Chapter 35: The Vanishing Moss
"Sky, water."
At the entrance to the cavern at the base, Leviathan looks at the sky with the Head Bug, who expresses its thoughts in a simple voice.
This little creature with a brain all over her body felt that it was harmless after staying here for a long time, so she could now let it move at will.
Yes, it's going to rain.........
The word that the head worm said just now means that it is raining.
The Twisted Jungle is covered with a huge amount of black clouds, this place actually doesn't rain often, and every time it rains, it's quite huge, and the arthropods between the jungles seem to be busy, most of them are looking for a place to hide, but some of them are specially haunted in the rain.
For example, bark cockroaches.
The bark cockroach is a type of cockroach, it is huge, and its body is exactly the same color as the bark, but Lin can recognize it, and she sees several giant dragonflies flying quickly through the forest, and when they fly over a tree trunk, a piece of 'bark' suddenly moves, it stretches out its forelimbs with serrated teeth and barbs, and instantly grabs a dragonfly.
Although dragonflies are about the size of bark cockroaches, they are almost unable to resist when caught, and can only be eaten slowly.
"Dragonfly, food, delicious."
The head worm also saw the scene of the hunt and expressed its feelings.
"Bark cockroach?"
Leviathan also pronounced a note to the head worm.
When the head worm heard this, it uttered a simple word: "It's unpalatable." ”
Well, the simple understanding is that the head worm says that the dragonfly is delicious, the bark cockroach is unpalatable, and the concept of 'delicious' and 'unpalatable' is also issued by the head worm, Lin found that it has a very interesting characteristic, obviously it is the food that the cells in the body can absorb normally, and the nutrients are not much different, but the head worm likes some foods very much, and some do not like it very much.
After research, Lynn discovered that the head worm is slow to eat foods that he doesn't like. And with an unpleasant flirtatious xù and a special cry. The representative word of this cry is 'unpalatable', and 'delicious', on the contrary, when it eats something delicious, it eats quickly and happily.
It's an interesting phenomenon, and Lynn doesn't know how it came about, but this brain worm has a lot of research value.
"Water, tumbling. Cave. ”
Seeing that the heavy rain was coming, the head worm writhed its fleshy body and rolled back into the cave of the base.
The creature was really funny, and Lynn often exchanged messages with it like this, and by the way, there seemed to be a word to describe the action: 'chat'.
'Chat' seems to be understandable. But what is the matter with this 'day'? That's a weird word.
Now that it's going to rain, Lynn usually doesn't take shelter from the rain, especially the Leviathan, which is more concerned about the problems of this jungle.
The moss in the glitter glade has become less and less, and many of the moss-feeding creatures have left the woodland, and for the last few days and nights, Lynn has been keeping an eye on how these mosses are decreasing.
The moss seems to be slowly withering and cracking. And then die. They don't lack water and still glow at night. Why, exactly?
Thinking about it, Leviathan stood up and crossed the river to the top of the glittering woodland.
It now resembles a Dark Plains, with only a few mosses growing on the ground, and beyond that, large black dirt floors, and a few cracked bark and rocks.
Instead, it was the Dark Plains, which had become brighter as the green carpet spread, but Lynn was more concerned about the cause of this phenomenon in the Shining Woodlands.
Not only the moss, but also the twisted trees on the glittering woodland began to show some strange phenomena, they began to shed their skin, although not much, but each piece of skin fell off had one thing in common, they were very dry and cracked, as if the water had been drained.
Leviathan walked over to a handful of moss and stretched out his tentacles to dig it up.
Lynn decides to take the moss back to study and see why they died.
There was a thunderclap in the air, and Leviathan walked quickly back to the caverns of the base......
Lynn found that the Head Worm had not entered at the entrance to the cave, and as soon as it saw Leviathan, she said, "Chief, wood, moss, cracked, dead." ”
It was trying to tell Sù Leviathan that both the moss and the wood had dried up and died, but Lynn ignored it now and walked deeper into the cave with the moss, at which point the entrance to the cave was sealed.
The 'Door Shaper' is a class of Lynn that mixes dirt with a type of chitin, creating an airtight wall that seals the hole in the rain, preventing rain from entering the base, which could be in danger of collapsing.
The Head Worm moved and followed the Leviathan deeper into the cavern, seemingly curious about what Lynn was going to do with that moss.
It's a pity that it's invisible.
Lynn placed the moss into a decomposition sac and cut tiny wounds on the surface of the moss, allowing miniature scouts to study the moss, and there were also eyeballs outside the moss that were responsible for observing its appearance.
The cells of plants are relatively simple, and there are fewer species, so they are easy to judge.
Lin found that among the moss cells, there were some strange creatures, some filamentous creatures, these creatures were composed of branching clusters of multiple cells, with a special structure, and Lin did not seem to have seen such a form of composition.
Lynn did some observational research on them.
They destroy the moss's cellular structure, kill the moss's cells, and produce toxins that eventually erode the whole moss, turning it into a powder.
When mosses die, they grow a large number of special cysts, which appear to resemble seeds, which are light and drift away in the wind, as if to reproduce.
So this thing killed the moss? In other words, are all the mosses in the glittering woodland dying because of this thing?
But where did they come from? There was nothing wrong with the moss before.
Could it be......
Lin thought of the wood-growing fungi in the crystallized wormholes, which seemed to have a structure very similar to those of the moss-killing creatures.
But Lynn didn't bring the fungus out there, and the whole cave was blown up, so it's unlikely that the contents could have come out......
As Lynn pondered, it heard the thunder from outside the base again, and at the same time, the voice of the head bug rang out: "Lightning, fungus, cracked wood, moving, water, farr, death." ”
'Far' is a new pronunciation, a word that Lynn does not understand.
Just when Lynn was a little confused, there was a loud roar outside the cave, it was not lightning, but the sound of something huge falling. (To be continued.) )
PS:………………………………………… Thank you for the reward ~Tibetan knife Mo Xiao~