Chapter 39: The Paleozoic Eruption

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As countless days and nights alternated, Lynn's deep sleep continued.

Lynn didn't know how long it slept, but it would wake up a few times a few times, and when it woke up, it would always be greeted by strange sights, such as ice freezing the entire surface of the water, or the seabed cracking in an area and spewing lava destroying a large green carpet......

The changes in life are relatively slow, but the changes in the world are very obvious, the water level slowly rises after various reasons, and once again floods Lynn's main base on land, and the deep sea faults are frequent, tearing apart the seabed and its inhabitants, and sometimes the faults are regrouped, or giant holes appear, and lava is sprayed irregularly......

Occasionally, the surface of the sea freezes completely, and huge icicles reach out from under the ice into the bottom of the sea, killing everything that comes into contact.

It's just a minor problem, it doesn't cause any damage to Lynn overall, because they don't have a large area of destruction, or it doesn't last long, and every time it wakes up like this, it quickly repairs the green carpet and then goes into a deep sleep again, what Lynn wants to see...... It's a change in life.

The whole change of life takes a long time, and it would be boring to wait, but the ability to 'sleep' can turn all that long time into a moment.

Even if it was a moment for Lynn, how long did it actually take?

Maybe tens of millions of years...... Or 100 million?

The evolution of the creatures seems to have reached a new level, which is enough for Lin to wake up and look around the world again.

As soon as Lynn awoke, she saw some strange and strange creatures swimming across its green carpet.

These wonderful creatures were very different from what Lynn had seen before she fell asleep, but it was no stranger, and when Lynn was asleep, there were still countless eyeballs recording the changes in all the creatures for her, and it could now easily recognize what creatures they had changed from.

Retrieving the various information accumulated by countless years of eyeballs, Lin couldn't help but become excited.

It's a whole new world, and the evolution of living things is slow, but ...... But it can do miracles!

Lynn couldn't wait to explore her surroundings, but most of the eyeballs had been eaten by other creatures or were in some danger, and now there was only one area left, and one eyeball was still alive.

This is the former trench, the green carpet of green covered the seabed on both sides of the trench rift, after so many years, they are still absorbing light energy here, and the trench itself is more than half narrower than before due to the vibration and various changes of the seabed, and the original smoke column has completely disappeared, but this does not affect the abundance of life here.

A huge monster swam through the trench, it had a long flat body, leaf-like appendages to assist swimming, and its forelimbs were thick and barbed, this creature was a hookworm that had changed little, only two huge eyeballs had been added to the head armor, but the size was much larger, the body that was originally less than half a meter was now more than two meters.

The giant hookworm has its sights on a prey...... A trilobite crawling on a green carpet.

The appearance of the trilobite has not changed much, but there are many more species, from two millimeters to more than one meter, this hookworm is targeting a trilobite of about 30 centimeters, it rushes towards the trilobite, instantly grabs the target with its forelimbs, and crushes the trilobite's armor with great force.

Crustacean debris and trilobite cells scattered in the water, and the remains attracted a number of other creatures.

Three half-meter-long creatures swam from a distance, slowly approaching the hookworms that were tearing at their prey, and Lin named them helmet fish, these creatures were the offspring of the flatfish, and in countless generations, they were now ten times the size of the flat fish, and the leaf-shaped bodies became thicker, and the heads were even covered with a semicircular layer of armor, and on either side of their bodies appeared appendages called 'fins', which were perfect for swimming.

Rather than predators, they are opportunists, attracted by the floating remains of trilobites, with an elongated crack with tiny teeth beneath the rounded armor of their heads, which is used to filter food from the water.

The hookworm seems to be quite wasteful to eat, always spilling a lot of food, and the trilobite it threw away before it was halfway through, which allowed the helmet fish to enjoy free food.

Lynn now understands the meaning of 'free', which means that it can be obtained without effort.

Lin plans to take a closer look at these new creatures, observe each battle, and if she finds an interesting ability, Lin will capture it and break it down, and then learn the mysteries.

Lynn's interest now was not the hookworms, but the helmetfish, and when they had eaten up the remains of the trilobites, they swam away, and Lynn's little eyeballs that were watching around immediately followed.

Lynn's observation eyeball is about 1 centimeter in diameter, it is covered by a transparent hard-shell anti-corrosion coating, and it is also covered with small transparent spikes that can spray water, this structure can easily get stuck in the esophagus of other creatures, so that other creatures will not want to prey, but even with this structure, the number of eyeballs left in these years is very small.

The eyeballs follow the helmetfish, who cross the trench and over a few boulders to a new environment.

There are a large number of corals in this water, these creatures have hardly changed since Lin slumbered, but the shells they made are piled up higher and higher because they will not be decomposed, and the corals that were originally only a few tens of centimeters have now grown into behemoths, and the coral reefs they form are like mountains, and the highest peak is even nearly 100 meters.

Lynn also gained a lot of new words when she was asleep, and although some still didn't understand what they meant, she felt that she could use them to describe many things.

The reef is a green color caused by Lynn's green carpet, and if a creature builds a nest on the green carpet, the covered part of the green carpet will automatically decompose itself and then re-cover the nest made by the creature.

Because the green carpet does not block the entrance and exit holes of the coral, it has little effect on the growth of the coral.

The reef is quite rich in biota, with several helmetfish swimming slowly from reef to reef, and their speed is hindered by their heavy head armor, so they are vulnerable to threats from monsters......

Suddenly, as if they had spotted something, they quickly hid in a crack in the nearby reef.

Lynn also noticed that a huge creature was approaching above.

The creature's body was covered in a conical shell, and its head had ten thick tentacles covered with suckers, each with a ring of serrations around the edges.

Lynn called it the 'Arrow Stone', and this predator with a total length of three meters, probably evolved from the shellfish, and its head also had a water spout, completely abandoning the habit of drilling into the sand and becoming an active predator.

The arrow stone suddenly rushed forward, it shot a pair of long tentacles from the ten tentacles, instantly grabbed one of the slowest swimming helmet fish, and then completely wrapped the helmet fish with all the tentacles, the serrations tore through the unprotected body of the helmet fish, and red liquid gushed out of the wound.

As the arrowstone chewed and the two helmeted fish hiding in the cracks in the reef were not safe, Lynn soon saw them quickly escape from them, and then an armoured arthropod rushed out of it, grabbed one of the helmetfish and dragged it back.

It was trilobites, some of which could grow up to a meter long, and they were quite diverse, and some of them became powerful predators.

The only remaining helmetfish left the reef and swam alone towards the surface.

Is...... It's a brutal water.

Lynn recalls a time when most creatures fed on single cells, but now it seems that much has changed, and the fleeing helmet fish is soon being targeted by a third predator.

These creatures are its distant relatives, named 'Drill Fish', an evolution of the Round-billed Flatfish, they have not gotten bigger, but have become smaller, a Drill Fish is only a few millimeters long, but their round mouth and hook-like fangs on it have become even more terrifying, and the body of the Drill Fish is covered with small barb-like carapaces, which Lynn now knows can be called ' Scales', they rushed up in the thousands, tore open the skin of the helmetfish with their teeth, and then twisted their bodies deep into the wound, devouring the flesh and blood inside, destroying the organs of the helmetfish.

Compared to the larger creatures, the small group attacks are even more terrifying, and they do not waste until they eat every part of the helmetfish's body.

Although the helmet fish has a hard shell on its head, its body has no protective ability, and it is powerless against the enemy at all, so it can only wait for death while feeling the severe pain of the organs being drilled open.

Lynn couldn't figure out why helmetfish had such obstructive and useless shells, but they did have some special abilities to escape predators.

These terrible little creatures did not let go of Lynn watching the eyeballs, they gathered around and used their mouths to get the small spikes around the eyeballs, their mouths were quite hard, and they could even directly crush the spines of the eyeball shell, and even drill open the shell of the eyeball.

The only remaining eyeball is also dead......

Does this seem like that's the end of this new world journey?

Of course it's impossible!

In an area further away from the reef, this is where it once crystallized and where it has not been affected by environmental changes over the years.

Several huge crystals around the Crystal Mountain suddenly shattered, and countless creatures in crystal armor rushed out of it.

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Thanks to ~Snooze's Dazzling Wind~'s 1888~

Thank you for the reward of ~Rose under the Moon~Big Self~Soul Seeker~~