Chapter 44 Atmospheric Creatures

The sky above the North Continent was now shrouded in gusts of wind. The pom-pom stabbed its fluff into the ice on the ground and tightened its body. Although it swayed in the storm, it could still observe the changes in the sky.

In the dark storm mixed with ice and snow, a group of creatures can be seen appearing in the sky. They are extremely numerous. They danced in the air with a strong whirlwind, and came to this continent as if they were cheering...

Those are... Atmospheric Slimes, Lin has been looking for them for hundreds of years, but they are nowhere to be found, although Lin is not very serious about looking for them...

Only now did Lin see them again. Lin originally thought they had all frozen to death.

These creatures spread out their stingray-like wings to ride the wind in the air. Although they are extremely light, they seem to know the wind direction of the storm very well. In this case, they can still move freely. Change the direction of flight, and the two slimes will never collide.

They approached the frozen land that was once a twisted jungle with the storm. Although they couldn't get close to the ground under the strong wind, Lin could feel it... They seemed to be watching here, watching the pom poms on the ground.

Why is this creature here now? And there are probably thousands of them, flying everywhere with the strong wind, covering a large area of ​​the sky, it seems that they live well in the cold environment, at least they have an advantage in numbers.

However, Lin is more concerned about the situation in their bodies. The composition of these creatures may be completely different from ordinary creatures. As the moon approaches, there are more interesting things.

Lin looked at the group of creatures flying around in the air. Until the storm slowly weakened. Storms are common though after cooling. But it usually doesn't last long.

After the storm subsided, these slimes did not leave, they continued to hover in the air, as if they were holding some kind of 'ceremony'.

Suddenly, several slimes rushed down from the air, and they swooped towards the pom-pom at an extremely fast speed, and the pom-pom pulled the fluff out of the ground and avoided it at a faster speed.

I see. They really came to find food...

Lin also found that some slimes took the storm and flew to the canyon, flying over the shell. Some slimes stuck their bodies to the shell and seemed to want to find a place to burrow in, although they couldn't be seen. Has eyes, but can precisely target those creatures in the canyon...

And they didn't pay attention, and Lin was also targeting them.

'Boom...' On the side of the canyon,

The frozen ground burst open, and a huge gun barrel protruded from the ground, aiming at the flying slimes in the air.

'Boom! ' A bomb quickly flew to a slime's side. The moment the bomb approached, eight pairs of sharp arthropods suddenly stretched out from the surface, and the arthropods instantly hugged the slime in front. Then he took the slime and fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the surrounding slimes fled in fright, and the one caught by the bomb was still struggling.

This slime couldn't fly no matter how hard it struggled. Although it has a wingspan of more than five meters, its weight is very light. The ends of the arthropods that grew out of Lin's bombs have now plunged into its body and released Minor weapons.

This creature... as expected.

Under the subtle detection of troops, Lin felt surprised again. Although Lin had thought about it before, she did not expect that such a creature really exists...

Atmospheric slime's body... has no cells.

All the structures in this organism are completely different from common organisms. To be precise, it has no internal organs, but there are some visceral-like structures such as sacs and reticles in the body, but these are not composed of cells, but a A whole bunch of stuff.

However, the ingredients in the body are still the same as the cells. To be precise, this creature is very similar to an amoeba, an amoeba that has been magnified countless times.

That is, it retains the shape of a single cell, but grows into such a huge creature.

In fact, Lin has also seen some larger creatures without cell assemblies, such as a creature called 'Slime Mold'.

That creature looked a lot like a fungus, but it was actually deformed like an amoeba, a creature that could move around. Compared to an amoeba that was about the size of a cell, the slime mold was huge.

But both the amoeba and the slime mold have an incomparable gap with this 'atmospheric slime', and its structure is countless times more complex than that of the amoeba, just like the gap between the original multicellular organism and the current skeleton dragon.

But they have similar characteristics. This slime... may be the evolutionary product of the first two creatures, not necessarily.

Because there is no control material, many parts of Lin do not know what they are used for. Some Lin think that it is similar to the internal organs of ordinary animals. They also use the solution to digest the prey. The head... In fact, it has no head. , but there is an eye-like structure in the front position, which is completely different from the general eye structure, but Lin thinks it can see things clearly.

This slime has many holes in its entire body, plus it is very light, it can fly in the sky without consuming energy, and there are jet vents behind the body, which seem to be used for emergency acceleration, and there are some hardened structures in its body Used to maintain its overall shape...

In addition to these, there are also some wonderful structures whose functions are unknown. Although it is said that the same ingredients are used, Lin has never seen such a combination. Some of them may have very powerful effects. Defends against cold, and if you do research you might find these traits, some of which Lynn has never seen before.

It's like Lin didn't know that such a flexible object could be formed with such a simple composition before she saw spider silk.

Lin is not sure whether it has a brain or not. Lin can feel some weak currents in its body, like brain waves, but it is not concentrated at any point and cannot be confirmed because it is a combination that has never been seen before, even if it has a brain, It is also different from the common multicellular brain.

It turns out that it is not multicellular to develop to this level. This can be regarded as a miracle. Lin believes that arthropods and vertebrae began to evolve separately in the age of worms, and this slime may have evolved in the age of cells. Now common organisms evolved separately.

After almost all the investigations, Lin has drawn a picture about this slime in her mind, and recorded the synthetic components of each part of it.

Then, let it go.

Now Lin is different from before. It is not necessary to kill and decompose a creature to observe a creature. It can conduct a comprehensive observation in a state where there is no harm to the body, which is very helpful for observing some rare species.

Is this slime rare? Lin thinks that since they can maintain such a quantity in a world that has been frozen for so long, it must not be rare.

However, how they reproduce, how they live, and whether they live in a fixed place or fly around are still a mystery.

After being released, the slime immediately flew high into the sky, but it didn't fly too far, but hovered in the sky, as if it was about to attack at any time.

Lin can feel some 'breath' from it through brain waves, which may be its emotional response, but it is different from the secretions produced by normal creatures when they are emotional, and Lin still has no way of knowing what this slime is now. mood.

But maybe it's just anger.

This kind of creature should be classified as a whole new kind of creature: 'large non-multicellular creature', but because it's too troublesome to call it, so let's just call them atmospheric creatures.

This kind of creature does not need to touch the ground, it doesn't even have 'legs', only wings are enough, so Lin thinks that they live completely between the clouds, but will come close to the ground when they need food...

And there must be more than one kind of this kind of creature, just like there are countless kinds of multicellular creatures, Lin believes that there are quite a few kinds of such creatures, and this 'stingray slime' atmospheric creature is just one.

The olive-shaped creatures that were seen fighting in the Inca swarm before are also atmospheric creatures. They have different shapes and make some strange noises for attack.

Moreover, Lin felt that the thing found under the mountain that Li Scorpion excavated before was also a part of the atmospheric creature. That thing was very large, so Lin thought that there was a rather huge atmospheric creature...

Should be able to see more similar creatures...if they didn't freeze to death.

As for those who communicated with Muktu before, Lin felt that they were very similar to the slimes she saw now, but they may also be of different types, because these slimes did not seem to have high intelligence, and Muktu was unlikely will go see them.

Lin felt that the intelligence of these slimes was similar to that of pterosaurs, and their attack behavior was similar. I didn't see anything special about them. Although they were in a large group, they didn't show teamwork.

But at least it can be determined that they do have brains... or have intelligence similar to brain creatures, maybe a certain organ, or maybe there are nerve knots distributed throughout the body like a cheese tree.

Some creatures in the canyon were also observing these creatures with Lynn, including several butter trees.

This tree can be said to be the only living creature in the canyon that has experienced both the dinosaur continent and the icy and canyon events at the same time.

Their life is very long, similar to ordinary plants, and some trees are called "elders" in the group of skeleton dragons because they know a lot of things.

But they also can't explain the wondrous sights in the sky.

Looking at the slimes flying around in the air, Lin doesn't have any special plans now, because she doesn't know where they come from, and she can't find their habitat.

And, more importantly at the moment, is...month. (To be continued...)

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