Myriad Realms Exchange Machine

Chapter 177 Ancient Gods and Titans

In the war between shrimp and ants, Li Yu actually didn't care who won or lost.

But Li Yu was a little surprised by the situation of the shrimp queen.

"It's just an ordinary shrimp on the outside, but it can communicate across species? What kind of ability is this?"

"And actually calling an octopus a god? What kind of operation is this?"

Li Yu was curious, and swept his consciousness over every shrimp in the sea.

He has watched a lot of "Animal World" before, and he knows that there is a kind of shrimp called "gun shrimp" that also has a social cooperative relationship like ants and bees.

Gun shrimp is also called drum shrimp. It is mud-green in color and has a pair of large and small claws. The body is about 5 cm long, but the giant claw is 2.5 cm long.

They live in the shallow waters of tropical oceans. When hunting, they quickly close their giant claws and eject a stream of water, stunning or even killing their prey.

Such a high-speed water flow will cause cavitation, forming a very small low-pressure bubble,

These bubbles take only a nanosecond from being emitted to bursting, and when they explode, the temperature will reach 4700 degrees, so they are easy to catch their prey.

When the water pressure returned to normal, the bubbles burst and made a popping sound.

When a group of gun prawns close their giant claws at the same time, the sound is loud enough for a submarine to evade sonar detection.

After a while, Li Yu came to the conclusion that among the shrimps in the entire ocean, only the shrimp queen in front of him had the ability to transmit spiritual power.

That is, this shrimp queen is just a special mutant?
Li Yu withdrew her consciousness and began to browse the knowledge about marine life.

It is written in a book that the most incredible symbiotic relationship of gun shrimp is the formation of an extremely advanced social organization, commonly known as "true sociality".

Hundreds of pistol shrimp live inside the sponge, ruled by a "shrimp queen" and a "shrimp king", and they are the only ones that can reproduce.

Of the millions of sea creatures, only a few species of shrimp can do this.

Pistol shrimp are very tiny. They use sponges as their nests and feed on the tissues shed by the sponges themselves. This lifestyle is very similar to that of termites.

"It's so strange." Li Yu said, putting down the book and continuing to stare at the group of shrimps.

His current body grew up by the sea, so he was no stranger to the creature like the gun shrimp in his memory.

Although these shrimps are well-known, few people buy them deliberately and usually just add them to the aquarium along with the live rocks.

They hide deep in the rocks and are difficult to find. Sometimes the breeder can hear the noise of "bang, bang". There are three reasons why they make this sound with their big pincers: attacking their companions, self-defense, and knocking waves with sound waves to stun them Predator.

Fortunately, they are small and do no harm to other animals, but people are still annoyed when they hear this sound and worry about whether it is a mantis shrimp.

Gun prawns are very interesting and can live well with gobies.

The gun prawns are usually blind, one will dig a hole, then a pair of gobies will swim to live together, and in return for digging, the gun prawns will be protected by the gobies and even get food.

Usually the goby sits at the entrance of the burrow, and the gun prawn is busy clearing the passage. When the gun prawn comes out to dump sand and stones, it always puts a tentacle on the goby. When other fish attack, the goby As soon as it moved, the gun shrimp fled back into the hole.

"Could it be that because there are no gobies in this sea, this gun shrimp forcibly evolved other warning methods to protect itself? Then, it became a power to expand mental power?" Li Yu said to himself. , the more I think about it, the more amazing it becomes.

Li Yu scratched his head, then turned his gaze to the octopus lurking in the crevice of the reef.

As the natural enemy of small fish and shrimp, shrimp will think that an octopus is a god. This makes sense in theory, but in fact it is not that simple.

When primitive human beings just awakened their wisdom, they were also threatened by tigers, black bears, and wolves.

Maybe human beings will be afraid of beasts, but they will not worship the beast standing in front of them as a god, unless there is something in this beast that cannot be answered by the knowledge at the time, which is the so-called "miracle"!
What kind of miracle does this octopus have?

Li Yu's consciousness swept across the whole body of the octopus, and he frowned, realizing that things were really not that simple.

In the past, Li Yu knew most about octopus from hot pot and teppanyaki.

But in fact, the octopus is a very amazing animal.Some even believe that creatures like octopuses could even be intelligent.

Li Yu opened the book again, seeking an explanation about the octopus.

However, the knowledge in the book is too general and not introduced in detail.

Li Yu only knows that there are more than 252 species of octopus, which is a type of marine mollusk.

Their size varies greatly. The body of octopus is short oval, sac-shaped, finless, and the boundary between head and body is not obvious.

The head and body of the octopus is about 7-9.5 cm, with large compound eyes and 8 retractable arms on the head.

Each arm has two rows of fleshy suckers. The length of the short octopus' wrist is about 12 cm, that of the long octopus is about 48.5 cm, and that of the true octopus is about 32.5 cm.

It usually crawls with its wrists, and sometimes swims with the expansion and contraction of the inter-wrist membrane. It can hold other objects powerfully, and use the funnel at the lower part of the head to spray water to swim quickly.

The base of the wrist is connected to a web-like tissue called the skirt, which has a mouth in the center.

The mouth has a pair of sharp horny palate and a file-like radula, which are used to drill through the shell and scrape the meat.

Moreover, the octopus can not only spray ink six times in a row, but also can change its color and structure like the most flexible chameleon, becoming like a stone covered with algae,
Then it suddenly pounces on the prey, and the prey has no time to realize what happened.

Octopuses can use their flexible arms and legs to crawl between reefs, crevices and seabeds, sometimes disguising themselves as a bunch of coral, and sometimes as a pile of shining gravel.

Li Yu realized that in the world of this book, the treacherous and changeable octopus has become even more difficult to deal with, and even evolved a means of mental power control in order to survive.

At this time, I can only feel the magic of life.

Leaving the book, Li Yu saw that from the brain of the octopus, invisible threads of spiritual power spread out like a huge net, and were precisely connected to every shrimp in the nest.

The octopus can control the shrimp's every move, and even send some shrimp to its mouth without predation.

Obviously, in the long river of evolution, not only shrimps and ants have gone out of their own way, but also octopuses have not been idle.

And the octopus's mental power control ability is naturally a real miracle for the shrimp queen who has just gained some wisdom.

"God, old god."

With the Prawn Queen's prayers, the octopus hiding in the shadows finally moved.

Its eight strong arms and legs stirred the sea water, and its flexible body walked out of the palace on the reef, and silently pounced on the ant colony that was fighting fiercely with the shrimp tribe.

For Li Yu, this octopus is only enough for him to eat for one meal.

But for ordinary soldier ants, every tentacle of the octopus is as insurmountable as a mountain, and the gravel and sea water it dislikes are even more terrifying, like overwhelming the river.

In an instant, the ant, who was able to fight equally with the shrimp tribe, was beaten by the octopus and fled in embarrassment.

"God! Thank the old gods!"

The shrimp queen followed closely behind the octopus, cheering in her tone, not caring that the huge octopus immediately began to devour a large number of small shrimps on the battlefield after driving away the ants.

"Tsk tsk, I want to see your octopus. What qualifications do you have to be called a god?" Li Yu said, bending down and grabbing the octopus.

From the perspective of the Shrimp Queen, all this was like a huge hand suddenly breaking through the sea water, firmly grasping the octopus's body, and dragging it out of the sea.

The octopus struggled to wriggle its tentacles and hissed sharply, but all his struggles were in vain.

Li Yu projected one of his arms into this world, and then directly fished out this mighty octopus.

Li Yu was quite curious about the power of this octopus.

He once read a book in which Professor Jim ***, an expert who has been engaged in octopus research for many years, pointed out that octopuses have "conceptual thinking" and can solve complex problems alone. This ability gives it the ability to walk on two legs.

Jim ***** wrote in "Le Figaro Magazine" that the octopus is one of the most different creatures from humans that has ever appeared on earth.

Octopuses have well-developed eyes, the only similarity between them and humans.

It is very different from humans in other ways, such as the octopus has three hearts and two memory systems.

One is the brain memory system, and the other memory system is directly connected to the sucker. There are 5 million neurons in the octopus brain, and there are also some very sensitive chemical and tactile receptors on the body.

This unique neural structure gives it a thinking ability beyond that of ordinary animals.

Li Yu couldn't help but study the octopus in his hand carefully.

The octopus, which was still struggling, finally calmed down and collapsed in Li Yu's palm as if resigned to its fate.

"Don't worry, I won't dissect you into slices."

Li Yu said to the octopus, and then completely focused his consciousness on the octopus, trying to figure out how the mysterious spiritual network of the octopus was achieved.

However, the moment Li Yu penetrated his consciousness into the octopus's brain, the seemingly limp octopus bit his palm hard, and at the same time condensed all his mental power into a needle, and pointed towards Li Yu. Consciousness pierced through.

The projected arm will not hurt, let alone feel pain.

But this needle, which was purely condensed by spiritual power, was completely unexpected by Li Yu, and stabbed him hard.

Li Yu only felt a "hum" in his brain, as if he was suddenly stuffed into a swarm of screaming hornets, and all his nerves trembled at the same time.

"Let's go, let's go, the boat capsizes in the gutter, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!"

At the moment when the severe headache struck, Li Yu only felt his conscious body being flattened and rounded, and a strange force was rushing wildly in the blood vessels of his head, which could not be calmed down no matter what.

Just when he was about to lose consciousness, the ball of light hidden in Li Yu's brain finally moved.

The cool source of life enveloped Li Yu's brain, slowly healed the trauma suffered by Li Yu's conscious body, and assimilated and decomposed the mental force needle that the octopus stabbed into Li Yu's brain.

This process lasted only a moment, and all the discomfort disappeared.

However, the source of life that Li Yu had accumulated during this period of time was also consumed a lot for this, and the scale line dropped to a position below 5 again.

And the octopus that stabbed Li Yu also took the opportunity to sneak back into the sea and disappeared.

Even after Li Yu used his consciousness to repeatedly search for the octopus in the ocean, he still found nothing.

"Damn it, don't let me find you again! If I find you, I will cook hot pot for you!" Li Yu said very depressed, holding his forehead.

For him, this world is finally no longer full of secrets.

"Disappointing, withdraw." Li Yu said, but glanced to the other side of the coast. The colony of adaptants was fleeing towards the east, without even noticing that the terrifying octopus had disappeared.

"To the east? Okay, go, I will prepare an island for you there." Li Yu said to the ant colony.

Originally, this sentence was actually Li Yu talking to himself, and it was impossible for the ants to hear it.

But at the moment when Li Yu said this sentence, countless threads of spiritual power centered on Li Yu, radiated out, and accurately connected to every adapted ant.

At this moment, he found that he could easily control the next move of the ants through these silk threads, and let them die for him at will.

Li Yu's originally extremely depressed mood immediately improved.

It never occurred to him that after the octopus's spiritual needle pierced him, instead of hurting him at all, it was completely absorbed by him and turned into a part of his power.

"This is really a surprise." Li Yu smiled and manipulated a few adapted ants to dance ballet on the bottom of the sea.

But just when he was playing vigorously, an inappropriate voice broke in.

I saw the Shrimp Queen circling anxiously on the bottom of the sea, looking for the missing octopus like crazy, crying and begging: "God! The ancient god! Please don't abandon me! Please don't abandon my people!"

Seeing the bewildered look of the Shrimp Queen, Li Yu suddenly had an unknown fire in his heart.

He projected half of his body in the sky of this world, and condescendingly yelled at the Shrimp Queen on the bottom of the sea: "God, God, God! You are also a queen after all, you can protect the people yourself!"

Li Yu's figure exploded in the Shrimp Queen's ears like thunder, causing her to huddle in the fine sand at the bottom of the sea, not daring to say another word.

It was not until a long time later that the Shrimp Queen slowly raised her eyestalks and looked at the tall body above her head that covered half of the sky.

"It's really, really spectacular!"

Shrimp Queen praised sincerely.

"Anesia and her people will always serve you!"

"Great... titan!"

(End of this chapter)