4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

This may not be the oldest place on the mainland.

The white ground is still flying with salty and dry winds, and the skeletal dragon has given this place many names, such as 'the place where the sun shines first', 'pompom plain', 'flavor paradise', etc., but Lynn usually Call it 'salt ground'.

This was originally an endless white, but at present, this pile of white is shoveled in large pieces. This is the only place on the mainland that Lin thinks can be dug at will.

As a new type of digging arm, Lin Digger has a beetle-shaped body about three meters long. The forelimbs have a structure similar to a "drill bit" for digging. The second pair of limbs are hollow and can dig those The salt and other debris are sucked into the body, and then condensed into a ball and sprayed out behind.

So this is a unit that does not have to deal with excavation waste!Although it says so, it still has to deal with the heap.

Lin has dug a deep place now. There are a total of one hundred diggers here. Underneath the ground, Lin found quite a few fungal fossils.

As previously discovered, these fungal fossils were not formed after being buried for a long time, but at some point, they seemed to be 'cursed'. All the fungi were hardened at the same time, and it felt very strange ... …

Lin had also found many skeletons of the white skeleton dragon and the skeleton of a flying dragon before. This can be considered as the scene where they were attacked by fungi. The fungus here originally thought that it was not a plague fungus, but they were very similar, or they Variations are also possible ...

They destroyed the white skeleton dragon riding the flying dragon, but the white skeleton dragon riding the flying dragon should not be together with the white skeleton dragon on the other side of the island. Tucker had seen them when he was young.

And the fungus here ... also destroyed the flying white dragon in a relatively short period of time.

It can be seen that the fungus under the salt has no direct relationship with the island white skeleton dragon. They emerged in the near future, at least within a few decades, and the island white skeleton dragon was attacked by the plague fungus earlier. , Fled to the island.

Moreover, there are no traces of white skeletal dragons inhabiting and establishing the city. It can be seen that the island white skeletal dragons should not have lived here.

In general, things made of stone can be kept for a long time, even if they are made of wood, they can be kept for a long time in this salty environment.

But there are no traces here ... some are fossils and corpses, so Lin's main investigation now is why the fungus here is 'petrified'.

And why are these fungi popping up suddenly? Is there any reason?Lin did some more research on the dust structure of these fungi, and found that they are indeed simpler than the dust of the plague fungus. There are not many complicated things in it, but they also have the function of parasitic growth.

Lin believes that these fungi may be called 'primitive species', that is, the later plague fungi have evolved from them.

But why did this 'primitive species' emerge in the near future for decades?Lynn thought of a possibility that it was about the birthplace of the plague fungus.

They may not be marine creatures, nor did they emerge from other places, the birthplace of the plague fungus ... maybe right here!

There may be various reasons later, the plague fungus only left the mainland, and then entered the sea, and then produced brain-like 'arms'. Under the command of the brain, they are more terrible and powerful, but because of encounters The special attack method of the Yat ethnic group was hit hard and was eventually extinct by Lin.

In fact, they have not been completely extinct, because Lin still has a little dust, and only needs some nutrients, they will explode again!

Although that may not be possible.

The process from the original fungus to the latest appearance is completely mysterious, and obviously the original is still on this continent.

This needs to be researched, so Lin ’s digger has dug deeper into the ground, which is a lot deeper than Lin and Tucker had reached before, and here, there is also one similar to the above ... white Cave.

In fact, the underground here is full of various caves. Although the shape of the cave is formed by itself, Lin feels like something dug out.

There are also many fossils of fungi.

The digger slowly advances in the cave. The light emitted by them illuminates the cave walls on both sides. The cave walls here are full of protruding fungal fossils, but unlike the fossils with various mushrooms on them, all of them here They are pure mycelium fossils. They are like carpets covering the ground and surroundings.

The digger finally gathered in a place. This is a pothole newly digged by Lin. Here Lin found a piece of ... wood.

It should be said that it is the root system of a plant.

This root is more than one meter in diameter and more than five meters long. It looks like it is broken. Let me not mention why it appears in such a deep underground. The most important thing is that it is still alive.

This plant is under this dry and waterless ground, and its outer body is surrounded by a layer of wood-like shell, but this layer of wood is stronger and more sealed than the bark of ordinary plants, which makes it difficult for the energy inside to leak out.

Although the digger pierced it with a poke.

After being released into the small arms, Lin found that the cells in the root system of this plant were in a sleeping state, which allowed its cells to live in it for quite a long time, maybe even thousands of years or more, some similar to a A creature called 'bear worm', they are good at letting cells go to sleep.

However, Lin not only found cells in her body, but also many multicellular organisms slept in the transmission channel.

This multi-cellular organism Lin has seen, is a kind of multi-cellular organism called 'sword fleas', looks like 'flea', but very small, also in another plant called 'Du Meisha tree' Are these creatures of the same kind?

But looking at other structures, it is very different from the "Dumeisha tree". Although this thing looks like a plant, in fact, the structure inside is very weird, and there are some between the transportation pipes that are filled in its body. Small pouches, Lynn thinks that these small pouches can contract and then transfer liquid, playing a heart-like function, but there are also some small pouches on both sides of the tube ... they are inside ...

Full of viruses.

Lin has n’t seen this virus before. They seem to be stored here deliberately. There is a solid structure around the small sac that seems to be used to prevent the virus from leaking. At present, I do n’t know what the effect of this virus is. What?

In addition to the virus, there are some small sacs full of eggs, which should be the eggs of sword flea, this is not surprising.

Lin also found that there are some unknown linear structures in this plant, and I don't know what it is used for.

I don't know how to wake it up. This plant is just a broken part. There is no complete structure. You should be able to find something else nearby ...

Lin looked around, letting the digger continue to dig around, but another digger brought a special creature-the salt jade jade Lin caught in the cave above.

Lin wants to try what effect the virus has. Lin ’s experiment with her own cells is not very meaningful, because the structure inside Lin ’s cells is actually somewhat different from that of normal organisms. This is what Lin discovered when experimenting with various viruses, usually viruses. Can only cause basic damage to Lin, that is, enter the cell and use the cell to reproduce.

And for other creatures sometimes it is more than that, some viruses can cause creatures to perform other behaviors, such as becoming crazy etc ...

So take a jade to test it.

Thinking, Lynn dug out a small virus-filled sac in this plant, and then injected some of the virus from the armies called "intakers" into Mao Yu.

Just a little injection should not threaten the life of Maoyu, just observe what happens when they enter the cell ...

... It seems to have no effect.

Lin also injected some miniature soldiers to observe, and found that this virus could not affect the jade cell, it was even difficult to enter this cell ...

This generally means that the jade cell is resistant to it, but it also means that the virus does not seem to adapt to the look of this cell.

Usually the virus has an effect on most cells, but this does not seem to be the case.

Since Mao Yu is useless, let's keep some of this virus first, and then test it later.

If this peculiar plant can find the whole, it should get more information ...

When I thought of this, some of Lin's diggers dug out another root system. This root system was smaller and only over a meter long. After Lin inspected it, he found that there were some cystic organs in it. It is used to make liquids. It contains a strange liquid, which seems to belong to some kind of toxin.

Some of the ingredients inside are like the "petrochemical venom" of Dumeisha, which can harden the muscles of the creature.

And it has another kind of sac with some ... bacterial dust?This dust is exactly the same as the dust of these fossil fungi outside!

Sure enough, do the surrounding fossils have anything to do with this plant?... but where is its body?

Maybe it shouldn't be excavated only here, there are other suspicious locations that can also be excavated, such as outside the rift valley.

There used to be a lot of white skeletal dragon debris, and something should be found there.

Then, Lin continued to dig around for a while, there seemed to be nothing around, and just as Lin was walking towards the deeper cave, suddenly found out how many white skeleton dragons appeared in the passage ahead ...

I saw that they all fell across the ground, seeming to have been dead for a while, but one hand was still holding a piece tightly ... Crystal.