Turning his gaze away from the car window, Gu Xinghe walked out of the room and headed towards the dining room in carriage number five.
Because in his perception, two people who were of considerable interest to him were currently gathered in the dining car of carriage number five—
Train conductor Nag, and Wang Penghai, a player he had encountered in the [Tavern of Doom] instance.
So, filled with curiosity and interest, Gu Xinghe left his room.
When he entered carriage number five, he saw in the dining car at that moment—
The large blue worm that he had previously seen among the train passengers in the observation car was "happily" feeding.
Compared to how normal people eat, the food and methods that worms consume are undoubtedly much more bizarre.
It was not eating any fancy meal or rough, unrefined meat.
The large blue worm eats a paste-like food that resembles a nutrient solution and would never taste good to a normal person.
While the giant worm ate its meal, oblivious to everyone else, its body was simultaneously undergoing changes—
Its blue body was gradually turning transparent.
Then it revealed the insect eggs that filled its body, which looked like basil seeds used for soaking in water.
These tiny, densely packed "fragrant egg cells" suspended in the worm's body are constantly floating inside the large worm, undergoing some rather subtle positional changes.
It's as if the body of the large blue worm is merely a cradle for nurturing these unhatched eggs.
Its feeding at this time is only to keep these insect eggs alive.
Therefore, we can see that the large blue worm's feeding method at this time is quite direct and brutal.
Even using the adjective "direct and brutal" might not be accurate enough.
The blue worm's feeding method is clearly "directly to the stomach," meaning it puts food directly into its "stomach."
However, Gu Xinghe was not quite sure whether the other party had an organ like a "stomach".
But he could see that in the lower middle part of the large blue worm's body, a rather thick "feeding tube" protruded from the surface, sucking up the food paste in front of it.
Perhaps the nutrients in that paste-like nutritional food were indeed very rich and sufficient, requiring slow absorption.
So although the large blue worm now looks like a "feeding warrior," the portion of food doesn't seem very large.
However, the large blue worm did not immediately finish its cooking process and quickly clean up the entire portion of food.
Gu Xinghe looked at the giant worm's current appearance with great interest and had a slight idea of performing a biological dissection.
However, when he tried to use his mental power to penetrate the worm's body and explore it further.
He noticed something similar to what he had observed when the large worm was feeding—
At this point, the large blue worm that can be seen with the naked eye is actually just a stretched-out "skin".
And when Gu Xinghe tried to listen to the "contents" under the skin of the giant worm, namely the "fragrant worm eggs".
The sound he heard was like hundreds or thousands of tiny flying insects buzzing and chirping in his ear at the same time.
Moreover, when Gu Xinghe probed the giant worm with his spiritual power, he was able to discover that—
Although the eggs inside the large blue worm looked quite tiny, they were actually of varying sizes.
These egg masses, which vary in size, will gradually grow larger after receiving nutrients from the esophagus of the large worm.
Eventually, the membrane enveloping the insect egg may even begin to "melt" and "merge" with other insect eggs.
This "merging" is not a process of devouring, but rather the original insect egg beginning to fuse with the surrounding insect eggs.
Because what Gu Xinghe could perceive was during the time he was "listening".
The already noisy cacophony of hundreds and thousands of flying insects did not decrease at all.
This is also why Gu Xinghe judged that it was not a direct consumption of another different insect egg, but some kind of fusion.
However, when Gu Xinghe tried to go deeper, attempting to enter the interior of each insect egg.
While conducting similar "microscopic" observations, he felt that he was being hindered.
For the Zerg, rapid military expansion and collective spiritual consciousness for external defense may be a common practice.
But something is strange—
The obstruction Gu Xinghe is experiencing now is not from the combined resistance of the hundreds or thousands of eggs inside the giant worm.
It comes from that seemingly insignificant "skin" that is merely used for disguise.
Moreover, Gu Xinghe's exploration of the giant worm had been "unimpeded" all the way.
However, when he tried to explore the inside of the worm eggs, the worm skin seemed to only realize what was happening after its "inner core" had been invaded, and then it belatedly sounded a useless alarm.
Then he sent all the mental energy that Gu Xinghe had used to probe back to the worm's skin.
Yes.
While most people assume that since worms contain so many eggs under their skin, the most important internal components of a worm must be all the eggs inside its body.
Perhaps when all the eggs inside these bodies have fully fused, they can still follow a path of "being one and ten thousand".
Just when everyone thought the giant worm's outer skin was just a useless camouflage.
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