Chapter 7: The Multi-legged World
His thoughts drifted apart and diverged, and Bufan was very conflicted in his heart.
He now hopes that there are intelligent species in this world, the kind that can preferably communicate with each other, so as to satisfy his growing thirst for knowledge, and that this is a wild land where he can act freely and freely.
But in fact, there is no such thing as the perfect two worlds, let alone such diametrically opposed assumptions?
Fortunately, Bufan is not a utopian who likes to sit and talk, but a man of action who is accustomed to doing what he does, and after a short period of entanglement, he decided to go to the rocks and take a walk.
To survive in the wilderness, it is necessary to be cautious in everything, but it is also essential to give it a go!
In addition to a few wounds and some itching, Bu Fan felt that his strength had recovered a lot, and finally glanced at the neighbor, the giant bird couple were busy feeding the chicks in the nest, and they just glanced at his voyeurism with disdain, and then paid no more attention, but the indifferent demeanor made Bu Fan's heart chill.
He had no nostalgia for this seemingly peaceful environment, turned around and prepared to go down the tree.
Once you have the experience of going up the tree, there is no suspense about going back down.
When he reached the bottom of the tree, he found that the half of the scaly fruit he had pushed down the tree was left with an empty shell, and the flesh of the fruit was all devoured by the black beetle, and the corpse of the beetle that had been stoned to death had become mutilated—most of it had been torn apart and eaten by its kind.
Bufan walked closer, poked it over with a long pickaxe, and looked closely, only to find that this beetle had a whole hard shell on its back, not a flying membranous wing, and there were ten legs under the abdomen, plus the big claws in front of him, the total number was twelve!
Is this a multiplied version of the six-legged insect on Earth? Or is it a turtle shell that covers the bug?
Shaking his head, Bufan smiled at the boundless self-deprecation in his heart.
Finally, after looking around the stump that had been stopped for an unknown amount of time, and discerning the direction, he began to make his way towards the rocky belt under the high mountain.
Starting from the withered stump, after less than 400 steps, Bufan noticed that the situation around him was very different from before.
The trees are still the same, the leaves are still falling, the difference is that there are more insects, more birds, and occasionally a few strange beast roars......
Why?
Bu Fan looked back and found that it was no different, and after thinking about it, he could only attribute this anomaly to the empty beast sea urchin that had fallen into a deep sleep.
It's just that...... What did the sea urchin guy do? Or what kind of means did he use?
Is it a spell, is it soul coercion, or is it a spiritual magnetic field?
There is also no way to get an accurate conclusion, it has been experienced across time and space, and there is nothing unacceptable to some mysteries, Bufan can be regarded as completely letting go of his mind, the so-called science and metaphysics, in his opinion, are just different ways of expounding things, existence is truth, exists, he can accept it, and must accept it.
In fact, no matter what the Dead Sea Urchin did before, as it slumbered, everything began to wear out, as evidenced by the appearance of the black ten-legged beetle, who knows what the hell will crawl out after the beetle appears?
Where there is no wall everywhere, once you are tired and take a nap or something, you can't know that you will become the belly of some kind of monster in your sleep.
So Bufan had no choice but to choose to survive.
Of course, there are still some necessary preparations to be done before leaving. For example, a few large pieces of bark are cut from the dead tree, and then they are cut into suitable sizes with an electrician's knife, and then tied to the arms and calves with bark ropes, which can barely be regarded as wall guards and leg guards, but as for the chest and abdomen, there is no way to protect them, the bark is not a metal plate, and the holes are not tenacious.
In the end, he had to tie his belt tightly, and between his cargo pants and underwear, he tucked a piece of bark on his chest and back, which was considered the most basic defense.
This preparation was actually very sloppy, so it didn't waste much time, and after getting ready, Bu Fan, who was wearing a one-piece overalls and tied a circle of bark on his arms and legs, began to transfer without hesitation.
As you move forward, the thick layer of fallen leaves is still soft, but the number of species that you can see in your sight is clearly increasing.
Round, long, and triangular bugs with ten legs are just a small category of bugs, but there is also a variety of bugs with multiples of legs, which are the most abundant species in this tall jungle.
In addition, there are also the fluffy beasts the size of domestic cats that Bufan has seen before, and there are quite a few of them, originally in Bufan's impression, this kind of small beast is probably the most "normal" species, but when a small beast scurries past him without concealment, he finds that this species actually has six legs! And there is no sense of incongruity when running!
Oh my God, is this a multi-legged world?
Bufan continued with the doubts in his mind, and the world began to unfold at his feet.
Avoiding the insects that could be seen everywhere, he wandered around to an open area where the scales were a little sparse, and without the scaled leaves that covered the sky and the stars, the vegetation in this place was too large and luxuriant, and all kinds of plants and trees grew wildly, except for the most common green, all kinds of colors he could imagine, what blue leaves, black flowers, and even pink leaves matched with green flowers......
In addition, the thousands of hectares of open land, except for a few scaly trees scattered around, the rest of the place is full of various flowers and plants, low shrubs, random climbing vines, and most of all, weed-like clusters, but these clusters of grasses grow taller than the sisal of the earth......
However, plants do not move, they will dazzle people at best, and it is not they who can really catch people's attention, but a herd of huge "cows......
Well, let's call it a cow.
Bouvan stood on the slope on the outskirts of the open field, staring dumbfoundedly at the large group of monsters roaming in the grass, the youngest of them was the size of a black rhinoceros, and the largest of them was clearly the leader of the African elephant, no, it was very similar in height to the African elephant, but much longer because they had six legs! That is, the leader was the size of a half-African elephant!
The reason they are called cows is because they all have a pair of huge horns that are at least two meters long on their heads!
Unfortunately, apart from this feature, their faces have nothing to do with cows, with long faces, large mouth fissures, neat front teeth, small ears with enlarged nostrils and large eyes, and their body surface is not rough skin, but scales that are somewhat similar to those of the scale tree.
Let's call them six-legged cows, no one will object anyway, Bufan muttered in his heart.
As for whether everything that seemed strange before him was reasonable, who could tell? This was not Earth, and he reminded himself once again that this was not a place under the jurisdiction of God or God.
Looking through the open field where the six-legged cattle lived, and another scaly forest on the other side, Bufan didn't want to go straight through, but planned to go around the side as far as he could—a little farther away, but it was safer after all, and he didn't want to provoke the behemoths, nor challenge the creatures in the grass.
Buvan would rather go far than be obstructed by tall and messy blades of grass, just to gain time to react in front of all kinds of potential raiding indigenous species.
He did not make the slightest mistake in doing so, but nothing could have been done as he wished.
When he encountered a strange beetle, he chose to retreat, when he encountered a blue feather giant bird, he retreated, and when he encountered a six-legged cow, he also made a detour, and when he moved forward, he was afraid of making a mistake, saying that it was not an exaggeration to say that it was "sweeping the floor and fearing the life of the ants", but there was still something staring at him.
After rounding a swarm of black beetles, at the foot of a scaly tree, Bufan heard the sound of something speeding through the grass, ran a few steps to find a flat place, and when he looked back, he found that three fellows with wolf-like heads with six legs had also stopped more than twenty meters away from him.
The six-legged wolf-headed creatures barked softly at each other, as if discussing a predatory plan, but their eyes were staring at Bufan, fierceness and cunning on full display.
Although he didn't know the habits of these guys, Bufan knew that it was useless to run away, the nature of predators determined that they would never give up the food they saw easily, and running away could only put themselves in a passive position, and it would be impossible to resist until their physical strength was exhausted.
So, he picked up the long pickaxe in his hand and came directly to the three guys who were half a body longer than the steppenwolf.
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P.S. This book is a little newer, in order to make the story more real, so there is more foreshadowing in the previous article. The author is writing with 100% sincerity, rather than piecing things together, looking at this hard work, but also ask friends who like it to cheer more, if you can help recommend it to friends, it is great, thank you!