208. Change
The leopards are away from the herd because of the three cubs, and the migrating herd is large enough and has more food, but it also means more danger.
Although they are not yet enlightened, their survival experience as beasts means that they will not be easily exposed to the sight of other beasts with their cubs.
You know, the survival rate of cubs in the wild is very low, and half of this is due to the killing of other beasts, whether predators or prey.
At the cub stage, they are as fragile as the grass on the side of the road, and anyone who comes over can nibble and step on it.
A newborn beast cub can't even beat a rabbit, let alone face other animals.
Therefore, the two leopards did not dare to approach the migration team with their cubs at all, and they could only follow cautiously from a distance.
Most of the spirit beasts can easily solve the mutant centipede, but ordinary animals don't have this strength, and the targeted animals will not only be eaten by the centipede in one bite, but the poisonous gas coming out of the bloody mouth will also poison the nearby animals a lot.
For a time, the ordinary herd suffered heavy losses.
Fortunately, the mutant centipedes only have survival instincts and no intelligence, and when they are full, they retreat back into the ground.
The slain centipedes and the remaining poisoned animals were not approached, let alone eaten.
Animals are very sensitive and fearful of poison.
Just like Lin Qian, their spirit beasts arbitrarily divided their own areas, moving forward without any scruples.
However, most of the animals in the migration team are ordinary animals, and they are all like the leopard family, following the rules of nature and living carefully.
Even though the current migratory beast herd has gathered thousands of beasts, the spirit beasts are still a minority, and there are not even a hundred.
This is probably the most realistic state of life, and the top ones are always very few, whether they are wild beasts, plants, or humans.
Of course, whether it is the hardships of ordinary beasts or the disasters that humans are facing, none of this matters to the tigers.
Until the mutant vines can eat centipedes, and there are benefits, Tiger Dad took the vines everywhere to pick up corpses.
Fortunately, no animal will eat this thing to find death when the mutant centipede is poisonous, and the tiger father went to a quasi, and the vines drank tons and tons of painful drinks, and directly absorbed more than a dozen mutant centipedes, and none of them fell.
The soaked mutated vines doubled in size even the vine balls, and the whole vine shimmered with a glowing green light, like a short-circuited light bulb.
Lin Qian used his spiritual sense to do several physical examinations on the vines inside and out, confirming that the mutated vines were indeed fine.
This mutant centipede is indeed different from ordinary animals, the vines are very smoothly absorbed and the conversion rate is also high.
This thing just drank too much, and the spiritual power overflowed a little, which was the uncontrollable flash.
In layman's terms, it's drunk.
Lin Qian was also speechless, can you still get drunk if you smoke a centipede? When to drink?
Sure enough, plants are different from our animals. With some emotion, a tiger cub threw away the rattan ball, and suddenly missed the drink.
Tiger Dad picked up the glittering rattan ball and carefully placed it in the basket. Big tigers are rare, and more than once they feel that they have a unique vision.
Tiger eyes just glanced at the cub, but saw Lin Qianqian bowing his head, the big tiger was a little dumbfounded, what's wrong, the tiger just glanced at you, why do you look like this?
Are you going to let the tiger be beaten by your two mothers?
As soon as Tiger Dad put away the rattan ball baby in a complicated mood, a fluffy tiger claw next to him poked in.
Tiger Dad was startled, and exhaled when he saw that the big white tiger didn't look at it.
Before, my mother was not interested in mutant vines, just waiting to eat the fruit.
Now, this flashing thing really makes the big white tiger like it.
The glittering rattan ball was thrown away by the little mother, and the tiger's paws slapped it against the rattan ball, and his eyes were full of light.
Tiger Dad was worried watching from the sidelines, the first hand of the Tiger King wouldn't be abolished like this, right?
Soon, Courage and Lin Qian also joined the queue to play rattan balls, and the three tigers were in a hurry to pass the ball, and the thieves were happy.
Well, these three tigers seem to have the potential of football players.
The mutant vine felt very tethered, and while it was trying to transform the absorbed energy, it also had to be careful not to be kicked too far when it was not caught, otherwise it was afraid that the three tigers would lose it.
Although it can roll on its own, it definitely doesn't have the ability to find a tiger! The red panda saw that the tigers were having fun, and they joined in with a snort.
Eventually, the mutant vines were kicked like soccer balls until the morning sun rose and the herd stopped.
The rattan balls, which were no longer shining, found a corner that could get the sun and planted them immediately, and the poor vine branches clinged to the big tree, for fear of being tossed again.
Big Tree: Big brother, you should consider my feelings!
When the chipmunk saw that the vine had taken root, he immediately dutifully poured a bamboo tube of water.
In fact, the vine can reach into the bamboo tube and suck it directly, but after all, people are plants, and they prefer to be watered.
The chipmunk has no problem with this, it respects the habits of the mutant vines and takes care of them delicately every day.
Well, just water it though.
Seeing that the flower bags bloomed twice as much as yesterday, the chipmunks immediately squeaked and called to share the good news.
Don't look at the mutant vines have been flowering for a long time, and the flowering process is so slow that the beast wonders if it can eat the fruit.
Lin Qian looked at the flower bag that had already opened a layer of petals, and his eyes also showed joy, and he communicated with the vines, knowing that it was after absorbing the benefits of the mutant centipede last night, Lin Qian suddenly felt a little moved.
The digestive energy of the mutant vines has become stronger?
Why don't you catch some animals to "fertilize"?
This thought just arose, and it was instantly extinguished in the following inquiry.
Only animals that contain heavy rain energy like mutant centipedes can have such great benefits to mutated vines, ordinary animals cannot, and the cost of transformation is still very large.
Lin Qian smashed his mouth in disappointment, sure enough, it was the mutant insect that could provide enough benefits to the mutated vines.
It's a pity that this mutant insect is rarer than mutant plants, so I can only hope that next time I can encounter an easy-to-deal insect group like a mutant centipede.
If it's like an ant colony...... Thank you for not being sensitive.
After this time, Lin Qian has new data on insect mutation, whether it is an ant group or a centipede group, it appears as a group, indicating that the mutation of insects is most likely the direction of group evolution, rather than the evolution of individuals like animals and plants.
Of course, the problem of group evolution may only be affected by the energy of heavy rain, and perhaps there are individuals in the insects who have slowly evolved through the accumulation of aura, but Lin Qian has not encountered it yet.
But this does not prevent him from speculating, and if he encounters a new situation later, he can update it.
Records and speculation can't affect anything, this is just Lin Qian's own database, because he has not yet had contact with humans, so Lin Qian can only collect some information by himself in case of emergency.
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There are more and more migratory beasts on the continent, and they continue to move forward and converge one after another.
Half a month after their departure, Lin Qian's team reached the first major river basin heading south.
Looking at the depleted riverbed, with only a stream of water less than one meter left, Lin Qian's eyes showed worry.
On the map this river is a famous river, which has nurtured countless creatures in the basin, and now, it is like an old man who is struggling to breathe, weak and powerless, and can dry everything by the scorching sun at any time.
Ordinary animals don't have so many ideas, and the moment they see the water, they rush up to the parched riverbed, trample the only small stream of water, and then drink frantically to quench the thirst of their long-thirsty bodies.
In the past ten days, it is not that no water source has been found on the road, but almost all of them have been exhausted, and the creeks and lakes have long been unable to withstand the scorching sun.
Fortunately, herbivores are able to replenish water from plants, otherwise I am afraid that countless creatures will have to fall along the way.
Of course, there are still a lot of animals that have been sunburned to death on the road, and those beasts hardly have to take the initiative to hunt every day, just wait for the prey in the team to fall down automatically.
However, the days of easy access to food did not make the beasts very happy, knowing full well that the mass death of herbivores boded a terrible future.
But they are powerless, not only for them, but also in the face of the forces of nature, spirit animals, and human beings. Of course, that's not the worst thing.
Lin Qian noticed a hint of change in the forest by the river.
The plants on the banks of the river were sunburned and dried so much that they were almost half of them.
Looking at the various hoof prints on the ground, Lin Qian knew that in addition to the animals that used to live nearby, there were also many migratory teams that had come to this big river.
Before them, the area had already received several waves of guests, and these guests had swept the rain-moistened vegetation.
The newly grown branches and leaves of the plants are not rich in heavy rain energy, and they can no longer face the scorching sun wantonly, and they will meet the end of withering.
This discovery made Lin Qian's heart tighten.
Along the way from the basin, their team had not encountered any other herds, so they had not found such a situation along the way.
But now, encounters are essential, and food, too, loses its lush energy due to the fact that the vegetation has been eaten several times.
At that time, it will be very difficult for herbivores to forage for food, and this result will directly affect them as a result!
Tiger dads and tiger moms also see changes in vegetation, and they share common concerns with their experienced experience in the wild.
Not only them, but also some older common beasts have also been discovered.
The herd of elephants gave up their intention to rest in place, and they chose to set off again, despite the migration procession.
Then the herds of beasts kept up and continued their journey, and the herds that had been planning to rest were soon regrouped again.
In such a situation, no animal wants to be left behind, and the wise ones know to hurry and get ahead of the rest of the migrants.
And those who are not smart enough also know how to judge the situation, they will closely follow the team, follow the more powerful beasts, and will never let themselves be left behind.
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When the sun rises, the coastline has the same scorching sun.
The humans of Linhai City have all been evacuated, and almost all the weapons and supplies that can be activated have been taken away.
And at this moment, this once extremely prosperous city will be occupied by a group of uninvited guests.
The calm waters began to surge, and one by one the black, scaly monsters emerged from the water and took to the shore.
If you look closely, these strange monsters are all characteristic of sea creatures, such as fish, turtles, and even crabs and shrimps.
Fish didn't evolve legs, but they were larger and softer, and they snaked like snakes, not as fast as other sea creatures with limbs.
A huge returnee carrying a pitch-black turtle shell on its back, leaving a deep pit with every step, obviously heavy, but its speed was not as slow as before, and although it still did not stand out among the alienated sea creatures, it had no problem catching up with the running humans.
When the dense sea beasts walked into the empty sea city, they could not find food, they could not have a big meal, so they roared angrily, and pushed forward angrily, as if they would not stop until they found enough food to eat enough.
There are no spirit beasts in these evolutionary sea creatures, but there are individual powerful individuals, their breath is as special and powerful as the spirit beasts, obviously, the strength of these creatures is not worse than the spirit beasts.
But their intelligence is clearly not, there is no intelligence in their dark red eyes, not even Qingming. They are a bunch of monsters that fight, creatures that have lost their minds like Warcraft.
And such creatures cover almost the entire ocean.
At this time, the retreat party of Rinkai City was still heading inland, and they headed towards the location of Kyoto, the closest first-tier city to them, and the only city that had the hope of receiving such a large number of people.
Don't look at the people in the city who set off in batches, but the teams are connected, they can't contact any city, so naturally they have no way to ask for help, so they can only find a way out by themselves.
The party has now arrived in a small, deserted city where there are no survivors. Because the people who survived before were all heading towards Linhai City, they probably didn't expect that they had tried their best to escape and now they were back, and they were all fleeing for their lives.
Temporary garrison of the army of Linhai City.
"Report! Received, received the signal! One of the messengers excitedly entered the tent where the meeting was taking place, and he even stammered in excitement.
The officers, who were still worried, stood up in unison, and then trotted out.
Rinkai Castle has been trying to restore communications since the disaster, but I don't know why.
Their research department has not been able to find any information, and even the military department's receiver has not received any information since it was repaired.
They kept sending out messages, but they all went to waste. Although they have the intention to detect, but in the current situation, they do not have this technology, and it is their luck to be able to repair some basic equipment.