4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Crystallization is really a wonderful thing.

Lin hasn't studied crystals thoroughly until now. There are many kinds of them, and they are almost all shiny. The group of creatures that Lin is observing is using crystals to build a city that belongs to them ...

Irregularly shaped crystals are built on the ground, most of them are one to two meters high, some are more than ten meters high, almost touching the ice wall at the top, and each piece of crystals are imaged with each other. It is the general crystals of the pipes that are connected to each other, and a large number of ancient squid are shuttled back and forth in the pipes, which reminds Lin to think of Chibucha.

They also "planted" a plant on the crystal ... No, it should be a creature like anemone. This anemone is similar in size to the ancient squid. They will emit a shimmering light, which makes the whole piece The city under the ice shone.

This 'Crystal City' was established near the Rift Valley and has been extended for several kilometers, which is quite huge for a creature with a length of only 10 centimeters.

And their main source of life can be said to be in the rift valley. The water in this rift valley is very warm, even hotter. The ice here is also thinner than other places. There are no ancient squids in the rift valley, but they have created a lot of pipes that lead straight to the bottom of the rift valley.

Lynn was curious about their living habits. During this period of the rebuilding of the Ark, she did some research on them.

In Lin's observation, it was found that this group of ancient squid mainly uses two crystals. The first crystal is thermally insulating. This is their main building material. The ancient squid crushed these crystals and secreted them. Some things bind them together, and these large amounts of crystals finally form a city here.

The second kind of crystal seems to absorb heat. In fact, the inner layers of the pipes that link each crystalline building are made of this crystal. These pipes eventually extend to the bottom of the rift in a large amount. The meaning of these pipes is to let the inside of the rift The heat is introduced into the above crystalline building manufacturing, but they do not only do this, they also throw a lot of crystals to the bottom of the rift, wait for enough heat to absorb them, and then take them up,

This marvelous move will keep their entire city in a warm environment, so they also build towns along the rift valley, but they have no way to expand outward. This crystalline city seems to have been established for a long time. Farther away from the Rift Valley, Lin could see some residual architectural traces ...

Perhaps the ancient squids were relatively widely distributed, and most of them died when they suddenly became cold, and those that lived gathered near the rift valley.

The 'heat pipes' between the buildings should have been made recently, they seem to have considerable intelligence.

It seems that these crystals were all dug out of the ground. Lin remembered that there should be no crystals here, but it didn't seem to pay much attention to this kind of thing at that time ...

The living habits of this group of ancient squids surprised Lin a little. Even if they gathered a very large community, they got along well with each other. They also rely on color-changing communication and did not use any other methods. What's more, they trust the same kind.

The ancient squid did not appear to be distrustful or hostile between the same species, that is to say, they did not steal and deceive, and they would not buy or sell things to each other, using a fair distribution method similar to the skeleton dragon.

Lin found that there is a leader among them. The role of the leader is only to find that it is responsible for distributing things, but it will not take the opportunity to allocate more to itself, that is, there is no selfishness.

As long as there is no such phenomenon at the beginning, all subsequent deceptions and disputes will not appear.

This is wonderful ... Lin originally thought that if the personality creatures continue to develop and do not teach, they will become white skeleton dragons or emerald dragons.

However, it is not necessarily certain. After all, ancient squids come from creatures such as ammonites, and they have a huge gap with dinosaurs. It is not surprising that they have developed a special life character. Unrelated.

The ancient war squids seen before at sea should be of two different ethnic groups. Although there is no 'infighting' among them, there will still be wars between the same kind.

The food of the ancient squid here generally comes from the frozen creatures around them, as well as those anemones. Lin found that they sometimes break the anemone's tentacles to eat, and then use their own excrement to eat the anemones.

Very common symbiotic relationship, just like the plants planted ...

However, after the surrounding creatures are eaten up, their living path is difficult to determine, and they are not the only living creatures. Some creatures will snatch food with them and even attack them.

Now, on the edge of the city, Lin found a creature, the kind seen on the land ... Crystal Trilobite.

The trilobites that I saw on the land before may have been digging out of the ice layer, but ... that seems to have run too far, does the trilobite have this ability?

More than thirty centimeters in length, it looks like a monster to the ancient squid. This trilobite tried to dig out the crystal structure of the ancient squid, and the ancient squids also quickly defended and counterattacked.

Although these ancient squids can create complex crystalline buildings and piping systems, their weapons are very simple. They use sharp stones or shell fragments to prick the joints of trilobites. After several attacks, he seemed to feel pain and ran away.

This group of ancient squids is still hotly pursued. They constantly attack the trilobite and try to drive it farther away. However, during the attack, some ancient squids were caught and shredded by the trilobite.

However, the crazy attacks of the ancient squids also worked. The trilobite made it difficult to move due to the damage of the joints, and finally fell to the seabed ...

But it can't be regarded as a seabed here.

The ancient squids constantly changed their bright colors to celebrate their victory. They all seemed to have learned a light-emitting ability. Lin found that this was due to a certain fungus on their skin.

Then they called for more ancient squid, and then tried to eat the trilobite. Lin found that they all brought some small pieces of crystals to keep them warm. After all, they have ten tentacles, which are much easier to handle. They put them at the joints. Get the meat down and take it back quickly, because the insulation is not long, they need to move fast, and they may have lived like this recently.

Although this group of ancient squids seems to be living well here, they also face many problems. Food will be eaten sooner or later. The food elsewhere in the Rift Valley is too far to get. The oxygen here is also a problem.

Therefore, they will need a neighbor.