Chapter 154: The Last Season

This vibration is not at the location of Behemoth and the head bug, but at the...mountain?

The collapse continued near the base of the mountain, but it did not actually spread to the area with hot springs and hot water, but stopped at the periphery.

That is to say, the canyon formed in the underground world has been extended to this position and stopped.

But now, there are a lot of cracks on the rock wall at the end of the canyon, and these cracks are getting bigger and bigger, causing the ground to shake constantly, like an earthquake, it seems that something is about to come out.

It seems that because the collapse has just ended, there may be unstable ground everywhere. Like the current phenomenon, Lin has a familiar feeling. This feeling is often used in the sea...

'boom! ' Suddenly, at the crack of the explosion, a large amount of black liquid suddenly poured out!

These black liquids exuded bursts of smoke, which seemed to be very high temperature. The one that rushed into the sea suddenly made a sound of '呲...', and a huge amount of steam suddenly rose from the sea.

These liquids are relatively common in the potholes at the foot of the mountain. Lin believes that it is because they contain many toxic ingredients, which causes no plants to grow at the foot of the mountain, but there are many fungi and some small beetles and other organisms in the activity.

These sprayed liquids seem to be more viscous than those in the potholes. It can be said to be a kind of black mud. When they pour into the icy cold water in large quantities, they not only produce a lot of steam, but they are also affected by the water temperature. hardening.

The mud in the water solidified and turned into a hardened structure like a rock, and a large amount of mud was still gushing out from the cracks.

It seems that this problem needs to be solved.

Suddenly, a giant creature that was spinning continuously rushed out of the water, and it crashed directly into the crack of the cliff that was spewing mud.

Lynn's pioneers had re-replaced most of the crust during the days and nights when the sea washed into the subterranean world and collapsed, and swam to this location. Originally, Lin wanted to use it to detect the lava under the mountain, but she just dealt with this problem at this time.

'boom! ’

The impact of the pioneers directly hit a larger hole in the crack, and the high-temperature mud burst out, but Lin did not feel any heat at all, let alone burns, it seems that the carapace similar to the purgatory worm is indeed Very effective.

Then the pioneers shook their heads up and down,

Drill the hole wider. Let more mud spurt out, and then the pioneers turn their heads and rush back into the water, spinning their bodies to smash all the mud solidified at the bottom of the water, so that the mud cannot be piled up in the water, so the mud will continue to pour into the water. .

In this way, the pioneers kept grinding the mud that was washed into the water and solidified. This kept the mud from piling up and kept pouring into the water, and eventually, the mud spewing from the opening in the cliff began to get less and less and stopped slowly.

Just as Lin thought, the mud content is not too much, it is better to let it leak light than to block it.

Shards of mud, now minced by the pioneers, blackened large chunks of water. But although the mud is poisonous, it is only for some creatures. Unlike the toxins in the sea, there are many creatures that can decompose the mud, which will basically not cause any damage to the water in the canyon, but may attract more creatures.

However, because of the crack here, Lin is not very able to use the pioneer to get into the foot of the mountain, and I don't know if there will be any problems. If it causes lava to erupt, that's not good, let's go to the volcano that drills the bottom of the sea.

Thinking about it, Lin asked the pioneers to swim in the direction of the sea.

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After this little incident, everything calms down again...

There was no collapse, and no major events occurred. A large number of creatures quickly adapted to this new canyon, and some creatures built their nests here. Began to hunt and live on it, and the huge home tree is favored by a large number of flying creatures, who compete for various nest positions on it.

In addition to dragonflies, beetles and cockroaches can also fly. But Lynn recently discovered some flying reptiles, which grow a membrane between their limbs and are able to fly briefly in the air.

Flying creatures occupied the home tree, and many creatures that originally liked to live by the river entered the seawater of the canyon. These creatures generally just hunted in it, but some creatures like the land shark can adapt to both freshwater and seawater. , They can go to the sea through this canyon, so that the sea will recover faster, this collapse may be a good thing.

In addition to researching these creatures, Lin also studied the species 'ancient squid' in particular.

After the group of ancient squid took the egg sac last time, Lin found that they were hiding under a safe rock, and then started to fight each other, as if they were fighting for the sac, and finally a pair of the strongest ancient squid got the one. bag.

The male and female ancient squid are identical in all aspects such as body shape and appearance. In fact, they are basically indistinguishable from their appearance. After laying eggs, the male and female will take turns to find food and take care of the young. They take the eggs out of the sac and stuff them with their own eggs to hatch.

It seems to be a very strange move. Although Lin has seen many creatures that take care of the cubs of the same kind, this is the first time I have seen this kind of behavior.

If the ancient squid find the eggs of the same kind and do not take care of them, they will usually eat them. Although they generally do not eat the corpses of the same kind, the eggs do not hesitate, and their willingness to take care of them means that the egg is very special.

It is necessary to continue to observe it.

There are many other ancient squid, they seem to plan to live in this canyon, they will use all kinds of debris as nest material, usually there are two or three pairs of ancient squid in a nest, but they will gather dozens of them when hunting , They are creatures full of adventurous spirit. They prefer hunting rather than picking up dead bodies to eat. This is what makes Lin think that ancient squid is a creature in rapid evolution, which is very valuable to observe.

Generally, when biological behavior is enriched to a certain level, its evolution rate will become much faster, just like the Inca swarm, they have been parasites for a long time and have always changed slowly, but when they become a division-type species, the population evolves The speed suddenly increased sharply.

When Lin was observing the ancient squid, a lot of things happened around. The head worm flew back above the clouds in an airship. It wanted to continue to play and enjoy the scenery in the air, while Muketu led the troops next to the canyon. A new rocky mountain has been built, and the rich creatures here are very suitable for its group to develop more rapidly. Now, more new troops have appeared in the group of head bugs.

During this period, it is also a time of frequent storms. The sky is often covered with dark clouds and thunder and lightning. One downpour is a whole day, but the next day there will always be a cloudless sky... and flooding water.

Because the sea level is not higher than the cliff on the edge of the desert, it has always been at a height of more than ten meters from the top of the cliff, so the sea water will not flow out of the canyon, but under the watering of heavy rain, the water will always flood out and flood to the The surrounding jungle, but the jungle will soon make this water into rivers to the desert, and then be absorbed by the endless gravel, which forms a special cycle.

As the desert becomes wetter, the twisted trees start to stretch their roots into the desert. The twisted trees are slow to grow from a seedling, but they grow quite fast with their roots. It is thought that if the torrential rain persists, the Twisted Jungle could cover the entire desert.

While all this was changing, the Inca Swarm also woke up.

The time to leave hasn't come yet. They woke up for other reasons. They explained to Lin that they would not attack any creatures, but only needed to enter an area of ​​the jungle to dig.

Lin felt that there was no problem. Lin found that the Inca swarms were digging above the Chibucha nests in the Glittering Woodland. The way they dig is really fun. Every time they make a hole with a spiral trapezoid structure, they are in the hole. A peculiar stone was dug underneath, which was grey and reflected a strong sheen when the light hit it.

Lin had seen this kind of stone before, but didn't pay much attention to it.

After the Inca swarm dug out these stones, they were transported back to the desert giant pit, and they were all arranged neatly around the spiral staircase of the giant pit, which is said to be what they used to leave.

Lin later found out that during thunderstorms, lightning occasionally hit these strange stones, as if they could attract lightning.

Other than that, nothing else has been found. The Inca Swarm also said that they found these stones by accident. They have never been used in history. It is true that the statue does not record these things, but the Inca Swarm said that it should be able to Bounce them far away.

Bouncing far away? Could this kind of thing happen in a pile of rocks?

However, Lin never thought "this kind of thing can't happen", but really wanted to see what was going on.

The Inca swarm does not seem to be very confirmed. This is their first attempt. If it is unsuccessful, they indicate that they will go to the far reaches of the ocean.

But now is not the time, why? Because of the ice and snow on the sea, the Inca swarm planned to leave in winter.

Speaking of ice and snow, Lin also noticed that half of the summer has passed.

Days and nights passed slowly, this summer is different from the past, the North Continent has undergone tremendous changes, creatures began to live unprecedented lives, growing in an environment with abundant food, and finally, the end of summer came, all the All living things have ushered in the moment when they should end. (To be continued...)