Dogs are always cautious and cruel towards their enemies, even if the enemy is just a small mud ball without their claws.
A sticky yellow liquid oozed out of the mud, soaking the surrounding land.
The leading dog, Wangwang, stopped a second before stepping on the wet ground - it was a big yellow dog with brown fur, which made it look honest and simple, but also had some inexplicable pride.
"Ah—Woof!" The big yellow dog lowered its head and sniffed the smell in the soil. The fishy and rotten smell was very similar to the stench emitted by animals when they rot, which made Wangwang, who had a sensitive sense of smell, sneeze several times.
That’s right!
This taste is definitely not a good thing!
The big yellow dog barked and asked its companions to step back, and then it paced around the mud ball and observed it.
evil…
If the mud ball hadn't been moving slowly on the ground, the big yellow dog would have thought it was someone's poop.
For this purpose, it paid special attention to the area around the mud ball to make sure that the mud ball was moving on its own and not being pushed by dung beetles or something.
But this mud ball looked about as non-threatening as poop, a paw-sized lump that constantly oozed a wet, smelly liquid.
The big yellow dog didn't know where his instinctive sense of crisis came from. He was even more nervous than when facing the ferocious and terrifying beasts on the other side, as if this small ball of mud could easily eat him.
While the big yellow dog was observing the mud ball, its companion was waiting behind.
They were a pack of five dogs. The other dogs obeyed the orders of their leader, the big yellow dog. They retreated and stood guard according to the big yellow dog's instructions, and crouched down, ready to support the leader at any time.
"Woo..." The Samoyed, who discovered the mud ball, tucked its tail between its legs. It was a little wilted by the smell, but it lay down and couldn't help but feel a little curious. It wanted to stand up to see what would happen.
As soon as it tried to get up, the big dog next to it discovered its intention and pressed it down with one paw.
"..." The big brown and black dog warned it with a sharp look, and the Samoyed quickly wagged its tail and made a flattering sound.
The big black dog was really big, with brown-black fur and a sturdy body. Just lying there, it gave off a strong sense of oppression, and with one paw it pressed the Samoyed so hard that it couldn't lift its head.
The smell of the mud made the big black dog very nervous, and the slightest movement would make it feel like it was facing a great enemy.
There were more small laughs coming from the side of them, which were met with angry glares from the Samoyed.
It is said to look like a Samoyed, but it does not have the Samoyed's iconic angelic smile. Instead, it looks very fierce with its eyes wide open and its teeth bared, causing the person who was laughing at it to immediately tuck his tail between his legs and fall silent.
cut.
The Samoyed wagged its tail, looking down on the little curly-haired guy.
There are also classes in the dog pack:
The big yellow dog is the leader and has priority in eating and mating rights;
Next are the Samoyed and the big black dog, which are the main fighting force of the dog pack; then are the petite curly-haired dogs, which are at the bottom of the pack and are the only dogs that eat their meat and gnaw on their bones.
In addition to this is the only female member of the pack, a greyhound who just joined this winter.
With gray fur and icy blue eyes, she is a beautiful lady from a faraway place, making all the dogs want to howl when they see her.
The greyhound paid no attention to the undercurrents of the other dogs nearby, and only focused on the situation not far away so as to detect any abnormalities at the first possible moment.
The strange thing is that it did not have the same sense of crisis as the other dogs. Although the smell of the mud ball made it uncomfortable, it was more of a feeling of "it's not delicious" and "it can't be eaten".
Many ants appeared and blocked the way of the mud ball as it moved forward.
It should be said that there was an ant hole in front of it. The ants seemed unable to bear the stench and crawled out of the hole to check the situation.
In a few seconds, the army of ants formed a large battle in front of the mud ball, but the mud ball pressed over the ants as if it was unaware of anything.
Thus, a wet and sticky gap was opened up in the pitch-black army of ants, without any bodies of ants that were crushed to death or any remaining debris, revealing the clean brown-black soil underneath.
The big yellow dog jumped back in surprise, further distanced itself from the mud ball.
The mud ball was too small and did not notice the several large heat sources not far away. It digested only a few ants as if it had found a feast. It stretched and deformed right under the big yellow dog's nose and "flowed" into the ant hole in the form of some kind of sticky liquid.
You can imagine what happens in an ant hole.
The big yellow dog's face was tense, and a solemn and serious look appeared on his honest and simple face.
It stood there as if thinking. After a while, it turned its head and barked a few times at its companions. Then it turned around and dug up the soil around it. While digging ant holes, it used the new soil to bury the land soaked by mud.
This is their territory for survival, and they must ensure that there are no security risks.
The Samoyed and the big black dog soon joined the digging team. The ants in their territory were very good architects and could build huge nests underground. It was not an easy task to find the mud balls from the interconnected and overlapping ant holes.
The greyhound watched from the side, then walked over and started digging.
However, it doesn't like to be crawled on by ants, so it chooses to dig soil on the other side to bury the wet soil.
The greyhound moved, and within seconds the curly-haired dog came over, wagging its tail.
Among the dogs in the pack, the Curly-haired Dog is the most enthusiastic about it, but unfortunately its overly small size and weak fighting ability are really not the Greyhound's cup of tea.
The greyhound nudged the curly-haired dog and told it to go to the big yellow dog for help.
The curly-haired dog came over, perhaps because it felt that it was safer here and didn't want to face the mud ball head-on.
After being pushed twice by the greyhound, the curly-haired dog had to move to the other side reluctantly, digging the soil with its paws twice.
The smell of the mud ball made its legs tremble. If it had not been chased away by the dogs if it deserted, it would have run away long ago.
Can’t you just pretend you didn’t see it and go back to sleep happily in the sun? qaq
The curly-haired dog kept mumbling and complaining, and the big black dog growled at him in warning.
Woohoo…
The curly-haired dog licked the pads of his feet that were hurt by the ants and began to dawdle even more.
However, the other dogs all knew that the Curly-haired Dog was like this, so after giving him a warning they ignored him and allowed him to slack off without putting in any effort.
As it was touching, the curly-haired dog felt its paw touched something soft and sticky. When it lowered its head, it found that its paw was pressed on a ball of mud. Then, the place where the ants had bitten it began to hurt excruciatingly.
…
“Woof!!!”
The poodle wailed loudly and tried to pull its paws out of the mud, but was horrified to find that it seemed to have stepped into a swamp. Not only did it fail to pull its paws out, but it sank even deeper.
No…
It was the mud that was seeping in through its wound.
The dirty mud on the outside is a protective color. Something terrible in the mud has drilled into its body, flowing through its blood into its heart, brain, and every organ.
The curly-haired dog stood stiffly, facing its companion who was looking at it because of its scream. Its tail was wagging uncontrollably and it was mumbling in its throat as if nothing had happened.
Its companions turned back, leaving it standing there in fear and helplessness, with the sound of "gurgling" in its head and its body being corroded and devoured.
…
When the big yellow dog and his companions returned in vain after digging for a long time, the curly-haired dog followed at the end of the pack as usual, but with its tail hanging low, and was unusually quiet.
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Qi Guang was also holding a branch and studying something that fell from the tree.
—A small round ball.
This is obviously not a fruit that grew on the tree itself. Judging from its age, there is a 90% chance that it came from the interstellar space.
At first glance, Qi Guang really thought it was a fruit, after all, it was so round hanging on the pine tree. When he got closer, he found that it was shiny like a Christmas ball, and a gust of wind blew it through the branches and onto the ground.
It bounced back a few times on the thick pine needles and seemed quite elastic.
Qi Guang picked up a branch, poked the small ball gently from a distance, and zoomed the camera in a little, hoping that the interstellar audience would know what this thing was.
After the small ball was poked and rolled, the other side could be seen clearly. From the small opening, the complex structure inside and the traces of charring and damage could be vaguely seen.
Emmmm, it seems to be a mechanical thing
+1 for the work of a mechanical species. This level of precision should be a spare part used by some mechanical species to transform its body. However, there are no signs of connection and use, so it is hard to determine what part it is.
It would be easier to recognize if it had an external coating... There are so many possibilities for this round shape.
Eh?! Am I the only one who thinks this is a mechanical eyeball? Aren’t eyes the only part of a modified body that can be this round
…
Well...
… The previous one was too pure. As a machine, I am embarrassed to tell him the truth [covering face].
I too... I am probably still a child in primary education, and it is not good for the future of the star system if I teach it badly.
Ugh! Um... Although the machines don't really have a concept of gender, when they transform their bodies, some of their characteristics also... Ah, I can't say it!
Let me do this, useless bunch! You should know that in addition to the upper eye "ball", the male mechanical species also has the lower ball [smile.jpg].
… !
Qi Guang threw away the branch in his hand and chose to avoid the cosmic garbage that fell in.
It can be confirmed that this mechanical ball is an unused spare organ of a certain mechanical species, but Qi Guang doesn't really want to touch either the top or the bottom.
He walked around the ball and went to the pine tree to retrieve the bamboo strips he had put down.
This is a new technique he learned through the entry on Pinus massoniana in the Encyclopedia of Plants - cut a hole in the pine tree, insert a bamboo stick into it, and wait for a few days to collect the pine resin.
It’s not a lot, but it’s very useful.
When heated and melted, rosin can be used as a natural adhesive to reinforce handicrafts that cannot be tightly connected due to lack of accurate measurements, or it can be mixed with ashes and water and left to stand to produce a very effective detergent.
The simple soap made from animal fats and ashes is too wasteful to wash with, while rosin is relatively less expensive to use and can be used for washing your face, hair, and clothes.
With rosin detergent, Qi Guang finally didn't have to worry about whether to share his grease soap with Heath.
Qi Guang scraped the resin off the bamboo strips into a bamboo tube and hung the bamboo tube around his waist.
Bamboo is really the most useful raw material he has discovered in the past six months. The basket behind him is woven with bamboo, and the neatly arranged small green buds in the basket are also transplanted using bamboo tubes as simple flower pots.
Qi Guang used the Plant Encyclopedia to discover many crops from the experimental fields, especially those that were extremely similar to weeds and difficult for him to distinguish before.
For example, leeks.
To be honest, the crops of leeks in the field and the thriving weeds next to them are like brothers, all with slender green leaves. The plant encyclopedia showed that he almost moved the weeds next to them into the bamboo tube.
Another example is rapeseed.
Rapeseed would be unrecognizable without large patches of blooming rapeseed. At this temperature, the rapeseed buds have not yet formed.
Qi Guang transplanted a few strong ones and planned to go back and open up another field to grow rapeseed, so that he might be able to achieve edible oil freedom next year or the year after.
In addition, he found several bunches of strawberries, all of which were small, green and short and had not yet begun to bear fruit.
Although the strawberries grew well but couldn't fit into the bamboo tube, Qi Guang still dug up two, wrapped their roots in leaves and took them back.
We wouldn't feel bad if these snack fruits died, so we could just give them to Heath, who is proactive but whose farming ability is unknown.
In addition to useful crops, Qi Guang also transplanted some "cotton" and "soybeans" (which are weeds) in a serious manner, as well as one or two small tender sprouts. He said that was what they were, and the seeds in the system mall had been added to the shopping cart.
Qi Guang actually wanted to buy seedlings directly from the system, so that the success rate of planting would be higher.
Unfortunately the system is not for sale.
It was also during this time that Qi Guang discovered that the system did not sell living things, animals, or sprouting plants. At most, it sold seeds and eggs, and the prices were extremely expensive. With Qi Guang's accumulated points, it was difficult to achieve egg freedom through the system mall.
Otherwise he wouldn't have grown so big.
Big hair.
Tsk.
Qi Guang felt upset when he thought of Damao's magic trick, and when he walked back, he kicked the mechanical ball on the ground without paying attention.
“Click, click.”
The sphere made a slight sound and the structure inside moved twice.
Like eye movement.
…
The curly-haired dog, who was the last one to fall among the other dogs, had his lifeless left eye moving slightly.
The author has something to say: Wangwang, I really like and fear it at the same time.
Because when I was a kid, someone kept several cats without leashes, and they chased me on the way home several times. It was a traumatic experience for me, so I could only watch them from a distance.
This chapter drops a small red envelope~
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