Chapter 175: The Island That Was Once an Island of Life
The Reaper quickly circled the entire island, which was filled with bones except for gravel and rocks.
The whole island was obviously hit by a storm, and all the skeletons, wreckage and other things were blown to pieces, but some of them remained intact, most of the skeletons were reptiles, and some were arthropod carapaces, one of the largest reptiles was about three meters long, and its tail was only skeleton, but it could still be seen that this large reptile was very good at swimming in the water.
In addition, there are many small arthropods, their corpses scattered all over the island, presumably caused by the storm, but some are alive, piled up among the various bones, gnawing on the unconsumed nutrients inside.
These creatures were supposed to have gathered on this island in large numbers, apparently swimming from the previous island, and they were trying to hide here from danger, apparently the danger was not the storm, they did so and they were closer to the storm.
And Lynn speculated that they might have died before the storm came, not for any other reason, but basically starved to death or lack of water......
Most terrestrial organisms cannot filter the salt in the sea, and generally speaking, after drinking seawater, they must secrete 150% of the amount of fresh water in their bodies to solve the salt in the seawater, so the more they drink the seawater, the more miserable it will be.
They've been here for a long time, and the storm is just a matter of chance, but it's strange that no creature tries to return to their original island, and they'd rather die in such a barren place.
Or are they waiting for an opportunity, but after waiting for a long time, they don't even have a body? Lynn had to figure out why. You won't leave this place until you figure it out.
However, the head worm can't read the memories of the small arthropods that are still alive here. Their nervous system is relatively simple. So......
What's that?
The Reaper, who was looking back and forth over the island, suddenly saw something strange black peeking out from under a stone on the island.
Is there something hidden there?
The Reaper instantly accelerated towards the rock, and with a loud bang, the rock was knocked out of the way, revealing a black structure beneath the rock.
What the hell is this thing? The Reaper flew over to the black object to take a closer look, and Lynn saw that it appeared to be chitin......
Could it be that some large creature is buried here? It seems to be the appearance of a rather large arthropod.
The Reapers, on their own, were not suitable for digging or investigating, so Lynn had ten bombarders fly here because of the proximity. The Bombarders arrived on the island a few hundred seconds later, and the Bombarders brought with them some digging worm-type units, which began to dig near the chitinous outcrops on the ground.
What was buried underneath was motionless, and ...... When Lynn dug up the gravel around the chitin, she found more chitin.
Seems like a big creature? Lin told the worms to continue digging until they had dug more than ten meters in diameter, and found that all they had under the gravel was this black shell.
Could it be ......
Lynn told the Reaper to fly to the edge of the island and into the sea, where the Reaper could move and breathe, and after entering the sea, Lynn saw the bottom structure of the island. Beneath the island is not rocks or the like, but a large pile of thick arthropods.
Each arthropod is nearly ten meters tall. They are flanked by rows of fluff that appear to be used for paddling, and these arthropods are attached to a large carapace that is the size of the entire island......
With that said, the island is a huge ...... Arthropods? Is there an animal that grows bigger than a home tree?
Lin asked the worms on the island to drill directly into the shells on the island, and Lin found that the shells were extremely thick and had many small holes and other structures on them, but with the help of the strong dissolving liquid, Lynn still got into them.
Inside the shell is a dark space, but like living beings, it is filled with internal organs and blood, but they are not functioning......
Is this creature dead? Indeed, the arthropods that Lynn saw underwater were motionless.
But Lynn seems to have guessed something by now.
More exploration is needed, and the worms continue to travel through the creature, inspecting the entire colossal creature, while the bombarders begin to devour the island's corpses, creating more worms to observe.
It takes a long time to search for a creature that is two hundred meters long and one hundred meters wide, and at the moment when it was close to night, Lin finally basically explored it, and this creature, it should be said that this group of creatures, was called 'Wanderer' by Lin.
This is indeed not a creature, but a huge group of organisms, the body shape of the 'swimmer' is somewhat like a relatively flat beetle, their body is about ten meters long and wide, more than three meters high, each has eight arthropods for paddling, or predation, their visceral structure is similar to trilobites like marine arthropods, but the biggest feature is that their carapace is connected to each other, and their esophagus are also connected to each other, which is a very strange way of life, That's probably how they float around in the sea, devouring plankton for a living.
But because of this, they formed a huge island, and the sand and gravel on the island seemed to have been made by themselves, and Lynn found a small hole in the carapace on their backs, and it is estimated that they sprayed all kinds of debris collected in the sea on their backs, presumably for camouflage, and there was a rather thick layer, and the previous storms had not completely scraped off, and the rocks on it did not know what was going on.
The 'Swimmer' may have fled to its back as soon as it approached the island, but the Wanderer did not know why it died, and the creatures on its back were trapped and had to starve or die of thirst.
I see, the creatures fled to the sea not to die, but to take the 'Swimmer', and maybe the Swimmer would reach another island or even a continent, and then they would be able to land there.
But so far, we don't know why the creatures are fleeing, if they can ......
There's a live one!
Bombers floating around the island suddenly discover a lizard crawling out of the back of a skeleton!
This lizard seems to be of the same species as the 'sound lizard', and it is now lying on the ground, as if its body has reached its limit, but it is still alive.
It's good that you're not dead.
The bombers immediately flew over, picked it up with their arthropods, and flew back quickly in the direction of the original island. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you ~Duan Mi ~ for the tip~