Chapter 12 Desert Ecology

Lin's flyer saw a huge creature rushing out of the ground, biting the dune monitor lizard that was about to catch the skeletal dragon.

That's a giant worm, and giant worms haven't gone away! They may be more resistant to low-oxygen environments than arthropods. This kind of worm looks very similar to the mist worm, with both carapace and mouth. Maybe they should be classified as a type of giant worm, but they are also distributed here.

The dune monitor lizard struggled in the worm's mouth, but it had no effect. It was slowly swallowed whole by the worm, and then the worm fled back to the ground.

The skeletal dragon was saved again. It gasped and looked at the cave the worm had entered, and fell to the ground exhausted.

Black shadows flew over the wasteland under the scorching sun, and a large group of scavenger pterosaurs circled in the air, waiting for the creature to turn into a corpse.

Meganeurus also likes to do this kind of thing. It has been circling around the heads of some lost creatures in the desert and waiting for it to die. This kind of flying creature that is not too big seems to have a similar personality...

After more than ten seconds, the skeletal dragon struggled to get up. It climbed to the shadow of a rock and lay down again to rest. It was really tired, but before that, it had to pull out the Adhesive small thorny balls with barbs.

Lin called this kind of thorn ball 'hook blood ball', which is the seed of a kind of plant. The way the plants spread here is much better than that of the twisted tree. They grow this barb-covered seed to hook passing creatures, usually barbed The hook will penetrate into the flesh of the creature, and then it will suck the blood of the creature to grow and sprout. This is a creature slightly similar to the plague fungus, but after it sprouts, it will start to fall off the skin of the creature and fall to the ground.

Lin's flyer also got some hook blood cells. However, it was devoured by the flyer with a large number of small multicellular organisms.

It's not the critters that fliers have to worry about. but rather larger...

'Snapped! '

The flier flapped its wings violently. Dodging a rushing creature, this creature is called the "red-crested pterosaur" by Lin. It looks like its name, with a red crown and a wingspan of about two meters, which is almost twice the size of the flyer. , most importantly, this creature can detect fliers in a color-changing state.

The flying red-crowned pterosaur stopped abruptly. It let out a loud cry, and five of its kind flew over immediately from the sky. They spread their wings and swooped down, opening their sharp mouths to pounce on the flyer.

It seems that the pilot can't stay here quietly...

The flyer quickly flapped four dragonfly-like membranous wings and rushed towards the group of pterosaurs.

When approaching the pterosaurs, he suddenly passed between the two pterosaurs sideways, and flew rapidly into the sky.

Several pterosaurs immediately turned to catch up. They seemed unwilling to give up. Under the scorching sun, they relentlessly chased the flyer.

The flyer flew over a huge rock pillar on the plain, followed by several red-crowned pterosaurs. But the moment the flyer flew onto the stone pillar, they all turned around in fright and flew away.

On top of the stone pillar. There is a larger pterosaur with a wingspan of about seven meters. This large pterosaur can easily keep other pterosaurs from approaching, but... it is not necessarily safe,

When the flyer flew to it, it suddenly turned its head, opened its sharp mouth and bit the rushing flyer. This kind of pterosaur is called 'bomb pterosaur'. It has no teeth, but it is constantly Forcefully squeeze the flyer into the stomach.

Lin asked the flyer to curl up its wings and tail, completely shrinking its body into a ball. At the same time, a small barb protruded from the cortex. Lin used this hook to hook the bomb pterosaur's stomach. At the same time, the cortex also secreted a A mucus that protects from dissolution by stomach acid.

Following this, the flyer began to slowly decompose itself in the body, and began to change into another type of arms.

Before being swallowed, the pilot released a small floating eyeball to observe the pterosaur outside.

The bomb pterosaur didn't notice the changes in its stomach at all, and it crawled slowly on rock pillars with a diameter of about ten meters. Pterosaurs usually crawled on all fours, because the forelimbs were connected to a large membrane, so they got up quite slowly.

The bomb pterosaur climbed onto a special ball-shaped plant on the top of the rock pillar. It raised its head and poked the ball-shaped plant with its long beak. The plant exploded with a bang, and countless tiny seeds inside It sputtered out like an explosion, and at the moment the plant exploded, the pterosaur also spread its wings at the same time, and rose into the sky with the help of the impact.

That's why it's called 'Bomb Pterosaur'. It likes to use these plants that explode and spread seeds to lift into the air. Although it can fly by itself, it saves a lot of effort.

After the bomb pterosaur flew around the rock pillar, it flapped its wings and flew towards the desert.

Although the small eyeballs floating outside couldn't keep up with the pterosaur's speed, they had already stuck to the pterosaur's head before the pterosaur took off just now. For a while, Lin will use this eyeball to observe this world belonging to giant reptiles.

Bomb pterosaurs fly under the scorching sun of the desert. This wasteland is full of vitality, which is completely different from the desert of the twisted jungle. Under the pterosaurs, there are a large group of dinosaurs called Goose Dragons. Two larger carnivorous dragons chased after it, and the slowest one was finally captured by the carnivorous dragon. Under the sound of screams, its flesh was torn off piece by piece.

The pterosaurs flew over the heads of the two carnivorous dragons, and flew to another rock pillar covered with tall grass. Countless small pterosaurs flew up from the grass, and there was a huge tree full of lizards. The toothed plant burst out of the grass, and it nearly bit the bomber pterosaur.

This place is really dangerous...

The pterosaur flew over the rock pillar, and in front of the pterosaur was a spacious river across the desert. The river was very clear and the flow speed was very gentle, which attracted many creatures to drink water, and the pterosaur was one of them. The bomb pterosaur Flying to the side of the river, folded the wide wings, and sucked the clear water in the lake.

Beside the pterosaurs, a group of large ceratopsians called "multiple halberds" were also drinking water. Lin found that for quite a few dinosaurs, their names could be found in her mind, but some of them were directly collected by Lin herself. started.

These large ceratopses, weighing more than three tons, huddled around the river, completely oblivious to the huge shadow watching them from the bottom of the water.

Suddenly, a pair of jaws full of sharp teeth rushed out of the river, but its attack target was not those halberd dragons, but the pterosaurs in the river.

The pterosaur reacted almost instantly. It spread its wings and retreated a few steps in a row to avoid the attack of the underwater monster, and then it flew into the sky again...

After leaving the river, the pterodactyl flew over the rock pillars, across the moor, and over a large group of round-headed dragons. At last, when the night was approaching, it landed on a huge boulder that towered over the moor, and was preparing to rest.

Then die.

The pterosaur lay motionless on the rock, and stopped breathing. It seemed to be dead, but in fact, its body was in violent activity...

This state lasted for thousands of seconds. Suddenly, the pterosaur moved again. Its wings and body grew a large number of jagged scales, and its head was completely surrounded by a black carapace. The pterosaur Transformed into an unrecognizable creature.

It spread its wings and tried to flap into flight, but it tipped over and fell off the rock and onto the sand below.

Sure enough, it became so unable to fly.

Lin just let the flyer dissolve the structure of the pterosaur's body, and then try to transform its entire body, such as growing some scales or carapace on the surface of the body.

Pterosaurs are very common creatures in the air of this continent. Their internal structures are very light, usually hollow skeletons, and the outer skin has no scales and is very thin, so Lin wants to try, how about adding scales.

But it doesn't seem to be able to fly.

Pterosaurs are very different from wyverns. Wyverns have floating airbags in their bodies that can support larger and heavier bodies.

But the more fragile pterosaurs are everywhere, and the pterosaurs are almost extinct, which feels really amazing.

Let's go back and have a look now, I don't know what happened to the bone dragon.

During the period when the flyer took the pterosaur, Lin's flyer also encountered some troubles in the distant sea...

Lynn didn't calculate how many islands this fungal island was, maybe there were more than a dozen islands. During this period, Nelin's pilots visited quite a few islands and placed phages on them. , allowing them to slowly devour the fungus throughout the island.

When Lin first launched an attack on the islands with phages, these fungi basically had no resistance, and they could only wait to be swallowed slowly, but recently after Lin launched an attack on many islands, the fungi on some islands learned to fight back up.

Take this island for example.

Ten fliers discovered this circular island with a diameter of about 30 meters in the night sky. The entire island was covered with hyphae, so Lin prepared to attack the island.

The fliers swooped down from a high altitude, and Lin found that the entire island had many huge pompom-like structures, which would start to expand continuously when the fliers approached, and then when they swelled to the extreme...'Boom! '

A large number of thorns sputtered out like raindrops. These thorns were composed of various things such as stones, bones, wood chips, etc. Some fliers were pierced by these thorns. fall down.

But it doesn't make sense to do so, because it won't hurt the phages inside the flyer, and the phages can still crawl out of the flyer and devour nearby fungi.

However, this way of counterattack can also prove one point. Even if there is no control of organisms, fungi will think and come up with corresponding methods. Most importantly, it seems that when Lin attacks an island, the fungi on other islands will also know... ...(to be continued...)