4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 246 Primitive Squid Tribe
It was another night shrouded in darkness, and the small creatures struggling to survive in the canyon began to move quietly again.
It is called 'Ika', it is the leader of the community, it has wisdom, it has power, it is a symbol of the future!
The headworm said so, in fact, the name "Ika" was also derived from the headworm.
Ika led the group to get a lot of shark meat by the puddle to solve the food problem, but the water in the puddle is now less and less, originally one meter deep and three meters wide space, after they eat most of the shark , Also shrunk by more than half ...
Although ancient squids hunt in groups, they usually don't like to be crowded together. Facing a smaller and smaller space, ancient squids are only ten centimeters in length, but they are also beginning to be restless because of crowding.
They all felt that death was approaching, and faced with this situation, Ika had to come up with a new way—to leave here.
Water is needed to leave the puddle to ensure that it does not dry out. Thinking of this, Ika held the sharp stone again to the shark carcass on the shore, and cut the shark skin with the stone.
Ika wrapped the cut shark skin around her body and also covered the gills. It found that it could effectively prevent water loss, but it was not suddenly thought, but it recalled cutting into the shark body. When it comes to meat, the moisture will be released very slowly.
It may not know that the air can take away water, but if it knows that something is covering it, the water will stay there.
The head bug said this: "Ika, the behavior is interesting, the intelligence is shown, it is worth observing, and eliminating boredom."
Afterwards, Ika took the skin back to the puddle and gave it to other companions. The same kind of people saw Ika dragged back to a piece of shark skin. They didn't understand what it meant at first, but they avoided it because of the shark skin. It seemed a bit scared.
The ancient squid would actually reject the companion with abnormal behavior, while the head worm almost issued a "reject abnormal, stupid behavior, and obliterate the opportunity to learn."
Ika was puzzled by her companion. It dropped the shark skin and began to change color. It seemed to want to explain what the companion looked like, but its companion didn't seem to understand much, and still shrank to do nothing.
Then Ica had no choice but to start doing nothing, just like her companions, dazed in the puddle.
After all, their brains are not big and they can't give too much expectation. Now there is at least a lot of water in the puddle. They may want to wait for the sky to rain, or they are destined to die in this puddle ...
This does not seem to be the case.
After day and night, the water in the puddle is getting less and less. Now the water in the puddle is only one meter wide and only about 10 centimeters deep. The ancient squids can no longer stand upright in the water. They are now starting More and more panicked, some even started to run out, but when they found out that they were facing endless dryness, they fled back immediately.
At this time, Ika came forward again. It grabbed a piece of shark skin that was dropped at the time, and put it on a similar body, and let it try to climb out of the puddle again ...
Only then did it know that the leader of Ika thought.
Along with this, Ika asked several companions to try to bring the shark skin out. At this time, the entire group began to understand that they came to the shark carcass again and cut out a good size shark skin for each companion.
Although the shark's body has long been cracked, if they take the skin back and soak in the water, there will be no problem.
After each companion was dressed, it was finally time to go!Ika must lead their fellows out of the puddle to another location.
What is another place?Of course, there is more water, and more food if possible.
Ica thinks so, but before he finds such a beautiful place, it needs to advance through this dangerous canyon ...
Ika slowly emerged from the water, and he looked away from the puddle.
After crossing the bodies of sharks, it is a strange world to them. Under the sky irradiated by the hot sun, there are rock fragments like mountains and peaks, and the dry ground is emitting heat waves distorting the air, flying from time to time in the air The huge dragonfly passed by made him fear.
However, staying there is still death, so Ika intends to play a 'gambling', facing it, is it death?Still life?Only its fate can tell it ...
The head beetle guessed its idea in this way, and the head beetle also said: "Brain, rich thinking, will become stronger."
At the same time, Lin's pilots look like giant veined dragonflies and seem to scare them, so Lin intends to keep the pilots in a discolored state.
By the second night and night, Ika was wearing a shark skin, picked up a small sharp stone, and took her group out of the smaller and smaller puddle and embarked on a journey to the unknown world.
The ancient squid acted well in the water, but there was no cooperation in the water on the land. They were covered with shark skin and crawled slowly on the ground with their tentacles. The canyon at night was quite dangerous. , Still climbed to the front, leading the entire ethnic group to move.
The head worm looking in front of the displayer commented on this: "The leader is in front, stupid behavior, easy to be injured, dead, not good for the ethnic group."
Lin commented this way: This headworm is really interesting.
In the canyon of the northern continent, Ika is still moving hard. They have passed the body of the shark and walked a full five meters from the puddle. They have never walked so far, but the shark skin The moisturizing effect is really good.
The gills of the ancient squid can continue to breathe as long as it is wet, but the cracked ground makes Ika's tentacles uncomfortable, as do other companions, and the last one has even been difficult to move on the ground.
Ica wants to find other water sources as soon as possible, and in it has smelled the smell of water two meters ahead.
Find water, find life ...
Ika ’s body turned blue, and he expressed his discovery to other ancient squids of the ethnic group. All the ancient squids accelerated blood flow instantly, and their emotions became extremely excited, including the ones that had been immobilized before. In general, they crawled forward frantically, which is 10% faster than the previous crawl!
But in front of them, a huge stone blocked the way of the ancient squid.
This boulder is a piece of land falling from a floating island, as long as two meters in length and thirty centimeters in height. This is a barrier that they are difficult to cross.
The water in the shark skin also began to slowly disappear, and Ika could not lead the group around this rock.
What should it do?
"Tumbling, faster and faster." Headworms suggested this, although they didn't hear it.
Ika and the ethnic group stayed in front of the rock for about ten seconds, and the slowly evaporating water on the surface made it necessary to make a quick decision, that is ... to climb over.
Ika stuck the wall of the rock with the suction cup of the tentacle and climbed up little by little, and some of the ethnic groups behind it also started to try, but their skills were not so good and they were not very smooth. The rock fell several times.
And Ika had already climbed to the top at this time, but its ethnic group had almost no progress. It looked at its ethnic group. Maybe it was considering whether to abandon them and leave?Or help them?
But before it was decided, a creature suddenly appeared in front of Ika.
It was a lava spider. At this level of oxygen, a monster that could grow to tens of meters is now only a dozen centimeters, about the size of Ika. It seems to have just climbed onto this stone and saw Ica on the rock.
It's like a head worm seeing a barbecue.
The lava spider is only about ten centimeters away from Ica, and it suddenly launched an attack on Ica!The thick teeth of the lava spider can inject hot liquid, which can kill prey more effectively than ordinary toxins.
But before the lava spider rushed over, Ika launched an attack. It sprayed a black liquid and splashed on the lava spider's eight eyes.
This defensive black juice also has a rancid smell, which is generally used to escape predators, but this time it has become a way of attacking. The spider feels very uncomfortable because it is sprayed by the juice. Looking at this opportunity, Ika immediately crawled over, holding up the sharp piece of stone he had been holding, and slammed into the spider's head.
It seems to have just penetrated the brain, and the spider is no longer moving, but the ink is sprayed to make Ika more dehydrated. It must find the water quickly, and at the same time, it has found a way to let the companion climb up.
Ika cut off the spider ’s legs with a piece of stone, because it saw that the spider could run quickly on the smooth stone wall, so it immediately thought of using the spider ’s legs, which threw the cut legs to the bottom. Companion, this time Ika ’s companion can use this leg to climb up the rock wall ...
But there are only eight spider legs, and Ika's group has nine ancient squids besides itself, so they immediately made a decision to bring the weakest one to ... together.
Although they often quarrel with each other, when they are critical, they are unexpectedly united.
With spider legs, they can climb up easily. The ancient squids quickly overturned the rock and came to the other side. At this time, water finally appeared in front of them!
But before the puddle, there was a young salamander with a length of 20 centimeters lying in front of the puddle.
'Snapped!'Ika tucked the stone into the water hole and slammed it toward the newt.
The stone pierced the salamander's head. Although there was no one-shot kill this time, it was enough to allow the salamander to escape.
Nothing can stop Ika anymore!Although the puddle it found next is smaller than the previous one.