Chapter 38 Animals and Plants

The White Skeleton Dragon was using its claws to hook into the cracks in the rock on the top of the cave. Lin saw that its eyes were shining slightly in this dark environment.

It seems that unlike Tucker, who likes to stay on land, Baishoulong has mastered the method of accurately judging the environment in the dark, and Tucker has not seen Baishoulong yet!

"Bah!" With a scream, the white skeletal dragon jumped down from the top of the cave, and its sharp claws stabbed directly at Tucker, but also because of the scream, the white skeletal dragon was noticed by Tucker, and Tucker jumped immediately. Come out, dodging the attack of the white bone dragon.

Lin really doesn't understand why it barks. Predators are very quiet when they prey.

But now both sides are in the dark, and the white bone dragon can see Tucker's figure. Its eyes seem to have some kind of light-emitting ability, but Tucker can also see the white bone dragon's position from its glowing eyes.

The battle is about to start! The sharp claws of the White Skeleton Dragon slammed towards Tucker, but Tucker held its claws at a faster speed, and then twisted it hard, only to hear the sound of "Kara", and the thin forelimbs of the White Skeleton Dragon were twisted by Tucker. at an unusual angle.

It turns out that Tucker seems to have a very sensitive hearing in the dark, and he can even feel the sound of the White Skeleton Dragon's claws waving in the air, so as to accurately grasp the White Skeleton Dragon's claws.

The white skeleton dragon whose forelimb was twisted by Tucker kept screaming, Tucker didn't stop at all, and then it grabbed the white skeleton dragon's neck.

With the sound of bones breaking, Bai Kelong fell to the ground.

The battle was easily ended. It seems that if Tucker is not injured, he can indeed be one-on-three.

Then next. What will Tucker do? Do you want to get out? But Lin will be here at least for a while. Unpacking some of the problems here. Like a large pile of eggshell fragments on the ground, fungal fossils, gnawed skeletons of skeletal dragons, and...

a war.

Those troops that were sucked into the roots of the tree were actually exactly the same as the immunizers that Bechymos used to immunize against fungi, but Lin still decided to name them 'invaders', and just called them here for the time being.

In this tree, they use the eight spider-like limbs to tear the 'blood vessels' in the tree. Tearing the cells inside, which is interesting, Lynn found many muscle-like structures, but not as well-developed as the muscles of animals, which means that although they can move, they don't move as fast.

Lin has never seen plants with immune organs. Although they have immunity, this tree has a more special immunity.

They even, like Lin, use multicellular organisms to help with immunity. Although this should be a symbiotic relationship.

When Lynn's invaders attacked, a small arthropod. Lin called them 'sword fleas', and they gathered in large numbers. They were very similar to a parasitic 'flea', but they were much smaller. The fleas, which move through the tree's body fluids by spraying water, are half the size of the invaders, tearing apart the invaders' bodies with their tiny fangs.

Lin gathered the invaders together to face the attack of the sword fleas together. Their bodies were inside and their limbs were outside. Any sword flea that came close would immediately grab it with several jointed limbs and tear it apart! Of course, the torn sword fleas will not be wasted, their fragments will be eaten by the invaders, and then the invaders will grow in size rapidly...

In the process of growing up, the invaders melted their backs and joined together. All the invaders were slowly transformed into a large creature by Lin. By tearing a large number of sword fleas, this group of invaders is constantly growing with.

It feels really good to fight in the water. You can change your body shape at will. If you are on land, you have to get a shell to prevent water leakage. It is almost impossible to quickly transform the arms.

The invaders are now integrated by Lin, their jointed limbs have also been enlarged and sharpened, and fin-like structures have grown on their bodies to aid in swimming. At the same time, Lin has also combined a larger mouth on its head , to devour more fragments.

The sword flea nourishes Lin's troops like an endless supply of nutrients. Now, Lin will use this grown-up unit as a base, and then produce more invaders...

And after there are enough troops, continue to march deep into the root system.

As Lin devoured them, she felt very strange. The sword fleas seemed to be fully responsible for the immune task. They could not only distinguish fungi, but also distinguish viruses. As multicellular organisms, they were much larger than viruses, but they could still find and swallow viruses, and then The tree then returns the fleas by producing pellets as nutrients.

In a typical symbiotic relationship, the sword fleas can even find the cells infected by the virus and devour them. Their power makes the tree body less immune, while Lin is destroying everything, and all the invaders are constantly attacking and tearing these cells. The sword flea and various structures, the deeper they move, the more Lin discovers more secrets of this tree, slowly exploring its entire structure...

This takes quite a long time, because the tree is actually very large, but not the tree itself, but its root system.

This tree is quite a huge plant, it has a huge cylindrical structure in the ground, called the 'core', around the cylinder, there are countless roots sticking out, just like the tentacles of sea anemones, these root systems They were all close to the ground, and what surprised Lin was that the tree had many structures that resembled animal organs.

For example, the pipes in the root system have some heart-like structures, which are the same as the hearts of ordinary organisms, acting like 'pumps' to boost various pipes, and there are many more.

In addition, there are digestive structures such as the 'stomach', etc. It is also found that its cells are not only plant-like, but also many animal-like cells, and even each root system has a structure similar to ganglion, so that this tree can instantly It controls the movement of the root system and chases the prey, but these structures are relatively incomplete, or primitive, and the types of organs are much less than those of animals. It still retains many plant characteristics. Lin thinks this may be a kind between animals and plants. creature.

The tree that Tucker and Lin saw in the cave before can be said to be its reproductive organ and also its food-attracting organ. On the ground, because there are dry salt rocks or saltwater lakes everywhere, creatures attracted by the light quickly find that there is water here, and after drinking it, the creature is tricked.

The petrochemical toxin will make the internal structure of the organism rigid, including the heart, and it will slowly become immobile. At this time, the root system of the tree will follow the smell of the petrochemical toxin to the corpse of the prey, and it will not chase those who are not infected with the poison. The prey, Tucker being attacked, should have been poisoned, so it was infected with that special smell.

This creature surprised Lin, it completely abandoned the previous plant life style, and it was stronger than the common trap plants. It even lived in symbiosis with the sword flea, and had a troop of its own, which meant Maybe there will even be highly intelligent plants in the future?

The odds are slim, but time will tell.

Lin gave it the name 'Dumesa Tree', which seems to be a very suitable name.

Lin knew that there was obviously more than one plant of this kind, so she could slowly destroy it.

While Lin was slowly attacking the tree, Tucker was wandering aimlessly in the cave...

It walked back and forth on a large pile of broken shells on the ground, and its emotions were very complicated, including anxiety, tension, fear, and all kinds of emotions. Lin thinks this has a lot to do with the pterosaur's death relation.

Tucker spun around in the eggshell fragments for a long time, when he suddenly kicked something, his mood instantly became more 'surprised', and he hugged the thing he kicked.

This egg...it should be called an 'egg'. Dinosaur eggs have strengthened the outer shell, which is different from ordinary eggs. And this egg is the egg of a skeletal dragon...

Lin had never seen a skeletal dragon breed, but there were cracked eggshells in the hut where they used to live, so she knew its shape and size, and Tucker obviously knew it, so it was so surprised.

Lin guessed that this was probably the egg of the White Skeleton Dragon, but Tucker didn't smash it immediately, but after holding it for a while, he walked in the direction it came and went.

After walking for a while, Tucker reached a fork in the road, and the 'Dumesa tree' was still shining brightly. In fact, the meaning of this tree is very different from that of ordinary plants. This structure is somewhat similar to fungi. Mushrooms used to release fungal dust, its branches and tentacles-like luminescent threads are used for reproduction. These tentacles will break off every certain time. It has enough nutrients in its body and can even move forward slowly like a worm , to another place to start growing.

The tentacles have numerous tiny spines resembling jellyfish tentacles and inject petrochemical toxins into those they come into contact with.

The purpose of its light is to lure prey to drink water, there is no other reason, this tree exposed on the ground only has these purposes, and the huge root system underground is the 'body' of the 'Dumesa tree', it The same structure as this tree should have grown in other places. Lin thinks that if there is a lack of prey in one place, the 'Dumesa tree' will slowly move to other places.

Lin now has a basic understanding of this tree, although it is not clear how it produced this way of life, this will be slowly explored by digging fossils in the future, now Lin feels that it is not necessary to completely destroy it, but it can Use its nutrition to construct a new unit for Lin.

And Tucker's behavior is very strange now. It first put the egg in front of the tree, and then took a lot of stones from the nearby ground to surround the egg.

At the same time, Tucker also carved a lot of marks on these stones with sharp stones. What is it doing? To be continued. . )