There is still the familiar look in the shadow space,
There was no starry sky or the surface of the earth, only the huge shadow with a human head and a snake's tail filled the entire space.
Wandering above the shadow are entries shining with various colors, which are the entries that have been extracted from various worlds.
[Showdown (gold)]
[Gender disguise starting from DNA (gold)]
【Reproductive Isolation Challenger (Gold)】
[Cloud Genetics (Gold)]
【Father's love (gold)】
[Egg-fetus duality (gold)]
[Love sucking cute things (purple)]
…
Unknowingly, he had extracted many entries,
Various lights flashed, dazzling him.
Below the shadow, there were several white light balls and a colored light ball floating.
From sea hares, fringed snipe, dolphins, to fold-eared cats, he has simulated everything from flying in the sky to swimming in the sea, birds and animals, wet eggs and slippery thorns.
"Simulation system!"
This is Zhao Meng's name for this shadow space.
But the so-called system is just a name he gave it. Zhao Meng doesn't know what it is.
Human beings are always full of fear of unknown things.
As his cultivation level grew, Zhao Meng became extremely complicated about this 'simulation system'.
Every time he faced the simulation system, he would think of a saying from his previous life: free things are the most expensive.
Even if a person gives money to a beggar, it is to obtain emotional value based on compassion.
So what is the purpose of the simulation system, and what is the purpose of bringing herself to this world?
Thinking of this, Zhao Meng was confused about how he could enter this phantom space and obtain the entry function.
"What exactly is your purpose?"
Zhao Meng came to the shadow and looked up at the being with the head of a man and the tail of a snake.
Recalling the entries I had obtained back then, they ranged from female duels, to isolation challenges, to cloud inheritance.
The shadows along the way are obviously purposeful.
This feeling of being arranged made him panic. After being able to survive by relying on his current abilities, Zhao Meng also tried his best to avoid the use of the simulation system.
He would not open the simulation system unless necessary.
But now, recalling Yun Fu's pleading, he couldn't help but refuse this descendant after all.
If he had not told Yun Fu that Hu Jiang was Hu La Tang, this would not have happened.
Thinking of this, Zhao Meng said to the shadow:
"You may have seen the situation I encountered, and I don't know if you have any good ideas!"
After saying this, Zhao Meng stared at the shadow for a while. Seeing that there was no reaction from the shadow, Zhao Meng sighed silently.
In his opinion, the entries that Xuying arranged for him obviously had their own operating logic. Since there was logic, there was also the possibility of communication, but it was a pity that Xuying never responded to his request.
"That's it!"
Zhao Meng looked at the two light balls,
One of them is the white ball of light represented by Aplysia coeruleus. Since it has been successful once, the next time will be the second round.
The other is a glowing ball of light, which represents a new animal.
Zhao Meng took another look at the phantom with a human head and a snake tail, and chose the colorful light group.
next moment,
Zhao Meng disappeared into the shadow space, and only the great being with a human head and a snake's tail flickered slightly.
…
Having simulated several animals, he felt something as soon as he regained consciousness:
"It's the disturbance of the water flow!"
Zhao Meng felt the surrounding environment. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. Although he couldn't see anything, he could feel that he was floating with some kind of current.
But he didn't know whether it was in the sea or in rivers and lakes.
"What animal is being simulated this time?" At this moment, a prompt from the simulation system appeared in Zhao Meng's eyes.
[In the first week, you are born from the gastrula and become a free-swimming larva of a starfish. 】
"starfish!"
Seeing such a prompt, Zhao Meng felt the squirming fur around him and said with some surprise:
"This is a starfish!"
"Free swimming larval form"
"This is what starfish larvae look like!"
As a starfish larvae, Zhao Meng felt that he was no different from plankton now.
Fortunately, for Zhao Meng, who has simulated seahorses and sunfish, he is already familiar with this floating state.
Although he has gone through this process, this is not good news for Zhao Meng.
Existing in a planktonic state can only show that the reproduction of this kind of creature also follows the state of sunfish with a large number and a probability of survival.
"I don't know if Haixing has any entries that can solve the Yunfu dilemma."
With this idea in mind, Zhao Meng continued the simulation.
[In the second week, through continuous eating, the cilia further develop...]
[In the third week, you were caught by filtering fish and the simulation failed. 】
Although Zhao Meng eats very seriously, the probability of survival after mass reproduction means that most starfish larvae cannot survive.
Even though Zhao Meng had extensive experience in being a human being, he successfully entered the normal simulation after several failed attempts and restarts.
…
…
[In the third week, your cilia further develop and form a ciliary belt surrounding your body. At the same time, your body appears to be divided into three bodies, and you enter the twin-feathered larval stage of a starfish. 】
Feeling that his body's swimming speed had accelerated and his ability to eat was further strengthened, Zhao Meng breathed a silent sigh of relief. His ability to survive had been further improved.
"Unfortunately, it is still in the floating stage."
"Now I can only see with a microscope!"
Zhao Meng hid in the algae area and carefully filtered the surrounding things.
Compared with other plankton without self-awareness, it obviously has a higher survival rate with human intelligence.
Otherwise, with Plankton's pitiful adult rate of a few tenths of a percent, he might not be able to succeed even if he restarts it hundreds or thousands of times.
[In the fourth week, your body continues to grow and some small bumps appear on your body. 】
"Are you going to turn into a starfish?"
Feeling the three little things in front of him, he was filled with anticipation after having been wandering around in boredom for three weeks.
[In the first month, three small arms grow on your head, and you enter the short-brachial larval stage of a starfish]
"What a strange look this is."
Feeling the three tentacles on the head and the mucus secreted on them,
Zhao Meng felt very uncomfortable. If the system hadn't told him that it was a simulated starfish, he might still not be able to figure out what animal he was simulating.
[In the second month, you follow your instinct and use your arms and legs to fix yourself near the nutrient-rich ocean current rocks. You begin to develop into an adult and begin to metamorphose]
"So this is how the little arm is used!"
"But this usage is even weirder!"
Zhao Meng found that the mouth he originally used to eat was "biting" the stone and the three newly grown small arms and legs turned into handles.
As for the original vagina, it became the mouth for ingesting food.
If he was just turned upside down like this, he would still be able to adapt.
But just being upside down like this doesn't seem to turn you into a starfish.
So as a starfish larva, he opened another mouth on the left side of his body in the direction of the ocean current, and a corresponding mouth appeared on the right side against the current.
The original digestive tract of the larvae begins to degenerate and slowly radiates into symmetries.
Feeling this change, even Zhao Meng, who had simulated several animals, felt a little uncomfortable at this point.
"Physically open your mouth and open your a** randomly."
"Is this really a creature on earth?"
Although he was complaining in his heart, the changes in the starfish larvae gave Zhao Meng a glimmer of hope.
But only a hint.
"After all, this kind of indiscriminate sexual intercourse is worse than the back anus of a sea hare."
[In the third month, you grow through filter feeding and your body size further increases. 】
The system prompted that Zhao Meng's body size had increased, but Zhao Meng discovered through comparison of the surrounding environment that the so-called body size had increased.
Maybe it's because I could only see him with a microscope before, but now I can see him with a magnifying glass.
[Eat in the fourth month and grow. 】
When it came to fixing it to the rock, Zhao Meng found that the survival rate of the starfish larvae had been significantly improved.
This reminded him of the seahorse he had simulated before.
Although they are two completely different tiny creatures, they seem to have chosen the same way in their survival strategies at this stage.
Only the seedlings of sunfish float freely in the sea, becoming a feast for all kinds of creatures.
[In the fifth month, after continuous feeding, you complete the larval metamorphosis and enter the adult stage. 】
Zhao Meng was perverted, but not completely perverted.
"He hasn't turned into a starfish yet!"
Feeling the current situation, Zhao Meng was a little confused.
Frogs, the most typical metamorphosis of creatures, do not need to go through such steps to metamorphose from tadpoles to frogs, but as a starfish, he has gone through several metamorphoses.
"It would be nice if I could be more perverted!"
To be honest, the starfish's larval stage was very uncomfortable. The various organs on his body were changing so much that he was not used to it.
[In the sixth month, after continuous eating, your body structure area is stable. 】
“Finally looks a bit like a starfish!”
Feeling his physical condition, Zhao Meng breathed a sigh of relief.
His body finally stopped changing randomly and developed in the direction of the starfish, and the shape of the starfish's five-pointed star began to become more obvious.
[In the seventh month, after continuous eating, your digestive tract has completed radial morphological changes, you have become a larval starfish, and you have completed your final metamorphosis. 】
"starfish!"
Feeling his appearance, at the moment when the metamorphosis was completed, Zhao Meng escaped from the prison-like rock,
Returning to the sea of freedom, his accumulated emotions were released at this moment.
It took him more than half a year to go from starfish larvae to juvenile starfish.
Such a long time may only be a moment in retrospect, but for Zhao Meng, who has experienced it, it is an indescribable process.
"I can only say that the metamorphosis process of starfish is very abnormal."
Zhao Meng was very happy to regain his freedom.
…
[In the first year, your body will grow further by constantly eating. 】
"Starfish are growing at a pretty good rate."
Zhao Meng compared the surrounding environment and found that his size at this time was already as big as a thumbnail.
Although compared to normal starfish, this size is still small,
But compared to a juvenile starfish that has just completed its metamorphosis and is only as big as dust, this growth rate is quite terrifying.
And more importantly, as his size increases, the starfish's eating style also changes.
This allowed Zhao Meng to find a way to save Hu Jiang.
"Who would have thought that starfish would vomit out their stomachs when eating. This is so strange."
"I have simulated so many animals, but the starfish situation is the most bizarre."
[In the second year, you become an adult starfish, and your instinct drives you to look for something. 】
"Tsk! It's time to breed again, it's really troublesome!"
At this time, Zhao Meng was lying on the bottom of the sea dealing with a clam.
Facing the starfish crawling on him, the clam closed its shell tightly to prevent Zhao Meng from taking advantage of it.
But this did not stop Zhao Meng from eating. Zhao Meng used his pentagonal arms and legs to pick up the shell of the clam, and then used his lower mouth to aim at the gap in the shell.
Several arms and legs exerted force at the same time, and the closed clam was torn open by a small gap by Zhao Meng, who was a starfish.
Then Zhao Meng opened his lower mouth,
"Oh, too!"
Zhao Meng followed the gap in the clam and spit out a large ball of stuff.
And this big lump is his stomach,
As his stomach entered the body of the clam, his stomach began to digest the clam inside.
The shell that was originally used to protect the clam has been transformed into an external stomach by the starfish.
Soon all the clam meat inside was swallowed up by Zhao Meng's stomach.
At this time, the clam shell also has no power,
Zhao Meng opened his mouth, pulled the intestines connected to his stomach, and sucked the stomach back into his body.
"As a starfish, I always feel like an alien creature every time I eat."
"But if this entry can be extracted and given a cloud talisman, it would be much better than the back anus."
"But starfish are different from people after all. What would it be like if people could throw their stomachs out, digest the food and then take it back."
Some strange pictures couldn't help but appear in Zhao Meng's consciousness.
Zhao Meng hurriedly shook his tentacles to expel these images from his consciousness, and then thought of another question.
"I am able to simulate a starfish this time. I don't know if it is the response given to me by the phantom?"
Zhao Meng, who was lying on the clam digesting food, recalled the request he made to the phantom when he entered the simulation.
"Is it a coincidence, or she really responded to my request."
…
After digesting the food, Zhao Meng shook his arms and legs and headed in one direction.
Although he was not interested in breeding.
But the hormones emitted inexplicably in the sea made Zhao Meng unable to control himself. In order to complete the simulation, he still headed towards the gathering place.
…
Compared with other animals, they need to compete for different breeding objects.
The reproduction process of starfish is much more peaceful. Female starfish and male starfish gather together to release their responsibilities.
As for whether the responsibilities of both parties can be blended, it can only depend on the flow of sea water.
After seeing such a scene, Zhao Meng naturally found an upper-class outlet. He was ready to wave his arms and legs and take due responsibility.
But when he waved his arms and legs, he suddenly discovered something incredible.
"I didn't notice before, why there are... on each arm and foot..."
"It's amazing that starfish have such tentacles."
(End of chapter)
