Chapter 175: Once an Island of Life

The Reapers quickly circled the entire island, and on the island, apart from gravel and rocks, there were only bones.

The entire island was obviously hit by a storm, and all the skeletons, wreckage and other things were blown to pieces, but some parts remained intact. Most of the skeletons were reptiles, and some were arthropod carapaces. One of the largest reptile skeletons is about three meters long, and only the skeleton remains of its tail, but it can still be seen that this large reptile is very good at swimming in water.

In addition, there are many small arthropods. Their corpses are scattered all over the island. This should be caused by the storm, but some of them are still alive. They are piled among various bones, gnawing The unconsumed nutrients inside.

These creatures should have gathered on this island in large numbers. They obviously came from the previous island. They tried to hide here to avoid the danger. Obviously the danger was not the storm, but they got closer to the storm by doing so.

Moreover, Lin speculates that they may have almost died before the storm came. There was no other reason, but they basically died of starvation or lack of water...

Most terrestrial organisms cannot filter the salt in the sea. Generally speaking, after drinking seawater, they must secrete 150% of the seawater's fresh water in their bodies to solve the salt in the seawater, so the more they drink seawater, the worse it will be.

They have been here for a long time, and encountering a storm is just a coincidence, but the strange thing is that no creature tried to return to the original island, and they would rather die in such a barren place.

Or they are waiting for an opportunity. But after waiting for a long time, do you even lose your physical strength? Lin had to figure out why, and she wouldn't leave this place until she figured it out.

But the brainworms can't read the memories of the little arthropods that are still alive here. Their nervous system is relatively simple, so...

what is that?

The Reaper, who was watching back and forth over the island, suddenly saw some strange blackness exposed under a stone on the island.

Is there something hiding there?

The Reaper instantly accelerated and slammed into the rock, and with a loud noise, the rock was immediately knocked out, revealing a black structure under the rock.

What the hell is this? The Reaper flew to the black object to observe carefully, and Lin found that it seemed to be a shell substance...

Could it be that there are some large creatures buried here? Appears to be a fairly large arthropod.

The Reaper itself is not suitable for digging or investigating,

So Lynn sent ten bombers flying this way. Because of the short distance, the bombers arrived at the island after a few hundred seconds. At the same time, the bombers also brought some worm-type units for digging, and they began to dig near the crust exposed on the ground.

The thing buried under was motionless, and... After Lin dug out the gravel around the crust, what she found was more crust.

Seems like a huge creature? Lin asked the worms to continue digging until they had dug a diameter of more than ten meters. Lin found that everything under the gravel was this kind of black shell.

Could it be that……

Lin asked the reaper to immediately fly to the edge of the island and enter the sea. The reaper could move and breathe in the sea. After entering the sea, Lin saw the bottom structure of the island. There was no rock or other structure under the island, but a A large pile of thick arthropods.

Each joint is nearly ten meters long. A row of fluff grew on their sides, which seemed to be used for paddling water. These limbs were all connected to a huge carapace, and the size of this carapace was equal to the entire island...

So the island is a giant... arthropod? Are there any animals that grow bigger than the home tree?

Lin let the worms on the island drill directly through the shells on the island. Lin found that these shells are extremely thick, and there are many structures such as small holes on them. But relying on the powerful solution, Lin's worms still got in.

Inside the shell is a dark space, but just like living things, it is full of internal organs and blood, but they are not functioning...

Is the creature dead? Indeed, the limbs that Lin saw underwater were motionless.

But Lin seems to have guessed something now.

More exploration was needed, and the worms continued to travel through the creature, examining the entire gigantic creature, while the bombers began devouring the island's corpses, creating more worms to join in the observation.

It took a long time to search for a creature that was 200 meters long and 100 meters wide. When it was approaching night, Lin finally basically finished exploring.

This is indeed not a single creature, but a huge group of creatures. The body shape of the 'Swimmer' is somewhat like a relatively oblate beetle. Their body is about ten meters long and wide, and the height is more than three meters. , each has eight arthropods for paddling or predation. Their internal organs are similar to those of marine arthropods like trilobites, but the biggest feature is that their carapaces are connected to each other. Their esophagus There are also interconnections, which is a very strange way of life, which is probably how they float around in the sea, eating plankton for a living.

But also because of this, they formed a huge island. The sand and gravel on the island seemed to be made by themselves. Lin found that there was a small hole in the carapace on their backs. It is estimated that they sprayed various debris collected in the sea. The back is probably used for camouflage, and there is a fairly thick layer, which was not completely scraped off by the previous storm, and the rocks on it don't know what happened.

This 'swimmer' may have escaped to its back when the swimmer approached the island, but the swimmer died for some reason, and the creatures on its back were also trapped. Starve to death or die of thirst.

So it turns out that the creatures fled to the sea not to seek death, but to take the 'swimman', maybe the swimmer will reach other islands or even the mainland, and then they can land there.

But so far I don't know the reason why the creatures want to escape. If they can...

There is a live one!

Bombers floating around the island suddenly find a lizard crawling out after a skeleton!

This lizard seems to be of the same species as the 'Sound Lizard'. It is currently lying on the ground, and it seems that its physical strength has reached its limit, but it still looks alive.

It's fine if you don't die.

The bomber immediately flew over, picked it up with its jointed limbs, and then quickly flew back in the direction of the original island. (to be continued...)