Chapter 399: Carnivorous
The "worker bees" found twenty-one plants in and around the village. More than half of them contain varying degrees of toxicity, and nine of them are acceptable to the human body. There are only two types of food that are best used as food.
This situation is not surprising. Just like many plants on the earth can be eaten, people don't even spare leaves when they are hungry. Willows, poplars, elms...... But leaves are not vegetables after all, and the bitter taste is difficult for the senses to accept. Of course, wild vegetables such as dandelions will be loved, but they will not become a dish that millions of city dwellers agree with.
The digestive system of evolutionary humans is much stronger than that of the average person. When it comes to toxin breakdown and energy gain, Su Hao and the "worker bees" have reached a frightening level. Even if a toxic substance is ingested, it does not enter the digestive system directly, but first stays in a pre-placed stomach pouch under the esophagus, where the potential toxin is analyzed and neutralized through an independent testing tube. If the level of neutralization is enough for the body to accept, this part of the chew can enter the digestive system. Otherwise, it will go directly to the excretion through another internal pipe.
After being injected with the beta evolution potion, both Su Hao and the "worker bee" felt that their bodies were different from before. Internal judgment of unknown food is only one of them, but more importantly, two new banded nerves that extend from the brain to the stomach.
They are actually part of the brain that connects the spinal cord between the cervical and thoracic vertebrae. Nerve endings are inserted directly between the spine and the stomach wall. Through the thinking judgment of the brain, memory management, experience preservation, and secondary identification of genetic material can be carried out. This ability is very special. Taking Su Hao as an example, in the state of raw food, if you eat a part of the body of an animal, you can absorb the main memory of this animal. This includes habits, surroundings, and other nearby species. It's not a simple matter of mind, it's a communication between cells and genes. Eating is no longer just about filling your stomach and getting energy, but about understanding and integrating with other species.
Haig's understanding of this aspect is much deeper than Su Hao's. In fact, after Su Hao ate the fish caught from the river, he had the idea of "Isn't Lao Tzu similar to Haig now".
Haig went from being a bug to a rat because it ate the flesh of the rat.
After Su Hao ate the fish, he had a clear understanding of the current of the river. The information obtained from the fish also includes a large and ferocious amphibian, which is supposed to be the natural predator of the fish, as well as tender aquatic plants, insects that often move near the water, and other small mollusks that live in the river.
Not all detected memories are useful. Regarding this fish, after the initial excitement, Su Hao actually really wanted to scold his mother.
The fish is four years old. It is female, having been by dozens of males of its kind. Well, in the way of human understanding, it is to be **** and ****. The female is happy with what happened to her. It means beautiful and strong. Otherwise, there won't be so many males who are interested in themselves and can't withstand the ferocious and savage insertion without foreplay.
The female has spawned, and it is not clear how many of them there are. However, this guy has a very bad habit, and the hunger after giving birth makes him feel very uncomfortable, so he eats a lot of eggs that have just been pulled out of his stomach. Of course, it does not eat all the eggs, but leaves some of them to develop, and then leaves irresponsibly on its own.
This is very different from the reproduction of fish on Earth. However, these memories are definitely not something to be happy about for Su Hao. He felt like he had been ****, penetrated the same, and then stupidly stayed in the water to give birth, and then ate his own child......
It feels peculiar. Su Hao also discovered this abnormality when he was eating breakfast.
His breakfast consisted of a puree made with Teucer flour and sock stirred, a high-energy compressed biscuit, and half a canned high-density compressed meat.
Teucer batter is a bit like the polenta on earth, with very little salt in it. The villagers of Molizaka are really not skilled in cooking, and the grayish and greasy color makes the batter look almost unappetizing. This thing feels like glue in the mouth, and some "worker bees" joke that this is simply someone's snot prepared in advance the night before, or simply the **** that monsters store in the mud and continue to ferment and grow.
The moment he swallowed the batter in his mouth, Su Hao had already noticed something completely different from usual.
He could feel the moisture and the scent of the soil, and could "see" Teucer, who was originally just a seed, slowly sprouting and growing in the soil. The poor guy had been bitten by small bugs and had even pulled several bubbles of on the stalks and leaves. When Teucer was ripe, it was broken off by the villagers of Molizaka, dried in the sun, and sent to a warehouse for storage.
Teucer's memories were kept alive until he was ground into powder under a stone mill. It was alive until that time. It is true that the life of plant seeds is more tenacious than that of animals, and humans are simply incomparable.
What really shocked Su Hao was the meat in the canned food that he brought from the earth.
It was an extrusion complex of pork, beef, and several pieces of mutated biological meat. This canned food is only supplied to the evolved "worker bees", without regard to taste, and all processing techniques are just to ensure that the food instinct can provide more energy. All kinds of meat raw materials have been dried before processing, and the water content is about 5%. The gravity extrusion of the machine makes the meat close and seamless between them, and ensures the meat content inside the tank to the greatest extent. The amount of meat consumed to make this canned food is about 20 times that of ordinary luncheon meat. But for Su Hao and the evolutionary "worker bees", it can only be regarded as a snack that is better than nothing.
The memories that come out of the cans are full of sadness and pain.
Su Hao "saw" the poor pig being grabbed by the mechanical arm from the farm, and said goodbye to his wife, that is, a sow, with tears in his eyes.
The beef in the cans is quite handsome. Well, that's certainly from a cow's point of view. It is very popular with other people of its kind in underground farms, and many cows secretly make waves of interest to it. The guy has smooth fur and is very strong, and always seems arrogant about the affection that comes from the cow. Perhaps because of the long period of separate feeding, this handsome cow actually fell in love with a neighbor of the same sex. But the guy didn't understand the love from the same sex. When the unrequited cow was grabbed from the pen and sent to the slaughtering line by the mechanical arm, it only felt an indescribable relief.
The memories of the mutated creatures' flesh chunks are messy. They still carry images of intermittent life in human times, as well as the horror of scattering and fleeing when a virus breaks out. They don't know what they do, why do they become monsters? I am also horrified by the changes that have happened to me. However, memories also include the instincts of mutated creatures. That is a special understanding of the word "food", reaching out for its claws, grabbing, biting, chewing on everything that seems to be edible.
This ability is really weird. Su Hao and all the "worker bees" who had been injected with beta medicine immediately released their thinking tentacles and visited each other's bodies. There's always a sense of guilt about seeing someone else's ****** up close, but now is clearly not the time to care. Su Hao saw the preset stomach in the other party's body, saw the new nerves connecting the gastric pouch and the spinal cord, and also saw the extremely developed nerve endings densely distributed inside the stomach pouch and protected by a thick mucosa.
This is the new ability that the Beta Evolution Elixir gave Su Hao. As early as when the plane crashed into the sea on Earth, Su Hao's comprehensive ability had far exceeded the limit of the alpha stage. The beta potion can make other "worker bees" stronger, but for Su Hao, it only further expands the scope of capacity. Including him, all the "worker bees" injected with beta grew two new stomachs overnight. This is the equivalent of an information finder that exists inside the human body. If you throw the target you are searching for as food, you will be able to get the memories that remain on the cells of the target.
Don't think that only the brain thinks, it stores information. Cells have the same abilities. Of course, cells are far less effective at storing memories than the brain. The memories that remain in the cells are very scattered, and the load is small, but it is not without reference value.
This new ability generated by the beta evolution potion made Su Hao suspicious of Haig. Not because of loyalty or relational aspects, but because of Haig. Its devouring is too similar to Su Hao's ability to eat foreign objects to gain memories. What they all have in common is the use of foreign cells and genes. So much so that Su Hao had to ask himself again and again: What is the relationship between Haig and the triangular pottery shard?
After all, there is no answer to the question. But Su Hao can be sure: Haig must be related to the intelligent beings who made the spar slabs. At the very least, there should be the same civilizational origins.
The four groups of "worker bees" who had gone out to explore returned to the village of Molizaka just before sunset. They were all attacked by mutants, but there were no casualties. Although the attackers were outnumbered, nearly three times more than the "worker bees", they were ruthlessly crushed by strong forces. The "worker bees" who went out to search brought back a large number of animal, plant, water and soil samples, as well as as thousands of mutant corpses.
The villagers of Moli Zaka were once again shocked.
For the first time in their lives, the villagers, including the old priest Veratla, had seen so many mutants killed. Among them, there are pig-shaped and cow-shaped people who are strong and large, and there are also agile creatures with short individuals. Most of them were killed by a single blow of a weapon such as a knife or gun, and some were smashed on the spot by a powerful force. The "worker bees" improvised trees to make poles, and dragged the booty back to the village.
On this day, it has become a festival in the village of Molizaka.
In my memory, the villagers never had a time when they could eat enough meat. Each villager was given a large pile of bone-in pieces of meat, and the rich aroma of broth wafted from each shack. When they saw the "worker bee" and Su Hao, the villagers' eyes softened, although they were afraid, but more respectful.
Dissection and examination are still ongoing. The search force brought back six new mutants. Judging by the characteristics of the head, it is very similar to tigers, leopards, crocandiles, antelopes, hippos, and hyenas on the earth.
The "worker bees" who had been injected with beta medicine each cut a piece of raw meat and tasted it carefully. Everyone's understanding of cellular memory from food is different. Infections such as bacteria and viruses are impossible. Evolutionaries have been unafraid of these injuries. What Su Hao needs most at present is to know where the mutants are? What exactly do they want to do?
"This is a life form that is very close to the intelligence of the villagers of Moli Zaka. They are more primitive than here, with a complete social hierarchy. Judge and have leadership based on whether you are strong or not. ”
"This guy just finished mating. Damn it! It four females in one go, and without even wiping their genitals, it ran out of the jaw and grabbed a mountain mouse and began to eat it. Oh! It's a terrible memory. What do I see...... This guy actually eats hair and together. Oh, my God! I can't stand it! ”
"They come and go freely in the mountains, connecting through sounds and smells. Not! This is a mutant who got the news and attacked us. It was deeply impressed by the scene before it died. Hehe! It was I who stabbed it in the heart with a gun, and it still retains its sense of fear for me to this day. ”
"They don't just feed on other animals, but also a small number of plants."
The atmosphere in the Pyramid Hall was very lively, and everyone gave detailed descriptions of their different food memories. From time to time, the crowd laughed loudly, some people looked depressed, and more people were lost in thought.
Su Hao cut a piece of meat from the leg of a cow-shaped mutant, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
Cells can't compare the memories they carry to the brain. There are a lot of broken block surfaces that can't be connected, and only a small number of intact parts. Su Hao "saw" this mutant's desire for flesh and blood, and it was completely **** with fresh meat and attacked the search force. The signal from the brain is very clear: kill these people and you will be fed.
The weapon on the left arm was indeed produced from the body. Regarding this, dozens of "worker bees" who had eaten pieces of mutant human flesh got the same memory. Mutants often devour dirt, and in this way they replenish the various elements needed in their bodies, which also causes a large amount of mineral deposits. These metal components cannot be excreted from the body, but accumulate at the end of the left arm through special bodily fluid transport. Over time, weapons of different appearances are formed.
The formation of external weapons has a lot to do with the mutant race. Tall, burly races are almost always heavy weapons such as axes and hammers. The long and narrow ones are dominated by guns and sticks. Agile mutants are mostly daggers, and some have hooks.
This is the perfect combination of biological cuticle and metallic substance. These weapons are incredibly hard, and when they wear out, they produce new additions from the body. The most wonderful thing is that if too many minerals are ingested into the body, beyond the scope of the weapon itself, it will produce a strange phenomenon of free shedding from a certain location. For example, if the tail of the hilt of the sword falls, a new piece appears in the original position.
Su Hao was noncommittal.
It is clear that the species on this planet are as controlled as they are on Earth.
Maybe the guess was wrong. The natural environment of this place and the earth is a coincidence. The odds of five million in two dollars are small, but not impossible. However, from the perspective of rigorous logical thinking, Su Hao does not believe in the so-called coincidences at all.
Of course, the deposition of metal elements and excretion from the body are not fake. In any case, it is not possible to follow a fixed pattern of weapons of the same shape on all mutants. In its natural state, irregular sediments should be formed. Only species of the same specification coming down from a production line will use short swords, spears, and hammers of the same shape.
They are almost exactly the same size and size. Su Hao compared the hundreds of mosquito-shaped mutants brought back by the search force. The daggers on their left arms were found to be identical in style and appearance. There are blood grooves on both sides of the sword body, and the blade is sharp, which has a lot of flavor like the Protoss infantry in the StarCraft game.
Mutants have no natural predators. They are the most powerful beings on this planet. This statement may be somewhat arbitrary, but it is a common memory that all "worker bees" that have eaten raw meat have obtained from the subject's cells.
They have a lot of memories and they are very messy.
There are no memories of the ocean or other sapient species. The cells recorded few fragments and not much information. Most of them are about the mountains, about the village of Molizaka, about the villagers who were killed by the mutants and eaten as food.
Mutants are also suffering from hunger. There is never enough meat to eat. Each villager corpse causes scramble, and even new killings within the mutants. No matter who it is, there has never been a time when they have been able to sit down and nibble on a human thigh or anything like that. It's gobbling up at any time, and it's a way to eat jujube at any time. If you don't eat quickly, you won't be able to rob others at all, everyone is staring at others while eating themselves, and the meat in their mouths has not yet been eaten, so they stretch out their paws to their companions next to them.
They never knew what humility was, and they didn't know what damn respect for the old and love for the young. There has never been a mutant in the group who is too old to move. That kind of waste simply can't live long, and is always killed in the fight for food. It's a good time to be happy because it means there's more meat to eat in your mouth, and the same goes for the same kind.
The mutant's biggest hobby is to compete to see who eats more and who eats faster. They can quickly swallow large amounts of food in a short period of time or they can not need to eat for a long time. It is this unique habit that makes them always attack the village of Molizaka every once in a while. After all, there is no need to risk when you are full. Although the taste of human flesh is good, it is not a **** that stands there stupidly and lets you bite and eat. What a damn respect for the old and love the young. There has never been a mutant in the group who is too old to move. That kind of waste simply can't live long, and is always killed in the fight for food. It's a good time to be happy because it means there's more meat to eat in your mouth, and the same goes for the same kind.
The mutant's biggest hobby is to compete to see who eats more and who eats faster. They can quickly swallow large amounts of food in a short period of time or they can not need to eat for a long time. It is this unique habit that makes them always attack the village of Molizaka every once in a while. After all, there is no need to risk when you are full. Although the taste of human flesh is good, it is not a **** that stands there stupidly and lets you bite and eat.