Chapter Eighty-Four: Watching the Stars
"Hulala!"
Under the brilliant starlight, Tucker and his people are doing a strange dance around a marvelous statue......
Lynn can think of their actions as a kind of ...... before a trip See them off, but Lynn has to teach them something.
Not only are they getting better at painting now, but Tucker also knows how to scratch objects with some hard stones, doing a job called 'carving', a technique that Lynn has taught in part, and they quickly learn to make things that look more and more like statues of Inca swarms.
Tucker and several members of the clan recently carved a special statue, mostly made of wood, that looks like a pterosaur with a fluffy ball on its back.
Because pom-pom balls are very difficult to carve, they use a kind of grass that looks like fluff and stick them on top of the ball as fluff.
The statue was placed next to the dragon's perch that the colony inhabited, and after it was built, they always piled some meat and the small balls that the dragon perch grew for them to eat, and they were not used for storage, but the dragons usually put their food on the tree, and these foods were specially prepared for Lynn's pom-poms.
If a large prey is caught, Tucker and his tribe will dance around the statue and celebrate, as he does now......
"Woooooo Tucker held a piece of meat high and cheered at the pom-pom in the sky, and all the other tribes shouted along!
They just like to do these things all the time, and when the intelligence of the creatures increases, there is no pressure. I just like to find all kinds of things to do. Lynn found that this was the case with most creatures. They like to think about all sorts of things.
Recently, the wreckage dragons have been learning the language of the head worms, and their pronunciation has become more and more fluent.
As the crowd cheered, Lynn's pom-pom floated above the statue, slowly rising into the air and flying into the starry sky.
The pom-poms flew around the sky a few times and told them: "Record." ”
"Record!" Tucker immediately screamed to the sound of pom-poms, and several of the skeletal dragons brought some slab-like stones, and they began to carve on them.
Tucker and the other skeletal dragons depicted the starry sky on the tablet. Lin wants them to realize that the starry sky will change slowly at various times, but if all the changes are recorded, it will generally be constant, and they can use the changes in the starry sky to remember their route without getting lost, so that they can go hunting far away.
The fact that the Skeleton Dragons used to move around was also related to the fact that they couldn't find their way back if they ran too far, and they could only rely on memory to get an approximate location, so they used to find a new place to settle when they went too far.
They used to draw stars, but that was just a casual drawing, and what Lin taught them was to record the changes in the starry sky.
Because of their good language learning, the dragons were able to communicate with Lin in more complex ways.
In the process of communication. Lynn found that they didn't know much about the 'moon', and it was estimated that the moon would not affect the month. They don't seem to know what snow looks like, so isn't it snowing here?
This feels good, and although the month is more interesting, it can also cause a lot of troublesome problems...... Snow is even more troublesome, and Lynn will be in a very boring state all winter.
Tucker and the others quickly recorded the stars, and then, they had to record all the changes every once in a while, and they would be able to record all the changes in about a few days and nights.
Although Lynn taught them this, Lynn herself rarely looked at the direction of the starry sky, other creatures preferred to look at the sun to find their way to the starry sky, and some creatures preferred to place small magnets inside their bodies to find their way.
But having stars is enough, for the Skeleton Dragon......
After the recording, the pompom slowly floated down and landed on top of the statue they had made, and since the 'pom-pom' in Tucker's sculpture was larger than Lynn's, it landed just on top of it.
Tucker's skill at drawing starry skies is good, and the other dragons seem to be slightly worse, but they just need to know what they're drawing.
Suddenly, a dazzling light streaked across the sky, and it lasted less than a second before dissipating instantly, and Tucker immediately screamed and drew the light as well.
That kind of light is called a 'shooting star', and Lynn often sees it because she has a lot of eyes, but what exactly is that? Are there moving stars? Those huge fireballs that I saw falling from the sky before may or may not be such stars......
By the way, this kind of puzzle must be solved to solve the mystery of the starry sky! What the hell is a star? The sun and the moon can basically confirm that it is a kind of glowing giant sphere very close to this world, but what are the stars? A sphere far away?
Lynn had thought about this question more than once, and Lynn had never stopped observing the starry sky, which was untouchable, but always twinkling in the sky, providing a rare light for the night.
There are also many creatures that act in response to the starlight shift, but no creature seems to attempt to approach them.
Maybe? It's just that Lynn didn't find it, there are too many wonderful creatures in the world.
Lin thought about approaching them, but it was difficult for any flying creature to continue to rise after reaching a certain altitude, mainly due to some problems such as the thinning of the air.
Lynn's current troops all use floating air bodies or wings, plus jet flight, all need to rely on air, if you want to fly higher, you must rely on other power to fly......
What motivation can you rely on? Explosives that exploded continuously? Or is it some other impact?
Although there seem to be a lot of options, they don't feel reliable, and the impact has to be quite large.
In short, the separation between the ground and the starry sky is like a barrier, making it impossible for flying objects to approach the starry sky at all, but recently because Lynn is building the Styx Cannon, Lynn has discovered something interesting.
Lynn's previous bombs used to fly on their own after being fired, but now Lynn prefers to use a pressure hammer and explosives to eject them, and when she uses a pressure hammer and explosives to fire explosives at a rapid rate, Lynn finds that the speed of this bomb can reach a very powerful level, even much faster than the sound......
But even then, it won't be able to pierce the Plague Dragon's carapace, though that's not the point.
The point is that Lynn thinks that if a thing has a high speed, it may be able to break through obstacles in the sky, but how fast does that speed be? Lynn calculated a little that it might take kilometers per second.
This is only judged by the information obtained from the initial contact barrier, there should be more things to consider, more complex calculations, now the calculation is no problem for Lynn, because the number of cells is almost endless, but now Lynn can't reach this speed, and needs a bigger improvement......
There are many ways to improve, and you need to experiment slowly, but at least there is a direction for research...... It felt like going to land at the time, but it was much harder than going from sea to land.
At the same time, Lin also found that although the faster the speed, the greater the attack power, there are still some very powerful carapaces that can block this attack, so Lin also has to study the more powerful chitin.
Attack and defense should be equal, and if the attack is too strong, it can make things very difficult to control.
Lynn has now discovered more than one substance that can combine explosives, there are many other types, and the power is also different, and Lynn has also discovered that some creatures will combine liquids to explode reactions to attack or defend, which is quite interesting and requires more research.
Now that the sky was slowly getting brighter, the dragons had finally finished drawing the stars before the night receded, and each day and night had to be given a name because they had to record the changes of the stars in different days and nights.
At this time, Lynn discovered the word 'week' in her thoughts.
Monday has a total of seven days and nights, each day and night has a different name, it can be said to be 'Qiyao', for gold, wood, water, fire, earth, sun and moon, and there is also a name is one, two, three, four, five, six days, it feels very complicated, why is it called that? Is there any particular reason for this?
Lynn didn't see any explanation in her thoughts......
Seven days and nights record the periodic changes of some things, but the unit of recording periodic changes in Lynn's mind is usually not very accurate, so this is used for the time being, and if the starry sky changes for more than seven days and nights, then give it another name.
By daylight, the dragons' paintings had ended, and Tucker was leading his people in preparation for the hunt, and they now liked to tie sharp stones to sticks with vines to form a combination called a 'spear', much more powerful than the old wooden thorns.
Because the dragons now stay in the trees, the dragon perch has slowly changed according to their habits, and they grow thicker trunks to bear the weight of the dragons, and sometimes coil the trunks together to make a small platform in the air.
The benefits of symbiosis are becoming more and more apparent, and Lynn is almost ready to go.
The pom-pom floated in the air and flew to the top of a tree, looking at the endless jungle, Lin was ready to fly to a random place.
"Gah!" Suddenly, Tucker's cry is heard below, and Lynn notices that Tucker has climbed to the top of the tree from below.
Tucker knew that Lynn was leaving, and that her people knew that Lynn had told them not to react strangely, so they were still acting like usual.
Tucker crawled over anyway, and Lynn found that it was holding an oval object in its hand. (To be continued......)
PS: Thanks to ~00121ling~pohufg~ for the tip~