Chapter 36 Crystal Ecology

Why is this small stone in the tentacle facing a place? magnetic field? magnet?

Strange words popped up in Lin's mind. She couldn't understand what that meant, but she knew that the so-called 'magnetism' should represent attraction.

What is the stone attracted to?

Leviathan took back the seed of the base, and Lin suddenly had a feeling that it might be more suitable to place this stone at the target location.

Leviathan continued to advance in this dark seabed full of crystals. Following the guidance of the stone, Lin found that the surrounding crystals were getting bigger and bigger, and some of them were no longer fragments, but complete pieces.

Crystal fungus is not only infested here, there are some flat fish that are active here, but the appearance of these flat fish is a bit strange. Their heads are rounder and thicker than ordinary flat fish, and they are covered with a thin layer of carapace.

Why do you grow up like that? Isn't the swim slower, and there is no defense.

Lin was just a little puzzled, so she skipped them and continued to swim forward. The crystals here became bigger and bigger, and the scattered fragments were almost invisible. While looking at the surrounding environment, Lin constructed the entire area in her mind. Appearance and size.

The outer circle of this area is full of broken crystals, and then the more it goes in, the more complete it is. What kind of thing constitutes this environment?

Maybe not even biological?

Leviathan was surrounded by a lot of flatfish, and they seemed to be very interested in Leviathan's lanterns. Although Lynn didn't see their eyeballs, they seemed to be able to feel the light.

Lin stretched out her tentacles, grabbed a few and ate them, and found that there was nothing special in them, but there were many small diamond-shaped crystalline nails on the outer skin, and a large number of crystal bacteria were stuffed in the gaps of these nails.

Leviathan has reached the next area, where the crystals are all cones and stand in the sand, which can be called the 'Thousand Crystal Woodland'.

Another creature appeared here. Their bodies were small and soft, but they carried a large hard shell. This type of creature seemed to be called a 'snail'.

Lin seems to have mentioned the word snail, but this is the first time I have seen a creature called snail. Its shell is also crystalline, and in addition to various organs, there are quite a few crystal bacteria inside.

It seems that every creature here is related to the crystal fungus? How do these crystal bacteria communicate with them?

This relationship seems to be called 'symbiosis', but why do they mix together?

Lin has yet to see an ice crystal monster, maybe this kind of creature is relatively rare.

Lin continued to move forward, and the tentacles with the stone were squirming very hard, which seemed to mean that Lin was about to approach the target.

At this moment, Lin suddenly thought that it seemed that she had been focusing on this side recently, and things on the main base had not been carried out very much, but Lin had already disassembled the Legion Ball. The structure of this creature's body is quite special, with a large sac The bag is inhabited by the small army ball, and since it has no mouth of its own, it also relies on the small army ball to feed it and so on.

Although it's interesting, Lin is more interested in this side, so let's put the main base aside, Lin can let the warheads work automatically.

Suddenly, a large creature flashed from the light of the lantern.

Ice crystal monster?

Lin let the lanterns catch up with the creature, but it swam very fast, and Lin could only see some scraps from its tail.

Lin retrieved the lantern, grew lantern tentacles on the Leviathan shell to illuminate, and then let the Leviathan chase the creature at full speed, and the direction it was swimming was also pointed by the stone.

Leviathan can use the water jet to swim in a spin, so it can catch up with other fast-swimming creatures.

After chasing for a while, Lin saw the creature again. It was indeed an ice crystal monster, but it was much smaller in size. It swam so fast that it was difficult for Leviathan to chase. on it.

Lin also noticed at this time that the surrounding environment had changed again,

Some large crystals appeared. They stood on the seabed like boulders. Many creatures moved around these spar. The little ice crystal monster suddenly accelerated at this moment. It rushed to the giant crystal wall in front, and then the whole body was drilled. went in.

This is……

After Leviathan approached, Lin discovered that there was a hole in the crystal wall that was just big enough for the ice crystal monster to drill into.

And this crystal... is huge, incredibly big.

Lin can only see a huge crystal wall now. It completely blocks Leviathan, and the light of the lantern can't reach its end. Then Leviathan released a large number of lanterns and let them go to three. Go in different directions to explore how big this crystal is.

The lanterns and eyeballs that went to both sides swam for a long time, and finally returned to the position of the Leviathan. It seems that this crystal is a huge annular structure, and its width may hold hundreds of Leviathan, but upwards The eyeballs and lanterns that went away have never reached the end of the crystal wall...

Is it...

Lin stopped those lanterns and directly let Leviathan go upstream along the crystal wall. It found that the crystal actually extended upwards until Leviathan approached the ice layer covering the sea.

However, this ice wall actually broke through the ice layer and extended all the way to the water surface...

To be so huge... This is no longer an ordinary crystal, but an object that can be called a 'mountain'.

It extends directly from the dark abyss of water to the realm of air, this is a mountain of crystals!

Why does it grow so big? How did this come about?

Lin found that the more it has seen and understood, the more questions it has.

There are no creatures on the crystal wall, unlike a large number of creatures gathered in the deep water, Lin feels quite strange about this.

However, digging a hole in it to make a base feels very good. Such a large amount of crystals can also create many troops with crystal shells.

Although food is scarce here, Lynn has already completed that research.

It is the last step of 'light-eating', mixing water, a certain gas, light, and some substances found inside the green cells to form an edible stuff.

Among them, the proportion Lin has fully understood, and now it can produce a new kind of cell.

Although the things to be synthesized seem to be many and complicated, the amount is actually very small, and they are originally inedible. In addition, these substances can be found everywhere in water, and it is very cost-effective to use them to synthesize food.

However, this method is not very efficient. Those green cells that are locked up by Lin and purely feed on light proliferate very slowly, but some other types of green cells proliferate very quickly, but they will devour other substances or single substances. cellular organisms.

Although it is not efficient, it is inexhaustible, so Lin thinks this research is still very useful, so that in areas where food is scarce but other resources are abundant, a base can also be established.

This seems to be called 'photosynthesis' and 'chlorophyll'.

In fact, the creatures that can absorb light are not only green, Lin has also seen many single cells of other colors that can eat light, including red, blue, and even black.

Lin intends to build a photosynthesis-specific structure at each base, but for now, let's do this first.

Now that the night is coming, the day is coming, and a layer of light shines through the ice layer. Lin ignored it. It made Leviathan create a 'Driller', which has a serrated cone angle and three tails. A water jet allows them to spin rapidly to drill through the crystal walls.

Then Lin asked the collector to collect the crystal debris scattered around.

Armor can be made by dissolving and combining the debris, but there are different types of dissolving liquids. Not all kinds of dissolving liquids can dissolve the crystals. Some dissolving liquids will completely destroy the crystals and make it impossible to combine again, so it is a bit troublesome to make such shells.

Just when Lin was drilling a hole in the crystal wall, the day had already come completely. As the light above became brighter and brighter, the driller who was drilling in the crystal wall suddenly felt that the surroundings were getting hotter and hotter...

By the way, these crystals will absorb heat!

Lin suddenly remembered this, but it seemed that it was too late, because the drillers drilled too deep and couldn't withdraw for a while, and were killed by the extremely high temperature.

The whole crystal seems to absorb the light of the day and becomes extremely dazzling

With such a high temperature, it may not be possible to establish a base here. It is no wonder that there are no creatures sticking to the crystals.

So... what happens now in the deep sea?

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