Chapter 161: The End of the Age of the Giant Worm

In the spring, the desert is as usual, dyed green by the endless explosion of vines and ferns, and in this new fern forest, there would have been many creature chirping, but now ......

It became quiet......

Not only the desert, but also the twisted jungle, it was originally the breeding season, but there was no sound of creature fighting, no chirping, nothing but the pervasive smell of rotting corpses, which lingered for a long time.

Reptiles are only a small part of the large arthropods, and they are not yet able to replenish the environment, so the entire jungle seems very empty and quiet after this disaster......

The large arthropods have disappeared, and the current jungle can be said to be a forest of plants and fungi, plus a small number of reptiles, the number of reptiles should explode due to the loss of natural enemies, but until then, Lynn can only wait...... Is it?

There was also an area where Lynn's Oxygen Fortress was filled with normal sounds, and some large creatures had awakened from it, as if they hadn't noticed that the world around them had changed, and they moved their huge bodies, lazily strolling through the jungle, trying to wake up from their long slumber.

'Boom'.

A scorpion-like creature crashed into the 'wall' on the edge of the oxygen fortress, this creature was one of the offspring of the descendants of the group of desert scorpions that Lin had encountered a long time ago, because Lin had made the chitinous matter very transparent, so it didn't seem to notice it when it woke up shortly after waking up, but hit it several times in a row, and only after finding that it was really impossible to move forward, did it bypass this strange place.

It's not just the desert scorpion, it's in a transparent chitin shroud. There is often a thumping sound. Some bees kept banging against the transparent wall. It seems that they are very confused why they can't fly over.

This wasn't surprising, since they hadn't been trapped like this, but Lynn had noticed that some of the creatures had even bumpered out, which was a bit inappropriate.

Moreover, it is not only the sound from inside, but also the occasional boulder falling outside......

'Boom! ’

A boulder smashed into the outer shell of the oxygen fortress, causing a loud bang that scared away several bees that were crashing against the wall.

In the midst of the twisted jungle. There is such a huge roar everywhere, and the moon is slowly moving away.

Every night, Lin could clearly see that the moon began to get smaller and smaller, and the effect on the stone slowly lost its effect.

Lin began to think that the stone might slowly drop in height without causing any great damage, or that it might all fall together at some point, which would cause a lot of damage. But that's about it.

But in reality, neither of the above is true, but a much stranger situation.

After the month began to get smaller. One by one, the rocks suddenly lost their buoyancy...... It was really quite sudden.

Suddenly losing their buoyancy will fall from a high altitude, irregularly and unpredictablely, and Lynn speculates that it may be related to the surface activity of the moon, and these boulders falling from the sky occasionally pose a deadly threat, whether it is a creature on the stone or a creature in the jungle below.

However, Lin has not seen the whole of Daming Stone Island fall so far, the largest falling stone is not more than ten meters in diameter, if it is exceeded, it will peel off little by little, instead of falling down in one piece, so at least it will not cause a wide range of casualties.

Because of this strange way of losing buoyancy, there are often loud noises in the jungle, and Lynn's oxygen fortress is not so easy to be smashed open because of the spider silk that is particularly reinforced, but there are still some cracks on it, and Lin needs to use a shell painter to repair it, and at the same time, Lin uses air forces to push away all the singing stones above.

The head worm also tumbled out of the airboat, just like it had done when it dived, stopping the airboat on the surface and rolling into the water, but this time it didn't stay in the water for long, but began to build a new rocky mountain near the canyon to prepare for living there......

The head worm's love is not very good, it is uneasy about this silent jungle full of the smell of rotting corpses, because without prey, they can't hunt, although the head worm can be planted, but they mainly rely on hunting, now the head worm seems to be very low, this may last for a long time.

Lynn made a guess that showed the head worm the future evolution of creatures, and only when she saw this did the head worm become excited.

But at the same time, it has become more like to stay in the rocky mountains, and is not as fond of coming out and rolling as before.

And Lin is not so boring, Lin lets a large number of snowballs float and wander in the jungle, taking in all the qiē that happens in the forest, recording the changes in the whole jungle......

In addition to the twisted jungle and spreading fungi, a number of small creatures have been found moving in the forest, and they are ...... Arthropods.

A group of tiny cockroaches quickly ran in front of Lynn, but this unsurprising phenomenon suddenly attracted Lynn's attention.

These cockroaches are the offspring of a large arthropod called the 'question mark cockroach', which is named because they have '? But the point is not this, many arthropods have the habit of 'holding eggs for the winter', that is, laying eggs at the end of summer, allowing the eggs to survive the winter underground and then hatching again, it is clear that there is nothing wrong with these hatched cockroaches, they can live in this environment.

Suddenly Lynn noticed that the jungle was full of such sights, and small arthropods began to appear, crawling out of the ground where the snow had melted, and galloping in a world that had killed all the large arthropods in their small bodies......

Arthropods are not extinct, and some species that Lin thought would disappear forever, such as horses, centipedes, cockroaches, crickets, spiders and other creatures have emerged from the ground, and their small size makes them need very little oxygen to live safely.

But what happens after that? These pups will grow up sooner or later, right?

Time, gave Lynn the answer.

Lin chose some fast-growing creatures to observe, a creature called the 'Golden Spider', which after more than ten days and nights, should have grown to more than a meter, but they did not, and instead maintained a slightly larger body size than their cubs......

As it turned out, because there was not enough oxygen, their bodies stopped growing, but remained at a young stage, and their reproductive organs also matured and could reproduce directly in this body type.

So, did oxygen not cause extinction, but rather shrink their size? (To be continued......)

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