4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Over the northern continent, it is now enveloped by the wind. The pompon pierces its fluff into the ice on the ground and tightens its body. Although it is swaying in the storm, it can still observe the changes in the sky.

In a dim storm mixed with ice and snow, you can see a group of creatures appearing in the sky. They are in large numbers, dancing in the air in a strong whirlwind, and coming to this continent as if cheering ...

Those are ... Atmospheric Slime, Lynn has been looking for them for the past 100 years, but they have no trace at all, although Lynn is not very serious about finding ...

Until now, Lin only saw them again, Lin originally thought they had been frozen to death.

These creatures spread their wings like stingrays and fly in the air. Although they are extremely light, they seem to know the wind direction of the storm very well. In this case, they can still move freely and only need to swing their wings a little. Changing the direction of flight, the two slimes will never bump together.

They approached the frozen earth that used to be a twisted jungle with the storm. Although they couldn't get close to the ground under strong wind, Lin could feel ... they seemed to be watching here, watching the pompoms on the ground.

Why does this creature appear here now?And there are probably thousands of them. With the wind blowing everywhere, covering a large area of ​​the sky, it seems that they live well in cold environments, and at least have a number of advantages.

However, Lin is more concerned about the situation in their bodies. The composition of these creatures may be completely different from that of ordinary creatures. When the moon approaches, there are more interesting things.

Lin looked at the creatures flying around in the air until the storm slowly weakened. Although the storm was common after it became cold, it usually did not last long.

After the storm ceased, these slimes didn't leave. They kept hovering in the air as if they were holding a "ceremony".

Suddenly, several slimes rushed out of the air, they dived towards the pompom at a very fast speed, and the pompom pulled the fluff out of the ground and avoided it at a faster speed.

It turned out that they really came to find food ...

Lynn also found that some slimes flew to the side of the canyon in the storm, flying around the shell. Some slimes stuck their bodies to the shell, and they seemed to want to find a place to drill in, although they could not be seen. Have eyes, but can accurately target those creatures in the canyon ...

And they didn't pay attention, Lin was also targeting them.

"Boom ..." On the side of the gorge, the frozen land burst, and a huge barrel extended from the ground, aiming at the slimes flying in the air.

'Boom!'A bomb exploded to the side of a slime. The explosive bomb suddenly stretched out eight pairs of sharp limbs from the surface at the moment of approach. The limbs immediately embraced the slime in front, and then took the history Lime fell heavily on the ground.

The surrounding slimes suddenly fled in shock, and the one caught by the bomb was still struggling.

This slime ca n’t fly no matter how struggling, although its wingspan is more than five meters, but its weight is very light. The end of the limb that grew out of Lynn ’s explosive bomb has now penetrated into its body and released Subtle arms.

This creature ... as it is.

Under the subtle detection of arms, Lin felt a sense of surprise again. Although Lin said that she had thought of it before, she didn't expect to actually have this creature ...

Atmosphere Slime's body ... is cell-free.

All the structures in this organism are completely different from common organisms. To be precise, it has no viscera, but there are some visceral cyst-like, mesh-like structures in the body, but this is not composed of cells, but one. The whole thing.

However, the ingredients in the body are still the same as those of cells. To be precise, this creature is very much like an amoeba, an amoeba that has been magnified numerous times.

That is, it retains the shape of a single cell, but grows to such a huge creature.

In fact, Lin has also seen some larger creatures without cell combinations, like a creature called 'myxomycetes'.

That creature looks like a fungus, but it is actually deformed like an amoeba, and it can move around. Compared with amoeba that is about the size of a cell, the slime mold is very huge.

But whether it is amoeba or slime mold has an unparalleled gap with this "atmosphere slime", its structure is also countless times more complicated than amoeba, just like the gap between the original multicellular organism and the current skeletal dragon.

But they have similar characteristics. This slime ... may be the product of the evolution of the first two creatures.

Because there are no controls, many parts of Lin do not know what they are used for. Some of them think that they are similar to the internal organs of ordinary animals. They also use the dissolution solution to digest the prey. The head ... in fact, it has no head However, there is an eye-like structure in the front position, which is completely different from the general eye composition, but Lynn thinks it can see things clearly.

This slime has many holes in the whole body, plus it is very light, can fly in the sky without consuming energy, and there is a jet port behind the body, it seems to be used for emergency acceleration, and it has some hardened structures in the body. Used to maintain its overall form ...

In addition to these, there are some very wonderful structures, the role of which is unknown. Although it is said that the same ingredients are used, Lin has not seen this combination, and some may have a very powerful effect. Maybe there is a structure in its body that can Defend against the cold. If you carry out research, you may find these characteristics, some characteristics that Lynn has never seen before.

Just like before Lynn saw the spider silk, she didn't know that such a flexible object could be constructed by such a simple composition.

Lin was n’t sure if she had a brain. Lin could feel some weak current in her body, like a brain wave, but she could n’t confirm it because she did n’t focus on it, because it ’s a combination that she had n’t seen before. It is also different from the common multi-cell brain.

It turns out that it is not multi-celled that can be developed to this level. This can be regarded as a miracle. Lynn thinks that arthropods and spines evolved separately in the worm age long ago, and this slime may be in the cell age. Now common creatures have evolved separately.

After almost all the exploration, Lin had drawn a picture of this slime in her mind and recorded the composition of each part of it.

Then, let it go.

Now Lin is different from before. It is not necessary to observe a creature to kill and decompose. You can make a full observation in a state where there is no damage to the body. This is very helpful for observing some rare species.

Is this kind of slime rare or not?Lynn thinks that since they can maintain this amount in the world that has been frozen for so long, it is definitely not rare.

But how they multiply, how to live, whether they usually live somewhere or fly around is still a mystery.

Slime flew into the air immediately after being released, but it did not fly too far, but hovered in the sky as if he was going to attack at any time.

Lin can feel some "breath" from her through the brain wave, which may be its emotional response, but it is different from the secretions produced by ordinary creatures when emotions occur, and Lin still has no idea what this slime is now. mood.

But it's probably anger.

This organism should be classified as a brand new organism: 'large non-multicellular organism', but because it is too troublesome to call, so just call them as atmospheric organisms.

This creature doesn't need to touch the ground, it doesn't even have "legs", only wings are enough, so Lin thinks they live completely between the clouds, but they will be close to the ground when they need food ...

And there are definitely more than one such creatures. Just like there are countless kinds of multicellular creatures, Lin believes that there are quite a lot of these creatures. The atmospheric creatures of this type of "streak slime" are just one.

It used to be that the olive-type that saw the battle with the Inca swarm was also an atmospheric creature. They have different shapes and will emit some strange noises for attack.

And Lin felt that the thing that was found under the mountain excavated by Li Scorpion was also part of atmospheric creatures, and that thing was very big, so Lin thought that there were quite huge atmospheric creatures ...

You should be able to see more similar creatures ... if they are not frozen to death.

And those who communicated with Mktu before, Lin feels very much like the slimes I see now, but they may also be different types, because these slimes do not seem to have high intelligence, and Mktu is unlikely. Will see them.

Lin feels that these slimes are similar in intelligence to pterosaurs and have similar aggression behaviors. I don't see anything special. Although they are in a large group, they have no performance of teamwork.

But at least it can be determined that they do have brains ... or have intelligence similar to brained creatures, which may be a certain organ, or they may have nerve nodes distributed throughout the body like a case tree.

Some creatures in the canyon are also observing these creatures together with Lin, including several buttercups.

This tree can be said to be the only living creature in the canyon that has experienced both the dinosaur continent and the cold and canyon events.

Their life is particularly long, similar to ordinary plants, and some trees are called 'elders' in the group of skeletal dragons because it knows a lot of things.

But they also can't explain the wonderful scenes in the air.

Looking at Slime flying around in the sky, Lynn has no special plans now, because I don't know where they came from, and I can't find their habitat.

What's more important now is ... month.