Playing Around

For Rowan, the strategic objective was already achieved with the safe landing of two Spore Sac meteorites. Having a few more Insect Empress would only speed up the development process.

Therefore, even if the two subsequent Spore Sac meteorites were damaged, the impact would not be that significant.

However, Spore Sac meteorites traverse the areas where Atmospheric Creature live and are active, providing an excellent opportunity to observe their habits. Their genes are of great reference value and should be included in the gene pool of the Swarm, contributing to the future development of the Swarm.

Therefore, Rowan now somewhat hopes that the two remaining Spore Sac meteorites will encounter Atmospheric Creature and be attacked by them. This way, he can observe and study them more closely and formulate a plan to hunt them down.

The third Spore Sac meteorite, after entering the atmosphere, had a significantly less effective braking system than its hydrogen-oxygen reaction system.

Although it had activated its jet propulsion system to slow down, the Spore Sac meteorite still streaked across the sky at an extremely high speed.

The white clouds in the sky were fluffy, but they didn't react at all to the fireballs that streaked past them. Rowan and his companions knew too little about Atmospheric Creature; if the Atmospheric Creature didn't attack, they wouldn't be able to distinguish between them and the real clouds.

In the end, Rowan and a large group of Intellect waited anxiously for a long time, but the Spore Sac cyst meteorite was not attacked until it landed.

Everyone felt a little disappointed.

An hour later, the fourth Spore Sac meteorite arrived late, entering the atmosphere of A7B5.

Whether it was lucky or unlucky, it had barely sparked a flame in the atmosphere when three white clouds around it began to move.

Three white clouds transformed into Atmospheric Creature and rushed towards the Spore Sac meteorite.

Rowan discovered that these Atmospheric Creature did not seem to have a fixed appearance; the three Atmospheric Creature were all different in appearance.

A large bird, resembling an abstract representation of nature, nearly forty meters long, has a triangular limb structure at the front that could be considered its head, a long white cloud behind it that serves as its neck, and a flat, elongated structure at the back that constitutes its body. Two asymmetrical "wings" extend from its body to either side, and it has no tail...

It resembles a giant whale, over thirty meters long, but its appearance remains abstract, with jagged edges that give it a soft, limp feel.

The last Cloud Creature simply looked like an irregularly shaped rag spread out, and Rowan didn't know how to describe it. It was the largest, exceeding fifty meters in length.

However, Rowan later discovered that it wasn't that they looked too haphazardly, but rather that they seemed to be a type of mollusk, which curled up together when they weren't doing anything, making them appear strangely shaped.

But once they start moving, their form slowly returns to that of an octopus, with a large head and body, and dozens of tentacle-like tentacles floating behind them.

As they gradually accelerated, faint blue arcs of Electric Arc began to emanate from their bodies.

After discussing with many Intellect, Rowan concluded that these blue Electric Arc might represent many things.

For example, the easiest to deduce and the most easily verifiable is that the frequency and brightness of the blue Electric Arc represent the output power of Atmospheric Creature. When their output is higher, the blue Electric Arc appear more frequently, and when they reach a certain level, the blue Electric Arc can even envelop their entire bodies.

There are also some speculations, such as the possibility that blue Electric Arc might be a form of communication between Atmospheric Creature. The Spore Sac has its own Eagle Eye, capable of recognizing most light, and it also has cochleas and pubescence hidden in many places on its body that can receive shadows and most sounds.

Based on current observations, the Intellect have not detected any behavior by Atmospheric Creature that relies on light to transmit information. As for sound, although the earliest Atmospheric Creature did roar, no sound waves were detected being emitted.

Although the cochlear structure hidden within the Spore Sac integrates multiple superior genes, allowing it to receive sound wave frequencies with a very high upper limit and a very low lower limit, it cannot be ruled out that sound wave frequencies emitted by Atmospheric Creature exceed the Spore Sac's reception range.

It's just that the possibility is very low.

Moreover, when the first Atmospheric Creature failed to intercept the Spore Sac meteorite and lost its arms and legs, and when it was blocked by the "air wall" and completely unable to pursue it, abnormal flashes of blue Electric Arc appeared on its body.

This suggests that the flashing frequency of the blue Electric Arc is at least a way for Atmospheric Creature to express their emotions. Their kind might receive some information from this display.

The Spore Sac meteorite was repeatedly pulled and attacked by three Atmospheric Creature. In no time, it was stopped and grabbed in mid-air. Its own weight alone was not enough to escape the control of the Atmospheric Creature.

What happened next completely changed Rowan and the Intellect's understanding of this creature.

At first, when the largest Atmospheric Creature, which was fifty meters long, grabbed the Spore Sac meteorite, the Spore Sac meteorite, which was only two or three meters long, was wrapped around it like a person holding a basketball.

Rowan assumed it would immediately devour the Spore Sac- bearing meteorite; after all, they went to all that trouble to capture it—if not to eat it, then what?

It turns out that Atmospheric Creature captured Spore Sac meteorites for other reasons.

The enormous creature clutched the Spore Sac meteorite as if it were a child with a new and exciting toy, dragging it behind it as it flew back and forth through the air. The blue light on its body flickered frequently, though Rowan couldn't tell the difference between the current flickering and the flickering when they were enraged.

But Rowan guessed that its current mood was definitely not anger, but rather excitement and pleasure.

The two Atmospheric Creature that hadn't managed to grab the "toy" were also crackling with blue Electric Arc, constantly floating and drifting around the largest Atmospheric Creature.

Rowan guessed they must be quite happy, after all, the "toy" was something the three of them caught together. But he was immediately proven wrong; the two Atmospheric Creature that didn't have the "toy" began to have their blue Electric Arc arcs flashing at a faster frequency, and the one with the largest flashing frequency also began to increase.

Just when Rowan thought they were having a good time, the three Atmospheric Creature suddenly started fighting.

The two smaller Atmospheric Creature joined forces to attack the largest Atmospheric Creature. A burst of Electric Arc flashed, leaving Rowan and the other Intellect dumbfounded.

Rowan could no longer tell whether it was playing around or fighting.

Their fighting was so intense that it completely exceeded the level of playfulness.