Dark seabed sand roaming, slender rhizomes inexplicably light source.

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In the dark deep-sea world, the sunlight from above the sea cannot reach here, this is a dark world, where the creatures have never walked under the sun, and they do not feel a trace of warmth and tenderness at all, but are full of coldness and solemnity.

The seabed is made of hard rock, covered with a layer of fine grains of sand, and because it is not very far from the coast, the depth of the seabed here is not very deep, even only about three or four hundred meters, which is far from some of the places that Xinglan has dived into as deep as seven or eight thousand meters, but it is enough to discourage almost all land creatures.

The dark world was also shrouded in silence, and only the dull sound of water surging back and forth could be faintly heard in her ears, but for Xing Lan, at this time, with the super perception of the signal, this dark world within a few hundred meters of the vicinity was almost no different from day for her, and every change in the flow of water and the fluttering of every grain of sand were clearly imprinted in her heart.

Wind Death said that the sea giant's location was "not far away" from the coastline, and from experience, Xinglan felt that the distance that Wind Death was referring to should most likely be about a few kilometers to tens of kilometers from the coastline.

And this place is already about seven or eight kilometers away from the coastline, which can be regarded as one of the areas where the sea giant is most likely to appear, so Xinglan is also carefully looking at the area around here at all times, not daring to let go of a trace of details.

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The dark blue flattened body moved through the dark world, the broad body spread out like a piece of paper, and several long, deep fissures were exposed at the bottom, which opened and closed in the current.

It scrept silently here, skimming low across the fine sand of the ocean floor, bringing with it a hint of current. It doesn't need to go out of its way to hunt down food, as all it needs to do is devour the ubiquitous grains of sand and filter it.

Devouring sand pu, wandering wanderers on the seabed.

Compared to most marine creatures, life seems peaceful and comfortable. On the one hand, it only filters out the tiny creatures in it by constantly devouring the sand grains, and even the small fish such as the sand fish are beyond its hunting range, so there is no need to engage in fierce food grabbing battles with other creatures, and on the other hand, the length of the sand eater itself is nearly two meters long, which is considered a medium-to-large creature in today's ocean, and ordinary predators are not willing to provoke this guy with a lot of strength but not much meat at all.

Over time, the vigilance and speed of action gradually fell behind most of the sea creatures, and they just wandered around these sandy areas idly all day long.

It's a good day. Shapu sighed with emotion, there is no big undercurrent on the seabed, and a large number of tiny organic matter has attracted a large number of small creatures, and it is also a rare opportunity to get such a sumptuous meal.

Suddenly, the sand eater, who was originally moving smoothly on the sand, stopped directly, and the front end of the flat body suddenly hit some kind of extremely resilient obstacle in the dark, causing most of the body of the sand eater swimming at full speed to twist under inertia, even if the mollusk was brought like this, it couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable, this is really not an inconsequential thing.

Even though the pair of small eyes scattered above the body did not see anything in this environment, the sand eater still sensed the general shape of the obstacle through its own sense of touch. This soft touch is obviously not a rock from the bottom of the sea, but some kind of elongated, tubular biological tissue.

According to past experience, the not very big brain of Sha Pu immediately reacted to what it was, but at the same time it lost its fire.

The porous tubeworm, a creature that spreads out like a giant plastic hose on the ocean floor, has a unique ability to use the energy of waves to induce bioelectricity in tissues in the body, so much so that its demand for external food has been reduced to an incredible degree...... Even if you haven't eaten organic matter for decades, you can rely on stagnant growth to force your way through.

When Xinglan first saw this creature in the Marine Period, she already knew that it would be a species that was so strong that it had no need for the outside world, and it belonged to a primitive structure that could survive if it was cut into pieces like a sponge.

If it weren't for the fact that its cells don't have a cell wall, there's probably nothing wrong with simply saying that it's an aquatic plant.

It is not surprising that such a species, which can face an asteroid impact with a calm attitude, has survived to this day, and its genes, which have not changed for 900 million years, are even more difficult to complain...... This thing is still the kind of scum whose muscular system is so weak that it can't roll back on its own when it is swept away by the waves.

According to Xinglan, it is the evolutionary potential of this species that has been completely exhausted, and it has completely become a mode of being content with the status quo.

Eating Shapu is very helpless, really helpless. Although it is also a relatively primitive marine species with a small brain, it is really not very intelligent, but compared with the multi-hole tube worm, which basically has no brains and is composed of completely fragmented rota-shaped nerves, even the sand eater can sincerely feel a sense of intellectual superiority.

If it encounters other creatures in front of it and knocks it so badly, maybe it will lose its temper and teach the other party how to respect other creatures with practical actions, but what else do you have to say in the face of a completely brainless fool?

Unless you slice it off so hard that the tissue inside splatters all over the place, the porous tubeworm won't even bother to react to those bumps.

Eventually, the sand eater had no choice but to bypass the extremely large porous tube worm from above, and then pounced on the fine soft sand it loved, swallowing the sand grains from the bottom of the sea with the gaps under its body.

The food is not just about tiny animals, but also about the occasional debris of plants that fall, whether it's a mass of tissue from algae or a few leaves that have drifted down from the land and sunk here, which the eater swallows into his stomach.

In fact, although the environment is dark and lacks nutrients, it does not completely cut off the vitality of plants...... Yes, you heard it right, even in the midst of these three or four hundred meters of water, there are still native marine plants, real producers.

The peculiarity of these plants can be seen from the distribution of the root system alone, and it is important to know that these slender plants are not directly rooted in the sand of the seabed, but after selecting some large or small gravel, they use their roots to tie these stones firmly like ropes, relying on the natural sinking of these stones in the water to fix their position, like a ship at anchor...... That's where their name comes from: anchor grass.

Anchor grass did not evolve into carnivorous plants in the extreme environment of the deep sea like sea trees, they are still ordinary photosynthetic plants, but the environment of the deep sea with almost no light is too dark and too dark, even 100% use of light energy is not enough to persevere, so these anchor grasses have evolved a very amazing ability: they extend to the surface of the sea to obtain light energy!

The slender rhizomes, twisted together like strands of rope, stretched out from the deep seabed to the surface of the sea, and the length of three or four hundred meters during that time almost made the anchor grass the tallest plant on the entire planet. The sea is not calm, whether it is the slender rhizome that breaks easily under the impact of the undercurrent, or the terrible storm that blows on the surface of the sea from time to time, it is possible to completely destroy the plant, but the anchor grass persevered...... Its stems have evolved to be unusually strong, and ordinary small storms are not enough to damage it in the slightest.

What's even more interesting is that even though they are anchored to different seabed rocks, anchor grass is not isolated. Their slender rhizomes intertwine with each other on the way and grow together at the point of contact to share nutrients with each other...... In this way, the anchor grass that has not yet reached the sea at the young age and the anchor grass that has broken due to accidents can obtain enough nutrients from the group to restore their own photosynthesis, so as to better ensure the continuation of the race.

They are the only producers in the deep sea in the vicinity, and due to the impact of the sea, these stems are not straight upwards, but have an inclination, so that the surface of the water sometimes deviates from the horizontal orientation of the deep-sea roots by hundreds of meters, indicating that the length of their stems is actually much longer than the vertical depth.

Of course, these amazing plants have nothing to do with the sand eater, let alone the toothless one, and even the best fish in the neighborhood wouldn't be interested in these anchor grasses with their stiff stems that almost bite incessantly...... It is said that the part of the anchor grass near the surface of the water is tender and delicious, but what does the matter with these deep-sea creatures on the surface of the sea? Besides, if you really want to go to the surface of the sea, there are so many floating plants that are more delicious than anchor grass, so why bother with this?

So the sand eater just swayed around the rhizomes of these anchor grasses that stretched upwards on the bottom of the sea, and continued to look for a place in the sand where it felt good to devour.

Suddenly, there was a faint glow in the dark waters that seemed to be eternal and unchanging, and even though the eyes of the devouring sand pus had faded to the point where it was difficult to make out the images, it could at least feel that there was indeed a light source there.

Is it a seducer again?

It knows that some fish have luminous organs, which hide themselves in the sand, and then expose these luminous organs to attract ignorant small fish to come close, and then jump out and swallow them when they are unprepared.

However, Sand Eater is not afraid of this, and its body is about two meters long, allowing it to ignore the threat posed by these lure attacks, and the presence of those light sources has brought it a lot of benefits...... It can take the opportunity to devour tiny creatures that are also attracted to the light source.

After a moment of hesitation, the devouring sand pus made a decisive decision, it changed the direction of its original swimming, and its flat body began to swim towards the position of the light source in its sight......

(Thanks to the 100 starting coins tip from "Time Onlin".) ）