Chapter 154: The Last Season
This vibration was not in the location of Behemoth and the head worm, but in the ...... Mountain peak?
The collapse continued as far as the foot of the peak, but it did not actually spread to the area with hot springs and hot water, but stopped at the periphery.
In other words, the canyon formed in the underworld continued to grow until this point and stopped.
But now, there are a large number of cracks in the rock wall at the end of the canyon, and these cracks are getting bigger and bigger, causing the ground to shake constantly, like an earthquake, as if something is about to gush out.
It seems that because the collapse has just ended, there is a possibility that the ground is unstable everywhere, like the current phenomenon, Lin has a familiar feeling, this feeling is more commonly used in the sea......
'Boom! Suddenly, at the crack that burst, a large amount of black liquid suddenly gushed out!
These black liquids emitted bursts of smoke, which seemed to be very hot, and the one that rushed into the sea suddenly made a '......' sound, and a huge amount of steam suddenly rose from the sea.
These liquids are more common in the potholes at the foot of the mountain, and Lin believes that they contain a lot of toxic components, and there are no plants growing at the foot of the mountain, but there are many fungi and some small beetles and other creatures in them.
The liquid that comes out of these spews seems to be more viscous than the one in the potholes, so to speak, a kind of black mud, and when they pour into the icy water, they not only produce a large amount of steam, but also begin to harden under the influence of the water temperature.
The mud in the water solidified and became a hardened structure like a rock, and a large amount of mud was gushing out of the cracks. The mud solidifies in the water. Therefore, the higher the pile, the higher the pile. Eventually, it was piled up above the water.
Looks like we're going to have to fix it.
Suddenly, a giant creature spun out of the water, crashing directly into the crack in the cliff that was spewing mud.
Lynn's Pioneer had replaced most of the chitinous material during the few days and nights that had occurred between the sea's sabotage and collapse, and had swam to this location, which Lynn had intended to use to probe the lava beneath the peaks, but this was the time to deal with the problem.
'Boom! ’
The onslaught of the Pioneers knocked a larger hole in the rift, and the hot mud burst out, but Lynn didn't feel any heat at all. Not to mention the burns, it seems that the carapace similar to the Purgatory Worm is indeed very effective.
Then the Pioneer swings his head up and down, burrowing the cave wider, allowing more mud to gush out, and then the Pioneer turns his head and rushes back into the water, spinning his body to crush all the solidified mud at the bottom of the water, so that the mud cannot be piled up in the water, so that the mud will continue to pour into the water.
In this way, the Pioneers kept crushing the mud that had solidified into the water, so that the mud would not pile up and would continue to pour into the water. Eventually, the mud gushing out of the hole in the cliff began to fall less. Slowly stopped.
As Lynn thought, the mud content was not very much, and it would be better to let it leak than to plug it up.
The mud fragments that have now been crushed by the pioneers have blackened large chunks of the water, but although the mud is poisonous, it is only for some creatures, and unlike those toxins in the sea, there are many organisms that can break down the mud, which will not cause any harm to the water in the canyon, but may attract more creatures.
However, because this place is cracked, Lin is not able to use the Pioneer to drill into the foot of the mountain now, I don't know if there will be any problems, if the lava erupts, it will not be good, it is better to drill the volcano at the bottom of the sea.
With that in mind, Lynn asked the Pioneer to swim in the direction of the sea.
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After this small incident, Yiqiē became calm again......
There were no collapses, no major incidents, and a large number of creatures quickly adapted to the new canyon, some of which set up nests and began to hunt and live on them, and the huge home trees were loved by a large number of flying creatures vying for the position of various nests.
In addition to dragonflies, beetles and cockroaches are all flying, but Lynn has recently spotted some flying reptiles that grow a membrane between their limbs and are able to make short flights through the air.
Flying creatures occupy the home tree, and many creatures that used to live by rivers enter the water of the canyon, which is usually only hunting, but there are also creatures like the Continental Fish that can adapt to both freshwater and seawater, and they can go to the sea through the canyon, so that the sea will recover faster, and this collapse may be a good thing.
In addition to her research on these creatures, Lynn also studied the species 'Ancient Squid' in particular.
After the group of squids took the sac last time, Lin found them hiding under a safe rock, and then began to fight each other, as if fighting for the sac, and eventually it was the strongest pair of squid who got the sac.
After laying eggs, the males and females will take turns to find food and take care of the young, and the sac is also a pair of male and female squid, and they take out the eggs in the sac and then stuff them with their own eggs to hatch.
It seems like a strange move, and although Lynn has seen many creatures take care of their own young, this is the first time that an ancient squid has behaved like this.
If they find the eggs of the same kind and do not take care of them, they will generally eat them, although they generally do not eat the corpses of the same kind, but the eggs do not hesitate, and their willingness to take care of them means that the egg is very special.
It is necessary to continue to observe it.
There are many other ancient squids, they seem to intend to live in this canyon, they will use all kinds of debris to make nest materials, usually there are two or three pairs of ancient squid in a nest, but when hunting they will gather dozens of them, they are full of adventurous creatures, they prefer hunting rather than picking up carcasses to eat, this is what makes Lin think that ancient squid is a creature in rapid evolution, which is very valuable to observe.
In general, when the behavior of organisms is abundant to a certain extent, the rate of evolution becomes much faster, like the Inca swarm, which has been parasites for a long time and has always changed slowly, but when they become a division of labor, the rate of population evolution suddenly rises rapidly.
A lot of things happened around Lin while observing the ancient squid, the head worm flew back to the clouds in an airboat, it wanted to continue playing in the air and enjoying the landscape, and Mketu led the troops to build a new rocky mountain next to the canyon, where the abundant creatures were very suitable for its population to develop more rapidly, and now, the head worm population has more new troops.
During this period, it is also a time of frequent storms, with clouds and thunder and lightning covering the sky, and a downpour that lasts all day, but the next day there is always a cloudless sky...... and flooding waters.
Because the sea level is not higher than the cliffs on the edge of the desert, it is now at a height of more than ten meters from the top of the cliffs, so the sea water does not overflow the canyon, but under the watering of heavy rains, the water will always flood out and flood the surrounding jungle, but the jungle will soon form a river of water to the desert, and then be absorbed by the endless sand, which forms a special cycle.
As the desert gets wetter and wetter, the twisted trees begin to stretch their roots towards the desert, the twisted trees are slow to grow from a single seedling, but they are quite fast if they use their roots, and Lynn thinks that if the rainstorm continues, the twisted jungle may cover the entire desert.
During this period of qiē change, the Inca swarm also woke up.
The time to leave hadn't come yet, and they had a different reason for waking up, explaining to Lynn that they wouldn't attack any creatures, but that they needed to go into an area of the jungle to dig.
Lynn didn't think there was a problem, and Lynn noticed that the Inca swarm was digging above the Chibcha Worm Nest in the Glitter Glade, and they were digging in a really funny way, each time making a hole with a spiral trapezoidal structure, and they dug out a strange stone under the hole, which was gray in color and reflected a very strong sheen when the light hit it.
Lynn had seen this stone before, but she didn't pay much attention to it.
Once the Inca swarms had dug up the stones, they transported them back to the Desert Pit, and they were all arranged around the spiral staircase of the Crater, which was said to be what they used to leave.
Lynn later discovered that during thunderstorms, lightning occasionally hit these strange stones, as if they were able to attract lightning.
Other than that, nothing else has been found, and the Inca Swarm has also stated that they found the stones by accident, that they have never been used in history, and that the statue does not record these things, but the Inca Swarm says that it should be able to catapult them far away.
Bounce far away? Can this happen in a pile of rocks?
However, Lynn never thinks 'this can't happen', but wants to see what is going on.
The Inca swarm didn't seem to be very sure, this was their first attempt, and if it wasn't successful, they indicated that they would travel to the far reaches of the ocean.
But it's not yet time, why? Because of the snow and ice on the sea, the Inca swarm plans to leave in winter.
Speaking of snow and ice, Lynn also noticed that half of the summer was already over.
Day and night passed slowly, this summer was different from the past, the northern continent had changed dramatically, and creatures began to live like never before, growing in an environment rich in food, and finally, the end of summer came, and all living things ushered in the moment when they should end. (To be continued......)
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