Chapter 119: The Origin of Purgatory

Lin was a little hesitant to let the army invade the last territory of the Inca swarm, which is the area directly under the desert, but for now, let's study the worms first.

The purgatory worm is the largest unit of the Inca swarm, and it can also spit out lava and other attacks. Although Lin calls it lava, she has never been sure whether it is lava or not. It may just be a high-temperature liquid.

And most importantly, what was the origin of the purgatory worm? The purgatory worms that Lin has seen now have obviously been transformed by the Inca swarms countless times. The purgatory worms cannot be normal creatures. They are slow-moving, huge in size, and use a high-temperature solution, which is extremely energy-consuming to attack creatures. Only suitable for living in the division of labor.

So Lin is very interested, what kind of creature was the purgatory worm in the first place? Was it 'stolen' by the Inca swarm? Or did it evolve from the original Inca swarm?

Now, Lin is about to reveal this secret. When studying these complex and powerful creatures, Lin feels quite interesting.

First of all, Lin is most concerned about the body of the purgatory worm. The collector followed the broken body of the purgatory worm on the ground and got in. Lin lit up and saw the same scene when Leviathan got in...

The wall of the esophagus is polished, and it is very long.

The collectors crawled inside. The deeper they went, the narrower the surrounding passages became. Lin believed that this passage might run through the entire body of the worm. It should not be as wide as the head outside, which is probably the reason why it is difficult for them to get back. Lin even suspected that they did not have the ability to go backwards.

The collectors went all the way to the end of the passage. Lin found that there was a small hole at the end. And it's less than a meter in diameter. There are many small pieces of particles on the inner wall here that look like dust.

After the collectors drilled through the hole in the worm's tail, they found that the surrounding environment was an underground cave. This cave was apparently dug by a purgatory worm. The 'soil' around the cave had a strange smell.

There seems to be nothing special to find.

Lin then asked the collectors to start digging holes in the wall of the worm's esophagus to see if they could drill inside to observe the internal organs and other structures, but it may take a long time because the inner wall of the worm is very flexible. The anti-dissolution ability is also very strong. During this time period, Lin plans to study the shell of the purgatory worm.

Collectors collected a lot of purgatory worm shell powder under the collapsed home tree. Lin found that this is a very special kind of chitin, which is not produced by ordinary marine and terrestrial organisms.

The ingredients in it are very special.

The shell is sturdy and suitable for pressure and high temperature, but it is not the highest in terms of hardness, but the shell of the purgatory worm is too thick. Therefore, it is difficult to penetrate normal attacks.

However, Lin still saw a creature that could make this kind of chitin.

That creature lives under sea water. Lin hadn't seen it for a long time, but it was also a worm-type creature that usually haunts the lava vents on the seafloor.

These vents, Lin has a new word to describe: 'volcano'.

Through this, it may be possible to trace the origin of the purgatory worm, not necessarily.

Lynn can gain information by recalling observations at the bottom of the sea...

Most creatures will flee quickly when the lava erupts, but some creatures will follow the lava life, this kind of creature is actually quite common, mainly fungi, they like to gather in large numbers in the underwater crater, when the eruption, the formation is deep There is also an explosion of a large number of nutrients in the area, most of which are toxic, but fungi can break them down.

Since there are fungi, there are also organisms that feed on fungi.

Pompeii worms, this is not Lin's name, it comes from the vocabulary. There are many kinds of these small but powerful worms. They gather near the underwater craters. Some of them live in symbiosis with fungi, and some of them feed on fungi.

However, in the face of intermittent eruptions of volcanic lava, fungi can hide in various rock crevices to hide. The Pompeii worms, which are multicellular organisms, are too large and are not easy to escape. Therefore, some Pompeii worms have evolved Given their speed, they can quickly escape lava.

While some have evolved a 'hard resistance' way, they cover the body surface with a kind of crust to resist the high temperature of intermittent lava, so that they don't have to run too far, and they can eat and be scalded as soon as possible. Dead fungi.

Where do they get their crusts from? Lin thought that it might have been gathered from the ocean currents, or it might have been dug out from the rock and soil near the crater. Lin also collected crustal matter in the rock and gravel, but now Lin obtained it directly from the prey.

Since this is the case under the sea, it is obvious that there may also be... some kind of heat-resistant creature that lives in intermittent craters and likes to devour volcanic bacteria.

The origin of the purgatory worm may be a very tiny worm-like creature, but after being discovered by the Inca swarm, the special ability of this creature was quickly used by them, and the Inca swarm may use this ability to drill and explore. In some high temperature areas, in the process of development, the Inca swarm will continue to increase the size of the worms to achieve better results.

In the end, the originally tiny worms became so huge, and the ability to spray lava may be incidental. The Inca swarm likes to use fire, so it is more suitable for a unit with high temperature resistance to spray high temperature liquid.

Using a method similar to combining explosives, it should be possible to create a high-temperature substance similar to lava. In fact, there are many formulas for explosives, but Lin only found a few formulas.

Lin now plans to decompose the chitinous material of the purgatory worms, so that she can create troops for exploring high-temperature areas. Most of the people who like to live in high-temperature areas are fungi, but occasionally strange creatures can be found.

If you can escape deeper and hotter underground, there will definitely be more spectacular discoveries.

In fact, there are more puzzles. Why did the Inca swarm need this worm to burrow? They obviously like to live in tree holes, and they just want to burrow into the ground. They should be about the size of a fog worm. Why do they have to be so huge?

Maybe... the Inca swarms have also experienced some kind of battlefield before, and it is not necessarily that the purgatory worms were born out of war.

This can only be done by studying the history of the Inca swarm. I don’t know if there is any way to find their history.

This is the next thing to do, march to the territory of the Inca swarm!

At this time, Lin's collector finally opened the esophagus wall of the purgatory worm and got into the body of the purgatory worm...

In the body of the purgatory worm, Lin saw incredible things. (To be continued...)