Chapter 185 Great Rift Valley

In the next few days and nights, Lin summoned many troops from the base on the coast, and asked them to start investigating these nests made of bones. During the process of studying them, Lin discovered a lot of information.

During the investigation, Lin was able to confirm that the person living in these bone piles was probably a reptilian creature with a length of about one meter. Of course, none of them are alive now.

Lin found many complete skeletons of these reptiles in the pile of bones. Lin speculated that they should have died of starvation or thirst. Except for them, most of the skeletons, carapaces, and wood chips were corroded by fungi. In other words, this kind of reptile may be the role of 'the last survivor'.

When the fungus destroyed the whole area, they came together and started building nests out of the bones of some dead creatures, etc., but why build out of bones?

Lin thinks they may have discovered a weakness in the plague fungus.

Based on the research and judgment of the plague fungus obtained on the road, Lin found that the dust of the plague fungus is more like the seeds of plants than the dust of ordinary fungi. They are larger and have a more complicated internal structure. They have a small amount of reserves Nutrients, and also have a special recognition ability, they generally only stick to the surface of objects that may obtain nutrients, including skeletons, wood, etc., as long as they stick, they start to grow,

When encountering ordinary rocks, sand particles will not stick to them, but will continue to drift until they find nutrients. This is a very advanced ability that ordinary fungi do not have, but there are also some problems.

They can't tell if there's water in an adhered object.

The reptiles discovered the fungus' weakness and used the dried skeletons to build their nests. and wear them on your body. This can absorb a large amount of bacterial dust. However, these bacterial dusts begin to grow after being adsorbed, but the small amount of nutrients originally stored by the bacterial dust will be quickly exhausted due to the inability to obtain water, and then die.

If they are only covered with rocks or other things, they will not be able to prevent the fungus dust from drilling through the gaps above and entering their respiratory system, but with skeletons or wood, the fungus dust will stick to the outside before it drills in. .

But if these reptiles can protect themselves, they cannot protect other creatures. They can only watch the entire jungle and all kinds of creatures being destroyed by the plague, and they themselves die due to lack of food and water.

Lin discovered that this should be a relatively intelligent creature. They should not understand the structure of the plague fungus. Very impressive.

But they're extinct...?

Maybe,

Lin can still find traces of them.

There is a relatively complete skull at the top of these bone piles, and they all face the same direction. Why do they have to be placed like this?

Maybe it means...they went somewhere.

Leviathan, on the other hand, is now at that place.

The nests of the pile of bones are basically concentrated more than two hundred kilometers south of the coast. And now Leviathan is located two hundred and thirty kilometers away from the coast, here. Lin saw a huge...canyon.

This canyon is quite huge, just like a crack in the ground. Below the vertical cliffs is a dark abyss. The entire canyon is filled with thick fog, and it is impossible to see how wide it is. Lin has no way to confirm it. No matter how big it is, it may be bigger than the canyon of the Twisted Forest.

On the edge of the canyon, Lin can also see many nests of bone piles. This is the place where these reptiles live. The skulls on the top of their nests all point in the direction of the canyon. On the rock wall of the canyon, Lin Some traces of them climbing were found.

Does this mean they entered the canyon? Forced by the plague fungus and hunger and thirst, these creatures can only hide in this place, which is indeed a normal thing.

Then, of course, it is necessary to explore it.

Leviathan flew over the canyon, and at this time Leviathan's whole body entered the layer of thick fog. Lin found that the fog was not water mist, but formed by another kind of gas. The fog formed by these gases shrouded Looking at the entire canyon, there may be some special structure in the canyon that releases these gases.

However, because it is a harmless gas, Lin didn't study it much.

Leviathan flew down the rock wall of the canyon. The further down, the darker the surrounding vision became. Lin had the feeling of entering a trench. The rock wall of the canyon went down vertically, and there were no creatures on it. , but there are many cracks on it, and it seems that the strange gas that formed the dense fog drifted out of the cracks.

The traces of the reptiles disappeared at a depth of about 100 meters. Lin felt that they might have fallen down, or crawled back, but Lin did not stop exploring, and Leviathan flew to the bottom of the canyon. With a depth of more than two thousand meters, under the canyon is a dark world.

The temperature here feels much higher than above, and there is a strange sound of 'quack' echoing all the time.

It seemed to be the cry of a creature, and Lin asked Leviathan to stretch out its glowing tentacles and continue to explore the surrounding environment.

The Leviathan floated slowly, and the ground where the rays of light hit were all rocks, and there seemed to be no trace of living things here.

'Boom. '

The Leviathan who was searching seemed to have bumped into something. Lin raised the tentacles to have a look, and found that it was a large sharp stone with cracks all over the stone. The sound just now seemed to come from this stone.

It feels suspicious...

Leviathan suddenly stretched out another tentacle and slammed it on the rock. The rock burst open immediately. The rock was hollow inside, and some skeletons lay on the ground.

These are the skeletons of those reptiles, they all seem to have died here, and Lin found that one of the reptiles' skulls was making that sound non-stop.

The Leviathan moved the skull away with his tentacles, and hidden underneath was...a tiny creature.

Lin has never seen this creature before. It looks a bit like a flying lizard. It is only a few centimeters long and can just be hidden in the skull. Its forelimbs have two membrane-like structures, and its head and hindlimbs are very strong. It is much thicker, it seems to be a cub, the sound just now is what it made, it should not be the same kind of creature as that reptile.

Leviathan poked it with his tentacles, and the little creature let out a 'quack', and then spread its wings and kept flapping, as if it wanted to fly, but because it was too young, it couldn't fly, so it could only keep flying on the ground. shouted.

But Lin felt that there seemed to be some other voice mixed with this young call? (to be continued...)