Chapter 2: Physical Evolution
"Damn, I've seen so much expertise. This is just about insect hatching, and if I search for entomology, I won't be able to blow my brain out!" Zuo De complained weakly. This is another ability of Stone Eye, memory retrieval.
Memory retrieval is like a computer's reserve and reading function, able to retrieve everything Zode has seen from his memory, whether he remembers it or not. Even if Zuode had looked at the newspaper when he was a baby, Stone Eye was able to present all the contents of the pages he had seen at that time in Zuode's mind now.
Zode has also noted similar reports, saying that humans are actually able to memorize all the knowledge they have seen, but they are not able to convert it into permanent memory. And the stone eye obviously reinforces this, it can extract all the content that Zuo De has seen, heard, and even perceived according to his own needs, and present it in front of Zuo De at any time - whether or not Zuo De understands those contents.
For this reason, Zuo De, who discovered this ability for the first time in his previous life, was extremely excited to stay in the big library of Bucharest City for more than eight months, flipping through the books inside.
A great deal of knowledge about insect hatching was extracted from Zode's memory bank by Stoneeye, and there were a lot of technical terms and words that Zode didn't understand, but fortunately he didn't need to know much about it. I sorted out these mixed knowledge. Zuode finally found a few key words: sclerosis, hatching enzymes, and oviductor.
To put it simply, the key elements of insect hatching are natural egg breaking, sclerotic organ breaking, and egg breaking tissue.
Natural egg breaking, due to the presence of hatching enzymes, with the delay of time, the egg wall will naturally dissolve, and the larvae can come out of the eggs. However, Zode noticed that he had been here for a long time, but there seemed to be no trace of natural dissolution of the egg wall. Besides, passive waiting is not Zuode's character, and the current state gives him an inexplicable sense of urgency. Then, the only way left is to harden the organs and generate broken egg tissue.
There is no difference in nature between these two methods, and both are an inevitable process of larval development. However, for a former human being, it is a big problem. Is it still necessary to wait? After such a long time, Zode had observed his current body many times, and he could not see any traces of specialized organs on the surface of the insect's body.
"Hardened organs? What does this caterpillar-like body need to harden? Do you want to harden the head and knock it through the egg wall?"
"What kind of insect is this? At least it has to grow limbs." Zuode was now desperate for himself to grow limbs, otherwise, he would not be able to rush out here in a short time.
At this moment, Zuo De suddenly felt a tingling pain on both sides of his body, as if something was slowly emerging from inside. 、
Zuode's consciousness immediately entered the stone eye space to observe, and sure enough, a small swarm of insects' forefeet were "growing" out of Zuode's body chest at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What's going on? Do insects' limbs grow so fast? Wait, these ordinary insect forefeet are useless, they can't break through this egg wall! At least, they have to be as ...... as a crab's chelicera. Seeing that this pair of forefeet was about to take shape, Zuo De couldn't help but get anxious.
In the stone eye space, the forefeet on both sides of the insect's chest seemed to feel Zuode's thoughts, and the sudden change in the growth form of the forefeet began to widen and thicken, and it didn't take long for the outline of a pair of thick chelicerae to form.
"It's really changed the way I thought!, what's going on?" However, there was no time for Zode to marvel and sigh for the time being. Seeing that the new pair of chelicerae was about to take shape, Zuode suddenly had a new idea.
"No matter what, ordinary crab claws may not be very safe, and since I have this condition, I have to redesign this pair of chelera. Having experienced a lot of paranormal phenomena, Zod quickly realized that this was a good opportunity, and he planned.
"The bristles of the crab claws are completely useless to me, get rid of them. The shell is too thin and must be thickened! The tip is not sharp enough to pierce the wall of the egg. The edges of the upper and lower ends are too rough, and it is better to be able to transform them into the sharpness of a sword, and the serrations in the pincers ......" In this way, Zuode fell into a certain state of frenzy.
In the end, a pair of Zuode's imaginative chelicerae were finally "created" by him.
It's not so much a pair of specialized chelicerae as it is a special pair of chelicera. Under the manipulation of Zuo De's consciousness, the pair of front chelae the size of Zuo De's body look hideous and rough, the curved edges of the upper and lower ends seem to be sharp on both sides, the tip of the chelicerae is sharp and sharp, the chelicerae are thick and powerful, the serrations inside are also extremely sharp, and the thick chelicerae together can even cover most of Zuo De's body.
After admiring the pair of weapons, Zode suddenly felt that he had overlooked something. After thinking about it carefully, I found that I was too focused on transforming this pair of chelera, and the whole body was still in the form of the fat bug, with that pair of domineering chelae, how to look at it, how awkward.
"How can this problem not change here, it's too paranoid. No, the body has to be remodeled!"
However, just when Zuo De had just used his mind to grow four worm legs in his body, the feeling of manipulating the changes in his body at will suddenly disappeared. No matter how much Zuode concentrated, the wormfoot did not change.
"What's wrong, why did evolution suddenly stop?" Zod temporarily refers to this unnatural physical growth as "evolution." However, no one knew the answer, and in desperation, Zuo De had no choice but to leave the stone eye space, and when his consciousness returned to his physical body, he felt that the situation around him had changed a lot.
The viscous liquid that had tightly wrapped Zuode had all disappeared, and the wall of the egg, which had lost its support, covered his body weakly. And Zuode felt a terrible ache all over his body.
Zod had experimented a long time ago that when his consciousness was in the stone eye space, the physical body would lose all signs of life. No breathing, no heartbeat, not even body temperature – like a corpse. And this ability apparently helped Zode once again, allowing him to avoid the most painful moment of physical evolution.
The pain system of the insect body is obviously different from that of humans, and such a big physical change, even if it is residual pain, did not make Zuo De uncomfortable for a long time. Soon, he was a lot more relaxed. However, immediately afterward, a huge hunger pang arose, which made him feel so powerless that he could barely use the two newborn claws.
"No, I'm too weak! Damn, is that liquid egg? I should have thought a long time ago that the evolution of the physical body must have required energy, and it was impossible to evolve without limits. I've put too much energy into the chela, and it's obviously affecting the development of other parts of my body. Now that the egg is gone, I must go out at once and look for food or something, or I will die of weakness sooner or later. ”
With great difficulty, Zuode raised his chelate blade and stabbed it into the shriveled egg wall. The modification of the chela was indeed successful, the sharp surface of the blade easily pierced the wall of the egg, and then the pull of the other chelicerae quickly tore the wall apart. Then, Zuo Delian crawled out of it.