Bab 235: Chapter 234 Cold winter, Cold death.
The cold winter continued … the sky was covered in snow, the sea was frozen, and the blue moonlight shone on the ground. Countless spots of light pierced through the branches and leaves of the twisted forest, adding a layer of light blue to the silver-white objects. It was a wonderful feeling …
However, the creatures here didn't think so. No creature would appreciate such a beautiful scene, not only because they were in a state of hibernation, but also because they were about to face the threat of death.
Lin noticed that it was already the middle of winter, and the problem was quite serious. The oxygen content in the air had decreased by a lot. Although the creatures were currently in hibernation and didn't need much oxygen, and some creatures didn't even need oxygen, it would be different when spring arrived …
When the creatures woke up in spring, they needed to absorb a lot of oxygen to recover their vitality. If the oxygen content was still this low at that time, it would cause a large number of creatures to die.
Would the Vine Ferns in the desert in spring be able to recover their oxygen?
However, they would only grow for a short period of time, and when the time came, there would be another problem, and the current problem wasn't something that could be solved by a forest.
Furthermore, there was no way to find out the cause … it seemed like there was no other way. Although Lin could create a large number of green blankets to release oxygen, it probably wouldn't be of any use. After all, there was no such problem during the previous winters, and the Inca insects had never recorded such a thing. They only recorded the situation during the first few months, which meant that this was the first time such a thing had happened in history, and it had nothing to do with the months.
So what should she do now?
There seemed to be no other way. She could only wait. Perhaps things would get better?
However, Lin had to modify the body structure of most of the soldiers. In order to adapt to the low oxygen content. Especially the large soldiers. Now that they were used to the high oxygen content, it would be difficult for them to move when they lacked oxygen.
No … she shouldn't just modify the soldiers.
Perhaps this was an opportunity for Lin to create an environment for herself!
Lin didn't know why the oxygen was decreasing. The air was made up of many kinds of gases, and from Lin's observation, the overall gas level in the air had become strange. Among them, the oxygen level was decreasing the fastest, and the other gases in the air were also changing. Some increased to fill the gap in oxygen, some decreased, but there wasn't much change.
However, since the air was flowing, the oxygen might have leaked out from somewhere, or been used up for some reason. The possibility of it being used up was quite high.
Although it was only a guess, Lin could do an experiment.
This might be able to protect some creatures.
Taking advantage of this winter …
Lin began to mobilize a large number of troops, all of which were of the same type, known as' Shell Smearers'. Lin used the Shell Smearers to create all sorts of shell materials. Lin had the Shell Smearers spread out and formed a circle in the middle of the Twisted Forest. It was about three hundred meters in diameter.
What Lin wanted to create was a safe area that could maintain the original level of oxygen, so that some of the creatures here would not die from the lack of oxygen.
Lin didn't have a lot of Shell Sprayers because they weren't very useful normally. Most of them were left behind from the time she created the Pioneers, so she couldn't create a large area. Moreover, 300 meters was already quite large, so this wasn't a difficult task. It was just that it took a lot of time, and the efficiency of creating it during the winter was also quite low. The cold always slowed down the activities of creatures.
Dan Lin also worked as fast as she could, mainly to create a semicircular 'cover' to completely cover a large area of the forest. Then, she would inject a large amount of oxygen to maintain the oxygen level at the previous level. This way, the creatures inside would be able to live normally.
Of course, there were many creatures that weren't trapped inside the barrier. Lin didn't think that the lack of oxygen could kill all of them. Perhaps, it would cause some special evolution. Lin wanted to see how the creatures inside the barrier were different from those outside.
In the future, Lin could consider increasing the range of the barrier, or building it on the sea or even in the air.
It felt quite good.
Just like that, Lin's Shell Smearers quickly began their work. Just like how they would mold a statue, they piled up the Shell Substance layer by layer and added spider silk to increase its stability.
Speaking of which, Lin found that the spider silk was quite useful. It could greatly stabilize objects. Things that would normally fall at the slightest touch could become impenetrable after being mixed in with the spider silk.
Lin also needed to prepare some supplies. There was no food during the winter, so she had to use the base's reserves. Although she had a lot of supplies, it was quite troublesome to transport them back and forth under the cold weather.
Just like that, the Shell Smearers quickly created the barrier, and the day and night of winter slowly passed …
The snowballs floated in the sky day and night, following the wind and snow. They observed, inspected, and surveyed the frozen world. Lin found that the moon had indeed stopped growing. It had stopped at a certain point and didn't move anymore.
It seemed that the moon had reached its limit. Perhaps it would retreat soon, and the floating power of the Sound Stone would slowly disappear, and then … the forest would be bombarded by a barrage of boulders.
This was a normal occurrence, but the Brain Worm might be in danger. If the Sound Stone's floating height was decreasing, Lin might try to bring it back before it woke up.
The same was true for the amount of oxygen. Lin found that once the amount of oxygen dropped to a certain point, it would start to slow down.
But at this point, many creatures would die, but it was hard to say how many would die. She would have to wait for … the arrival of spring.
In the snowy world, Lin continued to mold a few creatures' 'oxygen fortresses'. After more than 100 days, Lin finally completed this unique creation.
It was a gigantic dome, the highest point of the dome was over 50 meters tall, much taller than the largest Twisted Tree. The entire dome was made of a transparent material that did not affect the sunlight. Moreover, Lin had added many 'windows' that could be opened and closed to allow rainwater to flow in, as well as to allow air to circulate.
Of course, these windows were normally closed to prevent the oxygen inside from leaking out. Additionally, the edges of the barrier were buried about 10 meters deep into the ground to prevent normal burrowing creatures from leaving.
The barrier was about 10 centimeters thick and completely sealed, not even viruses could escape. After being mixed in with the spider web, normal creatures wouldn't be able to break through, unless it was a large creature like the Deep Sand Bus. But if such a creature tried to break through, Lin would deal with it before that happened.
The next step was to create oxygen.
This was quite simple. All Lin needed to do was to place a pile of green blankets that would continuously absorb light and release oxygen. Of course, Lin didn't need to place the green blankets inside the barrier. She could simply spread them out in a wider area, then collect the oxygen and inject it into the barrier.
Lin had been doing this for a very long time. A large amount of collected oxygen was mixed with a small amount of other gases, then injected into the barrier by a creature whose body expanded like a ball. After continuously injecting oxygen into the barrier, Lin found that the oxygen level inside the barrier was slowly recovering. At the same time, Lin also released the air with low oxygen content inside the barrier so that there wouldn't be too much oxygen inside.
Next, it was time to choose a creature.
Lin needed to choose a creature that had a small range of activity and didn't like to wander around. Otherwise, if she forced a creature with a large range of activity into the barrier, it wouldn't be fun at all.
But what kind of creature should she choose?
The inside of the barrier was an environment that maintained the original level of oxygen. In other words, it could be called an 'isolated' environment. If she wanted to create an ecological environment inside, she needed to choose a rich variety of creatures and ensure that there wouldn't be any imbalance between them.
Lin couldn't provide anything other than oxygen, so they had to create an environment of their own.
This was very difficult to think about … She needed to take into account the habits of many creatures. Although Lin didn't lack computational ability, this also included many other problems outside of computational ability.
Regardless, she had to do it first.
Lin only had a single goal in mind, which was to observe the evolution and changes of creatures. Creatures would gather many small changes into an evolution, which was quite interesting.
Because it was currently winter, Lin easily dug out the sleeping creatures from under the snow, then dug a hole inside the barrier to place them inside. She needed to be careful not to cause too much of a disturbance during the process.
Lin picked out a variety of cockroaches, beetles, bees, and other species. She placed them strictly according to the ratio of predator to prey in the forest, and divided them into large, medium, and small classes. Each class was an environment of its own. She didn't need to pay much attention to the plants, because there were only Twisted Trees in this area …
Although there were many types of animals, Lin found that there were very few types of plants. There might be over a thousand types of large animals and over ten thousand types of small animals, but there were only a few dozen types of plants. There were only a few types of large plants like Twisted Trees and Hometrees.
Plants seemed to have a lot of restrictions on their growth, mainly due to the lack of seed dispersal ability. If they had a new method of dispersal, they might evolve.
After settling them down … there wasn't much left to do.
She could only wait for them to wake up after spring and see how different their lives would be compared to the creatures outside.
During these cold and boring days, Lin created a large monitor in the base to display and simulate the living conditions of various creatures, as well as some situations during war.
Lin imagined a new species, had them displayed on the monitor, and then had them fight with some of her soldiers.
This seemed quite interesting, as it could simulate many different situations, which would be very helpful in improving her control over her soldiers, tactics, and so on.
While Lin was engaged in this' game ', winter slowly passed by ….
Until spring came, when all creatures would awaken.
But this might be a new … mass extinction. Floating astronomy.
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