Barren plains are lined with grasses, and spotted vultures hover and trap beasts lurking.

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It is amazing that in the huge area of tropical rainforest in the macro continent, there will be such an abrupt barren plain.

The plain is not large, about the size of an ordinary lake, but contrary to the lake, it is not only wet, but also quite dry.

The wide river of life makes a U-shaped bend here, as if by coincidence and as if providence, and it just bypasses this plain. A tall land mountain range spans one side of the plain, and the ridges rise high like a sword to cut through the moist air currents from the ocean. The common factor of all this is the small plain, a plain that is arid to the point of sparse weeds.

Even so, everything must have a value for existence, and this seemingly barren plain is no different. It is home to some of the largest animals that run freely on the plains despite their massive bodies that have to knock down trees in the rainforest, and the edge of the rainforest is not far away, but its main source of food is the edge of the rainforest.

They are very amazing creatures, they roll in the mud, and when the sun hardens the soil, soon the seeds of plants that are already mixed in the mud will take root and sprout on their backs. When the seasons change, Ye Yilong must go deep into the plain to reach the other side, and when they cannot return to the rainforest for a short time, they do not need to evolve the function of not eating for a long time, but directly eat the extremely lush plants on their bodies as food on the road.

Ye Yilong regularly applies mud to provide the necessary minerals for plant growth, and in addition, sunlight and air can meet all needs. These plants grow rapidly, constantly growing new branches and leaves, and they also use the Leaf Coleus to spread their seeds in all directions......

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It was another moonless day, with only the fiery sun hanging in the middle of the sky, roasting the earth and emitting endless energy.

The tiny grasses of the plains swayed in the faint wind, and these verdant grasses, known as the Thread-leaved Grass, are the most common weeds on the entire continent, and they are still abundant even in this arid plain. Although the vitality of the grass is tenacious, it is not comparable to the sand grass, but the sand grass seems to be able to live only in the basalt areas near sand and volcanoes, and if they are really planted in a pleasant climate, they will quickly wither and die, while the grass can adapt to the environment of most regions.

Between the sparse thread-leaved grasses were the bones of some fallen and dead animals. There is no shortage of dead animals in this arid, corpse-strewn plain, though most corpses are eaten away into a pale, broken skeleton within a few days of death.

Nature's scavenger: scavengers.

The Spark may indeed be a striking turning point, with mass landings of marine life already under the late Spark Age, but the constant falling asteroid debris from the sky remains a catastrophic threat. The harsh environment, the competition of species, and the disasters of nature are a series of unfavorable factors that create successes and eliminate more losers.

For a while, the entire Pan-Ancient Continent was like the current plain, full of dead creatures, and the cruelty was revealed.

Through this decaying environment, the fungus began to multiply in the corpses and then spread wildly. Ectothermic animals are able to keep their body temperature at a certain temperature, which is a temperature that can inhibit fungal reproduction to the greatest extent without self-harm, and is relatively energy-efficient. Of course, this delicate balance is difficult to achieve, but natural selection will always be able to grasp the slightest advantage and select the most suitable one. Brutal, but effective. The fungal explosion of the Stellar Age is one of the main reasons why today's Lyotherms and Ectotherms are equally divided.

But the carcasses of dead animals did not only contribute to the prosperity of homeothermic animals, in the Spark Age, it was the golden age of scavengers. They have the strongest acidic gastric juice, which can corrode and kill all germs, so they are not afraid of infectious diseases on the corpse, and the source of food? In the air!

Turtle vultures hover over the plains, with their striped black, gray and white feathers, are able to observe the ground below with the sharpest sense. Their scavenger genes come directly from the Golden Age of the late Spark and continue to this day.

But the world is different these days, and the abundance of competition and the increasing adaptation of other creatures to their environment have made corpses no longer so ubiquitous. The vultures were struggling to find any possible traces so that they could take two more bites before their companions rushed to scramble.

A turtle vulture seemed to have noticed something, and it quietly broke away from the large group and began to lower its altitude and fly over the line-leaf grass, and then it suddenly landed quickly and quietly walked into the grass.

The white creature, motionless...... Corpse?

The turtle vulture took a few steps forward, tilting its head to look at the creature in front of it, although it was motionless, it did not smell of the corpse at all.

After thinking for a while, the turtle vulture carefully poked the white creature in front of it with its beak......

"Chirp...... (Have you seen enough?) ）”

Xinglan, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally spoke, glaring fiercely at the turtle vulture in front of her.

The turtle vulture was startled, and when it finally made sure that the creature in front of it was not dead, it lost interest and quickly jumped backwards.

However, the matter was not over, and when the turtle vulture was bouncing on the ground, a barren ground suddenly collapsed, and the spotted vulture, which was caught off guard, fell into it at once......

"It's really a dangerous world...... Xinglan rolled around on the ground, watching the cracked ground splash a few wisps of blood before slowly closing in, "Trapped beasts, creatures that can disguise themselves as traps on the ground, are you a plant or an animal?" ”

Xinglan knew about this creature, and while she was lying here resting, several animals had already fallen into the trap of this creature that Xinglan named the trapped beast. Unlike normal traps, there is a bottomless pipe underneath this hole, so it can eat multiple creatures in a row. It's not sure if it's an ontology or just a feeding pipe, but there's no doubt that it's alive.

The only thing to be thankful for is that this trap opening cannot be moved, and as long as Xinglan is careful not to enter the danger zone, this dangerous neighbor cannot pose a threat.

"Or ...... It's so uncomfortable......" Xinglan rolled lazily and continued to lie on the ground, looking a little sluggish, "Didn't you just eat a piece of barbecue?" As for the stomach pain like this, I still have weakness all over my body......"

Although Xinglan thought very well, the truth was still very complicated. Unlike the three-legged giant worm, which is born to eat like this, cooked meat, which is theoretically easier to digest, makes the white puffin's digestive system a little uncomfortable.

So, after Xinglan took the barbecue in her mouth, she didn't fly far before she felt that something was wrong with her body, and after holding on for a while, she had to admit that she needed to rest for a while.

Through the sub-signal in the nervous system, Xinglan directly cut off the pain nerve, and forcibly controlled the twitching muscles, and after gliding for a while, found and made an emergency landing in this thread-leaf grass.

When a small predator roaming the plains spotted her, Xinglan thought she was doomed, and even began to think about which species to choose for her next body......

But the world is impermanent, and sometimes it is just such a coincidence, when the small dinosaur slowly approached Xinglan, suddenly his feet were empty, and he fell directly into the trap created by the trapped beast.

The first time, Xinglan was really taken aback, she had never noticed that there was such a dangerous ambush creature lurking next to her, but she soon realized that this was not only a bad thing, but also a good opportunity. With the presence of the trap beast, she managed to deal with several uninvited guests, and waited quietly on her stomach to regain her strength.

During this time, a pre-programmed signal travels from the signal subnetwork, activating energy that has not been used for a long time.

Spatial Coordinates...... Stabilized. Xinglan opened her eyes suddenly, looking up at the boundless sky, remembering the incident that she had almost left behind, "Stellar...... Hydrogen Fuel Replenishment! I almost forgot! ”

Turning her head to look at the location of the trapped beast around her, which was completely unrecognizable, Xinglan felt that there should be no problem for a while, she spread her wings, shook the dust off her feathers, and then gently closed her eyes.

……

In space, the stars are shining, which ones are ...... Will it be mine?

By teleporting the sub-signal of the past, Xinglan did not need to find his target in the starry sky, but directly locked on to the star through the transfer of high-dimensional space, which was about five light-years away from Lanxing, an elderly red giant.

The signalns that once passed through that short-lived one-way space portal have begun to replicate themselves like viruses in each other's bodies, spreading wildly, and at the same time, the network of signaling subtons between the two stars is getting stronger and stronger, until they can truly lock each other completely...... Lock each other spatially.

The exterior of the sun does not seem to have changed much, and with such a high density of matter, it may take hundreds of thousands of years for the light inside of the star to reach the surface of the star, but it is undeniable that the interior of this star is indeed somewhat different.

Something special was involved in the intense nuclear reaction, and all the light and heat were perfectly used to form a vortex plane. Sub-signals, which can control energy and field, are calibrated to unite the tiny forces of individual particles into a huge force that acts directly on space.

At the same time, the same changes occurred within the aging red giant. Subsemaprons form a swirling plane that is being induced by the plane in another star......

But the two are very different, and the phenomena that occur inside the red giant star do not converge in the slightest, but proceed at a frantic speed that does not care about the destruction of the star. The vortex plane produced here is much larger than the vortex plane produced in the sun!

Finally, with the slight shaking of the space shelf, two vortex planes separated by five light years formed a spatial door in an instant.

The space gate in the red giant is much larger than the space gate in the sun, and the two correspond to the same space channel, in this case, the pressure on the space gate per unit area of the red giant is much greater than that of the sun on the space gate, and under this huge pressure difference, the results required by Xinglan will be produced.

Hydrogen fuel flows only from the red giant to the sun, not from the sun to the red giant, which is a diode-style one-way channel that is continuously open.

……

The white puffin opened its eyes again and looked at the sun in the sky, which seemed to be an illusion, and always felt that the sun was brighter than ever......

Xinglan smiled softly, she knew that the sunlight on Lan's star would not dim and disappear after billions of years, but would never be ...... Keep shining.