Chapter 30: Darts Falling from the Sky......

It's useless to be tough, and it definitely hurts to cut this time.

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Well, although this biological structure that uses wave energy is unique, it is ...... Xinglan looked at the struggling porous tube worm writhing in the sand in front of her, and felt that if she could, she would definitely be full of black lines......

What's the matter, it's a miracle that this species hasn't been eliminated by natural selection!

…… However, it is also right to think that this structure of the porous tubeworm requires food to replenish its own lost substances, and its usual energy consumption is almost entirely from the energy of seawater flow.

If it's a mass extinction disaster, let's take an asteroid impact as an example. Only a small fraction of the creatures killed by the shock wave of the asteroid impact can obscure the sky for up to a year, and the clouds will cover the globe with the movement of the atmosphere.

Thick clouds block sunlight, preventing plants from photosynthesizing and wilting, and then the herbivores starve to death due to lack of food, and the carnivores go extinct.

From this, we can see that it is often not the disaster itself that really causes mass extinctions, but the food shortages caused by disasters.

But porous tubeworms are different.

The unique wave energy structure allows it to have little organic matter to replenish after the growth phase, and basically relies on the energy of the waves to meet its own energy needs, which means that it is almost impossible for this thing to starve to death.

It is impossible for the so-called super catastrophe to stop the flow of seawater, and as for the lack of water...... Please, does marine life need to think about finding water?

So, this species with unbelievably weak muscles has survived all along? And it is estimated that the mass extinction in the future will also be the least likely to die......

Wait a minute! Maybe it's more than that......

Xinglan suddenly thought that perhaps it was precisely because it was so easy to survive forever that this porous tubeworm stopped the pace of muscle evolution, because individuals with weak muscles could not be eliminated by natural selection, and excellent traits could not accumulate for a long time, so that today's porous tubeworm seemed so cowardly in front of other creatures.

Therefore, it is fortunate or unfortunate that he has been accidentally exchanged for the ability to survive in the event of a great crisis?

Well, who knows......

Shaking his head, which seemed to be a little overloaded with neural circuits because of high-speed thinking, Xinglan decisively stopped this kind of philosophical thinking that had no accurate answers at all, and it was more important to find a better body.

Gently jumping off the bottom rocks, the horseshoe crab's several pairs of claws wave together, slicing through the water, and slowly approaching the porous tube worm stuck on the reef.

In front of the multi-pore tube worm tens of meters long, the tide horseshoe crab with a body length of only a few tens of centimeters is simply insignificant, so this multi-hole tube worm with a huge body but purely a war scum did not notice the approaching tide horseshoe crab at all, and still continued its struggle.

Out of an abundance of caution, Xinglan did not approach the two ends of the porous tubeworm's frantically swinging body, but slowly approached the almost stationary body part of the porous tubeworm from the other side of the reef.

Well, here it is. Looking at the blue flexible skin in front of her, Xinglan nodded in her heart, take some samples and study them.

Without the multiporous tubeworm noticing at all, the horseshoe crab came to its body and raised its paws high......

I'll cut!

……

Eh......

Silently watched as the epidermis, which showed no signs of breakage under his own wave, slowly concave under the impact, deeper and deeper, more and more concave, slower and slower, and slowly stopped......

Xinglan suddenly realized something......

Rotten...... Cake......

Boom!

When the epidermis that was cleaved by the claws was dented to the limit, it bounced back violently......

Ahh......hhh

A certain tide horseshoe crab was bounced high off the skin!

Why do you always encounter this kind of thing, hey! Xinglan felt a faint sadness in her heart, am I destined to be the existence of Lucky E?

Woo, don't!

No matter how much she complained in her heart, Xinglan inevitably rolled all the way and flew out......

Well, it's all because the sea is too buoyant and always can't fall to the ground!

The sky is spinning, the sky is spinning......

……

Eh...... It's the rock you just landed on!

After seeing the rocks, Xinglan turned her body freely in the air (relative to the bottom of the sea), tumbling dozens of times in a row, and then landed "gracefully......

Bang!

……

It slid out of the rock surface for about half a meter before stopping......

Sinai!

Stunned, Xinglan regained her grip on the rock below and staggered a few steps......

The body of the tide horseshoe crab is still too weak, and it is necessary to find a powerful body mouth! A certain star silently swore an oath in his heart, and then looked at the porous tube worm in the distance......

Forehead......

Although it seemed to be violently bounced off the horseshoe crab just now, the body of this creature should be forgotten! At best, the skin is thick enough! It feels like even the body of the tide horseshoe crab which I used now...... Even a seriously injured horseshoe crab is many times better than a porous tube worm!

Alas......

Lu Manman's cultivation is far away, and I will go up and down to seek.

In order to have a suitable body, you still have to keep looking! With a silent sigh in her heart, Xinglan turned around and prepared to leave.

Yes? You say the porous tube worm that got stuck on the reef and couldn't move? Who cares about it!

Then at this moment, the desperately struggling porous tube worm suddenly stopped, and the blue water pipe-shaped body lay motionless on its stomach, maintaining perfect silence.

Huh? What is the situation? He's dead?

Xinglan, who was just about to leave, stopped, feeling as if something interesting was going to happen~

Hawkers, with the super light collector composed of signal subtons, Xing Lan found that the body of the porous tube worm was trembling slightly, and couldn't help but smile secretly in her heart, it turned out to be pretended......

But why play dead? Could it be ...... Natural enemies?

Well, the fluff on the side of the body felt the vibration of the water...... Something up there is approaching.

Xinglan controlled the body of the tide horseshoe crab and stood on the rocks and carefully raised her head to look at the water where only a glimmer of light penetrated.

What's that?

A dark shadow slowly approached along the undercurrent of the seabed, gradually revealing its true face.

It's a very peculiar-looking creature.

The black-gray body, which is only about a meter long, resembles a quadrangular boomerang. There is a small hole at the end of the four curved parts, and there is a sharp pale bone blade in front of it, and even a faint metallic luster, which shows that the proportion of mineral components is not small.

In the center is a flattened sac, surrounded by four small eyes. The eyes are strangely shaped, flattened to almost sunken inside. Due to the concave view, the viewing angle is not large, but four eyes are enough to make up for it with numbers, and even to achieve a further panoramic view.

Well, it's shaped like a spinning dart, so let's call it a dart.

At this time, the dart seemed to be as if it was asleep, and it just let the water rush it around, but as the dart got closer and closer to the area, Xinglan clearly noticed that the body of the multi-pore tube worm was trembling even more with fear......

Hawkers,Sure enough, it's a natural enemy~

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It is said that the road is narrow, which shows that some fate cannot be avoided...... Ahem, well, as a predator, naturally has its own set of skills to track its prey, and I don't know whether it is by smell or vibration, in short, the boomerang keenly spotted the porous tubeworm trying to play dead, and those lazy half-open eyes were completely opened in an instant.

Sneer......

A strange sound reached Xinglan's auditory receptors, and she looked up, and with the vibrators, she could clearly feel the water rushing towards the boomerang with the vibrators.

The small holes at the ends of the four blades were fully opened, and a large amount of water was pressed into the body of the dart with the movement of the muscles, and the flattened sac in the center of its body began to slowly expand......

Well, it turned out to be a water storage bag, but what the hell is it going to do?

……

It seems to feel that it has been exposed, and the porous tube worm below no longer pretends to be dead, but struggles even more desperately, maybe there is an explosion at the critical moment, a small universe explosion, a super Saiyan tube worm or something like that, it actually threw itself off the reef in a daze!

Attaboy! The body of the Super Saiyan tube worm has turned golden yellow!

…… How is that possible, hey! A certain stellar girl, please stop making up strange things casually!

Ahem, in short, a tube worm broke out in danger, successfully broke free from the reef cage, and quickly escaped from the scene...... Although the speed is still not straightforward.

It's already certain...... Looking at the porous tube worm wriggling and advancing below, Xing Lan silently covered her face in her heart, with this strange creature, its natural enemies are estimated not to starve to death in the catastrophe......

It's just too easy to catch? That's a little faster than Shamian, right? Dude, you're dozens of meters long, hey!

……

At this moment, seeing that the prey began to flee, the boomerang above finally completed the storage work.

The central sac becomes bulging, stops slightly, and then ......

Counterpressure!

What the? Xinglan almost exclaimed, is it going to ......

As the muscles begin to squeeze the water bladder, the oppressed seawater quickly travels backwards along the pipe it originally entered, and finally squirts out through the small hole at the end of the body in the shape of a quadrang!

Four small holes spray water at the same time, providing a huge boost to the dart, and its body begins to spin, spinning faster and faster!

I see...... Xinglan muttered to herself, as long as she fine-tuned the water spraying speed of the four small holes, she could still manipulate her body to move freely!

The reason why the eyes are sunken is also to prevent the water flow during high-speed spin from harming the eyes......

Why do you feel that the primordial creatures of Lanxing are so powerful!

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In the end, even with the great resistance of the seawater, the spinning speed of the boomerang is still very fast. It slammed into movement, and its still rapidly spinning body rushed towards the porous tube worm that was wriggling below!

How so...... A fast-spinning chainsaw falling from the sky?

Xinglan couldn't bear to close her eyes, and a terrible scream of a porous tube worm came from her ears......

Yes, even if you have thick skin and high toughness, it's useless! It must have hurt a lot this time......

After making up for the terrifying scene of flesh and blood flying and limbs scattering, Xinglan silently opened her eyes again.

The massive body of the porous tubeworm has been completely cut in half, and a yellowish electrolyte solution flows out of the fissure and spreads through the seawater......

It seems that being small is not completely without benefits, Xinglan watched the boomerang get stuck in the body of the porous tube worm and gnaw on the internal tissues, at least the powerful guy will completely ignore the small onlookers.

The porous tube worms, which use waves to generate bioelectricity, contain a large amount of electrolyte solution, and even when the dart feeds, a few sparks will flash from time to time at the breach of those tissues. However, the multi-hole tubeworm is not a real electric attack creature after all, and the boomerang completely ignores these seemingly flashy but useless currents and continues its delicious meal.

One last glance at the feast after the fierce battle, Xinglan turned and left silently.

The body of the boomerang has no flexible limbs, it is just a simple hunting tool, and this is not the body I want......