Chapter 43 The End of the River
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Lin didn't think about it for a long time, and let Leviathan follow the helmeted fish into the entrance of the river.
Of course, Leviathan doesn't need to care about salt or anything. When other creatures swim, their organs will constantly exchange various elements and nutrients with the water outside, so once there is any strange change in the water, they will Can't stand it.
However, Leviathan does not have a system to directly exchange material nutrients with water. Although it has the ability to absorb and spray water, the water will not pass through its own blood or other circulatory systems. Leviathan relies on a small army to collect water for itself. They are the evolutionary type of collectors, which can separate various harmful and harmless substances in the water in detail, and can also judge how much and which substance Leviathan itself needs now.
In other words... let the collectors collect more salt and less water when entering the river.
Leviathan swam to the depths with the group of helmeted fish. There were very few creatures in the river. Only some small creatures were on the sand at the bottom of the river. There were no predators here that could threaten the group of helmeted fish.
Except for Lynn...
Not knowing how long the helmeted fish would swim, Lin made an eyeball on Leviathan's back and let Leviathan float to the surface to observe the changes in the land.
Leviathan had never made eyeballs during this period of his own life. It seemed that he lived purely by smell and touch. Lin felt that this was incredible.
The original scorching ultraviolet rays now seem to have little lethality. Even though the light in the daytime is still bright, Leviathan has no feeling when he floats close to the water.
The land on both sides of the river looks like some big square rocks, blocking Lin's vision, but there are some green things standing on the rocks, they look like a hard and thin tentacle, the end There are bifurcations.
They seem to have officially climbed onto land, just like seaweed, these are evolutionary types of light-eating cells, and they take a completely different evolutionary route from common organisms. Although they have a blood vessel-like system, they never Ken has evolved organs such as heart, muscle, brain, etc. They can't move because they don't have muscles. They can only rely on water flow to spread reproductive cells. They respond very slowly to the surrounding environment. Even so, they live no better than others. The cerebral creatures are worse.
Almost all of them are responsible for producing oxygen. Although they respond slowly, they can respond to those brainy creatures who are quick and like to hunt them and have various strategies. This is quite wonderful. Climbing on land should also be an escape from hunting. One of the eater's strategies.
These creatures can already have another word to describe them... 'plants', which are quite different from the fast-moving 'animals'.
But Lynn herself has both plant and animal properties, which is really interesting.
Leviathan has been following Helmet and has reached a special area.
The waterway in front is blocked by a stone wall formed by huge stones, but this is not the end of the river, because the gap between the boulders means that the river can continue to go up, but these stones somehow landed in the center of the river, causing the river to go up. interrupted,
The destination of the helmeted fish is obviously not here, but their size is not enough to drill the gap of the stone, so they swim up to the water surface and jump to the top of the exposed boulder.
Helmets wiggled their fins and hulking heads as they tried to climb over the boulders that interrupted the river.
Why don't they just lay their eggs here? Want to climb over?
Looking at the helmeted fish that kept jumping on the boulder, Lin felt a little puzzled, but this also proved that ultraviolet rays were indeed no longer lethal.
What about Lynn? Are you jumping up too? Lin looked at Leviathan's life records, and now it doesn't seem to have any terrestrial capabilities. In the 100 million years of its life, it has never been close to land.
However, Leviathan has occasionally landed on land. Leviathan has crawled back into the sea alive. Maybe you can go up and try it. Even a helmeted fish that only moves with fins can crawl over it. Leviathan There's no reason not to.
Thinking, Lin let Leviathan float to the surface, then suddenly opened the water spout and jumped out, landing on the rock.
Although Leviathan has only two tentacles now, the suction cups on it can provide great strength, even if it drags a three-meter-long body to move on land.
Leviathan is surrounded by helmeted fish that are trying to crawl, and there are still ten meters away from the distance that they can go into the water. Although Leviathan is huge, but with the help of suction cups, it can climb faster than these helmeted fish. Of course , When Lin climbed halfway, some monsters appeared in front...
The oblate body is more than one meter long. The ends of the forelimbs have giant pincers with serrations. The tail is bent and the end has sharp hooks. It is obviously a carnivore. This creature comes from an inconspicuous small arthropod. , Lin had seen them before, but I didn't expect them to be able to climb on land now.
They also have their own name 'Brondu Scorpion'.
What a weird name, there are three of these scorpions, and they seem to be ready to ambush the Helmet Fish here.
This can be dangerous...
There are a total of eight eyeballs in the head of the Blondu scorpion. Lin doesn't know how they can see, but they are obviously all staring at Leviathan.
I feel in trouble...
The Leviathan is huge, and these scorpions seem to be a little afraid and dare not rush forward at will, but they spread out in coordination, surrounding the Leviathan in three directions.
Leviathan does not have any new arms for land combat, but Lin can still rely on the old method to fight. Leviathan's troop openings are on both sides of the body and on the head. Except for the tail, it has no dead ends.
emission!
The explosive bomb with strong acid directly hit a scorpion in front of Leviathan. It twisted its body back in pain, while the two next to it directly bypassed Leviathan and went to catch the nearby helmeted fish. .
It seems that they did not cooperate to surround, but separated from the beginning?
Lin didn't think about it too much, and took this opportunity to quickly climb into the water. Even if she used the previous method of firing bombs, it would still be very troublesome to face three of them.
Here, is the spawning ground of the helmeted fish, a wide circular water area that should be called a 'lake'.
After Leviathan, many Helmets jumped into the lake one after another, and the few Brondus scorpions only caught a few at most, which could not prevent Helmets from coming here to spawn.
The Helmet fish swam to the sand at the bottom of the lake, where they first dug a small hole with their head armor, each pair of fish had their own small hole, and then began to release a large number of cells.
One is round and large, about one centimeter, the other is super small, with a small tentacle-like tail, only the size of an ordinary single cell, there seems to be two words to describe the difference between them 'male and female' .
It is the females that release the round cells and the males that release the small cells, and combining males and females can create offspring with the advantages of both.
Helmet fish will die after releasing their cells, which is exactly the same as the flat fish, Lin found that most creatures have a set lifespan, but they don't just break down older cells like Lin, and their lifespan will end the entire individual's lifespan. All cells, starting from the brain first, and then slowly the cells of the whole body will automatically die.
They are not attacked or infected with viruses, it is all determined by their own cells, a creature can only live for a certain time at most, and then they must die and give their place to their offspring.
The lifespan of a flatfish is set to be about 10 years. Although they may die earlier due to viruses or parasites, they will definitely not live for ten years anyway, because the cells in the body are already determined to die at this time. The helmeted fish are more peculiar. Their setting is that they will only die after spawning, and they will not die before.
The carcasses of these helmeted fish do not go to waste, they become food for the new baby fish.
Lin didn't come here just to watch them reproduce. She wanted to set up a base here to see how it was different from seawater.
The base that Lin is making now is very different from before. It is mainly a center point of a sphere with a diameter of thirty centimeters, and then it will extend and expand the green blanket around it, eventually covering the entire area.
The structure of the green carpet is also much simpler, mainly consisting of two layers of transparent shells, which include photosynthetic cells and some small defense forces.
The green carpet will not have any effect on the helmeted fish. Lin rarely attacks other creatures now. It is more valuable to observe their changes than to eat them.
When the seed of the base was put down, Lin suddenly felt a special feeling...
this is……
The seed of the base has some tentacles with strong tactile ability, which are specially made by Lin to calculate the changes in the surrounding environment. Prepare ahead of time.
Lin felt a little... strange feeling for a moment when she was going down to the base just now.
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