Chapter 23: The Abyssal Rift
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Calm and boundless waters, where huge creatures slowly float forward......
Life at the base was calm and boring, so Lynn turned her attention to the Leviathan.
Two days and nights had passed since the Leviathan had swam across the vast grey sand and rocky seabed, and unlike before, Lynn had swam mainly to the depths.
The Leviathan had now arrived in a new place, which was also sandy, but the sand was finer and whiter, and there was a creature that Lynn had never seen before scattered throughout the area.
They look like upside-down jellyfish, clinging to the sand with a short, stubby, round body and capturing prey with a large number of tentacles with stinging cells.
Lynn knew there was a word to name them...... 'anemone'.
Sea anemones are fairly simple creatures that do not have a vascular heart and have a digestive sac in the center of their body that is responsible for digesting the food brought in by their tentacles.
Creatures that have no research value at all, and Lynn doesn't like to eat them, because they usually don't contain much of the stinger after the stinger is removed.
The Leviathan lowered its swimming altitude and slowly floated on the sand, the tentacles with its mouth beneath Lynn called 'Biting Tentacles', but like the Devourer, it was only used to bite things, not to digest food.
The Leviathan generally does not use its own eyeballs, but is observed by the eyeballs floating around it.
Suddenly Lynn saw movement in the gravel below.
Leviathan jerked out his tentacles, bit down on something in the sand, and pulled it out.
That's a trilobite.
There are many species of trilobites, and this is the fifth species that Lynn has seen, this one is very small, and the shell is so thin that the mouth that bites the tentacles can completely bite it in the mouth and crush it.
The shells and cells scattered by the bitten trilobites, etc., Lin will release a kind of army called the Collector to collect, it is about the size of the Devourer, this creature is mainly a worm-type structure, the whole is very flexible, can swallow a large amount of food, expands into a ball, and the body is filled with a strong dissolved liquid, responsible for swallowing food and then dissolving, and finally returning nutrients to the Leviathan.
Collectors can also attack by spewing dissolved fluids from their bodies, although they are not designed to attack per se.
After eating the little trilobite, the Leviathan moved on, its own fat stores were enough, and Lynn planned to go on a longer trip, without stopping halfway.
Lynn's main thing is to see something special that she has never seen before.
The sprinkler system sped up, and the Leviathan swam rapidly across the white sand, but it soon stopped, as the environment it had never seen before appeared in front of it so suddenly.
The beach in front of him seemed to be cut in two, and a huge rift appeared in front of Lynn, long enough to stretch out of Lynn's field of vision, and wide enough to hold hundreds of Leviathans.
Lynn had never seen anything like it...... Is this a 'trench'?
Lin found that the recent new words seem to be relatively boring, what kind of trench, there is no momentum at all, it is better to call it rift directly.
…… What is momentum? Forget it.
Leviathan swam above the trench and its floating eyeballs looked down, only to see that the rift stretched straight down until the light could not reach the dark abyss.
Would you like to go down and have a look?
Lin hesitated, but wasn't it here to explore the unknown?
Let's go down!
The Leviathan slowly descended, with anemones sticking to the rock walls on both sides of the trench, some small trilobites dangling next to them, and many single-celled organisms floating in the water, so it seemed that this was also a rich area.
After a while, the light around the Leviathan had become dimmer, and Lynn released a swimming lantern, a non-stationary glow that allowed Lynn to see everything around her.
As she got closer to the depths of the trench, there were fewer creatures around, and by the time it became night-like darkness, it was hard for Lynn to see anything other than a single cell.
Lynn didn't stop, and continued to move deeper into the darkness, releasing more lanterns, and these small swimming spots of light spotted creatures that looked like sea anemones on the rock walls.
They have anemone-like tentacles, but the underlying body is not thick and round, but a small long stalk, which does not seem to be called an anemone, but has a new name, 'sea lily'.
I think that's a pretty good name.
The Leviathan swam close to the rock wall, trying to pluck one off and eat it, and as soon as Lynn got closer, they instantly shrank into the crevice.
The rock walls of the trench are not ordinarily hard, and it seems that this is unacceptable.
There are also many sea lilies on the rock walls here, and Lynn finds that they are of different species, and some of them do not shrink.
Lynn wasn't very interested in studying them, and Leviathan continued to dive deeper, trying to see if anything else was interesting.
The deeper the Leviathan descended, the more Lynn discovered a problem that could be called 'stress'.
The floating eyeballs and lanterns were the first to be affected by this feeling, and they became unable to move, as if they were being squeezed by some powerful force, and some even died simply because they could not bear the pressure.
Where does this pressure come from? It seems to be everywhere, isn't it...... Is it because of the water?
Lynn retrieved them all and opened a hole in the edge of the Leviathan's disc-shaped shell, which contained the Leviathan's own eyeballs.
It is protected by a transparent layer of chitin, which protects it from harm, but restricts its vision as it is unable to move at will.
Lynn also releases a lantern covered with a hard shell to resist the pressure in the water.
But the deeper you go, the more the pressure becomes more and more pronounced, and even the Leviathan itself is affected, and the swimming pattern of water absorption and spraying becomes more and more difficult, and even several cracks appear in the carapace of the Leviathan.
The pressure is horrible.
It seemed that it couldn't go any further, but Lynn didn't want to give up, she had already calculated how the pressure worked, and what structure could resist it.
Of course, Lynn didn't want to change the structure of the Leviathan, so she created a new class with an oval body, filled with water inside, and a not too thick shell on the outside, this class did not have any ability to swim, and as soon as it was released by the Leviathan, it sank into the depths of the trench with gravity.
This shape structure should be able to resist pressure effectively, but the most basic way to resist pressure is to fill the inside with the same substance that creates pressure around it, so that no amount of force can be pressed in.
The Leviathan swam back, Lynn had to repair its wounds, and the exploration of the bottom of the trench was left to the little oval.
It is called 'warhead'.
After a while, as the Leviathan was about to surface in the trench, the 'warhead' also felt like it had collided with some kind of object, and it seemed that it had sunk to the deepest depths.
At this time, the shells on both sides of the warhead's body opened, and a total of six arthropod legs protruded from it, and the arthropod legs were also filled with water, so that they could not be crushed by pressure, and at the same time, two holes were opened in its head, and an eyeball and a lantern appeared in them at the same time.
The eyeballs and lanterns are covered by a thin transparent shell, and the shell is filled with water, which is really effective against pressure, and now the 'warhead' does not even have a single crack.
It moved the small limbs around its body and began its journey into the dark abyss.
The warhead's body is filled with water, which occupies the position where it should put its muscles or blood vessels, so it can't move fast at all, but it's just for exploration, and it doesn't need to be too fast.
The ground at the bottom of the trench is made up of rocks, and under the light of the warhead's lantern, some single-celled organisms first enter Lynn's field of vision.
Are they everywhere? Except on land.
Lin found that the trench cells were much larger than the ones above, and they were indeed water-filled pressure-resistant structures.
As Lynn was studying them, a sudden light suddenly lit up in the distance, much brighter than the light emitted by the warhead itself, and seemed to be emitted by some kind of giant creature.
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