Bab 57: Chapter 57
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On the Leviathan's side, Lin asked it to guard the trap worm without moving. Lin did not know if it was because they were not hungry or for some other reason, but something else was happening here.
Ice, suddenly froze from the surface of the sea.
Although Lin had seen ice forming in the water many times, she had never seen such a strange phenomenon. The ice did not spread freely like before. Instead, it formed a huge icicle from the surface of the water straight into the deep sea. The end of the icicle was slowly freezing and increasing in length. It was about to touch the bottom of the sea.
Why did the icicle form instead of freezing the surrounding water?
Lin curiously asked the Leviathan to approach the icicle. The icicle was not thick. It found that there were many creatures frozen in the icicle, but they were all floating creatures like jellyfish.
Perhaps the jellyfish did not know how to avoid the icicle. They ran into it because the water around the icicle was not that cold.
Lin asked the Leviathan to reach out and touch the icicle with its tentacle. At that moment, Lin felt a sharp pain. The skin of the tentacle was stuck to the surface of the ice.
The freezing cold quickly spread through the cells in the tentacle. Lin immediately pulled the tentacle back. With a strong tearing pain, Lin finally pulled the tentacle back.
A huge wound appeared where the tentacle touched the icicle. It was caused when the tentacle was pulled back. A large piece of skin was still stuck to the icicle.
Lin quickly repaired the wound on the tentacle. The blood vessels on the tentacle would automatically close when it was injured, preventing any cells from flowing out. But Lin was more concerned about the icicle.
What a powerful freezing ability …
Why did the ice have such a strange power? It was completely different from ordinary ice. The freezing ability was very strong, but it did not spread freely in the water …
Why? And the surrounding water was not cold. This phenomenon should only happen when the water temperature was extremely low.
Lin Du could not understand.
Lin suddenly thought of an interesting experiment. It was to form a sphere in the Leviathan's body with a long handle. The end of the handle was a hook.
Lin took out the sphere and placed it on the icicle. Sure enough, the ice spread along the sphere and soon froze the entire sphere.
Then, Lin used her tentacles to grab the ball's handle and pulled it off. She then brought it to the trap and threw the frozen ball inside.
The moment the ice ball was thrown into the trap, the sand around it shook violently. The Giant Trap Worm obviously reacted strongly to this. The ice on the ice ball started to spread, and the sand around it started to shake more violently.
Suddenly, the sand around the trap was lifted, and a huge creature rushed out of the sand. It raised a cloud of sand and swam into the water.
So this is the main body of the Giant Trap Worm? It wasn't as large as Lin had imagined. The trap that Lin saw at the beginning was actually the creature's entire body. It was an oval-shaped structure, its head was the mouth of the trap, while its tail had a circle of tentacles and a water spout, which allowed it to rush out of the sand.
However, the trapping worm's tentacles and spout were too small compared to its body. It only swam for a short while before it sank back to the bottom as if it had lost all its strength.
Then, it started to dig at the sand with its tentacles, as if it was trying to burrow into the sand again.
Lin wouldn't let the Giant Trap Worm succeed. The Leviathan immediately released a few flying saws. They quickly flew towards the Giant Trap Worm. The high-speed flying saws used their serrated teeth to cut through the Giant Trap Worm's tentacles. When the sharp serrated teeth cut through the Giant Trap Worm's tentacles, a large amount of cells gushed out from the wound. The Giant Trap Worm immediately sprayed out water and rushed away.
The flying saws chased after the Giant Trap Worm and once again cut through the wound on its tentacles. These tentacles weren't thick to begin with, and the injured tentacles were instantly cut off. The huge creature had lost its ability to move.
Lin didn't feel particularly happy that she had defeated a creature that was ten times larger than the Leviathan. After all, this creature wasn't considered a vicious predator.
However, this creature was quite unique. It had evolved a hollow body to be used as a trap.
The Leviathan approached the Giant Trap Worm and used its eyeball to look inside. It noticed that the shell-like sphere that it threw in earlier was no longer covered in ice. It should have melted. Although it had a strong freezing ability, it was useless to melt it so quickly.
The Leviathan then swam to the Giant Trap Worm's tail and released a small flying saws. The saws entered the Giant Trap Worm's spout and cut through the soft structure inside.
Lin quickly killed this huge creature. Its internal structure was actually quite simple. Its oval-shaped body was hollow on the inside, and both the inner and outer walls were covered by a shell. It was very suitable to be used as a trap, so all of its organs were squeezed into the narrow space between the inner and outer walls. It could produce a large amount of dissolved fluid at once, filling up the entire body cavity in a very short amount of time.
Lin felt that it was necessary to learn how to rapidly produce dissolved fluid. The Giant Trap Worm's cells seemed to be able to swallow some of the originally harmless components in the water and quickly convert them into a powerful dissolved fluid. This was something that needed to be learned.
As for the other aspects, there wasn't anything special about it. Although this creature was huge, its internal structure was quite simple.
So, the next step was to continue their journey. However, they also needed a base to conduct research on the strange icicle.
Lin released the Collector to drill into the Giant Trap Worm's body. The Collector devoured the various structures and cells that the flying saws had cut into, leaving only a large oval-shaped shell. Lin then placed the Seed of Base inside this shell.
After that, the Leviathan left this area and swam upwards, heading towards an unknown location.
There was still some time before nightfall. The Giant Trap Worm caught at the base was already lifeless. It seemed to have died due to desiccation. Although it didn't have a mouth, it did have gills. If the water on the gills was lost, it would die due to the lack of oxygen.
Lin wasn't too sure about its internal structure because she had never created gills before. If she was on land, she would have relied on the cells in her skin to capture air.
The Leviathan was now close to the surface of the water. The surface that should have been warm was now becoming colder and colder. She noticed that the surface of the water was now covered in a thin layer of ice. The light that shone through the thin layer of ice gave off a strange glow.
The icicle just now extended out from under this layer of ice, extending all the way into the deep water.
The Leviathan swam closer to the layer of ice and knocked on it with its tentacles. Lin noticed that the layer of ice didn't have the ability to freeze quickly like an icicle. It shattered like normal ice.
Why was the icicle so strange? This was a question that Lin couldn't explain at the moment.
The Leviathan continued to swim slowly under the layer of ice. There were quite a lot of creatures in this cold environment, most of them were jellyfish. They swam around under the layer of ice. Although they looked beautiful with the light shining through the layer of ice, Lin felt that they were a nuisance.
Lin had to be careful not to get stung by the Leviathan's tentacles. When she swam past the group of jellyfish, the layer of ice in front of her was getting thicker and thicker, and the light in the water was getting dimmer.
In this environment, there weren't many creatures, so the Leviathan continued to swim in the cold water.
The deeper she swam, the darker the environment became. Lin had to light up the lantern to illuminate the strangely shaped ice above.
After swimming for a while under the dark ice, Lin still didn't see any creatures. Just as Lin was wondering if she should go back, she suddenly saw a light in front of her.
Is it a hole?
When the Leviathan swam under the light, it found that the source of the light was a large circular hole in the ice. It was at least two times as wide as the Leviathan.
It was strange. Why would there be such a hole in the ice?
The Leviathan swam to the bottom of the ice hole and saw that the edge of the hole seemed to have been dug by a sharp object. This hole … What kind of creature dug it? Why did it do that?
Lin also found that these traces were very new, and there were ice crystal fragments floating down from them … Maybe the creature that dug the hole was nearby?
Suddenly, the eyeballs floating around the Leviathan saw a huge black shadow. It was right below the Leviathan, and it was rushing towards the Leviathan at an extremely fast speed!
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