Chapter 53: Life Under the Ashes

The Island of Ashes.

That's what Lynn called the island, and after the Leviathan was swept away by the storm, Lynn arrived at the island that would spew ash.

It looks like a volcano, but it's not quite the usual one before, it's an intermittent ash spewing cavern filled with a lot of dust.

As if caused by some strenuous activity going on underground, Leviathan is now exploring the place.

The spraying of ash is about a pom-pom ball only a few times a day and night, and Lynn thinks that such a small amount of spray dust is not a reason for the accumulation of dust outside.

And the dust on the outside seemed to be much thicker than it used to be, and it was now starting to get thinner and thinner under the influence of the storm.

The main reason why Lin came to this cave was not to find out where the dust came from, but because Lin found that the dust contained a lot of substances that could be absorbed, and the temperature here was not very high.

That is, there may also be creatures here.

It is surrounded by smooth rocks, and around the rock walls, you can see many caves of different sizes, most of them are no more than two meters in diameter, Leviathan cannot enter them, the caves are very dark, Leviathan can only see the surroundings by emitting light, and just now, Leviathan shines on some of the more spacious caves below.

The cave was more than ten meters in diameter and was located on a rock wall more than fifty meters below the cave, and Leviathan floated into the cave and searched its surroundings.

The walls of the caves here are all white, very spacious, and there is a lot of standing water in them. Every puddle of water appears very muddy. Leviathan is close to a puddle of stagnant water. And observed it...... It's ...... There are a lot of creatures!

Most of these are fungi, but there are some microscopic multicellular organisms that are active.

Although it was very small, it was the first time she had seen a multicellular creature on the moon, and Lin felt a little excited.

It's a multicellular organism that resembles arthropods, but it has a peculiar structure that has both a skeleton and a shell, and ......

'Smack'.

Just as Lynn was observing, she suddenly heard a voice. Leviathan immediately shone the light towards where the sound had come from, and in the light, a pile of white sand appeared in Lynn's field of vision......

Sand? Although it didn't seem anything strange, Lynn remembered a location where there was no such gravel......

At the moment when Lin thought this, the sand suddenly moved, and all the sand instantly transformed into a creature that seemed to have many legs, and rushed towards it!

Can the sand move? When Lynn was a little surprised, the Leviathan immediately stepped back and changed color and hid in the darkness, and the moving sand seemed completely unaffected. It swooped down on the Leviathan and wrapped it in grains of sand......

This creature ...... It's unbelievable.

Leviathan observed the grains of sand on his body. This reminded Lynn of the 'creatures' in the dream world, which were completely different from the usual creatures, but made up of other components......

I didn't expect to actually encounter this creature, and it was above the moon!

It seemed intent on breaking the Leviathan's shell, but no matter how much it tried to do it, it couldn't hurt the Leviathan, and after a while, the gravel creature gave up, slid off the Leviathan, and gathered together, crawling up to the waterhole.

And just when it pounced on the Leviathan, the Leviathan had already gotten some of its 'grit' and started researching it.

I see, this is a creature like this...... It wasn't a creature with a different structure than Lin had originally thought, and Rin thought it was a creature made entirely of sand and stone, but it wasn't.

The sand is actually a very regular shape, each one is about a millimeter in size, and it is square, with a hole on each side, and this gravel is inhabited by a creature.

The creature was oddly shaped, resembling a square creature with multiple limbs, tentacles that could protrude from every hole in the gravel, and the tentacles had thick ends and a ring of barbed fangs.

This means...... They can be connected to each other.

In Leviathan's body, when Lynn tried to put two gravels together, they would grab each other with their tentacles to form a kind of 'connection', and cooperate with each other to crawl.

The same can be said of the pile of sand that Lynn saw, which was synthesized from a myriad of these small creatures of about a millimetre that inhabited square gravel, a 'combination creature' that could change form at will.

They only need to pull each other together to form 'legs' to move, 'claws' to attack, and then they can spread out at any time, turning into a pile of sand and slowly squirming on the ground......

Their main feeding method is to rely on fanged tentacles on small grains of sand, which they can tear apart their targets little by little.

These gravel creatures also have a knack for hardening instantly, perhaps as soon as they form their legs to support the weight, and they also need to work together to form muscle-like activities in order to move.

They are multicellular organisms, and they are also made up of common structures in Lynn, but it is quite amazing that they can evolve into this way.

However, Lin thought that they could not do complex activities with these gravels alone, and now the pile of sand and gravel was lying on the ground, but there was a high protrusion in them, which should be the core of them, that is, the 'brain', where Lin could feel the subtle brain waves emanating from it.

It turns out that there are creatures that big on the moon...... It's true that they're protected from storms here, and while it's not known where the water comes from, it's clearly doing well, and while it's not the kind of creature Lynn was looking forward to, it's a lot of fun.

Lynn placed the two gravels she had caught on the ground, and they immediately joined together, and then crawled into the large pile of sand in the distance.

It is possible that the core brain uses brainwaves to control these scattered gravels, and they can probably be considered a division of labor species, although they appear to feed on the fungi in the water, but judging by its previous aggression, the gravel creature may be predatory, that is...... There are creatures the size of the Leviathan that feed it.

Hope to discover more interesting creatures......

With this thought, Leviathan flew into the depths of the cave.

However, Lynn also felt ...... You may encounter familiar creatures...... (To be continued......)

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