Chapter 61 Guardian of the Abyss

Accompanied by the vibration of the gravel, a huge creature emerged from the gravel. The moment it came out, it happened to meet the eyes of Lin's assassin.

This organism is about six meters long. It is a powerful marine creature that Lin has seen, and it is called a 'mantis shrimp'.

Lin had only seen this kind of creature in the deep sea before, and didn't expect that they could move on land, but this one seemed different. The jointed limbs on its side looked quite thick, allowing it to move on land. The flat abdomen originally used for swimming has also become thicker, and it seems that it can be used to move on land.

This creature is obviously evolving towards a terrestrial creature. The carapace of this mantis shrimp is a gray and somewhat transparent color, and the color of its eyes is a bit like a rainbow. The eyes of this creature are among all the species that Lin has seen so far. With the highest level of evolution, it may be able to see many things such as light or color that ordinary creatures cannot see, and it can also be seen from these structures that it has not been infected by the plague fungus.

Did this mantis shrimp just happen to pop out of here? The assassin at the front and the mantis shrimp looked at each other for a while, and Lin found that it was slowly curling up its tail.

Lin made some assassins continue to stare at it, while others climbed up the crystal. Lin wanted to dig up this crystal quickly to see what was going on with the 'brain' inside.

At this time, the protruding eyes of the mantis shrimp twisted, and saw the assassin climbing up the crystal, it suddenly stretched out its curled tail, and immediately the mantis shrimp charged like a bomb that was fired. To those assassins.

'boom! '

The next moment, a loud noise resounded through the entire undersea cave, and a large number of crystallized debris flew away. A hunter turned into pulverized flesh at this instant. The surrounding assassins were also blown away by this. Now I saw a big hole in the crystal.

This attack power is really interesting.

There are usually two types of mantis shrimp, one is the sharp claw type, and the other is the hammer type like this one. Its attack method is somewhat like a smasher, using a powerful pressure system and muscles to eject the high-hardness forelimbs, causing extremely severe damage. With powerful impact, many creatures will evolve strange structures, and the mantis shrimp seems to be an example of extreme attack power.

After the mantis shrimp smashed hard on the crystal, it turned around and jumped at the surrounding assassins. Lin made the assassins immediately change color and disperse. The mantis shrimp was a little stunned seeing the assassin's color change, but soon it recovered, its forelimbs popped out again, and with a loud noise, the front of it An assassin was instantly smashed to pieces.

It can clearly see the color-changing assassin, and it really has a very different vision...

Lynn has done some research on the small mantis shrimp in the sea,

However, no similar eyes have been created so far. If you can study this big head, you may be able to create such incomparable eyes...

The mantis shrimp looked around at the surrounding assassins, their color change seemed to have no effect at all. Mantis shrimp probably spot them by a certain brilliance, plus the intelligence of this arthropod itself is high.

Lin let the assassin back away slowly. It exited the open space where the huge crystals were placed, but the mantis shrimp didn't catch up, it retreated instead, and circled around the crystals.

Lin felt a little strange seeing this scene. This mantis shrimp... seems to be protecting that crystal? It didn't eat the assassins it smashed just now, and it didn't attack after Lin stepped back.

It does look like this, it feels very suspicious, that thing doesn’t look like its nest, Lin thinks its nest may be somewhere else, the mantis shrimp’s gills are obviously very moist, it needs water to live, this is why it It is a good proof that it is not infected.

Lin let several assassins walk over, and the mantis shrimp immediately charged up in an attacking posture, but when Lin asked the assassins to retreat outside the circle, it ran back again.

Sure enough, it is guarding that crystal, why would it do such a thing... Could it be that...

'Click'.

Some strange sounds suddenly sounded, and Lin found a group of ancient abyssal squids emerging from behind. They were actually crawling among the crystal clusters. The ancient abyssal squids seemed to be better at moving on land than the ancient squids of the North Land. The tentacles are much thicker, and Lin noticed that they were dragging some fishes about one meter long...

Molluscs such as ancient squids are very powerful, and one is enough to drag things five times larger than itself, but even so, they are dragged together in a group, because it saves a lot of effort.

A large group of abyssal ancient squid dragged some fish, some starfish, shellfish and snails, and moved slowly between this area full of crystal clusters and echo eggs, because Lin's assassin was in a color-changing state, and they did not Noticing it, Lin watched them drag these things directly to the open space in the center, and walked up to the mantis shrimp...

The mantis shrimp strangely did not attack them. The ancient abyss squid piled up the fish, shells, snails and other things in front of the mantis shrimp, and the mantis shrimp immediately lowered its head and started eating.

Does this group of ancient squid have any special symbiotic relationship with mantis shrimp? To give it so much food?

Lin looked curiously, but the mantis shrimp didn't make any special movements, it quickly ate up the food, and then the mantis shrimp crawled back to the place where it had drilled out before, and disappeared soon.

Are they giving it food to make it go away? Then, this group of abyssal ancient squids made even more strange behaviors. They placed the only starfish that were not eaten by the mantis shrimp around the crystals, forming a circle, and then placed some small stones inside the circle. block, which looks like a strange pattern.

Then this group of ancient squids made weird behaviors before this pattern. They lined up line by line, ten in each line, ten lines in total. When they were lined up, they began to wave their tentacles in the direction of the crystal The color of their bodies also began to change constantly. Lin found that the movement of their tentacles waving was exactly the same as the color changes of their bodies. It looked... extremely weird.

Lin watched them keep doing this weird action. They seemed to have a water storage bladder on their bodies, so they seemed to be able to stay out of the water for a long time, but they didn't stop after doing it for more than a thousand seconds. Lin felt a little Some... 'impatient'.

Lin asked an assassin to quietly approach the last row of dancing abyssal squids. They seemed to be so engrossed that they didn't notice the color-changing assassin.

The assassin stretched out his claws with paralyzing poison, and... lightly poked the ancient squid.

The ancient squid fell to the ground quickly due to poisoning, but the other companions seemed not to notice, and kept waving their tentacles, while the assassin slowly dragged the fallen ancient squid back... (To be continued …)