Chapter 36 Crystallization Ecology
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Why is this small stone in the tentacles pointing in one place? Magnetic field? Magnet?
Strange words popped up in Lynn's thoughts, and she didn't understand what it meant, but she knew that 'magnetism' was supposed to mean attraction.
What attracted the stone to it?
Leviathan withdrew the base seed, and Lynn suddenly had a feeling that maybe it would be more appropriate to put it in the target of this stone.
Leviathan continued to make its way through the dark seabed full of crystals, and as the stone guided her, Lynn found that the crystals around her were getting larger and larger, some of which were no longer fragments, but whole pieces.
It's not just crystals that are infested here, there are some flatfish that move here, but these flatfish have a strange appearance, their heads are a little rounder and thicker than the average flatfish, and they are covered with a thin layer of carapace.
Why do you look like that? Didn't you swim slower, and you didn't have much defense?
Lynn, who was only slightly confused, skipped them and continued to swim forward, the crystals here were getting larger and larger, the scattered fragments were almost invisible, and Lynn looked at her surroundings as she thoughtfully constructed the shape and size of the entire area.
The outer ring of this area is all fragmented crystals, and then the further inward it is, the more complete it becomes, what kind of thing makes up this environment?
Maybe it's a living thing, maybe not?
The Leviathan was surrounded by a number of flatfish, and they seemed to be interested in the Leviathan's lanterns, and although Lynn didn't see their long eyeballs, they seemed to be able to sense the light.
Lin stretched out her tentacles and grabbed a few of them, tearing them up and eating them, and found that there was nothing special in their bodies, but the skin was covered with many diamond-shaped small crystalline carapaces, and a large number of crystal bacteria were stuffed in the gaps of these carapaces.
The Leviathan has reached the next area, where the crystals are conical and stand in the sand, which can be called the 'Thousand Crystalline Woodland'.
Another creature appears here, with a small, soft body but a large hard shell on its back, which appears to be called a 'snail'.
Lin seems to have mentioned the word snail, but this is the first time she has seen a creature called a snail, and its shell is also crystalline, and in addition to various organs, there are quite a few crystal bacteria inside.
It seems that every living creature here is related to crystal bacteria, right? How exactly do these crystals communicate with them?
This relationship seems to be called 'symbiosis', but why do they come together?
Lin hadn't seen an ice crystal monster yet, and it was probably a rarity.
Lin continued to walk, and the stoned tentacles squirmed so violently that it seemed to mean that Lin was about to approach her target.
Lin suddenly thought at this time, it seems that she has been taking care of this side recently, and things on the side of the main base have not been going much, but Lin has already broken down the legion ball, the structure of this creature is quite special, there is a big pouch for the small legion ball to live in, because it itself has no mouth, so it also relies on the small legion ball to feed it and so on.
It's funny, but Lynn is more interested in this side, so just put the main base business aside and Lynn can make the warheads work automatically.
Suddenly, a large creature flashed through the light of the lantern.
Ice Crystal?
Lynn told the lanterns to catch up with the creature, but it swam so fast that all Lynn could see was a few debris flicked up by its tail.
Lynn retrieved the lantern and grew its tentacles on the Leviathan's shell for illumination, causing the Leviathan to chase the creature at full speed, swimming in the same direction the stone was pointing.
The Leviathan can use its blowholes to swirl in a rotational motion, allowing it to catch up with other fast-moving creatures.
After a while, Lynn saw the creature again, it was indeed an ice crystal monster, but it was much smaller, and it swam quite fast against the spout of the rear arthropod, and it was difficult for the Leviathan to catch up with it.
Lin also noticed at this time that the surrounding environment changed again, some large crystals appeared, they stood on the seabed like boulders, many creatures moved around these crystals, the Xiaoice crystal monster suddenly accelerated at this time, it rushed to a giant crystal wall in front of it, and then the whole body drilled into it.
This is......
As Leviathan got closer, Lynn realized that there was a hole in the crystal wall that was just big enough for the ice monster to drill into.
And this crystallization ...... Big, big incredible.
All Lynn could see was a huge wall of crystals, completely blocked by Leviathan, and the light of the lanterns could not reach its end, and then Leviathan released a large number of lanterns, sending them in three different directions to explore how big the crystal was.
The lanterns and eyeballs that went to both sides swam for a long time, and finally circled back to the Leviathan's position, it seems that this crystal is a huge ring-shaped structure, and its width may hold hundreds of Leviathans, but the eyeballs and lanterns that go up never reach the end of the crystal wall......
Don't......
Lynn stopped the lanterns and sent the Leviathan to swim up the crystal wall, and it found that the crystal had been extending upwards until the Leviathan approached the ice that covered the sea.
However, this ice wall actually broke through the ice and stretched all the way to the surface of the water......
It's so huge...... This is no longer an ordinary crystal, but an object that can be called a 'mountain'.
It stretches from the dark abyss of water directly to the realm of air, and it is a mountain of crystals!
Why does it grow that big? How did this come about?
Lynn found that the more she had seen and understood, the more questions she had.
There were no creatures on the crystal walls, unlike the large number of creatures gathered in the deep water, which Lynn felt rather strange about.
However, it feels good to dig a hole in this and get a base, and such a large amount of crystals can also create many troops with crystalline shells.
Although food is scarce here, Lynn has already done that research.
It is the final step of 'eating light', which is to mix water and some gas with light and some substances found inside green cells to form an edible thing.
Lynn had fully understood the proportions, and now it was able to produce a new kind of cell.
Although there seem to be a lot of things to be synthesized, they are actually very small, and they are all inedible in the first place, and these substances can be found everywhere in water, so it is very cost-effective to use them to synthesize food.
However, this method is not very efficient, those green cells that are locked up by Lynn and feed purely on light proliferate very slowly, but there are some other types of green blood cells that proliferate very quickly, but they will devour other substances or single-celled organisms.
It's not efficient, but it's inexhaustible, so Lynn thinks this research is very useful, so that it can establish a base in areas where food is scarce but other resources are abundant.
This seems to be called 'photosynthesis' and 'chlorophyll'.
In fact, the creatures that can absorb light are not only green, Lynn has also seen many other colors of single cells can also eat light, including red, blue, and even black.
Lynn plans to build a structure dedicated to photosynthesis at each base, but for now, let's get it here first.
Now that night was coming and day was coming, Lynn ignored the glow above the ice, allowing the Leviathan to create the 'Driller', a class with jagged cones and three spout at the tail that allowed them to spin rapidly to drill through crystal walls.
Lynn then asked the collector to collect the crystalline debris scattered around.
Debris can be dissolved and combined to make armor, but the dissolution solution is also divided into types, not all of them can dissolve crystals, and some dissolved liquids will completely destroy the crystals, so that it can no longer be combined, so it is a bit troublesome to make this kind of carapace.
As Lynn was digging holes in the crystal wall, the day had fully arrived, and as the light above became brighter and brighter, the drillers drilling in the crystal wall suddenly felt that their surroundings were getting hotter and hotter......
Oh, these crystals absorb heat!
Lynn suddenly remembered this, but it seemed to be too late, because the drillers had drilled too deep and could not exit for a while, and were killed by the extremely high temperatures.
The whole crystal, as if absorbing the light of the day, became extremely dazzling
With such high temperatures, you may not be able to establish a base here, so it's no wonder that there are no creatures stuck to the crystals.
So...... What happens in the deep sea?
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