Chapter 26: Permafrost
Distance from leaving the mainland...... How many days and nights have there been?
The creatures on the ark have probably forgotten about it...... However, although Lynn remembered how many seconds had passed, the journey was much longer than expected.
That's because...... Ice.
Lin looked at the place where the sea had been completely white, and the ice and snow had covered the vast sea, and Yan zhòng was hindering the progress of the ark.
Although they were not very thick, the ark still had to break the ice, but the speed was much slower, and Lynn was now mainly staying on the surface of the sea, which was to let the skeleton dragons and emerald dragons see the situation outside, because ...... Maybe there's nowhere else to go...... They have to adapt.
The same is true of the other creatures on the ark, the food that the giant dinosaurs are eating now is a sphere made by mixing nutrients found at the bottom of the sea, and if this continues, they may lose their original vitality, and slowly forget about hunting.
The constant warm current at the bottom of the sea was also shrouded in the bitter cold, and Lin felt that in this situation, maybe the same situation would be the case in the Northern Continent, and after researching such a large cold phenomenon, Lin found that it might have something to do with the sun......
At first, I didn't feel it, but now the sun is ...... Lynn had already noticed that it was different from the previous ones, and it should be said that it was 'darkening', as if the sun was more distant than usual, and if you looked closely, you could see that it was different from before.
However, ordinary creatures can't see it, and it requires very fine observation and calculation, and even the head worm can't detect it. Lin felt that except for herself, probably only the person who created the zào knew.
The sun determines the fate of all living beings in this world. It only takes a small change that is barely noticeable to any living thing to make a huge difference. Even though you can see it every day, it's an incredible feeling that it's out of reach.
As the moon of the starry sky churner, it feels significantly closer to Rin, and after getting there, she may be closer to the sun.
However, Lynn didn't want to be empty around at that time, so she ...... At least some creatures need to survive.
But...... Will it really be like that in a hundred years? If this state continues, it is indeed possible. However, this prediction is not entirely accurate, because the coverage of brain waves is limited, and although Lynn has calculated every detail of the extremely large area, there may be some special changes.
Lin wondered if she should find another place instead of going to the North Continent, but at least go there first.
Maybe there will be a 'surprise', because then Lin didn't wake up directly from the base there.
If you see it directly, the surprise is much lower.
But now it seems to be ...... It was boring, because the weather was cold, and on the back of the ark there were only a few pterosaurs nesting in their own nests. No other creature escaped.
However, the main reason why the Skeleton Dragon and the Emerald Dragon did not come out was ...... They are in dreams.
Lynn used her brain to create a new dream. However, instead of the one she used to predict before, Lin had created a new Dream Brain, and the previous one, Lin wanted to use it for something else.
The main role of this brain is still for detection and prediction, and Lynn can use brain waves to detect the surrounding environment and even meteorites, which is very effective, and can also search for tiny species hidden in the atmosphere.
For example...... Atmospheric Slime.
Although it is not tiny, it has become very common these days.
Beneath the sky above the ark, there were many creatures that seemed to be as soft as clouds, their shape and flight movements were somewhat like a fish called 'stingrays' in the sea, but their whole bodies were transparent, and they slowly floated in the air, which seemed to be a new species, and Lynn found that they seemed to be not afraid of the cold.
In fact, Lynn has the least studied knowledge of this creature, and has no idea what species they evolved from, and how to classify them. The only thing that can be confirmed at the moment is that they are not terrestrial or marine creatures, they are pure ...... Life in the air...... Unlike ordinary pterosaurs or other flying animals, atmospheric slimes never touch the ground, and they don't need to rest or breed on the ground, as for the detailed reasons, Lynn has not studied them carefully.
That being said, they come down to hunt, and these atmospheric slimes seem to be interested in the pterodactyls on the back of the ark, and they have been hovering on the back of the ark, as if ready to swoop down at any moment to catch them......
And when Lin looked at the group of creatures, a dark shadow also appeared in front of the ark......
It's ...... It's finally here...... The Northern Continent!
The ark immediately increased its speed, and the 'hammer' in front of the ark struck continuously, shattering the ice on the sea surface continuously, and the slimes in the sky seemed to be frightened by this sound, and they all flew away immediately.
As the ark advanced, the dark shadows in the distance became closer and closer, and the familiar scene slowly unfolded in front of them.
This is a cliff more than 50 meters high, and the cliff has been covered with some white ice and snow, but it does not affect the overall appearance......
Here, there is a feeling of 'nostalgia', thinking that when she first landed, Lin was still climbing up this cliff with a group of Brondo scorpions......
These scorpions are still very common in the sea, and like the trilobites, they are an ancient and non-extinct creature.
As she approached the cliff, Lynn slowly brought the ark to a halt, and when the ark was on the water, its back was almost as high as the cliff, but many things had to be carried up.
"It's here!" On a ship 'tied' next to the first ark, the head worm rolled out of the cabin at a very fast speed, and as it rolled, a blaster worm behind it also exclaimed excitedly: "It's back!" I tumbled over the land again, looking for Mketu and preparing for ......"
Before he finished speaking, it quickly rolled back into the cabin, and the head worm rolled back to its usual sleeping place, and said tremblingly: "It's cold, look for an end, stop rolling, and continue sleeping." ”
…… It was indeed cold now, much colder than it had been at the beginning, and Lynn was right to be worried, as it had been affected by the bitter cold.
'Bang! With the sound of shelling, an explosive bomb burst into the sky, and countless reconnaissance eyeballs flew out in the waves of explosion, and Lynn was scanning the continent as fast as she could.
This was not where Lynn had landed before, and Lynn didn't see the familiar Pinnacle Forest, but a desert.
The desert didn't seem to be snowing, it wasn't covered in snow and ice, and the cold wind blew up endless yellow gravel, which hindered Lynn's eyeballs a bit.
There was nothing in the desert, not even the remains of anything, only a continuous stream of sand and stones, and the cold made it hard for Lynn to imagine what a hot place it was.
After flying in the desert for a long time, although releasing a large number of eyeballs, Lynn did not scatter the search much, but kept moving in one direction.
Still, along the way, the eyeball saw some familiar sights, and now, the eyeball saw a large creature slowly moving on the cold sand.
It was a misty worm, a worm creature that didn't belong to the arthropod class that seemed to flourish everywhere, but this one seemed to be in a dying state.
The eyeball approached the worm, only to see that its head was exposed in the sand, and the body below was basically buried in the sand, they used this method to advance through the desert, but now the worm is no longer able to move in the sand, all it can do is twist its head a little and even this strength seems to be slowly gone......
Lynn used her eyeballs to do some simple tests of its current state, and it was revealed that its weakness was due to two simple reasons: cold...... And hunger.
The worm was slowly dying, but before it died, its eyes were still fixed on the snow-white jungle ahead......
The jungle was exactly the same as Lynn remembered, except for the color.
It seems that coming back is not the right choice, but in fact, there is no place to choose, every island and every sea area that Lynn encounters on the way is shrouded in severe cold, only a few islands are warmer, but those islands are too small to accommodate the creatures on the ark.
So what should be done?
Lynn's eyes slowly drifted through the snow-white jungle, where the trees were still as twisted as ever, but there was no sign of life......
They are almost covered in snow, and on the ground, the remains of some of the large arthropods that were once left behind.
and some small creeping corpses...... They didn't even have a chance to evolve into dinosaurs.
I haven't been back for a long time, but what I saw was this tragic scene?
"Gollum." Just then, Lynn heard a voice, and her eyeballs immediately flew in that direction, and in the middle of a snowfield, Lynn saw some shiny creatures crawling on the snow.
This is...... Crystalline creatures? However, they don't look like arthropods here, more like trilobites, each thirty centimeters long, which is quite large for the size of terrestrial arthropods, and the transparent carapace covers their whole body, which is the obvious appearance of crystalline creatures.
The creatures were so alive that they didn't seem to be weak, and Lynn had an eyeball follow them, and they lived in the same way that Lynn thought, feeding on all sorts of frozen corpses, for the cold came suddenly, and there were many of them, and they would gnaw on the bark of twisted trees.
Other eyeballs flew to the other side.
Lynn wanted to see what had become of it...... It was once an underground world that turned into a giant canyon...... (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you ~Liuyan~indifferent watermelon~for the tip~
Thank you ~eriorutree~great nothingness~lixuening~