Chapter 732 A Good Man Among Fishes!

Lu Yao took out potato chips, melon seeds, popcorn and Coke, and prepared for a protracted battle.

Inside the screen.

The landed fish continued to crawl around in the white room.

Every once in a while, a white block would fall into the room, and the Landing Fish would come over to feast on it, with ↑UP status constantly appearing above its head. Its body had grown several times in size, and it looked more and more like a small black crocodile.

Eat and sleep, walk when wake up, eat when tired, the landed fish lives a life of adoption without worries about food and clothing.

Lu Yao saw that black lines would still appear periodically on the white room. The coherent symbols formed by these black lines seemed to convey some information to the landing fish, or they seemed to be purely recording the feeding time and the status of the landing fish.

He was unsure of the black-bearded monster's purpose.

Is it purely for pet keeping, scientific experiment, breeding, or saving endangered animals?

After comparing and observing, Lu Yao confirmed one thing.

The fish feed thrown into the white room is the World Stone.

Since it can provide such resources to feed the fish, the black-bearded monster must obviously be some kind of advanced life form with abundant advanced resources.

Lu Yao ate popcorn and continued to observe.

One day, the screen went black again, and when the picture reappeared, the Landing Fish came to the long-missed ground. Next to it stood the Blackbeard Monster, and the body of this columnar monster could not be seen in its entirety.

The black monster's tentacles moved and condensed on the ground, walking in a manner that was almost like sliding, while the landing fish was in a daze. The black monster's tentacles poked it, and it reluctantly took two steps.

After the simplest physical communication, the black monster began to take the landed fish for a walk outdoors.

Lu Yao heaved a sigh of relief instead.

The black monster is playing with fish, which means it is very likely preparing to raise land fish for a long time.

He also discovered something.

The screen has a narrow field of view, no text or translation, because [Xiaoyaoyou] adopts the third-person perspective of the current generation of life. Where the fish cannot see, Lu Yao behind him cannot see it either. Fish do not have the corresponding language and cognitive ability, and will not display text and complex information.

This generation of landed fish has entered a wonderful journey.

Lu Yao summoned Isabel and the gathering spirit Baroye to observe and discuss together.

Baroye still maintained the appearance of a humanoid black mud monster. It stood aside somewhat stiffly, knowing the position of its subordinates very well.

Isabel skillfully brought a bench and sat beside it, observing attentively.

"Baroye, what do you think?" Lu Yao called out.

"Uh, big boss, Baroye has no idea about Getaway."

The gathering spirit answered in a low voice.

Lu Yao then asked, "What is this black shadow? Have you ever seen or known anything similar?"

Baroye moved a little closer to the screen.

“No.”

Isabel next to him said, "My lord, that thing is trying to tame and teach this fish."

"It was using its limbs, those whiskers, to communicate with the fish, forming an almost identical outline on the ground."

After Isabel reminded him, Lu Yao discovered that the black monster's whiskers had condensed into a clear shape - it had long fins on its back, four claws, a tail, a relatively large head, and was crawling on the ground, like a three-dimensional black shadow of a landing fish.

The only difference is that the back of this black shadow is connected to the black monster's whiskers, just like a puppeteer controlling a puppet on the stage.

As soon as the strange creature appeared, the landed fish walked around it and became noticeably more active.

Its social characteristics have been stimulated.

The black-bearded monster began to take the landing fish out for walks more frequently, and they went to more and more places, sometimes under the water, sometimes on the mountain, and finally the black-bearded monster took the landing fish and floated into the sky.

Lu Yao saw part of the situation on the ground from the air.

Only a few scattered lakes remained on the earth, and the whole world became extremely dry, with no traces of animals. Volcanoes rose up on the surface, either emitting thick smoke or spewing magma.

What is strange is that these volcanoes have the same shape. They are located at the intersection of a V-shaped mountain range and look like triangular stars.

These mountains are connected to each other, forming a strange totem that spreads across the land, dividing the entire world into regular intervals, which looks like a honeycomb structure on a plane. The volcanoes erupt one after another according to a special pattern, just like the bright spots on this mountain honeycomb, which reminds Lu Yao of the LED lights on the circuit board.

The world's warming is also caused by the continuous eruption of a large number of volcanoes.

Lu Yao saw that the black-bearded monster flew with the landing fish to a black volcano that was not erupting. At this time, he still couldn't see the whole picture of the black-bearded monster. He could only see the black column where it landed and the long whiskers spreading out.

Its long whiskers reached all the way into the volcano, and after a while the black volcano erupted again.

The black-bearded monster led the landed fish to the next volcano.

"It is at the front end of the world, invoking the power of rules in the back end of the world in reverse."

Baroye finally spoke: "This is a very demanding operation method, even many main gods cannot do it."

Isabel also said: "It may have been stranded in this world for some reason, so it is seeking help from its peers in the outside world."

Lu Yao continued to observe.

The Blackbeard Monster's daily life is to feed the fish, then take the landed fish out to maintain and repair the extinct volcano to keep it erupting. But this also caused the whole world to become hot and everything to wither, even the vegetation and lakes on the ground disappeared without a trace, and from the aerial perspective, only large tracts of desert and rocky mountains could be seen.

However, this has no effect on landing fish.

Because the blackbeard monster is very caring towards this companion pet, he always feeds it with world stones, which not only maintains the life of the fish, but also allows its level to continue to increase.

This originally inconspicuous landing fish has a longer lifespan than any of its previous ancestors.

Judging from the situation, it is very likely to become the last surviving amphibian, or even a terrestrial creature, in its world.

But slowly, the black-bearded monster began to behave in a variety of confusing ways.

It repairs black volcanoes, but can suddenly go crazy and destroy a normal volcano.

It tore off its own tentacles and watched them writhing and struggling on the ground.

It sometimes changes its tentacles into various animals, such as monitors, birds, horses, bears, deer, and butterflies, and then makes these animals move, pretending that they still exist... Then it uses these animals to touch and land fish and fight with the fish, and the fish can only deal with it in a perfunctory manner.

…

Lu Yao could only see that it turned its tentacles into animals because it was bored.

It seems that there is something wrong with the black beard monster's mental state.

Through long-term observation, Lu Yao also gained some new insights into the black-bearded monster.

This advanced life form will leave black marks on any material with its tentacles to express information. Volcanoes all over the world are full of its handwriting, just like its diary.

The blackbeard monster's columnar body is like a drilling rig, which can squeeze out world stones from the world.

The white house that holds the landed fish is inside the blackbeard monster's body.

Every time, the Blackbeard Monster would stuff the landing fish into his body and feed it the World Stone.

…

Baroye suddenly shuddered: "This... this is the Shadow Demon!"

It explained: "Boss, the Shadow Demon is a very powerful virtual creature that appears in the Beyond Limit Zone and the Border Zone. The spirit world has dealt with them in the past. This creature likes to imitate various life forms it sees and create an appearance similar to a shadow."

"Baroye has never seen a shadow demon, but he knows their characteristics. They are a species born with great power and can adapt to various worlds and environments. Even if the world they are in is destroyed, they can survive."

"This species is a natural rule follower. They use and exploit rules as easily as taking a walk. The Eldar have also suffered a lot from them in the past."

"Shadow demons are unpredictable. Although they live alone, they can copy the target's form and even unique abilities, making them very difficult to deal with."

Lu Yao thought about it.

If you encounter a shadow demon and copy Xingtian's [Xing Yao Wu Qian Sui], you will truly transform into an undead warrior.

"Shadow Fiends haunt the Border Zone and the Beyond Limit Zone. Just like some kind of migration, they live and grow in the Border Zone when they are young, and once they reach maturity, they enter the Beyond Limit Zone and never come out again. Mature Shadow Fiends have no natural enemies."

"So what the outside world can see are basically young shadow demons. They are very curious and have their own quirky personalities."

"Boss, the shadow demon in Xiaoyaoyou should be a juvenile."

Baroye's words made Lu Yao understand immediately.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

No wonder Shadow Fiend's behavior sometimes seems a little meaningless, it turns out he's still in the cub stage.

Lu Yao asked: "Is there any danger to the young shadow demon?"

"Because of curiosity, they will replicate indiscriminately, and sometimes they will become very dangerous individuals. They do not think their actions are dangerous, but they will bring disaster to the whole world... In addition, most shadow demons are rebellious. The more you stop them, the more excited they become. Like this one, it created volcanoes in this world and raised the temperature. It must be fun for it."

Baroye also sounded somewhat helpless: "It is quite troublesome to deal with them."

Lu Yao suddenly realized.

This is a world-destroying naughty child.

It's tricky indeed.

"Hey, what's wrong with it?" Isabel suddenly said, "Is this young shadow demon sick?"

Lu Yao looked at the screen.

On the screen, the shadow demon with many tentacles was trembling at this moment. Its body collapsed and slid down as if it had lost its support, and soon turned into a mass of black matter lying flat on the ground, as if its body had melted.

"What's going on?" Lu Yao asked Baroye.

"It's dead."

The gathering spirit whispered, "Most shadow demons cannot grow up healthily. When they are young, they act entirely on instinct and preference, but as they grow, they will gradually awaken from their ignorance. Once awakened, they will begin to think."

"For Shadow Fiends, thinking is an extremely painful thing. Thinking will bring extreme pain and self-doubt. And because of their solitary nature and personality, there are only two results in the end."

"Either you endure and go through this painful growth, formally transform into maturity, and fly into the Transcendental Zone."

"Or you may end up thinking so much that your head explodes and you die, like this young shadow demon."

Baroye said calmly, "Very few Shadow Fiends can reach adulthood. Most of them die by having their heads explode. It's a good death. Young Shadow Fiends are a huge disaster to any world."

Lu Yao was amazed when he heard this.

The super life forms that made the Eldar panic, turned out to be born with intelligence as their natural enemy. When they were in the mindless stage, they were the most dangerous.

"The corpse of a shadow demon is a rare treasure. It contains rich materials because it has replicated many lives, so it has a large number of spiritual fragments. And because of their special structure, they will dissipate quickly. For nearby life, it is an unparalleled delicacy and a ladder for evolution."

Baroye looked at the screen, his tone full of regret: "What a pity, there is no way to get it."

On the screen, the landing fish crawled towards the corpse of the Shadow Demon.

It opened its mouth.

But it suddenly turned around and ran away.

But after a while, the landing fish trotted over again and opened its mouth to take a bite.

It held back and left again.

The landing fish fought a tug-of-war with its feeding instinct until the shadow demon's body completely dried up and turned into a black gray mark on the ground, and then it moved closer.

Then it began to use its head to push the surrounding stones, covering up the last traces left by the Shadow Demon and piling up a simple grave mound.

The landed fish then left.

At this time, a spiritual reaction appears on its head.

Having lost the World Stone provided by the Shadow Fiend, this generation of Landing Fish struggled to find food everywhere, but they were unable to find new supplies to sustain their lives and soon died.

Lu Yao felt a little complicated.

From a utilitarian and rational point of view, he very much hoped that the landing fish could eat the body of the Shadow Fiend.

But from a personal perspective, he admired the courage and loyalty of the fish that landed on the ground despite their instincts.

What a good man among fishes! What a good man among fishes!

Displayed on screen.

[End of this Generation]

"This Happy Journey ends, and the settlement begins. Level gain is 88×100, Spiritual Reaction gain is 1×100, and Reproduction gain is 0×300."

"A new spiritual base has been discovered. Please give it a name."

"This life spirit base evolution was a great success, gaining spiritual energy x514800 and [Xiaoyaoyou] x100."

"Due to the awakening of wisdom, the spiritual base has been sealed and closed."

Lu Yao completed the naming after careful consideration.

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[Spiritual Base·Immortal Lizard]: It has scales on its body, a strong physique, strong self-control, and has developed wisdom.

[Morphological characteristics]: A medium-sized amphibian with a dorsal fin, dark brown in color, and aggressive.

[Habitat]: It can survive in both humid water environment and dry and high temperature environment.

[Life habits]: Omnivorous, living in groups, keen on eating, able to cooperate and coexist with other life forms.

[Rarity]: High

…

A new prompt that has never appeared before also pops up below.

"The conditions are met. Do you want to transform this spiritual base?"

"You can transform it into a divine favor, which will cost 500 spiritual energy."

"You can also transform it into a descendant of God, which will cost 200,000 spiritual energy."

Huh? Lu Yao was stunned.

What is going on here?

(End of this chapter)