Tucker placed the egg about seven meters away from the tree and placed a circle of carved stones around it.
Lin's little flying bug followed it, curiously watching Tucker's movements. After placing the stones, it began to dance again.
Lin noticed that the way it danced was different from the ones she had seen before. First, it raised its paws, then wagged its tail and shouted, "Sang! Clack clack! "
It was referring to the light, but Lin did not know why it was doing that.
Speaking of which, Tucker could do a lot of strange movements. So did its kind. Why? Did it have anything to do with their high intelligence? The brain bug could also do a lot of strange movements, but Lin could understand why it did that. However, Lin could not understand Tucker's movements at all. Their movements seemed meaningless, but they just liked to do it...
Tucker danced for about a hundred seconds before lying down on the ground. Its head was facing the tree, and its mouth touched the ground. Because it was standing at the back, its mouth did not reach into the water.
After doing that, it shouted at the tree, "Oh!" After that, it did nothing else.
Tucker was standing at first. It stood facing the tree for about ten thousand seconds before lying down to rest. It drank some water from its pouch.
Then, it lay there and stared at the tree.
It didn't seem to want to go out, nor did it want to look for food. It just stayed there, staring at the egg and the Medusa tree.
Just like that, one day and night passed. Tucker did not move, although sometimes it moved its body. But it had no intention of leaving...
Two days later. Lin noticed that Tucker's body was getting weaker. Even though it could last for a long time without eating or moving, if it did not drink water... it might not last for more than a few days...
Even if Tucker himself understood this, he just didn't move … He seemed to have the idea of dying. Most creatures, other than reproduction, valued their own lives the most. But why was Tucker acting like this? It did not lay the egg, and Lin found it strange that there was an intact egg there.
At the same time, Lin slowly moved her troops from the roots to the trunk. Because they were fighting and growing at the same time, it took them a long time. At the same time, Lin's troops had gathered into a ball in the trunk and began to absorb nutrients from the surroundings to grow.
It would take some time for them to grow to the size of the pterosaur. After all, the tree refused to feed them. Not only did it attack with sword fleas, it also secreted a lot of toxins, determined to drive the parasite away.
At the same time, Lin wanted to form a new troop, one that was different from the pterosaur.
She also wanted to see... Did Tucker have a limit? Would it stay here until it died? Or would it look for food when it could not stand it?
This seemed rather interesting. This creature was full of unknown behaviors.
Then, during the third day and night... Tucker still didn't move, and Lin found that occasionally some jade would run over here. These Mao Jades were rather interesting. Some of them would drink the water on the ground and then be petrified. Some of the older Mao Jades knew not to drink water.
It seemed that Mao Yu also relied on learning to grow. This method was not very appropriate for a small species like Mao Yu, who had a fast pace of life. The meat cutting ants never seemed to come here. It seemed that they knew the dangers here.
. and Tucker had no interest in catching the jades even when it saw them. It was still there... in a daze.
It did not have any special emotions. Lin even suspected that it was poisoned, but in fact, there was nothing wrong with its body. It was just in a daze.
It was not weakened to a certain extent yet, so it needed to be observed.
Lin also had the Flyer circle around and found that the skeleton dragon's body had begun to rot. Lin thought that there was a reason why the two skeletal dragons had split up and fled. They might have been making a "gamble."
The gamble was that Tucker would drink the water of the tree that was infused with petrification toxins. But if the two of them fled in the same direction, Tucker would catch up, and the roots of the tree would follow, so they would die together...
So, the two Skeleton Dragons fled separately, sacrificing one of them so that the other could survive? It felt like the right plan, but they did not seem to treat Lin's pterosaur as Tucker's companion at that time.
As for other problems, they had not figured out, such as the bones left over by the meat-cutting ants, the pile of fragments, and the intact egg...
On the fourth day and night, Tucker was showing signs of weakness, mainly due to dehydration, but it still had no intention of leaving.
On the fifth day and night, Tucker was still there, staring at the egg and the tree, motionless.
Was it waiting for the egg to hatch? But Lin speculated that it might take dozens of days for the egg to hatch, and it would be difficult for Tucker to survive until then... If this continued...
On the sixth day and night, the leader of the skeleton dragons outside had left with the other members of the tribe. They stayed at the place where Tucker and Lin fell for several days, but in the end, they did not find a way to go down, so they decided to leave.
But Tucker was still the same.
On the seventh day and night.
Lin felt that maybe it was time to end the observation. Tucker did want to die here, but Lin did not know what his motive was. Maybe it had something to do with the egg? Regardless, Tucker was now on the verge of death. He was as weak as a skeleton dragon, his whole body was weak, and his brain was on the verge of stopping. It seemed that it was time to come out...
"Crack..." The trunk of the Dumetha Tree slowly cracked open, and a large amount of sap sputtered out. Tucker, who was almost unconscious, suddenly became a little more alert when he saw this scene. He wanted to prop up his body, but he did not have the strength to do so.
From the cracked trunk, a tentacle stretched out first. It squeezed the bark on both sides, widening the crack, and then its whole body came out...
The creature slowly floated in the air, and as it slowly approached Tucker, its expression became more and more nervous.
"Tucker."
The creature's body made a sound that was exactly the same as the pterosaur's. Lin used to call it that in the past, but after hearing it, she instantly... fainted.
It seemed to be very, very excited.
The creature pierced the tentacle into Tucker's body, injecting Tucker with the large amount of nutrients that Lin obtained from the Dumetha Tree.