pain!
It hurts!
Unbearable pain!
It slapped its tentacles in annoyance, stirring the surrounding sea water into turbidity, and the blades and feet hidden in its body trembled, obviously shocked by the anger it showed. .
Pain is not an unfamiliar feeling.
From the beginning of its birth to becoming the Eye of the Nest, it has fought, injured, annexed, and evolved more than once. Pain can make the body's response more sensitive, and it is also a necessary feedback for absorbing magic power.
It wasn't the pain that made it angry, it was... an emotion it had never felt before.
It tries to match this emotion with the reactions of other beings, but soon discovers that there is no need for that feeling to be embedded in the instincts of most species, even if the individuals are far apart, it is unexpectedly the same at this point.
fear.
It found itself tasting fear for the first time.
This made it a little overwhelmed, and subconsciously became furious.
kill!
kill her!
want to kill her!
The tiny bug that rushed into his body, the bug that dared to challenge himself with nothing but insignificant magic power! Sooner or later it will tear her to shreds and hang her head on the skeleton, as the Red Mist Reptile does.
However, whether it is anger or fear, it is not an emotion necessary for growth. Previously, it has never been afraid of pain, nor has it been extremely annoyed by temporary setbacks, and even... It has never thought about such a problem before.
Nothing but evolution.
Evolution is more important than survival. Survival is only for individuals, but evolution is the sublimation of groups.
It realized something was wrong with itself.
What's wrong
Just thinking about this question made his head hurt unbearably. The hot flame not only lost one-third of his body, but also made his response extremely slow.
It takes time.
Time can bring its body back to life.
Time can also let it find its answer.
It suppressed the fear, anger, and other subtle and varied emotions in the bottom of my heart, but it was the first time I experienced it, and sank into the mud on the bottom of the sea.
…
After more than ten days, it climbed out of the hiding place and released all the blades and feet in its body.
Although it lost quite a lot in battle, it didn't care. As long as the injury fully recovers, new vassals can be born at any time.
It's hungry and needs something to eat.
At the same time, some of its own problems have also come to a conclusion.
First of all, it found that it lost many pheromones, which were taken from various bugs, which can help the evolutionary direction of the group, and collecting them is also the first task of the Eye of the Nest. This loss is understandable. With the loud noise, its body was smashed by flames and heat waves, and part of it was used to store pheromones in the brain. Now even if it has been repaired, it will be gone if it is gone. It is like a punctured water sac, and it will not help if it is repaired afterwards.
It's not a big deal, bugs are everywhere, just collect them when they're lost.
What's more, the most important red mist polyps was not lost, and the loss can be described as limited.
But the problem is, it has lost contact with the mother of the main nest!
It's incredible!
Since its birth, its destiny has been closely linked with the ethnic group. This relationship is inseparable. As long as it is in the same waters, no matter how far apart it is, it can feel the existence of the main nest. Through water waves, it can both transmit the collected pheromones and share the evolutionary instructions of the population.
But it's gone now.
After being injured, it hardly thought about it. When the flow of consciousness was smooth, and it was ready to spread the pheromone of the multi-eyed worm, it was shocked to realize where the wrong feeling came from.
Even when the ocean ebbs and the waters are united, it cannot hear the call of the main nest.
At first it suspected that the body was not fully regenerated, but as long as it is not completely dead, any individual separated from the main hive will not sever its connection. After repeated inspections, it found that a part of its brain was actually fused with the Red Mist Polyocular, rather than completely annexed.
Apparently, the other party took advantage of its weakness and made a last desperate struggle.
Realizing this, it was startled and angry at first, but quickly calmed down.
Low-energy bugs are bugs.
Even that didn't do any good.
It can no longer feel the existence of the multi-eyed insect. On the contrary, all the eyes left by the red mist insect belong to it. Through these strange magical eyes, it can "see" many primitive life forms that look at it.
After thinking for a long time, it finally came to a conclusion.
It is this part of the fusion that makes it impossible to contact the main nest, and also makes it stained with some strange "bug emotions".
such as fear.
such as anger.
And... self.
According to the above results, it should have returned to the Zenith Sea area first, told the mother of the main nest what happened here, and then handed over itself to the other party. In the case that the water wave transmission does not work, the annexation can completely retain the pheromone. , thereby helping the population obtain usable evolutionary instructions.
Evolution is more important than survival, it was a matter of course.
But now it hesitates.
In the past ten days, it has found that it has thought more than the past hundred years. It used to be instinctive whether it was fighting, annexing, gathering, or growing, but now, this instinct seems to no longer exist...
Another point is that there is no limit to the use of pheromones.
Evolution is a very careful choice. After all the pheromones collected by the nest eyes are passed to the main nest, the main nest analyzes and selects useful fragments, and then issues evolution instructions after reconstruction. Evolution is not only a change in the eyes of the nest, but the vassals as large as the main nest and as small as the blade and the foot have grown up step by step.
Therefore, there is almost no difference between the eyes of the brood.
But when it was waiting for the body to recover, it accidentally used a pheromone from a primitive individual that can quickly heal itself. It is for this reason that the serious injury that took at least several months to repair has been improved in just ten days, and it has also made it aware of its own difference.
It's no longer a normal nest eye.
The foot soon dragged back a large pile of food that was nearby primitive aquatic organisms, or as the bugs called them: fish. Most of them had their heads cut off cleanly by the blade, and the fishy smell that spread out would inevitably attract more fish, and it would not take long for them to fill their stomachs.
These low-level aquatic organisms obviously enjoy the same resources as them, but they are still at the bottom of the competition. For some reason, it suddenly thought of itself when it saw these fish that were sent to the door with no brains.
Now that there is fear, it is reluctant to return to the Zenith Sea. The emotions of the insects interfere with it. At this moment, the importance of survival is more than everything.
It is afraid that the mother of the main nest will swallow it, and that the erratic bug will come to the door again.
It also wants to take revenge on the bug, and the anger in its heart has not dissipated, but has been temporarily hidden.
Fear and anger alternated, and it realized that it wanted a lot more than it had ever considered before.
To achieve this, evolution is the only way.
Swallowing the shoal of fish, it can't wait to get into action.
It will never be so eager before, all nest eyes are doing the same thing, one more of it is not much, one less of it is not a lot.
But now it's different.
The following collection and evolution have nothing to do with the ethnic group.
This time, just for itself.