Chapter 183: The ...... of the Anchor Grass Forest
The brilliant electric light chased after him, and the silver smoke rose from the arc-shaped forest belt.
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Although the strength is not the most powerful, I have to admit that the strange creature of the Aurora Fish is definitely one of the most difficult enemies in the ocean, and its various characteristics are enough to make people mad...... Even if the wind is gone, it has to rely on manipulating a large number of creatures to launch a wheel battle to confront the aurora fish head-on, the strong current of the whole body makes it not afraid of the invasion of any bacteria and viruses at all, to use a special way to kill the aurora fish, unless it is a large area of chemical agents that are not afraid of electrolysis in advance, and then break out at the same time, this approach is obviously not worth it at all.
Even the sea giant, who thought he was not afraid of any giant beast attack, decisively gave up the attack and began to flee at full speed the moment he saw the Aurora Fish appear. It is true that with their strength, they are enough to smash the Aurora Fish into two pieces with a single blow, but the problem is that it is impossible to attack the opponent head-on with the slightly sluggish movements of the sea giant against such an unimaginably agile creature!
The Aurora Fish, which is almost completely transparent and moves very quickly, is indeed a very difficult creature to attack, on the contrary, there are almost no creatures that the Aurora Fish cannot attack, because its attack is a light-speed current that cannot be dodged at all, and don't forget that the current spreads in the sea!
Hiss......
A series of electric lights lit up in the seawater, and the muscles of several sea giants cramped, and the sturdy cyan armor was defenseless in the face of the electric attack, but they had no time to stop and rest, so they could only desperately run back with their prey.
After all, sea giants are still large and strong creatures, and the Aurora Fish cannot kill them with one blow like they can against small prey, but can only make their muscles paralyze and twitch constantly.
The sea giant did not use some prey carcasses to solve the crisis as he did with the rainbow shark before, for a simple reason: the rainbow shark would give in only because he was concerned about its own possible casualties, and the sea giant did not have the ability to harm the aurora fish at all, and there was no compromise between this unequal force.
"It's a little strange, even in this state, do you still choose to keep running away?" Xing Lan looked at this scene and felt a little puzzled, "But escaping can't solve the problem, the speed of the sea giant's escape is obviously far less than the speed of the aurora fish chasing after it, so it is impossible to get rid of the aurora fish at all, and if you keep luring the aurora fish to the settlement like this, won't the situation get worse?" ”
Although it has been releasing electric attacks from time to time, in fact, the purpose of the Aurora Fish is not to kill the sea giants, after all, it is impossible to kill these adult giants with extremely high defense by electric shocks alone, and its main purpose seems to be just to harass and snatch the prey of the sea giants.
On the way, several sea giants also tried to catch the aurora fish with the silver wire net at hand, but it was obvious that the sea giant's slightly slow swing net speed was not enough to intercept the aurora fish that could flexibly change direction in high-speed movement, this guy not only acted fast, but also had a very high IQ, but it was not so easy to fall into the trap.
The situation is getting more and more tricky.
Faced with this situation, even Xing Lan couldn't think of any good way, but looking at the appearance of those sea giants who were a little nervous but not flustered, it didn't seem like the first time they had encountered this situation...... Then they should also have some experience in coping.
The chase lasted for more than an hour, and even if it couldn't attack the Aurora Fish, the sea giant was always able to move its prey in time to avoid being devoured by the Aurora Fish, and the Aurora Fish seemed to be staring at them with a dead eye...... Soon, of course, it will no longer use electric shocks, which are extremely energy-intensive, and will rely entirely on agility to snatch food.
It doesn't seem like much, but in fact it's actually very strange, why did the Aurora Fish waste more than an hour of time to grab food from the sea giants? Compared to consumption, this is simply a worthless deal, it can use this time to hunt other more creatures, even if the sea area at a depth of three or four hundred meters is not as rich as the biological resources at sea level, but it is far from the scarcity of thousands of meters of deep sea, and you can find a lot of prey if you look carefully.
After Xing Lan carefully observed the movements of the aurora fish, she felt that this guy was not serious about snatching food at all, and every time he had the opportunity to tear off a large piece of prey, he just took a light bite and retreated. Xinglan had a vague feeling, maybe it ...... It's just playing.
Could it be that this guy who is a big ocean overlord just has nothing to do and treats the sea giant hunting team as a toy?
This idea seems incredible, but it is very close to the current situation, and if this is the case, I am afraid that the intelligence score of the Aurora Fish needs to be adjusted again.
I don't know when the anchor grass in this area has become denser and denser. A large amount of rubble entangled by the root system is distributed on the seabed, making it look like a pebble beach, with tough rhizomes stretching from the bottom of the sea to the surface of the water, and the inflatable structure of the internal section allows the plant to grow in buoyancy at all times, even if it is cut off from the middle, and does not fall back into the seabed.
These rhizomes are very tough, and because they have to resist wind and waves to hold themselves in place, the stems of anchor grass are almost as strong as those of the bare lawn, but they can easily bend back and forth. If they were intertwined and woven into ropes, even the power of the Sea Giant's hydraulically driven armor would not be able to break free.
Things have developed to a very strange point, it is obvious that the sea giants are desperately trying to escape in the direction they have chosen, and the aurora fish are following them all the way, but they end up in such a large forest of anchor grass. In these straight up anchor grass forests, the huge body of the sea giant has become a big burden, they have to carefully pull away the anchor grass in front of them, to prevent being firmly entangled in their hands and feet by these tough anchor grass, and the speed of progress is greatly slowed down for a while, and in contrast, the small and delicate body of the aurora fish can be said to be able to shuttle freely in this anchor grass forest, and those anchor grass that grows straight without forks is impossible to entangle its slippery body.
Even the ground has become the size of a sea giant. Troublesome, you must know that the root system of anchor grass is not inserted into the soil layer, but directly and firmly fixed to some gravel, and over time, some stones are completely wrapped by these roots and impermeable, and from the outside it looks like a large ball of vines. All of this makes the ground of the Anchor Grass Forest cratered, full of broken rocks and slippery balls, and even the cyan shell acts as a shoe-like protection for the feet, but it is definitely not easy to trek on such ground, and it is obviously much easier to swim like the Aurora Fish.
But is that really possible? Obviously, it was the sea giants who led the way to escape, but they kept running to those environments that were seriously unfavorable to them, Xinglan didn't think that this group of sea giants who were in charge of hunting would be so nervous that they even got the wrong direction because they encountered the aurora fish, if that was the case, they would have been eliminated by nature's natural selection.
Although the Sea Giant's forward speed may seem terrible, in fact, the situation is no different from what it was just now...... It's like having an opponent who is ten times faster than you is harassing you all the time, and suddenly his speed increases to twenty times your speed, but it doesn't really make a difference because he still keeps harassing you next to you.
However, the aurora fish felt a little irritable at first, and the constant bypassing of the anchor grass that blocked the view made it feel a little impatient for the first time, and even began to attack with a part of the current from time to time...... And these electric shocks that are not full force can still only weakly paralyze the sea giant's muscles, and their resistance to this electric current is much stronger than that of Earth humans.
And lighting is also a big issue...... When the sun's rays reached here through the three or four hundred meters deep sea, they were basically gone, and the only ones that could illuminate the environment in this area were the light bacteria that continuously released light on the sea giant's armor and the colorful light bands that flashed when the aurora fish emitted electricity, and the only ones that could illuminate were a few dozen meters nearby.
In other words, apart from each other, there is now only a dense layer of anchor grass that occupies almost the entire field of vision, overwhelmingly stretching into the distance, and if it is not for animals with a particularly good sense of direction and memory, it is like falling into a maze here and quickly losing their way.
"The terrain is a bit strange, and these dense anchor grasses are actually distributed in a wide arc." Using the signal to detect the edge of the anchor grass forest when they entered, Xinglan soon found that the seemingly straight anchor grass wall was actually slightly curved, "But this is still difficult to say, if it is only an arc, it must be able to do it manually, but it may also be a natural lush forest." ”
Suddenly, the surrounding anchor grass no longer changed to dense, but began to become more and more thin, and it was easy to tell that they had begun to approach the exit of the anchor grass forest.
However, Xing Lan was slightly puzzled, according to the arc detected before, this distance is not to mention walking to the other side of the anchor grass forest, there is still a big gap from the center of the circle, but the fact is that they are indeed about to walk to another marginal area of this anchor grass forest.
So, does this mean that this anchor grass forest is not a circle or an ellipse, as Xinglan had previously speculated, but a hollow inner ring?
Naturally formed rings are not non-existent, such as the plant belts distributed in a ring along the crater, but Xinglan felt that the strange distribution of anchor grass in front of him should not be pure natural, but as if it had been deliberately artificially created into this form.
After walking some distance along the increasingly sparse forest of anchor grass, the dense plants finally thinned out, revealing a brilliant silver glow not far away, a silver that Xinglan was very familiar with, rising from the bottom of the sea like gas from a chimney, constantly hovering and hovering above.
Here it is...... Sea Tree Forest.