Chapter 184: The Old Past Is Empty......
When I see the Sea Tree Forest again, everything has been turned upside down.
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It looked like a tree on land, with its thick roots digging deep into the ground, its trunk wrapped in rough bark, and countless branches extending out in all directions, but instead of green leaves, these branches grew ...... Silver silk sac.
The silk sac slowly rotated in the seawater, and the viscous biological liquid flowed out of it, quickly solidifying into strands of silver silk threads in the icy environment, weaving into fluttering silk nets.
From a distance, this scene seems to be a continuous evaporation of silver smoke above the sea tree, and it rises in the forest in bursts, like a thick sea of fog always lingering above the sea tree forest.
Even though they are hit back and forth by the currents of the ocean, those beautiful silver wire mesh pockets will not leave there, and they are always connected to the silver silk sacs by small silk threads, like a kite that has been flown around. This seemingly beautiful scene actually hides infinite murderous intentions...... Once the small fish accidentally bump into these silver wire nets, they will be like flying insects stuck in spider webs, and they can only obediently become a meal on the plate.
"Such a large forest of sea trees...... This is what it looks like inside the Anchor Grass Belt. The darkness without light could not completely prevent Xinglan from probing hundreds of meters in front of her, and after leaving the annular anchor grass forest, she began to completely enter the boundary of the Sea Tree Forest only a few dozen meters away, and the dense silver silk threads shimmered slightly in the light emitted by the light fungus, "However, no matter how you look at it, there is only silver here...... That's kind of weird. ”
During the Mesozoic period, Xinglan was deeply impressed by the magnificent fire trees and silver flowers on the seabed, but in the sea tree forest in front of him, he only saw the brilliant silver, not the flame fish.
Xinglan looked around, there was not a trace of red shadow in this forest, not even a trace of flame fish, only the flourishing sea trees in front of her, but the fiery red fish that lived in symbiosis with the sea trees were gone.
Left? Extinct? Or is it just hidden?
Regardless of what was going on with the Flame Fish for the time being, the situation below took an unprecedented turn the moment the Sea Giant Team broke away from the Anchor Grass Forest and walked towards the Sea Tree Forest.
Aurora fish that has always been at ease...... Hesitated.
It has never had any grudges with the sea giant, and it is not short of such a little food, and the reason why it has been making trouble along the way is more out of a playful mentality, because it also knows that although the sea giant is very powerful, it can't hurt it at all, and this is not an equal confrontation from the beginning.
However, when the sea giant began to walk towards the sea tree forest, the aurora fish suddenly stopped its forward movements, staring at the dense silver silk threads in front of it with some blank eyes. These sea tree threads everywhere in the forest can only bind a few small animals, and even a slightly older juvenile sea giant can easily tear these silk sacs open for sea giants, but for the aurora fish, which is known for its agility, concealment, and electric shock, too little strength is precisely one of its Achilles' heels.
The anchor grass that grew in a simple and straightforward state before naturally couldn't entangle the aurora fish, but in front of it was a sea tree forest specializing in catching animals, and it grew very densely, and if it rushed in, it was very likely to be trapped by these silk threads.
The electrical attack, which is very troublesome for animals, is of little use to plants such as sea trees, not to mention the fact that the silver silk threads that entangle the animals are conductive.
Of course, sea trees can't grow all the way to sea level like anchor grass, so there's a limit to how much they can cover, but the silver nets that flutter above like a lid seal off all entrances, making it impossible to sneak in from above the trees.
It's okay to play casually, but you can't play with your own life. The Aurora Fish, who had finally made a decision, threw a few more currents at the sea giant with some unhappiness, and then resolutely turned around and drilled back into the anchor grass forest.
"I see, that's how they got rid of the Aurora Fish, and it's a very good strategy indeed." Xinglan realized the true purpose of the sea giant's escape to this side, "This place is really a good shelter, a large area of lush anchor grass forest surrounds this place outside, and those tough rhizomes are combined with the dense distribution, I'm afraid that slightly larger creatures won't want to pass through this forest." As for the small but dangerous creatures that occasionally slip through, the silver wire mesh of the Sea Tree Forest has become their nemesis......
If there are any dangerous creatures that can break through these two lines of defense in a row, it is probably a creature with super cutting ability that can barely be restrained, and creatures with similar special abilities are obviously very rare.
Safe, very safe, it's an oasis of peace in the natural world for the sea giants, so perfect for their needs...... Xinglan even felt that these two well-defined forests were probably not the products of pure nature, or at least some of the natural landscapes that had undergone some deliberate transformation.
Being able to conceive such an ingenious layout to protect the safety of an area in this era of famine, this designer is obviously a very intelligent existence, and he should be one of the sea giants, if he is still alive, Xinglan feels very eager to meet him.
Several sea giants who had been chased all the way couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the aurora fish had finally given up harassment at this moment. Several of the sea giants sorted out the remaining prey, and then shouted a few words into the interior of the Sea Tree Forest, and then several female sea giants quickly emerged from the otherwise calm silver forest.
Although the female sea giants and the male sea giants do not look very different, and there is no particularly obvious physical difference, they can still be judged from some details, and their height is also significantly shorter than the sea giants who went out hunting.
But they weren't the only ones who heard the call.
When Xinglan turned her gaze to the side, she found that some hazy figures appeared in the open space between the Anchor Grass Forest and the Seatree Forest, which was only a few dozen meters wide, although she couldn't see the specific appearance for a while due to the light problem, the roughly recognizable body outline still made Xinglan startled.
It was a number of strange figures, slender limbs several times the height of sea giants, gradually walking along the path with a crisp sound of joint collision.
The sea giants who had just returned soon noticed the strange movement in this direction, and several of them laid down their prey and turned around and walked over to that side, the light fungus on their armor burning their vitality almost frantically, illuminating the scene in front of them as bright as day.
The hard carapace, slender blade-like limbs, dense eyes, countless familiar features, and the environment he was in now made Xinglan immediately recognize this species, which was also inherited from that era: "This is ...... Caveworms? ”
Compared to the size of a small building in the Marine Period, which was more than ten meters tall, the size of the caveworm has also shrunk significantly, but it is still taller than the sea giant, and their sharp bladed limbs also show that the combat power of this species has not degraded in the slightest.
"Those cave worms are also not afraid of the trouble caused by the anchor grass forest and sea trees, and the situation of the sea giants is not good." A few sea giants walked over silently, and a group of cave worms on the opposite side were also walking towards this side, Xinglan watched this scene from the perspective of the signal, and felt that a fierce battle was about to break out here.
However, the ensuing unfolding made Xinglan, who was originally a little nervous, stunned for a moment, only to see that those sea giants did not look nervous at all about to break out into war, but calmly walked to the front of the cave insect swarm there and shouted something using ultrasound.
Although it was impossible to decipher the language for the time being, it was no problem for Xinglan to listen to this ultrasound, and she saw that the caveworms stopped their progress in unison after this call, and looked down to see several sea giants coming forward...... Touching the hard carapace of their legs?
"This, this, this...... What's going on here? Xinglan felt that this matter had developed too unexpectedly, and she was already a little confused, "I actually touched it directly......
Yes, these fierce and cruel-looking caveworms actually stood there obediently, allowing a few sea giants to touch their leg carapaces. Even though they could easily kill these sea giants with just one leg lift, they were still so honest that they didn't move, only a few pairs of eyes looked at the sea giants below.
…… This is completely a tame loyal dog, ah, there is wood!
Aren't you mortal enemies with the sea giants? Don't you have a grudge that has lasted for hundreds of millions of years over each other's food territory? Why is it so kind that it can't be more kind now?
When she saw a few sea giants take out some prey and start feeding these cave worms, Xing Lan finally had a tangled feeling that a groove stuck in her throat couldn't spit out, and glanced at those well-behaved cave worms like puppies, she completely understood how ruinous this kind of thing is.
From the Sea Age to the Dawn Period, spanning four full eras, the Sea Tree Forest, which the sea giants had to escape from nine deaths, has become their own back garden, and the cave worms that once fought fiercely with the sea giants have been domesticated into domestic existences......
“…… What, is this one of the incredible things in the development of civilization? Thinking about it, Xinglan couldn't help but laugh, "Intelligent beings are indeed capable of many wonderful things, so let me observe your lives more closely." ”
"Well, let's go and solve that guy first......"
(So, I wish you all a happy May Day holiday...... )