Kapitel 81: Chapter 81
The vanguard watched the desert scorpion being besieged by the dragonflies from the sand dune, waiting for the Leviathan to arrive.
The temperature of the desert was quite hot. Although it was not as deadly as warm water, it still prevented the Leviathan from moving quickly. Moving too fast would cause its body temperature to rise. Lin believed that it was necessary to develop a structure to lower the temperature.
When the Leviathan arrived at the sand dune, the desert scorpion was almost dying. The dragonflies no longer dodged. Instead, they were all lying on the scorpion's body and sucking on the wounds on its shell.
Lin found that the dragonflies were only squeezing around the wounds and did not have the ability to create more wounds. It seemed that the scorpion was injured by the attack of other creatures, and the dragonflies were just taking advantage of the injury to attack it...
In any case, it was a good opportunity. If only she could catch those dragonflies...
However, when the Leviathan took a few steps forward, a few of the dragonflies had already flown away. Their eyes seemed to be able to see quite a wide field of vision, making it difficult to sneak up on them.
Therefore, Lin used a tactic that had never been used before — changing color.
When Lin synthesized photosynthetic cells, she knew how to make all kinds of pigments. Now, she could easily change her own color. However, the Leviathan's shell was cell-free, so she needed to make a new unit.
'Invisible'.
This disc-shaped unit with a diameter of 30 centimeters had a circle of eyes around its body. It could observe the surrounding environment, change its color to the same as its surroundings at any time, and crawl with small segmented limbs.
The Leviathan placed the Invisible on the ground, and it instantly turned into the color of the surrounding desert. Every grain of sand was perfectly painted by the pigment cells. With this color covering its body, it was impossible to tell that it was a creature.
The Invisible's eyes could observe every direction, and it could also change its color at any time to face different environments.
It slowly crawled down the sand dune and approached the dragonflies that were eating the desert scorpion.
The dragonflies did not notice the Invisible. Just as Lin thought, if they often flew high in the air filled with air currents, their sense of smell and hearing would obviously not be very good.
The Invisible slowly approached the desert scorpion's corpse. It was only ten meters away from the nearest dragonfly on the scorpion's back.
It continued to close the distance... Five meters, three meters... Two meters.
It was within range!
The center of the Invisible's disc-shaped body suddenly opened, and a sharp needle full of barbs shot out from it. The needle instantly pierced the slender tail of the dragonfly.
'Caught!'
The dragonfly was shocked and began to struggle violently. The surrounding dragonflies were all frightened and flew high into the sky, but only the one that was stabbed was unable to fly.
The needles shot out by the Invisible One were connected to the body by a flexible line made up of muscle cells. Therefore, the dragonfly could only pull on this line and struggle in the air.
Just as Lin thought, the dragonfly was quite light. Even the Invisible One, which was only thirty centimeters tall, could grab it and make it unable to fly.
The dragonfly struggled frantically, but to no avail. Its strength was completely unable to pull the Invisible One up until it ran out of strength and fell to the ground weakly.
Leviathan walked down the sand dune and released the collector to start dissecting the dragonfly.
This way, he would be able to fly.
During the decomposition process, the collector could also study the various structures of the creature at the same time. Lin was more interested in the transparent structures on both sides of the dragonfly, which could be called 'wings'. Just like fins, they were used to flap the air to fly.
So that's how it is. It's almost the same as swimming in the water. As long as the body is lighter, you can fly.
It's quite simple, I should've thought of it earlier.
Dragonflies don't have a 'lung' structure. Like Lin, they rely on small pores to absorb oxygen. It seems that living in the air doesn't have any problems with oxygen.
Well then, let's make one and give it a try.
Lin began to assemble various cells inside Leviathan's body. Lin now had quite a variety of cells, at least a few hundred types, and over two hundred trillion cells. Most of them were evolved by Leviathan in the past hundred million years, so it was quite easy for Lin to imitate other creatures.
Just as Leviathan was assembling, a sound suddenly came from beside it. The desert scorpion that Lin thought was a 'corpse' suddenly moved.
It's still not dead? After suffering so many injuries and being bitten by a dragonfly in such a hot desert for so long, its endurance is quite strong.
The desert scorpion struggled to prop itself up with its limbs. It turned around and stared at Leviathan and the collector that was dissecting the dragonfly with its eight eyes.
The desert scorpion and Leviathan were quite similar in size, so Lin didn't think it would attack. Lin also didn't want to attack such a heavily injured creature. Without fighting a creature that was full of energy, there was no way to test one's strength. In terms of nutrition, Leviathan was already overweight, so it would have to go back and turn some of its excess nutrients into a green carpet.
However, this desert scorpion was quite interesting. It didn't run away or fight, it just stood there and watched Leviathan.
The collector only dissected the dragonfly's wings. Lin threw the rest of the dragonfly's body in front of the desert scorpion, then recalled all the troopers and headed back to the Forest of Sharp Pillars.
After returning to the Forest of Sharp Pillars, Lin felt that her surroundings had cooled down, as if the row of sharp pillars had forever blocked out the heat of the desert.
In the cool environment of the Forest of Sharp Pillars, Lin continued to construct flying troopers. Because it was her first time, Lin didn't want to create anything too complicated. The flying troopers she constructed were almost exactly the same as dragonflies, but they were very small, only 10 centimeters long. Their internal structure only had a single cardiovascular system, so they were quite light. The main structure of their wings was a layer of hardened transparent cells, the roots were controlled by muscle cells, and they could swing up and down.
Lin placed the tiny 'flyer' on the ground, then mimicked the dragonfly's movements and flapped its four wings at an extremely high frequency.
… It couldn't fly.
Lin kept flapping its wings, but its body only swayed back and forth, it couldn't fly at all.
Lin then had the Leviathan grab the flyer and throw it into the air, then flapped its wings as hard as it could, but it only spun a bit in the air before crashing into the ground.
If it didn't swing, it could still glide for a while, but it would eventually fall back to the ground.
Perhaps the way it swung was wrong.
Lin recalled the way dragonflies flapped their wings, it was indeed very unique, as they were able to flap their wings in a certain pattern, not just randomly.
This kind of skill couldn't be learned by studying the structure of a flying trooper, Lin had to practice it herself.
This was actually quite simple, Lin just had to create a few more flyers and have them flap their wings in different ways, one of them would be able to fly sooner or later.
Then, let's first lay down the green carpet.
The Leviathan's body already had too much nutrients, so Lin compressed some of the nutrients and created a seed of the green carpet. She then placed this seed under the Forest of Sharp Pillars, allowing it to slowly grow and consume all of the moss on the Forest of Sharp Pillars, replacing it to absorb nutrients.
The green carpet that Lin created with the Transporter had already covered half of the Forest of Sharp Pillars, but she still hadn't discovered any creatures that ate the green carpet. If this method worked, Lin would have them cover the entire Forest of Sharp Pillars.
The moss would secrete a type of toxin to defend itself, but it wasn't very effective, so Lin could easily isolate this toxin.
After laying down the green carpet, Lin began to prepare for the night.
It wasn't that there weren't any creatures here during the day, but they were still quite rare. Lin had only seen a few after wandering around for half a day, which couldn't compare to the abundance of creatures in the sea.
But at night … it would be very hard to predict.
Those small appendages were most likely the first to appear, and in order to deal with them, Lin had prepared quite a few different types of troops. These troops were called 'Impalers', and were specially modified based on the attacking habits of the appendages.
Now, all that was left was to wait for night to descend …
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