Chapter 261: A Mystery in the Abyss

Is there a carapace of this creature here, too?

Beneath the quagmire at the bottom of the rift, Lynn discovers the carapace of a large sea creature, something similar to Lynn had previously found in the rift valley to the north.

Although they do not seem to be the same species, they are all creatures of the same period, and it is not necessary that this rift was filled with seawater before.

Although there are no signs of other marine life here, the large amount of quagmire here is clearly the result of a large accumulation of debris...... And they are not very long ago, and as for the creatures that inhabit it, they can be found in almost all the woodlands above, and it can be said that they migrated by chance after the formation of the rift, and the seeds of plants floated down from above, and the phylum of animals followed......

Now, Lynn thinks that the rift may not have been formed by something, but ...... It's been there since the beginning? For some reason it was revealed.

More evidence needs to be found...... Thinking, Lynn had the Flyer start devouring the creatures in large numbers in the mire, and when it got enough nutrients, it would become more Flyer to better explore the area.

"Quack...... was now moving cautiously, jumping from one protruding stone to another in the mire, none of the worms in the quagmire seemed to be willing to leave the quagmire, and so far it had been safe.

"Gah!" Finally, Mukla jumped to a stone on the edge of the quagmire, and with another hard jump, it finally got out of the quagmire!

'Boom! The Poseidon dragon was still using its heavy blows to stimulate the plants to produce bubbles, and the shock caused by the shock almost caused Mukla to fall into the mud, and it quickly ran more than ten meters away. Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.

Right now. Lynn was following it with an eyeball. Mukra looked around, the light was dim, but he could still see a lot of things.

Around Mukla, there are black, thorny trees that Lynn thought were endemic to the bottom of the Rift, but there were actually similar plants in the jungle near the Rift.

They're a little strange, though, though similar. But there are a few differences.

Mukra approached a tree in front of him, looked at the strangely shaped tree, and with fear in his heart, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the tree.

......After the tree was hit by a stone, it suddenly made a strange sound, and at the same time its entire trunk began to tremble, and Mukla quickly hid behind a large rock, but this phenomenon lasted for about ten seconds before stopping.

"Gah?" Mukra walked out confused, this time trying to poke the trunk with its hand, but the tree didn't respond this time.

for there are no thorns on the trunk. Then Mukra boldly picked up a sharper stone from the ground and scraped it vigorously on the tree.

It seems to want to make something like a fire out of the bark on it. But with its scraping, the tree made a strong noise again and trembled.

But Mukra ignored it, and scraped a lot of bark from it, piled it together, and rubbed it with stones, and when the sparks of friction fell on the bark, it quickly burst into flames.

The bark seemed to be very dry, and as it burned, Mukla continued to scrape off more bark, and at the same time it found some dry branches nearby and threw them in, and with the brighter and brighter light of the flames, Mukla's feelings calmed down a little, as if the gloom and strangeness of the place had always terrified it.

However, the flames do not seem to bring it safety here......

......The tree it had scraped over made another sound, and its dry outer skin had completely fallen off to the ground, revealing the inner part, and the trunk under the bark, which looked as red as blood, suddenly fell in the direction of Mukla.

Mukla was so frightened that it quickly ducked to the side, and although it was not crushed, the fire it had managed to raise was crushed by the tree.

After extinguishing the flames, the tree made a continuous clicking sound, and it actually stood up again and returned to its previous position, and then remained motionless.

Mulkla looked at the tree with an extremely strange expression, in fact, Lin was about the same, Lin had not fully understood the plant, and the current speculation was that the root system of the tree had a muscle-like structure that could pull the fallen tree back up.

The tree is also extremely sensitive to temperature and will actively extinguish nearby flames.

Its ecology is still a mystery, but the outermost bark is clearly not its real skin, their real trunks are bright red and encased in a dry shell, and the name 'bright red zongzi' seems to fit well.

Lin didn't know what zongzi was.

Instead of giving up, Mukla tried to gather more of the dried bark, lit another bonfire farther away from the trees, and then took out some of the food it was carrying and ate it slowly......

Soon, when it was night, Mukla did not sleep, but kept the fire alive and watched the surroundings.

As the night continued, Lynn's flyers had multiplied, from one to two, two to four, and finally, to hundreds, but they were all much smaller than before, and the size of the giant dragonfly had become the size of a fly......

But if you can fly, you can fly.

Lynn had them fly out of the mire to survey the terrain of the surrounding rift.

They use their large, non-complete eyes to quickly observe a wide variety of environments.

At present, Lin has a basic summary of the environment here, although there are no traces of common sea creatures such as snail shells or shellfish, there are many 'footprints'.

It's like a very large semi-circular groove, which is quite common here, and it feels like some giant worm-like creature has crawled here. and a number of small circular holes arranged in a row, which are supposed to be the marks left by the pointed feet of arthropods.

Even under the cliffs of the Rift Valley, there are many traces of this on the rock face, could it be that there used to be a lot of very large creatures living here?

However, they all seem to be gone, and it may be possible to find more things here than on the other side of the salt field, and it seems that there will be a base for digging here.

…… No, it seems that the situation here can be understood before digging.

Lynn put together the images she had gathered from the flyers...... Lynn found a strange situation, it seemed that all the grooves here had been printed in about the same amount of time, which meant that these giant worm-like creatures had been piled up in large numbers.

And when the White Skeleton Dragon first experienced the Rift, maybe this rift was here for a long time, but it was full of such large creatures at the beginning, so they didn't think it was a rift, and walked directly from it......

However, there was no trace of this in the rift valley on the northern side of the continent, which meant that they had only been seen here, but that was enough for the White Dragons to flee to the island.

But what exactly? Why weren't the White Dragons attacked when they walked over, and how could they fill this ten-kilometer-wide rift?

Maybe...... That's not a worm, it's some kind of ...... Other creatures.

…… The second day and night.

While Lynn was researching here, Mukla also set out on the road, making a torch out of what it had collected, and began to try to find an exit here.

Mukla intended to walk straight in the direction of the cliff, but a passing lair caught his attention.

The nest was made of a large number of branches and bones, and on top of it was a large pterosaur.

This pterosaur is called 'cut-beaked pterosaur', and it is more than five meters tall just by standing on the ground, and its wingspan is about fifteen meters.

However, pterosaurs usually have no scales, and their bodies are thinner and lighter, making them unsuitable for carrying heavy loads, but most importantly, they are unlikely to be as obedient as wurms.

However, Mukla seemed to be trying to take advantage of the pterodactyl......

It crept around to the pterosaur's lair, which seemed to be asleep now, unaware of its surroundings, and the reason it dared to sleep here was because there were no creatures under the rift that could threaten it.

Mukla crept up behind the pterodactyl, taking special care not to step on anything that would make a noise......

"Gah!" It slammed onto the pterodactyl's back! Awakened by this blow, the pterosaur spread its wings and flew high into the air with Mukla......

Mukla hugged the pterosaur tightly and poked the pterosaur with the tip of his claws, much like riding a wurm on its first flight, when the wurm grew up as a cub and had a special emerald dragon to ride it on its first flight.

But the pterosaur was clearly not a wurm, and the pterosaur quickly spotted something behind him, and it kept shaking its body in the air in an attempt to shake Mukla off.

At the same time, it flew higher and higher in the process, and it was possible for Mukra to fly out of the rift, but until then, it was more likely to fall to his death......

"Quack!" Mukla knew this well, and he hugged the pterosaur tightly, as if he thought that his hope of getting out was entirely on the pterosaur.

In fact, if it tried to find a way to the surface, Lynn had discovered a cave under the cliff during her previous investigation, and it was possible that the Poseidon dragon had walked into it from there.

Lynn is also planning to go there now. (To be continued......)

PS: Thanks to ~MetallicClaw~'s tip~