Chapter 09: Settlement, Evolution

Once a Terran warrior of the Galactic Federation, Banbu has undergone rigorous military training and has an iron will to fight.

Even if you are going to die, do your best to teach these two hateful woodpeckers a lesson before you die.

Zebu's huddled in the top corner of the tree, raising his forelimbs and his hind legs, intending to rush out as soon as the tree was pecked open and take the initiative to attack.

Although the tips of the toes are sharp, they are too small to pierce the woodpecker's feathers, and even if they do, they can only cause skin trauma and must attack the eyes.

Banbu plans to take advantage of his unpreparedness and blind a woodpecker before he dies, and if he succeeds, he will die a much more decent death.

"Goo! Mutter! ”

Suddenly the screams of woodpeckers rang out outside the trees.

"Gurgling ......"

A miserable and desolate cry.

The sound of pecking at the trunk of the tree stopped abruptly.

Surprised, Banbu waited for a moment, plucked up his courage, and looked out through the peck hole, and saw a brown and black scaly body slowly cutting through the hole.

Snake scales?

Or a jungle python?

Judging by the terrible cry, it should be a woodpecker that has been attacked and preyed!

"Gollum, Gollum......"

The angry cry quickly faded away with the sound of flapping wings.

After a few moments, the python slid down the trunk.

The jungle is calm.

Spotted carefully poked out of the tree, quickly looking out and then retracting.

With no woodpeckers to be seen, and no pythons to follow, a deadly crisis was resolved.

The tree where he was hiding was pecked so badly that Zebra did not dare to go out easily, so he stayed up until dark in fear, ventured away, quickly climbed to the lower level of the mountain, found a new worm, killed the larvae of the longhorn beetle, fed a full meal, estimated that there was no danger for the time being, and fell asleep.

In the second half of the night, when I woke up, my tired body and mind recovered, and I began to think about it: without the protection of the Red Cockroach Tribal warriors, the cockroaches living in the mountains attracted a large number of predators, and I had to move away from the land of right and wrong!

I thought that I took advantage of the right time and acted immediately.

Climb down the mountains, burrow into the jungle, and run fast in one direction.

A rushing river blocked the way.

It may also be a stream down from the mountains, but it is currently too small, so it looks extraordinarily wide and becomes an insurmountable moat.

The sky will be bright.

Zebrabu climbed a large tree and stood at the top of the tree to watch, which was far enough away from the mountains that only a blue shadow remained in his eyes.

"You're almost out of the danger zone, aren't you?"

"The sky is white, it's almost dawn, and you have to lurk."

Madara pondered, and began to search the forest, looking for the trunk of the tree that had been eaten by the larvae of the longhorn beetle, intending to repeat the old trick, kill and eat the insects inside, occupy the tree ridge, slowly eat all the insects on the tree, and then change another plant, and continue the relatively safe sojourn life......

However, when I thought about it, it was wrong: "What if I am targeted by woodpeckers again?" I almost died in the belly of a bird yesterday. ”

"It's even more unsafe to camp underground like a common cockroach, and predators like snakes and rats can easily dig through when they smell it."

It wasn't a problem for the human intelligence of Banbu, and after a little deliberation, he decided to find a large enough tree with strong enough foliage to lean on, and dig the earth under the tree to create a nest.

Taking advantage of its small size, the tough roots of the tree are a good deterrent to intruders.

In the process of searching, Banbu finds another, more ideal shelter - a black boulder standing in the jungle!

Tried it with the front paws and it was hard enough.

Madara looked around, there was a small patch of grass next to the boulder, and near it was a dense primitive ancient tree, there must be no shortage of bugs weaker than himself, so there was no need to worry about food.

Great place to settle down!

Without much hesitation, he moved his claws to dig under the boulder, and with great effort, he dug out a passage and opened up a space for himself.

Rest until noon and continue digging deeper into the stones.

In Zebra's consciousness, the feeling of molting the chistion became clearer and clearer, and the demand for food increased, and he became more sleepy.

When you are full, you feel drowsy, and when you wake up, you are hungry and need to eat a lot.

The 19th molt growth is a metamorphosis from ordinary life to force life, genetic evolution, and a jump in the level of life, and I am afraid that the sleep time will be very long.

The zebra must be absolutely safe while he is asleep.

Since the nest slopes down the rocks, considering that rainwater may backflow in rainy weather, after digging inward for a certain distance, it simply turns sharply and digs vertically downwards to dig into the shape of an "N" shape.

The first solstice is open and slightly larger, which is convenient for the backflow of rainwater to penetrate deep into the ground, and is named "drainage reservoir"; The first point serves as a dry storage room for hoarding food; The second lowest point serves as a hiding chamber in case of danger, stockpiled with leaf fragments in case of emergency.

The huge excavation project took almost half a month, and the "safe shelter" was finally completed.

Banbu couldn't hold on any longer, and shrank into the deepest chamber, falling into a deep sleep.

……

"Boom ......"

The earth-shattering thunder made the earth seem to tremble.

"I'm ...... Zebra, human? Cockroach? Flying Fire Cockroach Branch, Red Cockroach Clan, Warrior ......"

Bambi woke up.

Weakness and weakness, dry and dehydrated, dizziness, confusion.

Driven almost instinctively, he began to chew on the leaves in the chamber, eating all the leaves in the storage chamber, and finally felt better, his physical strength was replenished, and his consciousness was slightly restored.

"Succeeded?!"

"Almost failed!"

"The thunder woke me up, or I would have fallen asleep until I died."

It took a lot of brainpower to sort out the situation, and I suddenly had a headache.

Banbu only felt an unprecedented weakness, such as the beginning of recovery from a serious illness, and his physical strength recovered, but the nutritional reserves were extremely lacking, and the whole worm seemed to be left with an empty shell, and all the internal organs and muscles were ......

It was a very uncomfortable feeling, as if the whole thing had been hollowed out, and only a pair of exoskeletons were left, and there was no strength to be raised.

"Food! Lots of food in dire need! ”

Banbu struggled to climb up to the storage compartment.

I don't know how much time has passed, and I don't know what happened during this period. Before sleeping, Banbu specially hunted 3 longhorn nymphs, dried them and stored them, but now they are rotten and mildew, and they are completely inedible.

When I went to the drainage reservoir again, it was terrible, and the back-up rainwater was slowly rising and was about to overflow into the storage warehouse.

"The spring rain won't be so violent, is it...... Summertime? ”

Combined with the temperature, Banbu roughly confirmed that his 19th molt may have been sleeping for more than 1 month, and he slept directly from the thick spring to the summer.

"Early summer? Midsummer? Or is it just the end of summer rainstorm season? ”

Banbu thought, and was scared for a while.

When I was a human being, I had advanced through cultivation and had experienced several similar genetic evolutions, and I also needed to fall into a deep sleep.

The difference is that human beings have mastered high-end technology and have a special nutrition chamber, and each evolution is carried out in the nutrition chamber. There are professional scientific and technological personnel on duty in shifts, comprehensively monitoring the body's data around the clock, and there are intelligent system calculations to fine-tune the nutritional supply, which is very easy and fast to complete the evolution.

Now that it has become a cockroach, without any scientific and technological assistance, without external nutritional supply, alone, genetic evolution has become extremely dangerous, and every molt and growth is a test of life and death.

This time, it can be said that Banbu succeeded or failed, he was only a little short of never waking up, and he lost his life in a coma, and it was the roaring thunder that woke him up and pulled him back from the brink of death.