Chapter 182 Journey

It's over... at least the battle for the island is over.

The spreading fungus was burned by Lin with high temperature fire, their queen was drilled in two by the pioneers, and the fleeing locusts were also killed by the bombers, but this is still far from completely defeating the 'wandering plague' far away.

It is impossible to clean up the bacteria dust flying in the air. If they float on a certain plant, will they grow? Moreover, Lin is not completely sure whether all the locusts have been killed. Most importantly, there may be more than one group of this species.

Now, Lin is analyzing this group of creatures to check their internal conditions.

If fungus is not counted, locusts and locust lords are typical species of division of labor, and they are relatively primitive, with only one type of queen and one type of soldier, but Lin found some strange things among them.

The swarm lord breathes with gills, so it can maintain such a large size, while the locust breathes with stomata, so it is very small, but in this way, it is as if the two species are separated, and the locusts cannot help the swarm lord cope with underwater In such a situation, the locust lord must also go ashore and surface to produce locusts...

This feeling is quite strange. There is no queen who cannot directly protect herself after giving birth to troops, but the locust lord does have the organs to produce locusts...

There are also fungi. There are a lot of fungi in each locust. These fungi seem to stick to the internal organs, cortex, and blood vessels of the locust in a parasitic form, including many in the brain. They are usually dormant. Once dead, they multiply.

These fungi are like parasites. Lin has yet to discover how they are related to locusts. Fungi do not belong to the locust group. The possibility of being a symbiotic organism is quite high. These fungi are quite terrifying and will devour any organisms, but they are the only ones that do not infect locusts. It is hard to imagine how this relationship was established in the first place.

Swarmlords have no fungus in their bodies other than their brains, and neither do newborn locusts, but they can get infected from contact with other locusts.

Only the brain? Do fungi have anything to do with the brain?

and. Lin didn't find any relationship between them and the "echo eggs". The locust lord didn't produce the echo eggs, but it was obvious in the middle that Lin saw that the locusts would avoid the island with the echo eggs.

Some creatures are indeed afraid of certain sounds, which has something to do with their nervous system, but there seems to be no structure in the brain of the locust that is sensitive to the sound of the echo egg.

This is all too strange, a race full of mysteries that require further investigation.

at the same time.

Lin can also be regarded as 'saving' the island, although there are only a few sound lizards left on the island... This creature is still beating stones in the jungle, making gada sounds constantly, not knowing what to hit At that time, Lin used the 'illusionist' to show the scene of the locust swarm leaving, and the lizard really stopped moving.

Then it's obviously a stone knocked for locusts. But why it knows that knocking this is effective is difficult to know.

Although the 'plague' was stopped, Lin felt that the island felt 'dead'... It would be better to get some other creatures to come here.

Lin is now ready to leave.

Travel to the west had been suspended for a while, and Lin felt the need to speed up.

If you find any interesting creature on the way, bring it to this island.

But it's not time to leave yet, Lin wants to clean up the wreckage on the battlefield. Recycling resources, those fungi that are burnt to ashes are edible. The headworm also showed that it wanted to eat it, but Lin didn't let it get close to the battlefield at all this time. If it was infected with this kind of thing, it would be difficult to get rid of it in time.

Lin didn't lose any units in this battle, but consumed a lot of explosive bombs and burning liquid. After recovering enough resources, Lin checked the jungle again, and after confirming that there was no infection, she left her observation tentacles and began to gather The troops continued on their way to the west.

On the second day and night, Lin's troops left the island, starting from the cliff behind the jungle in the south. A large number of bombers and Behemoths flew over the jungle, and the pioneers also came around the island. From this location, Lin thinks that if she starts from here, she might be able to see more special things.

There should be more island-like 'swimmers' at sea. Some of the creatures on this island may have taken other swimmers to leave, and they may still be alive and have reached other places.

After taking a last look at the island, Lin named it 'The Land where the Plague Ends', but it felt a little troublesome, so I just called it 'Plague Island'.

Maybe they will encounter this kind of fungus in the future, and Lin will turn them into dust in this world just like now.

Next, it is time to face the endless ocean again...

How long will it take to reach the mainland?

In this way, during Lin's journey, more than a dozen days and nights passed slowly...

The ocean is not static. Lin saw many new marine creatures. Lin found that there were more ammonites and arrow stones without shells in this area. These types of creatures all degenerated their shells like ancient squid.

There are also quite a few new species of fish, but they don’t seem to be much different. It may be that they are just beginning to be classified, and there are more and more large fish like sharks.

On the sea, Lin also discovered many islands, most of these islands are small, and almost all of them are deserted islands full of sand, stones and rocks.

Occasionally, echo eggs can be found on islands, but not every island has them. However, the common feature of echo eggs is that they are all located on deserted islands, regardless of the size of the island. Sometimes a small island with a diameter of several meters will have a However, Lin discovered that a circular island with a diameter of more than 100 meters was occupied by a sea plant that climbed ashore and a large number of Blondu scorpions, but there were no echo eggs on this island.

What kind of creature put this puzzle-filled thing? I hope to find the answer soon. Currently, I only know that the plague has some connection with them.

Creatures such as the Brundu scorpion may become large land arthropods after hypoxia. Instead of shrinking in oxygen-poor land, their body size began to increase. The way they breathe with gills seems to be very effective, but At the moment it is also because it must be kept moist and cannot be left too far from the water.

Because the brainworm has returned to the boring stage, Lin let it continue to watch the situation of the ancient squid group in the distorted jungle.

The ancient squid Ika has now become the king of the puddles. It has gathered a huge colony of up to a hundred ancient squids and occupied the largest puddle in the canyon. Generally, the ancient squids do not gather in such a large group. But because of resource issues right now, they all have to come together.

They rely on small arthropods near hunting waterholes for food, and occasionally can catch large reptiles and other creatures.

Because the leadership position is not eternal, Ika is often challenged by other ancient squids, and their challenges are sometimes as many as several times a day and night. Brainworms call it: "stupid competition, unreasonable distribution, and wrong fighting methods." fair."

Despite this, Ika defeated all the challengers and became the most powerful ancient squid of this generation, but if it cannot continue, the strongest is meaningless, so Ika found the strongest among its challengers An ancient squid, and intends to breed with it.

The ancient squid has a special "courtship ceremony". One ancient squid makes a request first. If the requested party agrees, the two ancient squids must pose in various poses together, and then hunt and fight together. Wait, only ancient squids that work perfectly together will bond together.

This is mainly to test their "personality synchronization rate". Brainworms think this method is very good. If their personalities are not compatible, they will only have trouble staying together, just like it is impossible for Brainworms to command together with Muktu.

If they disagree, there will be many disputes and the like. According to the brain worms, this situation occasionally occurs in their group. There was once a head worm whose rolling speed was always slower than the others by about one second, and he and The companion argues that it is not that slow at all.

In the end, when the group was destroyed, the headworm did not escape with his companions due to the problem of rolling speed, but was swallowed by the lava first.

So, character synchronization is really important.

And Ika obviously doesn't need to care about this kind of thing now. It has a good synchronization rate with its spouse, so they plan to lay eggs soon. Presumably Ika's offspring will be as powerful as it, and it will be the fate of the entire ancient squid in the canyon. find a way out.

In fact, their fate is not very good. Although the canyon has rained a few times, it is very small, and the puddles always dry up much faster than they recover.

When they were about to give birth, they finally found out what Ika's gender was...

'Snapped. ’ The display turns off.

At this time, the sky above the ocean was howling with strong winds, and under the dark clouds all over the sky, several flashes of thunder flashed across the sky. Lin once again encountered a sea storm. Row.

In the strong wind, Bechymos and the bombers were connected with a rope, forming a huge and stable whole to resist the storm. Although diving into the water would make them less affected by the storm, Lin felt that it was unnecessary.

The storm was bigger than the ones encountered on the island before, but it was not enough to shake Lynn's troops.

Moreover, more interesting things can be found on the surface of the sea, such as... some kind of huge creature.

On the dark and thunderous sea surface, an island with a width of 100 meters appeared in front of Lin's eyes, and it swayed in the water like the waves on the sea surface.

Creatures are everywhere on this 'island', most of them are reptiles, gathered together, shivering in the storm.

They are obviously another part of the creatures that escaped from the 'Plague Island'. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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