Chapter 161 The End of the Era of Giant Insects

In spring, the desert is as usual, dyed green by the endless proliferation of vine ferns. Originally, in this new fern forest, there would be many chirping sounds of creatures, but now...

become quieter...

Not only the desert, but also the twisted jungle. Originally this was the breeding season, but there was no fighting sound of creatures, no chirping, nothing, only the smell of carrion, which lingered for a long time.

Reptiles only occupy a small part of the large arthropods, and they can't be added to this environment, so after this disaster, the entire jungle seems very empty and quiet...

The large arthropods have already disappeared. The jungle can be said to be a forest of plants and fungi, plus a small number of reptiles. The number of reptiles should increase due to the loss of natural enemies, but before that , Lin has to wait...?

There is also an area where Lin's oxygen fortress is full of normal sounds. Some large creatures wake up from it. They don't seem to have noticed that the world around them has changed. Wake up from a long slumber.

'Boom'.

A scorpion-shaped creature hit the 'wall' on the edge of the oxygen fortress, this creature is one of the descendants of the descendants of the desert scorpions that Lynn encountered long ago, because Lynn made the chitin transparent It's very high, so it didn't seem to find it when it woke up, but after hitting it several times in a row, it avoided this weird place after it found that it couldn't move forward.

Not just desert scorpions. In the transparent shell material cover, there is often a thumping sound. Some bees kept slamming against the transparent cover wall, as if they were very puzzled why they couldn't fly past.

This is not surprising, because they have never been trapped like this, but Lin has found that some creatures have even been knocked out of blood, which is a bit inappropriate.

Moreover, it is not only that there will be sounds inside, but outside, occasionally some boulders will fall down...

'boom! ’

A boulder smashed into the outer shell of the oxygen fortress. The resulting bang scared away several bees that were hitting the wall.

In the twisted jungle, there is such a huge roar everywhere, Yue, is slowly going away.

Through each night, Lin could clearly see that the moon began to become smaller and smaller, and the influence on Naruto gradually lost its effect.

Lynn began to think.

The Naruto stones may slowly drop in height without causing any huge damage, or they may all fall together at a certain time, which will cause a lot of damage, but that's all.

But in fact neither of the above is the case, but a more strange case.

After the month starts to get smaller. Naruto suddenly lost buoyancy piece by piece... This is really quite sudden.

Naruto, which suddenly lost its buoyancy, would fall from a high altitude in an irregular and unpredictable manner. Lin reckoned that it might be related to the surface activity of the moon. These boulders that fell from the sky occasionally caused a fatal threat. Whether it's a creature on a rock or a creature in the jungle below.

However, Lin has not seen the entire Daming Stone Island fall. The largest falling stone is not more than ten meters in diameter. If it exceeds, it will peel off bit by bit instead of falling off in one piece, so at least it will not cause large-scale casualties.

Because of this strange way of losing buoyancy, there are often loud noises in the jungle. Lin's oxygen fortress is not so easy to be smashed because it is specially reinforced with spider silk, but there are still some cracks on it. Lin needs Use the shell coater to repair, and at the same time, Lin used the air force to push away the Naruto stones above.

The headworm also rolled down from the airboat, just like when diving, let the airboat stop on the water, and then roll into the water, but this time it didn't roll in the water for too long, but started near the canyon Built a new rocky mountain, ready to live near here...

The mood of the head worm is not very good. It is uneasy about this silent jungle full of carrion smell, because without prey, they can't hunt. Although the head worm can be planted, they mainly rely on hunting. Now Headworms appear to be in a low mood, which may last for a long time.

Lin made a guess to show the head worm about the future biological evolution. Only when she saw this, the head worm would become excited.

But it also became more fond of staying in the rocky mountains, and not as fond of rolling out as before.

And Lin was not so boring. Lin let a lot of wind and snow balls float and wander in the jungle.

In addition to the twisting jungle and spreading fungi, small creatures have been found roaming the woods, and they are... arthropods.

A group of small cockroaches ran quickly in front of Lin, but this unsurprising phenomenon suddenly caught Lin's attention.

These cockroaches are descendants of a large arthropod called 'question mark cockroach', named because of the '? ' symbol, but this is not the point. Many arthropods have the habit of 'holding eggs for the winter', that is, laying eggs at the end of summer and letting the eggs hatch again after the winter is spent underground. Obviously, these hatched little cockroaches have nothing to do with it. problem, they can live in this environment.

Lin suddenly found that the jungle was full of such scenes, and small arthropods began to appear. They climbed out of the ground where the melting snow warmed up, and galloped with their tiny bodies in this world that had killed all the large arthropods. ...

Arthropods are not yet extinct. Some species that Lin thought would disappear forever, such as malu, centipedes, cockroaches, crickets, spiders and other creatures have emerged from the ground, and their small size at birth makes them need very little oxygen , can live safely.

But what happens after that? Will these pups grow up sooner or later?

Time gave Lin the answer.

Lin specially selected some fast-growing creatures to observe, a creature called 'golden spider'. After more than ten days and nights, these creatures should have grown to more than one meter, but they did not. A little bigger than a baby...

It turns out that because there is not enough oxygen, their bodies stop growing, but are maintained at a young stage, and their reproductive organs will also mature and can reproduce directly in this body type.

Does that mean that oxygen didn't cause extinction, but reduced their size? (To be continued...)