Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 81 Sponge is a reserve food (please follow up)

Not long after traveling in the ocean, Yuan encountered a relatively troublesome thing.

Walkers and thick rock crabs cannot enter that deep sea area.

Their body structure can only enable them to dive to a depth of 1200 meters, and after reaching such a depth, worms and rock crabs have often lost most of their mobility.

The reptile fish can also be carried by the strong patrollers, after all, those blood relatives who are only in the newborn stage or growth stage are light enough.

But things are different with the slug bugs and thick rock crabs.
These guys are so heavy.

It can't be carried at all.

It is still too far for them to adapt to the deeper ocean.

Yuan had to choose a detour.

Through this incident, Yuan also understood that his tribe needed to adapt to the deep sea.

From the information Thetis told him, Tiaz's ocean bases are basically located on the seabed at a depth of 2000 meters.

This means that if Yuan wants to go to the deep sea to fight Tiaz in the future, his tribe must adapt to the 2000-meter-deep ocean.

Even the deeper oceans.

After all, in addition to Tiaz, there is also a situation of competition between the ethnic groups.

The detour cost Yuan some time.

But the time along the way is also used to evolve yourself.

Yuan also encounters entirely new species.

Although this time it is not as weird as the previous echinoderms and jellyfish.

But when Yuan saw the slowly squirming seabed, he still couldn't help but wonder if he was being deceived.

In fact, it is indeed dazzling.

This is just a mimetic creature.

It is called sponge, and Yuan named it stone sponge.

Because these sponges look so much like seafloor rocks.

Without the resonance of the ocean, Yuan would have never discovered the existence of this creature in this dark seabed.

Or don't think of this creature as a sponge at all.

Although these things look harmless to humans and animals, in fact, in addition to the filter feeding that sponges rely on to maintain their own activities, these guys will also eat the corpses of organisms that fall on them.

It even preys on some small creatures.

In fact, it can't be regarded as hunting, it should be called luck.

Only those small creatures that are willing to drill into the pores of these sponges' bodies will be eaten by the sponges.

Similarly, in this soft sponge group, there are also some sponges in the growth stage.

It's unknown what creatures these sponges ate, and they grew a large number of tiny tentacles.

In addition to being able to better filter feed in the ocean, these tentacles can also actively hunt small creatures that are close to them.

In addition, some sponges have chosen to evolve their own mobility.

But in any case, these sponges do not have any organs and tissues that normal organisms have.

They are even simpler than jellyfish.

It is so simple that you only need to maintain the most basic living conditions to meet daily activities.

Without food, these sponges will even eat themselves.

In terms of the sponge's overall body structure, every part of this creature is the same.

Therefore, sponges do not need to worry about directly killing themselves when eating certain parts of themselves.

Digest your own body and ensure your survival.

This is something sponges often do.

However, this approach is also very dangerous, because there is a kind of sponge that will choose to eat its own kind.The bodies of these sponges are smaller than normal sponges, but their physiological habits have evolved to actively hunt for prey.

What they eat is their own kind.

Their tiny tentacles are the digestive tract.

When these sponges are ready to eat, they pierce these tiny tentacles into the rest of the sponge's body, which then begin digesting the sponge's body.

Digested and absorbed at the same time.

And because sponges move very slowly, basically no sponge can escape the vicious hands of these guys who eat their own kind when the sea water is relatively stable.

However, these cannibalistic sponges do not directly eat all their own kind.

They will follow these sponges closely, eating slowly and digesting them slowly.

Think of your own kind as a mobile food storage.

In this way, these guys basically don't have to worry about digesting themselves due to lack of food.

However, because they have no brains, these sponge idiots are also quite stupid.

Yuan once saw a sponge that was eating its own kind, and when it was operating its tentacles to eat its own kind, the tentacles fell on him.

But what's outrageous is that this guy just left it alone.

Allowing his own tentacles to digest himself.

And when he finds that something is wrong, these sponges will actively disconnect their bodies to ensure that they can survive from the hands of their "same kind".

They have no defense at all against eating themselves.

When the group passed over the sponges, Yuan was keenly aware that the sponges were trying to eat the smallest reptile fish.

But even the smallest reptiles are larger than the largest sponges can control.

The blood relatives of the reptiles in the newborn stage did not realize that they were being targeted by these sponges. They just moved forward normally, and these sponges were no longer able to prey on them.

Not to mention facing the thick rock crabs and wandering insects that eat them as food.

Sponges are like a buffet walking on the ocean floor to rock crabs and worms.

They can eat as much as they want.

This large spread of sponges has undoubtedly become a food reserve for all the blood relatives in the Yuan clan on their way forward.

Yes.

Yuan asked the rock crabs and wandering insects to take some sponges with them.

Just walk and eat all the way.

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This detour added about a week to Yuan's entire journey.

After leaving the sea area where warm and cold ocean currents meet, the tribe headed south. After a month and a half, the destination of this trip finally appeared in the resonance of Yuan's ocean.

At this moment, the landbird islands have been lost in the ocean resonance, but a brand new island has appeared.

islands.

This is the word Thetis taught Yuan.

Let Yuan know that although the huge land in front of him is huge, it can still be called an island because it is surrounded by sea.

Measured by the gaps in the ocean's resonance, the island is larger than the entire Landbird Archipelago combined.

And the destination of Yuan's trip happened to be right here.

However, Yuan also noticed that under the coverage of his leader's consciousness, two beings who could connect to his leader's consciousness actually appeared on this island.

There is one consciousness that is very clearly the producer, because the feeling he brings to Yuan is very similar to that of Vine.

But the other one is a very obvious leader of the group.

For Yuan, this may not be a good thing.

Because the leader of this group lives on land.

(End of this chapter)