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Chu Ge fiddled with the corpse of an insect with his tail.

The insect had been suffocated or scalded to death, and it was buried deep in humus so that the carcass remained intact.

At first glance, it looks like a spider.

But extending back from the abdomen, it has a scorpion-like poisonous tail.

Moreover, in the gap between the carapaces on the back, there are poison sacs that look like toads.

It's like putting together several different insect features in a chaotic manner, forming an ugly "stitch monster".

Chu Ge frowned slightly, put the corpse of the mutated spider aside, and fiddled with another corpse of a centipede curled up into a ball.

Similarly, it looks like a centipede, but is as thick as a small snake, and a layer of fine scales has grown on its body, which greatly enhances its defense, but it still retains sticky and unpleasant feet.

Chu Ge checked seven or eight relatively intact corpses of insects in a row, and found that most of them were like this.

Some lizards have toad poison sacs growing on their backs, some scorpions have thick skins of reptiles between their carapaces, and some long insects look like a fusion of centipedes, millipedes and earthworms, with colorful appearances that make it difficult to distinguish them. What exactly are they.

Seeing that Chu Ge was investigating so seriously, Bai Ye also stepped forward to examine it carefully. After looking at it for a long time and pondering for a while, he slowly shook his head and said, "These insects don't seem to have evolved naturally."

"That's right."

Chu Ge recalled for a while, and said, "When I was in the Extraordinary Association, I also fought against highly evolved monsters that absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, the aura of heaven and earth, but no matter how much aura these monsters absorbed, their evolution path always followed According to the direction of their own genes, in other words, these cats, dogs or insects will always evolve into 'stronger cats, stronger dogs and stronger insects', but it is absolutely impossible, originally a cat, absorbing After a lot of aura, it mutated into a bulldog."

"It makes sense. Look at these insects, some belong to reptiles, some belong to arthropods, and some belong to molluscs."

Bai Ye used an embroidery needle to pick apart the carapaces of several insects, looked at the sticky contents, thoughtfully, "Even if the spiritual energy is revived, it can promote the cell mutation of insects, but in a purely natural environment without external interference Among them, it is also unlikely to mutate reptiles into mollusks, or mutate mollusks into arthropods, right?

"One more thing, don't you think this swarm of insects is strange, the number is really too much?"

this problem,

Chu Ge was slightly taken aback, recalling the battles in the past ten days and a half months, including the first batch of insect swarms that he saw in Yeguang City, he nodded.

"It's a bit too much."

Chu Ge said, "Just the first batch of insect swarms under Yeguang City is overwhelming, countless, and probably gathered all the insects within a radius of tens of miles.

"When this batch of bug swarms were completely wiped out by us under the city of Luminous Light, no matter what all-powerful abilities the snake demon possessed, how could it be possible to gather such a huge bug swarm in a hurry?

"Yes, there may still be a large number of insects remaining in the corners of the underground world, but how to attract these insects, how to control them, how to make them crawl to the snake demon's lair from all directions and along the winding and rugged gaps? , and how to solve the supply along the way? These are all difficult problems!

"You know, a single insect is actually a very fragile creature. It is absolutely impossible for them to crawl dozens of miles in a dark cave when food is scarce. From a long distance, call the insects to come and 'moths to the flame'."

"That's right, since the second day of the Battle of Luminous City, the National Teacher has launched a vigorous revenge. From that day on, the army of our Rat Clan has surrounded the Snake Demon's lair and cut off the Snake Demon's lair. connections around."

Bai Ye said, "If there are really a large number of insects coming from all directions, there is no reason why we can't even catch the slightest clue, and the appearance of these insects is so weird, which is very different from the insect swarm under the night light city. Once we catch them, they will definitely stay. If you are deeply impressed, even the national teacher will know.

"So, it's really strange, where did these deformed insects come from?"

Chu Ge thought for a while, and said, "Could it be that the snake demon raised them here? With the size of the landfill, it is enough to feed so many insects."

Bai Ye said: "Then, what's the matter with the deformity and mutation of these insects? The snake demon will never have such a terrifying ability to kill different types of insects, even reptiles, arthropods and molluscs. Put it all together?"

On this point, Chu Ge also couldn't figure it out.

Even, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he felt, and he shivered deeply.

The two couldn't figure it out, so they had to put down the weird insect corpse and study the remains of the giant python.

The corpse of the giant python was blown in half, and the head and body were placed separately. Even though it was dead, it was still like a towering mountain, giving people a strong sense of suffocation.

Chu Ge walked around the python's body for a long time, and concluded that it was 100% an anaconda, a super python that only lives in the tropical rainforest.

This is strange.

Lingshan City is located in the southeast, with a typical subtropical climate, and the nearest tropical rainforest is at least one hundred and eight thousand miles away.

Even in the era of calamity in the past few decades, the world has changed, extreme weather has occurred frequently, and various natural disasters have emerged one after another, including a large forest growing on the outskirts of Lingshan City.

But "jungle" and "rainforest" are two completely different concepts. In the natural ecological environment of Lingshan City, creatures like "anaconda" should not have been born at all. There has never been a record of anacondas being found by citizens of Lingshan.

Could it be that this forest anaconda, who is particularly ferocious, yearns for the subtropical location of Lingshan City, where the winter is warm and the summer is cool, and the scenery is pleasant, and it traveled thousands of miles to swim here?

Chu Ge scoffed at this speculation.

With the size of this anaconda and its ferocious habits, it can dominate no matter what the environment is. Generally speaking, such a king at the top of the food chain cannot easily leave his territory, let alone migrate thousands of miles away up.

Chu Ge used an iron nail to pry off the giant python's body, a scale attached to a parasitic crustacean similar to a "barnacle".

He went to check the giant python's bloody eyes again.

Although the giant python's left eyeball was injured, it was not completely blown up, and the rich blood vessels and nerves behind the eyeball could be vaguely recognized.

"It's not a native creature."

Chu Ge looked at it for a long time and said, "It's an alien invader."

Bai Ye said: "How do you see it?"

"First, there are so many barnacle-like crustacean parasites attached to it. These small things should grow in the swamps around the tropical rainforest. The surrounding area of ​​our Lingshan City is rich in snails, but they are completely different from these parasites. "

Chu Ge pointed at the carapace fragments on the remains of the giant python with an iron nail, and said, "Judging from these ancient traces, these crustacean parasites have been attached to it for a long time, maybe decades, I don't think it was as early as a few years ago." Ten years ago, Lingshan City had the conditions to breed such an anaconda."

Bai Ye said: "That makes sense, what about the second one?"

"The second is its eyes."

Chu Ge said, "From the analysis of such a rich blood vessel and neural network, this giant python should have quite keen vision."

Bai Ye said: "What's the problem with keen vision?"

"has a problem."

Chu Ge said, "If it is born and raised in the dark underground world, it does not need keen vision at all - the organs of creatures follow the principle of use-it-waste-discard. Many creatures will have their visual organs degenerate after the environment changes drastically and they escape underground. Just like the very famous 'Blind Snake', the eyes are completely useless, but the hearing has become extremely sharp."

Bai Ye thought for a while and said, "The Rat Clan's vision has not degenerated."

"The vision of the Rat Clan is not very good, so there is a saying of 'short-sighted'."

Chu Ge said, "Moreover, the Rat Clan is a civilization that was born only after being interfered by external forces. You were enlightened by the national teacher, and you have a social habit of living in groups very early, you can use various light sources, and you are not even afraid of flames. In this case Only then will your weak eyesight be preserved.

"But what about the snake race, who live in the dark underground world, they don't even have hands and feet, and there is no possibility or urgency to establish civilization at all. If they evolved naturally, why is it necessary to retain keen vision?"

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