[In July of the fourth year, the sea temperature rises, and the right water temperature makes you feel the arrival of the breeding season, and instinct drives you to do something. 】

Zhao Meng hid in the mud and sand at this time, feeling the restlessness coming from his body.

The reason why he was curious about the way the creature reproduced,

Or is it because the creature is almost incapacitated when it reaches adulthood?

Both male and female geoducks have no ability to move other than the ability to burrow into dirt and sand.

"In this state, the previous competitive reproduction process will not happen."

"Do you have to stay where you are?"

"And cloud heredity is a principle?"

With doubts, Zhao Meng patiently waited for the arrival of time,

……

A bright moon slowly rises from the seashore, for the creatures of the sea.

The tidal forces caused by the change of the moon phases are often the most important moments in the life of marine life.

At this time the tide rises, the beach is flooded by the tide, and the bottom of the submerged water is full of geoducks.

From soft to hard, from 6 cm to 18 cm, all kinds of mussels, both male and female at the moment of the full moon, begin to breed together.

For a while, there was a skirt-like wave on the beach, and without human influence, the wave slowly receded towards the sea.

"And so it was!"

Zhao Meng, who had completed his mission, shrank back again,

The reproduction process of geoduck is somewhat similar to that of sunfish.

But because of its physique, the clouds released by geoducks are far less massive than those of sunfish.

"It's another kind of cloud inheritance!"

"Wait!" Looking at the waves that gradually drifted away, Zhao Meng suddenly recalled the process of sunfish breeding.

"No, it's not going to be that simple!"

The sunfish will only release clouds when they are very close, but even then, the survival rate of the sunfish's offspring is still terrible.

But geoduck releases less clouds than sunfish, and the distance between each geoduck is also unevenly distributed, and the time for releasing clouds and mist is short.

The whole breeding process is less reliable than that of the sunfish, but the actual reproduction effect is far better than that of the sunfish.

"If geoduck's reproduction process is similar to that of cloud genetics, its population size should not be this large."

"Could it be that there is something unique about the geoduck clouds?"

Zhao Meng muttered, a little puzzled,

After all, he doesn't have a microscope now, and it is impossible for him to observe the state in those microscopic environments, so he can only continue to simulate.

[In March of the sixth year, after continuous eating, your shell length reached 18 cm]

"Finally grown to this physique."

Zhao Meng didn't know why, but he was happy that the object had grown to such a value, as if he had reached a new milestone.

[In October of the ninth year, after continuous eating, the length of the shell reached 21 cm]

"Growth has slowed down!"

Zhao Meng felt his physical condition, compared the growth values of the past two years, and came to such a conclusion.

[In the twelfth year, you continue to grow, and the shell length reaches 22 cm]

Zhao Meng has become even bigger, and the effect of this is that he has a higher chance of survival.

The growing size of his body also allows him to burrow deeper into the ground and avoid more dangers.

Although there are predators that harass him from time to time, he can also calmly make some responses when facing these predators.

[In the fifteenth year, your shell has reached 24 centimeters in length]

"It seems that this geoduck is a long-lived creature."

Zhao Meng can feel that his body is still in the growth stage, and aging is still a distant thing for him.

[In the sixteenth year, you were attacked by predators, and the length of your shell changed to 21 centimeters]

"Tsk! Just an inch or two. ”

Zhao Meng calmly discarded the 'round head' above, and his whole body retracted into the mud.

I felt that there was an unknown big bird outside, pecking at the regular head of the pig's nose that I had discarded,

Zhao Meng secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "I almost overturned!" ”

The life of following the rules made Zhao Meng a little relaxed, making him forget that he was still in the cruel natural world.

Even if it is buried underground, most of the dangers are avoided.

But he also needs to poke his head out to eat, and if he is not careful, it can still endanger his life.

"Eat a trench and grow a wisdom!" Zhao Meng muttered, and once again immersed himself in the review of the immortal cultivation exercises.

[In the twenty-sixth year, the length of your shell has grown to 27 centimeters]

It's been ten years since the last crisis,

During this time, Zhao Meng has been living a cautious life, and he has not lost his head of rules anymore.

"This animal seems to be exceptionally stable!"

Zhao Meng, who was buried in the sand, experienced another benefit of geoduck, which did not need to be hunted, so that Zhao Meng could immerse himself in the study of the number of infants with peace of mind.

"It's a pity that the situation in reality is unstable, otherwise through the accumulation in the simulation, coupled with the accumulation of Jiayao and Xixi Lake, the construction of Yuanying can also be completed, and the control of cultivation can be fully automated and intelligent."

"But even if you break through the Yuan Baby, you can't change much about the situation in reality."

"It depends on the entry."

Thinking back to the process of simulating geoduck in the past few decades, Zhao Meng secretly thought about what entries could be obtained from this animal.

"There should be something special about the clouds of elephant pulling, and you may be able to see it when the entry is published!"

[In the forty-seventh year, through constant eating, your shell has reached 38 cm in length]

"Another twenty years have passed!" Zhao Meng saw the prompt text of the system and secretly sighed.

"Although I haven't been able to feel the geoduck enter old age."

"But geoduck has grown very slowly, and it can't be said to have reached some kind of limit."

[In the sixty-fifth year, the length of your shell has reached 41 centimeters]

"It can still grow!"

Looking at the prompt of the system, Zhao Meng was a little surprised in his heart, such a size has reached a very terrifying value, and he can be said to be thick and big at this moment.

[In the ninety-first year, the length of your shell has reached 52 centimeters]

"Hiss~half a meter!"

"It's incredible."

"It's hard to imagine this structure if it were changed to a human body?" Feeling the unique body structure of the geoduck, Zhao Meng unconsciously popped up such an idea in his mind.

"Fortunately, the growth has largely stopped, and it seems that the subject of my simulation this time is about to enter old age."

[In the first hundred years, your body tissues can continue to recover, but your neural structures begin to die.] 】

"I lived for a hundred years!"

This simulation was a bit long, which made Zhao Meng's mental consciousness a little numb.

But when he saw that the simulation time had reached a hundred years, his spirit still shook, and after simulating so many animals, it was the first time he had lived for a hundred years.

Geoduck has a strong ability to heal itself, and even if it is cut off from the root, it still has the possibility of recovery.

"It's a pity that the nerve cells in the geoduck can't continue to be reborn, and the life span will eventually come to an end."

[In the first hundred and third year, your nervous structures continued to die, and you experienced symptoms of difficulty eating. 】

"I'm going to die!"

Zhao Meng inhaled the surrounding seawater, and with his last strength, let the body fluid fill the half-meter-long pipe.

But he was old after all, and the pipe struggled to separate the blackened dirt above and slowly drill out.

At this moment, it was the time of the ebb tide, and he should not have come out, but for some reason, he still made an effort,

On the silent beach, a blackened cylindrical tubular object sticks out.

The next moment, a stream of seawater gushed out from it, and the seawater spread out in the air, forming a faint rainbow.

And the pipe, which was still strong, collapsed on the beach.

The seabirds hovering in the air landed one after another, tearing and fighting for the pipe.

A huge mussel was pulled out of a nest that had not been touched for hundreds of years.

Fortunately, Zhao Meng couldn't perceive all this, and at this time, Zhao Meng's consciousness had returned to his body.

……

In the illusory space, the phantom of the huge human head and snake tail flickered slightly.

cleared the twilight brought out by Zhao Meng's body for a hundred years, and the past was like a dream, which only existed in his memory.

Although the human head phantom cleared the geoduck's influence on him, the huge memory still made him get used to it for a while before he came back to his senses.

"The simulation went well! In addition to the need for multiple restarts at the beginning, the rest is not very difficult. ”

"It's time to extract the entries, too."

Zhao Meng, who had completed the simulation, did not hesitate, and after softening down a little, he entered the virtual space and began to extract entries.

Zhao Meng touched the colorful stick holder flickering in front of the phantom with his consciousness, and a purple light appeared in front of Zhao Meng:

[Broken Root Rebirth (Purple) (Calmly Lose the Tube) (Rebirth and Growth)]

"You can abandon protruding parts of your body to lure enemies, and the parts you lost after escaping danger can be reborn."

……

"It's purple, but it looks good!"

Zhao Meng recalls some of the crises he experienced when he simulated geoducks, even though they usually hide in the dirt and sand and are not disturbed by predators.

But he still needs a probe to eat, but as long as he probes, he will definitely be targeted by some predators.

In order to retract the body, the head of the geoduck can be discarded at any time.

"But the so-called head of the geoduck is actually its mouth."

"There is no point in human beings losing their mouths."

"According to the definition of the entry, it is possible to throw out the protruding part, so what does the protruding part refer to?"

"Head, limbs, or other parts!"

"If you follow the topology, there are still a lot of protrusions on the human body."

Looking at the content of this entry, Zhao Meng thought of a lot of questions for a while,

But in any case, the effect of the entry of broken roots and rebirth is very useful, and Zhao Meng is a little moved.

"Don't worry, let's extract the rest of the entries first."

Zhao Meng's consciousness moved and touched the colored light stick holder in front of the human head snake tail phantom, and a light blue light appeared in front of him:

【Hidden Bottom (Blue)】

"When you're underground, there's a chance to avoid detection."

"Hmm...... This entry! ”

Looking at the introduction of the entry, Zhao Meng groaned for a moment, and then shook his head gently,

This entry looks like a good hidden entry, but unfortunately, it's just a probabilistic immune probe.

In his previous life, in the affairs that Zhao Meng had been exposed to, everything that was linked to probability would bring him some misfortune.

"Go ahead!"

This entry was not within his consideration, Zhao Meng continued to touch the sticker, only to see a golden light burst out of the stick, and slowly fell in front of him:

"Sure enough, it's another withdrawal!"

As the golden light dissipated, Zhao Meng looked at the content of the entry, but his face was puzzled:

"What does this entry mean, and why can't I understand it?"

【Rapids (Golden) (controllable) (configurable) (auto-pathfinder) (auto-identify)]

"Your clouds will be unique and will fit into your own goals."

……

"What do you mean?" Zhao Meng read the explanation of the entry twice, but still had some doubts.

"Wait, the golden entries are all related to reproduction, do you ......"

He suddenly remembered one thing he hadn't figured out in the simulation,

The geoduck breeding cloud concentration is much smaller than that of the sunfish, the location of the geoduck is also disorderly, and the coast is also more abundant plankton, and the breeding environment of the geoduck is much more complex than that of the sunfish.

In this case, the geoduck is much more productive than the sunfish.

Thinking of this, Zhao Meng looked at the entry again, and a little abruptness appeared in his heart

"Could it be that the clouds and mist, which were originally ordinary, will be endowed with some kind of attribute?"

"There's a sign of automatic pathfinding on the entry."

"This geoduck cloud will not be able to find the nearest target like humans!"

Looking at the explanation of the entry, Zhao Meng secretly made some kind of guess.

"If you had a microscope, you would be able to observe the characteristics of geoduck clouds, but unfortunately I don't have this opportunity."

"So which entry should you choose?"

Zhao Meng looked at the three entries floating in front of him and groaned.

The blue entry was eliminated by him without much thought, and his hesitation was only on [Re] and [Rapids].

Fortunately, this hesitation did not last long, and Zhao Meng made a choice.

If it were him who had just crossed over,

He prefers to choose entries with "Rebirth".

But after going through so many things, especially on the fairy boat, seeing those beings with divine seeds will be affected by his entry.

At this moment, the Divine Seed was already an important part of his strength.

"The [Courageous] entry can change the characteristics of the god seed, and it may have a miraculous effect on the current situation."

With such an idea, Zhao Meng chose the golden entry of [Yongjin].

With Zhao Meng's selection, the remaining two entries returned to the phantom, and the golden entry was fixed in his consciousness.

Zhao Meng glanced at this golden entry and was about to withdraw from the virtual space, but when his gaze swept over the new entry that had been fixed, he suddenly stopped.

He noticed that next to the new entry, there was also the entry that was drawn last time.

Looking at this entry, and then looking at the newly extracted entry, Zhao Meng unconsciously popped up an idea in his heart:

These two entries ...... Looks like they can be used together! ”

"That Jiao Xiao Xianzhou is discussing how to deal with me."

(End of chapter)