Chapter 54 The Dust of Life

This is the fifth multicellular organism…

Leviathan is now in the cave under the Isle of Ashes. Lin found that there are abundant creatures on the surface of the moon. Leviathan is now looking at a creature in front of him, observing and recording it.

This creature is called the 'Cream Mushroom', which is a sponge-like, very soft, and highly poisonous creature.

This thing is more than one meter high, and the whole is cylindrical. It stands on the ground like a mushroom. It has no organs in its body. Lin found that its only food is the dust floating in the surrounding air. Cells move to absorb moisture and food from the surrounding air, somewhat like primitive filter feeders.

At present, apart from the 'gravel monster' that I saw before, this is the largest multicellular creature that Lin has seen, but the structure is very simple, and the others are small in size and live together with the fungi in the pool.

In fact, the gravel monster can't be considered 'big', after all, it is an aggregate of many small gravels.

Although these creatures have the same composition, their structures are very different from the creatures on the 'pompom'. Lin found that they do not use oxygen, because there is almost no oxygen here, but use another method instead of oxygen.

It may be another gas in the moon, or something else, their internal structure has not been fully studied, and their circulatory system is very different, they do not have 'blood vessels' that look like It is a very basic structure, but uses some special cell extrusion to transfer energy.

I don't know if this is the case with all creatures, or if it is the case with the few creatures that have been discovered so far.

Now, Lin is mainly looking for some big creatures, and there will definitely be some here, because...

'Boom...' thought of this. Leviathan heard a rumbling sound from outside, and the Isle of Ashes was ready to erupt again.

'Boom! ' With the sound, Leviathan suddenly felt a strong suction, and saw a huge amount of dust pouring in from the entrance of the cave, like a sandstorm sweeping the entire cave. After the dust storm passed, there was still a lot of dust on the ground and in the pool, covering the Leviathan with a thin layer...

There was more dust pouring into the depths of the cave, and there seemed to be something... sucking the dust.

The dust was originally sprayed from the bottom straight to the surface of the island, and here as a cave in the rock wall, it is unlikely that any dust will enter. At most, gather some at the entrance of the cave...

but,

These dusts are the main source of life for the organisms here, because there are many decomposable foods mixed in them. The fungi and other organisms in the pools need to decompose these dusts.

And when Lin was thinking about how they got the dust, this phenomenon happened...

When the dust spewed, a powerful attraction also occurred at the same time. It sucks the spewing dust into the cave, and it lasts for a while, allowing the dust to reach the depths of the cave.

The scattered dust is basically decomposed by those fungi, and then larger creatures eat those fungi, and this slowly grows up layer by layer, and finally reaches a very large creature.

if so.

Now, Leviathan is unraveling what makes that appeal.

Leviathan Flying Cave. The sound of water droplets could be heard everywhere, and there were often water droplets from the roof of the cave, which then gathered into pools of puddles on the ground.

This seems to have created the environment in which they live. These waters may come from the sea, but the substances inside are not so mixed and appear to be more 'pure'.

Suddenly, Lin found that Leviathan's light hit a moving thing, it was drinking water by the puddle, and even if it was illuminated, it didn't respond at all.

The creature looked like a cylindrical stone more than a meter long, with thick needles all over its body. It was leaning to the side now, and Lin saw that the ends of the needles on the side of its body had opened a small hole, and something like a tongue protruded from it, constantly licking the water in the puddle.

This is what the sixth multicellular organism looks like.

It doesn't look... as if it's not that strange.

Leviathan was about to take a closer look, when the creature suddenly seemed to feel it, and it retracted its 'tongue'. Then roll off the ground at great speed on the ground.

It was clearly a tumbling creature, but the Leviathan caught up faster and reached out to grab the rolling cylinder with its tentacles.

At the moment of grabbing it, it violently ejected a large amount of liquid from the needles on its body.

This liquid seems to be highly poisonous to creatures like them, but it's nothing to the creatures of the 'pompom'.

After Leviathan put micro-arms on this creature for research, Lin found that it seems to be a similar species of the previous gravel monster. Although this is not an aggregate, its shell structure is the same as the gravel of the gravel monster, and The shape inside it is also like a gravel monster.

But it's big, and like all creatures here, it has no eyes.

wait...is this...

During the exploration, Lin's miniature troops found a place where a lot of fat was stored at the end of its body, which seemed to be the storage area, but Lin found that there were many white substances in the stored things.

That's right, this is... white cream!

Thinking, Lin immediately put down the creature, and Leviathan quickly flew into the depths of the cave.

There are puddles everywhere. Leviathan investigates every puddle at the fastest speed and searches for the microorganisms in it. So far, Leviathan has found dozens of fungal organisms, but None of them were familiar to Lynn.

Suddenly, Leviathan stopped.

Because another creature appeared in front of it. This creature was only thirty centimeters tall. It looked like a plant called 'radish', but this 'radish' was standing upside down, with three slender legs on the ground. Walk.

Sure enough, the creatures here look amazing.

However, Leviathan mainly pays attention to the location of these 'radishes'. There is a pool, and that pool is different from others. Although it is also very turbid, the color inside is mainly white.

Leviathan immediately flew there, and the 'radish' was immediately scared away. Leviathan flew to the pool and immediately put his tentacles in and tested the ingredients inside.

Sure enough...there's white paste in it.

The fungi that live in this puddle are the ones that Lin has seen. They can be named as 'white paste fungi', which are those fungi brought by the creator. They seem to be decomposing dust and making white paste.

However, the white paste produced by these bacteria is not the same as what Lin knew before. Lin tried to decompose the white paste and found that there is a toxin in the white paste, whether it is harmful to the creatures on the moon or the pom-poms. creatures are effective.

This toxin is relatively basic and can damage the cell's synthetic system, but has no effect on itself.

This is also natural, because the reason why they made the white paste seems to be for storage, not for other creatures to eat... Even so, there should be some creatures here that can eat them, just like the radish just now. I was about to eat them, and the cylindrical creature I saw earlier seemed to be able to eat white paste.

They seem to have nothing to do with the creator, but a separate fungus.

However, the creators may have used their ability to make white ointment, and finally let them make a non-toxic white ointment, which was then used to feed the sword fleas in their bodies.

But what is the process in between?

This is difficult to investigate. I don't know what form the creator took to reach the 'pompom'. Maybe it was relatively primitive at first, and then slowly evolved into that appearance...

Now, the Leviathan moves on and seems to be approaching the bottom of the cave.

Under the light of Leviathan, more creatures appeared here. In addition to the radish before, Lin also saw some creatures that looked like stones. Most of them were only a few centimeters long and depended on extremely slow wriggling. way crawling on the ground...

Not only the ground, but at the top of the cave, Lin also saw something wonderful. Soft-looking silk threads spread all over the top of the cave, reflecting the shining brilliance under the light of the Leviathan.

These creatures are called 'draped fungi' by Lin, and the structures that look like silk threads are actually a collection of fungi. They seem to have become this shape specifically to obtain dust, and they can also directly obtain moisture from the top of the cave.

The most common creature here is the radish. Because I didn't think of a good name, I just called it the radish.

They run very fast and feed on the white paste in the surrounding puddles, but they don't eat much. Lin estimates that every time they eat a little, they will have to wait until the toxins are removed from their bodies before continuing to eat.

Lin saw a radish run onto a beach of sand, and the beach suddenly moved, wrapping the entire radish inside...

Sure enough, the gravel monster relies on such camouflage to hunt for food. It does not seem to eat what is in the puddle, but completely relies on hunting to live.

Leviathan made some observations here. In addition to the previous ones, Lin also found some stone-like creatures. They moved extremely slowly and lived on the fungi in the puddles...

The creatures here are really rich. Although there are not many kinds of creatures here compared to even the frozen pom poms, Lin believes that there are more kinds of creatures here, and some of them are quite huge.

Leviathan stopped in a place now, it seems to have come to an end, in front of Leviathan is a wall, and on the wall, there are many... cracks.

This is where the dust is picked up. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m. to read.)

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