Chapter 214 Headworm's gift

The frenzied cockroaches surrounded the Deepsand Bus. As if they had gone mad, they used their blade-like mouths to tear at every part of the Deepsand Bus' body. However, their teeth could not penetrate the Deepsand Bus' carapace.

Only the tail of the Deepsand Bus was left with some wounds. However, the Deepsand Bus managed to reach Chirping Rock Island before these wounds could affect its body. It began to dig its way into the ground, crushing a large number of cockroaches to death in the process.

Lin was now certain that these cockroaches were indeed affected by the virus.

These cockroaches had gone completely mad. Although they were originally frenzied, they were not crazy. Lin had seen them hunt before. They knew how to focus their attacks on the weak points, but they did not show it just now. They were just biting randomly, and many of their attacks were wasted on the Deepsand Bus' carapace. If they had focused their attacks on the tail, they might have been able to cause great damage to the Deepsand Bus before it could burrow in.

After the Deepsand Bus successfully burrowed into the ground, the remaining cockroaches followed it into the hole it had dug.

However, going underground was obviously not the right choice. The Deepsand Bus could squeeze them to death if it retreated. Generally speaking, if it was only for food, it was not likely that they would chase after it.

These creatures were no longer normal creatures. The Inca swarm had actually created such a strange virus. Perhaps this virus had some special connection with the light of the moon.

Perhaps it would be easier to solve the problem with the Inca swarm, but Lin wanted to observe them more. After all, not many creatures were affected.

However, what did the Aztec swarm intend to do here? Lin was also quite interested in this matter.

Bechymos released a flyer and had it fly into the hole dug by the Deepsand Bus.

Using sound detection, Lin discovered that the hole was filled with the remains of the crushed cockroaches. The hole dug by the Deepsand Bus went straight down. Finally. The flyer followed the hole and reached the central part of the island.

The Deepsand Bus dug out a relatively wide space here, then stayed there without moving.

Strange, what was it trying to do?

Lin had the flyer wait until the end of the night, but the Deepsand Bus did not move at all. It seemed to have entered a state of deep sleep.

Lin decided to let the flyer stay here and observe. She was not worried that the Aztec swarm would do anything strange.

When the sun once again shone upon the land, the moonlight receded. The creatures that had gone mad during the night slowly returned to normal.

Under the observation of the eyeball tentacles everywhere in the jungle. Lin found that many creatures gathered under the moonlight at night did not seem to know why they were there. They would feel frightened and confused.

So the effect of the moon upon them was limited to the appearance of the light, and their brains could not remember what had happened when they went mad.

This was quite interesting, and it was worth continuing to observe.

During the day, Bechymos continued its research among the floating islands. It slowly flew over the floating rocks and lowered its observation eyeballs on some spots with a better view.

Some of the floating islands were covered in dense and towering ferns. When Bechymos flew over these islands, countless Megaspian Dragonflies were startled by the ferns. They flew up from the island in large numbers and scattered in all directions.

These creatures were the first to occupy Floating Sound Rock Island. The Megaspian Dragonflies were not affected by the virus. They could hunt and eat plants, so they reproduced very vigorously.

Dragonflies required water to reproduce. As water vapor gathered, puddles of various sizes appeared on some of the islands. These puddles would sometimes fuse together and eventually form a huge lake. When there was too much water and accumulated water overflowed, it would form a waterfall that gushed down from the floating islands and fell back into the Twisted Jungle.

It was a rather beautiful sight. Beside these high altitude waterfalls, there would usually be a beautiful colourful lustre. In Lin's mind, she called it a 'rainbow'.

A rainbow was a phenomenon caused by the refraction of sunlight from small water spheres in the air. Although it was beautiful, it did not seem to have much research value. However, Lin had been observing and studying the sun recently.

At first, Lin thought that the sun suddenly appeared in the sky. Later, she noticed that the sun moved slowly. It would rise from one end of the horizon and set on the other. Some plants would move according to the position of the sun to absorb the most sunlight.

Not only did the sun provide light, it also seemed to provide warmth. Without the sun, the entire world would probably be frozen.

Lin began to feel that it was very strange. This world actually had to rely on something so far away to provide energy? Although it sounded very interesting, Lin did not like to rely too much on something she was completely unfamiliar with.

Sooner or later, Lin would evolve her way of life to not rely on anything, at least not something she was familiar with.

However, it was still a wonderful feeling that such an unfamiliar thing could create such a rich variety of creatures.

Bechymos slowly flew over the rainbow and under the gushing waterfall. Lin could see many tree roots stretching out from the bottom of the island. They were exposed to the air when the island rose and now formed a dense 'forest of tree roots' at the bottom of the floating island. At the same time, it also became a shelter for some creatures.

Between the tree roots, many small green lizards were jumping around. Lin called them wind lizards, but when they were hunted down by the Megaspian Dragonflies, they would run to the bottom of the island to hide. Not only could they jump, but they also had a thin membrane between their toes that allowed them to fly for a short period of time.

However, there was another type of lizard that was completely different from them. These lizards also hid among the tree roots and ambushed the jumping wind lizards.

They were also evolving creatures that Lin recently discovered. These lizards had lengthened their bodies and filled their bodies with muscles. They had also degenerated their hind legs and normally relied on their long bodies to strangle their prey.

They seemed to be evolving into a creature called 'snake'. Of course, Lin didn't know what a snake was, but that was all she knew.

After observing and researching some of the creatures on the island, Lin discovered that apart from those who fell to their deaths, the survivors quickly adapted to life in the air. Lin believed that she could create a similar environment in the future, where she would be able to float around freely without being restricted by the area.

While researching, Lin also had other matters to attend to.

One of the Inca insect swarm's Stone Chime airships was pulled by Lin to the headworm's rocky mountain using the Bombardier. Lin wasn't the only one who wanted to give it to the headworm, the headworm itself also wanted the airship.

The headworm's rocky mountains didn't occupy a large area, most of them were located in the middle of the forest. Lin discovered that a portion of the rocky mountains had broken apart, causing some of the rocky mountains to fly into the air, but most of the rocky mountains remained the same and weren't affected by the moon.

It seems that the headworm's rocky mountains were quite sturdy, but this also made it very difficult for the headworm to destroy them and fly up.

The brainworm knew that Lin was going to bring the airship over, so it came out of the rocky mountain it lived in as soon as the sky became bright. It waited excitedly for the arrival of the airship.

As soon as it saw the gigantic shadow of the airship in the sky, the headworm excitedly called out: 「 The airship, Lin, the airship! 」

Although it didn't sound excited at all, the headworm would only mix its emotions into its voice when it encountered something extremely infuriating. For example, the Inca insect swarm's inaccurate pronunciation was something that made the headworm extremely angry.

On the other hand, the headworm didn't seem to care much about the destruction of its swarm. In fact, it didn't even mention anything about it. When Lin saw the volcanic eruption statue in the Inca insect's sculpture room, the headworm was only slightly surprised.

The headworm's thoughts were truly strange.

Lin ordered the bomber to pull the airship to a lower altitude. There was a relatively large open space in the forest here that was filled with ferns. As they approached the open space, the airship shot out a number of hooks and threads that pierced into the mud to stabilize the airship.

If it weren't for the spider silk structure, it wouldn't have been easy to pull a 100-meter-tall boulder.

「 The airship, the airship! 」 The headworm excitedly called out as it rolled towards the bottom of the airship. As it looked at the gigantic airship, its excitement seemed to have reached its peak.

Being too excited could be harmful, sometimes it could even cause its heart to stop beating and die, but the headworm didn't seem to have any problems right now.

「 Lin, the airship, take off 」

Due to its excitement, the headworm's speech was a bit sluggish, but Lin knew what it wanted to say, so she ordered one of the bombers to grab it and fly it to the airship.

The headworm excitedly rolled around on the airship. Lin still remembered how it almost rolled off the Leviathan's back last time, so she placed it inside the inner layer of the airship.

Although Lin gave the headworm the airship, she didn't give it any units that could move the airship. The headworm had to think of a way to move the airship itself, and Lin knew it would have a way.

After the headworm rolled around inside the airship for a while, it expressed its opinion: 「 The inner layer of the airship isn't flat, there are too many small sharp protrusions, rolling around, uncomfortable. The Inca swarm, their composition is perfect, but it's not very comfortable 」

The headworm would make the inner layer of the rocky mountain it lived in very smooth because its soft body was easily worn down by rolling around. However, the Inca swarm didn't seem to have any units that looked like the headworm, so they didn't need to make the inner layer as smooth as possible. Only the chubby bug looked like one, but the chubby bug didn't know how to roll around …

「 Lin, excited, excited, fly, carry, begin! 」

After the headworm expressed its current mood, many of its troops climbed up along the hooks that connected the airship to the ground. The hooks were relatively thick, allowing the headworm's troops to climb up on their own.