Real Cthulhu Running Game

Chapter 2359 Mimic Plants

"I hope so. This is also the last chance for His Highness the Third Prince."

Yu Lei glanced at the place where thick smoke was rising in the distance, and continued: "Wangshan is a dead horse. I remember that there seems to be a continuous mountain range in that direction, right? So this blue fireball will not destroy the entire mountain range. Light it up! After all, the weather has been dry these past two days..."

Before Yu Lei could finish his words, a python with a head but no tail suddenly appeared in front of him!

 No, this should be an anaconda, right? It is also the largest snake in the real world!

Liu Xing used to like to go to the zoo. Because when Liu Xing was a child, his family would often take him to the zoo to play, so Liu Xing has always had a good impression of the zoo, especially when Liu Xing was in his second year of secondary school. , Liu Xing also tried to raise a ball python at home, but was punished by his parents.

Of course, at that time, Liu Xing actually wanted to raise a python, especially a golden python with high fashion value. However, after studying pythons, he felt that he still could not afford to raise such a big guy, so he could only retreat. The second option of raising a ball python was unfortunately still rejected by his family, so in the end Liu Xing could only secretly raise a corn snake, but the corn snake did not last through the winter of that year, which made Liu Xing Xing gave up on his dream of raising snakes.

You must know that Liu Xing was still classmates with Liu Qindong at that time and had not yet returned to Chengdu to attend middle school.

Wait, speaking of pythons and Liu Qindong, Liu Xing remembered that he had been to Liu Qindong's house to play when he was a child. At that time, he saw a huge snake slough placed in Liu Qindong's house, so Liu Qindong at that time said it was a python. She shed a snake and gave herself a lot of knowledge about snakes, which made me curious about pythons as a child.

This seems quite normal, but Liu Xing has not forgotten the first time he met "Liu Qindong" in the Cthulhu Run game lobby. The villains in that module were a group of snake people, and "Liu Qindong" was in Is the Snake Man an accomplice in this module?

As we all know, the initial character cards given to players in the Cthulhu Run game lobby are basically designed based on the player's true self, so Liu Xing felt that he had reason to suspect that the snake slough in Liu Qindong's home might be a snake man. shed?

Hmm, as a mythical creature, can the snake-man shed its skin?

“Why is this snake so big? Is it a monster?”

Yu Lei took out a short knife and said: "Be careful, everyone, don't get entangled by this snake! If you are entangled by such a big snake, you may not be able to withstand it for a few seconds and you will suffer from liver and gallbladder failure." If it is cracked, not a single bone in the whole body will be intact.”

Of course Liu Xing and others knew this, so they all took a few steps back and handed the anaconda to Yu Lei to handle.

 Before Lei could take action, the anaconda suddenly turned over and that was it.

That's right, the anaconda disappeared just like that. This made Liu Xing and others dumbfounded, because the anaconda appeared very suddenly, and its disappearance was equally sudden.

So Yu Lei walked over cautiously, and then showed an expression of sudden realization, "Sure enough, the human heart is not enough, the snake swallows the elephant. It turns out that this python also stretched itself to death just for a bite to eat!"

Liu Xing and others walked forward and found that the anaconda's belly had a big hole, revealing a crocodile's tail.

"This is?"

Yue Shao was about to say something, but noticed that the NPC Yu Lei was still around, so he decisively shut up and pretended to be stupid.

However, Liu Xing and others also understood what Yue Shao wanted to say, because the scene in front of them of anacondas and crocodiles dying together can be regarded as a "classic painting" in the real world. After all, the scene of anacondas preying on crocodiles is itself It's rare, because both are considered apex predators, so under normal circumstances they are inseparable.

Even cold-blooded reptiles who don’t seem to be very smart, as animals, they know what it means to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so they will not do such thankless things unless they have to.

Therefore, in the real world, even professional zoologists and explorers can’t take a few photos of the fight between crocodiles and anacondas after years of effort. That’s why the photo of anacondas and crocodiles dying together has become a classic.

 Obviously, the anaconda and crocodile in front of you are a tribute to that classic photo!

But the question comes again, why is the Cthulhu Game Hall playing this joke at this time? Moreover, the appearance of this meme is too abrupt. After all, large snakes like anacondas generally only appear in the rainforest. Although super-large crocodiles like the Hanyu crocodile appear near Philadelphia, Hanyu Crocodiles are a strange species among strange species. The normal crocodiles nearby are only about two meters in length, but this crocodile that died together with the anaconda is smaller than the Hanyu crocodile, with a length of about four meters.

“Something’s wrong. Although there are pythons and crocodiles around here, they are very few in number, and they are obviously much smaller than them.”

Yu Lei stepped forward to check, shook his head and said: "Everything is normal. There is nothing special about these two big guys except that they are a little bigger, so we should continue to move forward and deal with these two later." big guy."

 Although Liu Xing and others still have some doubts, they still have to listen to Yu Lei at this time.

As a result, Liu Xing and others continued to move in the direction of the smoke. As a result, they encountered several larger animals along the way, such as a mouse that was bigger than a cat, and a mouse that could fight with others. Hounds arm-wrestling hares.

“What’s going on with the animals here? They all seem to be a lot bigger than their counterparts outside?”

Liu Xing frowned and said, "If it weren't for the many reference objects next to me, I would have to wonder if I have become smaller now."

"Yes, the plants around here are normal, but the animals have obviously become much larger. This is obviously abnormal. After all, the same kind around here are still of normal size."

Yue Shao glanced at Liu Xing's waist, and his thoughts were self-evident. At this time, Liu Xing also began to regret that he did not go out with a Geiger counter, because now is when the Geiger counter comes into play.

Looking at Yu Lei who was walking far in front but not leaving the field of vision of Liu Xing and others, Liu Xing whispered: "If there are only one or two giant animals like this, we can still think of them as The result of genetic mutation, after all, similar situations occasionally occur in the real world, but they are all individual changes, and here the entire ecological environment has changed; but I remember that in nature, there is a situation called an island Large-scale refers to the creatures on an isolated island. When they are not in contact with the outside world, their size may become much larger than that of the same kind. Of course, it may also become much smaller. The specific changes will depend on the island. The specific situation of the island.”

"But judging from the current situation, this area has not been fenced off, so the animals here should be communicating with similar animals outside, right? Therefore, we need to suspect that these giant animals may have come into contact with What would make it what it is now, like growth hormone left over from a previous civilization?”

Xu Bin took over Liu Xing's words and said: "Of course there is another possibility, that is, these animals were all affected by the blue fireball just now! I remember when I was a child, I saw a cartoon with marine animals as the protagonists. There was an underwater moon in one episode. All marine creatures illuminated by this moon would return to their ancestors and become much larger! So this area was also right on the path of the blue fireball, so these animals suddenly It has become much larger, which can also explain why the anaconda and the crocodile died together, because the size of the crocodile was still within the acceptable range of the anaconda, but the sudden increase in the size of the crocodile was not surprising. It suffocated this anaconda to death."

I have to say that these words of Xu Bin made Liu Xing have a picture in his mind. If this is the case, I can only say that this anaconda, no, it should be said that this giant python is quite unlucky. It is a rare thing. I was interested in finding a small crocodile, and I suddenly sent it because of this.

If it weren't for this crocodile, this giant python would have completed its evolution, and maybe it could become the legendary Green-locked Dragon Anaconda!

  Wait a minute, what is the prefix of Green-locked Dragon and Anaconda?

As a first-generation poker player who has retired from the game for many years, Liu Xing has still heard of some famous Yu-Gi-Oh memes in the past few years, including the sinful green-locked dragon anaconda, so Liu Xing still remembers this monster The card has a prefix that seems to be called a predatory plant?

 That's right, this green-locked anaconda is actually a mimic plant!

Thinking of this, Liu Xing frowned and carefully recalled the animals he had just encountered, including the anaconda and crocodile that seemed to have died together. He discovered a huge point, that is, these animals are all the same. They looked half-covered. In short, I had never seen them in their entirety.

As for the anaconda that Lei checked at the beginning, he only made a few casual cuts to confirm that the anaconda was dead, and the wounds looked normal.

 But if this is really a mimic plant, since it can simulate the appearance of a crocodile and an anaconda dying together, there is no problem in wanting to be so realistic.

Liu Xing broke into a cold sweat when he thought of this, even though he was already sweating profusely when he was on the road.

At this moment, Liu Xing saw another peacock with a neck as big as a giraffe emerging from the distance, poking its head in the grass. This reminded Liu Xing that he would shake like this when he was fishing. Bait to attract the fish's attention.

No matter in the world view of magic or fairy, those powerful plants also have one biggest weakness, that is, they must be rooted somewhere. In other words, the main body cannot move. At most, some branches can be moved. Random activities within a certain range.

Therefore, the prey range of these plants is fixed. Therefore, in addition to waiting for prey, they will also use various methods to attract prey close to their bodies. For example, various Venus flytraps will secrete sweet liquid to attract flying insects.

So could this "peacock" be bait?

Without thinking, Liu Xing took out the slingshot he carried with him and fired a projectile at the "peacock"!

 The judgment is successful by default!

So in the next second, the "peacock" lost its head, but it was still jumping around and even took two more steps deeper into the grass.

　　guessed it correctly!

Liu Xing took a deep breath and said seriously: "This is a mimic plant! You all saw it just now, right? This peacock can still move normally even if it has no head, and the giant animals we just encountered Either it was a frightening glance, only seeing them flashing through the grass, or like the anaconda and crocodile, only the upper part of them was seen, and the tail and so on were either in the grass, or just behind the anaconda. In the belly!”

As soon as Liu Xing finished speaking, the system prompt sounded at the right time, "Congratulations to all the players for triggering the hidden mission—Hunting for the legendary existence. This mission is a counting mission, which means that the hunting team formed by the players will be at the end of the module. Specific rewards will be determined based on the number of hunts!”

"Remark 1: When the hunting team successfully completes a hunt, it can obtain a new piece of information! And after successfully completing five hunts, three alternative pieces of intelligence will be obtained for each successful hunt. Players can use Introduction to select new intelligence.”

"Remark 2: The maximum number of hunting teams is twenty, and NPCs are allowed to join them. At the same time, the hunting teams do not need to act together! At the same time, each player can join up to three different hunting teams. The number of hunting can be superimposed on each other, but the same A prey can only be counted once.”

“Remark 3: When this special mission is triggered, players and NPCs within the current range will automatically form a hunting team!”

“Current members of the hunting team: Liu Peng, Xu Bin, Schiller, Yang De, Yue Shao, Yu Lei!”

 “The current target of the hunting team: Mimic Plant—the King of Beasts!”

 “The king of beasts? That’s it!”

When Liu Xing read the system prompts, Yue Shao slapped his thigh and said: "I saw this king of beasts when I was reading some miscellaneous books. It is said that many years ago, someone saw this when passing by here. A group of huge beasts formed a circle, and they all knelt there obediently, so although this man did not see clearly what was in the circle, he still thought that these beasts were kneeling to worship the legendary King of Beasts! "

Liu Xing nodded, and just when he was about to say something, Yu Lei in front said loudly: "There is a river ahead, so everyone should be careful when crossing the river, because there may be crocodiles and giant pythons in the river! "