Chapter 160: Spring Sleep and Awakening

As the spring sun pours down on the land, rivers of snow and ice weave through the jungle, eventually converging into a huge river that rushes into the canyon between the jungles and into the sea.

A small creature with a nimble body runs through the woods, its whole body covered in scales to insulate it from the cold of spring, and a small organ behind its skull that provides warmth and comfort for its entire body.

The Spar lizard, as it is called, moves swiftly beneath the dense fog of the forest, searching for food in the cold humidity.

In this era, death ...... In the air.

Its limbs swayed rapidly, and its body temperature was superior to its peers, and it cut through the crevices of the rocks, jumped over the snowmelt stream, and a corpse as huge as a mountain appeared before its eyes.

The corpse of this creature was fat, with a layer of scale armor, its scale armor was covered with cracks and wounds, this corpse was lying on the ground, and a meter behind it, there was a long blood stain, as if it had been injured in some way, and dragged the injured body for a long time before dying.

The Spar lizard was not interested in how the creature died, and it raised its head and opened its mouth to make a "cooing" sound that slowly echoed through the jungle...... Tens of seconds later, more than a dozen of their kind emerged from the jungle and joined the feast.

The carapace of the creature was cracked, but no blood came out, but it was covered with a white layer of fluffy hair, which was a fungal infection, but the Spa lizard was able to break down the fungal toxins, and they didn't care about devouring the carcass. And there was another spa lizard that did not eat. Instead, he stood on the back of the corpse and observed his surroundings. In case something dangerous happens.

But it forgets to pay attention to one direction...... Air.

Suddenly, there was a small rattling sound from the twisted leaves above, and in less than a second, the sound turned into a huge black shadow...... That's a huge rock!

"Quack!"

The Spar lizard, who was in charge of the 'sentry', noticed the problem and immediately jumped off the corpse and fled quickly, while also constantly screaming for its companions to escape, but the next moment it ......

'Boom! ’

The boulder slammed into the corpse, shattering it and a swarm of spa lizards in an instant, and only the sentry survived.

"Quack......" The Spa lizard stared blankly at where it had been hit by the boulder. As well as the circle of blood around the boulder, it seemed hard to believe that fact, and it suddenly turned and ran frantically into the jungle, it made its way through the dark and intricate twisted branches, over the rotting wood, and into a glade.

The place was covered in a patch of white, but it was not snow, but bones, large and small, piled up in the glade, some with broken pieces of flesh attached to them. It smells rancid.

Only vertebrates have bones, and only terrifying creatures. to make so many bones.

'Kala! ’

With the sound of bones shattering, a massive six-meter-tall creature slowly stepped out of the pile of bones, this creature stood on two legs, its muscular tail more than half its length balanced it, and a giant jagged mouth nearly tore its face in half, the creature stood in the center of the pile of bones and roared in the sky, declaring its territory with a shocking roar.

Although it did not roar at the Spar lizard, out of fear, the spar lizard escaped, and it turned and fled towards the jungle, rushing into the depths of the jungle at a faster speed.

I don't know how long it had been running, but the scenery around the Spar lizard kept changing, and suddenly, a light lit up in front of it, and in its field of vision, it was no longer a dark jungle shrouded in twisted trees, but a vast wilderness.

The view here, it has never been seen before.

In the wilderness, there are countless creatures of different shapes, some only a few meters, some more than ten meters long, they roam and move in the wasteland, chasing each other, although they are of different kinds, but judging by the soft and thick skin, these creatures are all vertebrates.

In the air, at the same time, there are countless flying creatures passing by, there is a huge wing membrane structure between their outstretched limbs, which gives them the ability to fly in the air and super high speed, suddenly a flying creature swoops down from the air, grabs a small lizard not far in front of the Spargar lizard, and flies into the air......

The Spar lizard tried to escape, but it was horrified to find that its body was immobilized and unable to move......

At this moment, a group of huge creatures appeared in front of the Spargar lizard, with slender heads but huge bodies, and these creatures took heavy steps, and ran in a panic in the wilderness.

To the right of their group, a monster with fangs and sharp teeth rushed out, and it pounced on a creature, biting at its body with its teeth.

The appearance of this monster caused the biota to start a frantic flight, and they rushed straight in the direction where the Spar lizard was, and the Spar lizard, unable to move, could only watch as a creature lifted its legs and stepped on it.

'Smack! ’

With a strange sound, the surrounding scenery suddenly distorted,

"Quack......?" Spa thought he was dead at this moment, but suddenly found that he had not been harmed, and the biota and the wilderness were all gone, replaced by an even more wonderful sight.

The ground here is paved with pink, purple, blue, white, rainbow of different colors of fluff, they are intertwined, and between this fluff, there are huge umbrella-like creatures, and under the blowing of the spring breeze, the 'umbrella' releases a large amount of gray powder, which is scattered with the air current, and disappears into the air......

Unimpressed by the sight in front of him, the Spar lizard immediately tried to move its body, and when it saw that there was nothing wrong, it fled deeper into the jungle.

…………

It's a success, a new breed of brain reader, but it should be called a 'hallucinogen'.

A flyer flying in the sky looked at the Spa lizard that had run away, and Lynn felt very satisfied.

Recently in the jungle, fungi have grown in an explosive form, replacing scavengers as the most powerful and rapid corpse decomposers, because the twisted jungle has a large number of arthropods dying, and their corpses are generally under the surface nests of the jungle, where the fungus explodes, first covering the corpses and then extending out of the ground with hyphae.

One of the most peculiar fungi, which Lynn calls the 'rainbow fungus', takes on a variety of colours depending on the food they decompose, making the surface look like a colourful blanket.

They also grow large colored umbrella-like structures with a diameter of one meter and a height of about two meters, called 'giant mushrooms', to release a large number of reproductive cells.

The 'vegetative cells' of fungi are very different from those of other creatures, and Lynn didn't have to name them separately at first, but Lynn recently came up with a new name, 'fungus dust', to describe them, which felt very suitable.

The fungus releases dust that spreads everywhere, grows and thrives wherever there is water and food, and occasionally drifts into the respiratory organs of other organisms, touches its olfactory nerves, and eventually has some strange effects on the brain.

This effect is called 'hallucination', and it causes false images or perceptions in the brains of living beings, mainly caused by abnormal brain cell activity caused by bacterial dust.

Originally, these hallucinations only allowed creatures to see some strange things, such as seeing trees moving, things around them twisting, etc., and they would soon recover, and of course, some creatures fell off a cliff and died because their sensory organs were paralyzed.

Lin recently studied this phenomenon, and then created a special class - hallucinators, which are modified by brain readers, and can release a weak electric current, which does not harm, but can cause an effect similar to 'fungus dust', and combined with fungus dust, it creates powerful illusions for living beings.

The hallucinogens can be carried by guòlin with a small needle shot by the bomber, and after piercing the cortex of the creature, the hallucinogens will quickly swim to the creature's brain, stay there in a parasitic manner, and make neural connections to its brain.

Lynn happened to see a Spa lizard run into the Rainbow Fungus' cover, and it was likely infected with fungus dust, so Lynn injected it with a hallucinogen.

The hallucinogens combined with the fungus dust produce very real hallucinations, and Lynn can do it without affecting the ability of the creature to judge fear and danger and affect the brain cells, and the creature that appears in it is just like the real thing, making the Spar lizard feel fear and danger, and even making it have hallucinations like 'found food'.

It was a lot of fun, but Lynn couldn't read the creatures' minds directly, even though she was able to force their brains to accept some strange visions.

Of course, the brain will also have a corresponding immunity to this, and if the hallucination is done to a creature a few times, it will have no effect.

But even if you do it once, it's very valuable to study, Lin is now doing all kinds of things, and the brains of living beings are also one of them, and they have to figure out how to read their thoughts, not to read memories, but to know directly what they are thinking at the moment.

As for the various creatures that appeared in the hallucination of the Sparry lizard, they were Lynn's predicted creatures.

Lynn made some predictions about the reptiles that live now, guessing what they will evolve into in the future, but there are no predictions about plants, so the jungle still twists the woods, and also combines the current scene, like the beginning of a boulder falling from the sky, which is also one of the scenes that is happening now.

Narushi began to lose his buoyancy and fell from the air three times in quick succession...... (To be continued......)

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