Chapter Forty-Eight: The Horseshoe Crab of Fore
Judging from the feel, it looks like a rock worm. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info from the □ sense, the knife horseshoe crab smashed his sharp mouthparts, as if ...... I didn't taste anything.
Try one more.
The knife horseshoe crab concocted it in the same way, and cut out a meat worm and threw it into its mouth, and sure enough, it tasted like a rock worm, well, then this must be a rock worm.
Well, the Knife Horseshoe Crab detectives have discovered the murderer, and now the case can be officially closed.
The rock worm, the murderer in this case, it did a lot of evil, and the whole family of the beetle in the east of the village died tragically, according to people familiar with the matter, it was a good thing that the rock worm did. Mr. Thornworm, who mysteriously disappeared under the North Sands, is also said to have a relationship with it.
It is said that even the mass grave mound, a place full of piles of bones, appeared two streets away, and although it seems that it did not appear before, the reliability of the horseshoe crab's memory ...... Even the horseshoe crab himself was skeptical.
The old bones of the grave keeper - I mean the bone-eating insects, who have no quarrel with the world, only eat carrion, and even this poor lonely old man (fog) was found to have died tragically at the dawn of a sunrise by a neighbor who was kind enough to visit (to fight the autumn wind), and found that he had died tragically in his home, with only a skeleton left in his body, and not even a single shred of flesh could be found, which made the neighbor heartbroken (and returned in defeat).
In this way, the mysterious insecticide murderer has repeatedly committed crimes, but there is no trace of the insect catching it, as if the guy is composed of amorphous currents of water. For a time, people from 15 cities in the coastal area (?) In a panic, every insect is afraid that it will suddenly disappear one day for some reason, and when it comes out again, it will be a piece of poop.
But now, the murderer in this case has been caught by the detective Heavy Knife Horseshoe Crab!
(Rock Worm: Why did you wronged me?) Now it's the Legal Association! Talk about the evidence! Evidence! I'm going to call a lawyer! Call the lawyer to speak! [Strong self-calm villain face)
Hum! Looks like you're still lucky! The Detective Knife Horseshoe Crab slashed open another "rock" and took a rock-turning insect into its mouth.
This is what happened to you for killing innocents. The horseshoe crab said as he chewed.
Ahem...... It seems to taste good, why don't you have a few more?
…… Straight to the point, to be honest, I've been suspicious of you for a long time! Predators need to hunt for food, autotrophs that synthesize energy in their bodies also need to swallow sulfide-like things for bacteria to decompose in their bodies, you are not a green-skinned plant, you don't eat grass or anything else, you always hide in the armor you secrete, and you don't eat plankton! What the hell do you live on!
(by faith...... )
It's all this time! Dare to quibble!
The Heavy Knife Horseshoe Crab swung its arm again, and countless tiny muscle groups were densely arranged here, giving the thick-ridged broadsword far more lethality than ordinary creatures. It swept across the rocks with its blade arm, scraping off a circle of cleverly rockworms that it thought were hidden.
Actually, if it weren't for the sudden narrowing of the rock wall today, I don't know how you committed the crime!
It wasn't until I knocked you off the rock that it dawned on me, if that was the case, so it all made sense!
You disguised yourself as rocks and gathered at the mouth of the creatures' nests before they even knew it. Hehe, of course no creature will notice the gathering of a group of stones, and even if it does, can you expect the creature to associate it with the stones?
So just as the creatures were sleeping and regaining their energy, you rock worms quietly accumulated together and blocked the hole! I'm guessing you can secrete a stone-like carapace solution, or a binder that binds two stones together! The two formulas are very common, as long as you change the recipe slightly! When those creatures wake up, they will face a desperate claustrophobic space from which they cannot escape!
(You!) How do you know! This adhesive ...... This kind of thing! Only we rock worms know what kind of person you are~ [Panicked villain face)
Hum! Spicy, of course, told me by the author! The heavy knife and horseshoe crab threw away the manuscript paper in his hand (?!) The piece of paper fell to the ground, revealing the seven-character headline of "Knife Horseshoe Crab Detective Lines Collection" in large simplified characters.
(How should I react at this time?)
Maybe you need a cup of Lipton milk tea to suppress the shock (off-site personnel [milk tea, hand)
(Oh, thank you [pick-up]
…… Outside the field dispersed the ...... Please be patient......
Let's get back to the point, and when the entrance to the cave is blocked, it's easy to guess what will happen next. (Lifting glasses)
You closed the caves, even all the holes, and fell into a deep sleep. Dormancy consumes very little nutrients, and when you wake up, a meal is waiting for you that has been suffocated or even starved to death!
It is precisely because of this that the citizens of the fifteen cities in the coastal area did not find out about your crimes! Because they can't see you at all! Unfortunately, with me, your criminal journey is over! Accept the righteous sanctions! (Sharp action to cut a "rock" again)
(Nope!) You are talking nonsense! If there was such a thing, it would have left traces long ago! You don't have proof [dying villain face]
Hum! That's the crux of the matter! If there is only a binder, it is useless, and the consumption of condensing a "rock carapace" is very large, and if it is discarded like this, it will definitely outweigh the losses. So, your adhesive must be able to degrade over time!
Adhesives that degrade over time, dormancy and other food methods, stone camouflage, your hunting methods are really tight! Say! How many innocent citizens have you killed!
(In a nutshell...... Apparently you've eaten more than any of us have eaten...... And you also put on a look of our memory is very good, do you remember how many meals you ate this month [looking at the sky, squinting eyes)
Ha! Don't worry about such a trivial matter! (A look of indifference + a big hand wave)! More important than this, you evil guys have finally fallen into my hands. Hmph, if you choose another target, maybe you'll really get it! (Shifting the subject without a trace)
Fortunately, labor and management are lords, don't want to have a big combat power, change to an elite level! Half a month later, it's your dinner!
(Whose dinner will take half a month to cook from the beginning...... [whispering)
Dare to quibble! It seems that punishment is not enough! You haven't realized your mistake yet!
The Heavy Horseshoe Crab swung again, its heavy arms breaking through the current, striking the rock worms that were still clinging to the cavern and intent on pretending to be dead.
"Bell !!!"
Ah...... Sound...... What's wrong......
It seems like...... Is it a real rock wall...... The horseshoe crab turned his head stiffly, and if this was an anime, maybe with the action of turning his head, it would be accompanied by a funny sound effect of "Titicaca".
"Ke...... Cha! ”
Under the sad and indignant gaze of the horseshoe crab, his beloved knife arm, which is more precious than his eyeballs, is carefully waxed and polished every day, and every other week he has to go to the carapace maintenance office in the fifteen coastal cities to do twelve sets of VIP exclusive care of the knife arm, and the middle of the knife arm that has to pay two kilograms of food insurance every year, and the place where it collides with the rock...... A huge crack has been cracked!
Oriju spicy! My knife arm!
However, it is not over, this crack is still spreading, and it goes up along the knife arm!
Why is this happening? The horseshoe crab flicked its joints in horror, but it couldn't stop the nail pieces from collapsing, and the pieces of armor that had fallen off flew into the water, and it seemed that because of the constant shaking and flicking, the armor pieces scattered faster.
Alas, everything is a matter of design, it's all Shichen's pot, don't panic with a knife and horseshoe crab, life will always get better slowly, creatures are always advancing, time ...... Wait slowly, wait a few million more years, and I guess it's there, right?
…… Some time passed......
You shrink, you shrink, you shrink, what a neat thing! A knife arm...... One ah! Oh god, how can this be hunting......
The horseshoe crab wanted to cry and look at his once mighty knife arm without tears, and now there was only one muscle strip left. The muscles of the knife arm exposed to the water made it feel cold, and the muscles wrapped under the carapace were extremely sensitive to the fluctuations of the water and other things through the carapace, and the cold gradually turned into tingling, reminding it of the abnormality of this muscle - it shouldn't be here! It needs a solid carapace! It shouldn't be in the water! It should have been encased in sharp armament, tearing through the carapace of its enemies!
I get it...... But please respect the objective facts......
Staring at the poor muscular strip, the sadness in the Knife Horseshoe Crab's heart almost flowed backwards.
Its actually underdeveloped brain finally understood a truth, which may be the first philosophical idea in the spore world.
It understands, it understands: it is forced to ...... Is it to be returned......
However, the horseshoe crab is not surrounded by songs, and then the sun rises, it is still the will of the thousands of heavy horseshoe crabs on this planet, and now it still has to face the problem of survival.
It was indeed a lord, though only a low-level lord, with its own two brushes...... Knife arm, barely living a well-off life, at least eat and drink and won't starve, but now......
The Knife Horseshoe Crab finally got a taste of what it was like to be an elite-level creature.