The night is getting dark.

A huge arthropod was rapidly swinging its hundreds of abdominal legs, twisting its body covered with a hard exoskeleton, and nimbly walking through the lush forest.

Occasionally, it would slow down its pace slightly, lower its head and take a bite of food at the base of the tree trunk next to it.

Even though the food in this area is very rich, it still has no intention of stopping.

suddenly.

For the first time, it stopped its hurried steps, raised its head and looked ahead.

A gentle breeze blew by, bringing with it a warm and slightly moist breath.

It pressed its belly against the soft earth and felt it carefully.

A small vibration came from the front, as if it was foreshadowing something.

After confirming the specific direction, it swung its belly and legs again and walked forward quickly.

After a few seconds, the field of vision suddenly widened!

The lush forest comes to an abrupt end here!

Ahead is the endless ocean as far as the eye can see!

As it moves forward, its body spontaneously undergoes some changes.

The color of its body changed and became very similar to the color of the beach.

This is like instinct to it and requires almost no effort.

It quickly ran to the beach, lowered its head and took a few sips of the slightly warm fresh water.

Then, it raised its head and looked around.

There are many of its kind staying on the coast.

They gathered together in twos and threes, communicating with each other with the help of their tentacles.

It did not join them, but silently raised its head and cast its gaze to the sky.

The starry sky is bright.

There was some doubt in its little mind.

In some vague memories, there seemed to be two big and bright balls in the starry sky at night.

Although the brightness is not as bright as the light ball during the day, it can still dispel the darkness at night.

But now...these two spheres are gone.

Just like the ball of light during the day, it suddenly disappeared.

Where did they go?

What are those tiny spots of light in the night sky?

Questions arose in its mind, filling its underdeveloped brain.

For a long time, it felt that its neck was a little tired after maintaining one position for a long time.

It shook its head, lowered its head again and took a sip of sea water.

The warm seawater slowly fell down its esophagus, washing away the doubts in its mind.

It doesn't know the answers to these messy questions, and it doesn't understand the truth behind them.

But it knows that since the two spheres disappeared and the daytime sky was occupied by the huge disk, the "sunbath" has become warmer and more pleasant, and the forest has become much safer.

The most important thing is that it sees more and more of its kind every night.

This is a good thing.

The memory hidden in its genes tells it that every time such a situation occurs, their population will have a stable reproduction cycle that can range from decades to hundreds of years.

There will be an era of peace next.

Thinking of this, its mood suddenly became happy.

It quickly swung its belly and legs and ran towards the groups of its kind in the distance.

…

Human fleet.

Most of the detectors loaded with samples have returned to the fleet.

Under various complete isolation measures, Zero controlled the robot to carefully deliver various samples to the specialized biological laboratory.

In order to ensure the biological activity of the samples, the biological laboratory has been temporarily transformed into an atmospheric environment similar to that of the Forgotten Star.

Each dedicated experimental robot is busy preparing for experiments in the biology laboratory.

Thanks to breakthroughs in robotics, biologists no longer need to take huge risks to contact alien biological samples.

Of course, this also has limitations.

Once there is a special situation that the robot cannot handle, there is a high probability that biologists will still need to go into battle in person.

"Professor, the detector discovered an unknown creature in the coastline area of ​​the Forgotten Star."

The reminder sounded in a dull tone, but it caused an extremely unusual response.

"hiss!!!"

"Where? Where is the unknown creature?!"

"Is it in humanoid form?"

"I wonder if they are intelligent..."

"..."

For a time, the laboratory was filled with all kinds of discussions, and Mao Zhengzhi was particularly excited. His face glowed with excitement, and he quickly walked through the crowd and squeezed in beside Lu Yongchang.

The next moment.

Pictures from the detector appeared in the holographic image.

Although there is almost no light source on the planet's surface and there are only dim starlights in the sky, the images returned by the detector are still as bright as day.

only……

Lu Yongchang looked at the empty coastline and frowned slightly.

"zero?"

"Where are the unknown creatures?"

He asked Zero with some confusion.

In his opinion, there are no unusual objects near the coastline except for extremely narrow beaches.

On the beach, for some reason, there are many strange lines, which look like traces left by crawling creatures.

Not only Lu Yongchang, but also other scientists also had a hint of confusion in their eyes.

"Professor, it's a protective color."

As he finished speaking, dense red circles appeared in the holographic projection.

Lu Yongchang was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously took a step forward, narrowed the distance between him and the holographic projection, and observed it more carefully.

After several minutes of observation, he noticed something strange about these red circles.

Although the red circle area is very similar to the surrounding beach, there are still some flaws when moving - those slowly extending lines are the best proof.

"hiss……"

Lu Yongchang glanced at the number of red circles, took a breath, and stepped back half a step: "So many?"

"This beach... is almost crowded, right?" He murmured to himself, "They all come from nowhere..."

"According to crawling tracks and observation records, all creatures emerge from the forest." Zero quickly gave the answer and marked the crawling "tracks" in the holographic projection.

Mao Zhengzhi frowned and tutted slightly: "Tsk...that's not right!"

"In that case, why didn't the detector detect these creatures during the day?"

"A protective color suitable for the beach, it should be very conspicuous in the forest."

"Academician Mao, please wait."

The electronic synthesized sound sounded, and the images in the holographic projection began to speed up and play backwards.

Soon, the strange lines on the beach disappeared one by one.

Eventually, the beach returned to its appearance smoothed by the sea water.

Time begins to flow normally.

Seeing the first line of road suddenly appearing at the junction of the beach and the forest, Lu Yongchang's eyes suddenly flashed with surprise.

"chameleon?"

He said with relief: "These creatures can always change their protective colors according to the surrounding environment!"

"No wonder detectors can't detect them during the day!"

After pondering for a moment, Lu Yongchang spoke again: "Can you simulate their basic form?"

[Insufficient basic information, there may be big differences between the simulated form and the real thing. 】
Chapter completed!