Chapter 21 Residents of the Pit
The reproduction of dragonflies lasted for a day and night, until the next day, the dragonflies were almost exhausted. Most of them lay down on the steps by the water to rest, and only a few dragonflies continued to produce. egg.
Creatures are always crazy in order to reproduce.
The water is filled with a large number of young dragonflies, which are growing rapidly under the abundant worm resources, but Lin doesn't think they can get enough nutrients to grow up, and there will definitely be not enough to eat. There are too many dragonflies.
Leviathan has now put away his wings and floated on the water to rest. Lin wants to see what will happen next. Now that the breeding activities are over, the dragonflies will leave soon. Lin believes that there will definitely be changes in the next step. , No matter what it is, if you read it all, you should be able to solve the mystery of this pit.
Soon after, Lin noticed that some dragonflies began to fly out of the pit, but before they flew to the mouth of the pit, they seemed to be caught by something, and they couldn't fly up. After a long time, he fell and fell on the stairs of the pit wall.
what is that?
Under the reflection of the light, Lin noticed that a silver thread was connected behind the dragonfly. Although it was extremely thin and hard to see, the pulling force seemed to be very strong.
Now, a large number of dragonflies are starting to fly away from the pit, but they are all controlled by this thread without exception and cannot fly away from the giant pit.
Strange, when were these wires connected? They definitely didn't when they were breeding, otherwise they would fly around and the silk threads would be mixed together. So when they are tired of breeding, they stick to it when they are resting?
There must be some kind of creature... doing such a thing without Rin noticing.
Because Lin basically stayed on the water at the bottom of the pit, and couldn't see the situation on the higher stairs around, Lin still remembered that there were many caves with a diameter of one to two meters on some of the higher stairs, maybe there were other The creatures hide within,
A large number of dragonflies were pulled by the thread and exhausted. They only struggled for a while and fell from the air. Most of them fell on the stairs, and some fell on the water.
Leviathan spread his wings on the water, and slowly flew up after the wings were inflated. Lin observed the dragonflies that fell around and were still struggling. Some creatures would definitely come out to clean them up.
When Leviathan rose to a certain height, Lin saw a cave on the stairs, and there were indeed some creatures crawling out.
This is a small arthropod, only about five centimeters each, and is very similar to a creature called a 'bee' in the twisted jungle, but they have no wings.
It's called 'Black Bee'.
The black bees crawled out of the cave in large numbers, attacked the nearby fallen dragonflies, shredded them with their sharp jaws, and dragged them towards the cave.
Lin noticed that this black bee with black carapace appeared on the steps of the entire pit, and they were all doing the same job - tearing up the dragonflies and bringing them back to the cave.
The black bee didn't seem to notice the huge Leviathan. Lin found that these creatures all had no eyes, and they depended on their tentacles to determine their orientation.
This kind of creature... is it possible that the culprit behind the silk thread sticking to the dragonfly? Or……
Lin suddenly discovered that a strange creature suddenly appeared in a cave. Its body was a flesh ball more than half a meter long, with a cyst on its body, and it was silver-white, quite conspicuous.
The creature also had a huge eyeball, and when it saw the Leviathan with its eyeballs, it suddenly made a strange cry.
Sure enough... these creatures are also like the Aztecs, they have a clear classification and cooperation.
The meat ball made a strange 'click' sound, and then another creature emerged from the cave. They were like a fat oval worm, carried by a black wasp, and had no ability to move.
These fat worms open their mouths and aim at the Leviathan in the air,
Then, a sticky thread was violently sprayed, which just hit the Leviathan's carapace.
Lin found that there were many fat worms also carried by the black bees in this cave. They sprayed a lot of silk threads at the Leviathan, sticking to the carapace, wings and various positions of the Leviathan, and then the black bees pulled the fat The worm kept backing away, trying to drag the Leviathan down.
It turned out to be so, so I understood what happened to this pit and those dragonflies.
Although I don't know if this pit was built by them, it is obvious that these creatures live here. They should be responsible for sweeping away the dust in the pit, and then use this pit to store water and attract prey, which can be large-scale at one time. Caught a lot of dragonflies.
Those silk threads should have been glued on at night, because the dragonfly's night vision is not very good.
Those worm eggs in the water are supposed to be related to them and are used as 'bait'.
It is unknown how long these creatures have lived here, but apparently they know how to use the environment here to obtain food and water for themselves.
This kind of creature is really amazing... They obviously have intelligence beyond common creatures, and Lin thinks that they are extremely valuable for research.
Lin gave them a name - 'Inca Swarm'. For some of the more wonderful creatures, more wonderful names would pop up in Lin's mind.
However, Lin still has a lot of puzzles about this 'Inca swarm'. Why don't they go to the twisted jungle, but live in the big pit of this desert, living a life without a meal?
Strange, they couldn't have known about the Twisted Forest, right? The Aztecs are too far away, and they also have their own pinnacle forests. That's okay, but heavy rain in the desert should be rare, otherwise the entire desert would have been covered by jungles long ago, which means that the Inca swarms have nothing to eat. Is it just random rain?
Thinking of this, Lin suddenly felt a powerful force and pulled the Leviathan down to the right. Lin found that there were more and more black bees joining the pull. Those fat insects were only responsible for the connection, and almost all black bees were there. contribute.
The power is really great, it is obviously just a group of small creatures of five centimeters...
The power of arthropods lies in the hydraulic system, but Lin recently discovered that the energy conversion efficiency of arthropods is also very high. Generally speaking, creatures like reptiles or salamanders can only exert about 30% of their muscle strength. Excessive use will result in muscle damage due to insufficient repair and nutrient supply. However, the conversion efficiency of arthropods is 10% higher. They can use 90% of the muscle strength, which also makes arthropods much stronger than their own body weight.
However, Leviathan's weight is dozens of times that of a dragonfly, so it's not that easy to pull it down.
Lin aimed the muzzle at the dense black bee colony, and a bomb shot out.
This new type of bomb is mixed with explosives. When it hits the target, the explosive system inside will activate, and a lot of dissolved liquid is compressed inside.
'boom! ’
The high-temperature dissolving liquid spreads with the explosion of the bomb, triggering a small shock wave, and countless black bees are scattered by the impact.
The Black Bee Army that pulled Leviathan disintegrated at this moment. Leviathan took the opportunity to fly into the sky with a ferocious wing. The silk threads were also pulled by Leviathan at this moment, and only some of the broken threads were still stuck to the Leviathan. on Vitan.
The remaining Inca swarms fled back to the cave on the stairs with the silk-spinning fat worms on their backs. It seemed that they were going to give up the Leviathan, and the swarms in other locations did not carry dragonflies, but all ran in. in the cave.
After a while, the entire crater was as quiet as when Lin started to arrive, if you don't look at the dragonflies who are still struggling.
Leviathan flew above the crater and looked down at the entire crater.
Those in the giant pit are like spirals. There are quite a lot of caves on the steps of one ring and one ring. There are more than a thousand in total. Lin deduces that these caves may hide the secrets of the Inca swarm. Maybe their nests are also hidden. uncertain.
Should go in for research.
"Om..." Lin suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the pit.
hum? This voice is...
I saw a large number of bugs flying out of the cave on the stairs and rushing towards Leviathan! …………………………………………………………
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