Chapter 2393 Dad Is Here!

Li Yao observed carefully for a long time, and found that although the "metal snails" were hunted most of the time, they were not completely defenseless.

When the "metal snails" gather to a certain order of magnitude and break through the critical point in the panic of fleeing, they will turn their heads and launch a counterattack towards the "metal starfish".

The "metal snails" were originally silver-colored bugs, but now they have turned dark black one after another, and their bodies are thinner and longer, as if they have entered a "battle state", like hard nails one after another.

Countless "metal snails" fired themselves at the "metal starfish" like bullets, poking holes in the hunters who chased them down.

The body of the "metal starfish" is composed of liquid metal, which naturally has the ability to repair itself. If the number of "metal snails" is not enough, the wounds that are shot through will heal in just a few seconds. The "metal snail" will be embedded in its body, and it will easily swallow it.

From this point of view, the "metal snail" seems to have thrown itself into the tiger's mouth, looking for a dead end.

Even if the "metal snail" directly penetrated the body of the "metal starfish", it seemed to have exhausted all its vitality and slowly sank into the depths of the magma.

However, when countless "metal snails" attack the "metal starfish" without fear of death, they will greatly exceed the self-healing limit of liquid metal. The mutilated body of the "starfish", along with the fragments of countless "metal snails", slowly sank to the bottom of the magma lake.

What a tragic "suicide attack"!

The huge lava lake is divided into different colorful areas. As far as Li Yao can see, there are hundreds of "metal starfish" and tens of thousands of "metal snails" chasing and fighting each other. A small war, or a constant game of two survival strategies.

Li Yao was simply fascinated.

He found that the relatively weak "metal snails" seem to have two survival logics.

First of all, if survival is the first instinct, they naturally want to preserve themselves to the maximum extent, so when the "metal starfish" comes to hunt, they will often give priority to scatter and flee in all directions.

However, their average speed is always slightly slower than that of the "metal starfish", which means that all the "metal snails" are caught up and swallowed up.

If you want to survive for a long time, it seems that you must restrain your instinct to flee. Instead, hundreds of "metal snails" must gather together, and all "people" must not be afraid of sacrifice, and rush forward one after another to die with the "metal starfish". Increase the survival probability of the entire group.

As for the "metal starfish", there are also two survival logics.

Li Yao guessed that in this cruel and weird "ecosystem", "metal snails" were relatively low-level "species", and they directly fed on the light and heat energy of magma.

"Metal starfish" is a relatively advanced "species", which is located at the top of the "food chain" and feeds on "metal snails".

Then, in order to survive and develop, the "metal starfish" must devour the "metal snails" without stopping, and hunting is the only mission and meaning of their lives.

However, if this kind of engulfment reaches the limit, forcing the "metal snail" to have nowhere to go, and the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and in turn fights with it desperately, it also has a considerable chance of death.

Therefore, the "metal starfish" must carefully control the hunting rhythm. On the one hand, it cannot force the "metal snails" too tightly. On the other hand, it must always pay attention to the phenomenon of "metal snails" clumping together. It fled.

In such a delicate situation, it must also make careful calculations to devour those single, prey that can be devoured to the maximum extent.

The result of two simple rules colliding with each other is the ever-changing survival strategies and hunting scenes. Li Yao observed the hunting of hundreds of "metal starfish" at the same time, but he didn't find a single one that was the same.

"It's incredible!"

Although they were low-level psychic puppets with a very simple structure, Li Yao felt a kind of taste in them... which cannot be described in words, and he didn't feel it in high-level combat puppets.

These little metal creatures do not seem to accept the manipulation of a certain master crystal brain, but seem to be living and fighting spontaneously and automatically under the guidance of simple survival logic!

In this magma lake deep underground, Li Yao smelled the prehistoric smell.

Explore all the way along the lake, through the steaming heat, and soon come to the other end of the magma lake.

The temperature here is significantly lower than that at the other end, the magma is orange-red, and there is a mess of metal wires entangled together beside the lake. Countless metal wires extend into the magma lake at one end, and the other end grows wildly in the form of teeth and claws.

"Are these... plants?"

For some reason, Li Yao came up with such a ridiculous idea.

Of course, these metal wires are not real plants, but they have certain characteristics of plants. Their "root system" is deeply inserted into the magma lake, sucking the light and heat energy of the magma, and the other end continuously releases weak fluctuations.

Li Yao estimated that these insignificant ripples could drive some ultra-micro chips as thin as a cicada's wing, in other words, this is a wireless energy supply system.

The metal cluster devours the light and heat of the magma, and releases weak waves of energy to drive nearby ultramicrochips, just like plants perform photosynthesis and release oxygen for animals to breathe.

"This is simply a primitive forest in the form of metal!"

Li Yao was surprised and amazed at the same time. He looked over the "metal forest" and looked towards the shore where the temperature was lower. He was really surprised.

He saw a... "city".

Although it is very inappropriate to use the word "city" to describe it, he really doesn't know how to describe the large and small buildings in front of him like steamed buns.

These "steamed buns" are about half a meter in diameter and height, and the small ones are only the size of a fist. All the steamed buns are densely covered with holes, like a honeycomb turned upside down.

Countless ant-sized psychic puppets moved in and out between the holes, and moved along the "road" planned between the steamed buns.

Occasionally, there are some slightly larger psychic puppets that have the ability to fly, but they "buzz buzz" and shuttle between several relatively large "steam buns".

The whole building complex is patchwork, orderly and full of vitality.

If you ignore the shapes of the steamed buns and psionic puppets, this is a busy town!

Li Yao noticed that some small psychic puppets were still shuttling between the "city" and the "forest", dragging some capsule-like things to the messy metal wire ball, inserting the capsule into the end of the metal wire, Soon, the original off-white capsules shone like strange fireflies.

The psionic puppet transported these shining capsules back to his "city".

So, is it because the power of wireless energy supply is not enough, do we have to use this method to collect energy, just like humans go to the forest to chop wood to get enough heat energy?

If the magma lake is regarded as the ocean of ancient times, the scene in front of you is completely the embryonic form of the "ancestors" fighting against the sky and developing civilization!

Li Yao didn't know whether he should "tsk tut" or "shock".

The entire underground space seems to be in the shape of a gourd. At the end of the magma lake is a long and narrow crack, which happens to be the waist of the gourd. Li Yao heard laughter like silver bells coming from the other side of the crack.

This laughter sounds familiar, which makes people love or hate it.

Li Yao pondered for a moment, then squeezed through the crack generously.

Sure enough, there is something different in the gap, it is a small underground space, the temperature is much lower than that of the magma lake, and the surrounding cave walls are inlaid with faint blue ore, exuding a trace of coolness, making Li Yao Lift your spirits!

If you look closely, you can see that on the diagonal of the cave, there is a high platform formed by stone pillars, on which two children aged seven or eight and eight or nine are sitting cross-legged.

The boy on the left has a tiger head and a tiger head, with murderous intent and fighting intent blooming in his round eyes, he looks like a troublemaker who is not afraid of anything.

The girl on the right looks quiet and well-behaved, but from time to time there is a quirky gleam in her eyes, and the slightly raised corners of her mouth are always a bit sure of winning, perhaps even more difficult to deal with than the sharp-edged boy.

Between the two children, there are thousands of ultra-miniature psychic puppets, which are the little ants that Li Yao saw in the "city" just now.

These little ants were shining with red and green lights, and they were manipulated by two little guys to attack and kill each other.

Li Yao quickly discovered the rules, as long as one "ant" is bitten by two "ants" of the opponent, it will automatically change into the opponent's color and join the opponent's camp.

Naturally, the game is decided when all ants are of one color.

When Li Yao arrived, the game had come to an end. The boy's remnants of red ants were heavily besieged by the girl's army of green ants. No matter how hard he rushed left and right, he couldn't get out. Instead, the girl patiently weakened him layer by layer until finally, Only the last red ant remained.

According to the rules, a red ant cannot transform into a green ant.

The boy lost.

"A great civilization will never surrender, go!"

Shouting, the boy manipulated the last red ant to rush up, and was quickly swallowed by the huge wave of green ants.

Li Yao secretly marveled, although it was just a game between children, the unpredictable tactics and the subtlety of attack timing were not inferior to the most professional war game deduction, and it was more than a hundred times more complicated than the fierce battle in the magma lake.

Deep in the ground, beside the magma lake, two children manipulating metal ants to play war games. What a strange picture!

And what did Li Yao think, why did he think these two brats looked so familiar?

"Where is this place, who are you guys?"

Li Yao coughed dryly, reminding the two little guys of his own existence, and said with all his attention, "Where are your adults? Since you have invited me, 'Vulture Li Yao', here, why hide your head and show your tail? Don't you want to be ashamed?"

"ha!"

The two little guys stood up at the same time, with happy smiles on their faces, and stretched out their fleshy arms like tender lotus root to Li Yao, "Daddy is here, Daddy!"