prynovel Chapter 4: Entering the Ordovician Period, I chose the octopus father, Cornu.
Chapter 4: Entering the Ordovician Period, I chose the octopus father, Cornu.
"Holy crap, this is so frustrating!"
"What should I do?"
While mentally ranting, Lei Dong rapidly swiped the holographic panel in front of him.
Time waits for no one; the countdown in the upper right corner of the panel has turned bright red [00:45].
The dense array of icons is dazzling.
【Trilobites (multi-segmented lobsters)】: They are numerous and reproduce extremely quickly.
Choose this one?
Are you kidding me!
That's the "buffet" at the bottom of the Ordovician ocean. Would you like to go in and experience the crunchy feeling of being chewed up?
【Starfish (jawless fish)】: An early vertebrate, benthic.
This thing doesn't even have a proper chin; it survives by sucking up mud and sand from the seabed.
With absolutely no ability to protect itself, choosing it is tantamount to suicide!
Lei Dong's brain was working frantically.
The six months of theoretical classes were not wasted.
More than 5 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, the true rulers of the ocean were definitely not fish!
Vertebrates were considered the smallest of the small animals in that era.
The true kings are those heavily armored, spineless monsters!
Suddenly, Lei Dong's gaze became fixed on an icon at the very top of the panel, which emitted a faint dark golden light.
It was a colossal deep-sea creature with an extremely bizarre and oppressive appearance.
It looks like a huge, elongated, straight bull horn!
[Species Name: Orthoceratops/Rectocene (Early Representative of Cephalopoda)]
[Biological Rating: Top Predator of the Ordovician Period (Grade S)]
Yes! That's it! Lei Dong gasped, and all the information about this species immediately flashed through his mind.
This thing is practically a nuclear submarine from the prehistoric ocean!
He is also the common ancestor of all octopuses, squids, and nautiluses in later generations—truly the "Father of Octopuses"!
It has a huge and hard, long, conical shell.
This outer shell is not only an absolute physical defensive armor, but also has layers of air chambers inside.
It can be used to adjust buoyancy, allowing this behemoth to suspend and cruise in the seawater.
At the bottom of that straight, horn-shaped shell, dozens of strong and powerful tentacles stretched out!
This is an extremely ferocious, purely carnivorous animal!
What's most bizarre is its way of moving—it can spray water wildly backward through a funnel-shaped tube.
Using reaction force, it charges and hunts at high speed in the sea like a torpedo!
"You're the one!"
Rather than be a timid fish, I'd rather be the tyrant of this primeval ocean!
With only three seconds left on the countdown.
Without hesitation, Lei Dong raised his hand and pressed it heavily on the [Cornerstone] icon.
[Ding! Experiencer Lei Dong, species selection confirmed: Corniche!]
[Severing brainwaves from reality...]
[Loading Ordovician sand table model...]
[Genetic data synchronization in progress... 10%... 50%... 100%!]
Lei Dong felt a violent dizziness deep in his brain, and saw the square and system panel in front of him.
And the other players around him, all with terrified expressions, were instantly twisted and shattered.
Immediately afterwards, a bone-chilling cold and suffocating water pressure squeezed in from all directions.
"Gurgle—"
There was no air. Instead, there was cold, salty seawater.
Lei Dong suddenly "opened" his eyes.
His vision was very blurry and the colors were monotonous, but he could clearly perceive every subtle ripple of the surrounding water.
He tried to move his body.
He had no hands, no feet. But he felt his consciousness connected to dozens of soft, powerful limbs covered in suckers.
Behind these limbs, he carried an extremely heavy yet unparalleled sense of security, a "long cone-shaped steel fortress".
"Splash—"
As he instinctively contracted his muscles, a powerful stream of water gushed out from the siphon inside his body!
Its massive, heavy, horn-shaped body, under immense reaction force, shot off like an arrow.
It instantly tore through the dark curtain of deep water and rushed forward at top speed!
[Ding! Loading successful.]
Welcome to the Ordovician Period, a bloodbath that began 5 million years ago!
[Survival Countdown: Begin!]
"Buzz!"
"I need to get used to this new body as soon as possible!"
After a brief period of high-speed racing, Lei Dong experienced his first traffic accident in his "fish-making" career.
"Bang!"
It was accompanied by a dull thud.
He carried the huge, long, conical shell on his back and plunged headfirst into a dense clump of prehistoric crinoids.
Dozens of tentacles clung awkwardly to the rough rocks like noodles.
"Damn it... this reverse parking is more difficult than driving a manual tractor!"
Lei Dong cursed inwardly. He was trying his best to adapt to this completely new body.
Cornerstones have a very peculiar visual system.
He found that he had lost his perception of most colors, and the whole world appeared as a high-contrast black and white and a deep blue.
However, its dynamic capture capability is extremely exceptional. It can detect even the slightest disturbance in the water flow tens of meters away.
He could see it clearly, even if a tiny crustacean the size of a fingernail swam by.
What troubled him most was the way he moved. He had to propel himself forward using his tentacles, which was extremely slow.
To move at high speed, it must rely on a siphon to spray water forward and use the reaction force to "reverse" while speeding.
This is like driving a sports car blindfolded; it's extremely easy to rear-end another vehicle.
Just as Lei Dong was struggling to untangle the tentacles entangled in the reef and trying to familiarize himself with the operating manual of this "deep-sea nuclear submarine".
A sharp electronic buzzing suddenly came from the depths of his mind.
Immediately afterwards, a glaring golden communication box popped up in the faint blue field of vision at the edge of the retina.
[Ding! The dedicated communication network for the Yunxia Region (Dragon Kingdom) has been established!]
[Channel Type: Faction Megaphone (Currently limited to text and communication only)]
As soon as the channel connected, messages marked with eye-catching red labels flooded in like a waterfall.
[Yunxia Observer-007 (Zhang Debiao)]:
[Attention everyone! Attention everyone! All Yunxia faction "Experiencer" brothers, immediately report your current coordinates and species type!]
【Yunxia Observer-012 (Professor Li)】:
【Students! I am Professor Li, the leader of this group!】
Our observer team has been systematically assigned to the vicinity of a huge underwater volcano in this shallow sea area.
The geothermal resources here are very abundant, making it suitable as the initial incubation base for our Yunxia civilization.
【Yunxia Observer-001 (Military Commander)】:
[Issuing the first rallying order!]
All participants whose coordinates are east of the 'Reef Trench', regardless of what creature you have transformed into, immediately gather at full speed towards the central crater!
We need individuals like you with real combat skills to protect the newly established spark of civilization.
Defend against attacks from prehistoric predators in the surrounding area and from other nations!