Tiga returns to take a leisurely look at human affairs

Nautilus is an invertebrate that lives in the sea. It has a snail-like shell and is a marine mollusk of the phylum Mollusca and the class Cephalopoda.

Nautilus with rolled shell (tentacle monster at the beginning of the chapter, warning for many pictures in this chapter)

At the same time, the nautilus is also an ancient creature. It was first born in the Cambrian period 500 million years ago, and then from the distant Ordovician and Cretaceous periods to the present.

The species Nautilus has a complex evolutionary history, but its shape and habits have basically remained unchanged, and it can always adapt well to the earth's environment.

Therefore, the nautilus also has titles such as "the toughest life on earth" and a living fossil that witnesses the evolution of life.

It may be difficult for people to imagine that after the Cambrian and Ordovician extinction events, the overlords in the earth's marine ecology at that time were the animals that have become protected animals today. Even when they reach adulthood, their body size will not exceed 20. Centimeter rolled shell nautilus.

Five hundred million years ago, in the ocean where invertebrates were prevalent, the straight-shelled nautilus, a relative of the rolled-shelled nautilus, which could reach 11 meters in length, was like a submarine in the sea.

Straight-shelled Nautilus (extinct)

As the top carnivore in the ocean at that time, the nautilus relied on its huge body, ferocious beak, keen sense of smell, and hundreds of arm-foot tentacles to make the entire ocean like their backyard.

What they want to eat, when they want to eat it, and how they want to eat it are all just a matter of their thoughts.

However, the good times did not last long. With the changes in the earth's ecological environment, the huge straight-shelled nautilus gradually became extinct, while the smaller rolled-shelled nautilus survived.

It was not until the era of the dinosaur mass extinction 6500 million years ago that the marine ecological environment was reshaped again. It took at least nearly a million years for the marine biological system to return to the pre-extinction level.

At this time, the deep sea is no longer dominated by Nautilus.

Most of the surviving nautiluses, like their curled shells, are always curled up and hiding in the crevices of rocks on the seabed, never regaining the glory of their ancestors.

The ignorant people make a living by hunting some small fish, small crabs, and some marine molluscs.

But even in such difficult years, one night after a storm, there was still a nautilus with a black shell that escaped from the deep sea and floated alone on the surface of the sea.

Today is when it wakes up again after suddenly falling into a slumber that lasted nearly a million. Before that, its shell was not naturally black.

But this time, the Nautilus, which turned black, found that except for the kin it once knew had disappeared, it felt that the current kin Nautilus with rolled shells seemed to be stupid.

They seem to know nothing except hunting, sleeping, and mating, and they are not interested in anything. The days of continuing to hang out with them are very boring, and every day is repetitive and boring.

Not wanting to appear too unsociable, the black nautilus endured this boredom, but in just forty or fifty years, the people around it died in two rounds.

Unknowingly, it has become a living ancestor of the tribe, which is more than half a meter tall.

The black nautilus didn't know how many years it had been sleeping before, but there was an irrefutable fact before it.

It is no longer an ordinary nautilus.

After figuring this out, it finally began to go against its own intuition and habits, and began to engage in a complex and advanced psychological activity called thinking.

It remembered that everything stemmed from that huge earthquake.

At that time, the little nautilus was only a dozen centimeters in size. Like its kind, the colorful shell reflected light in the moonlight.

That day was also a night after the rain. Due to the reduced atmospheric pressure on rainy days, the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water became smaller, so the nautilus floated to the surface of the sea with its members to breathe.

However, on that night, the originally peaceful and dead dark continent suddenly experienced a huge earthquake, and a powerful black energy rose into the sky, followed by more intense earthquakes and disasters, and the complete end of the dinosaur age.

The Nautilus saw with its dull eyes that in the flow of dark energy high above the eruption, a small black dot fell from the sky.

The fellows fled back under the sea level in the turbulent waves, but it continued to watch blankly as the little black dot fell lower and lower, until it finally landed on its shell with a snap.

The original beautiful color on the shell faded in an instant, and then at the point of impact, a small pit was left... similar to a small pit that had been eroded by some kind of force.

The black nautilus did not feel pain. On the contrary, it felt extremely comfortable and had the urge to have a good sleep.

And this sleep lasted more than a million years.

While it was sleeping, countless marine predators had stared at it, but neither the sharp mouthparts nor the hard pincers could break the dark shell. Over time, its existence was no longer around. life concerns.

Today, it was thinking and recalling everything, and feeling the oxygen content in the sea water that was beginning to decrease again, the black nautilus decided to float to the surface again and take a look at the black continent.

And it was this decision that opened up a whole new world for Black Nautilus.

Because when it surfaced and looked far into the center of the dark continent, even though it couldn't see anything, it felt a call.

And it didn't understand what this meant, but after responding to this call, it saw more black energy seeping out of the soil of the continent.

After absorbing two masses of black energy, although there were two more eroded dents on the shell, Nautilus felt that its shell had become thicker and harder.

Not only that, the strength of each arm and foot has also been significantly enhanced. Now, it can swim quickly in the sea water by paddling with only two tentacles, which can completely replace its own way of spraying water to propel the body forward.

However, it soon discovered that because its size was too small and its vitality was too weak, it had absorbed two masses of dark energy and reached the limit of its current body's carrying capacity.

Therefore, the black nautilus can only choose to dive into the water again. The only way it can think of to strengthen its vitality is to eat!

Eat everything you can and you will grow up.

Of course, as a thinking nautilus, the reason why it wants to eat, hunt, and absorb more dark energy is not just to become stronger.

At least not entirely.

Because in the process of absorbing that dark energy, despite having the ability to think, the little Nautilus, whose heart was still calm, felt a little weak emotion.

This feeling is very wonderful. For it, which has always been ignorant, the emergence of emotions is like colors suddenly emerging from the black and white world.

It doesn't understand that this extremely strong, extremely complex, mixed with strong impulses, enough to drive people crazy emotions, is considered by the dark giant family in the future to be the result of contamination.

The black nautilus doesn't understand. It only feels that this emotion is extremely strong and incredible. It is what saves it from chaos and ignorance. In order to further understand this emotion, it will do anything.

The only way to continue to experience this emotion and make it stronger and clearer is to continue to absorb dark energy.

Therefore, the Black Nautilus has set a goal for itself, to continuously kill and devour all species, increase its carrying capacity for dark energy, and then absorb more dark energy to make that emotion clearer.

Understand what this emotion means to you.

After making this decision, the black nautilus returned to the bottom of the sea and began its plan.

First, it preys on all creatures that are smaller than itself and appear to be less threatening, such as some creatures with hard shells like it, such as horseshoe crabs, and the ancestors of future crab and lobster families.

To deal with such a weak shelled creature, the black nautilus can directly roll up the rocks with its tentacles, smash them a few times, and basically start feasting.

As it continued to eat, the size of the black nautilus continued to increase, and the organ structure of the whole body began to violate the evolutionary law of mutation and transformation in biology, and continued to grow and change in accordance with the principle of use it or lose it.

The originally short and weak tentacles gradually became stronger and stronger during the battles with different marine creatures. With a single wave, they could withstand the resistance of the sea water and pull out a crack in the rocks on the seabed.

It seems to have an endless lifespan. The black nautilus continues to grow and absorb the powerful energy from the dark continent.

When the size of the black nautilus reached 20 meters, and the huge shell was covered with countless dents, it decided to challenge the real overlord of the ocean at that time, a top-notch beast with a body length of more than 40 meters, which was already close to 50 meters. -- Basilosaurus.

Basilosaurus

The black nautilus knows that when it defeats and swallows this powerful ocean overlord, it can become the uncrowned king of the entire sea.

From now on, it will have no rivals in the entire ocean of the earth.

It was an extremely difficult battle. As a powerful carnivore, Basilosaurus not only has a huge body, but also has a smooth and streamlined body that can easily remove the force of its tentacles by twisting and swimming.

However, the fangs at the front of the giant jaw of Basilosaurus and the serrated teeth at the back of the jaw can easily bite off the tentacles of the black nautilus.

But Black Nautilus is not without means.

After countless years of killing and evolution, it has grown a pair of powerful, hard and sharp claws on both sides of its body, similar to those of a giant crab.

It can be used as a heavy hammer, a spear and a sharp blade. Even with the tough skin of the Basilosaurus, a lot of blood will flow out when it is stabbed or chopped.

However, the biggest difference from ordinary beasts is that the black nautilus can also think, be wise, and know how to formulate tactics.

Hundreds of ultra-long tentacles are used to harass and control, a pair of huge giant pincers are used to deal output, and the black shell is used for defense.

Even the black energy in its body can heal its bitten off tentacles.

But even so, the battle was still extremely difficult.

During the fierce battle between the two sides, the Basilosaurus relied on its large and long body to wrap tightly around the black shell, trying to squeeze and crush it with crazy force.

The overlord behemoth was so powerful that cracks appeared on the black shell.

And that's not the worst thing. The roar of the ocean overlord also attracted two of its kin. Although they are much smaller, they are still more than 20 meters long, which is about the same length as the diameter of the curly shell of the black nautilus.

Facing the behemoth of more than 40 meters and the siege of its two younger brothers, the Nautilus not only has strength and reason, but also has the emotions given to it by black energy.

Killing, madness, destruction, shattering everything, tearing apart all the imprisoned and suppressed, extremely strong emotions.

In this mood, even if it is just a nautilus, it will not show any fear when faced with the roars of the ocean overlord, and respond with the same low roar.

Both sides fought tooth and nail, and when the fight reached its peak, the waves on the sea surface were turbulent, and the huge waves stained red with blood were mixed with residual limbs and pieces of flesh. The waves were like a boiling boundless sea of ​​blood.

During the most difficult time, half of the Nautilus's giant black pincers were broken, and almost all of its tentacles were bitten off. The body could only huddle in the cracked shell to gasp and recover.

But in the end, the black nautilus won. It used its last strength to swallow the flesh and blood of three basilosaurs, and then sank into the deep sea and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, the black nautilus was already huge to over 60 meters, and each of the hundreds of tentacles in front of it was more than 100 meters long when fully extended.

There is also a pair of sharp and strong giant pincers, which can easily break the hardest rocks on the seabed.

But the biggest change is the shell behind it. After molting, the new shell is no longer a thin and curled wheel shape, as if it can roll in the sea at any time.

The newly born snail shell is huge and wide, like a twisted giant wheel with three layers of superimposed growth. It is densely covered with large and small holes with black mist. When all marine creatures see this behemoth, they are frightened and retreat, huddled in the deep valley. Don't dare to show your head in the gap.

Gatan: As long as I open my mouth, the rain will pour into my nose and mouth. Do you understand my sadness?

Even the king of the ocean, Basilosaurus, was trembling with fear when he saw the black nautilus again, as if he had forgotten to even escape.

Black Nautilus knew that the time had come.

This time he emerged from the sea and showed his complete figure under the vast sky.

Following the dark energy, which contained crazy emotions, the black nautilus roared toward the dark continent with a dull but resounding roar.

In the center of the Dark Continent, Luluye Temple suddenly began to tremble violently as if it was resonating with this roar, and then thick, viscous and extremely large dark energy suddenly spurted out from the open door of the temple.

The nearly boundless dark energy that covered the sky turned into a long tumbling snake in the sky, rushing straight towards the roaring giant nautilus, and then followed the dark hole in the shell, completely filling it. And enter.

Creak---!

Bursts of heart-wrenching sounds resounded inside the black nautilus, and then, a head with scarlet eyes protruded upside down from the pair of pincers under the shell.

Only then did the black Nautilus finally hear clearly and understand what the emotion brought about by the dark energy was trying to express.

The black shell has no emotions of his own, so he completely accepted those emotions, and from those emotions, he understood the meaning and mission of becoming stronger.

Following the change of mood, the black nautilus raised its pincers high, and a large number of tentacles stretched out from under the sea, as straight as if they were going to reach the sky.

The dark sky immediately responded with dazzling snow-white lightning and rumbling thunder.

Amidst the thunder in the sky, under the scarlet eyes of the black nautilus head, it opened its mouth for the first time, and roared out in the direction of the Luluye Temple.

"Break free...! Leave...! Break, smash, twist! Confinement...destruction! Named...Gatanje'e!"

The name is Gatanje! Tremble, little bastard!

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Return to the main story tomorrow~