4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
306 Leaving the Abyss
I am going out now.
Lin and Tucker are above a salt lake. Above the lake, the gorgeous sunlight falls down, illuminating the darkness here ...
Lynn has created some floating balls tied to Tucker, which is not enough to make it float, but it can greatly reduce the weight of Tucker's body, so that it can easily climb up the cave wall.
But before that, Lin will show Tucker with the display, about the final outcome of the white skeleton dragon.
When Tucker first saw the revealer, it would be regarded as a real scene. Although it is much better now, when the white skeleton dragon is shown, it will still be angry.
The connection between the white skeleton dragon and the fungus, Lin was based on imagination and speculation. They did not leave any paintings or statues to tell this history. Everything seems to happen quite quickly ...
Lin felt that this history had to be linked to when she landed on this continent.
Tucker ’s history is relatively simple, they just wander in the wilderness, and the white skeleton dragon may have a long history. They should have flew across this dinosaur continental rift to the other side of the rift, which is the continent ’s Outermost, a wasteland, a world destroyed by fungi.
In the outer area, there is a small skeletal dragon that uses bones to build a nest to resist fungi. It was originally considered to be a relatively small skeletal dragon. They are only about one meter, while the long-term skeletal dragon is two meters. Now Lin I think that it may be that the abandoned pups are not necessarily.
At first, the skeletal dragons should have lived out of the inner continent and crossed the rift valley. After being attacked by fungi outside, some adult white skeletal dragons crossed the huge rift valley and returned to the inner continent. They may have reached a symbiosis with the flying dragon at this time. Relationship.
The relationship they reached may not seem to be the usual symbiosis, but it is likely that they picked up the pups of the flying dragon and then raised them, just like the head worms now.
The white skeletal dragon with the flying dragon is obviously the most powerful hunter in this area. They are invincible in this world. This makes the white skeletal dragon's group develop rapidly. They are a more aggressive creature and hold the Tucker skeletal dragon very much. Strong hostility, this is a relatively common phenomenon between organisms, maybe the two had a competitive relationship a long time ago.
The fighting level of the white skeleton dragon and the skeleton dragon should be about the same, but the turning point is that a white skeleton dragon raised the cubs of the flying dragon. After that, everything will be different. Tucker ’s skeleton dragon only has the slaughtered part. When they became the top hunters on the mainland, they found some problems ...
Fungi are still following them.
At first, the white skeleton dragons found that some companions were infected with fungi, they immediately killed it, and then buried them under the ground of the salt wasteland.
The white skeleton dragons discovered that salt can also prevent the spread of fungi.
But later, more and more people were infected. Later, the infected people all went to the cave under the salt rock. The cave here is full of salt, so that the fungus will not spread outside ...
The white skeleton dragon gate in the underground also began its final life. Here, fungi still broke out. They killed a large number of white skeleton dragons, and only part of them escaped.
But the part that escaped was also infected, so it was swallowed up by carnivorous ants to avoid spreading the fungal infection.
On this point, it may be that they voluntarily swallowed by meat-cutting ants, because the battle along the way shows that the white skeleton dragon is a race that is quite good at using sacrifice tactics ...
In the end, they left very few, the ones Tucker and Lynn saw.
Of course, there are many problems, such as why there are so many eggs there, why the fungus is petrified, and why a big flying dragon is here ...
But what can be confirmed is that this group of white skeletal dragons did indeed migrate to the ground for some reason, and this underground had a huge amount of fungi, but they could not climb to the ground.
This fungus is slightly different from the plague fungus, but it should be a very similar species, or a variant of the plague fungus. It can be confirmed that the meat-cutting ants will not be infected, and its transmission ability is also very limited.
The white skeleton dragons are not extinct. They should still live in other places. If they encounter them, they may be able to solve some of the mysteries behind, but they must also understand the situation here, and ... Tucker will not kill them. Just fine.
Now, Lin thought that it was time to leave. The pompom slowly retracted the tentacles. After Tucker finished watching it, he was quite happy for the large number of deaths of the white skeleton dragon, but it didn't seem to understand things like fungi.
These things have to be taught slowly, yes ... there are quite a few things to teach them.
Tuck climbed up the wall of the cave. He was quite surprised by the floating ball sticking to himself, but because there seemed to be too much surprise, now he would not dance every time he saw a surprise Too.
Lin's pompom also slowly floated up from the cave. The height of hundreds of meters was not far away. Soon, Tucker and Lin returned to the sun again.
"Oh!" Tucker shouted excitedly at the sky as he climbed out of the cave. Its shouts were mixed with a lot of happy emotions, mainly because it learned that the White Skeletal Dragon had died, and Tucker had already arrived at this race "Hate", but Lin feels a pity that the destruction of the White Skeletal Dragon has buried their history.
However, Lynn can make Tucker and his ethnic group create a new history.
Now, the hot light is shining on the desert land, looking around, there is no end to the white salt ground, dry smoke and dust are scattered around with the hot wind, this place is always leaking the breath of death.
No wonder the white skeleton dragon will choose here, even the plague fungus can't spread out from here.
Tucker looked around and sniffed on the ground again. Lynn was hesitant to see it, and Tucker couldn't seem to find a direction.
In this case, go in the direction of the ethnic group. They now seem to be tens of kilometers away from here. The parasite that Lin put down at that time is still on the cub, and can be accurately positioned.
"Gay!" Suddenly, Tuck yelled and rushed in one direction. It seemed to find something.
Lin also drifted with it, at this time Lin also found that in the salty hot air, there were some rotten corpse smells.
The corpse can also be supplemented with nutrients. Although it is said that the water has been replenished enough just now, Lynn and Tuck have not obtained food for a long time.
After advancing for more than ten seconds, Lynn saw a red object appearing among the flying white salt dust, that looked like ... a plant.
By the way, like six open white leaves, the color is almost exactly the same as that of the salt field. Each one is more than two meters long and half a meter wide. The whole plant exudes a very strong rotten smell.
Tucker didn't seem to see the camouflage color of the plant. It ran to the place where the smell was. At the moment it ran to the center of the six leaves, all the leaves were immediately closed together, and Tucker was completely closed inside. .
But a few seconds later, a crack appeared in one of the leaves, and Tuck cut the blade with a sharp stone and drilled out of it.
Sure enough, it's a trap plant. This plant should depend entirely on creatures such as pterosaurs looking for carrion in the wasteland. Lin found that it didn't even have a root system. It is really not easy to evolve so pure.
Tuck, who didn't find food, seemed lost, but it seemed to have discovered something new and walked in one direction ...
In that case, follow it. It used to follow Pterosaurs before. Lynn rarely led Tucker.
Lin followed Tuck slowly on the desert, the scorching sun of the sky began to dim, and when everything became dark, a starry sky replaced the light of the day, and the hot environment became cool, even cold a lot of.
Tuck did not like to move at this time. He lowered himself to dig on the ground and seemed to want to dig a hole to live in.
Now it seems to be a good time to teach it.
But what to teach it?Language?Build a variety of nests?Or ... flames?
Judging from the way of life of the dragons, Lin thinks that if they want to progress quickly, they may need some special development methods. The most important thing is to teach them how to gather larger communities, planting and other things to achieve a long-term lifestyle.
At present, Lin only teaches Tuck some common knowledge such as languages, and other things have to wait to meet his ethnic group before teaching them together.
This night, slowly passed by Lin's teaching, Tuck pushed back the time of sleep a lot, and when it came out of the nest made of salt sand, the day had passed half.
Then Lin began to lead the way to find the ethnic group of the skeleton dragon.
After crossing the entire salt field, Lin and Tuck had no further problems. There are almost no creatures here, and they only occasionally see the trap plants that they used to be. To these salt cages, and then trapped inside completely unable to escape.
After walking through dozens of kilometers of salt fields, the surrounding environment slowly changed, and occasionally huge plants appeared on the ground. These plants were covered with highly toxic spikes, which are relatively rare here and do not prey on animals Photosynthetic plants.
At the same time, Lin also saw the skeletons of the skeleton dragons. They did not live well. There were 30 members before, but now there are only a dozen, and they are basically a weak look, even The same is true of the chief.
The cub is about half less, but the one located by Lin is still alive.
It seems that they have encountered many things along the way. Compared with hunger or lack of water, they are more like being attacked.
"Gay!" Tuck yelled at them as soon as he saw them, and the several skeletal dragons were startled. The leader threw a wooden thorn at it reflectively ...
But this time Tuck didn't make any more moves, and the wood thorn flew past it, stuck on ... Lynn's pompon.