Niudan picked off the fresh leaves of wild vegetables one by one, filled his bamboo basket first, closed the lid, and then started to work on his own space to grow vegetables.
On the way here, he planned to plant some wild vegetables in the space and pour space water to see if it would mutate like the loach.
Of course, it would be better if he could grow medicinal herbs. But the wild medicinal herbs knew him, but in his eyes, they were all grass.
Because he had no tools, Niu Dan had to find a branch to dig wild vegetables. The soil here was a bit hard, and even though it had just rained, it was still quite difficult to dig.
It took a lot of effort to plant most of the space, mostly the types he likes to eat, such as wild onions, wild ginger, wild leeks, etc. There is also a wild peach tree that is half a person tall.
Although the workload is not heavy, after finishing the work, I am already sweating profusely and my muscles are sore.
My small body is very weak due to long-term lack of nutrition. Even if I eat a little tonic loach meat, I will not become strong all of a sudden.
You have to find opportunities to exercise.
Niu Dan decided to incorporate physical exercise into his daily routine. There seemed to be warriors in this world, but he didn't know whether they were low-level warriors or high-level warriors.
The word warrior appeared many times in Xiao Niu Dan's memory, but it was limited to this term because he had never seen a warrior take action.
Niu Chun, Uncle Niu Si in the village, is obviously a martial artist, but he does nothing but work in the fields every day. I haven't seen him practice boxing in so many years.
It may also be that Niudan was not found during practice.
After resting for a while, Niu Dan began to observe the situation on the other side of the ditch. Because two big guys appeared, he deliberately avoided that side when planting vegetables.
From noon to now, about two or three hours have passed in the outside world. The original second-generation loaches grew up catalyzed by the spring water and cannibalized each other, and two huge loaches survived.
Their size is also far greater than the previous generation of giant loaches, and their bodies can no longer be accommodated in the ditch less than half a meter wide.
At this time, two loaches, almost as thick as adult thighs, coiled their bodies like giant pythons, lying on both sides of the ditch, with their eyes closed and motionless.
Even though Niu Dan had been moving in and out of the space for so long, he hadn't seen the slightest movement from these two big guys, as if they were fast asleep.
The third, fourth, and even fifth and sixth generations of loaches have also spawned in the ditch.
Large and small loaches burrowed back and forth in the water and soil. The big loaches ate the small loaches, and the small loaches ate their eggs. The weak was eaten by the strong.
Logically speaking, if there were two such big loaches in the second generation, all the loaches in the ditch should have been eaten, but they didn't.
Moreover, Niu Dan also found that there were not many loaches of the third generation, only three to five, and their body size was only as thick as an arm, followed by the fourth generation, and the most numerous were loach seedlings, as if the number had been deliberately controlled.
The strangest thing is that the two second-generation giant loaches can live in harmony instead of fighting each other.
"Did they give birth to intelligence?"
Niu Dan was a little skeptical, after all, such a big loach was unique even in the outside world.
When things are abnormal, they become demons. The water in space is so magical that it is not impossible for creatures to develop intelligence.
In order to test this idea, he walked towards the ditch.
The closer you get, the more you feel the ferocious aura of the two giant loaches. They have gradually broken away from the appearance of loaches and transformed into a brand new species.
Pieces of fine scales have grown on the originally smooth skin, with strange lines on it. Even if it is coiled up, it has already reached Niudan's chest.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but there seems to be a faint flash of water on the surface of those scales.
Before Niu Dan could see clearly, the two loaches seemed to have noticed Niu Dan's approach and opened their eyes almost at the same time.
At this moment, he seemed to feel four cold tentacles wandering around his body, and the hairs all over his body stood up involuntarily.
As the vision blurred, the next moment, I saw the big loach originally lying on both sides of the ditch. Now it was clinging to the white invisible wall in front of me. Its thick body quickly fell to the ground, letting out a painful scream.
, the two large mouths exposed are covered with fine teeth.
Fortunately, nothing was planted in that open space, otherwise it would have been destroyed by the giant loach's thick body.
Niu Dan's heart skipped a beat, good guy, if it wasn't for the protection of space, he wouldn't have had time to react just now, and he would have died.
The bigger this loach gets, the more terrifying its strength becomes.
When the attack failed, the two big loaches suddenly regained their memory, raised their upper bodies, looked at the eggs warily, and stopped attacking rashly.
Niu Dan didn't stop, crossing the ditch and approaching step by step.
Two large loaches were next to each other, staring intently at the approaching cow egg, with a trace of nervousness and fear in their eyes.
Things were just as Niu Dan thought. The two loaches, relying on the magic of space water, had developed a glimmer of intelligence, like ignorant children, and had no inkling of good or evil.
The attack on Niudan just now was driven by instinct because the opponent was approaching his territory.
But the attack failed, and instead it was bounced back with twice as much force, which immediately frightened these two loaches who had just begun to develop their intelligence.
In their eyes, this little creature is more powerful than them.
Since you can't fight, you can only run away.
The two loaches immediately ran away, one to the left and the other to the right, as if they had a telepathic connection.
"Don't run!"
When Niu Dan saw this, he became anxious and thought about catching one of them, so he suddenly pounced.
A strange thing happened. Logically speaking, with the speed of Niudan, it was impossible to catch up with the two loaches. But when the loach he pounced on was running away, its thick body suddenly stopped, and then a loach was pounced on.
Upright.
Holding Loach's thick body with both hands, Niu Dan was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, and then showed a hint of realization.
Obviously, the situation is the same as when he caught the big loach before. This is one of his characteristics as the owner of this space.
He still knows too little about this space and needs to study it slowly in the future.
After the loach was hugged, the feeling of stagnation in its body disappeared. It wanted to resist, but it found that what was pressing on itself was not a small man, but an unshakable mountain, and a look of despair could not help but appear in its eyes.
Niudan hugged Loach's body with one hand and stood up.
"Can you understand me? If you understand, just nod."
He asked the desperate loach.
Unfortunately, the loach didn't react at all and just kept twisting and turning, trying to escape.
Niu Dan let go of his hand with some disappointment.
After the loach escaped from the trap, his figure flashed and he rushed to the other side in the blink of an eye. The wild vegetables that had just been planted along the way were immediately crushed into the soil.
Niu Dan felt annoyed, and the next moment, the two loaches seemed to be under a restraining spell, unable to move.
He walked over quickly, pointed at the wild vegetables on the ground and scolded the two guys, then slapped them one at a time like a balloon, and slapped them back to the other side.
Although the two loaches didn't understand what the little man in front of them was saying, they figured out that they couldn't damage those green things, so they didn't dare to move anymore, and dug their heads into the soil with fear on their faces.
Because it was getting late, Niu Dan ignored the two loaches and dug some wild vegetables from outside again, patching up the flattened areas, and then left the small sinkhole and went home with the basket on his back.