Chapter 35: The Ice Diggers
Beneath the frozen sky, a plush ball floats slowly.
The pom-pom is using the fluff on its body to tie the record ball and fly towards the northern continent, but it is far away, and it will take a long time to arrive.
However, Rin was not in a hurry to rush back, but floated leisurely while observing the scenery.
Because, now there is a rare view below.
The ocean below is no longer visible from the waves and seawater, it is a frozen layer of ice, and above the ice, there is a large group of ...... Corpse.
The corpses were a fish called bladefish, which had sharp horns on their heads, huge fins on both sides of their bodies, and could make short flights off the water's surface, and they were more than two meters long.
Or were they swept in by a storm?
There were hundreds of them, and the pom-pom flew next to a corpse, which did not decompose because of the cold, which could be used as a supplementary nutrient for the pom-pom, which used its tentacles to get the cold fish flesh off and then put it into the mouth of the plush.
What is it?
After pulling off a piece of scale, Lin noticed that inside the fish was a group of small, reddish creatures about three centimeters long, which looked like shrimp creatures, yes, the kind of creatures called krill.
But unlike the common species, not only can they move on land, but their arthropods are like blades that cut through the flesh of the fish, and they may have smelled the fish and got out of the ice.
A colony of sea creatures lives on top of the ice. That's pretty hard. In that case, let's not eat this yet. The pom-pom turned to the carcass of another nearby fish and pulled the scales away with his tentacles.
This one...... And what is it? That's right......
Among the corpses, the pom-pom saw a purple thing, and suddenly, the whole fish corpse exploded violently, and a standing scorpion rushed out of the fish corpse!
With great speed, it grabbed the record ball it was holding under the pom-pom with its forelegs, and immediately after snatching the ball, it spread all its limbs. The membranes connected between the limbs formed two wings, which flapped and flew quickly into the air.
Perhaps, the brain-making monster I saw before is being pursued by the scorpion? Speaking of which, Lin doesn't know exactly where the Scorpion lives now, and it may not be a coincidence that she met here.
Looking at the scorpion flying farther and farther in the air, the pom-pom suddenly accelerated violently, rushed up like a bomb, and approached the target in an instant.
The scorpion was startled when it saw the pom-pom catching up, and it immediately sped up, but the pom-pom moved faster, and the hair on the pom-pom stretched out like an explosion. A large amount of hair entangled around the scorpion's body, and some of the hairs with sharp ends pierced into the scorpion's joints. The scorpion suddenly lost its strength, could no longer flap its wings, and fell from the sky.
'Bang! With a loud sound, the scorpion knocked a large hole in the not-so-thick ice, and the pom-pom and the scorpion entered the icy water below.
The pom-pom retracted its fluff and took the Record Ball from the Scorpion's clip, when another pom-pom floated into the water from the ice hole above and flew out with the Record Ball in its arms.
Lin also has a lot of pompoms nearby, they were originally used to find Muketu, because they didn't find it, so they wandered around, and because they were close, they could meet at any time.
The pom-pom hugged the head of the scorpion, and a large amount of fluff protruded through the gap in the carapace of the scorpion, and they gently pierced into the body and quickly spread to the head of the scorpion......
Lynn recently used a method called 'memory reproduction' to read a creature's memory, which is to see what kind of brainwave flow is in the memory area of the creature's brain, and then change the same brainwave in the brain.
Under the synchronized brainwave convection, Lin can 'see' things very clearly, but only in the recent past, if you want to see older memories, you have to use the 'material reproduction method', which is more complicated.
As it turned out, the scorpion was living with its kind on an island not far away, and it seemed that they were still building the pyramid the same way it had been, but this time with ice.
But they seemed to be doing something strange, and Lynn noticed that it had memories of digging in a mountain with other standing scorpions.
They seem to be digging for something very big, but this part is older and a little blurry.
The brain of the scorpion, like the brain of many creatures, will be recorded with brain waves, and some important memories from a long time ago will be recorded in another way, and only a little bit can be seen with brain waves.
The most recent memory is the scene where it and a group of its kind are chasing the brain-monster, and they seem to want to get the brain-maker's record ball, but later find that the ball has been taken by the pom-pom and change it to try to ambush the pom-pom......
Lynn felt the need to check it out, because now Lynn was looking for something interesting to do, otherwise it would have been too boring before the moon came.
Lin let the scorpion sink into the sea, and the pom-pom flew out towards the island where the scorpion lived, which was about a hundred kilometers away, not very far......
…… It's here.
This is the island of the Scorpion? A small island more than a dozen kilometers long and several kilometers wide.
There were no plants or anything else on it, as if it were originally a wasteland, and there were several pyramids made of ice on it, and a mountain more than 200 meters high.
It is better to say that it is a mountain than a very large stone, because the whole is square, the standing scorpions gather under this stone mountain as if they are constantly digging something, and some standing scorpions are dragging some marine fish over to eat these digging standing scorpions, while some standing scorpions are specially transported away by the snow and dug out of the sediment, most of them are in the form of flying scorpions, but some standing scorpions are other appearances.
Scorpions are now more and more like a division of labor, but they still maintain the obvious characteristics of individual creatures, and Lin can see that many scorpions are tired of digging and sitting there chatting......
The pom-pom floated down and changed color into stealth mode, and as she got closer, Lynn could see what the scorpions were digging at the foot of the mountain.
They dug a number of pits at the base of the mountain, almost every one of them had one thing, the first pit appeared to be the legs of some kind of large arthropod, and the second pit was a carapace fragment of an unknown creature.
And the third pit ...... Lynn saw something familiar......
This is the Inca swarm...... Shadow Monsters. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you ~ million jackpot for the ~ pangolin good ~ tip of the heart of the swarm~