Bab 245: Chapter 244 Shell digginggg.
Lin's party slowly distanced themselves from the fog-shrouded 'Skull Island' and continued towards the west …
The fog on Skull Island was so thick due to the slow airflow. Even so, the fog could be replenished incessantly, while the oxygen would decrease sooner or later.
That was why Lin had prepared a final 'safeguard' for the creatures on Skull Island — an 'oxygen balloon' with a diameter of around three meters. The 'oxygen balloon' hovered above the island, its surface covered in green moss. It would collect the oxygen produced by the moss and filter the oxygen from the sea breeze. The oxygen would then be concentrated and released into the island through a straight 'tail' that extended into the island like a pipe.
Too much oxygen would also kill the creatures, which was why the balloon would not release 100% of its oxygen. It would also contain other gases.
It was a completely automated type of troop. Lin did not need to control or manage them. They survived by absorbing light energy and decomposing various debris that drifted along with the sea breeze, but the nutrients in their bodies would last them for a long time.
With that safeguard, Lin believed that the large arthropods would survive.
Then … the next step would be to keep moving forward.
Lin's party spent quite a bit of time on Skull Island and discovered quite a few mysteries. They did not know what the creature that created the egg was, but there were quite a lot of things worth exploring.
It was then that Lin once again faced the endless ocean. This place was as vast as ever, and Lin felt more relaxed after putting down her 'burden'.
For the rest of their journey, they slowly sailed over the endless ocean just like before. The species in this part of the ocean were becoming increasingly abundant. As the pioneers advanced through the ocean. They saw many creatures that Lin had never seen before. Among them, fishes were flourishing and there were also some reptiles in the ocean.
Most of them had undergone various evolutions due to the great distance between them. While the large arthropods in the ocean were not a problem, they were not as prosperous in the ocean as they were on land. That was because they basically stayed at the bottom of the ocean.
On the other hand, Brainworm returned to its bored state. As it rolled around on Bechymos' back, Lin saw an island once again …
A very small island.
The island that suddenly appeared before Lin's party was only around ten meters wide. There was only sand and a … rock.
That rock … was it the kind of rock where the eggs were placed? Just as Lin was thinking about this, the stone suddenly made a cracking sound.
As expected.
The fact that the stone was here meant that the creature had a wide range of activity, and Skull Island was only one of its areas of activity.
Then, just as Lin had expected, the troops continued their journey and encountered many islands. They were all very small, generally only a few meters to a dozen meters wide, but there were one or two stones with eggs on them.
The number of these islands was also very high. In just three days, Lin had encountered over 60 small islands. There was no pattern to their positions. It seemed like the island was not deliberately created by some creature. As for the pebbles, Lin did not see the creature that created them.
The habits of these creatures were very strange. They could have placed these 'echo eggs' on any land, but where were they?
After three days and nights of travel, there were no more islands in the surrounding sea. The sea was as calm as before, but the explorers found something special underwater.
During their journey, the explorers would occasionally head to the depths of the sea to investigate the environment below. This time, the explorers arrived at an extremely deep place.
Normally, there would be no light after 800 meters. This time, the explorers dove down around 1,600 meters and arrived at a dark and spacious space.
The seabed here seemed to have suddenly lowered. In the area with the islands ahead, the seabed was still higher and filled with creatures. But here, everything seemed to have become deathly still.
The explorers turned on the light in their heads and slowly advanced in the dark sea. Light could not illuminate anything here, but the subordinate worms around the explorers could use sound to explore the surrounding environment.
The range of their exploration was very wide, basically more than one kilometer. When the sound spread out, Lin instantly 'saw' a strange environment …
The explorers were now above a vast seabed. On the seabed, there were many huge pillars. Each pillar was almost 50 meters tall and 10 meters in diameter. There were also many small square holes on these pillars.
Obviously, these were made by some kind of creature.
The explorers swam towards the pillars below. As they approached, the pillars trembled slightly due to the explorers rotating water current. They seemed to be quite unstable. Lin also saw some collapsed pillars on the seabed that had been broken into several pieces. It seemed that there were no living creatures inside.
The explorers stopped in the water and let the subordinate worms create some small warheads for deep-sea exploration. They went to these pillars to search.
A large number of warheads poured into the square holes on the surface of the pillars. They lit up to observe the inside of the pillars. These pillars were hollow and full of cracks. Some kind of creature should have once used them as a nest, but there were no signs of those creatures here. Were they all dead? Or did they leave?
Some warheads swam to the seabed below to explore. The seabed here was covered by a large amount of gray sand. On this beach, there were many sand dunes.
That was …
The light of one of the warheads suddenly shone on a sand dune. A sharp object protruded from the sand dune, it seemed to be the claw of some kind of creature.
The warheads immediately swam towards the sand dune, but when they approached the sand dune, a big mouth full of sharp teeth suddenly rushed out from the sand and swallowed the warheads in front.
Then, it spat them out, turned around, and fled.
This creature seemed to be some kind of lurking fish, but the warheads were very hard and difficult to digest, so it spat them out immediately.
After the fish rushed out, the sand dune also collapsed. Lin saw something buried under the sand dune. It was the claw of some kind of arthropod creature. It was sharp and full of sawtooth, and the end was still connected to the sand below.
There seemed to be a whole body underneath. Lin had the warheads rotate their bodies to drill the sand away, revealing the creature under the sand.
This was …
The thing under the sand appeared in front of Lin's eyes, but it was different from what Lin expected. It wasn't the body of some kind of creature, but claws, a lot of claws.
These claws were empty shells, the flesh inside had already been decomposed, but the shells remained, and they were buried under the sand in large amounts.
Why were there so many claws buried under the sand? Could it be …
Lin suddenly thought of a possibility. Lin had all the warheads return to the Pathfinder, then had the Pathfinder spin at high speed into the group of columns.
A large number of the columns were smashed and broken by the Pathfinder's huge body. As the Pathfinder spun, the surrounding water formed a strong vortex, causing the sand on the seabed below to scatter, revealing a large number of … claws buried under the sand.
It wasn't just claws …
Under Lin's sound detection, she discovered that there were claws as well as various kinds of shell fragments buried under the sand, and there seemed to be a considerable amount of them. It was difficult to count how many there were, just from the surface alone, there were probably several hundred thousand of them.
This place seemed to be a huge … 'graveyard' of some kind of creature.
These creatures seemed to have died in a war, some of their shells had claws of other creatures stuck in them, and most of them had wounds on them. Perhaps because there were too many of them, these corpses hadn't been completely decomposed, and there was still the smell of rotting corpses.
The Pathfinder stopped spinning and had its subordinate worms search for these shells, decomposing them, and inspecting them.
There were quite a lot of shells piled up here, Lin found complete parts among them and pieced them together into a complete creature. Strangely, among so many shells, Lin found that there were only two kinds of creatures.
The two kinds of creatures were about one meter long, and their limbs were sharp claws with serrated teeth. The two kinds of creatures were quite similar, but the details were different. Moreover, it was these two kinds of creatures that fought here, and many of their shells had traces of being pierced by the claws of another kind of creature.
War, a large number of deaths, these weren't strange, but the strange thing was that the structure of these creatures wasn't suitable for moving in the sea. They didn't have a structure suitable for swimming, and if you threw them into the water, they wouldn't be able to do anything other than struggle. Even if they reached the bottom of the sea, they would move very slowly, so they couldn't be used for war.
If they were on the ground, these creatures would be very suitable for high-speed movement.
But there was another strange thing.
These two kinds of creatures were parasitized by the Inca insects during the 'parasite era', and they were recorded on the statues of the Inca insects.
However, the Inca insects didn't continue to develop these creatures, and soon, the Inca insects no longer mentioned these creatures …
From the looks of it, these creatures seemed to have come into contact with the primitive Inca bugs. But what kind of creatures were they? Were they branching species? Did they go extinct? Did they live on land?
They formed such a large number to launch a group attack, this already exceeded the scale of many social creatures, but Lin only found one kind of creature among the shells.
Perhaps she could find something if she continued to dig. Perhaps she could find the shells of other creatures.
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