Chapter 35: The Land of Crystals

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Is the joy of victory......

Looking at the ice crystal monster that sank into the darkness, Lynn's mind was filled with this wonderful feeling.

Lynn now finally knows that it feels that way only when she wins against such a strong opponent.

In this battle, Leviathan suffered great losses, all the biting tentacles were killed by ultraviolet rays, and even he himself was greatly damaged, and only in this situation can he feel happy and joyful.

Although she was happy, Rin hoped that the battle was not in vain, and that the monster that looked like a living crystal could bring something interesting to it.

Leviathan took off the dead tentacles and released the collectors to eat them, recycling the nutrients from the left, and Lynn would soon be able to grow new tentacles.

After retrieving, the Leviathan swam in the direction where the ice crystal monster had sunk.

Because of the thick ice in the area, the light in the deep water is similar to that of night, even during daytime, and Lynn must light up the lantern to see her surroundings.

Pregnant.

The dark bottom of the sea was a white sandy beach, and the Ice Crystal Monster lay quietly in a sand pit, its massive body still shining with crystalline armor, but its life was long gone.

The ball that crawled into the wound probably blew up to the brain, so it died very quickly, and Lynn was looking forward to seeing it struggle.

Leviathan swims close to the Ice Crystal Monster's corpse, unleashing a large number of exploration miniature eyeballs that burrow through every crevice in the Ice Crystal Monster's corpse to observe the mysteries of the creature.

During this time, Lynn slowly reborn the Leviathan's tentacles.

Ice Crystal's internal organs are similar to those of most arthropods, but there are quite a few peculiarities.

For example, its last two arthropods have the ability to absorb and spray water at the same time, and can move at high speeds and perform collisions, and Lynn did not find its gills, how did this creature absorb oxygen?

The main thing was its brain, the Ice Crystal Monster's brain was the largest Lynn had ever seen, even proportionally larger than the brain of any creature, not even a flat fish.

Lin has understood that the main role of the brain of living beings is to command their own cells, and to get rid of the part that commands their own cells, the remaining part can be used to think about various things for themselves, and only the larger the part of this 'self-thinking', the smarter the living thing will be.

That's why the Ice Crystal Monster came up with that strange tactic to knock other creatures into the ice.

The ice crystal monster's shell was also quite peculiar, and Lynn found that it was indeed not caused by any kind of chitinous structure that she knew, but by a crystal-like substance, and the ice crystal monster's cortex had a large number of very special, Xiaoice-like glandular cells that could secrete this kind of substance.

Lynn had seen these kinds of cells a long time ago......

That's right, this is ...... Crystal fungus! A long time ago, when it was still a single-celled era, Lin fought a war with them.

Why do they get mixed in the Ice Monster's body? Or is it just a combination of them? But then they should be basal cells, not glandular cells, all in the cortex......

Lin also found that the ice crystal monster's brain was not connected to the crystal fungus, so couldn't they be controlled by the brain? It's really peculiar.

In addition, the hardness of this crystalline shell is connected to the hardest chitinous material that Lin can make so far, although it is still a little worse, it is much lighter, which is why the ice crystal monster is so flexible.

The ice crystal shell is divided into three layers, the outermost layer is the thickest and transparent, the middle layer is medium thick, but it is white, this layer is presumably used to block ultraviolet rays, and the innermost layer is very thin, almost the same, there are many cracks and small holes on it, and those crystal bacteria are basically crowded in these places.

Its arthropods are also formed by this crystalline shell, especially the curved blade structure of the forelimbs is quite sharp, which can easily cut a crack in the Leviathan's armor.

It feels like a very good shell, but there is a drawback, it does not have an anti-corrosion coating on it, so Lynn's bombs can easily corrode it.

Overall, it's a very intelligent creature that can move on land and water at the same time, and this strange armor.

Next, let's start recycling, Lin wants to make a set of crystalline armor, but the ice crystal monster is too big, and Lin needs to increase the size of the Leviathan first.

If the Leviathan wanted to grow in size, it had to dissolve its shell from the inside, and Lynn found that other creatures first shed their shells and then discarded the old shells and covered them with a new layer.

That method feels wasteful and time-consuming, and Lynn's method can retain the chitin, although it consumes the dissolved liquid, but the shell is much more difficult to get than the dissolved solution.

But either method will take a long time, so take your time.

While melting the carapace, Lin allowed the Leviathan to slowly grow in size, modify some structures in its body, and at the same time carry out steps such as growing tentacles and releasing collectors to eat ice crystals.

It's a slow and uninteresting process, but as the collectors nibble on the Ice Crystal Brains, Lynn discovers something interesting.

Most of the ice monster's brain cells were dead, but Lin noticed that there was a small tentacle-like structure at the back of the brain, and it wasn't dead yet, and it was still slowly wriggling.

The tentacle-like structure had a small black stone embedded in it, and Lynn was curious at first and didn't think much of it, but when she asked the collector to drag it out, she suddenly noticed that the tentacles of the small stone would always face in one direction, and even if Lynn twisted it, it would twist it back.

Why is this thing like this?

Lynn didn't know yet, but it would definitely go where it was heading, and maybe find the Ice Crystal's lair or something.

I need to hurry up and finish my current business.

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The day slowly passed, the night came, and the Leviathan finally completed its transformation, its appearance did not change much, the bite tentacles increased to ten, and the size was 200% larger than before, and now it was about the same length as the ice crystal monster, but the width was much wider than the ice crystal monster, and the corpse had been completely decomposed and stored.

Lin tried to assemble the carapace of the Ice Crystal Monster, which can also be swallowed by the cells to dissolve and then compose, but there is no such substance in ordinary food and common environments, and if you want to get it, you must find more creatures with these crystal shells, or directly find the origin of such crystals.

Maybe the crystals that Lynn had seen before could also be used to make crystalline shells, but Lynn didn't think of it at the time.

So, it's time to check it out...... Where does the little stone point?

Leviathan released some eyeballs and lanterns, and swam in the direction of the target.

Is that......

A shimmering sheen appeared in front of the Leviathan.

Crystallized?

In the dark waters, these are the only things that can respond to the light of the lantern, but this is ......

…… Too much, right?

Lynn spread the lanterns, and everywhere they looked, they were covered with dense fragments of crystals, with the occasional one or two larger crystals standing in them, all of which were very similar to the carapace of the Ice Crystal Monster, and it seemed that this was indeed the Ice Crystal Monster's lair.

There are also quite a few single-celled organisms on top of the crystals, and all of them are crystal bacteria without exception.

There's no other food here, so are the crystals eating the crystals?

It's really peculiar......

Either way, a base seed must be laid down here, and if you collect the crystals here, you will be able to create this shiny and powerful army.

At this time, Lin also noticed that the direction of the small stone in the ice crystal monster's brain did not seem to be reached, and it was pointing in a farther direction......

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