Chapter 176 The Wandering Plague
"A fragile brain, a life that is about to end, read the memory and extract the essence."
A lizard that is almost dead is in front of the head worm. This precious brain can provide precious information, and it will reveal all doubts... In fact, it's okay to be dead not long ago, but it's better to be alive.
Generally, species with small brains do not seem to have a clear memory, but they can still know a lot of information.
In the past, there were indeed many, many creatures living on this island, but this was not long. Among them, there was a habit that lasted for a long time, that is, to reach a huge creature "Swimman".
The swimmer usually goes back and forth between several islands, and there are also some relatively large islands, and the creatures rely on the ride on the back of the swimmer to go to other areas.
So far, it's the same as Lin thought, but this island already has all the resources enough for them to live, so why take a swimmer to leave?
In addition, there seems to be more than one swimmer, and some other swimmers have been here before, and the one that Lin saw died for unknown reasons, so all the creatures that took it were trapped on it, and eventually died up.
It's hard to find out the cause of the swimmer's death. Lin didn't find any wounds or other traces in its body. The cells seemed to stop functioning slowly. Maybe it's the end of its lifespan. This kind of giant creature usually has a very long lifespan. There's not even such a thing as longevity.
It can only be said that the fate of the creatures that ride it is not very good...
And the reason they fled to the swimmer was to avoid something.
Brainworm said that stuff impresses the lizard's memory with extreme terror. It will sweep away all creatures on the island, leaving nothing behind...
Brainworm said it didn't find out how the lizards knew the 'thing' was coming to the island. Lin speculated that it might come at regular intervals. When it came, some creatures escaped on the swimmer, and then they came back to breed after nothing happened, so that their offspring would remember to avoid it.
The lizard's memory of "it" seems to be very vague. The lizard has never seen it directly, but the head worm found that this memory area contained a strong sense of fear.
Therefore, Brainworm called it the 'Wandering Plague'.
It seems that after communicating with Lin for a long time, brain worms will start to like naming names like Lin...
Plague usually refers to some kind of very powerful bacteria or virus.
They can kill living things quickly, and occasionally they can become more terrible disasters than storms or earthquakes, etc., but such things have a great weakness, that is, they cannot deal with species-rich environments.
If the species in an environment is relatively single, it will be quickly destroyed by the plague, but if the species is rich, the plague will be quite fragile, and it is impossible for them to infect many different creatures. In places like the Twisted Jungle, it is impossible for any plague to appear.
So Lin thinks that this 'thing' is not as simple as the plague, but the name is good, so let's call it that.
In other words, the 'Skull Island' that Lin encountered before was very empty, and it didn't seem to be because of the dense fog. Was it because of being attacked by the 'Wandering Plague'?
Indeed, this possibility is very high, so the creatures placed there may also be dangerous.
But if the 'plague' was a creature, it wouldn't repeatedly attack the places it went to, but would look for areas rich in species, like here.
The memory obtained by the brain worm is not much. It only shows that the creatures on this island will use swimmers to avoid some dangers, but the details are not very clear.
But Lin can infer. What happened to the sound lizard knocking stones on the island...
The islands that Lin encountered along the way were quite barren and empty, but some islands had traces of living creatures, and each island had some 'echo eggs'.
Maybe the Echo Eggs are a kind of recording thing. The Wandering Plague will use the eggs to record the islands they have attacked. When the sound of the eggs stops, that is, when the nutrients are exhausted, they will go back to attack the islands again.
So the lizard imitated the sound of the egg by knocking on the stone, so that the wandering plague could bypass the island?
It is indeed possible... Although I don't know how the lizard learned about the relationship between the eggs and the plague, the headworm found that the brain of the sound lizard is very big, almost catching up with the ancient squid, and this is just Lin's guess, maybe there is a deeper relationship maybe.
However, it is certain that there may be attacks here next.
It's not an earthquake or a lava eruption, Lin can feel it, only the biological attack is unpredictable, and the action route of this wandering plague is also very strange, if they attacked along Lin's route, they should have arrived long ago The island disappeared, but they didn't appear, and Lin didn't meet them on the way.
And if it is from another route, why are there so many islands where eggs have been placed on the way Lin came?
In short, it seems that it is necessary to be prepared. This 'plague' may not only destroy animals, but also destroy plants and everything on the island. However, it is unlikely that all living things will be destroyed, otherwise there will be no food in the future. Now, they lay their eggs on the island to echo, and the time when their nutrients are exhausted may be when the island returns to its normal environment.
Although it is said that the egg should only last about two years, which is too short... There are still many doubts...
However, now Lin is starting to prepare. The 'Wandering Plague' may be a plague with a huge number of creatures that leave nothing behind...
There are many doubts about the ecology of this creature, maybe it is a division of labor species, maybe it is not, they should have a certain relationship with the huge pile of corpses on the seabed, so far only they have been confirmed to swim in the sea, but they have never approached Pass the North Continent, otherwise Lin will definitely find this creature.
If they eat up all the plants and animals, they must be crazy creatures, at least they are very powerful in war, but Lin thinks that it is almost impossible to encounter species stronger than the Inca swarm.
Maybe hide? Lin doesn't think so. If this is a war, Lin intends to face it directly. Besides, Lin doesn't like this kind of creatures that are destroyed everywhere, and the brain worms don't want to avoid them, thinking that they: "There is no awareness of sustainable development, Madness, without order, will become extinct."
Lin is currently not sure which direction they will approach the island, so it is better to place observation units on the edge of the entire island.
Of course, it would be better to put them all on forts, but it feels like a waste of resources, after all, it is an island of 30 kilometers.
At the same time, Lin also asked the reapers to search the nearby sea area to see if they could find creatures like the wandering plague, or traces of their movement.
Smells linger longer in water than in air, but moving water is bad, so it's better to rely on eyesight.
At the same time, Lin asked some troops to go back to the islands where the 'Echo Eggs' were found. At that time, these islands were all deserted, so they didn't study them in detail, and they might find something in detail.
'Skull Island' should be an island that has recovered a bit. It's not entirely gravel and rocks, and there is a layer of green 'soil', but you should be able to find out something. Lin left some units 'oxygen balls' there , Originally these were plant-type units without sensory organs, but now they can also be woken up to see the situation on the island.
Lin quickly assembled eyeballs and organs with nutrients in these 'oxygen spheres' to form a small flyer. The flyer drilled out from the surface of the oxygen sphere and flew to the Skull Island below to start the investigation.
The island is still shrouded in a lingering fog, which is proof that the air is not circulating, so it can maintain a high oxygen content.
The flyer observed from the sky above the island. Here, all kinds of creatures brought by Lin are wandering around the island. They seem to have begun to adapt to the environment on the island. Lin saw a big cockroach still eating a bunch of flying fish, occasionally coming to the island marine life becomes their food.
And the two twisted trees that Lin planted are starting to wither. Sure enough, the light is too dark, but the home tree seems to be growing well. Lin didn't insert them into the ground, but planted them directly on the ground. .
The flyer finds an open space, begins to descend and devours the soil here, studies its composition, and sees if any traces can be found.
The soil is mixed with the soil and is rich in microorganisms. They are of different types, and it is difficult to find anything in it...
The Wandering Plague seems to be a creature with a strong ability to decompose. They don't leave any wreckage or excrement. The islands eaten by them are left with nothing but barren...
It's really hard to find traces of this kind of creature that eats without spitting out its bones... Wait, this is...
During the decomposition process, the flyer found some strange debris, which is somewhat similar to some structures of fungi.
It's not surprising that there are fungi here.
In the end, Lin didn't find anything special. Although there are many types of microorganisms on the island, they are all wild fungi that have not evolved into multi-cells, and even if there are any biological cell remains, they will be quickly decomposed by them , This kind of humid environment can't stay for a long time at all.
However, it is quite strange that no bones or carapace fragments were found.
After that, after a few more days and nights, after a complete search of Skull Island, almost nothing was found. At the same time, Lynn also explored some dry islands with 'echo eggs' nearby. On these islands Almost nothing was found, only some carapace fragments or bone fragments, which proved nothing.
But there's no need to prove it...
Reapers observing the surrounding seas have spotted what may be the 'Wandering Plague'... a group of creatures. (to be continued...)