Boom!
At the edge of the cliff, the black rock wall suddenly burst open, and a huge creature drilled out of the hole. It spun at high speed and rushed into the sea.
When the Explorer's spinning body rushed into the sea from the rock wall, the polluted black water around it also spun like a whirlpool. It was like a black whirlwind that kept expanding on the surface of the water. When the Explorer's 73-meter-long body completely entered the water, the whirlpool slowly dissipated.
She finally reached the sea.
The Explorer swayed its body in the water. Lin found that swimming in the sea was much easier than swimming underground. She could rotate and swim in an S shape. It was quite free.
Although she quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.
Her oversized body led to her excessive weight. Although the Explorer could quickly swallow air to float, Lin was originally going to go to the bottom of the sea.
On the seabed that was full of corpses, many ancient squid swam around. They grabbed the long bone fragments to pick up the corpses, looking for the small creatures hiding under the bones to use as food. Occasionally, they would fight for food, but at this time, a third one would come to stop the fight. At the same time, some ancient squid were together in pairs. They built nests with bones and stones, planning to breed in them.
There were no natural enemies here, only food everywhere. The ancient squid could be said to be carefree. Just as they were enjoying this peaceful life, a huge shadow suddenly appeared from above.
It was so huge that some of the ancient squids were stunned on the spot. Their minds were filled with astonishment. It seemed that this hindered their fear.
More ancient squid escaped into the cracks on the seabed and the hard shells of the trilobites. They poked their heads out. They looked at the giant monster's movements in the sea in horror.
The monster's body kept spinning. It brought with it strong currents that swept up the corpses and sand on the seabed, forming a storm of bones under the sea. Countless ancient squid were also caught in this storm. Following this storm, the monster drilled into the seabed. The rocks on the seabed were easily drilled away by it, and then its huge body followed its head into the ground.
After its extremely long body had completely drilled into the ground. The storm at the bottom of the sea finally stopped. Many ancient squids swam out of the messy corpses and gathered around the hole that the monster drilled out. They kept changing colors and waving their tentacles. Were they discussing the giant monster?
Two of the ancient squids even started fighting as their colors changed. It seemed like they had different opinions.
However, some of the bolder ancient squids actually swam into the giant hole.
Lin's Flyer followed the pioneers into the sea and observed them.
In fact, Lin had never understood what the word "bold" meant. Daring refers to being fearless, and naturally. The gallbladder was a relatively common organ in the body of living creatures. It was used to secrete a liquid that helped dissolve and absorb food. It had nothing to do with whether the brain was fearful or not.
It made Lynn wonder if some of the words were a bit off.
However, these ancient squids were really interesting. Creatures with bigger brains would always behave strangely, but Lin's current research topic wasn't these creatures.
The pioneers drilled through the layers of rock at the bottom of the sea and headed towards the trench. Lin found that the rocks at the bottom of the sea were softer than those on the ground. Could it be because they had been in the sea for too long?
The drill on the head of the pioneers was also its mouth. It opened its mouth slightly and swallowed a small amount of sand to be analyzed in its body to determine the composition of the rocks. The useless rocks would be expelled from its tail, while the useful ones would be quickly broken down and reassembled into shell matter.
Lin ordered the Flyer to follow the Pathfinder's movements on the seabed. She discovered that the Pathfinder's movements would cause the seabed to vibrate slightly, and these small vibrations would cause some cracks. These cracks would grow bigger and bigger, which could lead to even bigger situations. Many Sound Stones would break off from the seabed due to these cracks and rise upwards.
Lin felt that the entire seabed seemed to be more loose. It should be because of the previous seaquakes. She didn't know if there would be any big problems again. If there was another seaquake, the sea that had recovered with great difficulty would revert back to its previous state.
The pioneers were approaching the trench. Lin let the pioneers slowly drill deeper. Inside the rocks, Lin found some Purgatory Worms' shell matter.
Boom!
Suddenly, the pioneers' eyes lit up. They drilled out of the trench's rock wall and rushed into the opposite rock wall.
But at that moment, the pioneers suddenly stopped moving. A section of its body was like a bridge between the two rock walls of the trench. After a short pause, the pioneers began to rotate again. This time, Lin drilled upwards. Along with the tremors of the seabed, the pioneers drilled out of the trench.
The exploration was complete.
About a hundred meters deep in the trench, Lin discovered a large amount of shell-like substances similar to Purgatory Worms in the ground. Lin planned to call these shell-like substances Purgatory Shell-Like substances in the future, and planned to collect them here.
The pioneers weren't responsible for collecting the shell matter. They were only responsible for drilling out the tunnel and exploring. It was the subsidiary worms that were responsible for collecting the shell matter. They broke free from the pioneers' carapace and entered the tunnel that the pioneers drilled out.
The heads of the worms glowed. Lin discovered that the tunnel that the pioneers drilled out was full of cracks, but it shouldn't collapse that easily. If the pioneers drilled out of mud or sand, the holes would be immediately filled with sand. On the other hand, if the pioneers drilled out of rocks, the holes would generally remain stable for a period of time.
Lin needed to start digging once they had stabilized, so the three worms began to work together. One of them would release the Gatherers that were used for digging, while the other would rotate its body to drill out a large amount of powder from the cave walls. The Gatherers were responsible for collecting the powder, while the last worm would swim back to extract more nutrients from the Pathfinders to create more Gatherers and at the same time, build a base.
In addition to its muscles, the pioneers also stored a large amount of nutrients. In addition to its own activities, it could also be used to create more troops.
A large number of Gatherers were created and began to collect the shell matter in the cave. All of the shell matter would be transported back to the base. Once the base was full, it would take off and fly back to the Twisted Jungle.
The pioneers themselves weren't used as a base. They only drilled out a tunnel that could be excavated, then set up a base and continued to move forward.
After the worms were loaded back into the pioneers' carapace, the pioneers began to rotate again. This time, it swallowed a large amount of air through the pores on the surface of its carapace. The air was distributed to every part of the pioneers' body, which made its huge body buoyant and able to move forward in the sea.
Lin wanted to test the pioneers' second ability, filtration.
The pioneers rapidly rotated their carapace and swam towards the upper layer of the sea. The upper layer of the sea was filled with black and poisonous seawater, and Lin's filtration system could deal with this kind of poison. The pioneers rushed into the black sea and opened their mouths wide. While swimming at high speed, they swallowed a large amount of black seawater. The seawater was then filtered and broken down by the pioneers' internal organs.
The pioneers' internal organs were different from ordinary worms. They didn't have an esophagus that led directly to their tail. Only a small part of the esophagus was the front part, and the back part was a system made up of a large number of organs. These organs were used to break down and filter things like gravel and toxins. It was a complex and complete system.
Usually, when the pioneers swallowed boulders, they could grind them into powder in the esophagus and then swallow them to break them down. However, water didn't need to be grinded, so the filtration process was very fast. The water was broken down from the beginning to the end, and the filtration process only took a few seconds. The filtered water would then be discharged from the pioneers' tail.
The pioneers continuously swallowed a large amount of polluted seawater and released clean water from their tails. The toxic substances were compressed into a small ball by the pioneers' internal organs and discharged.
It didn't seem very meaningful. In the end, Lin still hadn't solved the problem of the toxic substances. It was better to let them disperse automatically in the water.
However, the pioneers' filtration system wasn't used for this.
After moving forward in the dark sea for a while, the pioneers lowered their heads and dived down. As the pioneers dived down, the surrounding light became darker and darker. In the darkness, the pioneers turned on their own illumination system to illuminate the surrounding environment. The vast seabed once again appeared in front of Lin's eyes.
There were many huge stone pillars protruding from the seabed. At the tip of the stone pillars, a large amount of black smoke would intermittently spurt out.
This was one of the underwater volcanoes, but it was better to call them underwater fountains.
This kind of fountains was relatively common. The smoke they spurt out was mixed with a lot of impurities and nutrients. The pioneers swam to the top of one of the fountains. When the smoke was spurted out, the pioneers opened their mouths and swallowed a large amount of smoke. They then broke it down and filtered it in their bodies to obtain a large amount of nutrients.
In the sea where living creatures were scarce, the pioneers had to rely entirely on these underwater fountains to obtain nutrients. Alternatively, they could also eat a large amount of seabed mud and decompose it to obtain nutrients.
The pioneers' filtration system allowed them to obtain a large amount of food from the turbid mud or the smoke from the underwater hot springs. This way, they could travel long distances in the sea. Just like its name, the pioneers were used by Lin to explore unknown areas, but not limited to the underground. After testing various abilities, Lin decided to use them to explore more distant places.
For example, other continents. To be continued …
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