The rain didn't last long, and when the clouds cleared and the light fell again, Leviathan stepped on the land of the Glittering Glades again.

But here...... Can it still be called woodland......

There were scorched marks everywhere, and the thick trunks of the trees turned into black shards and dust, covering the ground.

There were also many twisted trees that did not fall, but they also turned charred black under the burning of the flames, and a strong smell emanated from the entire jungle.

This sight, and it is the result of the extinction of species.

Is species extinct...... Lynn is only now thinking about it.

Yes...... The beautiful environment, the environment suitable for life, is also made up of countless creatures, organisms make the land free from the threat of ultraviolet rays, creatures make the world rich, every species, every predator and prey are buckled together, they form a special relationship with each other, so that nutrients and energy are constantly rotating between them.

Lynn had noticed this relationship when she had observed various creatures, but at that time Lynn had not delved into it......

If one of these species disappears, an unpredictable situation can occur.

Extinction...... Lynn had only done the same thing in the single-celled era, but there were so many cells at that time that even if one went extinct, the other would quickly fill the place of the exterminator, but in the multicellular era, it seems that there would not be so soon a creature to fill the place of the exterminator......

After all, every multicellular organism has evolved through countless disasters, and once it disappears, it is gone forever, along with its countless years of evolutionary information, without a trace.

I see, is that what compassion really means......

Lynn didn't know how the Chibucha Worms managed the fungus, but it seemed that they had a way to keep the fungus from spreading into the jungle, and perhaps the Chibucha Worms would have any other effect on the jungle, but it was impossible to know now.

I seem to regret it a little......

If a similar situation arises next time, Lynn will not make such a simple decision. It's about thinking in more detail. But Lynn won't let go of the creatures that threaten her.

Now that it's over, Lynn doesn't think too much about it, and after summarizing and thinking about it, Lynn knows what to do next time.

Now, go ahead and research this place and see what the flames have left behind.

The flames did not extend into the jungles of the Dark Plains. Lynn discovered that trees that weren't destroyed were able to produce a special liquid that seemed to stop the flames from burning them.

But fungi can destroy this ingredient and make the tree dry and cracked......

Lynn is now researching the glittering woodlands that have been burned out and smell of smoke. Everything that has been burned by the flames will emit this smell, and the heat of the flames will destroy the cellular structures in their bodies, and emit a thick smoke.

In fact, Lynn's olfactory system defines smell by itself, and Lynn allows them to evolve and grow like normal cells, and the cells evolve quite quickly regarding the sense of smell.

The peculiar thing is that the smell of these smoke is not stinky, but 'fragrant'.

'Incense' is the opposite of 'smelly'. It's a signal for food. Other words......

Lynn tells Leviathan to release a few collectors and make them eat some of the ashes around them.

These ashes are supposed to be left behind after the plants were burned. And most of them are digestible, and they are digested very quickly.

It turns out that after being burned by a flame, what is originally food becomes easier to digest, so that is, the flame is not entirely destructive.

Lynn noticed that many of the small creatures that had escaped during the fire had also returned, rummaging through the ashes, and Lynn saw a huge cockroach digging through a pile of ashes.

It was a horned cockroach, more than 4 meters long, the largest cockroach Lynn had ever seen, but it wasn't fierce, and it ran away as the Leviathan walked towards it.

Leviathan dug up the ashes that the cockroaches were digging for, and Lynn found a large number of burnt, charred-black reptiles hiding underneath that seemed to be their nests.

Lynn had the Devourer eat some charred reptilian meat, which she found to be digestible like ash mixed with plant debris.

But it contains much less nutrients than when it wasn't burned, just like this reptilian meat, and Lin calculated that it would take about ten times the amount to replenish the nutrients obtained by eating it directly.

Other burns may be different, but they are basically not as nutritious as those that are eaten directly.

However, charred meat also has the advantage of having few other fungi on it.

Single cells are a very peculiar creature, no matter how they are killed, they will keep popping up, so when ordinary organisms eat, they need to prepare a considerable number of immune cells, and the speed of digesting food is much slower.

But the burned food has almost no single-celled organisms, and there are no viruses and too many impurities, so it is much easier to digest, so so many creatures like to dig up and eat burnt things here?

So, when food is roasted over the fire, it becomes safer?

But this didn't mean much to Lynn, who completely ignored the threat of single-cell cells and viruses, so Lynn would never choose to roast food over a fire before eating it.

As for the research on fire, Lynn had done it before the rain stopped, and Lynn found that the reason for the appearance of fire was quite simple, it needed high temperatures, and it could be combined with combustible objects.

Lightning is responsible for the heat, as it is as long as an object, such as cracked wood, will cause flames, and it seems that oxygen is also needed to do so, and the burning of the flame will reduce the oxygen in the surrounding area.

This phenomenon is quite interesting, but because of the temperature of the flames, it is difficult for Lin to study the detailed structure, so Lin plans to create some units with the ability to protect against high temperatures.

The flames disappear because they are isolated from combustibles and can be isolated with water, which is why Lynn has not seen such a fun phenomenon for so long, because she spends most of her time living in the ocean.

High temperatures can be generated by the friction of objects at high speeds, and flames can be generated in this way.

For now, Lin thinks that the meaning of the flame is only to destroy miè creatures, maybe in battle.

But this kind of thing is difficult to control, so it's better not to use it casually......

After looking around the charred woodland, Leviathan returned to the caverns of the base.

Now, there's new news there...... Mosses have successfully evolved immune cells against fungi!

It was so fast, not even a day or night, unbelievably fast, it was hard for Lynn to imagine why they were almost all wiped out in the first place, but the problem was that of all the mosses in Lynshi, only this one had evolved, and nothing else...... They're all dead. (To be continued.) )