Chapter 35 The Disappearing Moss

"Sky, water."

At the entrance to the cave at the base, Leviathan looks up at the sky with the headworm, which expresses its thoughts with a simple voice.

This little creature with a brain all over it, Lin felt that it was harmless after staying here for a long time, so now she can let it move at will.

Yes, it's going to rain...

The word that the head worm said just now means it is going to rain.

There are a lot of black clouds above the twisted jungle. In fact, this place does not rain often, and every time it rains, it is quite huge. The arthropods between the jungles seem to be busy, and most of them are looking for a place. Hide, but some specifically haunt in the rain.

Such as the bark cockroach.

The bark cockroach is a kind of cockroach. It is huge and the color of the body is exactly the same as the bark of the tree, but Lin can recognize it. I saw a few giant-veined dragonflies flying rapidly through the forest. When they flew over a tree trunk, a piece of 'Bark' suddenly moved, it stretched out its forelimbs with serrations and barbs, and instantly grabbed a dragonfly.

Although the dragonfly is about the size of the bark cockroach, it is almost impossible to resist when caught, and can only be eaten slowly.

"Dragonfly, food, delicious."

The head worm also saw this hunting scene and expressed its thoughts.

"Bark cockroach?"

Leviathan also made a syllable for the headworm.

After hearing it, the head worm uttered a simple word: "It's unpalatable."

Well, a simple understanding is that the head worm said that dragonflies are delicious, and bark cockroaches are unpalatable. The concepts of 'delicious' and 'unpalatable' are also issued by the head worm. Lin found that it has a very interesting feature, obviously They are all foods that the cells in the body can absorb normally, and the nutrients are not much different, but the head worms like some foods very much, and they don't like some very much.

After research, Lin found that the head worms will eat the food they don't like very slowly, with unpleasant emotions and make a special sound, and the representative words of this sound are 'unpalatable', 'delicious' ' On the contrary, when eating good food, it will eat quickly and be happy.

This is a very interesting phenomenon. Lin still doesn't know how it came about. This head worm has great research value.

"Water, tumbling, caves."

Seeing that the heavy rain was coming, the head worm twisted its flesh-like body and rolled back to the cave at the base.

This creature is indeed very interesting, and Lin often exchanges information with it like this. By the way, there seems to be a word to describe this action: 'chat'.

It seems that 'chat' can still be understood, but what is this about 'day'? The word is really weird enough.

It's going to rain now, and Lin usually doesn't take shelter from the rain, especially Leviathan. Lin is more concerned about the jungle.

The moss in the flashing woodland has become less and less, and many creatures that eat moss have left this woodland. In the last few days and nights, Lin has been paying attention to how the moss has decreased.

The moss seems to be slowly withering, cracking, and dying. They are not short of water, and they still glow at night. Why?

Thinking about it, Leviathan stood up, crossed the river, and walked over to the Glittering Woods.

It's become a bit like a dark place now,

Only sporadic moss grows on the ground, in addition to the large black mud, and some dry and cracked bark and stones.

On the contrary, it was the source of darkness, which became brighter because of the spread of the green carpet, but Lin was more concerned about the cause of this phenomenon in the glittering woodland.

Not only the moss, but also the twisted trees on the Glittering Woodland began to show some strange phenomena. They began to peel off their skins. Although they didn't shed much, each piece of peeled skin had one thing in common. They were all very dry and cracked, as if watery. It's like being taken away.

Leviathan walked over to a small clump of moss, reached out his tentacles and dug it up.

Lin decided to bring the moss back to study to see why they died.

There was a sound of thunder in the air, and Leviathan quickly walked back to the cave of the base...

Lin found that the head worm did not enter at the entrance of the cave. As soon as it saw Leviathan, it said: "Chief, wood, moss, cracked, dead."

It wanted to tell Leviathan that both the moss and the wood died after cracking, but Lin ignored it now, and took the moss to the depths of the cave, and the entrance to the cave was also sealed.

The 'Door Shapers' are a kind of troops made by Lin. They will mix soil and a husk substance on rainy days to form a watertight wall to seal the hole to prevent rainwater from entering the interior of the base, otherwise it may cause damage. danger of collapse.

The head worm moved and followed Leviathan to the depths of the cave, it seemed a little curious, what did Lin do with that moss.

Too bad it's invisible.

Lin put the moss into a decomposition sac, then cut some small wounds on the surface of the moss, and let the miniature scouts enter the moss to study. There are also eyeballs outside the moss to observe its appearance changes.

Plant cells are relatively simple and have fewer types, so it is easy to judge.

Lin found that among these moss cells, there are some strange creatures, some filamentous creatures, these creatures are composed of multi-cellular branches and strings, and have a special structure. Lin seems to have never seen such a composition.

Lynn did some observational research on them.

They destroy the cellular structure of the moss, kill the cells of the moss, and produce toxins that eventually erode the entire moss, turning it into a powder.

When the moss dies, they grow a large number of special cysts, which appear to be seed-like things. These cysts are light and drift away in the wind, seemingly to reproduce.

So this thing killed the moss? In other words, did the moss in the Glittering Woodland die because of this thing?

But where do they come from? There was no problem with the moss before.

Is it...

Lin thought of the fungus growing on the wood in the crystallized insect cave, and their structure seemed to be very similar to these moss-killing creatures.

But Lin didn't bring out the fungus there, and the whole cave was blown up, so it's unlikely that the contents inside would come out...

When Lin was thinking, it heard the thunder outside the base again, and at the same time, the voice of the head worm also rang: "Lightning, fungi, cracked wood, movement, water, Farr, death."

'Fal' was a new pronunciation, a word Lynn didn't understand.

Just when Lin was a little confused, a huge roar came from outside the cave. It was not lightning, but the sound of something huge falling.