Chương 236: Chapter 235
Spring, the warm light of spring spread across the world. The ice and snow began to melt, the sea of canyons began to thaw, the plants began to regain their green and youthfulness, and all living things began to recover!
And then they died.
The situation of low oxygen levels persisted for the entire winter, even during spring when plants began to awaken, there were no signs of improvement. Many creatures began to awaken, affected by the temperature, their blood began to flow faster, their cells began to regain their vitality, and their limbs began to move.
However, during this period of time, because they couldn't obtain enough oxygen, the vitality they had just regained instantly disappeared. The creatures began to feel dizzy, their brains couldn't obtain enough oxygen, their limbs became weak and powerless, the creatures became panicked and fearful, occasionally vomiting and other symptoms. After a few hundred seconds, the creatures' hearts would stop beating, and they would finally die.
There was almost no creature that didn't need oxygen at this point in time, even fungi and plants needed it. This phenomenon caused great harm to all living things, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a disaster.
Just like the oxygen disaster that Lin experienced a long time ago, the only difference was that oxygen had appeared at that time, but this time, it was because there was less oxygen.
In the forest where all living things had recovered, the screams and cries of agony could be heard echoing. Lack of oxygen was a very painful thing, some creatures would dig out their eyeballs or smash their heads in their madness before collapsing to the ground and dying.
Only in a certain place, which Lin called the 'Oxygen Fortress', would the creatures within be able to awaken and move normally like before.
However, most of the creatures that lacked oxygen didn't manage to leave the hives that they had dug out. They simply died in their own hives. The state of death was quite terrifying.
Lin's snowball was still drifting with the wind. He observed the tragedy from above the jungle.
The air of spring should have been quite lively, with countless dragonflies and insects flying in the air, breeding. There were no longer any Giant Vein Dragonflies in the air, as they had all died in their own hives.
This was a new disaster …
However, Lin had perfectly avoided this disaster this time. For Lin, this wasn't a disaster at all, even if the oxygen had completely disappeared, Lin would still have been able to survive.
But for other creatures, this was a great disaster. A few days later, the smell of rotting corpses began to permeate the forest. The fungus had already begun to decompose the corpses of these creatures. Although the fungus also needed oxygen, the amount needed was extremely low. The current situation did not seem to be a problem for them.
Lin had thought of many possible reasons for the lack of oxygen. This rate of decrease was indeed abnormal, but that was no longer important. Even if the oxygen supply was restored, these dead creatures wouldn't be able to be revived.
But Lin had a feeling that the fungus had something to do with it. Now, with the arrival of spring. The fungus began to crawl out of the ground to decompose the large number of corpses that had died from lack of oxygen.
After all, only the fungi were new creatures. Everything else had existed for a long time. Perhaps the fungi really were the cause of this destruction.
However, although it was destruction, it was a new life for some creatures.
That was the reptiles.
Oxygen did not completely disappear, but the amount of oxygen had decreased to a certain extent. Therefore, almost all of the large arthropods that died from lack of oxygen were large arthropods.
In fact, more than 95% of the species that lived in the forest were arthropods. Some of them were able to grow to a very large size, but arthropods obtained oxygen through the pores all over their body. If the amount of oxygen decreased, they would not be able to obtain oxygen normally. The awakening of spring required a large amount of oxygen, but this led to their deaths.
Reptiles, on the other hand, had an organ called 'lungs'. They could actively extract large amounts of air to obtain oxygen. Therefore, even if they felt discomfort when the amount of oxygen decreased, they would not die and would quickly adapt to the current situation. Some of the reptiles had already come out in search of food.
Right now, food … was everywhere.
Reptiles could be said to be the 'bottom' of the food chain. They usually played the role of 'arthropod prey'. They had always been running in the forest in panic. They were small in size, and only a few species could grow to the size of a crystal lizard. But this time, they were able to eat these large monsters as food.
How would they feel? Would they be surprised? But right now, lowering their heads and eating like crazy was the most important thing for them.
In addition, the Cephalopod was also a type of arthropod. They evolved from something, but it didn't have any problems. Its huge head needed a lot of oxygen, so it had a kind of 'lung' ability.
It did not have lungs, but it had a small unit. Lin only recently discovered that it was a unit. At first, she thought that it was an organ that the Cephalopod grew on itself. The small unit was called 'oxygen balloons'. They were like a ball, and a large number of them were spread throughout the Cephalopod's body. They would act like lungs, sucking in large amounts of oxygen to the Cephalopod. They did not need a 'queen' to reproduce. They would multiply or decrease according to the Cephalopod's body condition, so the lack of oxygen would have little effect on the Cephalopod.
The other units of the Cephalopod also had this unit in their stomachs, so it was not a big problem.
Sure enough, the division of labor between species had some methods. Because of the division of labor, they were usually able to deal with situations that a single organism could not deal with.
However, Lin did not know how the Inca insects were doing. She did not remember them having this kind of unit, and she did not know if the place they went to had a situation where the oxygen level decreased.
She would have to wait and see. Lin believed that they would have a solution easily.
The Aztec insects did not exist either. Perhaps they would encounter some problems. As far as Lin knew, Montezuma II was still alive. However, large insects like the Deep Sand Bus might not be able to survive.
Following that, Lin observed the aquatic creatures in the canyon. She discovered that the decrease in oxygen level had no effect on marine creatures, including marine arthropods. Marine arthropods did not use stomachs, but gills to breathe. It could be said that the ocean did not change much. Special creatures like the ancient squid would hide in underground caves during winter, but now, they had once again emerged in large numbers.
About ten days after the arrival of spring, according to Lin's statistics, 99% of the large arthropods died, but the small ones were basically unaffected.
Apart from that, a large number of reptiles had lost their natural predators. They stood in front of a new forest …..
What kind of changes would happen to these creatures? Floating astronomy.
PS: Thank you ~ Little Sky Sword ~ Gu Xueye ~ for the mooncakes ~
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