Chapter 23 Abyssal Rift

Calm and boundless waters, where huge creatures slowly move forward in a floating way...

Life at the base was peaceful and boring, so Lindu turned her attention to the Leviathan.

Two days and nights have passed since the departure. Leviathan swam across the vast gray sandy beach and the seabed composed of stones. Unlike before, Lin mainly swam deep this time.

Leviathan has now reached a new place, which is also sandy, but the sand is finer and white, and there are creatures that Rin has never seen spread throughout the area.

They look like upside-down jellyfish, sticking to the sand with their stubby, round bodies and catching prey with a multitude of stinging tentacles.

Lyn knew there was a word for them... 'anemone'.

Sea anemones are fairly simple creatures with no vascular heart and a digestive sac in the center of their body responsible for digesting food brought in by their tentacles.

Creatures with absolutely no research value, and Lin also doesn't like to eat such creatures, because they usually have no content after the venomous sting is removed.

Leviathan lowered its swimming height and slowly floated on the beach. Lin named the tentacles with the mouth below it 'biting tentacles', but just like the Devourer, it was only used to bite things, Not responsible for digesting food.

Leviathan generally does not use its own eyeballs, but is observed by the eyeballs floating around it.

Lin suddenly saw that there was movement in the gravel below.

Leviathan jerked his tentacles out, grabbed something in the sand, and pulled it out.

That's a trilobite.

There are many kinds of trilobites, this is the fifth kind that Lin has seen. This kind of trilobite is very small and the shell is very thin. The mouth that bites the tentacles can completely bite it in the mouth and crush it.

The shells and cells scattered by the crushed trilobites, etc., Lin will release a kind of soldier called the Collector to collect, it is about the size of the Devourer, this kind of creature is mainly a worm-type structure, and the whole is very flexible. It can swallow a lot of food, swell into a ball, and the body is filled with a strong solution, which is responsible for swallowing food and then dissolving it, and finally returning the nutrients to Leviathan.

Collectors can also attack by spewing lysates from their bodies, although they are not designed to attack themselves.

After eating the little trilobite, the Leviathan continued to move forward. It had enough fat in its own storage. Lin planned to take a longer trip without stopping halfway.

Lin mainly wanted to see some special environments, environments it had never seen before.

The water spray system sped up, and the Leviathan swam quickly on the white sand, but it stopped quickly because an environment it had never seen before suddenly appeared in front of it.

The beach in front of her seemed to be cut into two sections, and a huge rift appeared in front of Lin, its length was long enough to extend beyond Lin's field of vision, and its width was wide enough to put down hundreds of Leviathan.

Lin has never seen such a landscape... Is this a 'sea trench'?

Lin found that the recent new words seem to be relatively boring, what kind of trench, there is no momentum at all, it is better to just call it a rift.

...what is the momentum? Forget it.

Leviathan swam to the top of the trench and looked down with his floating eyeballs, only to see that the rift stretched straight down until the light couldn't reach the dark abyss.

Do you want to go down and have a look?

Lin was a little hesitant, but wasn't this trip just to explore the unknown?

Go down!

The Leviathan slowly descended. There were a lot of sea anemones sticking to the rock walls on both sides of the trench, and some small trilobites dangling beside them. There were also many single-celled organisms floating in the water. It seems that this is also a biologically rich place. area.

After going down for a while, the light around Leviathan was getting darker and darker, and Lin released a swimming lantern. This non-fixed light allowed Lin to see everything around her clearly.

As we get closer to the depths of the trench,

There were fewer creatures around, until it became as dark as night, and it was hard for Lin to see any creatures except single cells.

Lin didn't stop, and continued to go deeper into the darkness. It released more lanterns. These small swimming spots found some creatures that looked like sea anemones on the rock wall.

They have tentacles like sea anemones, but the body below is not thick and round, but a small long handle. It seems that they are not called sea anemones, but have a new name of 'crinolily'. .

Sounds like a pretty good name.

Leviathan swam close to the rock wall and wanted to pull one out to eat, but as soon as Lin approached, they would instantly shrink into the rock crevice.

The rock wall of the trench is not generally hard, it seems that it is not edible.

There are still many crinoids on the rock wall here, and Lin found that their species were different, and some of them would not shrink.

Lynn wasn't very interested in studying them, and Leviathan continued to dive deeper to see if there were any other interesting plants.

The deeper the Leviathan descended, the more Lin discovered a problem, which could be called 'stress'.

The floating eyeballs and lanterns first received this feeling, they became difficult to move, as if they were squeezed by some powerful force, and some even died directly because they could not bear the pressure.

Where does this pressure come from? It seems to be everywhere, could it be... because of the water?

Lin recovered them all and opened a hole at the edge of the Leviathan's disk-shaped shell, which contained the Leviathan's own eyeballs.

It is protected by a transparent husk that protects it from harm, but limits its field of vision, as it cannot move at will.

Lin also released a lantern covered with a hard shell to resist the pressure of the water.

But the deeper you go, the more obvious the effect of pressure is. Even the Leviathan itself is affected. The swimming pattern of absorbing and spraying water becomes more and more difficult. Road cracks.

The pressure is horrible.

It seems that it can't go on, but Lin doesn't want to give up. It has calculated how this pressure works, and also knows what kind of structure can resist this pressure.

Of course, Lin didn't want to change the Leviathan's structure, so it created a new type of troop with an oval body, filled with water inside, and a thin shell on the outside. This troop does not have any ability to swim. As soon as it was released by the Leviathan, it sank deep into the trench with gravity.

This shape and structure should be able to effectively resist pressure, but the most basic of resisting pressure is to fill the interior with the same material that created the pressure around it, so that no matter how much force it is, it cannot be pressed in.

Leviathan swam back, and Lin had to repair the wound on its body. As for the exploration of the bottom of the trench, leave it to the oval little thing.

It's called a 'warhead'.

After a while, when Leviathan was about to emerge from the trench, the 'warhead' also felt like it collided with something, and it seemed that it had sunk to the deepest point.

At this time, the shells on both sides of the warhead's body were opened, and a total of six arthropods protruded from them. The arthropods were also filled with water, so they would not be crushed by pressure. At the same time, its head also opened two holes, one Eyeballs and a lantern appear in it at the same time.

Both the eyeball and the lantern are covered with a thin transparent shell, and the shell is filled with water. This method is really effective against pressure, and now the 'slug' has no cracks at all.

It moved the small limbs around its body and started the journey of this dark abyss.

Because the body of the warhead is full of water, it occupies the position where it should have placed muscles or blood vessels, so the movement speed is not fast at all, but it is only used for exploration, and it does not need too fast speed.

The ground at the bottom of the trench was made of rocks, and under the lantern of the warhead, some single-celled creatures first entered Lin's field of vision.

Surely they are everywhere? Except on land.

Lin found that this trench cell was much larger than the one above, and it was indeed a water-filled compressive structure.

Just when Lin was studying them, a ray of light suddenly lit up in the distance. The brightness far exceeded the light emitted by the warhead itself, and it seemed to be emitted by some kind of huge creature.

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