Chapter 111

 "Sky, water."

At the entrance of the cave, Leviathan and the headworm were looking at the sky together. The headworm was using a simple voice to express its thoughts.

After staying here for a long time, Lin felt that this little creature was harmless, so she allowed it to move around freely.

Yes, it's going to rain ….

The words the headworm said just now meant that it was going to rain.

Dark clouds covered the sky above the Twisted Jungle. In fact, it didn't rain very often in this place, but every time it did, it would be quite heavy. The arthropods in the jungle seemed to be very busy. Most of them were looking for places to hide, but there were some that appeared specifically in the rain.

For example, the bark cockroach.

The bark cockroach was a type of cockroach. Its body was huge, and its color was exactly the same as the bark of a tree, but Lin could recognize it. She saw a few dragonflies quickly flying through the jungle. When they flew over a tree trunk, a piece of 'bark' suddenly moved. It stretched out a serrated and barbed forelimb and caught a dragonfly in an instant.

Although the dragonfly was about the same size as the bark cockroach, it couldn't resist at all. It could only be slowly eaten.

"Dragonfly, food, delicious."

The headworm also saw this scene and expressed its thoughts.

"Bark cockroach?"

Leviathan also said a word to the headworm.

After the headworm heard it, it said a simple word: "Disgusting."

Well, to put it simply, the headworm said that the dragonfly was delicious, but the bark cockroach was disgusting. The concept of 'delicious' and 'disgusting' was also made by the headworm. Lin discovered that it had a very interesting characteristic. Even though the cells in its body could absorb food normally, and the nutrients were not much different, the headworm seemed to like some foods very much and dislike others very much.

Through her research, Lin discovered that the Cerebrum would eat very slowly when it came to food it didn't like. It would also emit a special cry with an unpleasant emotion. The word for this cry was' unpalatable '.' Delicious' was the opposite. When it was eating something delicious, it would eat very quickly and happily.

This was a very interesting phenomenon. Lin still didn't know how it came to be, but this headworm had a lot of research value.

"Water, rolling, cave."

Seeing that the rain was coming, the brain worm twisted its meatball-like body and rolled back into the cave in the base.

This creature was indeed very interesting. Lin often exchanged information with it like this. Oh right, there seemed to be a word to describe this behavior: 'chatting'.

Chatting seemed understandable, but what did this have to do with Heaven? What a strange phrase.

Now that it was going to rain, Lin usually wouldn't take shelter from the rain, especially since the Leviathan was even more unnecessary. Lin was more concerned about the problem of this forest.

The moss in the Glittering Woodland was becoming less and less. Many of the creatures that fed on the moss had already left the woodland. In the past few days and nights, Lin had been paying close attention to how the moss was decreasing.

The moss seemed to slowly wither, dry up, and then die. They did not lack water, and they could still glow at night. Why was that?

With that in mind, Leviathan stood up, crossed the river, and arrived at the Shining Woodland.

This place now looked a little like the Dark Plains, with only sporadic moss growing on the ground. Other than that, there was a large area of black mud, some dry bark, and stones.

On the other hand, the Dark Plains had become brighter due to the spread of the green carpet, but Lin was more concerned about the reason for this phenomenon in the Shining Woodland.

Not only the moss, but the twisted trees in the Shining Woodland also began to show some strange phenomena. They began to shed their skin. Although not much was shed, each piece of skin had one thing in common. They were very dry and cracked, as if the water in them had been sucked out.

Leviathan walked up to a small clump of moss and reached out with its tentacles to dig it up.

Lin decided to bring this moss back to study and find out the reason for its death.

Thunder rumbled in the air, and Leviathan quickly returned to the cave in the base …

Lin noticed that the brain worm was still at the entrance of the cave, but it didn't go in. As soon as it saw Leviathan, it said, "Boss, wood, moss, dry, cracked, dead."

It wanted to tell Leviathan that the moss and wood had both died after drying up, but Lin ignored it and took the moss deeper into the cave. The entrance of the cave was now sealed.

The 'Door Shaper' was a type of soldier that Lin created. During rainy days, they would mix soil with a kind of crustaceous substance to form a watertight wall to seal the entrance of the cave. This would prevent rainwater from entering the base, otherwise, there would be a risk of the base collapsing.

The brain worm followed Leviathan deeper into the cave, seemingly curious about what Lin was going to do with the moss.

Unfortunately, it couldn't see it.

Lin placed the moss into a dissection bag, then made some small cuts on the surface of the moss to allow a miniature scout to enter and study it. There were also eyeballs outside the moss to observe the changes in its appearance.

The cells of a plant were relatively simpler and had fewer types, so it was easier to determine.

Lin discovered that there were some strange creatures inside the cells of the moss, some of them were filamentous creatures. These creatures were made up of multiple branching cells with a unique structure that Lin had never seen before.

Lin observed them for a bit.

They would destroy the cellular structure of the moss, kill the cells, and produce toxins that would eventually corrode the entire moss and reduce it to dust.

When the moss died, it would grow a large number of special sacs, which appeared to be some kind of seed. These sacs were very light and would drift away with the wind, as if they were used to reproduce.

So these were the things that killed the moss? In other words, all the moss in the Glittering Woodland had died because of this thing?

But where did they come from? There shouldn't have been any problems with the moss from before.

Could it be …

Lin recalled the fungi that grew on the wood inside the crystal worm cave. Their structure was very similar to the organisms that killed the moss.

But Lin didn't bring the fungi out from the cave, and the entire cave had been blown up, so the things inside shouldn't have been able to escape …

While Lin was thinking, she heard the sound of thunder outside the base again. At the same time, the brain worm's voice rang out: [Lightning, fungi, dried wood, moving, water, Farr, death]

'Farr' was a new pronunciation, a word that Lin didn't understand.