Chapter 44: Leaving the Abyss
I'm going out now.
Lynn and Tucker were on top of a salt lake, and above the lake, the sun was shining brightly, illuminating the darkness......
Lynn had created some floating balls to strapped to Tucker, not enough to float him, but it would greatly reduce Tucker's weight and allow him to climb up the cave walls with ease.
But before that, Lynn will show Tucker the final ending of the White Skeleton Dragon with the Shower.
Tucker thought it was the real thing when he first saw it, and now it's much better, but when he shows the White Skeleton Dragon, he still has an angry feeling.
The connection between the white skeletal dragon and the fungus, Lin relied on imagination and speculation, they really didn't leave any paintings or statues or anything like that to tell this history, and everything seemed to happen quite quickly......
Lynn felt that this history had to be connected from the time she landed on the continent.
Tucker's history is relatively simple, they just wandered the wilderness all the time, while the white skeletons may have had a long history, they should have flown over the rift of this dinosaur continent and reached the other side of the rift, which is the outermost part of this continent, a wasteland, a world destroyed by fungi.
In the outer area, there was a smaller skeleton dragon that built a nest of bones to defend against fungi, which was originally thought to be a smaller skeleton dragon, which was only about one meter, while Nagami's skeleton dragon was two meters, and now Lin thinks that it may be an abandoned pup.
Originally, the skeletal dragons were supposed to have come out of the inner continent across the rift, and after being attacked by fungi outside, some of the adult white skeletal dragons crossed the huge rift. Returned to the Inner Continent. They may have formed a symbiotic relationship with the Wyvern at this time.
The relationship they have reached may not feel like the usual symbiosis. And it is likely that they picked up the pups of the wyvern and raised them, just like the head worm is now.
The White Dragons with their Wyverns are obviously the most powerful hunters in the region, they are invincible in this world, which makes the White Dragons population grow rapidly, they are more aggressive creatures, and they are very hostile to Tucker's Dragons, which is a relatively common phenomenon among creatures, and perhaps the two have been competing for a long time.
The fighting level of the White Skeleton Dragon and the Skeleton Dragon should be about the same. But the turning point was when a white dragon raised a baby dragon, and after that, it was different, Tucker's group of dragons was only slaughtered, and when the white dragons became the top hunters on the continent, they found something wrong......
The fungus is still following them.
Initially, when the White Dragons discovered that some of their companions were infected with fungi, they killed them and buried them beneath the Salt Wasteland.
The White Bones discovered that salt also stops the spread of fungi.
But then more and more people were infected, and later. The infected are all under the caves of the Salt Rock, which are filled with salt. So that the fungus does not spread out......
And in the underground White Skeleton Dragon Gate, the last life has also begun, here, the fungus still broke out, they killed a large number of White Skeleton Dragons, only some of them escaped.
But the part that escaped was also infected, so it was devoured by the meat cutting ants so as not to spread the fungal infection.
In this regard, it may be that they were voluntarily devoured by the Meat Cleavers, as it was seen in the battles along the way that the White Skeletons were a race that was quite adept at sacrificial tactics......
In the end, there were only a handful of them left, the ones Tucker and Lynn had seen.
Of course, there are many questions about why there are so many eggs there, why the fungus is petrified, and why a wyvern of this size is here......
However, it can be confirmed that the group of white skeleton dragons did migrate underground for some reason, and this underground once had a huge amount of fungi, but they were unable to climb to the surface.
This fungus is somewhat different from the plague fungus, but it should be a very similar species, or a variant of the plague fungus, which can confirm that the meat cutting ant is not infected, and its transmissibility is also limited.
The White Skeleton Dragons are not extinct, there should be some people living elsewhere, if you encounter them, you may be able to solve some of the mysteries behind, but they must also understand the situation here, and there are ...... Tucker didn't kill them.
Now, Lynn thinks it's time to get out of here, and Pom-pom slowly retracts its tentacles, and Tucker reads it, and he's quite happy about the massive death of the White Dragon, but it doesn't seem to understand anything like fungi.
These things have to be taught slowly, right...... There are quite a few things to teach them.
Tucker climbed up the cave wall, marveling at the floating orb that stuck to him, but because there seemed to be so many surprises, it didn't dance every time he saw one.
Lynn's pom-pom slowly floated up from the cave, a hundred meters tall was not too far away, and soon, Tucker and Lynn were back in the sunlight again.
"Oh!" As Tucker crawled out of the cave, he shouted excitedly at the sky, and his shouts were mixed with many happy feelings, mainly because he learned of the destruction of the White Skeleton Dragon, and Tucker had reached the point of 'hatred' for this race, but Lynn felt a little pity, and the death of the White Skeleton Dragon also buried their history.
However, Lynn can allow Tucker and his people to create a new history.
Now, the hot light shone on the desert land, and as far as the eye could see, there was no end to the white salt land, and the dry smoke and dust were scattered everywhere with the hot wind, and the smell of death was everywhere in this place.
It's no wonder that the White Skeleton Dragon chose this place, even the plague fungus can't spread from here.
Tucker looked around, then leaned on the ground and sniffed, Lynn saw that it was a little hesitant, and Tucker didn't seem to be able to find its way.
In that case, let's go in the direction of that group, they seem to be dozens of kilometers away from here now, and the parasite that Lin put down at that time is still on the cub, and can accurately locate it.
"Gah!" Suddenly, Tucker screamed and rushed in one direction, and it seemed to have found something.
Lin also floated over, and at this time, Lin also noticed that in the salty hot wind, there was also the smell of some decomposing corpses.
The corpse can also be replenished with nutrients, although the water is relatively sufficient just now, but both Lynn and Tucker have not received food for a long time.
After advancing for more than ten seconds, Lynn saw a red object appear in the white salt dust that was sprinkled, and it looked like a ...... Plant.
By the way, it was like six open white leaves, almost exactly the same color as the salt ground, each one was more than two meters long and half a meter wide, and the whole plant was exuding an extremely strong smell of decay.
Tucker didn't seem to see the camouflage of the plant, and ran to the place where the smell was, and the moment it reached the center of the six leaves, all the leaves immediately closed, locking Tucker in completely.
But seconds later, a crack appeared in one of the leaves, and Tucker cut it open with a sharp stone to burrow out of it.
Sure enough, it was a trap plant, which was supposed to rely entirely on creatures such as pterosaurs that searched for carrion in the wasteland for food, and Lin found that it didn't even seem to have a root system, and it was not easy to evolve so purely.
Tucker, who had not found food, looked rather lost, but it seemed that he had found something new and went in another direction......
In that case, it's better to follow it, and when I used to use the Pterodactyls, Lynn rarely led the way for Tucker.
Lynn followed Tucker slowly across the desert, the scorching sun in the sky began to darken, and when everything became dark, the light of a starry sky replaced the light of day, and the hot environment became cooler, even much colder.
Tucker didn't like to move at this time, and he leaned down and dug into the ground, as if trying to dig a hole to live in.
Now seems like a good time to teach it.
But what to teach it? Language? Build all sorts of nests? Or rather...... Flame?
Judging from the way of life of the dragons, Lin thinks that if they want to progress quickly, they may need some special development methods, and they should be taught how to gather larger communities, plant and other things to achieve a long-term lifestyle.
At the moment, Lynn only teaches Tucker some general knowledge such as language, and other things will have to be taught together after encountering his group.
The night, as Lynn taught it to pass slowly, pushed back the time of its slumber by a great time, and by the time it came out of its nest in the salt sand, half of the day had passed.
Then Lynn began to lead the way to find the group of dragons.
Crossing the entire salt field, Lynn and Tucker didn't encounter anything else, there were almost no creatures here, only the occasional trap plant that Lynn called the 'salt cages', and sometimes the pterodactyls could be seen flying towards these salt cages and then trapped inside with no escape.
After walking through dozens of kilometers of salt fields, the surrounding environment slowly changes, and there are occasional huge plants on the ground, which are covered with highly poisonous spikes, which are relatively rare photosynthetic plants that do not prey on animals.
At the same time, Lin also saw the group of dragons, they were not doing very well, there were thirty members before, but now there are only a dozen left, and they are basically weak, even the leader.
The pups were about half gone, but the one Lynn had located was still alive.
It seems that they have encountered a lot of things along the way, and it looks like they have been attacked by something more than hunger or lack of water.
"Gah!" Tucker screamed at the sight of them and rushed over, startling several of the dragons over there, and the leader reflexively threw a wooden spike at it......
But this time Tucker didn't hit again, and the wooden spike flew past it and stuck in the ...... Lynn's pom-pom body. (To be continued......)
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