Vol 2 Chapter 39: Paleozoic eruption
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4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
- Phase Walker
- 1725 characters
- 2021-01-29 02:26:01
Um~ the next chapter ten minutes later
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With countless days and nights, Lin’s sleep has continued.
Lynn didn't know how long it had slept, but it occasionally woke up a few times. When it woke up, it always saw some wonderful sights, such as the ice layer freezing the entire water surface, or the seabed in a certain area cracking. The gushing lava destroyed a large green carpet...
The changes in living things are slower, but the changes in the world are very obvious. The water surface slowly rises after various reasons, once again flooding Lin’s original base on the land. The deep sea faults frequently occur, tearing the seabed and its Residents, sometimes the faults will be regrouped, or there will be huge holes, and the lava will be sprayed irregularly...
Occasionally, the sea surface is completely frozen, and huge icicles extend from the ice to the bottom of the sea, killing all the contact.
It’s just a small problem. It doesn’t cause any damage to Lin’s whole. Because they don’t destroy the area, or the duration is not long. After each wake up, it will repair the green carpet quickly and then go to sleep again. What you want to see... is the change of life.
The overall change in life takes a long time. If you wait all the time, it will be very boring, but the ability to 'sleep' can make all the long time into a moment.
Even for Lin, it’s a moment, but how long has it actually been?
Maybe tens of millions of years... or 100 million?
The evolution of the creatures seems to have reached a new height, which is enough to wake up Lin Su and revisit the world.
When Lin was awake, she immediately saw some wonderful and eccentric creatures moving up the green carpet.
These wonderful creatures are very different from what Linde saw before he slept, but it is no stranger. When Lin was asleep, there were still countless eyeballs recording all the changes in the creatures for it. It is now easy to recognize that these creatures are From what biological changes have been made.
Recycling the information accumulated by the eyeballs of countless years, Lynn can't help but get excited.
This is a brand new world. Although the evolution of biology is slow, it can make a miracle!
Lin can't wait to explore the surrounding environment, but most of the eyeballs are eaten by other creatures, or what dangers are encountered, there is only one area left, and one eyeball is alive.
Here is the former trench. The green carpet is covered with green seabed on both sides of the trench. After so many years, they still absorb light energy, and the trench itself is due to seabed vibration and various changes. It is more than half narrower than before, and the original smoke column has disappeared completely, but this does not affect the richness of the creatures here.
A huge monster swims between the trenches. It has a long, flat body, a blade-like auxiliary appendage, and the forelimbs are thick and barbed. This creature is a hookworm that has little change in shape. Two huge eyeballs were added to the forehead, but the size was much larger. The body shape, which was originally only half a meter, is now more than two meters.
This huge hookworm stared at a prey... a trilobite crawling on a green carpet.
The appearance of trilobites has not changed much, but the variety is much more, from two millimeters to more than one meter. This hookworm is eyeing a trilobite of about thirty centimeters, which rushes toward it. Trilobites, instantly grabbed the target with the forelegs and crushed the trilobite armor with great power.
The cells of the crustacean and trilobites scatter in the water, and these wrecks attract some other creatures.
Three and a half-meter-long creatures swam from a distance, slowly approaching the hookworms that were tearing their prey. Lin called them helmet fish, which were descendants of flatfish, which were only a few centimeters in countless generational alternations. They now have ten times the size, the leaf-shaped body becomes thicker, the head is even covered with a semi-circular armor, and there are appendages called 'fins' on both sides of the body, which is very suitable. Swimming.
They are not predators, but opportunists, attracted by the debris of the trilobites floating in their heads. Under their round armor, there is a slender and small crack with small teeth for filtering the water. food.
Hookworms seem to be quite wasteful to eat, always spilling a lot, and the trilobite throws it when it is not half eaten, which allows the helmet fish to enjoy free food.
Lin now understands the meaning of ‘free’, which means that it can be obtained without any effort.
Lin plans to look at these new creatures carefully and observe every battle. If he finds interesting abilities, Lin will break it down and learn the mysteries.
Lin is not interested in hookworms, but these helmet fish, when they eat the wreckage of the trilobite, they swim away, and the small eyeballs that Lin observes around immediately follow.
Lin's observation of the eyeball is about 1 cm in diameter. It is covered by a transparent hard shell anti-corrosion coating. It is also covered with transparent small spikes, which can spray water. This structure is easy to get stuck in other bio-esophagus. The creatures don't want to prey, but even with this structure, the number of eyeballs in these years is very small.
The eyeballs swim with the helmet fish. They crossed the trench and crossed a few boulders and came to a new environment.
There are a lot of corals in this water area. These creatures have hardly changed since they were asleep. But the shells they made are piled up because they will not be broken down. The corals that were only a few tens of centimeters now grow into giants. The coral reefs formed by them are like mountains, and the highest point is even nearly 100 meters.
Lynn also got a lot of new words when she was asleep. Although some still don't understand what it means, she feels that she can describe many things.
This coral reef is green, which is caused by Lin's green carpet. If a creature builds a nest on a green carpet, the covered part of the green carpet will automatically decompose and then re-cover the creature. On the nest.
Because the green carpet does not block the access holes of the coral, it has no effect on the growth of the coral.
There are quite a lot of biota on the coral reef. Several helmet fish swim slowly between the reefs. The heavy headgear hinders their speed, so they are vulnerable to threats from monsters...
Suddenly, the helmet fish seemed to find something, and they quickly hid in the cracks of the nearby reef.
Lynn also discovered that a huge creature was approaching above.
The creature's body is covered by a conical shell with ten large tentacles on its head, a whisker on the whiskers, and a serrated edge on each of the suction cups.
Lin called it 'Arrow Stone'. This predator has a total length of three meters. It should have evolved from the cut-off. Its head also has a spout, completely abandoning the habit of drilling sand and becoming an active hunting. Eater.
The arrow suddenly rushed. It shot a pair of longer tentacles from ten tentacles, and instantly caught the slowest helmet fish. Then all the tentacles were used to completely wrap the helmet fish. The unprotected body of the helmet fish, the red liquid spewed out of the wound.
The arrow stone chewed and the two helmeted fish caught in the cracks of the reef were not safe. Lin soon saw them quickly escape from it, and then an arthropod creature covering the armor rushed out of it. Grab a helmet fish and drag it back.
It is a trilobite, some trilobites can grow to a meter long, they are quite rich in species, and some have become powerful predators.
The only remaining helmet fish left the coral reef and traveled alone in the direction of the water.
Really... it has become a cruel waters.
Lin recalled the situation. At that time, most of the creatures ate on a single cell, but now it seems to have changed a lot. This escaped helmet fish is quickly targeted by the third type of predator.
These creatures are their distant relatives, called 'drilled fish', which are evolutionary types of round-mouthed flatfish. They have not changed bigger, but have become smaller. A bored fish is only a few millimeters, but they are round. The shape of the mouth and the hook-like fangs became even more terrifying. The bored fish body is covered with barbed small pieces. Lin now knows that this can be called 'scales', they are thousands Tens of thousands of rushing up, use the teeth to tear the skin of the helmet fish, and then twist the body into the wound deep, devour the flesh inside, destroy the organs of the helmet fish.
Small group attacks are even more horrible than those of large creatures, and they are not wasted until they eat every part of the helmet fish body.
Although the helmet has a hard shell on the head, the body does not have any protective ability. It is powerless to the enemy. It can only feel the pain of the organ being drilled and waiting for death.
Lin has always been unable to figure out why the helmet fish have to grow out of this inconvenient and useless shell, but they do have some special ability to escape the predator.
These terrible little creatures haven’t let go of the eyeballs that Lin’s eyes are on the side. They are surrounded by the small spikes around the eyeballs with their mouths. Their mouths are quite hard and can even directly break the thorns of the eyeball shell. Even the outer shell of the eyeball is drilled.
The only remaining eyeball is dead...
It seems that this trip to the New World is over now?
This is of course impossible!
In an area farther away from coral reefs, it is once a crystallization place and an area that has never been affected by environmental changes over the years.
A few huge crystals around the mountain of crystallization suddenly shattered, and countless creatures with crystal armor rushed out from inside.
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