This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1548 - 666: The Wonderful Ecology of Jie Lin (Part 1)_3

The description in the text is somewhat like a pelican, and the signal is transmitted from its belly.

[You walk up to the Big Mouth Duck and take out the Blade of Healing.]

[The Big Mouth Duck, seeing the blade in your hand, trembles in fear, hastily tries to escape, but you forcefully hold it down.]

[Amidst the Big Mouth Duck’s sharp cries, you cut open its belly with the Blade of Healing, feel around inside, and quickly find a Green Stone.]

[You obtained ’Moon Stone with Recorded Information’ *1.]

[As the Green Stone is removed, the wound on the Big Mouth Duck automatically heals. Its screaming stops abruptly, it looks blankly at its intact belly, then raises its head with fear in its eyes, glances at you, and hastily scurries to the other end of the belly cavity, hiding among a bunch of small animals.]

[You connect the Green Stone to the Mechanical Heart, and a recording automatically plays in your mind.]

["My research has made progress!" The first thing in the recording is the mechanic’s excited voice.]

["I encountered a creature called ’Scarlet Ape’ on the third layer. When these apes mature, they grow a removable fur that has multiple functions such as waterproofing, keeping warm, and absorbing impacts. Not only can they wear it themselves, but after giving birth, they use it to protect their young."]

["This instantly inspired me: my design for mecha always headed in the direction of being more sturdy and multifunctional, but overly sturdy armor often means bloated, heavy, and clumsy."]

["What we truly need now is a lightweight and compact mecha, just like the Scarlet Ape’s, a special armor that covers the human skin like a layer of clothing, providing defensive power and resistance comparable to the ancient people’s skin, without impeding human action!"]

["If we can create such armor like close-fitting clothing, it will definitely save my people, preventing the parasitism of those ghostly things!"]

["I have a strong premonition this is the right direction! This armor will be the ultimate form in mechanics. I’ll continue researching this path. Look forward to my results..."] freeweɓnovel-cøm

The recording paused at this point, and after dozens of seconds, an added voice message popped up again.

["Oh, by the way, I’ve buried three combat mechas beneath the Moon Well, all temporarily modified using native Jie Lin materials. Time was limited, so their functions are rather crude, but they should be enough to protect you through the third and fourth layers."]

"Uh..."

Mu You was somewhat speechless, burying the armor beneath the Moon Well, but now the Moon Stone acting as the transmitter has been taken by animals and transferred who knows how many times, surely having drifted far from the original location, and without positioning, how is he supposed to find it?

[Amidst the raging storm, the giant snail continues crawling against the wind, taking in animals in distress along the way.]

[More and more small animals squeeze into the snail’s belly, making the cavity quickly crowded.]

[You suddenly hear a painful howl coming from above.]

[Looking up, through the snail’s transparent body, you can directly see the black outer shell of the snail being densely bombarded by Crystal Thorns.]

[Not all Crystal Thorns are deflected by the shell. As the wind becomes stronger, the Crystal Thorns grow larger, occasionally having some large sharp Crystal Thorns, like javelins, deeply embedding into the shell with tremendous kinetic energy, even piercing it and directly hitting the snail’s flesh.]

[Soon, the giant snail’s shell becomes like a Hedgehog, its howls growing more frequent.]

[Through the snail’s transparent bodily tissues, you discover that under the stimulation of these Crystal Thorns, the snail actually begins to slowly lay eggs.]

[Marble-sized transparent egg balls continuously roll into the snail’s belly cavity, making the already narrow space more crowded. Each egg ball that falls is quickly picked up by a small animal, carefully protecting it in its arms.]

[As the eggs are laid, you sense the snail’s vitality seemingly depleting rapidly...]

"Laying eggs?"

Mu You was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood the purpose of the snail taking in small animals.

This giant snail relies on the stimulation of the blade wind to lay eggs, which is why it deliberately crawls around in the blade wind. After laying eggs, its body will soon die, and then these laid eggs need the small animals to help transport them out, to places in Jie Lin suitable for survival, where they hatch into new snails again.

In short, this is a symbiotic relationship: the snail helps small animals survive the blade wind, while the small animals help it lay eggs and care for its offspring until they grow into new giant snails, providing shelter from the wind and rain for more small animals in the future.