4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"This is ... a crystal city."

The mechanical water strider stopped, its color changed slowly, and it merged with all the crystal objects around it. The creatures inside observed the outside through the video screen.

Looking outside, you can see such a scene-countless crystal structures are standing on the ground with the same crystal luster, and many flying objects of different shapes are flying in the sky. This is the city The main appearance.

"I have to say ... it's very similar to our city, but there is no transportation on the ground." The scholar looked at the picture and said: "It's also a little strange that I didn't see the beginning here."

In the streets of the crystalline city, there is no initial figure, but you can see a lot ... other creatures.

Crystal creatures of different shapes are moving in this city. They have a large number and a rich variety, but no matter what kind of creatures, their actions are consistent.

"These should be the beginning." Burrower said: "Maybe these imitations in the city have become the appearance of various creatures. In short, we have to test whether our disguise is useful here."

Saying that, the popping worm poked at the picture in front of him, and suddenly, the water strider swayed a few times, and a soft substance came out from the bottom of the water strider.

"Is this ... pretending?"

"This is what it pretends to be the original beginning, to see if it can be successful, and now start exploring with it ..."

The Howler slammed the screen again. This soft mass moved like an amoeba, and it began to crawl away.

The location of the water strider is now next to a building on the edge of the starting city. This amoeba bypassed the building and entered the city's 'street'.

"many……"

The "streets" of the city are quite crowded, and countless crystalline creatures of different shapes come and go, which reminds scholars of the virtual people who are constantly working in the city.

Although he was born on the Drift, he has never experienced it, but he has seen the data of his own world countless times, so this world gives it a sense of ‘both sight’.

The disguised amoeba moved on the edge of the street, and no crystal creatures stopped to ignore it. This seems to mean disguise ... successful?

"Now it's in discoloration." Burrower said: "Wait for me to lift the discoloration and see how they react."

"Wait a minute! Didn't you notice?" This sentence was ... Scorpion said: "This place is very strange like these idiots!"

The scorpion, who had been screaming to kill Blood Mist's head and then went back, suddenly became interested in what happened here, which made the scholar ask curiously, "What is strange?"

"They look like they are busy, but they are not busy at all." Scorpion poked at the picture: "Look, this stupid thing looks like a frog, it just came back after walking far away ... … "

"It seems really ..."

According to what it said, the scholar did see a crystalline creature like a frog. After walking a long way in the busy crystalline biota, it returned to the original place, and then went on.

Simply put, it is just going back and forth for a while.

"This phenomenon is worthy of study." Blowworms continue to allow molluscs to penetrate deep into the city and move along the streets. A large number of crystalline creatures can be seen everywhere.

After reading a lot, I can already see that the crystalline creatures here are very different from the city of the virtual people ... although it seems to be very similar at first.

But the creatures here are all weird.

In a busy virtual city, the virtual people on the street have only two purposes-to go to take a transportation, or to enter a building.

The creatures here do not do these two things ... Although most of them are not like the previous ones that have repeatedly moved within a small distance, they did not enter any buildings, nor did they take transportation, and did not even see them stop. Come down to communicate or do something else.

Although there are many flying objects in the sky, those things never come down, and I don't see which building they will land on.

"So, for the time being ... without discoloration, continue to study."

Blowworms continue to move the amoeba within the city, and as time goes on, the sky slowly darkens ... There is no stars in the night sky of this world, and when you look into the sky, you can only see a thin white layer. The fog obscured the sky.

On the ground, it was ... shining.

All the crystalline buildings in the city emit different colors of light, and some are still flashing, which reminds scholars of the colorful advertising boards in the virtual city, but these buildings are only shining, there is nothing in the light ... at least they can't see it.

And the crystalline creatures in those cities are still walking back and forth, like a river that will not stop.

"Now many results have been obtained," said Burrower. "After a day's observation, I found that these creatures are almost all ... repeatedly moving, only the range of movement is different."

"Ga ... Are these things crazy?" Blood Mist's head said: "They keep walking like that, aren't they tired?"

"Fool! I said they were pretend!" Scorpion: "These things have many secrets hiding us!"

"There must be some reason for them." The scholar said: "Maybe such a special effect of walking energy all the time. In short, these crystalline creatures are not residents of the city. They are like factories in the factory ... machines have been running. , But do n’t know what they are doing. "

"That is to say, it's not a city, just a factory ..." Burrower said: "Now it's a little difficult to mix them in. All the buildings are quite strong and there are no visible entrances, and those that fly are never landing……"

"Grab one directly to investigate." Scorpion yelled: "Surely kill it and dig it out, you will definitely find something! Hurry up and don't slow down! You stay here and don't know anything!" "

"Don't call it!" Blood Mist said: "If you do this, they will definitely be found and then kill you! Now we are in their world!"

"It really should be tried," said the Howler. "So let's try it first."

At the moment he finished speaking, the popping bug poke at the screen again, and the amoeba on the edge of the street suddenly protruded a cylindrical object from his body, and then aimed at a crystalline creature coming over ...

'boom!'Under a burst of sound, the body of this crystalline creature shattered more than half, so it fell to the ground.

In an instant, all the crystalline creatures around were scattered around the blasted crystalline creatures, just like a fleeing beast.

However, they quickly gathered back together. A crystalline creature first touched the same kind of the remaining half of the body that was knocked out, and then it tore a little piece of the half of the body, and then ... put it in the mouth .

There was a burst of sound from its mouth, as if it was chewing.

The surrounding creatures also gathered, and they did the same thing ... eat the remaining half of the body.

"Eat ... Did they eat it?"

All creatures present did not expect this ending.

Amoeba exploded a crystalline creature casually, and the surrounding crystalline creatures were first scared away, and then gathered back to eat the corpse. The strange behavior is that they are completely unpredictable, and ... they did not Take care of the amoeba that killed them.

Maybe it's because the amoeba is still discolored.

"They really are ... cockroaches." Blood Mist's head said: "The behavior is almost the same."

"Is that true?" The scholar questioned.

"Yes, because I rarely ... clean up the environment at home, so I have seen a lot." Blood Mist said: "They will immediately eat dead bodies of the same kind nearby, and they will not care about the reason why this kind of kind was killed. of."

"Yes, they are pretty stupid." Scorpion said: "Just like you."

Blood Mist ignored the scorpion and continued: "But why ... this group of crystalline creatures in this world will behave similarly?"

"If that's the case, let's do the next experiment." Burrower said: "Remove the disguise and see what happens ..."

The sound of the burrowing insect fell, and the discoloration of the amoeba slowly disappeared, and its figure appeared in front of the dense crystalline creatures.

The next second, this group of crystalline creatures moved, they all pounced on the amoeba, and then tore the amoeba instantly.

"... It seems that the disguise camouflage can be successful." Burrowing Bug said: "However, even if the amoeba dismisses the discoloration, it can also disguise as a creature that is almost the same as the starting state. This disguise seems to have no effect."

"They are not necessarily the starting state ..." The scholar said: "Blood Mist is right, they are like the bugs on the pompon, they eat whatever they see, no matter what, here ... not the city of the starting state. "

"We should probably take a look at the building." Burrower said: "We need to do some big moves."

"Don't you want to blow up here?" The scholar said: "Is there any powerful weapon in this machine?"

"Not using this machine to fry ..."

The water strider also moved as the buzzer said, and it quickly climbed up the wall of the building, and quickly reached the top of the building.

Looking at the densely packed crystalline creatures below, the Burrowing Bug continued: "I want to use that ship to blow ..."

'Wow--'

Along with the words of the bursting whistler, the creatures in the cockpit also saw a crossbow arrow appear in the sky.

The crossbow arrows rushed into the street at high speed ... and fell into the dense crystalline biota.