Chapter 845 The Eye of the Nest
pain!
It hurts!
Unbearable pain!
It flapped its tentacles in boredom, making the surrounding sea water turbid. The "blades" and "feet" hidden in its body trembled, obviously shocked by the anger it revealed.
Pain is not an unfamiliar feeling.
From the beginning of its birth to becoming the Eye of the Nest, it has fought, injured, annexed, and evolved more than once with the enemy. Pain can make the body's response more sensitive, and it is also the feedback necessary to absorb magic power.
What makes it angry is not pain, but... an unprecedented emotion.
It tried to match this emotion with the reactions of other beings, but soon found that it was unnecessary—this feeling was hidden in the instinct of most species, even if the individuals were far apart, they were surprisingly the same on this point.
fear.
It found itself tasting fear for the first time.
This made it a little overwhelmed, and subconsciously became furious.
kill!
kill her!
Want to kill her!
That tiny bug that rushed into his body, that bug that dared to challenge him even with insignificant magic power! Sooner or later it would tear her to pieces and hang her head on the skeleton, as the redmist crawler had done.
However, neither anger nor fear is an emotion necessary for growth - it has never been afraid of pain before, nor will it be extremely annoyed by temporary setbacks, and even... it has never thought about such a situation before. question.
Think of nothing but evolution.
Evolution is more important than survival. Survival is only for the individual, but evolution is the sublimation of the group.
It realizes that something is wrong with itself.
What is wrong?
Just thinking about this question made its head ache unbearably - the high-heat flame not only caused it to lose a third of its body, but also made its reaction extremely sluggish.
It takes time.
Time can regenerate its body as before.
Time can also allow it to find out.
It suppressed the fear, anger, and other subtle and diverse emotions that were experienced for the first time, and sank into the mud on the bottom of the sea.
...
After more than ten days, it crawled out of its hiding place and released all the "blades" and "feet" in its body.
Although it lost a lot in the battle, it didn't care. As long as the injury is fully recovered, new vassals can be bred at any time.
It's hungry and needs food.
At the same time, some problems of its own have also been concluded.
First of all, it found that it had lost a lot of pheromones, which were taken from all kinds of bugs, which could help the evolution of the group, and collecting them was also the primary task of the Eye of the Brood. This loss is understandable—following the loud bang, its body was smashed to pieces by the flames and heat waves, and part of it was the brain used to store pheromones. Now even if it has been repaired in sevens and eighties, it will be gone if it is gone. It is like a punctured water bag, and it will not help if it is repaired afterwards.
This is not a big deal, bugs are everywhere, just collect them when they are lost.
What's more, the most important red fog multi-eyed worm is not lost, so the loss can be said to be limited.
However, the problem is that it has lost contact with the mother of the main nest!
It's incredible!
Since its birth, its destiny has been closely linked with the group, and this relationship is inseparable. As long as it is in the same water area, no matter how far apart it is, it can feel the existence of the main nest. Through water waves, it can not only transmit the collected pheromones, but also share the evolutionary instructions of the group.
But now—all gone.
After being injured, it hardly thought about it. It waited until the consciousness flowed smoothly and was ready to spread the pheromone of the polyphthalmia, only to realize where the strange feeling came from.
Even when the tide of the ocean is ebbing and the waters are uniform, it can't hear the call of the main nest.
At first it suspected that the body had not been regenerated completely, but as long as it was not completely dead, any individual separated from the main nest would not sever its connection. After repeated inspections, it found that a part of its brain was actually fused with the red mist multi-eyed worm, rather than completely annexed.
Obviously, the other party took advantage of its weakness and made a final dying struggle.
After realizing this, it was startled and angry at first, but calmed down soon.
A moron bug is a bug.
Even that didn't do any good.
It can no longer feel the existence of the multi-eyed worm. On the contrary, all the remaining eyes of the red mist worm belong to it. Through these strange magic eyes, it can "see" many primitive life forms looking at it.
After thinking for a long time, it finally came to a conclusion.
It was this part of the fusion that made it impossible to contact the main hive, and it also gave it some strange "bug emotions".
For example fear.
For example anger.
And... ego.
According to the above results, it should have returned to the Zenith Sea first, told the mother of the main hive everything that happened here, and then handed itself over to the other party——in the case that the water wave transmission does not work, the annexation can be completely preserved Pheromones, thus helping the group to obtain available evolutionary instructions.
It is a matter of course that evolution is more important than survival.
But now it hesitates.
In the past ten days, it found that it was thinking more than in the past hundred years. Whether it was fighting, annexation, collection, or growth, it used to be instinctive, but now, this instinct seems to no longer exist... …
Another point is that there is no limit to the use of pheromones.
Evolution is a very careful choice. After all the pheromones collected by the nest eyes are passed to the main nest, the main nest analyzes and screens useful fragments, and then issues evolution instructions after reconstruction. Evolution is not just a change in the nest eye. From the main nest to the small appendages such as "blade" and "foot", they all grow up step by step in this way.
Therefore, there is almost no difference between the eyes of the various nests.
But while it was waiting for its body to recover, it accidentally used a piece of pheromone—from a primitive individual that could heal itself quickly. It was precisely because of this that the serious injury that would take at least several months to repair improved in just ten days, which also made it aware of its own difference.
It is no longer a normal nest eye.
"Foot" quickly dragged back a large amount of food - all nearby primitive aquatic organisms, or as the worms called them: fish. Most of them have their heads cut off cleanly by the "blade". The fishy smell that diffuses will inevitably attract more fish, and it will not take long for it to fill its stomach.
These low-level aquatic organisms obviously enjoy the same resources as them, but they are still at the bottom of the competitors. For some reason, it suddenly thought of itself when it saw these thoughtless fish being delivered to its door.
Now that it has fear, it doesn't want to go back to the Zenith Sea. The bug's emotions interfere with it. At this moment, survival is more important than anything else.
It was afraid that the mother of the hive would swallow it up, and it was also afraid that the erratic bug would come to the door again.
It also wanted to take revenge on the bug, and the anger in its heart didn't dissipate, it just hid it temporarily.
Fear and anger appear alternately, and it finds that there are many more things it wants, and these are things it has never considered before.
Evolution is the only way to achieve this.
Swallowing the school of fish into its body, it can't wait to move.
It would never be so eager before, all the nest eyes are doing the same thing, one more is not much, and one less is not much.
But now it's different.
The subsequent collection and evolution have nothing to do with the ethnic group.
This time, just for itself.