'Brain Worm' was the name Lin gave to the meatball. But Lin also discovered that it was rather difficult to understand the information of this creature.
This thing had no limbs, it was just a lump of meat. Its skin was wrapped in a layer of muscle, so it could move in a wriggling manner. Next was the brain under the muscle.
Lin had never seen a creature with an 80 kg body that had a brain. Normally, a creature's brain would only take up 0.1 to 1% of its body weight, or at most 1.6%. How could it be that big?
There were many organs in the brain of the brain worms that were not found in the brains of other creatures. Lin could not recognize what they were for, but they should be related to 'thoughts', right? There were quite a few words because its body did not require that many brain cells to control.
At the same time, the worm was also trying its best to make Lin understand its message. No matter what kind of troop it saw, the brain worm would constantly wriggle its body and make a series of 'coo coo' sounds. But so far, Lin had only understood a small part of its message.
For example, every time Lin fed it, it would make a special gurgling sound. Even if she didn't feed it, or if she fed it late, it would still make the same gurgling sound. This meant that it needed food.
Lin still didn't understand the meaning of the other noises. Lin also tried to communicate with it using the same noises, but it didn't seem to understand either. Lin didn't even know if it understood or not.
After this communication barrier persisted for several days and nights, Lin finally thought of a way to communicate with this brain worm...
Every time the brain bug saw Lin's different units, it would call out different sounds. This was most likely the same thing as Lin's' vocabulary ', so when Lin took out various objects and observed the brain bug's different sounds, Lin was able to understand what it was trying to say.
As long as the Brainworm used these sounds that Lin understood to communicate, Lin would also be able to understand its meaning.
After that, Lin brought various objects over. As expected of a creature with the largest brain, the Cephalopod quickly understood Lin's intentions and began to make different sounds to each object.
Like this …
"Wood … Guguguga."
"Dry and cracked wood … Coo coo."
"Rocks … Kakaka!"
"Crystallization — Quack quack."
"Fungus — ah!"
"Shattered crystal — Woo!"
"Rotting corpses … Wow!"
"Withered corpses — Waaah!"
"Cave entrance – Gulp!"
Lin showed it a lot of things, including all kinds of creatures. There were also some special descriptions, such as north, south, east, west, decrease, increase, give, take, move, stop, and so on. It used different sounds to describe all of them. Lin also found that it could not only make 'coo coo' sounds, it could also make a lot of other sounds. Lin also found that its vocal organs were also very developed.
After that, the headworm was able to connect these sounds together, allowing it to communicate with Lin. For example, it was currently shouting to one of Lin's units: "Give — — food — — Giant Vein Dragonflies — — increase!"
To put it simply, Cerebus loved to eat Giant Vein Dragonflies. It wanted Lin to give it some, and more …
At first, Lin did not pay much attention to its requests for food. But later, Lin found it quite interesting, so she would satisfy some of its requests.
The Giant Vein Dragonfly was not difficult to catch. Placing the sniper on a higher branch would make it easy to shoot it down.
Although they were able to communicate normally, Lin still had a lot of questions about it.
Normally, when Lin destroyed the Qibucha Bugs, the headworm should have assumed the role of the Qibucha Bugs' leader. But why did Lin not sense any anger from its thoughts? It was as if it did not care at all.
Furthermore, it liked to eat Giant Vein Dragonflies? Given the Qibucha Bugs' lifestyle, it was almost impossible for them to come into contact with Giant Vein Dragonflies. Currently, Giant Vein Dragonflies only appeared in the higher branches of twisted trees and above the desert. None of them would go underground …
It was very strange.
Lin did some research on the headworm's cells without causing any harm. She found that its cell structure was very different from the Qibucha Bugs. Even just by looking at its appearance, the difference was too great.
This gave Lin a thought. This' headworm 'might not be a Qibucha Bug at all, which was why Lin felt sympathy when she destroyed the Qibucha Bugs. At the time, the' headworm 'was not harmed at all.
Although Lin was still unable to read the thoughts of living creatures, she could feel that emotions were not a problem. The headworm usually only had three kinds of emotions: impatient, dazed, and happy.
However, it was not angry, nor was it afraid of Lin. It was impossible that it did not know that Lin had killed a large number of Qibucha Bugs. In fact, when it was dragged out of the crystal disc, it saw the corpses on the ground.
Yes, headworms also had eyeballs. Although they were very small, their vision was quite good.
So, if the headworm was not a type of Qibucha Bug, why would they put it in the crystal disc in the cave? Why would there be so many Qibucha Bugs raising it? What was the relationship between the Qibucha Bugs and the headworm? It did not feel like a symbiotic relationship, did it? Many words.
Lin had done research on the relationship between the Qibucha Bugs and the Crystal Lizards. The Qibucha Bugs seemed to hide in the lizards' food pouches and then send messages to the lizards' brains in a special way, making the lizards do all kinds of things.
But, would the Qibucha Bugs control the headworm in the same way? Because it was very smart, so it made it think of all kinds of problems?
It didn't seem possible.
Alright, although Lin understood the meaning of the words, she wasn't sure what they meant when they were connected.
"Because of the fungus, the wood cracked, and then the rocks and dust came out, followed by the dried corpses?"
This was Lin's current explanation of the Brain Worm's vocabulary.
The brain worm would occasionally speak these words, but most of the time, it was in a daze or in a happy mood. Happiness usually appeared when it was talking to Lin or when it was eating.
This was the first time Lin felt that it was so difficult to communicate with other creatures, but it was very interesting. Lin now allowed the Brainworm to crawl around the base, but not outside.
In fact, it didn't move much and always stayed in the same place, as if it would feel tired if it moved even a little bit.
While Lin was communicating with it, she continued to do other things. For example, Lin had the team excavating the crystals from before descend into the collapsed crystal worm nest to collect a large number of crystals. This way, the green carpet would be able to spread much faster.
The army that Lin sent to attack the Kibucha Bugs was currently in a state of hibernation, only a few of them were being used for hunting. Lin was considering whether or not to disassemble them and recreate them later.
While hunting, Lin also discovered 'Crystal Scale Lizards' in other parts of the Twisted Jungle, but the lizards on the ground didn't have crystal scales on their bodies. Instead, they had green scales like normal lizards, and of course, they didn't have any Kibucha Bugs in their food pouches.
This was quite an interesting phenomenon. It seemed that every creature that was close to crystallization would grow a layer of crystal armor, while those that weren't close to crystallization wouldn't grow a layer of armor at all. However, these two types of creatures were the same, so their organs were exactly the same.
Did these crystals have some kind of miraculous ability? Lin currently only knew that they could absorb light.
Lin hadn't done much research on non-living objects, so she might need to do more research in this area.
It was currently nighttime. Whenever night fell, the Brainworm would crawl near the excavation team and say the word 'leader'.
The word 'leader' was something that Lin accidentally discovered. Every time the Brainworm saw Lin's troops, it would call the largest one 'leader', but whenever it saw an even larger one, it would call the larger one 'leader'. Furthermore, it preferred to communicate with 'leaders'.
At first, Lin didn't know what it meant by 'leader'. She originally thought that it was referring to a certain troop, but then she realized that it only used that word to call the largest one.
The Brainworm didn't seem to know that every troop represented Lin, but instead thought that 'Lin' was a group led by a leader.
Lin usually used the more developed vocal organs to communicate with the Brainworm, but once it saw the Leviathan, it began to request to communicate with the Leviathan.
From this, Lin deduced that in the Brainworm's race, there was also a leader leading the group. This was very common among social creatures. Now, Lin was beginning to believe that it wasn't a Chibucha, but something else … Perhaps it was a group of Inca bugs, Aztec bugs, or something like that …
It would always communicate with Lin's' leader ', and the content of the communication was usually for Lin to find something new to recite to it. However, recently, it would always mention the phrase that was very difficult to understand … "Fungi — — Dry and cracked wood — — Rocks — — Dust — — Dried corpses."
Other than communicating with the Brainworm, Lin's lifestyle didn't change much. She continued to spread the green carpet, hunt, and expand her territory at a slow and steady pace.
However, Lin recently created a large flying troop in the desert at the edge of the Twisted Jungle. This flying troop integrated jet, wings, airbags, and many other abilities. Its main purpose was to carry a large number of objects into the air.
In order to deal with the disasters that could happen at any time, Lin noticed that this world was quite unstable.
Lin also began to prepare to explore the north of the Twisted Jungle. There was a deeper jungle there that Lin had never been to before.
However, before that, Lin also noticed that there were some problems in the nearby forest.
"Sky, water."
At the entrance of the cave, Leviathan and the headworm were looking at the sky together. The headworm was using a simple voice to express its thoughts.
After staying here for a long time, Lin felt that this little creature was harmless, so she allowed it to move around freely.
Yes, it's going to rain ….
The words the headworm said just now meant that it was going to rain.
Dark clouds covered the sky above the Twisted Jungle. In fact, it didn't rain very often in this place, but every time it did, it would be quite heavy. The arthropods in the jungle seemed to be very busy. Most of them were looking for places to hide, but there were some that appeared specifically in the rain.
For example, the bark cockroach.
The bark cockroach was a type of cockroach. Its body was huge, and its color was exactly the same as the bark of a tree, but Lin could recognize it. She saw a few dragonflies quickly flying through the jungle. When they flew over a tree trunk, a piece of 'bark' suddenly moved. It stretched out a serrated and barbed forelimb and caught a dragonfly in an instant.
Although the dragonfly was about the same size as the bark cockroach, it couldn't resist at all. It could only be slowly eaten.
"Dragonfly, food, delicious."
The headworm also saw this scene and expressed its thoughts.
"Bark cockroach?"
Leviathan also said a word to the headworm.
After the headworm heard it, it said a simple word: "Disgusting."
Well, to put it simply, the headworm said that the dragonfly was delicious, but the bark cockroach was disgusting. The concept of 'delicious' and 'disgusting' was also made by the headworm. Lin discovered that it had a very interesting characteristic. Even though the cells in its body could absorb food normally, and the nutrients were not much different, the headworm seemed to like some foods very much and dislike others very much.
Through her research, Lin discovered that the Cerebrum would eat very slowly when it came to food it didn't like. It would also emit a special cry with an unpleasant emotion. The word for this cry was' unpalatable '.' Delicious' was the opposite. When it was eating something delicious, it would eat very quickly and happily.
This was a very interesting phenomenon. Lin still didn't know how it came to be, but this headworm had a lot of research value.
"Water, rolling, cave."
Seeing that the rain was coming, the brain worm twisted its meatball-like body and rolled back into the cave in the base.
This creature was indeed very interesting. Lin often exchanged information with it like this. Oh right, there seemed to be a word to describe this behavior: 'chatting'.
Chatting seemed understandable, but what did this have to do with Heaven? What a strange phrase.
Now that it was going to rain, Lin usually wouldn't take shelter from the rain, especially since the Leviathan was even more unnecessary. Lin was more concerned about the problem of this forest.
The moss in the Glittering Woodland was becoming less and less. Many of the creatures that fed on the moss had already left the woodland. In the past few days and nights, Lin had been paying close attention to how the moss was decreasing.
The moss seemed to slowly wither, dry up, and then die. They did not lack water, and they could still glow at night. Why was that?
With that in mind, Leviathan stood up, crossed the river, and arrived at the Shining Woodland.
This place now looked a little like the Dark Plains, with only sporadic moss growing on the ground. Other than that, there was a large area of black mud, some dry bark, and stones.
On the other hand, the Dark Plains had become brighter due to the spread of the green carpet, but Lin was more concerned about the reason for this phenomenon in the Shining Woodland.
Not only the moss, but the twisted trees in the Shining Woodland also began to show some strange phenomena. They began to shed their skin. Although not much was shed, each piece of skin had one thing in common. They were very dry and cracked, as if the water in them had been sucked out.
Leviathan walked up to a small clump of moss and reached out with its tentacles to dig it up.
Lin decided to bring this moss back to study and find out the reason for its death.
Thunder rumbled in the air, and Leviathan quickly returned to the cave in the base …
Lin noticed that the brain worm was still at the entrance of the cave, but it didn't go in. As soon as it saw Leviathan, it said, "Boss, wood, moss, dry, cracked, dead."
It wanted to tell Leviathan that the moss and wood had both died after drying up, but Lin ignored it and took the moss deeper into the cave. The entrance of the cave was now sealed.
The 'Door Shaper' was a type of soldier that Lin created. During rainy days, they would mix soil with a kind of crustaceous substance to form a watertight wall to seal the entrance of the cave. This would prevent rainwater from entering the base, otherwise, there would be a risk of the base collapsing.
The brain worm followed Leviathan deeper into the cave, seemingly curious about what Lin was going to do with the moss.
Unfortunately, it couldn't see it.
Lin placed the moss into a dissection bag, then made some small cuts on the surface of the moss to allow a miniature scout to enter and study it. There were also eyeballs outside the moss to observe the changes in its appearance.
The cells of a plant were relatively simpler and had fewer types, so it was easier to determine.
Lin discovered that there were some strange creatures inside the cells of the moss, some of them were filamentous creatures. These creatures were made up of multiple branching cells with a unique structure that Lin had never seen before.
Lin observed them for a bit.
They would destroy the cellular structure of the moss, kill the cells, and produce toxins that would eventually corrode the entire moss and reduce it to dust.
When the moss died, it would grow a large number of special sacs, which appeared to be some kind of seed. These sacs were very light and would drift away with the wind, as if they were used to reproduce.
So these were the things that killed the moss? In other words, all the moss in the Glittering Woodland had died because of this thing?
But where did they come from? There shouldn't have been any problems with the moss from before.
Could it be …
Lin recalled the fungi that grew on the wood inside the crystal worm cave. Their structure was very similar to the organisms that killed the moss.
But Lin didn't bring the fungi out from the cave, and the entire cave had been blown up, so the things inside shouldn't have been able to escape …
While Lin was thinking, she heard the sound of thunder outside the base again. At the same time, the brain worm's voice rang out: [Lightning, fungi, dried wood, moving, water, Farr, death]
'Farr' was a new pronunciation, a word that Lin didn't understand.
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