Chapter 114: A Chase for No Reason
This is...... Crystallized!
There are crystals everywhere here, but Lynn's miniature explorer has found a special crystal in this dead brain, just like the one found in the fungi's brain, which is also a vision crystal......
It wasn't embedded in any cells, just lying quietly in a pile of dead structures.
Is it strange that the brains of the sub-special population also have this kind of crystal? What does this mean? It's really hard to figure out......
Anyway, if you find it, you can collect it, maybe other creatures have brains too? But there are definitely no head worms...... Lynn had thought that the crystals were so small that they would be difficult to find, but now it seemed that Lynn might already know how to find them.
I don't know what the purpose of collecting it is, but it's something unusual.
The Driller swallowed the tiny crystal, ready to retreat from where he had come from, back to the Spy.
The Spy had been in front of the dead brain, Susumi had jumped on the ground and looked around at the strange crystallization room, which wouldn't go far, while Lynn pondered something.
The sub-colony may have taken refuge in this place to avoid being exterminated by the plague fungus, they are not aggressive, and although they have not yet seen what the scorpions eat, they do not seem to pose a great threat to the creatures around them.
Before the brain died, I don't know how long they lived here, most of the various crystalline structures here should have been established at that time, and now this group of standing scorpions is still building, but it is estimated that it will not be long before their entire population will disintegrate.
"Gollum!" There was the sound of standing scorpions fighting each other all the time, and from here you could see a group of standing scorpions fighting around a standing scorpion, and they smashed its carapace with crystals. The entrails of the besieged scorpion flowed all over the ground.
And after this group of standing scorpions was finished. One of the scorpions said something I don't know. They also fought each other.
They are now in a situation where they are on the verge of ruin, probably since the death of their brains, but what makes it strange for Lin is why they have so many different personalities after losing their minds if they were originally creatures with unified minds. After observing for a long time, Lynn slowly understood the reason why they fought each other.
Some fight just because of a small thing, such as a standing scorpion hitting the other, or they are walking on a narrow road at the same time, and neither of them will give way to the other...... And then there was a fight.
None of them can be called 'different personalities'. It's almost like different species meet, usually one on one will hurt both and then both die because there is no treatment, but it's not uncommon for them to fight more than one, and they always seem to be arguing over something......
Of course, not every standing scorpion will fight because of a small problem, otherwise Lin would only be able to see the corpse here, and the main reason why they fight is because of ...... Food.
The Spy looked out and saw a scorpion running with a chubby caterpillar in its hand, chasing a large group of scorpions behind it, and the scorpion holding the caterpillar suddenly tripped over a piece of crystal on the ground. The standing scorpion chasing it instantly surrounded it and frantically hit it in various ways, and this standing scorpion also kept struggling. At this moment, a standing scorpion accidentally trampled the caterpillar, and the caterpillar's body fluids exploded to the ground.
The scorpions immediately stopped fighting, and one by one they lay on the ground trying to lick the liquid.
How hungry are they? The strange thing is that they don't eat the corpses of their own kind, and the large pile of corpses is rotting and left unattended, and although the scorpions do not have the organ of 'tongue', they use their fine teeth to eat up the liquid on the ground almost instantaneously, and then ...... Beat the standing scorpion that ran away with the caterpillar just now.
Speaking of which, the situation outside is slightly better, and the standing scorpions that Lin saw before will still cooperate in construction, and they are not very good at grabbing food, why is this the center here, but this situation will occur?
Lin felt that there was a possibility that the scorpions might not be responsible for transporting food to each other......
Outside, the scorpions were able to catch some other creatures to eat, so they were in better shape, but there were no scorpions to take back the food to share, so the scorpions inside could only compete with each other for the little food left.
Why doesn't the standing scorpion inside run out? It is not known at this time.
Another trouble for the scorpion to eat is that they seem to break up the food, and then let a caterpillar-like creature eat it and digest it, and then eat the nutrient solution spit out by the caterpillar, because there are not many caterpillars, so they need to fight.
Lynn wasn't sure who gave birth to these caterpillars, or even how the scorpion came from, the usual division of labor species has a queen to be responsible for production, but the scorpion doesn't seem to need a queen to give birth, and those little caterpillars don't know where they came from.
Maybe it should be investigated?
The Spy picked up the Prospector who crawled out, and now that the crystal was recovered, Lynn felt the need to take this thing back, if the investigation continued here, what happened to the Spy This crystal is easy to lose, so small things are difficult to get back.
Lin greeted Susumi, who immediately ran over and climbed onto the Spy, who didn't know how Susumi would feel when she saw this here, after all, Lin didn't say anything to it.
At this time, Lin noticed a few standing scorpions nearby, they had been staying next to the huge crystal that enclosed the brain, and they had a feeling of extreme sadness.
Lynn thinks they may be missing the brain, like the dragons, if a member dies, they will stay next to the corpse and become very sad.
Grief is a very special kind of emotion, which usually occurs when the situation is 'unacceptable', which will lead the creature to become a situation where he does not want to do anything.
However, only a few scorpions are grieving here, and most of the others are out and about.
Anyway, let's go back to Leviathan now, thinking about it, the Spy was about to get out of the area where the brain crystal was placed, but the moment it turned around, it stopped.
I saw that there was a large group of standing scorpions outside around this place, and they all contained angry feelings, I don't know what made them want to attack this place, but this was definitely not a good thing for Rin.
The scorpions next to Lin, who had been there all this time, suddenly became angry, and they ran to the entrance, yelling at the scorpions that surrounded the place.
Lynn understood a little what they were saying, probably something like 'leave, die'.
And the surrounding scorpion also began to fight back with the same words, and the two sides quarreled like this, and the quarrel lasted for about ten seconds, and the standing scorpion on Lin's side rushed forward first!
The other party reacted at the same time, and the two sides fought each other, and two scorpions rushed towards Lin's spy.
The Spy immediately leaned down to avoid the claws of the two scorpions, striking them in the abdomen at the same time, and the two scorpions were immediately knocked out with this force.
Lin had long thought of this situation, so the Spy's muscles were much stronger than the average Scorpion, and although they had not completely broken down the Scorpion, it could be seen from their usual activities how their muscles were.
After flying the two scorpions, Lin ignored the scorpions who were still fighting each other, and the spy quickly rushed out, leading Susumi back to the original route.
"Ahh At this moment, there was a shout from behind the spy, and a group of standing scorpions actually chased after him from behind.
Why are they chasing spies? Lin found that they all had extremely angry feelings, and these scorpions seemed to get angry easily, did this have anything to do with the fact that life here was too depressing? Or did they find that the espionage power was abnormal?
Standing scorpions have ten arthropods like ordinary scorpions, they only use four arthropods to walk, the upper body is erect, and the six limbs are empty, so that although it is convenient to hold things, the speed is much slower.
The spy lay on the ground like a scorpion and moved quickly with all his limbs, and very lightly left the group of scorpions chasing behind, and through the corpse-strewn path, Lin soon reached the entrance of the crystal passage that she had entered before.
This is......
Lin found that this crystal passage was blocked by a huge creature, it looked like a huge worm, more than three meters tall and maybe six meters long, its body completely blocked the entrance to the passage, and there was a group of standing scorpions around it, as if it was constantly screaming, as if it was very excited.
What kind of creature is this? Lin looked behind, those standing scorpions had already chased after her, so she had to flee in another direction.
There are many crystallized passages on the cave walls here, but it is not known where they all lead, so the Spy chooses the nearest passage to enter.
The spy quickly ran along the passage to the depths, there were many standing scorpions in this passage, they all looked at the spy curiously, but there was no special move, the standing scorpions that were chasing the spy before had been thrown farther and farther away, and soon, Lin saw the exit of the passage.
A large space unfolded in front of Lynn's eyes, and the ground here was covered with some large red crystals, and many standing scorpions were lying next to them, all of them looking listless, as if they were dying.
The red crystals were an eyesore, and the Spy couldn't see if there was a way out of the area, and when Lin was about to go inside to take a look, the group of listless scorpions lying on the ground suddenly all stood up, and they screamed as they took out a red hedron and threw it in this direction.
The Spy stood up and slapped the thrown hedrons and stepped back, as if this place was impassable......
And just as the spy was about to retreat into the crystal channel, there was a sudden 'quack' sound on his back, and Susumi was smashed into her body by a red crystal, and the crystal had some sharp thorns on the surface, and Susumi had already been scratched out of blood where she hit.
"Quack!" Susumi suddenly jumped off the spy's back like crazy and ran into the depths of the cavern. (To be continued......)
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