4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 60 Crystal Ecology
Why does the small stone in this tentacle face a place?magnetic field?magnet?
Weird words came out of Lynn ’s thoughts. It could not understand what it meant, but knew that the so-called 'magnet' should represent attraction.
What attracted the stone?
Leviathan withdrew the seed of the base, Lin suddenly felt a sense, maybe it would be more suitable to put it on the target of this stone.
Leviathan continued to advance in this dark seabed full of crystals. With the guidance of the stone, Lin found that the surrounding crystals were getting bigger and bigger, some of which were no longer fragments but a complete piece.
There are more than just crystal bacteria. Some flat fish are active here, but these flat fish look a bit strange. Their heads are rounder and thicker than normal flat fish, and they are covered with a thin carapace.
Why did you look like that?Isn't it slower to swim, and has no defense.
Lin was just a little puzzled and skipped them and continued to swim forward. The crystals here are getting bigger and bigger, and the scattered fragments are almost invisible. Lin looks at the surrounding environment while constructing the whole area in her thoughts. Appearance and size.
The outer circle of this area is fragmented crystals, and then the more inward, the more complete, what kind of thing constitutes this environment?
Perhaps it is not necessarily a creature?
Leviathan is surrounded by many flatfish. They seem to be interested in Leviathan's lanterns. Although Lynn did not see their long eyes, they seemed to feel the light.
Lin stretched out her tentacles and grabbed several torn pieces to eat, and found nothing special in them, but the outer skin was covered with many diamond-shaped small nail pieces, and a large number of crystal bacteria were stuffed in the cracks of these nail pieces.
Leviathan has reached the next area, where the crystals are all cone-shaped and stand in the sand, which can be called 'thousand crystal woodland'.
There is another creature here, their bodies are small and soft, but they carry a large hard shell, this kind of creature seems to be called 'snail'.
Lin seemed to mention the word snail, but it was the first time I saw a creature called snail. Its shell is also crystalline, and there are quite a few crystal bacteria in addition to various organs inside.
It seems that every creature here is related to crystal bacteria?How do these crystal bacteria communicate with them?
This relationship seems to be called 'symbiosis', but why do they mix together?
Lynn hasn't seen an ice crystal monster so far. Perhaps this creature is relatively rare.
Lin went on, the tentacles with stones squirmed very much, it seemed to mean that Lin was about to approach the target.
Lin suddenly thought at this time that it seemed that she had been looking at this side recently, and things on the main base had not been carried out very much, but Lin had already broken down the legionary ball. The structure in this organism was very special, with a big bag The bag lives for the small legionary ball, because it has no mouth, so it relies on the small legionary ball to feed it and so on.
Although it is interesting, Lin is more interested in this side, so just leave the main base aside, Lin can let the warheads work automatically.
Suddenly, a large creature flashed through the light of the lantern.
Ice crystal monster?
Lin made the lanterns catch up with the creature, but it swam very fast, and Lin could only see some debris from its tail.
Lin recycles the lantern and grows lantern tentacles on the shell of Leviathan, which causes Leviathan to chase towards the creature at full speed, and the direction of its movement is also the direction of the stone.
Leviathan can use the water spray hole to rotate swimming, so that its speed can catch up with other fast-moving creatures.
After chasing for a while, Lin saw the creature again. This is indeed an ice crystal monster, but it is much smaller in size. It swims quite fast by the spout of the rear arthropod. It is difficult for Leviathan to chase. Get on it.
Lin also noticed that the surrounding environment changed again, some large crystals appeared, they stood like giant stones on the seabed, many creatures were moving around these crystals, the little ice crystal monster suddenly accelerated at this time, it It rushed to the giant crystal wall in front, and then the whole body was drilled in.
this is……
After Leviathan approached, Lin discovered that the crystal wall had a hole just enough for the ice crystal monster to drill into.
And this crystallization ... is big, incredible.
Lin now can only see a huge crystal wall, which is completely blocked in front of Leviathan, and the light of the lantern cannot reach its end, and then Leviathan releases a large number of lanterns, let them go to three Go in different directions and explore how big this crystal is.
The lanterns and eyeballs that went to both sides swimed for a long time, and finally went back to the position of Leviathan in a circle. It seems that this crystal is a huge ring structure. Its width may hold hundreds of Leviathans, but upward The eyeballs and lanterns that have gone have never reached the end of the crystal wall ...
Is it ...
Lynn stopped the lanterns and let Leviathan go upstream along the crystal wall. It found that the crystal actually extended upward until Leviathan approached the ice layer covering the sea.
However, this ice wall actually broke through the ice and extended to the surface of the water ...
It is so huge ... This is no longer an ordinary crystal, but an object that can be called a "mountain".
It extends directly from the dark water abyss to the realm of air. This is a crystalline mountain!
Why can it grow so big?How did this come about?
Lin found that the more it had seen, the more it understood, the more questions it had.
There are no creatures on the crystal wall. Unlike the large number of creatures gathered in the deep water, Lin felt quite strange about this.
However, digging a hole in it, it feels good to get a base. Such a large amount of crystals can also create many troops with crystal shells.
Although food is scarce here, Lin has completed that research.
This is the last step of the "eating light". Mixing water and a certain gas with light and some substances found inside the green cells can form an edible gadget.
The proportion of Lin has been fully understood, and now it can produce a new type of cell.
Although it seems that many things to be synthesized are very complicated, in fact, the amount is very small, and they were originally inedible, plus these substances can be seen everywhere in the water, using them to synthesize food is really cost-effective.
However, the efficiency of this method is actually not high. Those green cells that are locked up by Lin and eat purely light are very slow to proliferate, but some other types of green cells proliferate very quickly, but they will devour other substances or single cells. Cell biology.
Although the efficiency is not high, but it is inexhaustible, so Lin feels that this research is still very useful, so that in areas where food is scarce, but other resource-rich areas can also be established.
This seems to be called 'photosynthesis' and 'chlorophyll'.
In fact, the organisms that can absorb light are not only green, but Lin has also seen many single cells of other colors can also eat light, including red, blue, and even black.
Lin plans to build a structure dedicated to photosynthesis at each base, but still get it here first.
Now the night is going, the day is coming, a layer of light shines through the ice layer, Lin did not care so much, it caused Leviathan to create a "miner", this type of arms has a serrated cone angle, and three tails A water spout allows them to quickly spin and drill the crystal wall.
Then Lin asked the collector to collect the crystalline debris scattered around.
The debris is dissolved and combined to make armor, but the dissolution liquid is divided into different types. Not all of them can dissolve the crystal. Some of the dissolution liquid will completely destroy the crystal and make it impossible to combine, so it is a little trouble to get this type of carapace.
Just when Lin was making holes in the crystal wall, the day had also arrived. As the light above became brighter and brighter, the miners who drilled in the crystal wall suddenly felt that the surroundings were getting hotter ...
By the way, these crystals will absorb heat!
Lin suddenly remembered this, but it seemed too late because the miners drilled too deep and could not withdraw for a while, they were killed by the extremely high temperature.
The whole crystal seems to absorb the light of the day and becomes extremely dazzling
At such a high temperature, it may not be possible to establish a base here. No wonder there are no creatures sticking to the crystal here.
So ... what will happen in the deep sea now?
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