The canopy is lost in gray shadows, and the half-body creatures are mysteriously evolved.

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The famous Murphy's Law once expressed the idea that if there is a chance that something will go bad, then it will always happen, no matter how small the likelihood is.

As incredible as it may sound, it does tell us how bad it can be when the world is full of malice, and that everything always goes beyond your expectations.

Although she was very reluctant to admit this, Xinglan did feel some kind of malice from the world at this moment. The original plan seemed to be very good, she hid in the canopy of the nearby forest with Shiojie to see if the landing of the shuttle would attract any new and interesting creatures, and the sturdiness of the iron tree ensured that the branches would not go wrong due to external gravity, making it the perfect place to hide, however, an accident did happen, which she had not expected before.

They weren't the first guests of the canopy.

In a sense, they are in the canopy of the iron tree, but don't forget where this is, in this luxuriant primeval forest, there is no clear canopy division, and the distribution of trees is not very clear like the savanna, but completely tightly packed together, and the branches and leaves of the top layer are connected together, forming a vast maze of green.

If you're going from the canopy of a tree to the canopy of a tree next door, you don't even need to hang in the air to crawl through the branches, and the branches of these old trees are so strong that they are not as strong as the young trees that are new. This facilitates the movement between canopies, but also increases the danger in the environment, and unless the signal is scanned in all directions, Xinglan is completely unsure if there is anything strange hiding in the nearby foliage.

This also made the first sudden attack appear from behind, and the girl who was sitting leisurely on the branch and dangling her legs was almost knocked into the air and fell down by this surprise attack. If it really fell directly to the ground from a height of seven or eight meters, even if this mechanical body would not be scrapped directly, the consequences would not be much better.

"Be careful, there are attackers!"

Thanks to the early warning issued by Xijie, Xinglan quickly dodged the gray shadow that attacked from behind him in a very short time...... As long as you know in advance that the attack is coming and it is theoretically an attack that can be dodged, with the reaction speed of the signal, Xinglan does not have a conventional attack that she can't dodge, even in the face of an oncoming laser weapon, she can dodge the attack point in the moment before launching.

"What's that?" Xinglan, who had almost fallen sideways to the left and dodged on the branches, quickly jumped up and stood firmly on the iron branches like a balance beam, looking around vigilantly, "Isn't it a special means of attack, just relying on flexible skills to pounce?" ”

"We're already surrounded." Xiyue leaned low on a branch above Xinglan's head, his muscles tensed up and down, and the crystal array on his forehead was constantly feeling the fluctuations in his surroundings, "There are seven similar response targets, and they are constantly moving in the surrounding canopy. ”

Even if all the figures of the other party were completely hidden in a green canopy, and only the sound of those bodies quickly brushing the leaves could be heard echoing in the forest, as long as they had a large enough nervous system, the reaction of the neural electrical signals in the perception of the mystery was as clear as if it had been scanned by radar, and it could not be shielded at all.

"It seems that our actions have caused dissatisfaction among the aborigines here." Not angry at all about the other party's sneak attack, Xinglan smiled happily instead, and did not take out any weapons, but moved her arms, completely preparing for hand-to-hand combat, "Although I didn't see it clearly just now, the appearance of these guys ...... Something seems to be wrong. ”

Even if it was only a cursory glance just now, Xinglan could be sure that this attacker was about the size of a monkey, but the shape did not look like a primate at all, nor did it look like an ordinary beast, and of course it could not be a flying animal, and the other party was completely swinging those branches and swinging them quickly.

"Seven interesting little animals, this is not good......" The omnidirectional view and high-speed reaction mode of the signal were turned on, and Xinglan moved nimbly to the left, dodging another pounce, but this time she didn't stop there......

The high-speed thinking provided by the signal sub-network in an instant made the surrounding time seem to slow down in an instant, Xinglan unceremoniously stretched out her left hand to accurately grasp the gray shadow that flew over, and her right hand was not idle, but firmly grasped a piece of golden vine wrapped around the trunk of the tree next to her!

Everything happened in an instant, even Xijie didn't have time to react, Xinglan had already grabbed the limb of the creature with her palm, but the consequence was not only that the half-swinging creature slowed down sharply, but the huge inertia that followed knocked Xinglan out of the branch together, fortunately, her right hand had already firmly grasped the golden vine above, and this strong vine easily supported the weight of her and the creature combined.

"Wild little guy, the capture is complete~"

With a chuckle, Xinglan completely ignored the struggle of the creature in her left hand, grabbed the golden vine with her right hand and pulled it violently, and jumped back to the branch where she had been standing, the whole process was as smooth as if it had been rehearsed a thousand times beforehand.

"Eh......" Seeing Xing Lan jumping back to the branch with the creature that was caught, Xi Yu exclaimed violently, but what surprised her was not Xing Lan's previous actions, but the guy that Xing Lan grabbed in his hand, "Sister, did you break half of its body?" Ah no, it's ......."

"Broke half of your body?" Xinglan chuckled lightly, looking at the strange creature that was clutched by her arm, "This guy is really weird-looking, no wonder you understand it this way......"

The gray-haired creature's arms were slender and thick, with a strong muscular system that supported it to swing around the forest at great speeds...... This is not a simple matter of supporting one's own weight, due to the existence of centripetal force, the arm part often needs to bear many times the force of one's own body weight.

However, the slender arms, gray fuzz, and somewhat flattened head are not the most surprising about it, and what really makes Shiokyu exclaim: this creature has only two slender arms on its body, and no legs!

In other words, this creature does not seem to have a lower body at all, its entire body is only up to the waist, and the whole body can only be used to move two slender arms, which at first glance looks like a disabled creature whose lower body has been tragically amputated. However, Xinglan was sure that it didn't become like this by accident, and the completely unscarred fur showed that the creature was born with only two limbs.

"Interesting evolutionary form, completely beyond common sense."

As we all know, generally speaking, for flightless animals, the most basic support balance requires three limbs together to form the shape of a tripod, and considering the possibility of injury and the symmetry that most genes satisfy, the mainstream of larger creatures is quadripods, which is no longer a problem of a single planetary environment, but a form that adapts to the basic mathematical laws of the whole universe.

Even non-limbed insects, unless they are the type that crawls directly on the ground like a snail, generally have six, eight, or even hundreds of pairs of legs, and it is almost impossible to see species with less than four legs.

But at this moment, Xinglan really saw an animal with only two limbs, and it was definitely not small, and it was able to rely on its arms to shuttle through the forest with extraordinary agility. Although it has no other special abilities, its structure alone is enough to make this animal a major discovery.

"Isn't this evolutionary way of reducing its weight and size, and thus greatly improving its flexibility in moving through the forest? Well, the name of this species is called the right arm. Xinglan, who quickly decided on the name, unceremoniously squeezed the wrist of the opposite arm hard, and the huge power of the machine made the poor guy choke in pain all of a sudden, and it seemed that he could hear the sound of bones colliding, "But the weakness of this is also obvious, if one of the arms is accidentally injured in the wild, without the help of a companion, it will basically die." ”

Obviously, the Arm Pair will choose to move and forage in groups, and this small group of Arm Pair is composed of a total of seven members, and after being caught by Xinglan, there are still six of them shuttling back and forth in the nearby canopy, but in view of the lessons learned from their companions' capture, they do not dare to attack Xinglan again for a while.

"Let me see...... Well, it's probably an omnivore like a monkey, feeding on plant fruits and small animals. Ignoring the sharp threatening sounds of the opposing arms around her, Xinglan forcibly broke the mouth of the opposing arm with both hands, observing the shape of its teeth, "The range of recipes is very wide, but let alone humans, even the size of the mystery will not be treated as food by them, so it's not predation, it's just to defend the territory and expel it?" ”

"Sister, I'm really getting more and more perverted......" It seems that even Xijie can't stand Xinglan's behavior of tossing the other arm, while closely paying attention to the rapid movement of several opponents around him, he complained a few words mercilessly, "Almost let this guy go, isn't what we want to do now be hidden?" How can you hide your whereabouts with this noisy guy! ”

"Ahh ”

The opposing arm that had been tossed for a while was suddenly pardoned, although Xinglan had held its wrist hard, but the force was very precise and did not cause any actual damage, so it quickly fled back into the nearby canopy, and the group of opposing arms seemed to be frightened, and did not try to deal with Xinglan again, and quickly fled here with a strange scream.

"A bunch of interesting little beings." Watching the figure of the other arm disappear into the vast greenery, Xing Lan sat back where she was sitting, her legs swaying back and forth in the air like a swing, holding the tiny gray hair between her fingertips, and the signal that cannot be seen by the naked eye is quickly scanning this inconspicuous hair from the atomic level, recording every sequence of DNA inside into the memory bank of the signal non, "The collection of life code is still safer to record in the form of data into the quantum network......