4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
195 The Origin of Purgatory
Lin was hesitant to let the army invade the last territory of the Inca swarm, which is the area directly below the desert, but now, let ’s study the worm first,
The Purgatory Worm is the largest arm of the Inca swarm, and it also spits out lava and other attack methods. Although Lin called it lava, he has never been sure whether it is lava or not, but it may just be a high-temperature liquid.
And most importantly, what is the origin of the purgatory worm?The purgatory worms that Lin now sees have obviously been transformed countless times by the Inca swarm. The purgatory worms cannot be normal creatures. This kind of action is slow and large, and it is an extremely energy-consuming creature attacked by spraying high-temperature solutions Only suitable for living in the division of labor.
So Lin is very interested. What kind of creature was the Purgatory Worm originally?Was it stolen by the Inca swarm?Or evolved from the original Inca swarm?
Now, Lin is going to uncover the secret. When studying these complex and powerful creatures, Lin feels quite interesting.
First of all, Lin is most concerned about the body of the purgatory worm. The collector drilled down the body of the purgatory worm on the ground. Lin lit up and saw the same scene as Leviathan when he entered ...
The esophagus wall is polished and very long.
The collectors crawled inward, and the deeper they were, the narrower the surrounding passage became. Lin thought that the passage might penetrate the entire body of the worm. The part of the worm buried underground may exceed 30 meters, but the body in the underground It should not be as wide as the head outside, which is probably the reason why they are difficult to drill back. Lin even suspects that they have no ability to go back.
The collectors walked to the end of the passage, and Lin found that there was a small hole at the end, and the diameter was less than one meter, and there were many small particles on the inner wall, which looked like dust.
After the collectors drilled the hole in the tail of the worm, they found that the surrounding environment was an underground cave. This cave was obviously dug by the purgatory worm. The "soil" around this cave had a strange smell.
There seems to be nothing special to discover.
Lin then asked the collector to start digging holes in the esophagus wall of the worm to see if it could be drilled to observe the internal organs and other structures. During the period, Lin intends to study the shell of the Purgatory Worm.
The collector collected a lot of the shell powder of the purgatory worm under the collapsed home tree. Lynn found that this is an extremely special kind of chitin, which is usually not produced by marine life and terrestrial life.
The ingredients inside are very special. This shell is strong and suitable for resisting pressure and high temperature, but it is not the highest in terms of hardness, but the shell of the purgatory worm is too thick, so it is difficult for general attacks to penetrate.
However, Lin still saw a creature that can make this kind of chitin.
That kind of creature lives under the sea water. Lynn hasn't seen it for a long time, but it is also a worm-type creature, usually found near the bottom of the lava vent.
These vents, Lin has a new word to describe: 'volcano'.
Through this, perhaps the origin of purgatory worms may not necessarily be traced.
Lin can get information by recalling her observations on the seabed ...
Most creatures will quickly escape when the lava erupts, but some creatures will follow the life of the lava. This kind of creature is actually quite common, mainly fungi. They like to gather in large numbers in the seabed crater. When erupting, the formation is deep A lot of nutrients also broke out, most of these substances are toxic, but fungi can decompose them.
Since there are fungi, there are also organisms that feed on fungi.
The Pompeii worm, which is not Lin's name, comes with its own vocabulary. This small but powerful variety of worms gathers near the crater of the seabed. Some of them coexist with fungi and some feed on fungi.
However, in the face of intermittent eruption of volcanic lava, fungi can hide in various rock crevices. The Pompeii worm, which is a multicellular organism, is too large to hide, so some Pompeii worms have evolved. Out of speed, they can quickly escape lava.
And some have evolved a 'hard resistance' method, they are covered with a shell material on the surface to resist the high temperature of intermittent lava, so that they don't have to run too far, they can be eaten and burned the first time Those dead fungi.
Where do they come from?Lin thought it might be gathered from the currents or excavated from the rock and soil near the crater. Lin had also collected chitin from rocky gravel, but now Lin is completely obtained directly from her prey.
Since this is the case at the bottom of the sea, it is clear that there may also be ... some kind of high-temperature resistant organism that lives in intermittent craters and loves to devour volcanic bacteria.
The origin of the purgatory worm may be a very tiny worm-type creature, but after being discovered by the Inca swarm, this creature's special ability is quickly used by them. At the beginning, the Inca swarm may use this ability to explore In some high-temperature areas, the Inca swarm will continue to increase the size of the worms in order to achieve better results.
In the end, the original tiny worms became so huge. Perhaps the ability to spray lava is incidental. The Inca swarm likes to use fire, so it is not suitable for a high-temperature-resistant armament to spray high-temperature liquid.
In a similar combination of explosives, it should be able to produce high-temperature materials similar to lava. In fact, there are many formulas for explosives, but Lin has only found a few formulas.
Lin now intends to decompose the manufacturing method of the chitin of the purgatory worm, which can create the arms used to explore the high temperature area. Most of the people who like to live in the high temperature area are fungi, but occasionally strange creatures can be found.
If you can escape into the deeper and higher temperature, there will be more spectacular discoveries.
There are actually more puzzles, why do the Inca swarms need this worm to burrow?They obviously like to live in tree holes, and just to drill the ground, it should be about the size of a foggy worm. Why should it be so huge?
Maybe ... Inca worms have also experienced some kind of battlefield before, and it is not necessarily that the purgatory worm is a branch of the war.
This is only possible if you have studied the history of the Inca Swarm. I do n’t know if there is a way to find their history.
This is the next thing to do, march to the territory of the Inca Swarm!
At this time, Lin's collector finally opened the wall of the esophagus of the Purgatory Worm and got into the body of the Purgatory Worm ...
In the body of the Purgatory Worm, Lin saw something incredible.