Chapter 235 Buried Under the Salt

It may not be the oldest place on the continent.

The salty and dry wind is still blowing on the white ground. Skeletal Dragon has given this place many names, such as 'Land of the First Sunshine', 'Pompom Plain', 'Flavour Paradise', etc., but Lin usually Call it 'salt land'.

It was originally an endless pile of white, but now the pile of white has been shoveled up in large areas. This is the only place on the mainland where Lin thinks she can dig at will.

'Deep Digger' is Lin's new type of digging unit. It has a beetle-shaped body about three meters long, and its forelimbs have a structure similar to a 'drill bit' for digging. The second pair of limbs is hollow, and it can dig out those The salt and other debris are inhaled into the body, and then condensed into a ball and ejected behind him.

So this is a class that doesn't have to deal with digging waste! Even so, there are still too many piles to deal with.

Lin has now dug to a very deep place. There are a total of one hundred diggers here. Under the ground here, Lin found quite a lot of fungal fossils.

Just like what was discovered before, these fungal fossils were not formed after being buried for a long time, but at some point, they seemed to be 'cursed', and all the fungi were hardened at the same time, which felt very weird... …

Lin also found many bones of white-skeleton dragons and a skeleton of a flying dragon here before. This can be considered as the scene where they were attacked by fungi. The fungi here were not plague fungi at first, but they were indeed very similar, or a Variations are also possible...

They destroyed the white skeleton dragon riding the flying dragon, but the white skeleton dragon riding the flying dragon should not be the same as the white skeleton dragon on the island. Tucker had seen them when he was young.

And the fungus here... also destroyed the white bone dragon riding the flying dragon in a relatively short period of time.

It can be seen that the fungus under the salt is not directly related to the island Baishoulong. They emerged recently, at least within a few decades, while the island white skeleton dragon was attacked by the plague fungus earlier and fled to the island.

Moreover, there is no trace of any white bone dragon living and establishing a city here. It can be seen that the white bone dragon on the island should not have lived here.

Generally speaking, things made of stone can be preserved for a long time, and even wooden ones can be preserved for a long time in this salt environment.

But there are no such traces here...there are only fossils and corpses, so Lin's main investigation now is why the fungi here are 'petrified'.

and,

Why are these fungi popping up out of nowhere. Is there any reason? Lin did some more research on the dust structure of these fungi and found that they are indeed simpler than the dust of the plague fungus. There are not many complicated things in them, but they also have the function of parasitic growth.

Lin believes that these fungi can probably be called "primitive species", that is, the plague fungi that followed evolved from them.

But why did this "primitive species" emerge in the near future in a few decades? Lin thought of a possibility. It is about the birthplace of the plague fungus.

They probably weren't sea creatures, or popped up from somewhere else, where the plague fungus originated... maybe right here!

Later, there may be various reasons, the plague fungus left the mainland, and then entered the sea, and then produced brain-like 'arms' under the command of the brain. They are more terrifying and powerful, but they were severely injured by the special attack method of the Ater group, and were finally exterminated by Lin.

In fact, they have not been completely extinct, because Lin still has a little fungus dust, and they only need some nutrients, and they will explode again!

Although that's probably unlikely.

The process from the original fungus to the latest form is a complete mystery, and apparently the 'primitive' is still on this continent.

This needs to be studied, so Lin's Digger has dug deeper into the ground, which is much deeper than what Lin and Tucker reached before, and here. There's also a...white cave much like the one above.

In fact, the underground here is full of various caves. Although the shape of the cave seems to be formed by itself, Lin feels like it was dug out by some creature.

Here, too, there are many fossils of fungi.

The Deepdigger made his way slowly through the cavern. The light emitted by them illuminates the cave walls on both sides. The cave walls here are full of protruding fungal fossils, but unlike the fossils with various mushrooms on them, the ones here are pure mycelium fossils. They are like It is a carpet that generally covers the floor and surroundings.

The diggers finally converged on one spot, one of Lynn's latest pits, where Lynn found a piece of... wood.

It should be said to be the root system of a plant.

This root is more than one meter in diameter and five meters long, and it looks like it is broken. Let's not mention why it appeared so deep underground, the most important thing is that it is still alive.

This plant is under this dry and waterless ground, and its body is surrounded by a layer of wood-like shell, but this layer of wood is stronger and sealed than the bark of ordinary plants, which makes it difficult for the energy inside to leak out.

Although it is said that the Digger pierced it with a single poke.

After being released into small units, Lin found that the cells in the root system of this plant were in a dormant state, which allowed the cells to live in it for a long time, possibly even thousands of years or longer, somewhat similar to a plant. Creatures called 'bear bugs' are good at putting cells to sleep.

However, Lin not only found cells in its body, but also many multicellular organisms sleeping in the transmission pipeline.

Lin has seen this kind of multicellular organism. It is a multicellular organism called 'sword flea'. It looks like a 'flea', but it is very small. It is also found in another plant called 'Dumesa tree' Are these creatures the same kind?

But looking at other structures, it is very different from the 'Dumesa tree'. Although this thing looks like a plant, the structure inside is actually very strange. There are some transport pipes in its body. The sacs, Lynn thinks these sacs contract and transport fluid, function like a heart, but there are some sacs that sit on either side of the duct...inside them...

Filled with a lot of viruses.

Lin has never seen this kind of virus before. They seem to be stored here on purpose. There is a solid structure around the capsule, which seems to be used to prevent the virus from leaking. It is not yet known what effect this virus has, and it may be very dangerous. what?

In addition to the virus, there are also some small sacs filled with eggs, which should be the eggs of sword fleas, which is not surprising.

Lin also discovered that there are some unknown linear structures in this plant, and I don't know what they are used for.

I don't know how to wake it up, this plant is just a broken part, there is no complete structure, there should be others nearby...

Lin looked around and asked the diggers to continue digging around, but there was another digger who brought a special creature - the salt jade that Lin caught in the cave above.

Lin wants to try the effect of that virus. It doesn’t make much sense for Lin to experiment with her own cells, because the structure inside Lin’s cells is actually somewhat different from that of ordinary organisms. This is what Lin discovered when experimenting with various viruses, usually viruses It can only cause basic damage to Lin, that is, enter cells and use cells to reproduce.

And for other creatures, sometimes it’s not just that, some viruses can cause creatures to produce some other behaviors, such as becoming crazy and so on...

So take a Mao Yu to test it out.

Thinking about it, Lin dug out a small sac full of viruses in this plant, and then injected Mao Yu with some of the viruses extracted from it by a type of unit called 'Intaker'.

If you just inject a little bit, it should not threaten Mao Yu's life, you just need to observe what will happen after they enter the cells...

...doesn't seem to have any effect.

At the same time, Lin injected some miniature arms to observe, and found that this virus had no effect on Mao Yu's cells, and it was even difficult for it to enter this cell...

This generally means that Mao Yu's cells are resistant to it, but it also means that the virus doesn't seem to adapt to the way the cells look.

Usually viruses have an effect on most cells, but this does not seem to be the case.

Since Mao Yu is useless, let's keep some of this virus and test it later.

If this peculiar plant can be found as a whole, more information should be obtained...

When thinking of this, some of Lin's diggers dug out another section of the root system. This root system was even smaller, only more than one meter long. After Lin inspected it, she found that there were some sac-shaped organs inside, which seemed to be It is used to make liquid, and a strange liquid is stored inside, which seems to belong to some kind of toxin.

The ingredients in it are somewhat like the 'petrified venom' of the Dumesa tree, which can harden the muscles of living things.

And it also has another kind of sac, which contains some... bacteria dust? This bacterial dust is exactly the same as the bacterial dust of these fossil fungi outside!

Sure enough, are the surrounding fossils related to this plant? ...but where is its body?

Maybe it shouldn't just be excavated here, there are also some other suspicious places that can be excavated, such as on the outskirts of the rift.

There used to be a lot of white bone dragon remains piled up there, so something should be found there.

Then, Lin continued to dig around for a while, and there seemed to be nothing around, but just as Lin was walking towards a deeper cave, she suddenly found several... white skeleton dragons appearing in the passage ahead?

I saw them all lying on the ground in a mess, as if they had been dead for a while, but one of them was still holding a... crystallization tightly. (to be continued...)