Chapter 184 The Barren Continent

The long-distance voyage seems to have reached the end, and the swimmer stopped on the rocky coast. It stretched out some barbed limbs from the edge of its body to hook the gaps in the rocks on the coast to prevent itself from being washed away by the current. Here Alleviate fatigue from long distance...

Lin looked into the distance. It seemed that this place could no longer be called an 'island'. The coast was made up of various rocks. This barren coast stretched on and on, with no end in sight.

There are almost no living things on the rocky beach, and occasionally only one or two Blondu scorpions can be seen, and further to the coast, there is a desert.

This feeling seems to be very similar to the Northern Continent. The desert is not pure gravel, but a mixture of rock and sand. The whirlwind of gravel sweeps across the plain, blurring the vision.

This should be the Western Continent...is it?

It's different from what Lin imagined. Lin thinks that there should be many creatures living here. Although it can't be fooled by the appearance, the outer part of the North Continent is also a desert.

But if this place is really a desert, Lin will try to transform the environment here.

In short, now that we are here, let's start to settle down here.

Lin let the troops fly into the sky above this wilderness. On a flat and dry rocky land, Lin's Behemoth slowly descended to the ground, while the bombers landed on the nearby desert surface.

Bechymos opened the cannon on his back and shot many green spheres from it. When these spheres flew into the air, they would explode and unfold, forming pieces of green carpets floating in the air. Lin first used them to absorb nutrients to prepare here as the basis for building a base.

Some bombers gathered together. Bechymos shot out a capsule to cover them, and the capsule would start to sew up slowly by itself, completely enveloping the group of bombers, and then the bombers would automatically dissolve inside, and then they could Use them to create other arms.

Lin intends to try to transform the desert environment here to see if it can be successful. Although the animals she brought are basically gone, Lin still has a lot of plant seeds. Not only twisted trees, but also plants on various islands along the way.

Lin asked the pioneers to start digging in the sea. The seabed here was covered by a layer of black mud, and there were many small creatures living on it. These mud layers were basically constructed from their corpses.

The pioneers swallowed all kinds of mud on the seabed, and when they collected a certain amount of weight, they came up and spit the nutrient-filled mud on the seashore, and then some bombers collected the mud. And tiled and blended on top of the wasteland.

Bombers are not very efficient in doing this, so Lin dissolved most of the bombers and made them into various units, not only for transportation, but also for combat, to prevent any strange creatures Come sneak attack. At the same time, Lin also began to build a large number of green blankets to collect nutrients, but the main source of nutrients is plankton in the sea. The number of these creatures that are good at collecting nutrients from ocean currents is quite large, but there are not many creatures that eat them, and they can get food from them. Get nourishment. Extinite, Lynn's troops have almost everything they need.

So Lin created a biological 'filter' that can collect a large amount of plankton. Go to the sea to collect these huge amounts of nutrients, and all the nutrients are transported to the floating bases brought by Lin. These bases are now floating on the sea to generate a large number of troops.

Because the brain worm is rather boring, Lin asked some troops to give it command. The brain worm is not familiar with this tedious manufacturing activity, but Lin thinks it should be able to learn it soon

Lin plans to start building bases and environments on this coast, and then slowly occupy the entire area. When this manufacturing chain starts to operate, Lin will of course have to carry out the most important things.

Explore the continent.

This task must be completed by a unit that has not been used during the journey - Leviathan.

Of course, Lin can release a lot of fliers or predators to explore, but that is not interesting. It is okay to explore the small places on the island, but it is obviously more interesting to discover its mysteries bit by bit when exploring the mainland. .

However, Lin will still release a large number of predators to explore the nearby area, while Leviathan will be responsible for flying directly to the depths of the mainland, hoping that this place is not a desert.

In this way, everything began to proceed slowly. The base built by Lin on the coast was getting bigger and bigger. The swimmers parked on the shore had already left. Lin didn't know where it would stop next. It's really interesting, drifting in the ocean all year round.

And the predators are also constantly exploring, Lin asked them to search the surrounding area of ​​tens of kilometers, this place is only sand and rocks, but Lin just discovered that there are some special things hidden under the desert ...

Some predators gathered at a place more than 30 kilometers away from the coast. Lin found this place a bit strange at first. The ground here is not gravel, but dry and cracked wood, which are piled up on the ground in large quantities like sand grains. .

wood? Seems like this means there used to be plants?

Lin let the predators swallow these logs, and conducted some detailed observations inside her body. Although she didn't know what kind of plant it was, there were many small holes in these blocks of wood.

It looks like it has been corroded by fungi... Could it be that...

Lin let the predators try to dig out the wood, and at the same time let the predators in other places dig the sand under them...

Sure enough, after digging, Lin found some white fragments and other things buried in the wood.

This is the skeleton of an animal.

Not only in this place, predators in other places have also found that under the sand and under the rocks, the bones of various creatures, carapace fragments, etc. can be found everywhere... and these The wreckage has a characteristic, there are many, many small holes on it, which are very similar to the traces of the 'plague fungus' infection.

Could it be that... Lin's previous guess was correct? Why hasn't Lynn seen the fungi before? It's because they are sweeping across this continent!

This continent may have been a thriving environment before, but it was completely destroyed by the plague fungus? The remains of creatures that the Predators dug up under the sand, and the surrounding barren environment, seemed to be a good proof of this...

Although they only explored a small part of the area, Lin felt that other places were also deserts. These fungi...they were much more destructive than flames.

After the destruction of this continent, the fungus may have begun to find a way to leave the land and float to the sea, leaving this world where nutrients have been depleted to the end.

Lin should have seen an environment rich in species, but because of these fungi...

There are still some doubts. The plague fungus will eat up the skeleton and wood, but these skeletons and wood are preserved. This is really strange.

The only possibility that Lin can think of now is that the fungus has run out of water before it decomposes the skeleton and wood. If there is no rain for a long time, the fungus can't filter the sea water, so they can only try to leave here before that and spread to other islands.

They may have reached a symbiotic relationship with the locusts at this time, but how it was achieved remains a mystery.

But since there are so many bones hidden in this underground, Lin can also use them. Lin has created a new unit for digging: 'Bone Grinder', responsible for excavating these bones, crushing them, and turning them into a large amount of nutrients. After mixing with seawater, it can be easily decomposed and transformed into nutrients for new troops. These things can also be used as soil. These mixed nutrients are spread on the barren sand, and plants can grow rapidly.

Lin will restore this environment, but has it really been completely destroyed by the plague fungus?

The answer may require Leviathan to find it.

Leviathan has flown more than 200 kilometers away from the coastline, and this place is still a wasteland, but on the distant horizon, Leviathan can see many large objects protruding.

Lin didn't see these things clearly until after Leviathan flew close. It was exactly the same object buried in the sand: the bones of creatures.

But these bones were not buried under the desert. Leviathan flew through the sky and found that most of them were exposed on the surface. The dust wind here is relatively small, and it seems that they will be buried in the future, but they look strange. , most of the bones were piled together, rather than scattered naturally, as if they were piled up on purpose.

Leviathan flew along these piles of bones, and the deeper he flew into the land, the more bones piled up. After Leviathan flew about ten kilometers, the number of bones had reached a... quite terrifying level.

A large number of bone piles appearing on the ground here are two to three meters high, like hills of wreckage, not entirely made of bones, but also wood and arthropod carapaces, etc., some The taller 'Wreck Hill' has reached a height of six metres.

Obviously some creature stacked these things, but what's the point of stacking them?

Leviathan stopped, flew to a pile of bones, and stretched out his tentacles to pull out some bone fragments to break down.

'Crack...'

There was a small sound.

When the bone piece was pulled out, the whole bone pile seemed to be involved, making various small sounds continuously, and then with a 'boom', the bone pile collapsed.

It seems that the structure of these bones has become quite fragile due to long-term storage, but the important thing is that these bones seem to be buckled together.

In other words, is this a nest deliberately built by some kind of creature?

Lin asked Leviathan to observe carefully around some of the surrounding bone piles, and sure enough, some structures like holes were found at the bottom, and it was only then that Lin noticed that on almost every bone pile, there was a complete Creature skulls, and they're all facing the same direction. (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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