Chapter 42 The End of the Dragon

Is this why the screaming?

Lynn floated to Tucker's side and found that it was smashing an egg with rocks, but it couldn't be opened no matter how hard it was. This egg looked much bigger than the others, with a height of about 30 centimeters. The skeletal dragon egg is only ten centimeters long. This egg is very hard. Even if the stone is hit by Tucker like this, there will be cracks, but it still remains motionless.

The egg obviously belonged to another creature, but Tucker still wanted to smash it to death.

"stop."

Following Lin's voice, Tucker immediately stopped his movements, and then Lin's pompon stretched out a few tentacles to touch the egg for subtle detection.

The moment Lin touched the egg, Lin felt a burst of surprise. This is... a shell structure that has never been seen before!

This kind of shell substance is very hard, and it feels like a mixture of various high-hardness substances. If it is similar, it is somewhat like the carapace of a purgatory worm.

This kind of shell substance cannot be obtained from the body of ordinary organisms. It is estimated that the producer of this egg, like the purgatory worm, only collected this kind of shell substance in some special places to create such a strong egg.

But to say that it is strong, it is only indestructible, and the solution still has an effect on it.

Lin's tentacles released a solution, which slowly dissolved a small hole on the eggshell, allowing the tentacles to drill in.

The egg is dead, but the contents inside haven't rotted, maybe it's because the seal is too good?

Inside... Lin found that there are actually many creatures inside. Usually, there is only one creature per egg, but there are a lot of them crowded here, and Lin is very familiar with... Flying dragons!

A flying dragon cub is only a few centimeters in size, so there are ten flying dragon cubs squeezed inside!

Did the flying dragon's eggs look so strange? Not only are they very hard, but they are also crowded together in a large group... But it is a pity that the little flying dragon is indeed the last one, and all of them are dead.

All the small flying dragons seem to share a nutritional structure in the center of the egg. Lin thinks that they can't get out of such a hard egg shell by themselves, and may need the help of an adult dragon.

Why are there dragon eggs here? Speaking of which, Lin didn't find any eggs in the crater that Lin thought was the lair of the flying dragon, but there were...in other words...the adult dragon was not very far from here.

Lin looked at the cracked wall in the distance... There really is something behind it!

thinking.

Lin flew over there, and Tucker stopped smashing eggs and followed up. Because he smashed a lot of eggs just now, he is in a better mood now.

But Tucker didn't settle down completely. He always deliberately kicked or crushed the eggs around him along the way. Lin felt that if he had the chance, he might smash all the eggs here.

Now. Lin's pompom and Tucker walked to the wall, and Tucker saw the bones of some adult white skeletal dragons around him, Lin felt it suddenly had an angry thought, it walked over and crushed the skulls of these bones .

It really has a feeling of 'hate' towards these creatures.

The emotion of hate is sometimes useful and can be used to remove threats. But sometimes it can cause creatures to go crazy, which is a troublesome emotion.

'boom! '

The pompon stretched out its tentacles and slammed on the wall. These fragile cracks collapsed and scattered, and another cave appeared in front of Lin.

This cave...is really strange...

Lin slowly drifted into the cave. The entire cave was covered with white gravel, and in the gravel, there were bones of various parts. But they are all the bones of skeletal dragons. On the white cave walls around the cave, there are many huge mushrooms protruding. Among these mushrooms, there are many bones sticking out, as if they are stuck in the mushrooms. ...

The pompon stretched out its tentacles and grabbed some gravel on the ground. Lin found that it was not gravel, but a large amount of bacterial dust. But these fungus dust all hardened, do not have alive.

Some of the skeletons on the ground were even covered in mycelium, as if they had been attacked by a plague fungus.

The fossil fungus and the plague fungus here should be two different types, and the structure of the fungus dust is very different, but do they also have the infection ability of the plague fungus?

Tucker doesn't seem to care much about these fungi. He probably hasn't seen them before. Instead, he feels happy when he sees so many bones.

It seems to be very happy that so many white skeleton dragons have died... this kind of emotion seems incomprehensible.

Go deeper. The more fungal fossils I saw, a large number of hyphae appeared in front of Lin's eyes as if they were alive. Most of them wrapped some skeletons, and some fungi grew on the skeletons. But without exception, they were all hardened, as if they were all poisoned with petrochemical poison.

This should have nothing to do with the Dumesa tree, it can't petrify all the fungi that live here, unless...

that is……

Lin found that in the deepest part of the cave illuminated by the light, lay a huge wreckage... This is... the corpse of a flying dragon!

This flying dragon is a complete adult dragon, about 25 meters long from head to tail. This is the largest flying dragon Lin has ever seen. There are many traces of mycelium covering, and even some small mushrooms grow on it.

On the head of this flying dragon, there is a hole where the eyes are. It is estimated that the meat inside has disappeared, but the scales of the body have remained.

The moment Tucker saw the flying dragon, he ran away frantically in fright, but after running away for more than ten seconds, it seemed that it had discovered the problem by itself, and then ran back. At this time, Tucker approached slowly and observed carefully. This dragon, after knowing that it was dead, regained its peace of mind...

So Tucker is so afraid of flying dragons? They are not very afraid of the tyrant monitor lizard.

There are many skeletons of skeletal dragons next to the huge flying dragon corpse. Most of these bones have some small mushrooms or are covered with hyphae. They seem to have been killed by fungi.

Pompom stretched the tentacles with glowing eyeballs into the eyeholes of the dragon's head, and found that it was filled with white hardened substances, which should be mycelium or the like. These structures supported the dragon's body without deflation go down.

This feeling seems to be that the fungus has eaten up the body of the flying dragon. Lin already suspects that these are plague fungi, or species related to the plague fungus. They destroyed the skeletal dragons here, but they did not spread to the land. Is it all about the salt? Or is it too dry? But why do they become fossils? This is obviously different from the usual fossils, which have been hardened under certain circumstances.

Tucker turned around next to the body of the flying dragon. Lin found that it had two emotions of anger and fear towards the flying dragon. The fear seemed to be greater. It should have seen this kind of creature before. Lin could somewhat guess why it was at that time. Will want to catch little dragons.

Then Lin continued to look around. This cave is not very big, the ground is covered with fungus dust, there are bones and fungal fossils everywhere, and the corpse of a huge flying dragon...

They must have a special history, and it's interesting to study their history, but how? These skeletal dragons don't like making statues.

Maybe we should look for other caves, maybe they record history in other ways...

But for now, let's study the things here first, such as this flying dragon...

The scales of the flying dragon are very wonderful. After being dead for so long, they still maintain a high hardness. Just like the egg outside, they are made of unusual shell substances. This shell substance is very light, but It is very hard, which is convenient for flying and also ensures the defense ability. The flying dragons that Lin has seen before do not have such scales, which may be due to age.

Lin took some fragments down as 'samples', and will see if she can find similar exoskeletons in the future. If you can't find them in ordinary creatures, you can go to the volcano to look for them.

Then, Lin looked at other places in the cave. It seems that this is the end of the cave. There is no road leading to other places. The cave here is relatively narrow. It is reasonable to say that flying dragons cannot enter. Filled the hole back in, or was it grown here? This feeling is less likely.

But the White Skeleton Dragon and the Flying Dragon must have some sort of close relationship, that's why Tucker is angry with both of them. Now, Tucker is now digging the fungus dust around the Flying Dragon, as if looking for something.

"Gah!" Suddenly Tucker exclaimed, and it dug out a... head from the pile of fungus dust?

"Quack quack quack!" Tucker held up the head and began to jump up. It seemed very happy to see this. Lin found that the head was like that of a flying dragon. The outer scales had not disappeared, but the flesh inside was empty, so it could still Looking at the shape before it was alive, it is an obvious white skeleton dragon, and there are many scars on its scales, giving it a feeling of 'battle-hardened'.

Maybe something like a leader? Is Tucker happy because the leader is dead?

After jumping for a while, Tucker threw the head on the cave wall and smashed it to pieces. The bacteria dust inside flew out like snow, scattered everywhere.

The bacteria dust here should all be dead, otherwise it would be very dangerous.

Then, Lin took Tucker out of the cave and returned to the place full of eggs. Now that the exploration here is over, it's time to leave here...

Lin also basically figured out what happened here, what is the relationship between the white skeleton dragon, the flying dragon and Tucker, and this may be related to the plague fungus, but there are some parts that need to be asked about Tucker.

Tucker didn't seem to want to leave that much yet. After he came back here, he continued to smash eggs everywhere... Lin stopped him and began to teach him more vocabulary.

Then, Lin will start to ask Tucker about its history... motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.)