006 Pupae, Evolution
I watched as the entrance to the cave was sealed by the mud worm.
Suddenly I thought about it, and when I thought of something, Wang Chong couldn't help but laugh:
Now, this worm room is a hegemon-level existence!
His eyes swept over the insect room and saw the pile of brains, and his heart hesitated.
Are you going to eat those brain pulps?
Wang Chong hesitated in his heart, he was already a little sure that after eating those things, he should be able to evolve again.
But the memory of being "Wang Chong" made him sick when he thought about it.
After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that it was a compromise to let the nurse worm eat it first, and then devour the nurse worm myself!
It certainly makes sense that the swarm does not directly let the larvae swallow the brain, but let the nurse worm eat first.
Now he was sure that the adult worm had no ill will towards him, but if he devoured the nurse worm himself, it would be difficult for the larvae to be hungry, so he still did his old job - slaughtering the eggs!
Ha ha!
Wang Chong laughed, and the 10 feet moved quickly, and it was easy to do it when the nurse worm had not yet stacked up the eggs.
Hurriedly ran to the eggs, now Wang Chong's size was about the same as a vertically cut egg, and next to each nurse worm there was a pile of eggs almost the size of half a chicken.
Raise your feet high and thrust them in!
"Puff puff puff!" There was a cracking sound that made Wang Chong's heart rejoice, and a lot of insect egg fluid splashed out.
Wang Chong was even more excited, and then puffed and thrust.
The nurse worm had obviously never encountered such a thing, and its IQ didn't know how to deal with it. He only acts on instinct, and when he encounters a broken egg, he stuffs it into his mouth......
Wang Chong thought excitedly, is it possible that you want to eat all these eggs?
Such a messy stabbing, although the accumulation of insect eggs made Wang Chong much easier, but it still took a quarter of an hour.
After eating a large pile of eggs to feed himself, Wang Chong headed for the next nurse worm.
The cave was huge—at least for Wang Chong's current size.
It seems to be the same as a corridor or something. It is in the shape of a long strip. Some of the high places were dark and Wang Chong couldn't see them, but they were about the same as human rooftops. The low place is only half a meter high. The ground is uneven, with several similar terraces. There are forks in the road in some places, and Wang Chong got lost several times.
Because of the complicated terrain, at the end of the day, Wang Chong found fifteen nurse worms. There must be a bunch of eggs next to each nurse bug.
It takes a week for the eggs to hatch, and six days to go. It's going to take a little more to kill in the past six days!
In the next six days, the terrain became more and more familiar, and Wang Chong became more and more comfortable. It's just that many nurse worms have already spread out their eggs, which has dragged Wang Chong to speed.
Five days in a flash.
In five days, Wang Chong's little wings grew a lot. The elytra are stronger, the shell is much harder, and now the larvae may not be able to bite.
Wang Chong's speed of destruction reached its peak on the fourth day, when a total of twelve piles were destroyed.
Right now...... It's time to enjoy the fruits of victory!
Wang Chong was a little excited, running around for a few days, and had a rough impression of where the nurse worm was.
The first nurse bug.
It's a little funny that this nurse worm actually has a thousand worm eggs around it, apparently it found it from the broken worm eggs......
The nurse worm has grown several times in a few days, and is now as thick as an egg and as long as a ballpoint pen.
"You're going to be food sooner or later, so cheapen me first." Wang Chong thought silently in his heart, and then pounced!
The nurse worm is painfully twisted, but his instinct is to feed the larvae, although the worm that comes to eat himself now is a little different, but the instinct makes it, just twisted, and does not struggle.
After swallowing a small half of the nurse worm, Wang Chong couldn't eat it anymore, and he suddenly realized the problem.
Seem...... At most, I can eat three or four nurse worms, and there are sixty or seventy in the worm room......
On the last day of hatching, Wang Chong swept around when he was full to see if there were any eggs he had missed. I really found two places for him.
When I finally found one, the eggs had hatched, and the dense larvae were eating the nurse worms.
Wang Chong quietly retreated.
Another day is pupation.
It seems that the adults that come out of the pupation in the end are very gentle, and Wang Chong is too lazy to destroy them.
And...... It seems that he also faintly has a feeling of pupation.
After devouring the third nurse worm, Wang Chong instinctively felt the pupation!
First, spit out a stream of mucus from the "chrysanthemum", then flatten the sticky water with your hand, draw a circle around yourself, and then the mucus solidifies and hardens on its own......
Wang Chong's hands should have a layer of something, and those mucus didn't touch his hands.
Finally, he used his mouth to make a pupa in the chrysalis.
Wang Chong's body underwent drastic changes and severe pain.
I wanted to hold on and observe, but my consciousness slowly fell into a coma.
I don't know how long it took.
Wang Chong woke up, and the chrysalis at this time was much more brittle, and it had been stabbed open with one kick.
I can't wait to look at my body now.
A thin green stripe appears on the elytra. This fine green pattern is a bit wonderful, it should be more than just a decoration, but the effect is not known for the time being.
Sharp barbs have been generated on all 10 legs, and sawn wood is not a problem to see the hardness.
The field of view seems to be much larger, and you can see things on both sides of your body at the same time.
The best thing is that the wings have finally grown!
Wang Chong was overjoyed, and his elytra opened, and the wings poked out of it.
"Buzz-" The figure instantly rose up, and he hit the top of the cave and fell.
"Haha! Full of horsepower! Wang Chong got up and continued the experiment.
If it is a human body, it will definitely die if it falls hundreds of times its height. But Wang Chong didn't even feel dizzy, he was stunned, and he flew up again.
It's the instinct of the king worm that is still there, but Wang Chong also bumped into it for a long time before he touched the essentials of flight.
Finally, Wang Chong buzzed around the cave for half a circle, and was suddenly stunned.
In his memory, the king worm could only jump briefly and then glide for a short while.
And now I ...... It's flying, indeed!
And last time, I only cared about the shock, and ignored a lot of flying king insects. For example, slap worm, round bubble worm......
In addition, last time, Wang Chong was killed because the king worm got into the water......
It's clear that the king worm is changing, or evolving......
At this time, I remembered, why haven't I seen the larvae for half a day...... No, adults?
Last time, it was about to pupate, so there should be a bunch of adults waiting to get out.
Suddenly, I saw chrysalis in some places on the wall.
Only then did I realize that I had gone through a round of larval birth. It should be the second pupa now......
In this way, I spent at least 10 days in the chrysalis.
How long does it take to grow wings?
Wang Chong was a little puzzled.
After thinking about it, I'll go out with the adult worm this time.
Now he is not hungry in his stomach, but Wang Chong has found that there is never too much food for the king worm.
As long as you keep filling your stomach, then the speed of evolution will be greatly accelerated.
After looking for a while, as he expected, he couldn't find a single nurse worm, which should have been eaten by the larvae before pupation. So Wang Chong set his sights on the pupae.
The eggs are the size of sesame seeds, the larvae are the size of two sesame seeds, and the pupae are already half the size of a grain of rice.
But the digestion ability of the king worm is really not covered, almost into the stomach, it can be digested into energy and flow to all parts of the body immediately.
It wasn't until I ate about 600 pupae that I felt satiety.
Two days.
In two days, Wang Chong plagued more than 2,000 chrysalis.
I didn't feel any obvious changes, but the green line on the elytra on my back was much more obvious, and from a certain angle, I could faintly refract the golden light.
There was a buzzing all around, and a large number of adults were already gathering here.
Wait for the last time a praying mantis-like bug opens a hole.
These adult worms are large grains of rice, flapping their wings and only slightly smaller than flies. Like Wang Chong, he also has elytra and huge mouthparts.
Wang Chong's body size is half the size of an egg, and it is too obvious to mix it in. It's just that the biters all treat him as one of their kind, so it shouldn't be much of a problem to get out.
Click.
There was a soft sound, and finally a voice came from above.
Soon, the beam fell. Sure enough, it was the burrowed praying mantis insect again.
The hole slowly grows larger, and by the time it is large enough, an adult has already flown out.
Wang Chong couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.
When the adults fly out the most, they also fly out of the mixture.
Blue sky, white clouds, big trees, green leaves.
A fascinating sight appeared in front of me.
Wang Chong's heart throbbed:
I am back!