Chapter 61: Guardian of the Abyss
With the vibration of the sand, a huge creature emerged from the sand, and the moment it came out, it met the gaze of Lynn's assassin.
The organism was about six meters long, and was a powerful sea creature that Lynn had ever seen, known as the 'Mantis Shrimp'.
Lynn had only seen this creature under the deep sea before, and she didn't expect them to be able to move on land, but this one didn't seem to be the same, the knuckles on its side looked quite stout enough to allow it to move on land, and the flat abdominal limbs on its abdomen that were originally used for swimming had also become thick, as if it could be used to move on land.
This creature is obviously evolving into terrestrial creatures, the carapace of this mantis shrimp is a gray and somewhat transparent color, the color of its eyes is somewhat like a rainbow, the eyes of this creature are the highest in evolution of all the species that Lin has seen so far, it may be able to see a lot of light or color that ordinary creatures can't see, and it can also be seen from these structures that it is not infected by plague fungi.
Did this mantis shrimp just come out of here? After the assassin and the mantis shrimp at the front looked at each other for a while, Lynn noticed that it was slowly curling its tail.
Lynn told some of the assassins to keep glaring at it while others crawled up the crystal, and Lynn wanted to dig up the crystal quickly and see what was going on with the 'brain' inside.
At this time, the mantis shrimp's bulging eyes twisted, and when it saw the assassin climbing up the crystal, it suddenly stretched out its curled tail, and suddenly the mantis shrimp rushed towards the assassins like a bomb that had been fired.
'Boom! ’
The next moment, a loud bang suddenly resounded throughout the underwater cavern, and a large number of crystalline debris flew away. A hunter turned into shattered flesh foam in an instant. The surrounding assassins were also shocked out of the way. Now I saw a big hole in the crystal.
This attack power is really interesting.
There are usually two kinds of mantis shrimp, one is the claw type, the other is the hammer type like this, its attack method is somewhat like a crusher, using a strong pressure system and muscles to eject the high hardness of the forelimbs, causing an extremely powerful impact, many creatures will evolve a strange structure, the mantis shrimp seems to be an example of the extreme attack power.
The mantis shrimp slammed the crystal, then turned around and pounced on the assassins around it. Lin caused the assassins to immediately change color and disperse, and the mantis shrimp saw the assassin change color slightly, but soon it recovered, and its forelimbs popped out again, with a loud bang, and one of the assassins in front of it was instantly shattered.
It could see the discolored assassin clearly, and sure enough, its vision was very different......
Lynn has done some research on the small mantis shrimp in the sea, but she hasn't made a similar eye yet, and if she can study this big one, she might be able to create this incomparable eye......
The mantis shrimp looked around at the assassins around them at this time, and their discoloration seemed to have no effect at all. Mantis shrimp may have discovered them with some kind of brilliance, plus the intelligence of this arthropod is itself high.
Lynn told the assassin to slowly back away. exited the open space where the huge crystals were placed, and instead of catching up, the mantis shrimp retreated as well, and then circled around the crystals.
Seeing this scene, Lin felt a little strange, this mantis shrimp ...... As if to protect that crystal? It didn't eat the assassins it had just broken, and it didn't attack after Lynn stepped away.
It looked like this, it was a suspicious feeling, it didn't look like its nest, Lynn thought its nest might be somewhere else, the mantis shrimp's gills were obviously wet, and it needed water to live, which was also a good proof that it wasn't infected.
Lin asked several assassins to walk over, and the mantis shrimp immediately rushed up in an attacking stance, but when Lin asked the assassin to retreat outside the circle, it ran back again.
Sure enough, it was guarding the crystal, why did it do such a thing...... Could it be ......
'Click'.
Some strange sounds suddenly sounded, and Lin noticed that a group of abyssal ancient squid appeared behind her, they were actually crawling between the crystalline clusters, the abyssal ancient squid seemed to be better at moving on land than the ancient squid of the northern continent, their tentacles were much thicker, and Lin noticed that they were also dragging some fish about a meter long......
Soft creatures such as ancient squid have a lot of power, and one is enough to drag something five times larger than themselves, but even then they drag it together in groups because it saves a lot of effort.
A large school of abyssal ancient squid, dragging some fish, as well as some starfish and shellfish and snails, slowly moved between the area full of crystalline clusters and echo eggs, and because Lynn's assassin was in a state of discoloration, they didn't notice, and Lynn watched as they dragged these things straight to the clearing in the center, and walked in front of the mantis shrimp......
The mantis shrimp peculiarly did not attack them, and the abyssal ancient squid piled those fish, shells, snails and other things in front of the mantis shrimp, and then the mantis shrimp immediately lowered its head and ate it.
Does this group of ancient squid have any special symbiotic relationship with mantis shrimp? How did you give it so much food?
Lin watched curiously, but the mantis shrimp didn't make any special moves, it quickly ate all the things, and then the mantis shrimp crawled to the position it had drilled out before, drilled back, and quickly disappeared.
Do they give it food to get it away? Then, the group of abyssal ancient squid made an even stranger move, they placed the only starfish that were not given to the mantis shrimp to eat around the crystal, formed a circle, and then placed some small stones in the circle, which looked like a strange pattern.
Then the group of ancient squid made a strange move before this pattern, they were arranged in rows, there were ten in each row, a total of ten rows, when they were arranged, they began to wave their tentacles in the direction of the crystal, and their bodies began to change color, Lin found that their movements of waving tentacles were exactly the same as the color change on their bodies, and they looked ...... It's weird.
Lynn watched them do this weird thing all the time, they seemed to have a water reservoir on their bodies, so they could get out of the water for a long time, but they didn't stop until they did it for more than a thousand seconds, and Lynn felt ......a little 'impatient'.
Lynn had one of the Assassins quietly approach the dancing Abyssal Ancient Squid at the end, who seemed engrossed in unnoticed the discolored Assassin.
The Assassin stretched out his claws with paralyzing toxins, then ...... Gently poked the ancient squid.
The ancient squid quickly fell to the ground due to poisoning, and the other companions seemed to not notice it, and continued to wave their tentacles, and the assassin slowly dragged the fallen ancient squid back...... (To be continued......)