Zhao Meng was very surprised by the appearance of humans. He rarely encountered humans in simulations.
Humans are also involved in new species that emerge only with human intervention.
For example, the folded-eared cat has been simulated, but when simulating other animals, it will not encounter animals like humans at all.
"I'm simulating a lizard this time. Is it also a new species cultivated by humans?"
But Zhao Meng raised his head and observed the surrounding environment. This place was completely a tropical rainforest environment.
In the sandpit behind him, there were small lizards breaking out of their shells and crawling out. This was a completely natural environment for reproduction.
"unusual!"
Looking at the humans searching for something in front of him, Zhao Meng crawled around and hid to observe these people.
I saw that the skin of the four people was tan, and they didn't have much clothes on them. Their skin had a shiny feeling after sleeping in the open air for a long time.
"It seems like a race from a certain continent in the past life?"
These people were looking for something in the grass, getting further and further away from where he was hiding.
Although the person disappeared, Zhao Meng's vigilance remained undiminished.
"It should become clear later how this animal will interact with humans."
[In the second week, you live with your brothers and sisters and avoid many dangers! 】
Zhao Meng was surprised to find that these monitor lizards actually lived together when they were young.
Although lizards have few natural enemies as adults and most of them move alone, as juveniles, they have many natural enemies in nature. Hugging together for warmth is a very good survival strategy.
"Those humans are still hanging around!"
Zhao Meng saw the four brown people looking for something in the forest again, and this time, Zhao Meng was basically sure of their identities.
"Poacher!"
These four humans carried shotguns and some hunting tools, and apparently entered the forest to engage in poaching.
He could hear tigers roaring from time to time in the forest, and he most likely came for the tigers.
"Then what do these four humans who messed up the simulation have to do with the lizards?"
Zhao Meng still couldn't understand it. He traveled through time too early and rarely paid attention to news in this area in his previous life. He really couldn't imagine that lizards had any interest in people.
[In the third week, your body will grow further through continuous eating. 】
Zhao Meng found that he had grown up a bit, and he found that this Bengal monitor lizard was different from ordinary lizards.
Compared with ordinary lizards, such as the chubby lizards that I encountered accidentally in other simulations, with wrinkles, various bumps and even small spines on the body,
This lizard has somewhat smooth skin and a somewhat slender body.
This form was the only one among the lizards he had ever encountered.
Facing the appearance of this lizard, a word popped into Zhao Meng's mind.
Comely, yes, comely.
"Maybe it's because I haven't grown up."
"When you grow up, you won't be so delicate anymore!"
[In the first month, due to the growth in body size, food becomes increasingly scarce within the activity range, and the young monitor lizards begin to move to other areas. 】
"It's time to separate!"
Looking at the young monitor lizards scattering in all directions, Zhao Meng shook his head gently, chose a direction, and began to migrate.
Although they are still far away from their adult bodies, young monitor lizards eat excessively in order to grow and do not know how full they are. The food crisis has been overcome, and the sense of security brought by hugging together for warmth has been overcome.
"Hey, these four humans appear again!"
Zhao Meng, who was hiding in the bushes, looked at the four strange humans.
"It's indeed a tiger!" The four people carried a huge tiger in one direction.
At this time, one of the people seemed to hear something.
I saw a lizard that had just left its nest crawling not far from the four people.
When they saw the lizard, all four of them exclaimed in surprise and yelled something in a language that Zhao Meng couldn't understand.
Zhao Meng, who was hiding in the bushes, felt bad when he saw this scene.
Although he had no idea what those people were talking about, it still gave him a bad premonition.
"We can't stay in this place anymore!"
[In the second month, after constant eating, your body is growing rapidly. 】
"Comfortable"
Zhao Meng rubbed his body against a nearby tree branch, and a layer of skin on his body was peeled off.
Feeling that he is not restrained and can continue to grow bigger, this comfortable feeling of breaking free from the cage makes him have the urge to scream.
Unfortunately, he stuck out his tongue like a snake and couldn't make any sound.
[The third month, eating, growing, and transforming]
"It's getting bigger again!"
At this time, Zhao Meng was lying on a low tree branch, observing the surrounding environment.
As a Bengal monitor lizard living in tropical rain forests, although it spends most of its time on the ground, it cannot do without the basic skill of climbing trees.
Especially for lizards that are still young, climbing trees is even more important.
Although the Bengal monitor lizard is not very capable of climbing trees, with the blessing of Zhao Meng's human wisdom, it still uses the height provided by trees to avoid most threats.
[In the sixth month, your food intake increases day by day. You find a territory with richer food and continue to grow.]
"boring!"
After half a year of growth,
Zhao Meng compared it silently.
I found that my body was almost as long as two chickens from head to tail, and as high as half a chicken.
Although not as big as those large mammals in the rainforest,
But apart from mammals, his size is already the largest in the forest.
"You are already so old, but you are not yet an adult?"
Zhao Meng bit the venomous snake next to him into two pieces and ate it like spicy strips.
Thinking back on what happened in the past six months, Zhao Meng felt a little bored.
“Through the simulation so far, we haven’t found anything unique about the monitor lizard!”
"It seems that it may not be easy to obtain strange and unique entries on this giant lizard this time."
Zhao Meng twisted his body and crawled along the river bank. As his body grew, he finally became qualified to move around the water source.
[The seventh month is eating, growing, and transforming. 】
"When do you breed?"
Zhao Meng muttered and looked at the reflection in the water.
At this time, his physique was close to that of an adult monitor lizard, but his delicate appearance did not fade away.
Although there are some wrinkles and scales on his body that are only found in lizards, the marks on these newly appeared structures are very shallow and are closer to human skin.
"Speaking of which, the crawling movements of this Bengal monitor actually look a bit enchanting."
Looking at his crawling body reflected in the water, Zhao Meng thought of some kind of dance for some reason.
[In the eighth month, you are approaching adulthood, and your instinct gives you the urge to act! 】
"finally come!"
Feeling the changes in his body, Zhao Meng stuck out his tongue and sniffed something.
Through his long and wet tongue, he finally felt some unique smell in the air.
"It smells like a female!"
"In this direction."
Zhao Meng crawled quickly in the direction of the smell. He kept sticking out his tongue, and the smell that attracted him got closer and closer.
But just as he was about to approach his destination, he suddenly stopped.
"It's those four humans! How come they are here!"
Zhao Meng noticed a few humans hiding in a tree nearby.
At this time, the monitor lizards under the tree have gathered and started the traditional competition for females.
As for the few people in the tree, under the stimulation of hormones, no lizard paid attention to them. They just thought they were monkeys hanging in the tree.
But when Zhao Meng saw these four people, his vigilance was raised to the highest level.
Especially when I saw one of them pulling a rope that extended from the tree into the bottom of the breeding area.
"It's a trap!"
"The goal of these people is the monitor lizard!"
Zhao Meng, who has simulated a large number of animals, understands that the breeding season is the season most likely to attract natural enemies and predators.
But he never imagined that the natural enemies attracted during this breeding season would actually be humans.
"This isn't right."
"Humans are the natural enemy of all animals!"
"In the past, when simulating other animals, humans were not introduced, but this time, humans were introduced when simulating monitor lizards. This is very abnormal."
"There must be other reasons."
Just when Zhao Meng was confused, the man on the tree finally made a move. The man holding the rope suddenly jumped down from the tree.
Pulled by its own weight, the rope looped around the branch, like a primitive pulley, pulling out the thing at the other end instantly.
As Zhao Meng expected, it was a trap.
Some lizards that had just won the victory and were breeding with the female monitor lizard were caught by giant nets that suddenly appeared under the ground. These lizards were caught in one fell swoop.
"These humans!"
Although he was a human being, Zhao Meng felt disgusted in his heart when he saw such destructive hunting during the breeding season.
Zhao Meng, who has imitated many animals, is no longer as pure as before. The survival of the fittest is a natural principle.
But this kind of hunting during the breeding season, which prevents the lizards from reproducing and eliminates the lizards, is completely exterminating an animal.
"Looks like we have to find another place!"
Zhao Meng looked at those brown people, running under the net bags and cheering something, Zhao Meng turned around and left.
But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the four people took out a female lizard from the net bag.
Zhao Meng originally thought that these people wanted to skin the lizards or kill them to take them away.
But what happened next was something he would never forget.
"this……"
"What are they doing?"
"How could such a thing be done?"
"Human, lizard... unexpectedly..."
Zhao Meng didn't understand, but was shocked. At this moment, he finally understood why humans were introduced into the simulation.
"That's it!"
…
Zhao Meng retreated silently. He needed to restore his mental state.
[In the second week of the eighth month, you have fully entered the breeding period, and your instinct drives you to become active. 】
"What a pervert with a lingering cloud!"
When Zhao Meng saw the four humans squatting in a giant lizard breeding area, he felt a trace of malice in his heart.
"Again!"
The lizards were captured again at the breeding site and the same thing happened again. Seeing the four humans taking turns torturing their own kind, Zhao Meng had an idea in his mind:
"This can't go on like this!"
Zhao Meng turned pressure into motivation, kept eating, and kept getting bigger.
[Three weeks into the eighth month, the breeding period is coming to an end. You still have not obtained the permission to breed. The accumulated hormones make you excited and irritable. 】
"Finally! There are no humans in this place."
Zhao Meng climbed to a hidden river bend area, where there were also some lizards emitting their own scent.
Zhao Meng carefully observed the surrounding environment and saw that there were indeed no traces of humans.
Zhao Meng rushed in quickly. There are already some male monitor lizards fighting here,
Zhao Meng, who had endured it for a long time, was very brave when fighting these male monitor lizards.
He quickly used his wisdom and force to defeat his competitors and came to the unique source of the smell, which was a female lizard that was smaller than him.
"very good!"
Looking at the female lizard staying there obediently, just when Zhao Meng was about to do something,
Suddenly there was a faint rustling sound in the distant forest, as if something was approaching.
Then Zhao Meng heard a burst of chatter.
Although he didn't understand what the language was, he was extremely familiar with it.
"It's those humans!"
"Oops!"
Zhao Meng woke up immediately and wanted to escape.
But the next moment, with a bang, a large net flew from a distance, covering him and other lizards in the net.
Facing the giant net on his body, he did not panic and moved slowly, trying to escape:
"It's strange. I've obviously checked that there are no humans nearby, so why am I still ambushed!"
"What went wrong?"
At this time, four figures came from a distance. Looking at the things they were carrying, Zhao Meng immediately understood something:
"So that's it, the same kind of people exposed this location!"
"It's bad luck for me."
What those people were holding was the male monitor lizard he had just defeated.
The giant lizard had been killed at this time, and Zhao Meng speculated that the giant lizard happened to encounter these poachers during its escape.
As an experienced poacher, it would be a dereliction of duty if he could not judge the logic of his prey's behavior through their movement traces.
Therefore, these poachers most likely followed the male's path and found this place.
"I didn't expect that such a hidden breeding ground would be discovered."
At this time, one of those people was already running over, rolling and crawling, and quickly tightened the net that was thrown, but Zhao Meng was still unable to climb out in the end.
…
Looking at the female lizard he took out from the net bag, although Zhao Meng hadn't done anything yet,
Thinking of what would happen to his trophy next, at this moment, Zhao Meng finally felt a trace of the pain of those who suffered in reality.
"Forget it, this is just a simulation."
Zhao Meng muttered, and then a sharp blade pierced his body. He felt like something was taken away from his body.
Seeing the person who killed him dancing happily with the things taken from his body, Zhao Meng slowly lost his consciousness.
"As long as these humans exist, they will cause great disruption to the simulation!"
"Next time we simulate, we have to find a way to deal with them."
"Even if we can't kill these strange people, their behavior must have an internal logic, and we must find this logic."
"It's a pity that the breeding was not completed this time, and the entry cannot be seen."
With regret, Zhao Meng ended the simulation.
(End of chapter)
