4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
142 The Jungle in the Desert
'boom……'
A deep vibrating sound came from the ground. It seemed that Lin had heard it before. Lin planned to ignore it first because Lin was more interested in this jungle of vine ferns.
The shredders slammed through the vine ferns with their cone angles, while slowly moving through this fast-growing woodland.
The forest is full of moist breath, and the cry of small creatures. The vine fern is more than 30 centimeters thick, and the whole is very long. It grows about ten meters up on the sand distortedly because it is quite dense. Lin studied it with the shredder, and they advanced by the angle of the cone that could pop out while breaking off the dense ferns.
The pilot flew above the jungle of vine ferns, leading the way for the crushers. The place Lin was going to was in the deeper desert, where almost the tallest vine fern was about fifteen meters, and here it was closer to the twisted jungle Where the vine fern is only about ten meters.
Lin speculates what is hiding in the desert floor, plus a lot of water, these vine ferns grow explosively, and their seeds may have been hidden here long ago.
Speaking of seeds, seeds are also a fairly powerful evolution. Plants have evolved specifically to protect their pups. The outer shell is usually quite hard, and the internal cells can also be stored for a long time, which can usually be calculated in a hundred years.
Lin originally thought that only twisted trees would have this kind of high-hardness, long-lived seeds, and it might have ferns.
Although the vine fern is fragile and fragile, it has a strong characteristic. They will extend their appendages to wrap up the broken parts, and then slowly decompose and absorb them, without waste.
Plants are relatively simple compared to animal cells, and there are few types, but they are quite powerful in terms of survival and competition. This makes Lin feel that it is not more complicated and stronger, even if it is simple, it can easily compete with complexity.
The leading shredder walked for a while, and Lynn reached the deep part of the vine fern bush, which was covered with large vine ferns. Now, the shredders began to dig down at the roots of some of the largest vine ferns.
The roots of the vine ferns seem to be buried quite deep, and the crusher digs quickly, but until Lyn let them dig more than five meters, it is still impossible to judge how deep the vine ferns are, and their roots are deeply rooted in the sand Among them, but also entangled.
Lin adopted a new method to allow the pilot to inject tiny explorers on the skin of the vine fern to observe the cellular activity in the vine fern.
The explorer swims inside the vine fern and observes the cells inside. When it enters, it is attacked by a large number of immune responses. Some cells will produce a large amount of toxins, but this is of no use to the explorer, Lin Can slowly study the cells inside.
... seems quite strange.
Lin found that the cells of the vine fern are very strange. Generally, the cells of animals and plants are very different. However, the vine fern is not like a plant, and part of it is very like an animal.
The speed of nutrient transfer is quite fast, and the splitting speed is also very fast, which is one of the reasons for the rapid growth.
However, although the cells of the vine fern are strange, the types of cells are still as few as those of plants. It seems that the vine fern is a very special creature.
Perhaps further research is needed to see their growth status. They can surge so much in a short period of time. There must be any special method. Lin also wants to master this method, which will definitely help in the future.
In this case, you must get the seeds of the vine fern to see its growth process.
It seems that we must continue to dig.
However, when Lin planned to continue, she suddenly felt the vibration of the ground again ...
This feeling ... is really familiar.
Lin was planning to listen carefully, but its hearing was soon replaced by another sound.
It was a loud roar, seeming to be a cry made by a creature with a sound capsule.
These fast-growing vine ferns attract a lot of creatures, but most of them are small creatures less than half a meter away, and this sound seems to represent a huge creature, and it is ... approaching!
From the field of vision of a shredder digging at the edge of the group, Lin saw the vine fern in front of him suddenly shake, a pair of one-meter-long, jaws covered with serrations rushed out from it, and instantly caught the shredder Head.
Following this, the pair of jaws pulled the crusher back, but at this time the cone angle of the crusher had popped out, hitting hard on the serrations on the inside of the jaw.
'Click'
Cracks appeared on the slammed teeth, and the jaws suddenly loosened and retracted into the vine fern.
The crusher chased after victory, Lynn let them quickly break away the fern bush in front, and rushed to the place where the big jaw retracted.
After running for about ten meters, Lin found that she had reached a relatively empty area, where the vine fern was cut flat, and in the center of the open space was the creature that just attacked.
The creature "Saw Sickle" is quite familiar with it. I have seen it many times in the twisted jungle. It is a large beetle with a pair of long jaws and a head of about three meters. It seems to have dug a vacant place here. , Probably to occupy the site or something.
Facing so many shatterers, Saw-Scythe was somewhat frightened. While receding, it spread the hard shell behind it, revealing the four wings below, and then fled to the sky.
Forget it, don't worry about it.
Lin was trying to make the crushers turn around and leave, when the ground came again, "Boom"!Voice, and this time the voice is quite close!
By the way, this is ...
I saw that the ground in the open space cracked and opened instantly, and a huge creature rushed out of the ground with countless sand and broken vine ferns. It bit the saw sickle in the air and dragged it back to the ground. on.
This vibrating sound really is ... Shensha Bus!
After a period of time in the winter in Lin, some of the pilots who observed the Aztecs were frozen to death, as were those in the body of the deep sand bus, so Lin has not paid attention to Aztec for a long time. The movement of the insect.
Only half of the body of this deep sand bus is exposed to the ground, about 17 meters long, and the width of the scorpion body is seven meters. Lin speculates that its overall length may exceed 26 meters.
Probably not the one who attacked Behemoth before ...
The Shensha bus chewed the saw sickle in its mouth and swallowed it after a crisp crack of the carapace. Then, it looked at the crushers.
It feels a little difficult to handle. The Shensha bus is a very troublesome creature, with a huge body, very fast movement, and it will also escape. It is difficult for the crusher to win this opponent.
But even so, Lin did not intend to make the crushers back, but let them stand in a line and take a direct charge to the target.
The Shensha bus made a roar, but it retracted into the ground, leaving only a big hole in the ground.
Do you want to burrow into the cave to chase it?Lin hesitated a little, and then the sound of the earthquake rang again.
'Boom!'
At the next moment, the Shensha bus suddenly burrowed out of the group of crushers. The impact of the drill directly sent more than a dozen crushers into the air more than ten meters high, and then fell heavily to the ground.
Then, the Shensha bus retracted into the ground again at a very fast speed, and it seemed to escape into the depths of the ground at once, Lin could not even feel its movement ...
Really troublesome opponent.
The internal cells of these crushers who fell to the ground were seriously injured. Lin needed to quickly restore the structure inside them, and then Lin let the crushers used to begin to spread out in the vine fern jungle and retreat.
It seems that when the Shensha bus is attacking quite close, Lynn can hear its voice. I do n’t know why, does it have some way to silence?
Lin is also curious about the origin of the Shensha bus. Is it for hunting here?Or to attack?And it was daylight now, but it seemed not afraid, but it did not release the Aztec attack.
Could it be that Aztec insects are afraid of the light, while the Shensha bus is not?
In any case, Lynn must grab one to study.
Behemoth is flying here. Usually, Behemoth is over a kilometer above the glittering woodland. It takes a long time to fly over.
The Shasha bus again vibrated under the ground. It seemed to have been tracking under a crusher because they were scattered, so it had to chase one of them, and the crusher just ran back in the direction of the flashing woodland. of.
Is it going to follow the glittering woodland?
Thinking, Lin immediately stopped the crusher, and at the moment it stopped, the ground in front of the crusher suddenly cracked, and a pair of big jaws bit directly at it.
But when the deep sand bus bit the crusher, a huge shadow suddenly appeared in the sky, and Behemoth finally arrived at this time.
The Shensha bus bit the crusher and quickly retracted, but Behemoth shot a long line with a barb at the front at a faster speed. Before the Shensha bus escaped into the ground, it just hooked in. On the scale armor on the back of the Shensha bus.
This "line" that pulls the Shensha bus is made up of a mixture of strong and tough cells and a small amount of chitin. It has a very strong pulling force. Lin has long researched this thing and wanted to use it to catch the Shensha bus.
The Shensha bus dived into the sand, and when it found that it could no longer sink, it began to twist its body constantly and struggled, while Behemoth stretched out more tentacles to pull the line tight, and began to go all out. Go up in the air!
The ground below is trembling continually. This deep sand bus is smaller than the last one, so its power is much smaller than Behemoth, but it is still trying its best to drill down and does not want to be pulled out Sandy.
Behemoth's jet was fully open, and began to swell his body to increase buoyancy. Under the drag of the powerful force, the ground had already appeared numerous cracks. Finally, the bang suddenly burst, and this huge sand monster was finally pulled by Lyn Air!