Chapter XXXVIII

The white dragon was hooking its claws into the cracks in the rock at the top of the cave, and Lynn saw that its eyes were glowing faintly in the darkness.

It seems that unlike Tucker, who likes to stay on land, the White Skeleton Dragon has mastered the method of accurately judging the environment in the dark, and Tucker has not seen the White Skeleton Dragon at all!

"Whew!" With a scream, the white dragon jumped from the top of the cave, its claws stabbed straight at Tucker, but because of this scream, the white dragon was detected by Tucker, who immediately jumped out of the way, dodging the dragon's attack.

Lin really doesn't know why it barks, predators are very quiet,

But now that both sides are in the dark, the White Skeleton Dragon can see Tucker's figure, and its eyes seem to have some kind of luminous ability, but Tucker can also tell the location of the White Skeleton Dragon from its glowing eyes.

Battle, on the verge of breaking out! The white dragon's claws swung at Tucker, but Tucker grabbed its claws at a faster speed, and then twisted it vigorously, only to hear a 'kala', and the white dragon's thin forelimbs were twisted by Tucker to an abnormal angle.

As it turned out, Tucker seemed to have a keen sense of hearing in the dark, and he could even feel the sound of the dragon's claws waving in the air to accurately grasp the dragon's claws.

The white dragon screamed as Tucker twisted its forelimbs, and Tucker didn't pause before grabbing the dragon's neck.

With the sound of bones breaking, the white dragon fell to the ground.

The battle was ended lightly, and it seems that Tucker would indeed be able to play one-on-three if he wasn't injured.

Then next. What will Tucker do? Want to find a way to get out? But Lynn will at least stay here for a while. Unravel some of the questions here. Like a large pile of eggshell fragments on the ground, fossils of fungi, gnawed away skeletons, and ......

A war.

The troops that were sucked into the roots of the tree were actually the same ones that Behemoth used to immunize the fungus, but Lynn decided to name them 'Invaders', just here for the time being.

In the middle of the tree, they tear apart the 'blood vessels' of the tree with their spider-like eight arthropods. Tearing the cells inside, which is interesting, Lynn found many muscle-like structures, but not as well as the muscles of animals, which means that although they can move, they are not as fast.

Lynn had never seen a plant with an immune organ, and while they were immune, this tree had a more special immunity, and they even used multicellular organisms to help with immunity, just like Lynn. Although this should be a symbiotic relationship.

At the time of the attack of Lynn's invaders, a small arthropod. Lynn called it 'sword fleas', and they gathered in large numbers, they resembled a kind of parasitic organism 'fleas', but they were much smaller, small enough to linger in the body of the organism, instead of the action of immune cells, sword fleas moved in the body fluids of the tree in a spray of water, they were half the size of the invader, and used their tiny fangs to tear the invader's body.

Lynn gathered the invaders together to face the attack of the sword fleas, their bodies inward, their limbs outward, and any sword fleas that came close immediately grabbed it with several arthropods and tore it apart! Of course, torn sword fleas are not wasted, their fragments are eaten by the invaders, who then rapidly grow in size......

The invaders melted their backs and put them together as they grew, and all of them were slowly transformed into a large creature by Lynn and tore a large number of sword fleas, and the group of invaders was constantly growing.

It feels good to fight in the water, you can change your body shape at will, and if you're on land, you have to get a shell to prevent water leaks, and it's almost impossible to quickly transform your class.

The invaders were now integrated by Lynn, their arthrops enlarged and sharpened, fin-like structures developed to aid swimming, and Lynn had assembled larger mouths on its head to devour more fragments.

The sword fleas nourished Lynn's troops like an endless supply of nutrients, and now, Lynn will use this grown class as a base to produce more invaders......

When they have enough troops, they continue to march deeper into the roots.

Lynn devoured them, feeling very strange, the sword fleas seemed to be completely immunized, they could distinguish not only fungi, but also viruses, as multicellular organisms they were much larger than viruses, but they could still find and devour viruses, and then the tree would produce some balls as nutrients in return for the sword flea.

It's a typical symbiotic relationship, the sword fleas can even find those cells that are infected by the virus and devour them, their strength makes the tree itself have no immunity, and Lin is destroying this qiē, all the invaders keep attacking and tearing apart these sword fleas and various structures, the deeper they move, the more Lin discovers more secrets of the tree, and slowly explores its entire structure......

This takes quite a long time because the tree is actually very large, but the big one is not the tree itself, but its root system.

The tree was a rather large plant, with a huge cylindrical structure called the 'core' around the column, and around the cylinder there were countless root systems, like the tentacles of a sea anemone, all of which were close to the ground, and to Lynn's surprise, the tree had many structures that resembled animal organs.

For example, the pipes in the root system have some heart-like structures, which are the same as the hearts of ordinary organisms, like 'pumps' to force various pipes, and there are many more.

In addition, there are digestive structures such as the 'stomach', etc., and it has been found that its cells are not only plant-like, but also many animal-like cells, and even each root system has a ganglia-like structure, so that the tree can immediately control the movement of the root system and pursue prey, but these structures are relatively incomplete, or primitive, and the organ types are much less than animals, and it still retains many plant characteristics, Lin thinks that this may be a creature located between animals and plants.

The tree that Tucker and Lin saw in the cave before can be said to be its reproductive organ and feeding organ, it uses a huge root system to absorb water from the ground, and then mixes with 'petrified toxins' and releases some on the ground, because it is full of dry salt stones or saltwater lakes, and creatures attracted by the light quickly find that there is water here, and after drinking it, the creature is tricked.

Petrified toxins will make the structure of living organisms stiff, including the heart will slowly not move, then the root system of the tree will follow the smell of petrified toxin to the corpse of the prey, it will not pursue those prey that are not poisoned, Tucker was attacked, it should have been poisoned, so it was infected with that special smell.

This creature surprised Lynn, it completely abandoned the previous plant lifestyle, and was a little more powerful than the common trap plants, and it even symbiotized with the sword flea, and had an army of its own, which meant that maybe even high-intelligence plants would appear in the future?

The odds are small, but time can tell the story.

Lynn gave it the name 'Dumesa Tree', which felt like a fitting name.

Lynn knew that there was obviously more than one plant, so she could slowly destroy it.

While Lynn slowly attacked the tree, Tucker wandered aimlessly through the cave......

It walks around on a large pile of broken shells on the ground, and its emotions are very complex, anxious, nervous, fearful, all kinds of emotions, and Lin thinks it has a lot to do with the 'death' of the pterosaur.

Tucker spun around in the eggshell fragment for a long time, and suddenly it kicked something, and its affection instantly added an 'surprise', and it picked up the thing it kicked.

This egg...... It should be called an 'egg', the dinosaur's egg strengthens the hardness of the shell, which is different from the usual egg, and this egg is the egg of the skeletal dragon......

Lynn had never seen the skeletal dragon breeding, but the shack they had lived in had cracked eggshells inside, so knowing its shape and size, Tucker obviously knew it, was so surprised.

Lynn reckoned that it was probably the White Dragon's egg, but instead of smashing it immediately, Tucker held it for a while and walked in the direction it was coming from.

After walking for a while, Tucker reached the fork in the road, the 'Dumesha tree' was still shining, in fact, the meaning of this tree is very different from that of ordinary plants, this structure is somewhat similar to the mushroom used by fungi to release fungus dust, its branches are like tentacles of glowing silk threads for propagation, every certain time, these tentacles will break, it itself has enough nutrients, and it can even slowly move forward like a worm, and start to grow in another place.

These tentacles have a large number of small spines like jellyfish tentacles, and can inject petroltoxins into contacts.

The purpose of its glow is to lure prey to drink, for no other reason, this exposed tree only has these purposes, and the huge root system underground is the 'body' of the 'Dumesha tree', it should have grown exactly the same structure as this tree in other places, and Lin believes that if there is a lack of prey in one place, the 'Dumesha tree' will slowly move elsewhere.

Lin now basically understands this kind of tree, although it is not very clear how it produced this way of life, this will be slowly explored by digging up fossils in the future, and now Lin feels that there is no need to destroy it completely, but can use its nutrients to form a new class for Lin.

Tucker was acting very strangely, first placing the egg in front of the tree, and then taking a large pile of stones from the nearby ground and surrounding the egg.

At the same time, Tucker also carved a lot of marks on these stones with sharp stones, what the hell is it doing? (To be continued......)