Chapter 58 Preparation in advance
Leaving the activity room, Chen Chu went to the training classroom to practice sword skills and dragon elephant skills. It didn't end until the school bell rang after four o'clock.
Today he did not go to the reading room to read, but left school early.
Out of the school gate, Chen Chu took a taxi and went to the Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market.
It's still the bird and insect pet shop. Chen Chu walked in and said familiarly: "Boss Li, where are the insects I ordered?"
Seeing that he was an acquaintance, the boss showed a smile on his face: "Here, I put them in boxes, and I put a few more for you in case they die on the road."
With that said, Boss Li took Chen Chu to a shelf inside, where there was a small box twenty centimeters long and wide, filled with some rotten leaves.
On these leaves, four insects with a total body length of about three centimeters, long and narrow bodies, and a metallic sheen were crawling around.
The most special thing about these insects is their protruding compound eyes and six extremely long legs.
“This kind of bug is relatively common, but it is more troublesome to catch. Recently, creatures in the wild have become more and more aggressive, and many of them have slight mutations.”
“Seeing as we are all acquaintances, I’ll just charge you four hundred this time.”
“Okay, please, Boss Li.”
Chen Chu did not counter-offer and directly transferred four hundred yuan to him. He walked out of the pet store carrying the box and a box of food 'mealworms' given by Boss Li.
This is what Chen Chu prepared for the next evolution of the heavily armored beast.
This is a carnivorous insect called a tiger beetle.
The most famous thing is its speed. It is known as the best in the insect world and can move a distance of three hundred times its body length in an instant.
After determining that the next evolution goal of the clone was to enhance the speed, Chen Chu checked a lot of relevant information and finally decided on the tiger beetle.
At that time, after absorbing the genes of the tiger beetle, not only will it gain an instant movement speed of 300 times its body length, even if it is only ten times the speed of the heavily armored beast, it will be a super enhancement.
In fact, Chen Chu had not considered mutant beasts for the third evolution of the clone.
But ordinary mutant beasts are very powerful and have strong defense. They are not as powerful as today's heavy armored beasts of the same size.
Forget about those powerful mutant beasts with special abilities. They are not something he can afford or kill now.
In addition, Chen Chu also considered some special creatures, such as tardigrades.
Things that are more like bugs than microorganisms are called undead. Their vitality is extremely terrifying. They can survive in extreme high and low temperatures and adapt to various environments.
Even if you enter outer space, you can survive through special abilities.
But after carefully reviewing this biological information, Chen Chu gave up.
Because this creature is said to be tenacious and can survive for hundreds of years, it is actually in a state of dehydration and dormancy used to avoid the environment.
This state is similar to suspended animation. You can't do anything. If you encounter an enemy at this time, you can only wait and die.
And its truly active life cycle is actually only a few weeks, and the claim of immortality is too exaggerated.
“Brother, you came back so early today.”
After five o'clock, Chen Hu, who came back from school, was surprised to see Chen Chu already at home.
“Well, I have something to do today, so I left early.”
Speaking, Chen Chu called Chen Hu over and pointed to the box on the table: "Xiaohu, remember to help me feed this thing after I go for a trial in a few days."
Chen Hu looked at the tiger beetle on the table curiously, and asked curiously: "Brother, what kind of insect is this?"
Chen Chu casually found an excuse: "Tiger beetle, my new pet, just throw in a few mealworms every day."
According to the current growth rate of the heavily armored beast, it is expected that he will reach his third evolution around the end of the month, and he may still be in Kolaya at that time. So Chen Chu was going to leave the matter of feeding tiger beetles to Chen Hu.
When the clone was about to evolve, he called Chen Hu and asked Chen Hu to go out at night and throw the box containing the tiger beetle into the river.
As for the reason, just find any reason.
After arranging things, Chen Hu took the initiative to cook. This boy has been more and more diligent recently. Seeing this, Chen Chu also took Tiger Beetle upstairs to prepare for practice.
The actual situation is that he leaned back in his chair and his consciousness sank.
Suddenly, under the sand of the Taotao River, a black lizard-like head lifted up, looking very ferocious against the backdrop of three pairs of red feather horns.
The mud and sand rolled, and a heavily armored beast like a crocodile swam out from the bottom of the river.
During this period, almost no matter day or night, as long as he felt that the heavy armored beast was almost digested, Chen Chu would be distracted and control it to continue eating.
But this is an estuary, with deep water and wide rivers, and there are also some ferocious fish that can adapt to fresh water, such as mutated white sharks covered with scales and killer whales with horns on their heads.
Facing those mutated fish that are over eight meters in size, the heavily armored beasts would turn around and run away, or sink into the mud at the bottom of the river.
In the face of unclear strength of these huge mutant fish, there is no need to fight with them. If you are injured, you will lose more than you gain, which will slow down the evolutionary growth rate.
At more than thirty meters below the river surface, the water was turbid, and the heavily armored beast could only vaguely see a range of more than ten meters.
Just as the heavily armored beast wandered for a while, a black shadow more than three meters in the distance entered its sight, and the heavy armored beast's eyes suddenly lit up.
Compared to humans, it is easier to judge the strength of mutant beasts in the water. The larger the basic size, the stronger the strength. Only in rare cases will mistakes be made.
For example, the heavily armored beast encountered a two-meter-long mutated fish before. Its body was like a sharp sword and its speed was terrifying.
At that time, it just shot past in an instant and tore a three-meter-long mutated fish into two halves. Then it encountered a heavily armored beast and was eaten together by it.
But the heavily armored beast also paid a price, as the sword-shaped mutant fish cut a wound half a meter long and several millimeters deep on its abdomen.
This is the first time that the heavily armored beast has been injured since it evolved. Although the exoskeleton armor on the abdomen was only cut a little, it was also startled.
After all, the exoskeleton on its abdomen is only two centimeters thick. If the mutant fish were more than ten times stronger, it would be enough to pose a threat to it.
From that day on, Chen Chu became much more cautious.
At this moment, the mutated fish also discovered the heavily armored beast. Because of the size difference between the two sides, it not only did not run away, but took the initiative to approach.
This is a small mutated shark with gray scales all over its body and a mouth full of sharp teeth.
After discovering the ferocious appearance of the heavily armored beast and its thick and sharp limbs, the mutant fish did not attack immediately, but swam around it cautiously.
Seeing this, the heavily armored beast made a cumbersome look, slowly circling on the spot, contracting its limbs on both sides of the body to make a posture of fear and defense.
Soon, the mutated shark circled the heavily armored beast several times. Without feeling any danger, it swung its tail and suddenly attacked from behind the heavily armored beast.
Just in the blink of an eye, it rushed behind the heavily armored beast, opened its sharp mouth wide, and bit hard at the back of the heavily armored beast's head.
At this moment, the seemingly bulky heavily armored beast sank suddenly, turned around and appeared under the mutated shark, and grabbed its body with four claws.
Tear it apart!
The heavily armored beast's sharp claws tore the mutated shark's scales apart, and bit it hard as it struggled wildly. The terrifying bite force directly tore a huge **** hole in its abdomen.
Suddenly, blood spurted out, turning the surrounding river water red.
Facing the heavily armored beasts with four limbs, these mutant fish have no chance to break free as long as they are caught. After just a few bites, the heavily armored beasts tear their stomachs to pieces and bite them to death.
In the water stained red with blood, the black beast began to eat, tearing off large pieces of fish with each bite, making it look more and more ferocious.
There will be more later
(End of this chapter)