Chapter 12: Starfall Bugs
When communicating with the earth, Mo Lan's body did not lose consciousness, although she didn't know what the principle was, but she could indeed do multiple things at the same time without having the feeling of multitasking.
Originally, it was only necessary to drag back the corpses of the second unlucky six-eyed bear, but Mo Lan suddenly felt that she might be able to open a second base and expand her territory.
So he took Xiao Jiang and walked back, this time the six-eyed bear family was obviously not as arrogant as the previous one, the nest was just a small cave, compared to the three- or four-meter height of the six-eyed bear, it was extremely narrow, and it did not occupy the height and geographical advantage, and there were not many prey nearby.
But don't be in vain, Mo Lan doesn't dislike it, the four worker insects have already cleaned up the garbage inside, so she just went in and took a look.
At this look, Mo Lan's eyes narrowed instantly, and she turned around to look at Xiao Jiang who seemed to know nothing.
The three malnourished six-eyed bears were screaming, the strongest one was crawling towards the largest figure in the field of vision, and the other two front feet were also lying on the ground with their back feet, but there was no progress of one meter for half a day.
Little ginger, once again let the cubs go!
"Has he awakened his memory?" Shiqi asked in Mo Lan's ear, it knew what happened last time.
"No, its spiritual nodes are nothing." Mo Lan frowned tightly, if there is anything, it would be good to say, the problem is that she has checked it several times, Xiao Jiang's spiritual node is obviously very normal, it is the blank appearance of ordinary zergs, there is nothing special.
"Maybe it's instinct in the genes? Do not harm the weak. ”
Shiqi summarized his outdated information and helped Mo Lan make a judgment.
"How can there be such an instinct...... Mo Lan shook her head, the so-called instinct inherited from the genes refers to the behavior that is more conducive to survival without thinking about the body, and the second refers to the logic of the body's behavior in the face of a specific environment or a specific creature.
The former is like a baby feeding milk, the latter is like a fish swimming in the water, birds flying, and more complex is the camouflage of a chameleon.
It does not harm the weak, but it is just an ideological shackle imposed on one's own consciousness by human beings, a creature with ideology and morality, which violates the instinct of survival, and it is impossible to establish it without independent consciousness.
If in an enclosed space, without food, there is a young in front of you who is incapable of resisting, and a powerful beast, perhaps some people will choose to fight that powerful beast and strengthen their moral shackles.
But what if it is in an unconscious state, with no thought and no ability to think, relying only on instinct, what is the choice made?
Mo Lan shook her head, not thinking about such complicated things, if there was really something to do, wait for it to happen, pursed her lips, and her expression suddenly became more indescribable.
Xiao Jiang let go of the cubs after defeating the six-eyed bear's parents, but the four worker insects who were arranged to work here turned a blind eye to these cubs.
Mo Lan watched with her own eyes that the worker insects who were about to move the stones to another place naturally bypassed the six-eyed bear cub crawling on the ground as they passed by......
Mo Lan supported her forehead, it should be that when she left the two six-eyed bear cubs before, she gave an order in the spiritual network not to eat the cubs as food, and let these workers and insects also divide the three six-eyed bear cubs into the middle of the category that cannot be eaten, so they directly ignored it.
Is it really good that her group of zergs are so kind?!
It's just that these six-eyed bear cubs are alive in the end, and they have raised two before, and it makes no difference if there are three more, so Mo Lan no longer hesitates and asks Xiong Er to come over and pack them and bring them back.
Worker insects can also do this, they can easily carry things more than ten times their own weight, but for cubs that have just been born for more than a month, the hard shell of the worker insects is really not suitable for mounts, and most of Xiong Er's body is flesh and blood, so it is much more suitable.
Xiong Er has been idle since he hatched, Mo Lan thought about it for a while, it is okay to let Xiong Er do some work, although there is no exaggerated carrying ability of worker insects, but it is still okay for Xiong Er to move an object that weighs several times his own, and she can't let her raise idle insects to eat dry rice.
As for hunting, because the large prey has fled to other places, the rest are mostly small and flexible creatures, but Xiong Er has gained great strength, and he is not flexible enough in terms of speed, which is far less useful than soldier insects and spider insects.
To sum up, it is still cost-effective to dry handling.
Looking around, Mo Lan reluctantly lifted the thin armor on the spider's butt again, placed a new combination of decay film and hatching nest, recycled the corpses of the two six-eyed bears into a little more than nine parts of energy, and hatched three soldier insects, two spider insects and four worker insects, which will be her second stronghold from now on.
Mo Lan walked out of the cave again, the sky had darkened, huge stars twinkled in the sky, this was the first time she had seen the night on a different planet, this planet is not similar to the earth in that its rotation time is not twenty-four hours, but thirty-six days, that is, eighteen consecutive days of day and eighteen days of night.
Or maybe the time on this planet is completely different from that on Earth, but Mo Lan is used to using the time on Earth to record.
The six-eyed bear has three pairs of eyes, which is not a reason why the nights here are too long, after all, losing the ability to see at night is equivalent to trapping himself in a rather dangerous situation.
Fortunately, there is no effect on the Zerg at night, and there are even a lot of bonuses, and Mo Lan's vision in the dark is still clear.
There was a silver shimmer at the top of the Kahur tree, as if it had been pasted with sequins, and against the background of the stars in the sky, it seemed like a milky way flowing on the ground.
"What's that?" Mo Lan exclaimed, this scene was so beautiful, she had to take a screenshot and put it on the forum to show the group of people.
"Starfall bugs, insects like the stars in the sky fall, can absorb plenty of sunlight during the day and shine at night." Shiqi gave an explanation.
"Sounds like fireflies." Mo Lan thought of the little bugs on the earth.
"But in reality, that's just a means for them to catch their prey."
Shiqi motioned for Mo Lan to take a look.
An unknown bird flew by, pointed at one of the glowing light sources, and took it in its mouth.
The leaves swayed, and several long tentacles burst out of it, wrapping the bird tightly around itself and sending it into the dark maws of the leaves.
"It's just a little ornament on it that glows." Shiqi showed Mo Lan the real picture of the starfall worm.
It was a sarcoma-like creature covered in tentacles, with their mouthparts in the middle, which could expand to the size of their entire body, and the glowing parts were part of those tentacles, which could absorb and release light like fluorite at the tip.
They will place the tips of their glowing soft tentacles on leaves, disguised as the light emitted by leaves or small insects, and when prey of similar size approaches, they will use the tentacles next to them to quickly tie up and devour the prey.
If the prey is too large, it will also cleverly break its tentacles to protect itself.
Mo Lan's expression was a little disillusioned, she thought that the creature like a firefly was actually a tentacle monster! Damn, there really are tentacle monsters on this planet!
"They pick a tree at a very young age and hide in the canopy of the tree to grow and develop with the tree." Shiqi spoke slowly, finding the part it wanted from the vast sea of data.
"Unlike other insects that parasitize plants and survive by absorbing their own nutrients, the star fall insect is a creature that only uses the companion tree as a simple dwelling."
"Their life and death will not have any effect on the companion tree, whether it is harm or benefit."
"It's like a falling star, a flash of light, but it doesn't leave any trace."
Mo Lan blinked, and her disgust with the tentacles suddenly dissipated a little, only a little.
"Are Starfall Bugs powerful?" Mo Lan looked up, and the position she was in was a relatively thin clearing of the Kahur tree, so she could see the tip of the crown of the Kahur tree, which was hundreds of meters high.
At such a high position, climbing up a tree from below seems to be a complete gift, and flying over it will be caught and devoured like that bird, so isn't it very strong.
"Why do you think so?" I was puzzled, it didn't seem to say that the starfall insect was very powerful.
"Uh......" Mo Lan was about to speak, when she saw that suddenly a group of birds flew from nowhere, and flew towards the starfall insects that had just been exposed, the leaves swayed, and a group of birds rushed in to eat a big feast, and those that didn't leave a trace flew away again.
Mo Lan was shocked, no, didn't she kill her alone just now?
"The starfall insect itself is very fragile and can only face a single prey, and prey beyond its ability will turn into predators."
"Moreover, at such a high height, the starfall insects will fall to their deaths when they fall, which may be the reason why they choose a companion tree and don't replace it."
The Starfall Worm's entire life is spent only in the canopy of the tree it has chosen.
Mo Lan didn't know what to say, but she was full of respect for the unknown world, not only the earth, but also the other world has more and more wonderful life existences.
"It's amazing nature." Mo Lan sighed.
“……”
Mo Lan noticed that Shiqi was looking at herself, and seemed to have something to say, so she blinked, "Is there anything else?" Pick up the qi. ”
"Don't you think the Starfall Worm is a good fit?" Shiqi paused, and luck took on a little complication.
"Suitable for what?"
Mo Lan thought for a moment, clueless.
"Isn't your Zerg lacking more powerful combat power?" Shiqi re-released the information of the Starfall Worm.
"Starfall insects themselves are insects, and the genetic compatibility with the Zerg is very high, and there should be no difficulty in simply fusing the genes, but it can directly improve the combat ability of the Zerg and solve your most important problem of hatching energy shortage."
The Zerg Queen turned out to be me! Mo Lan covered her face, she, the queen of the Zerg, didn't think of this at all, the most suitable for the Zerg had to be the insect life.
But......
"Tentacle bleating!"