Yao Feier muttered as she flipped through the illustrated book and murmured: "If this thing continues to grow, will it turn the entire primitive jungle into a carbonized state? Most carbon-based life forms will die if they are too short of water. "
Li Tianya asked: "Is there water vapor in space? If there is not so much water, how can these water-absorbing stone bugs survive? How did they come to this planet?"
At this time, Yao Feier had quickly finished reading the introduction about this insect beast, and simplified the scientific terms and said: "The reason why they are called giant stone insects is that they can maintain a stone-like dormant state in harsh environments and consume extremely much energy. Low, like suspended animation. Their growth is also intermittent. They eat and sleep. When they are dormant, it is just like when we caught the tongue worm just now, we thought it was a big stone. Conventional detection equipment cannot detect its signs of life, which is why they naturally means of protection.
But once they wake up, they need a lot of nutrients to maintain the operation of their body functions, especially the energy consumption of their brains. They first directly extract water molecules from the surrounding organic life forms, expand to an area hundreds of times their own size in a short period of time, cover a large area, and then slowly devour the organic life forms in the covered area.
They must have eaten up many planets and have just invaded this pristine planet. Anyway, the illustrated book says that this kind of giant stone insect has a lifespan of tens of thousands of years. Even if they are broken into pieces, each fragment can grow and grow. They reproduce by this fragmentation. "
"Fortunately, we ran fast." Li Tianya asked again, "What is the weakness of this thing? If we are covered, can we still escape?"
Yao Feier shook her head and said: "This thing requires some kind of high-frequency electromagnetic shock to break. Ordinary bullets or even laser guns can't break it. The body structure is different from the patterns we conventionally know. If we are covered, that one It can activate physical defenses to ensure that it will not die from lack of water, and then find a way to escape from its coverage area."
Li Sa had never encountered this kind of insect beast in her previous life, nor had she heard of it from other players. First, the world map is larger, and the chance of encountering other players is very slim. If a player encounters this kind of insect beast, he may have died, so no one mentions this weird insect beast.
"So, did the insect beast really fall to this planet from space?"
"It should be." Yao Feier said, "I also have a high-altitude detector. I will send it out now to see if I can find any monitoring device outside the atmosphere."
Li Tianya said in disbelief: "Do you think such a primitive place can have high-tech things monitoring it from the sky?"
"Maybe. Is the entire planet this primitive? If we can find traces of civilization, maybe we can use its equipment to amplify our contact signals." Yao Feier achieved a high level of success with the help of the app in the previous world. Now, naturally, he plans to try to take control, at least to establish a more efficient communication network, connect more players, and collect more information.
Li Sa guided everyone to guess the truth based on the information he accidentally got in his previous life: "Do you think this place belongs to a more advanced civilized world? Maybe there are other monitoring devices outside the atmosphere, such as artificial satellites. . Advanced civilizations with interstellar navigation capabilities tend to immigrate here. It’s just that we players have become the first explorers.”
Li Tianya echoed: "I think it is possible. The last world I was in was the advent of the interstellar era. The spaceships manufactured by humans have been able to exceed the speed of light and immigrate to habitable planets in large numbers. Our players have refreshed the human pioneers on the immigrant planets. In the settlement, the environment of that planet is much worse than here. Human beings cannot survive without the scope of a large man-made protective shield."
Yao Feier said: "In this way, the world that we players are thrown into every time should be the historical epitome of the so-called civilization, or some kind of approximate parallel world, because there are huge energy fluctuations that are probably not virtual. And those The people watching our live broadcast are some kind of higher-dimensional life, or we can say that we have evolved."
"What you said makes sense." Li Sa also thought the same, but at this time she was a little hungry and had no energy to think about more complicated issues, so she suggested, "Let's check if the surrounding is safe first, and then start cooking? The sixty days are here, your preparation period has passed, mine has not started yet. While Chef Li is here, hurry up and have a good meal to commemorate our reunion."
Regarding detecting the surrounding environment, everyone is still very active.
Li Sa used the brainwave controller to search and delineate a relatively safe location, while Yao Feier released other unmanned control equipment to conduct reconnaissance at high altitudes and in a cave they had just discovered.
Li Tianya began to wonder how to eat the tongue of the tongue worm. In addition to this main dish, are they also going to pair it with some green leafy vegetables? There seemed to be some edible plants he recognized in the surrounding grass and trees.
"The cave is temporarily safe, and there are two exits. I have simple protective nets placed at both sides of the cave. With some camouflage, even if the insects cannot be blocked, I can give an early warning." Yao Feier was obviously aware of the large swarm of mosquitoes just now. With lingering fear, he suggested, "In an open-air environment, I'm always afraid of any mosquito nuisance. The mosquitoes here are bigger than my head. Let's go into a cave and settle down."
"Is the cave really safe?" Li Tianya was a little hesitant. Being trapped in the cave, his agility didn't have much advantage.
Li Sa said: "We haven't found any creatures that can be marked by brainwave energy. Let's hide in there first, in case it rains or something..."
While I was talking, big raindrops had already fallen.
It might have started to rain just now, but there were lush leaves above everyone's heads and thick fallen leaves under their feet. With the sparse raindrops, we didn't get wet. Now it was clear that it was raining, and the raindrops were still so big. Everyone did not do what he thought, and got into the cave.
Yao Feier arranged protective nets at the entrances on both sides.
This is a red laser protective net with its own energy source sold in system stores. After it is turned on, it emits a red light. The mesh is about one centimeter. The outer contour can be pasted on the hole and has a certain degree of plasticity. When something breaks in that exceeds the size of the mesh, it will most likely be shredded or cut by this red light.
I just don’t know if the hard shells of the insect beasts or native creatures here can protect against lasers. The tongue worm looks tough, but can actually be penetrated by a laser gun. I hope that big mosquitoes and the like can't break through this protective net.
Unfortunately, the two nets are not big, and each only covers an area of about two square meters. It is possible to cover the entrance of such a cave, but it is difficult to form a cage to protect a larger space.
When Yao Feier considered buying this, firstly, she was not rich in points, and secondly, based on the normal environment, if she was hiding alone in some room in the city, it would be enough to put the net on the door or the window. , the energy consumption of a larger area is too high, and the price is expensive and not cost-effective.
Yao Feier had to admit at this time that Li Sa seemed to have a special ability to predict the unknown. Not only did they predict the situation in this primeval forest, but they also predicted that it would rain. Could it be that the improvement of mental power can help to perceive and predict unknown things? (End of chapter)
