Chapter 159: The Third Incomplete Mass Extinction
In spring, the warm light spreads all over the world, the ice and snow begin to melt, the sea of canyons begins to thaw, the plants begin to regain their greenery and youth, and everything recovers!
And then he died.
The low oxygen levels continued throughout the winter, and even in the spring, when the plants woke up, there was no sign of getting better, and many creatures began to wake up, and under the influence of the temperature, their blood flow first accelerated, and then the cells regained their vitality, and their limbs began to move.
But during this period, because of the inability to obtain enough oxygen, the vitality that had just been gained disappeared instantly, and the creature began to produce a state of dizziness, the brain could not get enough oxygen, the limbs also became weak, the creature became panicked and frightened, and occasionally vomited and other phenomena occurred, and after hundreds of seconds, the creature's heart would stop beating and eventually die.
Nowadays, almost no living things do not need oxygen, even fungi and plants, and this phenomenon has caused great damage to living things, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a disaster.
It's the same oxygen disaster that Lynn experienced a long, long time ago, but that time because of the oxygen that appeared, and this time because of the lack of oxygen.
In the jungle where everything was originally revived, the screams and sorrows of creatures echoed, and the lack of oxygen was a very painful thing, and some creatures would gouge out their eyeballs because of madness, or hit their heads out, and then fall to the ground and die.
There is only one place, which Lynn calls the 'Oxygen Fortress', where the creatures can wake up and move normally as they used to.
But most of the oxygen-starved creatures didn't make it out of their sleeping nests. They just died in their nests. The state of death is quite horrible.
Lynn's snowball was still floating in the wind. Watching the tragedy from above the jungle.
The spring sky is supposed to be quite lively, with countless dragonflies and swarms flying through the air to breed. There were no more dragonflies in the air, and they all died in their nests.
This is a new catastrophe......
However, Lin avoided the disaster perfectly this time, this incident is really not a disaster for Lin, even if the oxygen disappears completely, Lin can survive.
But for other creatures, this is a great destruction. Within a few days and nights, the smell of rotting corpses began to fill the jungle, and the fungi had begun to decompose the corpses of these creatures, although the fungi also needed oxygen, but they needed very little, and they were almost indifferent now.
The cause of the lack of oxygen Lin has thought of many possibilities, this reduction rate is indeed abnormal, but it doesn't matter, even if the oxygen is restored, it will not be able to resurrect these dead creatures.
But Lin always felt that the fungus was inseparable from this qiē. Now, with the arrival of spring. The fungus began to crawl out of the surface to decompose the mass of corpses that had died of lack of oxygen.
After all, only fungi are new creatures, and anything else has been sustained for quite some time, and perhaps it was really fungi that caused this ruin.
However, although it is ruined, it is a new life for some creatures.
That's reptiles.
Oxygen has not disappeared completely, but has only decreased to a certain extent, so almost all of the people who die from lack of oxygen are large arthropods.
In fact, more than 95% of the species that occupy the jungle are arthropods, some of which can grow to a particularly large size, but arthropods obtain oxygen through a kind of stomata all over the body, and if the oxygen content is reduced, they will not be able to obtain oxygen normally, and they need a lot of oxygen to wake up in spring, but they will die because of this.
Reptiles, on the other hand, have an organ called a 'lung' that actively draws a lot of air to get oxygen, so even if they only feel uncomfortable when their oxygen levels are low, they don't die, and they quickly adapt to the current situation, and some reptiles have come out to find food.
Food ...... Now It's all over the place.
Reptiles are tiny creatures at the bottom, they usually play the role of 'arthropod prey', they have been running away in the jungle in a panic, they are so small that only a few can grow to the size of a crystalline lizard, but this time they can feed on these giant monsters.
How will they feel? Feeling incredible? But for now, binge eating is the key for them.
In addition, the head worm also belongs to the arthropod class, they have evolved from some kind of evolution, but it has no problem, its large head needs a lot of oxygen, so it has a kind of 'lung'-like ability.
It doesn't have lungs in its body, but it has a small class, Lin actually recently found out that it is a class, and at first it was only thought that it was the organ of the head worm itself, and the miniature class was called the 'oxygen ball', they are like a ball, a large number of them are all over the stomata of the head worm, they will act like lungs, inhale a large amount of oxygen and deliver it to the head worm, and they don't need to 'queen' to reproduce, they will multiply or decrease according to the physical condition of the head worm, so the impact of lack of oxygen on the brain worm is very small.
The other classes of the Head Worm have this class in their blowholes, so it won't be a big problem.
Sure enough, there are some ways for the division of labor species, and because of the division of labor, they usually encounter various situations that a single organism can't cope with.
However, Lynn didn't know what was going on with the Inca swarm, she didn't have this kind of class, and she didn't know if there was a drop in oxygen where they went.
We'll see this later, Lynn thinks they'll be easy to figure out.
There are no Aztec bugs, maybe they have some problems, as far as Lin knows, Montezuma II is still alive, but the large bugs of the deep sand bus may not survive.
Lynn then observed the aquatic creatures in the canyon, and found that the reduction in oxygen had little effect on marine life, including marine arthropods, which did not use stomata but used gills to breathe, and it can be said that the ocean has not changed much, and the ancient squid, a special creature, hid in underground caves during the winter, and now they are pouring out in large numbers again.
Ten days and nights after the arrival of spring, almost 99% of the large arthropods died according to Lynn's statistics, but the small ones were largely unaffected.
In addition to this, a large number of reptiles have lost their natural predators to hunt them, and they stand in front of a newborn jungle......
What kind of changes will these creatures make? (To be continued......)
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