This wide passage hidden underground is unexpectedly long.
Lin Shuo could feel that the circular passage went underground for a certain distance at the beginning, and the subsequent trend was basically flat.
And as the three of them continued to move forward, the strange and thin smell in the air gradually became stronger.
The body odor of the Dover demon is much weaker than that of other beasts.
The reason why the smell here is getting stronger and stronger is because the air here is not very circulated, and it has accumulated over time.
With little taste, this piece of information is currently only in Lin Shuo's hands, and he doesn't need to share it with others.
Because other people here do not have the ability to analyze this piece of information.
From the hunting heritage of the Lin family, Lin Shuo knew long ago that the body odor of a species is often related to its combat effectiveness.
Under normal circumstances, things with a large body odor have strong combat effectiveness.
This is because the guys with big body odor are often mammals.
In terms of paleontology, mammals originated from synapsids more than 200 million years ago.
After the vertebrates landed in large numbers, this kind of creature did not do well at first, lingering on the edge of the ecosystem.
As part of the human evolutionary branch, these very distant human ancestors, from the present point of view, were extremely adventurous when faced with the desperate situation of survival.
But in fact, it was forced.
Due to the pressure of the ecological niche, they were forced to leave the previous waterside environment and develop deep into the land.
As a result, there are really no natural enemies deep in the land. This historical opportunity is too good.
In order to adapt to the rapidly changing new environment, the demand for biological evolution is too strong, and the cycle of biological evolution cannot reach this speed, which leads to incomplete evolution.
One of the imperfections of evolution is that the skin, like that of past amphibian ancestors, is filled with glands.
The existence of this gland, coupled with the problem of metabolizing urea, leads to the extremely poor water retention capacity of these animals, which is not good for going deep into land.
The evolution of organisms is originally a process of adapting to the current environment, keeping things simple, making mistakes, and constantly updating and patching.
So these glands located on the body surface slowly evolved into sweat glands.
It is precisely because of the existence of sweat glands that the body temperature can be adjusted by sweating, and mammals with constant temperature were born.
The combat effectiveness of mammals is stronger than other types of creatures.
Because they subsequently evolved a highly developed nervous system, allowing them to capture information from the outside world very quickly and respond sensitively.
And because of the constant body temperature, their combat effectiveness is also relatively stable. Unlike reptiles like hooked snakes, they will droop their heads in winter.
This kind of thing falls in the nose of the Lin family. Because of the existence of sweat glands and the evaporative properties of sweat itself, the smell is easily captured and the body odor is strong.
For other types of animals, this aspect is much worse.
But the Dover demons encountered today, with such a very faint body odor, are obviously not mammals.
Lin Shuo had fought against them before. This thing was wearing heavy armor, moved swiftly, and had extremely powerful fighting power.
This is a bit subversive.
This kind of subversion not only does not match the previous experience that body taste and strength are linked, but also makes the Lin family's position identification less reliable.
Originally, Lin Shuo was in the forest, and the smell of things came from him. The information about how many animals were there and where they were was all clear.
It's not good now, on the one hand, the smell is too weak, on the other hand, he has just come into contact with this smell, so there is not enough basis for judgment.
So Lin Shuo was not sure how many Dover demons were lurking underground, and where they were lurking.
He can only roughly know that there are many nearby, and they are getting closer.
"Lin Shuo." Yun Xiu'er asked from behind, "Tell me, does the Dover Devil know we're coming in?"
"I don't know." Lin Shuo replied.
"How can you judge that they don't know?" Yun Xiu'er asked again.
Lin Shuo added: "I mean I don't know."
"You don't even know this, why bring the two of us here."
"It is precisely because we don't know too much about the Dover Devil that we are here." Lin Shuo said, "Compared with the others, the three of us have a higher chance of surviving. Go up some. As long as you can go back alive, you can hand over the information."
"But your current goal doesn't seem to be as simple as escaping one or two people, and you still want to capture one of them." Yun Xiu'er said.
"What do you mean I still want to capture one?" Lin Shuo glanced at his cousin, "We want to capture one."
"I told you two to be gentle!" Miao Chengyun reminded at this time, "Are you afraid that the Dover Devil won't know we're here or something?"
"Hey." Yun Xiu'er sighed, and said to Lin Shuo, "You idiot, you still don't understand."
"You never said that about your husband." Lin Shuo shook his head, "Men, you should encourage them more."
"I'm not married yet!" Yun Xiu'er said.
"Anyway, it's just these two days." Lin Shuo said.
"Hey, what do you two mean?" Miao Chengyun asked, "What do you mean this fool doesn't understand now? What don't I understand?"
"It's not like you are so eager to recognize a fool." Lin Shuo said helplessly, "I really can't blame you for this matter, most people can't understand it."
"Vision and hearing are the way we humans perceive, but they may not belong to Dover demons." Yun Xiu'er finally explained, "One of the simplest truths is that if Miao Chengyun can marry Su Nianqiu, you will still be able to marry Su Nianqiu." Will you marry me Yunxiuer?"
Miao Chengyun was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lin Shuo.
Lin Shuo rolled his eyes: "Why are you looking at me now? Hurry up and express your opinion!"
"Of course not!" Miao Chengyun shook his head like a rattle.
"I can't save you." Lin Shuo shook his head and walked straight forward.
He only heard Yun Xiuer yell angrily from behind, and then punched Miao Chengyun.
While beating five and four, Yun Xiu'er continued: "In the same way, since you can directly communicate with nerve signals, and you can also use nerve signals to capture prey, why does the Dover demon develop visual and auditory abilities? Even if they had vision and hearing in a certain period of history, now, after they have established a highly developed neural network, these two abilities will degenerate."
"Cousin, it's almost done, if you keep beating him up, he's going to degenerate." Lin Shuo advised in front, "This is mainly up to you, digging such a hole for him to jump in, isn't it just for your own enjoyment? "
"Su Nianqiu is your wife. Don't you feel uncomfortable being missed by this bastard?" Yun Xiu'er kicked Miao Chengyun to the cave wall with a sideways kick, and then jumped on it again.
"Women like Nianqiu are first-class in the world, no matter how they look or how they behave. Isn't it common for people to miss them?" Still alive
If these people are capable, then come and grab a look.
Also, cousin, don't keep comparing yourself to Nian Qiu.
No matter how good she is, that's her too.
You, Yun Xiuer, still have merits, such as your trick of monkey picking peaches, which is very resolute and decisive.
He doesn't think about his future happiness at all, that's cruel enough. "
Lin Shuo said cheap words, but he didn't mean to try to persuade the fight at all.
Because he knew that in terms of physical ability, Miao Chengyun was stronger than Yun Xiu'er.
In the mist before, he took down the others including Yun Xiu'er with one move.
Only Miao Chengyun and He Yongchang could struggle a few tricks in their own hands.
In Lin Shuo's eyes, Miao Chengyun just didn't have enough experience in fighting the enemy, but his physical strength was already a rare master in the world.
In addition, he is a fellow practitioner of the Three Paths, and his future achievements will still be higher than He Yongchang.
Now according to Yunxiuer's beating like this, he looks scary when he is beaten up and flying around, but in fact he is just flirting and cursing, there is no problem at all.
By the way, the two of them have warmed up, and when they meet the Dover Devil later, they will be in a better state.
After being beaten for five minutes, Yun Xiuer seemed to lose her temper, and followed Lin Shuo without saying a word.
Like a normal person, Miao Chengyun still praised her: "Sister Xiu'er, you are good at strength, this massage is stronger than the last one."
"Hmph." Yun Xiu'er snorted coldly, "You should thank Mr. for giving you a good body. Such a good talent for cultivation is really wasted."
"By the way, I said before that the Dover demons use nerve signals to detect their prey, right?" Miao Chengyun asked at this moment, his mind still spinning after being beaten, "Although we make a big noise now , maybe they can't hear it, but they can detect our nerve signals! So we are here now, they should know, right?"
"This is a kind of game." Lin Shuo said, "In Yun Xiuer's discussion just now, there is actually a problem, that is, according to her analysis, there is no obstacle to the communication between the Dover demons, and the efficiency It is extremely high, and it is no problem to detect prey.
But what about their detection of the environment
The surrounding environment has no nerve signals.
How do they understand their current situation
Especially in a living environment like the underground, vision is not very useful, and whether hearing is useful enough is still open to question.
So, I'm betting on a possibility. "
"What's possible?" Miao Chengyun asked.
"Their understanding of the environment is a relatively simple way." Lin Shuo said, "That is individual trial and error."
"Individual trial and error?"
"In short, it is to use the method of whether the individual can survive to detect whether the current environment is safe. This is also the way of many low-level creatures." Lin Shuo said, "Other animals can't do this unless they are less than a certain order of magnitude. , otherwise they would have died long ago. But Dover demons can, because their individuals are strong enough, and there are very few extreme environments that can kill them individually on this earth.
If this assumption is true, then the Dover Demon's detection of the surrounding environment is actually relatively rough.
It is precisely because it is strong enough that it does not matter.
And this indifference to the environment hinders their further evolution.
So they currently only have a neural network, but they don't have a high IQ. "
"That is to say..." Miao Chengyun said, "These guys are actually quite autistic?"
"It's just a possibility." Lin Shuo said, "If this possibility actually exists, then no matter what these autistic groups do, they do it based on their own needs, without much consideration for external factors.
They hunt because the group needs nutrients at this stage of development, regardless of whether the timing of hunting is appropriate or not.
And if the group is temporarily nutrient-rich, they will not have predation behavior.
This is what I'm betting on right now.
They have just finished hunting for a day, and they have no desire to prey.
So even if we are in front of them now, they may not be interested in us. "
"It's like you Miao Chengyun coveting Su Nianqiu, but Lin Shuo didn't respond." Yun Xiu'er said, "We can understand Lin Shuo and Su Nianqiu as a couple.
Here are two reasons:
The first reason is that Su Nianqiu is not interested in you at all.
It's as if the Dover demons are currently finishing their predation and are not interested in additional food.
The second reason is that in Lin Shuo's eyes, you, Miao Chengyun, are too weak in every aspect to pose any threat.
As if we were too weak to be a threat in the eyes of the Dover demons.
So, even if you are in front of Su Nianqiu, the couple still treat you as if you don't exist.
The reason why I still chat with you is just the way of the world.
In the same way, even if we are in front of the Dover demon, the Dover demon can detect our nerve signals, but they can just pretend that we do not exist.
do you understand? "
"Sister Xiu'er, although your metaphor is very hurtful, it is easy to understand." Miao Chengyun nodded with embarrassment, and then said, "However, what if the assumption of the two of you does not hold?"
"It will be more troublesome if it is not established." Lin Shuo said sincerely, "So I still suggest that you get married now, so as not to regret it."
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