Chapter 24 Dependents
"The old king is dead, and a new king should be established!"
Xu Kun feels that although he is not yet the king of beasts, he can at least be regarded as the lord of this reef area. The VIP-level service provided by Doctor Fish is quite adequate. Now Xu Kun feels that his whole body is brand new.
These dreamlike encounters further strengthened Xu Kun's determination to defend this place. As for the nest at the bottom of the cliff, Xu Kun did not intend to abandon it. He said that it could be used as a backup residence as "the three caves of cunning rabbits".
Before gene editing, Xu Kun dragged the corpses of ancient sea turtles to the rocks so that they would not be hungry during the long period of gene fusion.
Gene editing is about to begin. The guide fish surround Xu Kun like loyal guards. If there is any abnormality, they will scratch Xu Kun's body to send an early warning. At that time, Xu Kun's mind will exit the gene bank in time, so there will be no worries.
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After the arrangements were made, Xu Kun called up his personal panel:
[Name: Xu Kun]
[Race: Unknown]
[Era: Cretaceous]
【Age: 3 years old】
【Life Level: 2】
【Evolution Points: 15】
[Stomach contents: ancient sea turtle (meat, internal organs)]
[Basic information: Terrestrial respiration LV2 (details); Teeth LV2 (details); Body shape LV2 (details); Bones LV2 (details); Scales LV2 (details); Digestion LV2 (details); Inductance LV2 (details); Discharge LV2 (
Details); swimming LV1 (details); regeneration LV1 (details); discoloration LV1 (details); euryhaline LV1 (details); gill slit LV1 (details)...】
【Gene Bank (decoded prey genome)】
[Permissions: gene editing, animal business cards, gene integration, diagnosis]
Next, Xu Kun's mind entered the gene bank, and in front of it floated the ancient turtle that had just been hunted.
Xu Kun stretched out his fingers and touched it lightly, and the ancient sea turtle immediately turned into dozens of DNA molecules. After screening these DNA molecules, Xu Kun obtained some valuable gene fragment information:
Lifespan LV2, turtle shell LV2, size LV2, swimming LV1...
Xu Kun's purpose was very clear. He directly cut out the gene fragment that controls "life span":
[Gene Fragment 16 (Lifespan): How long you can live determines your upper limit of growth. With this gene fragment, your upper limit of lifespan will reach 150 years.]
【Should gene fragment 16 be embedded in your genome?】
After Xu Kun responded affirmatively, his mind exited the gene pool. During the following gene fusion period, Xu Kun's actions were in a state of inhibition. He lay motionless on the rocks and would only move unless it was to eat.
Move your body.
During this period, the guide fish has been carefully taking care of Xu Kun, and he doesn't feel bored at all.
Seven days later, the gene fusion was finally completed. Xu Kun swam down the reef. He was not in a hurry to hunt, but had other plans.
Xu Kun knows that he has great potential in inductance and discharge, and he has been committed to developing his abilities in these two areas recently.
Although the guide fish can basically understand Xu Kun's electrical signals, considering that their combat effectiveness is too weak, Xu Kun wants to tame some dependents with stronger combat effectiveness in order to protect himself when he performs gene editing.
Of course, this is only one of the reasons. On the other hand, Xu Kun plans to take the opportunity to exercise his ability to use current signals as a means of communication
As for the experimental subject, Xu Kun thought of the electric ray at the first time. During the time he just traveled through time, Xu Kun was very lonely. He couldn't speak at all, but even if he could speak, the animals around him couldn't understand him.
meaning.
But now Xu Kun has a way to break the situation. He can use electrical signals as a "language" to communicate with animals.
Although guide fish are smart and can "understand" Xu Kun's electrical signals, they do not use electrical signals to give feedback. They can only act as listeners, but electric rays are different. They use their own electrical signals.
Giving feedback is very valuable to Xu Kun.
After thinking about this clearly, Xu Kun left the reef area, and the few guide fish followed Xu Kun closely. After leaving the reef area, Xu Kun stunned a few small fish, and then he began to use his electromagnetic ability to search
Nearby electric rays, and soon after, he found an injured electric ray.
After determining the location of the electric ray, Xu Kun swam over with the stunned fish and a group of guide fishes in his mouth.
When the injured electric ray discovered Xu Kun's arrival, it panicked and turned around to swim away.
Seeing this, Xu Kun quickly expressed his goodwill:
"Hello."
Xu Kun sent out a series of electrical signals, but the electric ray felt only terror in its heart. It didn't want to understand what Xu Kun meant, it just wanted to escape.
At this time, Xu Kun slowly caught up and spit out a small fish from his mouth.
"Eat!"
Xu Kun sent out another string of electric current. The hungry electric ray couldn't help but stop, but Xu Kun could still feel its uneasiness from the electric field in its body.
Nothing impresses a hungry electric ray more than a small fish, if anything, two.
So Xu Kun spit out another small fish from his mouth, and then retreated far away. The injured ray hesitated for a moment and then slowly swam over and swallowed the two small fish into its belly.
"Eat!"
Xu Kun sent out an electrical signal again, and then spit out a third small fish from his mouth. This time, the ray swam over and ate the small fish without much hesitation.
"Let's go and eat!"
After Xu Kun sent out this electrical signal, he turned around and swam slowly toward the reef. The injured electric ray did not agree with Xu Kun's proposal and turned around to swim away, but after hesitating for a while, it finally followed him.
After returning to the reef, Xu Kun asked the doctor fish to eat the carrion from the electric ray's wound, regularly provided it with small fish or some molluscs, and at the same time continuously communicated with it using electrical signals.
After a few days, the infection in the wound of the electric ray was under control, and it could roughly understand what Xu Kun meant.
After another four or five days, the electric ray's injuries were basically healed and its physical strength was restored to some extent. Then Xu Kun took it with him to search for other electric rays in the shallow sea.
Half a month later, Xu Kun already had twenty electric rays under his command. At this time, Xu Kun was already familiar with using electrical signals to communicate with the electric rays.
Xu Kun's idea is to establish an army of electric ray guards so that they can communicate with each other using electrical signals and fight together.
The reason why Xu Kun did this was because he was worried that the Chuli Tilting Tooth Dragon would suddenly return to the reef at some time. It was a powerful third-level life form. If he fought alone, Xu Kun had no chance of winning in the short term.
Chapter completed!