or luck. Count your food and water, and get ready to set off on the glowing hillside. ”
"Zhong, can you eat something?"
"Eat, otherwise how can you have the physical strength to climb the mountain."
Everyone opened their backpacks, and several people screamed in unison. There are a lot of pink bugs in the backpack at some point, and this is not the reason for everyone's surprise, but these whitebugs are all dead without exception, like grains of pink dust.
"God, I thought it was a joke of reasoning. It turns out that they really only have a dozen hours of life. It's more ephemeral and magical than those creatures that live in a season. ”
"But they are also constantly multiplying, and it is unknown how far they can evolve in the end."
"These have to be kept as a memento and go back to the people in the village to see. Compared with the lifespan of more than 100 years of human beings, who is the most adaptable to the environment and who is the most tenacious life on this earth. ”
"You can stop, when you get back, it's not all powder. Hey, what's the thing over there, it's running fast enough, and it's gone all of a sudden. ”
"I saw it too, it was out of the green grass."
"Don't make a sound, I'm afraid you'll be scared by us, and they'll probably come out again."
A few people were quietly eating food, their eyes were looking at the grass not far away, it was also magical, the grass was like a knife cut neatly from here, and this side was covered with moss, and it was gradually drying up, and now there was only a layer of dry ash where several people stepped on it. Over there were jagged green grass, and at the edges there was grass that had just grown up and clung to the ground. It looked like a velvet blanket, and the guy who came out of the grass just now got out of the blanket and back into the grass.
"Zhong, I think the structure of this building has been changed by something, the place where the tree fell just now is empty under the sound, and now the moss grass has a clear dividing line, and there is a fault in the mountain." Zhen said.
"Agreed, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the glowing lot above. It's not clear if it's a gemstone or something else. ”
None of them were willing to eat all the food and keep it for when they needed it most. It was the tree that walked in front, and the bell followed, and in a moment he walked on top of the velvet huhu carpet. The ground is really soft and soft, and it feels like I am lying down and sleeping. This section of velvet blanket is about 100 meters long, and everyone walks into the grass. The waist-high ones are also higher than the surface of the feet, and the grass is very thick, and the feet are also very soft, and they are still sticky and sticky feet, exuding the fragrance and smell of a plant.
"It's strange, even if the plant dies and rots, it doesn't smell like this? Could it be that there are some corpses in the grass? ”
"Don't scare people, even if there are creatures in the grass, there should be no natural predators. And even corpses are converted into nutrients that plants need over time. This smell is supposed to be something that has only recently died. Hey, who's pulling my backpack for? The man at the back asked.
"Who has the time to pull your backpack, no natural predators don't mean you won't die, what if your life is very short?"
"Yes, like that pink bug, it takes more than ten hours to live a life, how short life is!"
"I'm not kidding you, someone is actually pulling on the strap of my backpack."
"Hang it on the grass, you walk in the back, who will pull you." Zhong said back. But I felt that there was movement in my backpack. Then he went on to say to everyone, "Something is wrong, stop and check your backpack." ”
"Ahh What kind of monster is this? The worm was the first to scream. A few people were able to check this very much, and everyone had a living creature in their backpack. It didn't take more than ten minutes to walk, and the red shrimp left behind were only the skin, the skin of the red shrimp. Everyone's backpack had several furry monsters, the size of a fist and the size of an egg. They also have long, slender tails, or more appropriately called antennas attached to the buttocks, because the slender tail grows from the body to the tail is the same thickness. Each monster also has two sharp teeth on the outside, and its mouth is small and divided into three pieces by the teeth, which looks like several pieces of minced flesh are spliced together. Horror and weirdness! The body is close to a flat circle, four short legs, the fingertips are sharp and hard, and now each has a round belly, apparently the food in everyone's backpack has been stolen and eaten.
Just when a few people were stunned, these little things fled quickly. It's to use that slender tail to hook on objects that may be used, the straps of backpacks, the buttons on people's clothes, and even the laces of shoes... Then, compared to the slender tail, the huge body swung up and flew out for a long time, and there was no sound. The speed was so fast that it was almost gone, and the thick grass became their best cover.
"What kind of animal is this? This speed! ”
"I fed them everything I didn't want to eat just now. I didn't even express my appreciation. ”
"Do they bite, it's scary than pink bugs. All living in this grass? ”
"It's not sure if I bite or not, anyway, the strap of my backpack was bitten and broken. Oops, just a little bit in a row. Tree said, looking at his backpack.
"Oh, it's still big, those little monsters didn't climb up."
"It doesn't have to be a big head, they go up by their tails, as long as there is a place to borrow strength, I believe there is no place where they can't climb up. The trees are faster than us, which is why they didn't climb up. ”
"Yes, but it's only a matter of time, and sooner or later it will be breached. Tree, see if you still have any red shrimp? ”
"Joke, I'm long gone, how can I have such a small appetite as yours. Maybe that's why the little monsters don't come up, by the way, their sense of smell must be very sensitive. ”
"Hey, who knows what kind of monster it is? You don't know the archaeologists either. ”