Chapter 126

 The moss in the Glittering Woodland grew rapidly and soon covered the scorched woodland. The Twisted Woodland, on the other hand, didn't grow that fast. After dozens of days and nights, the saplings had only grown to a height of a meter. Therefore, Lin needed to guard this place and clean up the sand before they matured.

Lin didn't rely solely on the green carpet for nutrients. The green carpet gained energy at a rather slow rate. Although it could accumulate nutrients over a long period of time, it couldn't obtain useful substances such as crustaceans. When Lin needed to quickly form an army, she still needed to hunt. Only the arthropods in the nearby forest could provide her with abundant energy.

The reborn Glittering Woodland had attracted most of the previous creatures, but there were also some new species. Apart from Lin, the cockroaches were the apex predators in the new Glittering Woodland. Lin discovered that a species of cockroaches had undergone a subtle change. They no longer hunted with their mouths, but suddenly began to use the small barbs on their forelimbs that were originally used for climbing to hook their prey. Lin believed that if they slowly developed this subtle change, they might evolve into a species completely different from other cockroaches. For example, their forelimbs would grow into scythes or something.

Not only could the Twisted Woodland prevent sand, it could also provide Lin with a perfect and long-term energy source. Moreover, it was very fun to observe the changes of various creatures. Therefore, Lin needed to guard this woodland.

The Aztec beetles hadn't shown any reaction recently. The two Deepsand Bushes were still very far away from the Twisted Woodland. Lin didn't know what was going on with them. Perhaps the previous sneak attack on Bechymos was just a coincidence, and not prepared?

Meanwhile, the few Aztec beetles in the territory of the Aztec beetles were still monitoring. Their activities hadn't changed. They would appear at night to harvest some moss, and then hide at night. Day and night remained the same.

Lin suspected that they had no intention of attacking.

If that was the case, should Lin take the initiative to attack them? Bechymos was currently at the edge of the Glittering Woodland and was in the midst of rapid restoration. A type of Aztec beetle that could fly was constantly transporting nutrients back and forth.

The larger the beetle, the longer it would take to restore it. If the Aztec beetles attacked before the restoration, it would be somewhat troublesome. But if they had no intention of attacking at all. Perhaps Lin would reconsider starting a war.

Lin didn't like meaningless wars. After experiencing the battle with the Kibucha beetles, Lin was more concerned with calculating the gains and losses of various benefits, and wouldn't fight purely for the sake of threats.

Now. Lin turned her attention to the Leviathan. Its journey with the brainworm was still ongoing. No matter how important the development of the base was, Lin's interest was always in exploring new things.

The Brain Worm was now lying on Leviathan's back. The Leviathan flew to a place that Lin had never seen before.

This place was covered in white, and the entire place was hundreds of meters wide. It was like a white scar in the jungle. When the Leviathan flew over the white land, Lin could smell a familiar scent … ….

It smelled like seawater.

The Leviathan landed, and Lin found that there was a layer of shallow water that was almost transparent. It was almost invisible in the air.

This place seemed to be a huge white lake, but there didn't seem to be any creatures here. If there was so much water, there should be a lot of creatures. The Leviathan stretched out its tentacles and scooped up some water. The water looked very clear, but Lin could smell a special smell from it.

Then, Lin put the Collector into the water and ate some of the water here. Lin suddenly felt a familiar feeling. The water seemed to contain a large amount of the substance called 'salt', and the amount was much higher than in the sea.

A large amount of salt had formed a small crystal-like substance at the bottom of the water. Some of the larger crystals were even above the water surface, so this area was white. Then, this place was called a 'salt lake'.

If a large amount of salt was absorbed, it would cause a variety of problems in the cells. Was that why there were no creatures around?

That didn't seem to be the case.

Under the black starlight, Lin noticed a layer of black substance floating on the surface of the water in the distance. The Leviathan used its tentacles to roll up a piece of salt from the water and threw it over there.

With a 'thump', the layer of black substance suddenly scattered and flew all over the sky. It was a small arthropod. Lin had a word in her mind that called them 'flies'.

These creatures seemed to be able to filter out harmful substances in the water. It was interesting, but Lin could filter it herself. Lin's ability to filter out impurities was very strong. Most of this ability evolved from combining various kinds of shell substances, so there was no need to catch one to study.

A large number of flies flew on the surface of the lake. Although Lin didn't want to catch them, they had no intention of running away. Instead, they all rushed towards the Leviathan. Lin could hear the sound of their rapidly flapping wings.

The flies flew towards the Leviathan's shell as if they wanted to do something, but they couldn't penetrate the shell. This lasted for a while before they gave up and flew away.

The Leviathan fired a bomb at the fleeing flies.

Under the explosion of dissolved liquid, countless fly corpses fell on the surface of the salt lake. Perhaps these small creatures would learn not to casually attack creatures larger than themselves in the future.

Lin stayed in the salt lake until daybreak. She was mainly thinking about some things.

In this vast place, Lin could also obtain energy. Because there were no twisted trees here, and there was water to absorb, she could directly cover the whole place with a green carpet.

However, would a green carpet really be a good idea?

Lin didn't know when she had this idea. Perhaps she already had it when she planted the Glittering Forest.

But after seeing this barren salt lake that only had a single type of creature, Lin confirmed her idea.

Lin's current idea wasn't as simple as a green carpet. While thinking, Lin discovered a few flaws with a green carpet.

A green carpet could only obtain a single type of energy. Although this type of nutrient could prolong life and replenish exhaustion, it couldn't produce powerful troops. Some of the components that cells required couldn't be obtained through photosynthesis alone.

Furthermore, growing a green carpet wouldn't be able to teach anything useful. Lin decided that it would be better to create a place that could attract all kinds of creatures to reproduce. This way, she could hunt these creatures and study the essence of their evolution, as well as obtain any energy or substance she needed from them.

Normal plants didn't grow purely through photosynthesis like they did in the single-cell era. Lin discovered that they could absorb nutrients from the ground, which allowed them to grow sturdy materials like wood. However, Lin didn't need to dig the ground herself. Directly creating an ecological environment would be much faster.

More importantly, she would be able to observe the evolution and competition of living creatures and learn important knowledge from them.

If she could directly create an environment similar to the Twisted Forest, she would be able to live anywhere. Right, no matter what barren place she came across in the future, all she needed to do was create an environment and not choose to avoid it.

This idea was quite good, so this salt lake would be the perfect place for Lin to experiment.

"Awaken, confirm your position and begin rolling. Make sure your body isn't stiff" at this point, the headworm had already woken up. It abruptly rolled down from the Leviathan's back into the salt lake.

"Death is approaching, death is approaching" the headworm hurriedly called out from the salt water, so Lin had no choice but to pull it up.

The headworm shook off the water on its body and spoke: "Lake Gu Wa, the water contains a large amount of harmful substances. It's harmful and inedible"

"Don't randomly roll around again" The Leviathan placed the headworm on its back, then put down a Seed of Base and began to fly.

The Leviathan wouldn't stay here for too long, as Lin would continue to search for the headworm's colony. However, this Seed of Base that was left in the salt lake was a bit different. It didn't grow slowly like other Seeds of Base, instead, it rapidly changed and grew inside its body. In the end, when the outer shell of the Seed of Base cracked open, a new type of unit — — – 'Overlord' would be born.

This was a name that Lin had only just thought of, and she felt that it was quite fun. 'Overlords' had a powerful hunting ability. They had a relatively long worm-like body that was over a meter long, with two pairs of wings on their back that allowed them to fly at high speed. They would hunt the living creatures here — — flies to obtain a large amount of nutrients.

Following that, the 'Overlords' would increase their numbers. At the same time, they would begin to construct a special kind of green carpet. This kind of green carpet wasn't laid on the surface of the water, but rather grew like a tree. It had a crustaceous substance as its' bark 'and' trunk ', while a large umbrella-shaped structure would grow at the top.

This' umbrella-shaped green carpet 'could continuously absorb the salt water below it, then filter it into pure water that would gush out from the' umbrella '. This harmless filtered water would definitely attract many living creatures.

This was only a preliminary experiment, and Lin was still learning how to create an environment where countless living creatures could live.

In short, this required great creativity and communication skills. It was relatively simple to raise a few living creatures, but it also didn't make much sense.

Lin had to create an environment where a large number of living creatures had to live and compete on their own.

This was probably a very large task.

Lin actually found it quite interesting to carry out a large amount of work at the same time. Everything was progressing slowly, but the most important thing right now was to find the headworm's colony.

The Leviathan flew away from the salt lake. The headworm seemed to be unable to obtain its scent from too high up in the air, so Lin flew lower, very close to the canopy of the Twisted Tree.

The canopy of the Twisted Tree had a large number of structures called leaves, which were organs used for photosynthesis. However, the Twisted Tree also had a considerable amount of nutrients that came from its roots underground.

The green carpet didn't have roots, so its efficiency of producing energy was lower, which was one of the reasons why Lin was looking for a new way to obtain nutrients.

[Scent approaching. Colony information discovered 300 meters ahead.]

As soon as the headworm's voice was heard, Lin saw several green figures appear in the forest in the distance.

Those creatures were exactly the same as the ones in the headworm's painting …

PS: Thanks ~ White-seeded ~ Heavenly Peace ~ for the tip ~