Chapter 176: The Wandering Plague
"The fragile brain, the life that is about to end, read the memory, extract the essence."
The lizard that is almost dying is in front of the head worm, and this precious brain can provide precious information that will show a qiē question...... Actually, it's okay if you've just died, but it's even better if you're alive.
Species with small brain capacity in general appear to have less clear memories, but can still know a lot of information.
Once upon a time, there were many, many creatures living on this island, but it didn't last long, and among them, there was a habit that lasted for a long time, and that was to reach the body of a huge creature, the 'Swimmer'.
Swimmers usually travel back and forth between several islands, but there are also some larger islands where creatures travel to other areas by riding on the back of the wanderer.
So far, it's the same as Lynn thought, but the island had all the resources they needed to live, so why leave with a swimmer?
In addition, there seems to be more than 'one' swimmers, there are also some other swimmers who have been here, and the one that Lin saw died for unknown reasons, so the creatures riding it were all trapped on it, and eventually died.
The cause of the Wanderer's death is difficult to find, and Lynn didn't find any wounds or anything like that in its body, and the cells seem to have stopped functioning slowly, probably because of the end of life, this giant creature usually has a very long lifespan. There is not even such a thing as longevity.
It can only be said that the fate of the creatures that ride it is not good......
And the reason they flee to the Wanderer is to hide from something.
The head worm said that the kind of thing left a deep fear on the lizard's memory, and it swept through the island. Nothing will remain......
The head bug said it didn't find out how the lizards knew that this 'thing' would come to the island. Lynn speculated that it might come at regular intervals. Some of the creatures escaped on the Wanderer, and then they came back to breed when they were fine, so that their offspring would remember to avoid it.
The lizard's memory of 'it' also seems to be very vague, and the lizard has not seen it directly, but the head worm found that this memory area contains a strong sense of fear.
That's why the head worm calls it the 'wandering plague'.
It seems that after communicating with Lin for a long time, the head worm will start to like names like Rin......
Plague usually refers to some powerful germ or virus that kills living things quickly. Occasionally, it can be a disaster worse than a storm or an earthquake, but one of the great weaknesses of this kind of thing is that it cannot cope with an environment rich in species.
A single species in the environment will be quickly destroyed by the plague, but if the species are abundant, the plague is quite fragile, and it is impossible for them to infect many different creatures, such as in a place like the Twisted Jungle, there is no plague at all.
So Lynn thinks that this 'thing' is not as simple as the plague, but the name is good, so it is called so.
So what to say. The 'Skull Island' that Lin encountered before was very empty, and it didn't seem to be due to the thick fog. Was it because of the 'Wandering Plague'?
It is true that this is very likely, so it is also possible that the creatures placed there are also dangerous.
However, if the Plague is a creature, it will not repeatedly attack the places it has visited, but should look for areas with rich species, such as this one.
The Brain Worm doesn't have many memories, and it only says that the creatures on the island use the Wanderer to avoid some dangers, but the details are not very clear.
But Lynn could deduce what was going on with the sound lizard that was knocking stones on the island......
The islands that Lynn has encountered along the way are quite barren and empty, but some of them have traces of inhabited creatures, and each island has some 'echo eggs'.
Perhaps the Echo Eggs are a recording thing, and the Wandering Plague will use the eggs to keep track of the islands they have attacked, and when the sound of the eggs stops, that is, when the nutrients are exhausted, they will return to attack the islands.
So the lizard mimicked the sound of eggs by hitting rocks, so that the wandering plague could get around the island?
Is it possible...... Although it is not known how the lizard learned about the relationship between the egg and the plague, the head worm found that the brain of the sound lizard was particularly large, almost catching up with the ancient squid, and this was just Rin's guess, maybe there was a deeper relationship.
However, it is certain what will happen here.
It wasn't an earthquake or a lava eruption, all those things that Lin could perceive, only the attack of creatures was unpredictable, and the route of action of this wandering plague was also very strange, if they had followed Rin's route all the way to attack, they should have reached the island a long time ago, but they didn't appear, and Lin didn't encounter them halfway.
And if it is from other routes, why are there many islands on Linlai's way that have already placed eggs?
In short, it seems that it is necessary to be prepared, this 'plague' may destroy not only the animals, but also the plants and the island, but it is unlikely that all the ordinary creatures will be destroyed, otherwise there will be no food to eat in the future, and they will place their eggs on the island to make an echo, and the time when the nutrients are exhausted may be when the island returns to normal conditions.
Although it is said that the eggs should only last about two years, this is too short...... There are still a lot of questions......
Now, though, Lynn is starting to prepare, the 'Wandering Plague' could be a plague with a huge number of creatures that leave nothing behind wherever they go......
There are many questions about the ecology of this creature, maybe it is a division of labor species, maybe not, they should have something to do with the huge pile of corpses on the bottom of the sea, so far it is confirmed that only they can swim in the sea, but they have never approached the northern continent, otherwise Lin would definitely find this creature.
If they eat all the plants and animals, they must be crazy creatures, at least they are very strong in war, but Lin thinks it should be almost impossible to encounter a species stronger than the Inca swarm.
Maybe you should hide? Lin didn't think so, if it was a war, Lin planned to face it directly, and besides, Lin didn't like this kind of creature that ruined everywhere, and the head worms didn't want to avoid it, thinking that they would be extinct. ”
Lynn wasn't sure which direction they would approach the island, so she would have placed observation classes on the edges of the entire island.
Of course, it would be better to put all the batteries on them, but it feels like a waste of resources, after all, it is a thirty-kilometer island.
At the same time, Lynn also asked the Reapers to search the nearby seas to see if they could find creatures like the Wandering Plague, or if they had moved.
The smell stays longer in the water than in the air, but the water is not good when it is moving, so it is better to rely on eyesight.
At the same time, Lin asked some of the troops to go back to the islands where they had found the 'Echo Eggs', and at that time they saw that these islands were all barren, so they didn't go to the detailed research to see what might be found.
Skull Island is supposed to be an island that has recovered a bit, not entirely sand and rocks, but a layer of green 'turf', but it should also be found, Lynn left some 'oxygen balls' there, these were originally plant-type troops with no sentient organs, but now they can also wake up and see the situation on the island.
Lynn quickly used nutrients in these 'oxygen balls' to assemble the eyeballs and organs to form a small flyer, and the flyer drilled out of the surface of the oxygen balls and flew to Skull Island below to begin the investigation.
The island is still shrouded in a constant fog, which is a testament to the lack of air circulation, so it can maintain a high oxygen level.
The flyer observes the sky above the island, where all the creatures brought by Lin are roaming the island, and they seem to be beginning to adapt to the environment of the island, and Lin sees a large cockroach still eating a bunch of flying fish, and occasionally the sea creatures on the island become their food.
And the two twisted trees that Lin planted began to wither, and sure enough, the light was too dim, and the homestead tree seemed to grow very well, and Lin did not insert them into the ground, but planted them directly on the ground.
The Flyer finds an open space and begins to descend and devour the dirt here, studying its ingredients to see if any traces can be found.
There are many microorganisms mixed with the soil and different species, and it is difficult to find anything in them......
The Wandering Plague seems to be a very decomposing creature, leaving no wreckage or excrement behind, leaving nothing but barren islands that they have eaten......
It's really hard to find traces of such creatures that eat without spitting out bones...... Wait, this one is......
During the decomposition process, the flyers found some strange debris that somewhat resembled some of the structure of the fungus.
It doesn't seem strange that there are fungi here.
In the end, Lynn didn't find anything special, although there were many kinds of microorganisms on the island, they were all wild fungi that had not evolved into multicellular, and even if there were any remains of biological cells, they would quickly decompose them, and this humid environment would not last long.
But it's strange that no bones or carapace fragments have been found.
After that, a few more days and nights passed, and after a complete search of Skull Island, almost nothing was found, and Lynn also explored some of the dry islands around the vicinity that had 'echo eggs', and found almost nothing on these islands, except for a few carapace fragments or bone fragments, which proved nothing.
But there's no need to prove it......
Reapers, observing the surrounding seas, discovered what could be the 'Wandering Plague'...... A group of creatures. (To be continued......)
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