4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

It's over ... At least the battle on this island is over.

The spreading fungus was burned away by Lin with a high-temperature fire. Their queen was drilled into two sections by the trailblazers. The locusts who ran away were also killed by the bombers. far away.

It is impossible to clean up the dust that is flying in the air. If they float on a plant, I wonder if they will grow?Moreover, Lin cannot fully confirm whether he has killed all locusts. The most important thing is that this species may have more than one group.

Now, Lin is analyzing this group of creatures to see what they are doing.

If it is not a fungus, locusts and locust group lords are the typical divisional species, and the more primitive ones, there is only one queen and one armament, but Lin found that there are some strange points among them.

The locust lords breathe with gills, so they can maintain such a large body, and the locusts breathe with stomata, so they are small, but in this way, the two species seem to be separated, and the locusts cannot help the locust group lord to cope with the water. The lord of the locust swarm must also go ashore and surface to be able to produce locusts ...

This feels quite strange. No queen can protect her directly after giving birth, but the lord of the locust group does have an organ that produces locusts ...

There are also fungi. Each locust contains a large number of fungi. These fungi seem to stick to the internal organs, cortex, blood vessels and other places of the locust in a parasitic form, including many places in the brain, usually dormant, and the locust Once they die, they will explode.

These fungi like parasites, Lin has not yet discovered how they are related to locusts. Fungi are not a locust group, and are very likely to be symbiotic organisms. These fungi are quite terrible and will devour any organism, but However, it is difficult to imagine how this relationship started in the first place, except that it was not infected with locusts.

The lords of the locust group have no fungi in their bodies except the brain, and there are no locusts just born, but they will be infected by contact with other locusts.

Only the brain?Is there any connection between fungi and brain?

Moreover, Lin did not find any relationship between them and the "echo egg". The locust swarm lord would not produce the appearance of an echo egg, but in the middle of it, it was obvious that Lin saw that the locust would avoid the island with the echo egg.

Some creatures are indeed afraid of certain sounds, which is related to their nervous system, but there seems to be nothing in the brain of locusts that is sensitive to the sound of echo eggs.

These are all too weird. This race is full of mysteries and needs further investigation.

At the same time, Lin is also 'save' the island, although there are only some sound lizards left on the island's animals ... This creature is still pounding stones in the jungle, constantly making a gada sound, I don't know if I want to knock At what point, Lin showed the scene of the locust swarm using the "psychophilus", and the lizard stopped.

Then it is obviously a stone knocked for locusts, but it is difficult to know why it knows that knocking is effective.

Although the "plague" was stopped, Lin felt that the island felt "dead" ... it was better to get some other creatures to come here.

Lin is now ready to leave.

The trip to the west has been suspended for a while, and Lin feels it necessary to speed up the progress.

If you find any interesting creature on the road, get it to this island.

But before it's time to go, Lin wants to clean up the wreckage on the battlefield and recycle resources. The fungus that has been burnt to ash is edible, and the head worms also show what they want to eat. It is close to the battlefield, and if it is infected with such a thing, it is difficult to get rid of it in time.

In this war, Lin did not lose any arms, but consumed a lot of explosive bombs and fuel liquid. After recovering enough resources, Lin checked the jungle again and confirmed that there were no infections and left eyeballs and tentacles to observe, and began to gather. The troops continued their journey westward.

On the second day and night, Lynn ’s troops left the island, starting from the cliff behind the jungle in the south. A large number of bombers and Behemoths flew over the jungle. The Blazers also bypassed the island and arrived. At this location, Lin thinks that if you start from here, you might see more special things.

Like an island-like "swimmer", there should be more at sea. Some of the island's creatures may have taken other swimmers to leave. They may still be alive and reached other places.

After looking at the island for the last time, Lin named it "The Land of the Plague", but felt a little troublesome and called it "The Island of the Plague".

Maybe this fungus will be encountered in the future, then Lynn will turn them into the dust in this world like now.

Next, is to face the endless ocean again ...

Do not know how long it will take to reach the mainland?

In this way, during Lin's journey, a dozen days and nights passed slowly ...

The ocean is not immutable. Lin saw many new marine creatures. Lin found that there were many shellless ammonites and arrowstones in this area. These types of creatures are like ancient squids, degrading the shell.

There are also quite a few new species of fish, but the difference does not seem to be large. It may be that they have just begun to classify, and there are more and more large fish like sharks.

At sea, Lin also found many islands, most of which are small and almost deserted islands filled with sand and rocks.

Echo eggs are occasionally found on islands, but not every island, but the common point of echo eggs is that they are all located on deserted islands, regardless of the size of the island. Sometimes a small island with a diameter of several meters will have And Lin discovered that a circular island with a diameter of more than 100 meters was occupied by a marine plant that climbed ashore and a large number of Brondu scorpions, but the island did not have echo eggs.

What kind of creature put this kind of puzzle-filled thing?Hope to find the answer soon, at present only know that the plague has some connection with them.

The creature Brondu scorpion may become a large land arthropod after hypoxia. They not only did not become smaller in the land where oxygen is scarce, but began to increase. They seem to be very effective in the way of gill breathing, but Currently, it must not be too far away from the water because it must be kept moist.

Because the head bug regained its boredom stage, Lin let it continue to look at the situation of the ancient squid in the twisted jungle.

The ancient squid has now become the king of waterholes. It has gathered a huge community of up to one hundred ancient squids and occupies the largest waterhole in the canyon. Generally, ancient squids will not gather that large group. But because of current resource issues, they must all be brought together.

They rely on small arthropods near hunting puddles for food, and occasionally they can catch large reptiles and other creatures.

Because the status of the leader is not eternal, Ika is often challenged by other ancient squids. Their challenges are sometimes as many as several times a day and night. The head worms call it: "Stupid competition, unreasonable distribution, and ineffective fighting methods. fair."

Despite this, Ika defeated all the challengers and became the strongest ancient squid of this generation, but if it cannot be continued, the strongest is meaningless, so Ika finds the strongest among its challengers An ancient squid, and intends to breed offspring with it.

The ancient squid has a special 'courtship ritual'. An ancient squid first makes a request. If the requested party also agrees, the next two ancient squids must pose together, and then they must also hunt and fight together. Wait, only the ancient squid that can perfectly cooperate with each other will be combined.

This is mainly to test their 'character synchronization rate'. Headworm thinks this method is very good. If the personality is different, staying together will only cause trouble, just like it is impossible for Headworm to command with Mktu.

If they do n’t match, there will be a lot of disputes and so on. According to the head worms, this situation occasionally occurs in their ethnic group. There was once a head worm because the speed of tumbling was always one second slower than the other, and The companion argued, and it thought it was not that slow at all.

Finally, at the time of the destruction of the group, the head worm was swallowed by the lava first because it did not run away with its companions because of the tumbling speed problem.

So, character synchronization is really important.

Ika obviously does n’t care about this kind of thing now, it has a good synchronization rate with its spouse, so they soon plan to lay eggs, presumably the descendants of Ika will be as powerful as it, for the fate of the ancient canyon. Find a way out.

In fact, their fate is not very good. Although the canyon has rained several times, they are very small, and the puddles are always drying much faster than they recover.

When they were ready for production, they finally discovered what Ika's gender is ...

'Snapped.'The display is turned off.

The sky above the ocean was roaring with gusts of wind, and there were several thunderlights under the dark clouds all over the sky. Lin once again encountered a sea storm. Lin found that the headworm's active thinking seemed to attract lightning, so the display must be turned off. Row.

In the strong wind, Behemoth and the bombers connected to each other with a rope to form a huge and stable whole to resist the storm. Although it was said that diving into the water would not be affected by the storm, Lin felt that it was unnecessary.

The storm was bigger than the one I encountered on the island before, but it was not enough to shake Lin ’s troops.

Moreover, more interesting things can be found on the sea, for example ... some kind of huge creature.

Above the dim and thunderous sea, an island with a width of 100 meters appeared in front of Lin's eyes. It was swaying in the water like the waves of the sea.

There are creatures everywhere on this 'island', most of them are reptiles, gathered together, trembling in the storm.

They are obviously another part of the creature that escaped from the ‘Island of Plague’.