Vol 2 Chapter 36: Crystalline ecology

Why does the small stone in this tentacles face a place? magnetic field? magnet?
There was a weird word in Lynn's thoughts. It still couldn't understand what it meant, but knew that the so-called 'magnetic' should represent attraction.
What is the stone attracted to?
Leviathan retracted the base, and Lin suddenly felt that it might be more suitable for the target of this stone.
Leviathan continued to advance in this dark seabed covered with crystals. With the guidance of the stone, Lin found that the surrounding crystals were getting bigger and bigger, and some were not pieces, but a complete piece.
There are not only crystal bacteria, but some flat fish are here, but these flat fish look strange. Their heads are rounder and thicker than the average flat fish, and they are covered with a thin shell.
Why do you grow like that? Isn't it slower to swim, and there is no defense.
Lin was only slightly confused. She skipped them and continued to move forward. The crystals here are getting bigger and bigger, and the scattered pieces are almost invisible. Lin looks at the surrounding environment and constructs the entire area in her thoughts. Look and size.
The outer circle of this area is the crystallization of the fragmentation, and the more complete it is, the more complete it is. What kind of things construct this environment?
Maybe it's not a creature?
Leviathan is surrounded by a lot of flatfish. They seem to be interested in Leviathan's lanterns. Although they don't see them with long eyes, they seem to feel the light.
Lin stretched out the tentacles and grabbed a few tears to eat and found that there was nothing special in them, but the outer skin was covered with many diamond-shaped crystal pieces, and a large number of crystal bacteria were stuck in the gaps of these pieces.
Leviathan has reached the next area, where the crystals are conical and stand in the sand, which can be called 'Chitinites'.
There is another creature here. Their bodies are small and soft, but they carry a large hard shell. These creatures seem to be called 'snails'.
Lin seems to mention the word snail, but it is the first time to see a creature called snail. Its shell is also crystal-structured. There are quite a few crystal bacteria in addition to various organs inside.
It seems that every creature in this has a relationship with the crystal bacteria? How do these crystal bacteria communicate with them?
This relationship seems to be called symbiosis, but why do they get together?
Lin hasn't seen an ice crystal monster yet, maybe this kind of creature is rare.
Lin continued to move forward, and the stone-bearing tentacles squirmed very hard, which seemed to mean that Lin was close to the target.
Lin suddenly thought that it seems to have been taking care of this side recently. The things on the main base have not been carried out. However, Lin has already broken down the legion. The structure of this organism is quite special and has a large capsule. The bag lives for the small army ball, because it has no mouth itself, so it also relies on the small leg ball to feed it and so on.
Although interesting, Lin is more interested in this, so let's put the main base aside, and Lin can let the warheads work automatically.
Suddenly, a large creature flashed through the light of the lantern.
Ice crystal strange?
Lin let the lanterns catch up with the creature, but it swims very fast, and Lin can only see some debris from the tail.
Lin recovered the lanterns and illuminated the tentacles on the Leviathan shell, which led Leviathan to chase the creature at full speed. The direction of the movement was also the direction of the stone.
Leviathan can use the water spray hole for rotary swimming, so that its speed can catch up with other fast moving creatures.
After chasing for a while, Lin saw the creature again. This is indeed an ice crystal monster, but the body size is much smaller. It swims quite fast with the spout of the rear arthropod. Leviathan is hard to chase. On it.
Lin also noticed that the surrounding environment changed again. Some large crystals appeared. They stood on the seabed like boulder. Many creatures live around these spar. The little ice crystal suddenly accelerates. I rushed to the front of a giant crystal wall, and then the whole body was drilled in.
this is……
When Leviathan approached, Lin discovered that there was a hole in the crystal wall that was just enough for the ice crystal to penetrate.
And this crystallization... is big, big and incredible.
Lin can only see a huge crystal wall, which is completely blocked in front of Leviathan. The light of the lantern can't reach its end. Liviathan released a lot of lanterns and let them go to three. Go in different directions and explore how big the crystal is.
The lanterns and eyeballs that went to the two sides traveled for a long time, and finally returned to the position of Leviathan in a circle. It seems that this crystal is a huge ring structure, and its width may be loaded with hundreds of Leviathan, but upward. The eyeballs and lanterns that have gone have never reached the end of the crystal wall...
Is it...
Lin let the lanterns stop and let Leviathan go upstream along the crystal wall. It found that the crystal had continued to extend upwards until Leviathan approached the ice layer covering the sea.
However, this ice wall actually broke through the ice layer and extended to the surface of the water...
There is such a huge amount... This is not an ordinary crystal, but an object that can be called a 'mountain'.
It extends directly from the abyss of the dark water to the field of air. This is a mountain of crystallization!
Why can it grow so big? How was this formed?
Lynn found that the more it has seen, the more you know, the more questions you have.
There are no creatures on the crystal wall, and unlike a lot of creatures in the deep water, Lynn feels quite strange about this.
But dig a hole in it and feel good about getting a base. So much crystallization can make a lot of troops with crystal shells.
Although the food is scarce here, Lin has completed the study.
It is the last step of ‘food light’, which mixes water with a certain gas and light and some substances found inside the green cells to form an edible thing.
The proportion of Lin has been fully understood, and now it can produce a new type of cell.
Although the things to be synthesized seem to be a lot of complicated, they are actually very small, and they are all inedible. Plus, these substances are everywhere in the water. It is really cost-effective to use them to synthesize food.
However, the efficiency of this approach is actually not high. Those green cells that are locked by Lin and eat purely light are very slow, but some other kinds of green cells proliferate very quickly, but they will swallow other substances or singles. Cell biology.
Although the efficiency is not high, but it is inexhaustible, so Lin feels that this research is still very useful, so that in areas where food is scarce, but other resource-rich areas can also establish a base.
This seems to be called 'photosynthesis' and 'green chlorophyll'.
In fact, the creatures that can absorb light are not only green, but Lin has seen many single cells of other colors can also eat light, red, blue, and even black.
Lin plans to build a structure for specialized photosynthesis at each base, but I still get it here first.
Now the night will go, the day is coming, and there is a layer of light above the ice. Lin doesn't care so much. It makes Leviathan create a 'driller' with a sawtooth cone angle and three tails. A sprinkler allows them to spin rapidly to open the wall.
Then Lin asked the collector to collect the crystal debris scattered around.
The debris can be combined to form armor, but the solution is also classified. Not all of them dissolve crystals. Some of the solution will completely destroy the crystals, so that it can no longer be combined, so it is a bit troublesome to make such a shell.
Just as Lin made a hole in the crystal wall, the white enamel had already arrived completely. As the light above it became brighter, the miners who drilled holes in the crystal wall suddenly felt that the surrounding area became hotter and hotter...
By the way, these crystals will absorb heat!
Lin suddenly remembered this, but it seemed to be late, because the drillers were drilling too deep and could not be withdrawn for a while, and they were killed by extremely high temperatures.
The whole piece of crystals seems to absorb the light of the white enamel and become extremely dazzling.
With such a high temperature, you may not be able to build a base here. No wonder there is no organism stuck to the crystal here.
So... what will happen now in the deep sea?
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