Chapter 163 Chimera
The hatching of the phantom beast's egg was too sudden.
Except for Bisji, who was obsessed with gems, everyone else in the room was staring at the egg of the phantom beast.
The little red head that had just been pushed back by Moreau's index finger suddenly broke the eggshell from another position, and immediately looked at Moreau excitedly.
Several people around him noticed this and immediately understood that this little guy who had just emerged from his shell already regarded Moreau as his father.
Menqi looked at Moreau, and then at the little red head that was shaking like a rattle, and said regretfully:
"It has hatched, and the life energy in the egg should have been exhausted. If you still want to eat, you have to wait until it grows up."
As he said that, Menqi still had doubts in his heart.
With her natural affinity, she just now clearly felt that the life energy in the egg has not yet hatched·
In other words, in just a few seconds, the life energy in the egg completed the entire embryonic development stage?
This kind of thing is too incredible.
Unless she made a mistake in judgment, or is this how the phantom beasts are hatched?
Menqi raised his hand to his chin and looked at the little red head thoughtfully.
Among the many uninhabited demonic realms, the most mysterious creature is the extremely rare phantom beast.
They are rarer than Warcraft, and more elusive.
Compared to other abundant species, humans’ understanding of phantom beasts is almost zero.
After hearing Menqi’s explanation, Moreau had no choice but to put his thoughts aside for the time being.
He noticed Menqi's doubts, and he could probably guess the reason. It was simply the sudden hatching of the eggs of strange phantom beasts.
In fact, he was also confused.
But what he wonders about is why the eggs of the phantom beasts can absorb the energy of the annual rings.
And after absorbing the energy of the annual rings, it can hatch instantly·
You must know that no matter how hard humans tried before, they could not find a way to stably hatch the eggs of phantom beasts.
When he arrived, a phantom beast hatched out of nowhere.
But rather than exploring the reasons, Moreau is more worried about the energy of about 15% of the annual rings.
"Hoho!"
The little red head barked a few times.
I don’t know if it was due to a sudden force, but the already cracked eggshells suddenly scattered on the table like collapsed building blocks.
Immediately afterwards, everyone saw the whole body of the red little head.
A bird's head covered with red down, with black pecks and a crest on its head.
Under the slender neck, there is a slightly bloated body, with no hair visible, but some inconspicuous scales.
Similarly bare, there are fleshy wings on both sides of the bloated body, like forked branches.
What is more eye-catching are the short limbs under the bloated body, with sharp black claws.
And its tail is even more strange, as smooth and soft as a snake's body, and there is an unknown bud-like thing growing at the tail.
Everyone looked at the newly born phantom beast with astonishment in their eyes.
This is because the appearance of this phantom beast is too abstract.
Looking at the head alone, you would think it was an elegant bird larvae that has just begun to take shape.
Especially the red feather crest that tilts back on the top of the head, even if it has not grown yet, it will give people an inexplicable sense of elegance.
If you look at the body below the neck, it will feel strongly inconsistent.
Such a bloated body and abnormal wing skeleton are definitely not the body structure of a bird.
Not to mention the slippery tail with an unknown bud-like thing.
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Moreau always felt that this phantom beast looked like the creator was joking. He randomly picked up several completely mismatched parts and assembled them together hastily.
If he had to use one word to describe the appearance of the phantom beast.
That's four different things.
"Looks—so strange."
Calista's face was full of surprise.
Yungu next to him had the same reaction.
That is to say, Menqi has seen many strange species, so he doesn't think there is anything wrong with the appearance of this phantom beast.
"The phantom beast cannot be described by ordinary people, but its appearance - Menqi looked at the appearance of the phantom beast and whispered: "It reminds me of the Chimera ant."
"Chimera ant? What is that?"
Calista asked doubtfully.
Menqi glanced at Callista and explained: "Chimera ants, also known as chimera ants, have an ability called ingestive mating. Through this ability, Chimera ants can chimerize the genetic factors of the organisms they eat into the next generation."
The so-called gene chimerism is equivalent to combining the characteristics of various organisms.
When Morrow heard Menqi mention chimera ants, he inevitably looked at the hooks and claws on the limbs under the phantom beast's body for the first time, and carefully identified them. They were different from the hooks and claws of chimera ants in his impression.
This is enough to show that this phantom beast has nothing to do with chimera ants.
But just from the appearance, it does make people directly think of chimera ants.
"Then call it Chimera."
Morrow simply called the newly hatched phantom beast in front of him by the name Chimera.
Chimera didn't pay attention to the looks from around her. She lowered her head to pick up an eggshell, then raised her head and ate the eggshell.
Suddenly, it screamed in discomfort and spit out the eggshell it had just eaten.
Its cry has an obvious sense of dissonance.
Chimera spit out the eggshell, hesitated, and picked a smaller one.
Then it quickly spit out the eggshell again, finally realizing that the eggshell was not food it could eat.
Immediately afterwards, Chimera seemed to suddenly think of something, and immediately swayed its strange-shaped fleshy wings, bumped its bloated body, and ran towards Moro.
It ran to the edge of the coffee table. It raised its slender neck and pecked at Moreau. Then it kept opening and closing, as if it was waiting for food.
This is obviously asking for food.
Seeing Chimera going straight to Moro to beg for food, Menqi struggled to hold back her laughter.
If it was a fantasy beast egg that could not be hatched, then all she could think about was how to unlock the achievement of cooking the fantasy beast egg for the first time.
But if the egg of the phantom beast hatches, then she would rather see the hatched phantom beast grow up and become part of the human biological database.
Hence "I'll get it some food."
Hence Men Qi hid her smile, got up and left.
After a while.
Menqi took back a piece of leg meat with webbed fish, which was one of the ingredients for tonight. It was taken from an amphibious creature called a jumping fish.
She took the ruby poultry knife, cut off a small piece of meat, and placed it in front of Chimera.
Chimera's red eyes couldn't help but stare at the piece of meat, and the open beak slowly moved towards it. When it was about to touch the meat, it retracted the beak, then raised its neck and continued to open its mouth towards Moreau.
"Moro, come and feed me."
Menqi saw the clue and handed the red jade poultry knife and leg meat to Moreau.
Morozie frowned, but took it, and then cut a small piece of meat for Chimera.
After he put the meat down, the Chimera looked like it had been hungry for four or five days. It swiped its sharp peck at the meat, ate it in, and then pecked at Moro Zhang again.
"Pfft."
Calista couldn't help but laugh, and quickly covered her mouth the next moment.
Morrow shook his head slightly and cut off a few more pieces of meat for Chimera.
Chimera refused to refuse anyone who came and ate them all.
It won’t take a while.
The leg meat, which was twice the size of Chimera, was completely eaten by Chimera.
Chimera seemed to be full, and made a lazy tone, then immediately threw herself on Moro's lap, curled up and fell into a deep sleep.
Yungu looked at the sleeping Chimera and praised: "This little guy is quite spiritual."
"Yeah, he's just a bit ugly."
Calista sighed.
Menqi was more concerned about Chimera's subsequent upbringing and recording Chimera's biological information into the database.
But for this kind of thing, Moreau's consent must be obtained first,
That night.
Everyone gathers together to eat.
Chimera seemed to be awakened by the aroma. She first stared at the various aromatic foods on the dining table for a while, and then seemed to have come back to her senses. She suddenly jumped off the sofa and ran towards the dining table.
Hunting all the way to Moro's calf, Chimera raised her neck and screamed wildly.
Seeing that Moreau did not respond immediately, it anxiously ran around Moreau's calves.
Everyone looked at Chimera for a moment.
Calista picked up a piece of meat and threw it over.
Chimera just glanced at it and screamed at Moro again.
Looking like that, it’s obvious that he only eats what Moro feeds.
Morrow smiled helplessly, picked out a few pieces of meat and threw them away.
Chimera immediately started eating it happily.
It eats very fast, sweeping the food into its tip in the blink of an eye.
Upon seeing this, Moreau specially picked a vegetable leaf and threw it in front of Chimera.
Humistically, I never thought that Chimera was not a vegetarian, nor did it care about raw or cooked food. I ate it happily.
Morrow then tried to throw some bone fragments to Chimera.
Chimera ate more happily, just like a chicken pecking at rice, putting every bone and dregs into its stomach.
Bisgi, who was sitting next to Moro, glanced at the Chimera and said, "It's omnivorous, so it should be easy to raise."
Bisji rolled his eyes at Moreau, too lazy to reply.
This phantom beast is so hungry that it only eats what Moro feeds. No one else can feed it.
Dinner is over.
Chimera fell asleep again after eating and drinking.
Bisji and the others left one after another, and soon, only Moro and Chimera were left in the room.
"What is the connection between the energy of the annual rings and the phantom beasts?"
Moro looked at the Chimera curled up in a ball and thought about the reason.
The energy of the annual rings comes from the thoughts of leaving the world behind. In a sense, it is the spiritual energy left behind in the world after the death of human beings.
So,
The phantom beast absorbed 15% of the annual ring energy before hatching, which is equivalent to using spiritual energy to complete the hatching?
Morrow then thought that his death and rebirth also came from the spiritual energy within the annual rings.
What do the two have in common?
new life?
Reincarnation?
Morrow frowned.
There is still too little information about phantom beasts.
Furthermore, judging from the appearance of the Chimera, it is difficult to see the evolved characteristics of some creatures.
More like a strange creature created by irresponsible human imagination alone. Morrow lowered his head and stared at the sleeping Chimera. He always felt that raising a fantasy beast was a very troublesome thing.
And he still has a lot of things to do in the future, so he has no time to take care of Chimera.
Early the next morning.
Menqi rarely got up early and came to Moro's place, and also brought some raw meat.
Obviously prepared for Chimera.
"The Chimera must be hungry, Moro, feed it quickly."
Moro was speechless for a while holding the raw meat that Menqi had forced into his hand.
It won’t take a while.
The piece of meat, which was almost as big as a leg of lamb, was completely eaten by the Chimera.
From the time it was hatched yesterday until now, the amount of food the Chimera has eaten is at least ten times its size.
However, this guy has neither excretion nor good health.
I really don’t know where the food eaten by it went.
After Chimera had eaten her fill, she actually crawled onto the sofa to sleep.
It also seems to know that Moreau doesn't like letting him sleep on his lap, so he is very self-aware and uses the sofa as his nest.
While Chimera was sleeping, Menqi squatted beside the sofa and played with Chimera's body with his hands.
"The Chimera's food intake is amazing, but its growth rate is very slow."
Menqi fiddled with the Chimera while carefully observing the features of the Chimera's body.
Generally speaking, creatures like Chimera, which are born with an abnormal amount of food, usually grow at an alarming rate during their larval stage.
However, this biological phenomenon does not seem to apply to Chimera.
"Menqi, you seem to like Chimera very much."
Morrow was watching Menqi playing with Chimera, and he could easily see Menqi's love for Chimera.
"Of course."
Menqi looked back at Moreau and said seriously: "This is a living phantom beast, very valuable for observation."
"I almost heard it as food value."
Moreau said casually.
Menqina’s right hand that was touching Chimera’s head suddenly froze.
Morrow smiled when he saw this, and suddenly thought that maybe he could give the Chimera to Menqi to raise.
The only problem is to make Chimera willing to eat the food fed by Menqi.
As for the question of whether it can be fed or not, Chimera could eat all the bone residue yesterday, so there is no need to worry at all.
In the following days.
Menqi accepted the offer to take care of Chimera.
In order to gain Chimera's approval, she spent most of the day getting along with Chimera.
And also specially prepare nutritionally balanced food for Chimera.
Chimera likes it very much.
It expresses its love for food through excited roars.
It is a pity that
It clearly knows that these delicacies are cooked by Menqi, but it only eats what Moro feeds himself.
This made Moro couldn't help but suspect that Chimera might be like this not because she regarded him as her father, but because of the energy of the annual rings.
Time passes slowly.
January 10th.
Morrow received a text message from Kurapika.
The content of the text message is Kurapika briefly explaining that he passed the hunter test.
Morrow only replied a brief congratulations message to Kurapika.
That evening.
Bisji left the Sky Arena.
She was going to start fulfilling her promise and take the initiative to teach Kurapika his mental abilities.
Morrow took Bisigi all the way to the airport, and then watched the airship Bisigi was riding in slowly take off into the sky and go away.
It seems that it is time for him to leave this place.