Chapter 42: The End of the Dragon
Is this the reason for the screaming?
Lin floated to Tucker's side and found that it was smashing an egg with a stone, but it couldn't be opened, this egg looked much larger than the other eggs, about thirty centimeters high, and the average dragon egg was only ten centimeters, this egg was very hard, even if the stone was smashed by Tucker, there would be cracks, but it still didn't move.
The egg was obviously from another creature, but Tucker still wanted to kill it.
"Stop."
At Lynn's voice, Tucker immediately stopped, and then Lynn's pom-pom reached out and touched the egg with a few tentacles, making subtle probes.
The moment she touched the egg, Lin suddenly felt a burst of surprise, this was ...... A chitinous structure that has never been seen before!
This chitinous substance is very hard, and it feels like a mixture of several high-hardness substances, and if anything, it resembles the carapace of a purgatory worm.
This chitinite cannot be obtained from ordinary organisms, and it is estimated that the producer of this egg, like the Purgatory Worm, collected this chitinous material in some special place to create such a strong egg.
However, if it is strong, it is just that it cannot be broken, and the dissolved liquid still has an effect on it.
Lynn's tentacles release a dissolving liquid that slowly dissolves into a small hole in the eggshell, allowing the tentacles to burrow into.
This egg is dead, but the contents are not rotten yet, maybe it is too well sealed?
It's ...... Lin found that there were many creatures in it, usually only one creature per egg, but there were a lot of them crowded here, and they were very familiar to Lynn...... Dragon!
Wyvern cubs are only a few centimeters in size. That's why there are ten wyvern cubs in it!
Is the Wyvern's egg so strange? It's not just hard. And a whole bunch of huddled together...... But unfortunately, the little dragon is indeed the last one. These are all dead.
All the baby dragons seem to share a nutrient structure in the center of the egg, and Lin thinks that they can't get out of the hard eggshell on their own, and may need the help of an adult dragon.
Why are there wyvern eggs here? Speaking of which, at the time, Lin didn't find any eggs in the crater that she thought was the dragon's lair, but there were ...... in this underground Other words...... Adult dragons aren't very far from here.
Lynn looked at the cracked wall in the distance...... What's behind that!
Thinking about it, Lynn flew over there, and Tucker stopped smashing eggs and followed, because it had smashed a lot of them just now, so it was better to be in love now.
Tucker wasn't quite settled, though. It always deliberately kicks or smashes the eggs around it along the way, and Lynn thinks it might smash all the eggs here if she gets the chance.
Now, Lynn and Tucker walked over to the wall, and Tucker saw the bones of some adult white dragons around him, and Lynn felt a sudden angry thought, and it walked over and stomped the skulls of these bones to pieces.
It does have a feeling of 'hate' for these creatures.
Hate is sometimes useful to ward off threats, but sometimes it can lead creatures to go crazy. It's a more troublesome situation.
'Boom! ’
The pom-pom stretched out its tentacles and slammed into the wall, and the fragile cracks crumbled and scattered. Another cave appeared in front of Lynn.
This cave ...... It's really peculiar......
Lin slowly drifted into the cave, the whole cave was covered with white gravel, in the sand, there were various parts of the bones, but they were all bones of the dragon, on the white cave walls around the cave, there were many huge mushrooms protruding, among these mushrooms, there were many bones sticking out, as if they were stuck in the mushrooms......
The pom-pom stretched out its tentacles to grab some of the sand on the ground, and Lynn found that it was not gravel, but a large amount of fungus dust, but it was hardened and not alive.
Some of the bones on the ground were even wrapped in mycelium, as if they were ...... Attacked by a plague fungus.
The fossil fungus and the plague fungus here should be two different species, and the structure in the fungus dust is very different, but do they also have the ability to infect the plague fungus?
Tucker didn't seem to care much about these fungi, he probably hadn't seen them, but he would have a happy feeling when he saw so many bones.
It seemed happy to have died so many white dragons...... This kind of emotion seems difficult to understand.
The deeper you go, the more fungal fossils you see, a large number of mycelium are displayed in front of Lynn as if they are alive, most of them are wrapped in some skeletons, and some fungi grow on the skeletons, but they are all hardened without exception, as if they are all poisoned by petrochemical toxins.
This should have nothing to do with the Dumesa tree, it can't petrify all the fungi that live here, unless......
It's ......
Lynn found that in the deepest part of the cavern where the light shone was lying a gigantic wreck...... This is...... The corpse of the Wyvern!
This wyvern is a complete adult dragon, about twenty-five meters long from head to tail, this is the largest wyvern Lin has ever seen, the scales on its body seem to fade and appear miserable white, there are many traces of mycelium on it, and there are even some small mushrooms growing on it.
In the head of this wyvern, the position of the eyes is a hollow, and it is estimated that the flesh inside is gone, but the scale armor of the body remains.
The moment Tucker saw the wyvern, he fled frantically backwards, but after escaping for more than ten seconds, it seemed that it had discovered the problem on its own, and then ran back again, at this time, Tucker slowly approached, carefully observed the dragon, and knew that it was dead......
So Tucker was so afraid of dragons? They weren't very scared of tyrant dragons.
There were many skeletons of the wyvern next to the huge wyvern corpse, most of which had small mushrooms or mycelium on them, as if they had been killed by fungi.
Pom-pom pompom pompom through the eye hole in the wyvern's head and found that it was filled with white hardened material, presumably mycelium or something, and these structures were holding the dragon's corpse from deflating.
This feeling, it seems that the fungus has eaten up the body of the wyvern, and Lin has already suspected that these are plague fungi, or species related to plague fungi, they destroyed the skeletal dragon here, but it did not spread to the land, is it because it is all salt? Or too dry? But why do they become fossils? This is obviously not the same as normal fossils, they are hardened under some circumstances.
Tucker walked around the wyvern's corpse, and Lynn noticed that he had anger and fear for the wyvern, and the fear seemed to be greater, it should have seen this creature before, and Lin could guess why he wanted to catch the wyvern in the first place.
Then Lin continued to look around, the cave was not very large, the ground was covered with fungus dust, and there were bones and fungal fossils everywhere, as well as the corpses of huge wyverns......
They must have some special history, and it's interesting to study their history, but how? These dragons don't like to make statues.
Maybe we should find out if there are any other caves, and maybe they will record history in other ways......
But for now, let's study the things here, such as this wyvern......
The scales of the wyvern are wonderful, after being dead for so long, they still maintain a high hardness, just like the egg outside, which is made of unusual chitin, this chitinous material is very light, but very hard, so that it can facilitate flight, and also ensure defense, the wyvern that Lin has seen before does not have this kind of scales, probably because of age.
Lynn took some of the fragments down as 'samples' to see if she could find similar chitin, and if she couldn't find them in normal creatures, she could look inside the volcano.
Then, Lynn looked at the rest of the cave, it seemed to be the end of the cave, there was no road to other places, the cave here was narrow, it was logically impossible for the dragon to enter, maybe it filled the hole back, or grew up here? This feeling is less likely.
But the White Skeleton Dragon and the Wyvern must have some kind of close relationship, which is why Tucker has an angry affection for both of them, and now, Tucker is digging into the fungus dust around the Wyvern, as if looking for something.
"Gah!" Suddenly, Tucker screamed, and he dug a ...... out of the pile of fungus dust Head?
"Quack!" Tucker held this head and began to jump, it seemed very happy to see this, Lin found that this head was like a flying dragon, the scales on the outside did not disappear, but the flesh inside was empty, so he could still see the shape before his death, this was an obvious white dragon, its scales still had many scars, there was a feeling of 'battle-hardened'.
Maybe it's a boss or something? Is Tucker happy because the leader is dead?
Tucker jumped for a moment and threw the head onto the cave wall and smashed it to pieces, and the fungus dust inside flew out like snow and scattered everywhere.
The fungus dust here should be dead, otherwise it will be very dangerous.
Then, Lynn and Tucker left the cave and returned to the place where the eggs were everywhere, and now that this is the place where the exploration is complete, it is time to leave......
Lin also basically thought about what was going on here, what was the relationship between the White Skeleton Dragon, the Wyvern and Tucker, which might also be related to the plague fungus, but there were some parts that had to be asked about Tucker.
Tucker didn't seem to want to leave yet, and when he got back here, he continued to smash eggs everywhere...... Lynn stopped it and began to teach it more vocabulary.
With that, Lynn will start asking Tucker about its history...... (To be continued......)