Chapter 111: The Underground Race
These creatures ...... is communicating.
It's a large underground cavern with crystals on the ground and many small creatures crawling around, but none stand out more than a scorpion-like group......
Lin called them 'standing scorpions', that is, standing and walking scorpions, they gather in groups here, using crystals to build nests, in addition to them, there are many crystalline broundo scorpions that were common before living with them, as well as some other creatures, some like huge beetles, some like caterpillars, standing scorpions grasp a caterpillar and gently squeeze them, with the slime they spit out to stick the crystals together.
The beetles used their heads to scoop up the crystals and pile them together, and they had been sculpting the crystals into the cavern one by one, like crystalline walls, and they looked a lot like a multi-organism cooperative division of labor, which Lynn thought when she first saw them, but there was a problem......
Lin often sees two standing scorpions communicating with each other there, and uttering a series of complex words.
If it is a division of labor creature, it will definitely not communicate like this, let alone speak a complex language.
Maybe they're not division creatures? But how can there be so many kinds of mixed up? Lynn even saw a caterpillar-type creature with a large belly, presumably used to store food, and occasionally a standing scorpion would pick up something from its mouth that they spit out......
However, the scorpions often communicate with each other, and when building crystals, they occasionally disagree due to disagreement.
Thereupon. Lynn came up with a solution. It is better to determine what kind of species they are. Because the Leviathan is too big and doesn't change color, it is difficult to come in, so Lin began to assemble a special 'class' in the Leviathan.
This class Lin is completely made according to the appearance of the standing scorpion, but it is only the shell, and he Lin in the body does not know it yet, but it can move like a normal standing scorpion, and of course, it must also include the ability to emit light.
During this time, Lin asked Susumi to come back first, and Lin brought him a 'filter'. Susumi was like an aquatic creature, watching it swim around the Leviathan happily, and it felt as if it was no problem to let it live directly in the water......
Because the structure in the body is very simple, the speed of Lynn is very fast, and when the body is shaped, the Leviathan's back armor slowly cracks, and the creature that is exactly the same as the scorpion slowly rises from the inside......
"Quack......" Susumi, who was chasing the small fish next to her, watched in amazement as the 'standing scorpion' rose from the Leviathan's back, like a creature born from a cocoon, and after it was fully revealed, Lin tried to move the body of the standing scorpion. Familiarize yourself with the action.
The creature's body form is strange, but it's easy to move. This class is called ...... 'Spy', this word was newly discovered by Rin, and it feels very funny, and just as Lynn was about to swim into the passage, Susumi suddenly grabbed the tail of this 'standing scorpion'.
Lin looked at Susumi, and she felt a great desire to go with her.
Lin thought about it for half a second, then pulled Susumi and swam into the passage with him......
Swimming through the passage, the Spy walked directly onto the shore and walked on the ground in the same manner as the other scorpions, while Susumi followed, and Lin thought that Susumi would not have any problems, if they were not a division of labor......
This also happened to let Susumi see more things, and if something really went wrong, Lin also had a way to let Susumi escape.
Lin walked towards a group of standing scorpions that were building crystallization not far away, and those standing scorpions also saw Lin's 'spies'.
"Oh?" A standing scorpion approached, and it looked up and down the 'spy' carefully and suspiciously, the spy's carapace glowed and the shape was exactly the same as that of the real scorpion, so it did not attack immediately, and Susumi hid quietly behind him, without making any sound......
"Root digs!" The Spy suddenly raised his forelimbs and uttered a word that Lynn didn't know meant, but when observing the scorpions, it was often found that they would say this word when they met each other, and although Lynn had never seen the scorpions' vocal sacs, she was able to completely imitate their distinctive sounds.
When the scorpion who was checking on the spy heard this, he immediately raised his forelimbs and said, "Rutwa! Then it went back and continued to stick to the crystallization, without doubting Lynn anymore......
These creatures are really not a division of labor species, and this random patchwork of 'spies' who just look exactly the same can still communicate with them? It seems that they are a species with an independent personality like the Skeleton Dragon, and this species is not very good at recognizing its own kind.
But how do they work with so many different types of creatures? All symbiotic? Lynn had never seen so many multicellular organisms living together in symbiosis.
The Spy led Susumi deeper into the cavern, where crystallized scorpions were being built everywhere, glued the crystals into the shape of walls, and then joined them together to make them look like tunnels.
There are many crystalline tunnels on the walls at the end of the cave that may lead to other caves, and Lin thinks that this is a huge network of underground caverns.
"Gollum ......" walked by the spy by a large beetle, two meters long and about a meter high, which used the flat horns of its head to scoop up the crystals on the ground.
Because of this beetle and some other creatures, this makes the scorpion very similar to a division of labor species, and these creatures seem to breathe with gills, from the beetle's transparent carapace, you can see that there is a lot of water in the inner layer of the carapace, and there are gills-like structures on both sides of the head, are they all aquatic creatures at one time?
"Oh?" At this time, another scorpion approached Lin's spy, and most of the scorpions around him were working, but there were always one or two who would look at this side suspiciously, but this scorpion didn't think the spy was strange, it paid attention to the ...... behind the spy. Susumi.
"Maca drops? Call? "The scorpion uttered a bunch of words that Lynn didn't understand, but Lin could probably guess that it was asking, 'What is this?'
Lin said directly: "Susumi." ”
"Susumi?" The scorpion seemed stunned, and then Lin immediately left with Susumi.
Lynn twisted the Spy's body to see that the scorpion hadn't caught up, it seemed that they had treated the Spy as their own, so it didn't matter if the Spy brought something in......
So let's go ahead and see what is going on with these creatures that seem to be division of labor and not division of labor, Lynn thinks that this is just a construction site, and their main nest ...... Maybe you'll find something interesting. (To be continued......)
PS: Thanks to the 588~, ~Aqi~