4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

The assassin's troops are slowly advancing in the rocky cave.

The damp and salty smell filled Lin's senses, the ground was full of water, and the sound of a "tick" dripping from time to time in the quiet space.

This is a place of abyss, under the five islands of the plague. It may even be under the seabed, but here ... it is not enveloped by darkness ...

There are a lot of wonderful creatures here, some are like plants, with branches, emitting blue fluorescence everywhere, there are some arthropods and worms resembling trilobites around them, and even some hair A fluorescent starfish.

And there are some creatures that Lin is familiar with. There is a small group of empty jellyfish floating in front of Lin ’s troops. I do n’t know how long they have lived here, but they all seem to be doing well.

These creatures are not infected by fungi. Their light is emitted by themselves. Those creatures that look like plants are a type of coral. They grow in some small puddles. Lin estimates that they rely on the water here. Pit to get food.

It looks like a seabed environment. Although it has a lot of water, it is not completely submerged by water. Maybe they have some ways to drain the water?Or will the water be consumed for some reason?

The assassins got together and moved slowly, and the top of the cave occasionally put cold water droplets on them, and there were also fungi.But in those places where there is no water on the ground, there are some hyphae and mushrooms. They are very good to avoid the water dripping from the puddles and the top of the cave, but there is no way to expand it.

Is this where the head of the plague fungus is located?It is indeed possible that the assassin community has felt some special signals here and is constantly emitting.

In the process of advancing, Lin also found that there are many small openings at every distance on the top of the cave. If you drill these small holes and go up, you will reach a muddy cave, and then go up, you can Came out of the plague island.

These caves are the caves where the plague is located. As expected by Lin, this bottom cave is connected to all islands.

However, Lin feels different here. Lin thinks that there should be some creatures in the head of the plague, or a lot of mushrooms are storing energy, but I did not expect that there are so many sea creatures inhabited here ...

Lin is moving in the direction of a strong signal, moving deeper, and the strange thing is that the deeper the surrounding creatures, the less there are, and the environment is relatively dry, the water on the ground slowly disappears, and the cave It has become more spacious, there are many round stone columns, it feels like it is used to support the cave.

No, this is not a stone pillar.

An assassin approached the stone column and gently scraped some debris from the top. After eating it, Lin found that it was a hardened fungal structure. This inside has become quite strong and can indeed be used as a 'support column'.

This hardened structure ... feels like the fungal fossils found in the salt cave.

Sure enough, they must have some connection in the past. Lin felt that these fungi should not be attacked and hardened by something, but that they themselves would become like this under certain circumstances, and all fungi would work together.

But what happened to them?If you know, this may be the key to extinction ...

There are not as many puddles here as before, but there are still some creatures appearing, Lin found that this is a relatively familiar creature ... ancient squid.

The species of this ancient squid is obviously different from that of the northern continent. They are twice as large as they are, they are about 20 centimeters in size, and they have a blue circular markings all over their bodies. The body changes color and changes.

They seem to be staying in the puddle with ten as a group. When Lynn's assassin approached them, they did not appear to be afraid, but instead observed the assassin curiously.

Lin wants to call them "Blue Ring Ancient Squid", but the name doesn't feel very interesting, so it's better to call it "Abyss Ancient Squid".

I do n’t know what the difference between the intelligence of this ancient abyss and the northern continent is, but usually there is not much difference between similar species. The two of them may still be able to match to produce new species after chance.

Maybe you should grab one and give it a try ...

Thinking, Lin brought the hunter close to the puddle, and the ancient abyss who didn't seem to be afraid immediately swam into the mud at the bottom of the pit. They continuously drilled into it and disappeared all at once.

Lynn decided to forget it after watching it for a few seconds. I will catch it next time. This unit is not here to study and explore.

Then Lin continued to follow the signal and went deeper. At this depth, there were no puddles around, and no creatures appeared. Without those glowing creatures, the environment became dark.

At this time the assassin glowed, and the whole cave became brighter again. Lynn saw many cone-shaped pointed pillars on the top of the cave, wondering if it was a hardened fungus, and there were some shiny things reflecting the light around.

Is this ... crystallization?

Lin gathered the assassin's light and found a crystal standing on the ground. This crystal seems to be the same as the Chibucha in the northern continent. Lin has also seen it in the sea before. Generally speaking, these Near the crystal ...

Lin asked the assassins to look around. Sure enough, she saw some creatures moving around. They looked like scorpions. They were only five centimeters in size. They were quite small, but they were covered with crystal-like carapace.

Yes, there are always crystalline creatures near these crystals. This feeling is really wonderful. It seems that the creature will eat these crystals unconsciously, and then the crystals will start to replace its original carapace on its body. This process may be quite fast.

There is more than just one crystal here. If the assassin puts the light on, he can see the surroundings everywhere. They are piled up cluster by cluster, spreading all over the cave, giving this damp and dark place a A special sense of beauty ...

If you continue to move forward, the original stone ground has become gray gravel, and the crystalline clusters are even larger. The original height is only about one meter, and it gradually increased here, two meters, three meters ... even Lin I also saw more than six meters high.

However, it seems that because there is no water seepage, no creatures have appeared, and the scorpion of the previous type can not be seen here.

... Wait, what is that?

Lynn saw a huge object lying in front of the assassin troops. The surface of this thing was also formed by hardened fungi. This is ... the legs of the plague.

This is just one of the sections. The predator looked around and found that it could be drilled into the section, but it was empty. It seemed that after the shell was made, nothing had been stuffed in.

Then Lin found that there are many legs with only one section around, and there are some carapace heads of the plague. Is this also a place to place unfinished products?

'Gada'.

Lynn suddenly heard a familiar sound while detecting a carapace fragment.

Lin heard the assassin rush to the direction of the sound immediately after hearing it. Sure enough, Lin saw a wonderful thing that she had seen ... Echo Egg.

Lin had seen many of these eggs when she was advancing on the sea, and locusts infected by the plague fungus would bypass them. After that, during the war with the fungus on the mainland, Lin had not seen anything like this. Have this?

This echo egg is exactly like the one I have seen before. It is surrounded by a layer of rock and occasionally emits a "Gada" sound. There are many scattered nearby, but it seems that only this one will make a sound.

Lin asked the assassin to get rid of a nearby audible echo egg. When digging the outer rock, she found that the egg inside was dead.

It seems that the energy is exhausted, maybe only one will live alive.

Lin went on. There are many echo eggs here. Most of them are close to the crystal clusters, but only the one that Lin saw at the beginning has a sound. These echo eggs are all dead.

This submarine cave seems to hide quite a lot of things. Lin felt that the history of fungi might be found here.

Now, Lin's troops suddenly stepped into an open space. The edges of the open space were crystallized and echoed eggs. These things seemed to be pushed to this position by some creatures, and the space was specifically cleared.

In front, Lin suddenly saw a bunch of echo eggs forming a circle. In the center of the circle, there was a huge crystal. The crystal was up to about ten meters in width and more than five meters in width, like a huge rock, and inside There seems to be ... something.

This position is not very clear. The assassins looked closely. Through the transparent crystal surface, Lin found that there was indeed a strange-shaped thing in the center of the crystal.

This thing is gray, seems to be very soft, and the shape is very irregular. The whole is about two meters in size, like a mass of meat, and it is still trembling slightly, it seems to be alive.

Lin also noticed that there were a lot of mycelium-like filaments around the meat piece. They were connected to the bottom of the crystal and seemed to lead to the ground.

Is this ... the brain of the plague fungus?

Lin felt that it was indeed releasing a lot of signals. This signal was much stronger than the previous fungus lord, but because this was underground, Lin thought that its signal could not be transmitted to the outside plague army, so Do you need the fungus lord as a 'transit station'?

This brain looks quite large, but the plague fungus can only show intelligence occasionally, and it is really necessary to study.

The assassins began to climb the crystal, but just when they were in contact with the crystal, Lin suddenly heard the nearby sand suddenly start to shake strongly, and it seemed that something was about to be drilled out of the gravel.