Chapter Eighty-Six: The Frontier of the Underworld
After the blocked rocks, there was still a long cavern, and Leviathan continued to swim deeper along the cave, this cave was quite intricate, going down when entering the bottom of the lake, going up when blocking the rocks, and now going down, and at the same time adding routes to the left and right, etc., this feeling is almost like ......
Roller coaster!
…… What is a roller coaster?
No matter what, in short, as the Leviathan goes deeper, the originally still water begins to slowly become a flow for some reason, and it is getting faster and faster, because it is a downstream stream, so the Leviathan becomes more relaxed, but in the back, the Leviathan is almost pushed by this water flow, and the originally slow water flow has become a rapid.
And now this passage is right down, and with gravity and current, Leviathan rushes down rapidly!
Slowly, Lynn could see a dazzling light appear below, and a loud roar could be heard.
Lynn asked Leviathan to get ready, slowly opening the wing cracks on both sides of her body, and when she approached the light, she stretched out her wings violently, and opened the jet vent behind her at the same time!
'Bang! In this brief moment, Leviathan burst out of the water, and as he stretched out his wings, a vast underground world unfolded before Lynn's eyes.
Sure enough, this place also leads to the underground, Leviathan turned his body and looked back, the place that rushed out just now was a large hole in the cave wall, and the endless water in the cave continued to gush out, forming a huge waterfall rushing to the ground, and the water formed a lake with a diameter of more than thirty meters on the ground.
It's an interesting environment, and now that it's open, Narin can get a lot of troops underground. You don't have to go through the desert crater of the Inca swarm.
Leviathan slowly flapped its wings and landed on the ground. Leviathan's wings are now specially constructed by Lynn with a compression expansion system. Allows the wings to spread out for a split second, instead of slowly expanding like before, but it has its downside, occasionally straining its wings, and now Leviathan has to land on the ground to repair some of the scars.
There is no fern on the ground here, but a rocky field made of many large rocks, which is quite far from the location of the Brain Hunter, but I didn't expect the underground cavern to extend here......
It's about a kilometer from where the Leviathan is located. Lin saw a huge homestead tree towering between the rocky fields, topping the top of the cave as high as three hundred meters, and it seemed that the homestead tree could be distributed throughout the ground.
The distance from the desert to the mountain peaks is quite far, and Lynn estimates that the number of homecoming trees from there could be hundreds or even thousands, if there were so many homehomes, each inhabited by Inca swarms...... The number of Inca swarms is too large to count.
However, it is not known whether every homeland tree is distributed, or whether there are so many homeland trees, and in short, it must be thoroughly studied.
The Leviathan had now repaired its wings, when Lynn wanted to fly. Several fiery creatures were found running from behind the rocks.
This is a lizard with red scales all over its body, and it is a species that Lin is more familiar with, the crystal-scale lizard. Even though the Chibucha worm is extinct, Lin found that the Crystal Scale Lizard is still vigorous, they are all over the Twisted Jungle, and there are many species, reflecting the difference between different species is the color of their scales, I didn't expect that there are also such lizards underground, and they are red.
Lynn looked at them and flapped her wings, and Leviathan planned to fly to the nearest homecoming tree for research.
Flying over the rocky areas of this generation, Lynn saw many lizards living here, and the ground here occasionally cracked, and in the cracks a large amount of white mist would be spewed out, and these lizards gathered around these fogs and lived in small colonies.
Lin hasn't studied the environment of this underground world yet, and it is indeed necessary to study the environment, which can make Lin learn a lot, so that he can also create an environment.
In order to observe the surrounding environment, the Leviathan maintained a slow flight speed, and there were many lizards in this rocky area, so far, there was no Inca swarm, only rocks and lizards, and Lynn also found some other arthropod creatures - cockroaches moving here, this cockroach was red all over, so Lin planned to call them fire cockroaches.
Lin planned to focus on the Leviathan's side, which felt like the edge of the Inca swarm's territory, and the Brain Hunter was the center, so Lin asked the Brain Hunter to stay there for the time being, studying the digging behavior of the Inca swarm.
As Leviathan flew close to the Tree of Homestead, there were fewer and fewer large rocks below, and some craters about five to ten meters in diameter appeared, filled with clear water and still steaming, probably the same as those at the foot of the mountain.
There is a species of fish in the hot springs here, which Lin has seen in the sea, but it is not really a fish, they have thick and powerful ventral fins, they can crawl on land, and there is a name that describes them as 'mudskippers'.
It seems that they are very similar to the transitional species of fish that evolved into terrestrial organisms, but in fact, mudskippers and terrestrial salamanders have no evolutionary relationship with reptiles, they do crawl from the sea to the land, but after that they have remained the same as this fish, I don't know why? They're probably here because it used to be a sea, and they're survivors, or maybe it's something related to the Inca swarm......
Looking at the various scenes of this underground world, Lin regretted that she didn't find this place in winter, and if it was winter, she didn't know what the scene would be like here?
The Leviathan approached the Homestead Tree, and because the Leviathan's target was too big, Lynn stopped a hundred meters away, and instead released some flyers to get closer to the Hometree to observe.
The pilot first flew around the home tree, but did not notice the nearby Inca swarm, and there were many other creatures living under the tree, such as some terrestrial shellless snails, which can also be called 'slugs'.
The slugs were huge, more than three meters long, and since Lynn had seen and killed them in the Twisted Jungle, Lynn knew they weren't part of the Inca swarm.
The slugs feed on the dead leaves that fall from the trees, and Lynn found them abundant, when Lynn recently observed the Inca swarm. They have been found to love to prey on creatures next to their home trees. But there are so many slugs here...... There is no Inca swarm here?
The flyer carefully examined the bark and roots of the homestead tree twenty meters below. It is true that no wooden cave passages have been found.
Is there really no Inca swarm here? Lynn had even thought that the homecoming trees were grown by the Inca swarm......
Confused, Lynn brought the Leviathan closer to the Homestead Tree, and the Leviathan unleashed the Chewers, small units used to dig up wood, and they quickly dug a passage through the tree.
Unlike the Twisted Tree, the bark of the Homestead Tree is many times harder, and Lynn stopped after digging a small hole while using another method of detection.
Leviathan had been in the lake in the middle of the mountain to study constantly, and Lynn was mainly studying electricity. Reading the brain or something, but this method of exploration was discovered by chance.
It comes from a fish that has adapted to the murky waters of the bottom of the mountain lake and is unable to see but can use a powerful method to detect its surroundings.
They emit an extremely high frequency 'click' sound, which is transmitted throughout their surroundings in a split second, and is used to judge a wide range of objects by receiving the reflected click.
Lynn's auditory cells can pick up this sound, and Lynn can imitate it, but how to classify the sounds reflected by various objects is the most troublesome part. In contrast, this fish can clearly distinguish between various objects and types of organisms. After a long period of research, Lynn also understands whether the various sounds reflected represent living and non-living things.
The chewers who dig into the tree cavities have this organ that sends and receives sounds, and Lynn doesn't know if she can completely penetrate that thick home tree, but at least she can know what is going on at a closer range.
'Click......'
The sound of the chewer slowly spread through the tree's body, and Lynn waited for the sound to reflect.
…… No response, second trial...... Third ......
Sure enough, there was no Inca swarm activity here, and from the reflected sound Lynn could feel that there was not even a hole in this homestead tree!
So in this way, this is Lynn's first stop.
In a place occupied by other high-intelligence creatures, Lin didn't want to choose to get a base seed to develop slowly, but directly let the large army come in and occupy a larger place.
There is Rin's base and a lot of troops in the Lake of Peaks, but most of the troops in the lake are used for hunting, basically only snipers and hunters, and the rest is the base itself, a huge breeding pod and some guards' defense towers, Lin plans to dissolve part of the troops, let them be converted into pure nutrients, and then use some troops to carry over, and then create new troops after reaching the ground.
Lynn gave up the troops in the sky of the glittering glade to move in the direction of the mountain peak, but because of the distance, it would be some time before they arrived.
While waiting, Lin plans to strengthen the Leviathan's size, as Behemoth can't get in, so a new 'flagship' is needed in this place, and the Leviathan can take on this role well.
So, Lin began to let the Leviathan prey on the slugs under the tree, these creatures abandoned their carapaces, but they secreted a layer of toxin to cover the skin, but they were good prey for Lyn, who had the ability to filter, and climbed very slowly.
The Leviathan devoured a lot of slugs, and Lynn began to increase its size.
Originally, the Leviathan was more than 4 meters, but Lynn planned to add it to 10 meters first, and change the way of flight to use gas, wings, and jets.
Normally, arthropods grow by shedding their shells, but Leviathan, or all of Lynn's classes, to increase their size, they first build a sac to wrap themselves, and then the sac continues to expand as the body grows, and after the growth is completed, the sac will split, and a new class will appear.
As the Leviathan slowly changed, Lynn's troops in the lake were also ready and began to march here.
But why the rush to occupy an area here?
Lynn vaguely felt it.
'Threat'. (To be continued......)
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