Chapter 48: chapter 48
Lin's Explorer 'Warhead' slowly crawled closer to this strange light source.
But when Warhead got close to its target, the light suddenly disappeared.
What's going on?
The light emitted by Warhead was not bright enough. It could only illuminate a small area and could not see its surroundings.
Maybe it's a jellyfish or something?
While Lin was thinking, the light once again lit up in the distance, but this time, it was a different kind of light. It was scarlet and much brighter.
Lin could feel the temperature of the surrounding water rising. She ordered Warhead to move towards the new light. When it got close to its target, it saw a strange scene.
A dark sticky substance covered a large area in front of it. It was emitting a hot feeling. Occasionally, one or two cracks could be seen in the sticky substance. A scarlet light shone from the cracks. Although the cracks were not big, the light was enough to illuminate the surrounding environment.
Is that … lava?
But it was different from what Lin had seen before. The lava here seemed to be fixed. It turned gray and did not move, but it still emitted an extremely high temperature.
Those glowing red cracks might contain molten lava that had yet to solidify …
Many single-celled organisms were moving around on the solidified lava. They did not seem to be afraid of the heat.
Lin did not let Warhead step on the lava. She did not think that Warhead could withstand this temperature.
Lin was hesitant. She wanted to continue looking around, but she also wanted to go around the lava and explore deeper into the trench.
Suddenly, Lin felt a vibration in Warhead's field of vision. At the same time, she felt a pulling force pulling Warhead back. Before she could see what was going on, Warhead's body was crushed by a huge pressure.
This was the feeling of being bitten by something. Something was attacking Warhead from behind.
Although it was a bit regretful, but was this the end of the trench trip …?
Lin did not think so!
Leviathan floated to the center of the trench, aiming at the spot where Warhead died.
Leviathan turned its body and opened the exit. A large number of warheads were shot out at the same time, heading towards the depths of the trench.
There were hundreds of warheads in total, all of which were created by Leviathan just now.
This was one of the characteristics of the Leviathan. It had multiple reproduction cabins in its body, which could instantly form a large number of multicellular individuals. It was very convenient for attacking or doing other things.
The warheads quickly sank into the depths of the trench. Although Lin fired at the center of the trench, most of them eventually landed near the rock walls.
Lin immediately ordered them to gather in the same direction as before. When the warheads arrived at the place where they saw the lava, they also discovered what kind of creature had eaten the first warhead.
This creature was bright red and flat. Its entire body was square as it laid on the ground, just like … a red carpet.
What's a carpet?
Anyway, I'll just call it a 'carpet bug'. Could it be that this creature had just eaten a bullet?
Lin couldn't see where its mouth was, and there were no tentacles on its body. She couldn't understand how this creature hunted.
In any case, let's just kill him first.
Lin ordered the hundreds of warheads to surge forward. These warheads were specially made for combat, and the ends of their limbs were sharp blades.
The warheads climbed onto the carpet bug's body and used the blades to leave marks on its body. A large number of the carpet bug's cells immediately flowed out from the wounds. The carpet bug squirmed in pain, but it didn't put up any effective resistance. Lin then ordered the warheads to drill into the wounds and destroy the internal structure.
The carpet bug suddenly twisted its body and swam rapidly in the water with its flat body. It was heading towards the top of the trench.
Lin ordered the warheads to stop attacking. She felt that the carpet bug's actions weren't to shake off the warheads, but to some other purpose.
The carpet bug kept swimming upwards. It was quite fast, and it soon swam out of the Lightless Zone at the deepest part of the trench. Lin found it hard to imagine that a creature of this shape could move so quickly.
However, after leaving the Lightless Zone, the carpet bug began to slow down. Eventually, it stopped moving completely.
Just as Lin was wondering what was going on, the carpet worm's body suddenly exploded into countless cells and fragments.
Was this … a problem with the pressure?
Lin understood almost instantly. The carpet bug's body contracted very tightly in a high-pressure environment, and when it swam to a low-pressure environment, the contracted body would suddenly open up, causing it to explode.
But why did it do that? Why did it leave the high-pressure trench and swim up?
Even if the warhead's bite was painful, it shouldn't be. Besides, pain should be a signal for life to avoid danger, not a signal for it to go mad.
The Leviathan swam towards the carpet bug's explosion and retrieved all the warheads. It then began to study the carpet bug's fragments.
The warheads' bodies were filled with water to resist the pressure, but in places where the pressure was low, they could open up several small holes in their shells to quickly release water and absorb the bubbles in the water. This way, not only would they not explode, they could also float up for the Leviathan to retrieve.
This was …
Lin found many familiar things on the carpet bug's fragments — viruses.
They weren't ordinary viruses, but the same type as the Scarlet Virus in the body of Lin's' infected '.
The Scarlet Virus was widespread in the carpet bug's cells and various structures and organs. Was that why the carpet bug was red? But the virus didn't harm the cells, and instead made it go mad?
Lin found a lot of viruses in the carpet bug's unexploded ganglion, which might be the cause of its madness …
Lin suddenly noticed that 'madness' seemed to be a new word, and it referred to abnormal behavior, right?
But Lin's infected did not show any such symptoms. They remained quiet when Lin asked them to be quiet.
This seemed to have some research value …
Lin could experiment with other creatures to see how they would react to the virus. This seemed … quite fun.
Was it just for fun? No, it might be a weapon to destroy the enemy. Lin could directly inject the virus into the creatures with ganglion, and the enemy should completely lose their ability to fight.
Moreover, the virus wouldn't damage the cells, so they could be used to defeat the enemy without wasting nutrients.
In short, this could be considered a useful research …
Lin had only explored a small area of the trench. There should be more interesting things down there, but it would be difficult to see clearly if she only relied on small and slow units like the 'warhead' to explore. But Lin didn't want to make the entire Leviathan into a pressure-resistant type. It was too troublesome, and she would have to change it back after leaving the trench.
Just as Lin was vexed, an abnormal vibration came from the water below. A huge amount of black matter suddenly surged out from the trench and instantly surrounded the Leviathan.
The black matter contained a strange composition that would damage the body's cells if inhaled.
Lin quickly closed all the entrances on the Leviathan and used her tentacles to paddle away from the area covered by the black matter.
Lin looked back and saw that most of the trench was filled with the black matter.
It was something called 'smoke'.
The smoke seemed to be gas, but it wasn't gas. Most of it was small fragments and other strange things. It had no effect on Lin's carapace, but it would cause fatal damage to the cells on the wall of the suction tube.
The smoke … seemed to be related to lava?
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