Chapter 34: The Problem of Communication
'Head Worm' was the name Lynn had given to the lump of flesh, but Lynn also found it difficult to understand the creature's message.
This thing has no limbs, just a mass of flesh, and it has a layer of muscle wrapped under its skin, so it can move in a wriggling way, and then there is the brain under the muscles.
80% of the body is a brain creature, Lin Ke has never seen it, the brain of the general creature only accounts for 0.1~1% of the body weight, and the most may be about 1.6%, how can it be so big?
There are also a lot of organs in the brain of the head worm that other creatures don't have in the brain, and Lynn can't recognize what it does, so it must be almost all related to 'thoughts', right? Because its body simply doesn't need as many brain cells to control it.
The bug was also trying to get Rin to understand its message, and the head bug would keep writhing at it and making a series of 'cooing' noises whenever it saw any of Rin's troops, but so far, Rin had only understood a few messages.
For example, every time Lynn feeds it, it will make a special cooing sound, and if it is not fed later, or if it is fed late, it will also cry out with this cooing sound, which means that it needs food.
Lin still didn't understand the meaning of the other calls, and Lin tried to make the same sound to communicate with it, but it didn't seem to understand, and even Lin didn't know if it understood or not.
After several days and nights of this communication barrier, Lynn had already figured out a way to communicate with the head worm......
Every time the head worm sees Lynn's different classes, it will call out different sounds, which should be the same thing as Lynn's 'vocabulary', so Lin takes various objects and looks at the different pronunciations of various objects by the head worm, and Lin can understand what these sounds describe it.
As long as the head worm uses these sounds that Lynn understands to communicate, Lynn can understand its meaning.
After that, Lin brought various objects, and the head worm deserved to be the creature with the most brains, and it quickly understood what Lin meant. Then it started to make a different sound to each object.
Something like this......
"Timber - Coo-Goo"
"Cracked Wood - Goo"
"Rock-Quack"
"Crystallization - Quack"
"Fungus—yaw!"
"Shattered crystals—woo!"
"Rotting corpses—wow!"
"Dry corpses—whoaa!"
"Cave Entrance - Gollum"
And so on and so forth. Lynn showed it a lot of things, including all kinds of creatures, and some special descriptions, such as north, east, west, decrease, increase, and give. Take, move, stop and other actions are described by different sounds, and Lynn also found that it is not only a 'coo' sound, but also quite a lot of sounds. Lynn found that it also had well-developed vocal organs.
After that, the head worm can associate these vocalizations, so that the head worm and Lin can finally communicate somewhat, such as at this time, it is shouting to one of Lynn's troops: "Give - food - giant veined dragonfly - increase." ”
To put it simply, the head worm likes to eat giant veined dragonflies, and it wants Lynn to feed them. And a little more......
Lynn didn't bother with its food requests at first. Later, though, Lynn found it interesting and would fulfill some of her requests.
Giant veined dragonflies are not difficult to catch. Placing a sniper on a tall tree trunk is easy to shoot down.
Although she was able to communicate normally, Lynn still had a lot of questions about it.
Generally speaking, Lin ruined the Chibucha Worm, and the Head Worm was supposed to be the head of the Chibucha Worm or something, why Lin didn't feel the slightest anger from its thoughts, it didn't seem to care at all.
Moreover, it actually likes to eat giant veined dragonflies? The Chibucha Worm's way of life makes it almost impossible to come into contact with the Giant Vein Dragonfly, which currently only haunts the higher twisted canopy and the desert, and none of them burrow into the ground......
It's weird.
Lin did some research on the body cells of the head worm without causing any harm, and found that its cell structure was very different from that of the Chibucha worm, and even if it was only based on appearance, the gap was too great.
This gave Lin the idea that this 'head bug' might not be a kibcha bug at all, so Lin felt compassion when she killed the kibcha bug, and the 'head bug' was completely unharmed at that time.
Although Lin is not yet able to read the thoughts of creatures, she feels that there is no problem, and there are usually only three kinds of emotions in the head: restless, dazed, and happy.
However, there was no anger, and there was no fear of Rin, it could not have been unaware that the Chibucha Worm had been massively killed by Rin, in fact, when it was dragged out of the crystalline disc, it could see the corpses all over the place.
Yes, the head worm also has eyeballs, although it is small, but the eyesight is quite good.
So if the head worm is not a type of Chibucha worm, why do they put it in the crystalline disc of the cave? Why are there so many Chibucha bugs keeping it? What is the relationship between the Chibucha worm and the head bug? It doesn't feel like it's a symbiotic relationship, right?
Lin has done research on the relationship between the Chibucha worm and the crystal-scaled lizard, which seems to hide in the lizard's food sac through guò, and then sends messages to the lizard's brain in a special way, causing the lizard to perform various actions.
However, will the Qibucha worm control the head worm in the same way? Because it's smart, let it think about all kinds of problems for itself?
It doesn't feel likely.
The Chibucha worm sometimes becomes agitated when it sees Lynn, and utters a series of words that it actually said when Lynn first saw it, and which Lynn now knows to say: "Fungus - cracked wood - rocks - dust - dry corpses." ”
Well, although she understands the meaning of the words, Lynn doesn't quite know what the words connect to meaning.
"Because of the fungus, the wood dried up and cracked, and then the rocks and sand came out, and then the dry corpses appeared?"
This is Lynn's current interpretation of the vocabulary of the head worm.
The head worm occasionally speaks these words, but it is mostly in a daze and happy feelings, and happiness usually occurs when she communicates with Lin a lot, and when she eats.
For the first time, Lynn found it so difficult to communicate with other creatures, but it was fun, and Lynn now allowed the head bugs to crawl around the base, but not outside.
In fact, it doesn't move much, it mostly stays in the same place, and it seems that if you move a little distance, you will get tired.
Lynn communicates research with it. While continuing to do other things. Like the team that excavated crystals before, Lin Du asked them to go down to the collapsed crystallized wormhole to obtain a large number of crystals, so that the green carpet could spread faster.
Rin's army to attack the Chibucha Worm is now in a state of slumber, and only a few are used for hunting, and Lin is considering whether to break them down and use them again next time.
Lynn hunting for food. 'Crystal-scaled lizards' have also been found elsewhere in the Twisted Jungle, but the lizards encountered on the ground do not have crystalline scales on their bodies, but have greenish scales like ordinary lizards, and of course, they do not have Chibucha bugs in their food sacs.
This phenomenon is quite amusement, and it seems that every creature that is close to crystallization. Both will grow a layer of crystalline armor, and those that are not close to it will not grow at all, but these two are the same kind of creatures, and their organs are exactly the same.
Are there any miraculous powers for these crystals? All Lynn knows is that they absorb light.
Lynn has not done much research on non-living objects in general, and may need to do more research in this area.
Now, it's night, every night. The head worm will crawl near the digging team. Then say the word "chief".
The word "leader" was discovered by Lynn by accident, and every time the head worm saw Lynn's class. It will call the largest one the leader, and when it sees the bigger one, it will call the bigger one the leader, and it prefers to communicate with the leader.
At first, Lynn didn't know what it meant by "Leader", and she thought it was referring to which class, only to find out later that it only used that word to call the biggest
The Head Worm doesn't seem to know that every class can represent Lynn, and instead thinks that 'Lynn' is a colony led by a leader.
Lynn usually communicates with a head worm with a more developed vocal organ, but once in a while she sees Leviathan, she begins to ask to communicate with Leviathan.
Based on this, the race where the head worm is located is also a leader with a community, and this form is very common among social creatures, and now Lin is beginning to believe that it is not a kibucha worm, it should be another creature...... Maybe it's creatures like Inca swarms, Aztecs, etc......
It would always talk to Lynn's 'leader', usually asking Lynn to find something new to recite to it, but it had recently begun to bring up the difficult phrase ...... "fungus - cracked wood - rock - dust - dry corpse." ”
Aside from communicating with the head worms, Rin's lifestyle has not changed, continuing to spread the green carpet, continuing to hunt, and expanding her territory at a slow and steady pace.
However, Lynn has recently created a giant flying class in the desert on the edge of the twisted jungle, which combines multiple abilities such as jets, wings, and airbags, mainly to carry a large number of objects into the air.
In order to deal with disasters that could happen at any time, Lin noticed that the world was quite unstable.
Lin also began to prepare to explore the northern edge of the Twisted Jungle, where there was a deeper jungle that Lin had never been to before.
However, before that, Lynn had noticed something was going on in the woodland nearby.
The glittering woodland covered with moss, I don't know why, the moss that was originally all over the ground began to decrease, they seemed to disappear so suddenly, between the jungles, there were large vacant mud fields where there was no moss, and the light of the night was not as bright as before... (To be continued.) )
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