Chapter 104 Journey of Growth
Time passed quickly, and the sun was like a tumbling headworm, appearing and disappearing at once, the tumbling of the sun means the transformation of the surroundings, and the growth of... creatures.
Susumi has been to many places during this time, the river where giant dragons swim, the jungle where monsters lurk, and the mountain where pterosaurs scream...
Susumi is Lin's name for the emerald dragon cub. It doesn't have any special meaning. It's just something I thought of by chance. Since I have it with me, I should give it a name to distinguish it from other emerald dragons.
During the first 30 days and nights following Lin, it could only quack and look around excitedly. Lin found that although this creature was very curious, it lacked the most important fear.
Therefore, Lin taught Susumi to be afraid, so that it would run away and be afraid of dangerous things, because during the journey, Lin only had a pompom with it, and if it was not careful, it would not be able to survive.
Lin also found that these larger-brained creatures were easily overwhelmed by fear, so Lin also had to teach it when to be afraid and when not to be.
Susumi is a fast learner. When he was scared for the first time, he escaped a group of Dromaeosaurus. It was a fast carnivorous dinosaur. After learning some basics, he started to learn language. This It seems to be relatively simple to teach.
After sixty days and nights, Susumi has already learned hundreds of words, but she still likes to quack.
On the ninetieth day and night, Susumi could speak some relatively complete sentences, but she was not very good at using them.
On the hundredth day and night, Susumi was captured by the pterosaur, and it knew how to use the words Lin taught it to call for help.
In the one hundred and twentieth day and night, Susumi was able to have some relatively simple exchanges with Lin, which surprised Lin a little. It is just a cub less than thirty centimeters.
On the one hundred and thirtieth day and night, Pompom took Susumi to the end of the jungle. Here is a plain where many different dinosaurs appeared. Susumi named these dinosaurs in the way taught by Lin. . An emerald dragon hatchling grows much faster than the hatchlings of other skeletal dragon species, although it remains small.
One hundred and fiftieth day and night...
"Roll, roll, roll on the beach, roll on the beach." Under the bright sun, the headworm rolled on the ground. Surrounding it was a large group of 'infantry', and a little flying dragon that was bigger than it.
Almost half a year has passed, and everything has become a little different. A variety of wonderful plants have grown on the originally barren continent outside the Rift Valley.
The same is true for various islands in the sea that were once occupied by plague fungi, and the large number of seeds planted by Lin began to grow crazily. They can quickly restore everything.
On the edge of the first jungle on the mainland, there has always been only one rock mountain built by the headworm, even though it already has hundreds of infantry.
Because it doesn't want to live here, but wants to live on an island, because it wants to live in a place with a sea view...
"Island, beach." The headworm rolled on the grass for a while, then looked at the little flying dragon. Now its size can no longer hold down the flying dragon, but also because of such a small flying dragon has a new purpose...
The head worm said to Feilong: "Aww twice, it means you want to go too."
"Aww?" Xiao Feilong tilted his head in doubt and yelled twice.
"Very good, now, get down." The headworm watched the little flying dragon get down, and immediately rolled onto the little flying dragon's back and said, "Take off!"
"Aww!" The little flying dragon spread out its forelimbs, showing a large piece of wing membrane. It has now grown to the point where it can fly. When it opened its mouth, the air bag in its body was also rapidly inflated. Then it flapped its wings suddenly, and its whole body rushed to the sky!
"Oh." At the moment it flew into the sky, the head worm rolled off the dragon's back and fell to the ground. It immediately shouted to the sky: "Stupid creature. It's not grasped correctly, come down quickly!"
Because the headworm often makes a louder sound after raising the little flying dragon, its vocal sac has become more developed, and it can scream without any damage...
"Aw..." The little flying dragon landed next to the head worm in a bit of disappointment, and the head worm immediately rolled onto it again and said, "Continue, experiment."
"Aww!" The little flying dragon once again spread its wings and flew into the air. Unfortunately, the head worm quickly fell to the ground because of the lack of joint limbs to grasp. After that, the head worm tried a few more times, but no matter how hard it tried, it would fall down.
The brainworm tried ten more times, and finally stopped after trying various postures. It looked at the sky and said: "This method is invalid, and we need to consider a new method. Maybe, form the infantry into a ball and roll it over."
"Want to go to the island?"
Just when the brain worm was thinking about something, a huge black shadow covered the surrounding ground, and an extremely huge creature appeared above the brain worm.
This creature has a huge and streamlined body, covered with a layer of shiny black carapace. This is Lin's new Behemoth, which was actually built earlier, but in the island of fungi I wandered there for a while, checking to see if the plague fungus had completely disappeared before returning.
The new Bechymos is bigger than before, with a total length of about 60 meters. The outer shell has been replaced with a special kind of leather, and the internal structure is also different. At the same time, a new injection system has been replaced, but in general It still has the same function as before, it can create a large number of troops to attack, and it can also perform other types of strikes.
But in this peaceful age, these giant arms are not very useful, but at least they can transport the brainworm and its colony to far away places, such as the island it has always wanted to go to...
The little flying dragon seemed terribly frightened by Bechymos's appearance, it screamed towards the sky, the head worm hit it and said: "Be quiet, it will live longer."
Bechymos landed slowly and opened the troop outlet on the side of his body. Lin doesn't need to speak too complicated language with the head worm now, it can understand the meaning. The head worm makes a large number of infantry including the queen in the rock mountain Come out and enter Behemoth.
After loading, Bechymos slowly rose into the sky and flew towards the sea.
It's not bad to let the brain worms live on the island, otherwise they may conflict with the skeleton dragon in the future, but which island is better to take the brain worms to?
By the way... that island may be good, quite big, with many creatures on it, enough for brain worms to live, and there is a 'neighbor' there.
"It's nice here, compliments."
The head worm arrived at the destination. It rolled on the white sandy beach, looking very happy, and the little flying dragon rolled along with it.
This island is called 'Twin Islands', it is two tens of kilometers long islands, because they are shaped like a sphere cut in half, hence the name, the distance between the two islands is only five kilometers To the left and right, another island can be seen off the coast.
This place has never been polluted by plague fungi, and there are many special creatures that are neither dinosaurs nor large arthropods. Lin thinks that they should have evolved from marine life, providing abundant resources for the growth of the head worms... …
Speaking of which, Lin has never seen dinosaurs outside the mainland, but occasionally saw some pterosaurs flying out.
The breeding of brain worms is a relatively complicated 'program'. Its queen can only produce infantry and other small arms at the beginning, and can only produce more arms after the colony grows to a certain extent, such as the ground splitter. This 'ultimate unit' requires a fairly large colony to produce. How large a colony does it take to produce an Earthbreaker? In fact, brain worms are not very clear, so rich resources are necessary.
After settling the head worm, Lin continued to focus on the journey of the little emerald dragon—Susumi.
This is the one hundred and sixtieth day and night that the pompom took Susumi away from the emerald dragon colony.
Susumi and Pompom left the plain and arrived at a very special place, Lin called it...the land of crystallization!
"Crystal! Crystal!"
Susumi ran happily on the ground, and pointed to a tree in front of her and shouted excitedly. It was a wonderful tree, a tree that Lin had never seen before.
However, I have seen many creatures similar to this tree. This tree exudes a shining light all over its body. Its bark is composed of crystals, which emits brilliance under the sun.
As long as it is a creature that lives close to the crystal, it will always grow crystals, and they will always use the crystalline debris they eat as exoskeleton, but I didn't expect the tree to do the same. These creatures are collectively called "crystallization organisms", but Only recently did Lin discover that some 'crystallization creatures' did not grow crystals on their bodies, but only imitated the crystals to grow similar colors.
This is a wonderful area where there is a tree of crystallization. Except for the bark that has become crystallized, other parts of these trees are normal, and the leaves are also green.
Susumi became very excited when he saw these crystallized trees, and rushed into the shining bushes.
"Don't move too fast." Pompom yelled at it and immediately chased after it. At this moment, Lin suddenly felt that the surroundings seemed to be getting very cold.
Why is it like that? Because only the sensory organs receive the cold signal, the temperature has not actually dropped, which means that this is a deceptive signal... Is there any creature...
When Lin was wondering, she found that Susumi was missing. Lin had taught it a lot, so it shouldn't run around, but the feeling here is... quite strange.
By the way, this feeling is a bit like... an illusion. There may be some element of illusion in the air, because the pompom has no brain, and these gases can only have some impact on the sensory organs, but it is more dangerous to creatures with brains.
Looking at the surrounding crystal trees, the pompon's sense of smell seems to be less sensitive, but Lin still decided to let the pompon enter here to find it.
It is now... the one hundred and seventieth day and night.
Susumi was not found, and the pompom died. (to be continued...)