Chapter 46: The Light in the Abyss
These creatures glowing blue like silk threads on the sand on the seabed, their light not bright enough, but enough to illuminate the dark sea.
What are they? Some of them look like plants, but Lin has never seen a plant that can emit light on its own, although it is said that self-luminescence and self-absorption can make more use of energy without wasting, but there will still be losses, and it is impossible to maintain the energy cycle perfectly.
Leviathan used to have such a system, but after 100 million years it has been degraded.
But whatever they are, using their light, might be able to make a green carpet here......
However, we still have to solve the current troubles first.
The Leviathan swam quickly across the filamentous seabed, the behemoth still following closely behind, and suddenly, a few ammonites slowed down, and they landed behind the Leviathan.
Lin didn't turn her eyes to look, but she could clearly feel the strange current of water vibrating as the ammonites were crushed by the Dun's fish.
The speed of the Dunkle fish has not decreased in the slightest, it will not be satisfied with a few small ammonites now, the speed of the ammonites seems to have slowed down a bit, and a few ammonites have fallen behind again, and have been crushed into pieces by the Dun's fish.
The speed of the dun's fish can't catch up with the ammonite, but in terms of sustainability, it seems that ammonite is not very good, and the 'tiredness' is caused by the inability of the cells to remove waste in time, unable to supply nutrients in time and repair the damage caused by strong activities, and for sustainability, Lynn's Leviathan is the most perfect aspect of evolution, as long as there are nutrients in the body, it will never run out.
The ammonite group began to slowly collapse and disintegrate due to the lack of body, and almost half of the ammonites swam more and more slowly, and at this moment, the huge ammonite with a diameter of two meters suddenly turned around, it opened the shell cover, and dozens of tentacles stretched out from it, as if it intended to face the chasing Dun's fish head-on.
Would an ammonite actually make such a move?
Regardless of whether the ammonite was big or small, the Deng fish rushed forward directly, opened its powerful giant mouth and bit down on the ammonite's shell.
The hard, stone-like shell instantly cracked, and the ammonite's countless tentacles wrapped around the head of the fish at the same time, mainly attacking the gills.
The gills of the Dunkle fish are combined, and of course it has a way to defend against weaknesses, and what Ammonite has to do is to pull the gills apart and destroy the oxygen-absorbing structure inside.
This seems to be a protracted battle, but under the pressure of the mouth of the Deng fish, the cracks on the ammonite's body are like radial all over its body, although the ammonite's head does not stick out, only the tentacles attack outside, but under this pressure, it seems that the organs inside have also suffered a lot of damage, and the tentacles that are tightly holding the gills of the fish have begun to lose their strength.
Two meters versus seven meters, it's already trying, but in the end it still doesn't work?
The mouth of the dun's fish evolved specifically for hardness creatures such as ammonite, which seems to be described by the term 'natural predator'.
The small ammonites around it have long since disappeared, and even if this giant ammonite fails, it has won the lives of its compatriots.
The Leviathan had been watching the two creatures fight from a short distance away, and since the Dunkle's Fish couldn't keep up with the Leviathan, Lynn had nothing to worry about.
Eventually, the monstone shell is crushed, and ordinary creatures will not eat the shell, but the fish will bite the meat and the shell together and crush and swallow it.
Looking at the Dun's fish that kept biting and eating the ammonite, Lin suddenly had an idea.
Attack it, it's the biggest creature you've seen so far, and it's going to be fun to defeat.
Isn't it just fun? I guess there was something else......
Indeed, if Lynn wants to build a green carpet here, she must first determine how wide the luminous silk threads in this area are.
No matter how much it is, Lin is looking for some useful troops in the Leviathan, and Lin finds that the Leviathan has rarely attacked creatures larger than herself in history, and it is really not necessary, in fact, half of the larger ones can already maintain nutrients for a long time, so the Leviathan only has some troops for repellent purposes, and there are no troops for directly attacking large creatures.
Although evolution is very good, sometimes it is too singular to achieve perfection.
Thinking about it, Lin directly created more than a dozen smashers and asked them to attack the skin of the Dun's fish.
The Dunkle's fish, like any other large creature, begins to ignore the smasher completely until the smasher begins to attack its epidermis, which makes it react.
The dunkle twisted its body violently, and the current generated by its huge size instantly sent several of the crushers into the distance, rolling many times before stopping, and some of them crashed into the glowing silk threads of the seabed.
The Dunkle turned its head to look around, trying to figure out what was attacking it, but its sight couldn't seem to see the creature as small as the Shatterer in the faint glow of the seabed, and it didn't associate the attack with the Leviathan in the distance, so it continued to turn around and eat the ammonite that had not yet been eaten.
Isn't it true that the conventional tactics of such a large creature can't be used? Do you want to use the killer? But for some reason, Lin doesn't like to use tactics like poison very much, and she prefers to destroy her enemies directly.
Lynn first asked the Leviathan to recover the Smashers.
Lynn's thoughts suddenly had a strange feeling, some of the srushers returned, but some of the smashers couldn't move, as if they were entangled in something.
Lynn released an eyeball to look in the direction of the Breakers, and it noticed that the Breakers were actually entangled in the glowing threads that grew on the Breakers' bodies, eventually forming a glowing ball of thread that completely enveloped the Breakers.
The Shatterers didn't have eyeballs, but Lynn could feel them inside as if they were being corroded by a dissolved fluid, starting with the outer skin, and the cells were killed one by one, and eventually the entire body.
Does this weird filament still have this ability?
Lynn felt a little strange, and just as she wanted Leviathan to come over and take a look, a strong current suddenly came from nearby.
The Leviathan immediately retreated at high speed, and in the next instant, the jaws of the Dunkle Fish merged violently into the Leviathan's original position.
I was almost bitten in two......
At this time, the Dun's fish turned its head again and bit fiercely, but it had lost the advantage of sneak attack, Lin let the Leviathan swim more than ten meters at a faster speed, and saw that the Dun's fish did not catch up, so he was relieved to observe what was going on.
Half of the ammonite was eaten by the monmonite, and the remaining half of the wreckage fell on the light filaments of the seabed, surrounded by light filaments, and the monmonites seemed to know the danger of the silk threads, and abandoned the ammonite, and instead attacked the Leviathan.
Although it moved slowly, the sneak attack ability of the Dunkle fish was really strong, until it got close, Lin didn't feel the abnormality of the water flow, and the smell was not at all, Lin didn't know how it got rid of the smell of ammonite viscera in the mouth, but maybe these smells spread too strongly in the water, Lin didn't notice it.
Now, as if it knew that it couldn't catch up with the Leviathan, it had already eaten quite a bit, so it gave up its attack and swam away.
Lin usually doesn't let go of creatures that attack her, but if she kills the Dunkle fish here, its corpse will be wrapped and decomposed by those filaments of light when it falls on the seabed, so it doesn't make any sense at all.
It's more fun to study these threads than to kill the monster that has the potential to crush the Leviathan in one bite.
Lynn creates a small class with sharp pincers on the front end, and asks them to cut off a small filament, which Lynn then sucks into her body with a spherical type called the 'Research Ball', and then releases a large number of cells and miniature troops into the sphere to study.
This silk thread ...... The structure is fairly simple, with a layer of glowing cells acting as an outer layer, and then there are some muscle-like cells inside that allow them to move.
In addition, they can protrude a small needle-like filament on the surface of the body, and they are able to release a strong dissolved liquid, which is more decomposing than any other dissolved liquid that Lyn has ever seen, and they probably use this small needle to pierce the body of other organisms, and then break down the organs of other creatures from the inside out.
These filaments of light are probably feeding on all kinds of detritus here, because food is scarce, so they are so crazy, if something falls, they immediately surround it?
But...... In this kind of place, where the sea is covered with ice and the bottom of the sea is dark and cold, is there really enough food for these filaments of light to cover such a large area?
If anything, Lynn might be able to mimic them to create a new kind of green carpet...... Yes, green carpets don't have to feed on light, they are mainly used to collect large amounts of food in one location for a long time.
So...... Just give it a try.
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Thank you ~Aqi~ for 1988~!
Thanks to the queen S~M~godmorgan~大echeng~for the tip~
PS: uh...... Because I'm going to the wilderness tomorrow to survive, I only have one shift a day for these two days.