Chapter 46: The Painting in the Wood
Leviathan folded his wings and swam to the location that the head worm had said, which happened to be the edge of the lake and was covered in a pile of ferns.
Leviathan used his tentacles to flick away the fern, and countless small flying insects flew out of the fern bushes, small golden beetles that shimmered in the sun's rays.
"Ethnicity?" Leviathan stretched out his tentacles, sucked a small golden beetle with the suction cup on his tentacles, and reached out to the head worm and asked.
"Polcarts, bright, reflective, food, not a swarm." The head worm bit the small beetle on the tentacle suction cup, chewed and ate it.
"Ethnic smell, there is a residue, continue the search."
After eating, the head worm rolled over its body, rolled off Leviathan, and fell into the fern bush.
"Danger, don't act on your own." Leviathan stretched out his tentacles and pulled the head worm out of the fern bush, Lin had already noticed that although the head worm knew what danger was, it didn't seem to have any sense of crisis, it was almost completely defenseless, and its only trick was to roll, so it was easy to sneak attack.
The caught head worm moved its body, as if trying to continue rolling, and Lin felt the excitement of the head worm, and it said, "Find the passage of the clan, three meters ahead, the ground, under the ferns." ”
Ethnic passages?
Confused, Lin walked over to the spot where the head worm had said and opened the fern bushes there, and Lin found that there was a tree hole about a meter in diameter.
"Settlements, Homestead Trees, Interiors, Tumbling!" The head worm excitedly tumbled off Leviathan's back again, rolling into the hollow of the tree.
Inside the Homestead Tree? Sure enough, just as Lin thought, the middle of the tree was also empty. But it's not all empty. Otherwise, it would not be able to support such a large size.
The hole is too big. Leviathan couldn't get in, and Lynn was trying to make the hole bigger, or release a few small units to get in, when the screams of head worms came from inside......
"Lynn—"
Now the head worm will use the name 'Lin' for any of Lin's troops, instead of looking for the biggest leader or something like before.
It seems to have some problems inside, and Lynn plans not to blow up the hole first, but to let the Leviathan release a few flyers into the cave.
The inside of the cave feels very narrow, and it is less than a meter wide. A small space less than three meters long, and the head worm is lying on the ground at the bottom of the cave, as if looking at something.
It spotted Lynn's Flyer flying in and said, "Ethnic drawing, Lynn, take a look." ”
Lynn noticed that there was a distinct circle-shaped mark where the head worm was lying on its stomach, but there was nothing else.
"Painting?" The flyer with the sound sac asks questions about the head worm.
"Paintings, traces of the race, scent remains, start searching." The head worm began to roll as he spoke. Lynn watched as it rolled against the cave wall and rolled back into place. Rolling to the entrance of the cave, he found that he couldn't roll up, and rolled back to the bottom of the cave, this action only lasted for a while, and then he stopped rolling and said: "The cave is too small to use the tumbling search method, and the clue is interrupted." ”
Lynn sometimes really wonders if 98% of the cells in her brain aren't coming in handy.
The head worm was now stuck on the painting, as if thinking about something, and after a while it suddenly said, "Find a new clue, use the second search method, shock." ”
"Gah!" The head worm suddenly made a very sharp sound, and this sharp sound made Lin feel as if her hearing was being shaken rapidly, and under this vibration, cracks appeared in the ground and the surrounding cave walls under the head worm.
It turns out that the sound still has this effect? It's worth looking into......
I saw that there were more and more cracks around it, like a net covering the entire cave, but the head worm still continued to pronounce, and finally, the whole cave cracked, and Lin found that behind the cracked cave wall, a wider and huge space appeared.
The head worm fell due to the cracking of the ground, and only a 'thud' was heard, and Lynn found that it had fallen into a lake.
This lake is exactly the same size as the one above, about twenty meters wide, it should be the central layer of the tree, it is a fairly large space, about thirty meters from the bottom to the top, because the light outside can't shine here, the whole looks dark, but in the center of the lake there is a strange blue light, this light illuminates the whole space.
The head worm floated in the lake and rolled desperately, and cried out: "Close to death, close to death, dangerous, roll quickly, get out of death, don't want to die, refuse to die, Lynn-"
Lin immediately let the flyer fly, grabbed the head worm and dragged it to the edge of the lake, the head worm was very light and could float, otherwise it would be quite dangerous to sink to the bottom of the lake.
Lynn's respiratory system is generally amphibious, but it seems that most creatures have abandoned the ability to breathe in water.
The head worm rolled ashore: "Out of death, safe environment, tired body, need to rest." ”
Seeing the head worm lying on the ground resting, Lin looked around, there were only a few plants growing on the ground and inner walls, all of them were mosses, no ferns, and in the center of the lake, there was a huge wooden cylinder directly connected to the top, and Lin thought that the lake above might be flowing to this cylinder, forming a new lake.
But are they connected to the waterfall below? Lin thinks that according to the amount of water flowing from the waterfall, the two lakes will soon be gone.
"The rest is complete, the search begins, the smell of the tribe remains." At this time, the head worm began to roll again, and after rolling about ten meters away, it stopped, and began to wriggle its body and rub against the moss pile, and after wiping off the moss and dust, I saw a picture appear under it.
Lynn saw what seemed to be a mark carved with a sharp object, but couldn't understand what it meant.
When Lin was about to ask the head worm, it suddenly said, "Ethnic drawing, incomprehensible." ”
"Incomprehensible?" Lynn wondered about the reaction of the head bug, wasn't this from its species?
"Races, don't know how to draw, it's possible that during the period I'm away, new learning abilities."
In other words, its race didn't know how to draw pictures in the first place, but learned it during the time when the head worm was captured in the Chibucha?
This is also normal, Lin remembered that the head worm only knew to draw after seeing the changes in Lin's pigment cells, so it can be seen that it does not know how to draw.
Next, the head worm turned out a lot of drawings on the ground, except for a few that felt like scribbles, most of them were still understood, the most important thing was to draw the appearance of some creatures of the head worm group, and draw the scene of them hunting, eating, and so on.
But why isn't there a single group of head worm creatures here?
Lynn's flyer followed the head worm that kept flipping through the drawings on the ground, and Lynn suddenly discovered that a new drawing of it depicted a creature that was exactly like it.
"Mketu, the new head worm, took my place when I left." The head worm looked at the picture and said, "The race has new heads, new ideas. ”
"How do you know?" Lin looked at the picture with just a head worm and nothing else, how could it know so much information?
"The smell, like the painting, is engraved here," said the head worm. ”
I see, Lin has also seen many creatures communicate with smells, scents can carry extremely complex information, it can be quite troublesome to decipher, usually this kind of information can only be understood by the same family, Lin then asked, "Superseded?" ”
"Yes, there are no heads, no thinking, no hunting, no eating, only death, the race needs heads, and the queen gives birth to new heads." The head worm said with a somewhat 'lost' feeling, which felt like a delicious food had escaped.
'Queen' is the word for the species that the head worm has for the species that the tribe produces full-time, and I think it's quite interesting.
"Keep tracking the trail of the race." The head worm then continued to roll on the ground, rummaging through the ground to find more paintings, and Lynn found that all the paintings were drawn around the lake in the center, and most of the paintings were recording some life history, as if nothing particularly interesting.
And after the head worm turned around, it finally stopped, and said very tiredly: "The exploration continues, there is a special smell at the bottom of the lake, and it is impossible to explore." ”
The bottom of the lake?
Lin looked at the blue glow of the lake, and Lin also thought that it was necessary to study it.
Thinking about it, Lin directly let the flyers into the lake, and although the flyers are generally flying, they are also able to move in the water.
Lin found that the water was filled with a small luminescent creature, quite a large number, and the pilots slowly approached the bottom of the lake, and Lin found that the bottom of the lake was full of all kinds of impurities and debris, most of which were corpse remains, and there was nothing special to be found, and there may be paintings buried in these debris.
However, the Flyer couldn't dig, so he had to let the Leviathan come down.
Wait, what's that?
Lynn saw a huge mass of clumps coiled together in the pile of debris, which if it stretched out, it might be about ten meters long, and it looked like a ...... Worm.
The flyer got a little closer, and Lynn noticed that it was indeed ...... The Mist Worm, this one is much smaller than the ones on the other side of the Pinnacle Forest, but the carapace is exactly the same as the appearance.
It seemed to be in a state of slumber and motionless, how could this creature be here? Linco had never seen a misty worm in the Twisted Jungle.
"The exploration of the painting, the storage of gas has been completed, and it has begun to tumble, with Lynn." Lynn suddenly heard the sound of falling water, and the flyer looked up and could see the head worm rolling on the water.
With this sound, the Mist Worm slowly raised its head, and as soon as it woke up, it saw the head worm rolling on the water...... (To be continued.) )
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