Chapter 184: The Barren Continent
The long voyage seemed to have come to an end, and the swimmer came to a halt on the rocky shore, where it stretched out barbed limbs at the edge of its body to hook into the crevices of the rocks to prevent itself from being swept away by the current, and to ease the fatigue of the long journey......
Lynn looked into the distance, it seemed that it could no longer be called an 'island', the coast was made of all kinds of rocks, and this barren coast was continuous with no end in sight.
The rocky beach is almost devoid of life, with only the occasional Blondo scorpion or two, and beyond the coast, there is a desert.
This feeling seems very similar to that of the Northern Continent, where the desert is not pure gravel, but a mixture of rocky and sandy land, and a whirlwind of sand and gravel sweeps across the plains, making the vision seem blurred.
This is supposed to be the Western Continent...... Got it?
Contrary to what Lin had imagined, Lin thought that there would be a lot of creatures moving here, although it was impossible to be fooled by appearances, and the outer part of the North Continent was also a desert.
But if it's really a complete desert, Lynn will try to transform the environment.
Anyway, now that you've arrived, let's settle down here.
Lynn sent her troops flying over the wasteland, and on a flat, dry rocky field, Lynn's Behemoth slowly descended to the ground, while the bombers landed on the surface of the nearby desert.
Behemoth opened the muzzle of the cannon on his back, and shot out a number of green orbs from it, which exploded and unfolded when they flew into the air, forming a green blanket floating in the air, which Lynn used to absorb nutrients first. to prepare here as a base for building a base.
Some of the bombers gathered. Behemoth shoots a sac over them. The sac will slowly move and stitch itself and completely envelop the group of bombarders, which will then dissolve in it and can then be used to create other classes.
Lin plans to try to transform the desert environment here to see if it can be successful, although the animals brought with her are basically gone, Lin still has a lot of plant seeds, not just twisted trees. There are also plants on various islands along the way.
Lynn asked the pioneers to start digging in the sea, where the bottom of the sea was covered in a layer of black mud with small creatures that were largely constructed from their corpses.
The pioneers devoured all sorts of mud on the ocean floor, and when they had collected enough weight, they would come up and spit the nutrient-laden mud on the shore, and some bombers would collect it and spread it on the wasteland.
The Bombarders weren't very efficient at doing this, so Lynn dissolved most of the Bombarders and made them into a variety of troops, not just for transportation. There are also some combat classes to prevent any strange creatures from sneaking up. At the same time, Lin also began to build a large number of green carpets to collect nutrients, but the main source of nutrients is plankton in the sea, these creatures are good at collecting nutrients from the ocean current, the number of these creatures is quite large, but there are not many creatures that eat them, and from them can get nutrients, chitin, almost everything that Lin's troops need.
So Lin created a biological 'filter' that could collect a lot of plankton, and went to the sea to collect these huge amounts of nutrients, all of which were transported to the floating bases that Lin had brought with him, which were now floating on the sea, in order to generate a large number of troops.
Because the head bug is boring, Lin asks some troops to give it command, and the head bug is not very familiar with this tedious manufacturing activity, but Lin thinks it should be able to learn it quickly
Lynn intends to start building a base, environment, and then slowly take over the entire area on this coast, and when this manufacturing chain begins to move, Lynn will of course have to do the most important things.
Explore the continent.
This mission must be completed by a class that has not been used during the journey, the Leviathan.
Of course, Lynn can unleash a whole bunch of flyers or predators to explore, but that's less interesting, and it's better to explore the island's small places, but if you explore the mainland, it's obviously more interesting to discover its mysteries little by little.
However, Lynn will still release a large number of predators to explore the surrounding area, while Leviathan is responsible for flying directly to the depths of the continent, hoping that this place is not a desert.
In this way, everything began to progress slowly, the base that Lin had built on the coast was getting bigger and bigger, the swimmers who had stopped on the shore had left, and Lin didn't know where its next stop was, this creature was really interesting, wandering in the ocean all year round.
And the predators are also constantly exploring, Lin asked them to search the surrounding area about dozens of kilometers, this place is only sand and rocks, but Lin just discovered that there is something special hidden under the desert......
Some of the predators had gathered in a place more than thirty kilometers from the coast, and Lynn initially found the place a strange place, where the ground was not gravel, but dry cracked wooden blocks, which were piled up on the ground like grains of sand.
Wood? It seems that this means that there was once a plant?
Lin had the predator swallow the wood, making some detailed observations inside the body, and although it was unknown what kind of plant it was, there were many tiny cavities in the wood.
It looks like it has been corrupted by fungi...... Could it be ......
Lynn asked the predators to try to dig up the wood, while predators elsewhere dug into the sand beneath her......
Sure enough, after excavation, Lynn found that there were some white pieces and other things buried in the wood.
These are the bones of animals.
Not only in this place, but also in other places, predators have found the bones of various creatures, carapace fragments, and other debris everywhere under the sand and rocks...... And these wrecks have a feature, there are many, many tiny holes in them, which are very similar to the traces of 'plague fungus' infection.
Could it be ...... Was Lynn's previous guess correct? Why haven't Lynn seen the fungus before, it's because they're sweeping across the continent!
This continent may have been a biologically thriving environment before, but was completely destroyed by the plague fungus? The remains of creatures excavated by predators under the sand, as well as the barren surrounding environment, seem to be a good proof of this......
Although they had only explored a small part of the area, Lynn felt that the rest of the world was just as desert, and the fungi ...... Their destructiveness is much more powerful than fire.
It may have been only after the destruction of the continent that the fungus began to find a way to leave the land and drift to the ocean, leaving the world where nutrients were exhausted.
Lynn was supposed to see an environment rich in species, but because of the fungus......
There is also the suspicion that the plague fungus will devour both the skeleton and the wood, but the skeleton and the wood are kept, which is indeed strange.
The only thing that Lin could think of now was that the fungus had run out of water before it could decompose the skeleton and wood, and that if it didn't rain for a long time, the fungus wouldn't be able to filter the seawater, so they would have to try to leave the area and spread to other islands.
It is possible that they reached a symbiotic relationship with the locusts at this time, but how they did so is still a mystery.
But since there are so many bones hidden in this underground, then Lin can also use them, and Lin has created a new type of digging force: the 'Bone Twister', who is responsible for digging these bones, crushing them, and then turning them into a large amount of nutrients, which can be easily decomposed and converted into nutrients for the new troops after being mixed with seawater, and these things can also be used as soil, and these mixed nutrients are spread on the barren sand, and the plants can grow rapidly.
Lynn will restore the environment, but has it really been completely destroyed by the plague fungus?
The answer, perhaps, needs a Leviathan to find.
Leviathan had flown more than two hundred kilometers from the coastline, and it was still a wasteland, but on the distant horizon, Leviathan could see many large objects protruding.
It wasn't until Leviathan flew closer that Lynn could see the objects, which were exactly the same thing buried in the sand: the bones of creatures.
But the bones weren't buried under the desert, Leviathan flew through the sky and found that most of them were exposed above the surface, and the sand and winds here were relatively small and seemed to have time to bury them, but they looked strange, most of the bones were piled together instead of scattered naturally, as if they had been specially piled up.
The Leviathan flew along these piles of bones, and the further they flew deeper into the land, the more they became, until the Leviathan had flown about ten kilometers and there were more bones...... Quite terrible Cheng dรน too.
A large number of bone piles appeared on the ground here, all two to three meters high, like hills of wreckage, not entirely made of bones, as well as wood and arthropod carapaces and so on, and some of the higher 'wreckage hills' have reached a height of six meters.
Apparently some creature piles these things up, but what's the point of piling them up?
Leviathan stopped, flew to a pile of bones, and reached out to pull some bone fragments out of it to break it down.
'Click......'
There was a small sound.
When the bone fragment was pulled out, the whole pile of bones seemed to be implicated, and it continued to make various small sounds, and then there was a 'boom', and the bone pile collapsed.
It seems that the structure of these bones has become quite fragile because of the long time it has been left out, but the important thing is that the bones seem to be interlocked with each other.
That is, this is a nest built deliberately by some kind of creature?
Lin asked Leviathan to take a closer look around some of the bone piles around them, and sure enough, they found some holes and other structures at the bottom, and Lin only then noticed that almost every bone pile had a complete creature skull on it, and they were all facing the same direction. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the commuter pass~~