4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

368 Ghost Fire in the Ribs

"Goo ..." The cold feeling eroded its body, and hunger and thirst was torturing its thoughts. Although it is no longer necessary to report this information, the cells of the whole body send various painful information to it all the time. In my mind, this can be called 'the last torture', and it will slowly die under this pain ...

If Leviathan did not appear, it would indeed be so.

Lin found Susumi in a mud hole on the ground. When this little green figure was found by Lin, she was dying and her mouth kept emitting: "Save ..." The note ...

Although most of its organs are close to being closed, and the brain is about to stop working due to lack of nutrition, it is still alive. This is the most important thing. No matter how much damage a creature receives, as long as it is not dead, Lynn can let It woke up again.

Leviathan put Susumi on the ground, stretched out his tentacles, and injected it with the ingredient named Lin's "cell rejuvenation solution", which can quickly get its body nutrients, restore the vitality of various organs, and put it in by the way. Some arms help it solve viruses and parasites and many harmful bacteria.

When the creature is weak, these things will always "take advantage of the weakness", the word feels good.

Susumi's weakness was mainly due to hunger and thirst, as if there were no other problems, there was no injury to him, no signs of biological attacks on it.

The very 'cold' feeling that Leviathan came in before was obviously made by some creatures. Lynn always thought that it was a trick used by predators, in order to confuse the prey and attack, but Susumi was all right. This does not seem to be the case.

What is that feeling?There are also strange pronunciation organs that seem to be useless. Why does the tree grow?This is a wasteland where nutrients are scarce. They grow such organs and consume nutrients.

"Ga ..." Su Sumi seemed to have a little consciousness at this time, and slowly opened her eyes, then closed again.

The recovery speed is not bad. It can be up in a few thousand seconds. While treating Susumi, Lin also conducted some research on the crystal cone tortoise that she encountered before. This kind of crystal cone can be sprayed. The creature is quite interesting ...

'Dada Dada ...' Just when Lin thought, suddenly heard some sounds around Leviathan, a large group of creatures surrounded Leviathan and Susumi.

These are the crystalline scorpions I saw before?Leviathan looked at the creatures around him strangely, remembering that they only wandered around, why did they come here?Or is there a haunt here?

These scorpions twirled around Leviathan, seeming to be afraid of Leviathan's size when they tried to get close but didn't dare to get close.

Lin is very interested in them. These scorpions are completely out of aquatic life and maintain a large body shape. They should be observed and studied. Leviathan cuts off the system that delivers nutrients. This tentacle itself has nutrients and can be used by itself Susumi was fed, while Leviathan used another tentacle to spray a large amount of viscous liquid, forming a hemisphere to cover Susumi on the ground.

This liquid hardens quickly, forming a layer of chitin so that Susumi cannot be attacked.

After getting it right, Leviathan slowly floated up, looking at the crystal scorpion around him, Leviathan reached out and rushed over!

This group of scorpions seemed to be frightened, and spread out in an instant, but Leviathan still grabbed one easily. It was tied by Leviathan with his tentacles, and he began to put in miniature arms for research.

It turns out that there are some changes in the respiratory system of this scorpion. It has some contractile organs in its body, which can suck in a lot of air from outside, and then mix with the water in the body, and then get this water to the gills. Breathe in this way.

It feels complicated. Although it has no lungs, this system looks like a lung.

"Bah ..." When Lin tied up a scorpion for research, the scorpions that had escaped nearby were all around. They kept waving pliers and tail hooks, and also made a strange sound, as if they were coming to attack.

Do they want to save it?Their habits seemed to change after they landed. Lin remembered that the Brondu scorpions in the sea often beat each other in the same class.

"Bah!" A scorpion on the right side of Leviathan suddenly rushed over, but it was shot out by Leviathan with a tentacle in an instant, and stopped after rolling on the ground for many laps ...

This is the so-called 'unrestrained'.

However, the scorpion was smarter, and immediately flinched after seeing his companion flying. Lynn saw several running towards Susumi ’s position. They tried to use pliers to open the husk that wrapped Susumi. However, there was no crack at all.

Of course that is not something they can knock on. Susumi should be taken out of here when he recovers. Although the journey will continue, this place is not suitable for Susumi to explore. You should find a biologically rich area. This place is really weird, and we should investigate it carefully.

After the scorpions knocked a few times and found that they could not move, they spread out. They ran into the jungle very quickly and disappeared. Leviathan also let go of the scorpion that he had caught before and ran away. After that, Leviathan continued to fly to Susumi and wait for it to recover.

"what--!"

Suddenly, Leviathan heard a scream, from the surrounding crystalline trees

Strangely, some of the trees here Leviathan searched, remember that they only recorded Susumi ’s weak voice. Speaking of the scorpions just now, but there are no trees recorded?

What is that ...?

When Lin thought, she found that the scorpions ran back again, and they also carried some strange things, which looked like ... biological ribs.

"Ah--" Another voice sounded at this time, and Lynn heard clearly, the ribs carried by the scorpion!

Why do bones call?This is an interesting question ... Leviathan slowly floated, and when it was about to rush towards the scorpions again, it suddenly found that the ribs were moving.

Does this thing not only call but also move?Lin found that the first half of the ribs were lifted, and each bone was greatly opened. At this time, Lin found that the top of the "spine" in the middle had a structure like a cockroach mouth, and there were several more on the mouth. Compound eyes.

Turns out to be an arthropod?It may be the type of centipede, but its shape is too long like a rib, and its color is very similar. Maybe it should be called 'rib centipede'.

Generally speaking, this form should be a kind of camouflage, which can be used as a dead biological rib, but why is it lying on the scorpion?And also ... "Ah-!!!"

The rib centipede made another extremely sharp cry, and the rib centipedes on the back of the other scorpions also screamed together. This sound instantly rang through the woodland, but Leviathan was indifferent.

Ordinary creatures ca n’t stand this kind of cry. After all, most animals have a well-developed sense of hearing. When they hear this sound, they will get irritated because of the continuous reception of signals in the brain. Although Leviathan has developed hearing, it can Completely fine.

The ribs centipedes called for a while, and after finding that Leviathan was still, they seemed to start to use new tricks. Several centipedes stood up on the upper body and began to wield articulations like ribs.

Are they dancing?At this time, Lin suddenly smelled a scent, and saw a blue-green flame suddenly ignite between the four forelimbs of a rib centipede.

……flame?

The ribs centipedes opened their limbs, and the fire floated towards Leviathan.

... a flame burning in the air and floating?Although the speed is relatively slow, it is indeed floating.

This feeling is really wonderful ... Can the flames be made like this?Now Lin initially judged what light flammable substance might have been ejected from the rib centipede, and then used the wind to blow this strangely colored flame.

But is there such a thing?Why doesn't it spread out in the air?Why can it continue to burn for so long?

The flame slowly approached Leviathan. Leviathan reached out his tentacles and slowly reached the flame, trying to touch the temperature, but it went out before it hit it.

It seems that it hasn't burned for a long time ... but it is not easy to confirm whether it is really a fire. When Leviathan reached out his tentacles, he didn't seem to feel the temperature change.

However, the previous feeling of 'cold' has always affected Leviathan's perception ability, so the current feeling is not necessarily accurate.

But at this time, all the ribs and centipedes around created a flame of this kind, and these flames slowly floated in the direction of Leviathan.

Because the speed of the fire was not fast, Leviathan could easily fly up to avoid it, and then it aimed at one of the rib centipedes, and Lynn decided to figure out what was going on with the fire.

Rib Centipede was riding on the back of the scorpion. Lynn was not sure whether they were symbiotic or any other relationship. Leviathan suddenly accelerated and stretched her tentacles towards one of the scorpions carrying the centipede!

At the moment when Leviathan rushed over, the rib centipede on the back of the scorpion suddenly expanded its arthropod, ejecting a flame and directly hit Leviathan's headpiece!But this did not prevent Leviathan from advancing, and a large number of tentacles instantly tied the scorpion.

... just a scorpion?What about centipedes?Leviathan's eyeballs on the back saw the centipede actually jump into the sky. After landing on the ground on one side, it quickly swayed its rib-like limbs to escape into the jungle.

'Boom!'Leviathan fired a fierce shot at the centipede. The ribbed centipede immediately hid behind a tree. The moment the bomb hit the tree, it rushed out again and ran deep into the jungle.

Running so fast, why are you riding on the back of the scorpion?

The same is true of the other centipedes and scorpions around them. They spread out quickly and escaped. Will this time they come back with any strange bugs?

Or ...... will they escape back into the nest?