MTL - Simulation: Starting From Strange Creatures

  Chapter 36 Come to the game!

  "The living environment is facing unprecedented challenges?"

   Seeing such a reminder, Zhao Meng naturally had some doubts in his heart.

  He and the brown-headed cowbird are nest-parasitic birds,

  How to challenge? What is the challenge? How to challenge?

  All kinds of questions came to his mind, Zhao Meng looked at the bullbird curiously,

   At the same time, the bullbird also tilted its head, as if it was a little curious about the sudden appearance of the cuckoo.

   After looking at each other for a while, Zhao Meng took the lead and flew into the air.

  He didn't care about the bull-headed bird, and the first thing he did was to check the surrounding environment to make sure his bird was safe.

   Under investigation, Zhao Meng found that he seemed to have entered a closed scene space,

  Although the surrounding environment looks like sparse bushes, there are faintly visible mountains in the distance.

  But once he flies a certain distance, he will unknowingly fly back to the previous bushes,

  When this happened, he immediately understood something,

   What goals seem to be accomplished in a fixed scene in the second week,

   As for the goal? Zhao Meng could only guess secretly in his heart.

   "The brown-headed cowbird and I are both nest-parasitic birds. What is there to compete for?"

   "Did you lay eggs?"

"Huh!"

   Thinking of this, Zhao Meng took a closer look at his physical condition, and suddenly found that he seemed to have something missing and something more this time.

   What he simulated this time turned out to be a female bird.

   "This... Since you are a female bird, what else can you do besides laying eggs?"

   "Judging from the previous hints, could it be this goal!"

  Thinking of this, Zhao Meng silently shook his head,

  He has already determined the goal of this simulation in his mind.

   If it is the first time to simulate an animal, it must be difficult for him to complete the task of laying eggs,

   But now he has enough experience in being a human being, so he just laid eggs...

   "No, no! Still unacceptable!"

   "Lay an egg now, when you simulate a mammal, don't you want to have a baby!"

  Thinking of this, Zhao Meng felt awkward no matter how he thought about it.

  Despite all desperation, the simulation continues,

   "It's a good thing that the second cycle starts after the female bird has completed fertilization, otherwise..."

   Recalling something, Zhao Meng felt a chill down his back.

   "That's right! Where's the bull bird?"

  Zhao Meng landed on the branch, and found that the bull-headed bird that was there just now had disappeared.

   "It seems that it has already acted, so I should act too!"

  As Zhao Meng, who has experienced a cuckoo bird's entire life, finding other birds' nests can be said to be an easy task, and he soon found a bird's nest.

"Robin!"

  Zhao Meng doesn’t know many birds, and the robin happens to be a kind of bird that Zhao Meng is familiar with.

   Zhao Meng flew to the top of the robin's nest, looked around, but did not find the bullbird.

  Seeing this, he continued to look down at the lair, ready to complete his task,

   After waiting for a while, the robin left the nest to look for food. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Mengfei entered the nest.

   "Lay eggs!"

"uh-huh…"

  Zhao Meng jumped out of the bird's nest, looked back habitually,

   "The size is similar, but the color..."

   Looking at the turquoise eggs in the nest with a taupe egg mixed in, he tilted his head.

   "Is this really undetectable?"

   Just when Zhao Meng was puzzled, the robin came back,

   A moment later, an egg was thrown out of the nest, and he knew the answer.

   "Mockingbirds really have a method of anti-nest parasitism!"

   At this time, Zhao Meng thought of the introduction of the previous paragraph again,

   "The brown-headed cowbird can lay eggs of similar color!"

   "But the cowbird can parasitize so many kinds of birds, how does it change the color of its eggs?"

   Zhao Meng was a little curious,

  At this time laying eggs is useless, he started looking for the bull bird,

   After some searching, he quickly found his goal.

   At this time, the bullhead bird has just completed a crime and is flying leisurely among the bushes.

   Zhao Meng followed slowly.

  Because they had just laid eggs, Zhao Meng and the bull-headed bird were unable to lay another egg, and the bull-headed bird also started its own foraging behavior.

   Zhao Meng, who followed the bull-headed bird, observed the behavior of the bull-headed bird.

   "So there is such a trick!"

  Zhao Meng found that the bullhead followed a group of mockingbirds,

  As long as you see a robin eating, you will fly down and gather with the robin for food.

   "There's something special about this robin's recipe, which may be one of the reasons their eggs are so beautiful!"

  Zhao Meng followed suit and joined the robin's eating team.

  …

  In the following time, Zhao Meng found that the eggs he laid slowly turned green with the passage of time.

  Originally the eggs laid by oneself will be found immediately,

   But as time went by, the robins saw the light-colored eggs, just hesitated, and continued to hatch.

   "I don't know where that bullbird flew to!"

  As his competitor, Zhao Meng originally wanted to keep up with the bull-headed bird, give full play to his subjective initiative, and use some unsightly methods,

   Such as throwing away the eggs of the bullbird, laying one's own eggs into the nest and so on.

  But after following several nests, Zhao Meng found that such behavior is not advisable,

  Because the robin was not out of the nest long,

   Waiting for the bullhead to finish laying eggs, if you go to lay eggs by yourself, it is easy to be blocked by the robins coming home.

  Faced with this situation, Zhao Meng could only give up following and lay eggs honestly.

  …

   I don’t know how long it took, the environment in the jungle became sultry, summer is coming,

  As the seasons change, the breeding season of birds is also coming to an end,

   At the same time, Zhao Meng also felt that his efficiency had dropped a bit.

  He originally wanted to continue working hard,

  The text that appeared suddenly interrupted his plan.

  【At the end of the simulation, the adult ratio between you and the brown-headed cowbird chicks is 2:31. 】

  【Your descendants cannot occupy the ecological niche. 】

  【Simulation failed! 】

   Zhao Meng, who was working hard, only felt his eyes go dark,

   When he opened his eyes again, his consciousness had returned to his body.

   "Huh!? Failed!"

  Although he had some preparations in his heart, Zhao Meng was a little puzzled when he saw that he had achieved such an outrageous record:

   "I'm obviously working hard!"

  While not understanding, Zhao Meng was also somewhat unconvinced.

   "The same nest-parasitic bird is no match for the bullbird!"

"what's going on!"

  Zhao Meng closed his eyes, his consciousness entered the space again, and immediately started a new simulation.

  With a burst of trance, the familiar bird song and familiar text prompt reappeared,

   Zhao Meng just opened his bird eyes and saw the bull-headed bird that defeated him.

   But this time he decided not to go anywhere, just followed the bullbird,

  He wants to see why he lost so completely?

  (end of this chapter)