This blue bamboo forest … was quite large.
While the gas giant was slowly moving towards Phoenix's star, Lin was also on one of its moons … continuing her exploration.
The ball of fur wandered around the blue bamboo forest for a long time.
Here, there were 'bamboos' with a thickness of 30 centimetres and a height of 10 metres.
They looked almost the same as the type of bamboo found on Ershi, but they did not have branches or leaves.
They were simply … bamboo poles.
Additionally, the centre of each of them was hollow.
So far, Lin had only discovered … microorganisms. Be it the ground or the 'bamboo poles', there were a lot of cellular microorganisms.
There was no oxygen in the air here and the temperature was very low. However, these microorganisms had completely adapted to the environment here.
Therefore, Lin could also use them to create … more pure cellular soldiers for exploration.
Lin wanted to explore this world as quickly as possible before moving on to the other two planets. Because there was no telling when the gas giant would reach Phoenix.
There was also no telling when the Phoenix would make its move. No matter what it did … Lin believed that it would most likely harm the environment here.
That was …
While moving forward, the ball of fur suddenly noticed a special scene before her.
Not far ahead was an open space in the forest. All the bamboos there had fallen to the ground. Standing in the middle of the fallen bamboos was … a creature.
It should be a creature.
It also appeared to be … a type of plant called 'dragon fruit'. It was around two metres tall.
In addition to its red fruit-like body, its body was also covered with a large number of 'leaves' that were over one metre in length.
That was why Lin thought it looked like … a dragon fruit.
However, the leaves growing around its body appeared to be a type of weapon. They were quite sharp and appeared to be used for cutting.
Because Lin saw … this dragon fruit like creature slowly move to the bottom of one of the bamboos.
Next, it used the 'leaves' growing on its body to cut through the bamboo. The bamboo was cut open and fell to the ground.
It would appear that all the bamboos on the ground had been cut by it.
Next, Lin watched as it cut open several bamboos in a row. Lin noticed that when some of the bamboos were cut open, a large amount of dust-like substance would emerge from the hollow space between the bamboos.
And when the dust powder appeared, this' dragon fruit 'would immediately use its tip … there was a structure that looked like a mouth. It used this mouth to desperately suck in all the dust powder, and then went to cut other bamboo.
It looked like it was eating.
After looking at it for a while, Lin asked the pompom to send some … greeting signals to it.
It seemed to respond to the captain's signal. The moment it received the signal, the dragon fruit immediately turned around.
Although Lin thought it looked the same from the front and back, there was indeed a front and a back.
The moment it turned around … it seemed to have used some sort of sensory organ that Lin didn't know about to discover the pompoms, and then it suddenly rushed in that direction.
While it was sprinting, it was also swinging the leaves on its body like a sharp blade.
All the bamboos in its path were cut down in an instant. Just like that, it slashed towards the pompom with an unstoppable force.
"Stop."
However, it stopped in front of the pompon.
This was because Lin had tried to send out a captain-type creature's … coercive signal.
The Dragon Fruit was stunned for a moment, but in the next second, it slashed again.
But at this time, the pompon had already climbed up a bamboo.
As for the Dragon Fruit … of course, it wanted to immediately cut down this bamboo, but before it could do so, it stopped.
Because Lin had sent out a signal asking it 'why are you attacking?'
It seemed to be very confused by Lin's signal, so it froze in place for about ten seconds … and then it reacted.
"Aren't you patrolling?"
Lin realized that it used sound to communicate, through the 'leaves' on its body rubbing against each other.
As for its language … Lin didn't actually understand it, but Lin's pompon could detect its emotional activity through the structure of the captain's body, and thus understand what it wanted to say.
If it could communicate, then it would be much easier … and so Lin continued to try to discuss more things with it.
In fact, it wasn't very willing to communicate with Lin, but after Lin tried to strengthen its signal, it slowly listened to … orders.
After communicating with this creature, Lin felt that it was quite similar to those … cultivation creatures of Lin's.
It said that the reason it was active here was to absorb the 'essence' within the bamboo to stabilize its body and strengthen itself.
It said that as long as it did this to the extreme, it would be able to live as long as the heavens. But if it didn't absorb the essence and cultivate … then it might turn into ashes.
The 'heavens' it was referring to weren't the clouds floating in the sky, but the gas giant.
From here, they could clearly see the surging emerald green storm on the gas giant.
What Lin cared more about was the 'turning into ashes' it said.
Because this wasn't a metaphor, it really would turn into ashes.
In fact, they had to constantly absorb the 'essence' within the bamboo, otherwise they would turn into ashes.
But this bamboo forest was the territory of some other creature, and this Dragon Fruit had secretly come here to cut down the bamboo.
So when it first met Lin's pompon, it thought that the pompon was sent by that creature to patrol, so it wanted to kill it immediately.
But it didn't know much else.
This was because this kind of dragon fruit could be considered a creature that was still in a 'primitive tribe'.
There was no way to get more information from it, only that they liked to … improve themselves through all kinds of cultivation.
In the end, Lin examined it and found that this creature wasn't a cellular creature, it belonged to a species Lin had never seen before.
But it was also within the range of the captain type of creature.
Since that was the case, the next thing to do was to look for the other creatures this Dragon Fruit mentioned.
The creatures it mentioned seemed to have a higher … civilization, but they were similar to cultivation creatures.
In other words, they all liked to improve their individual strength and didn't like to use tools.
But … when Lin moved, she found that the Phoenix also moved.
The Phoenix launched all the resident spheres at the gas giant at once from the platform of the resident spheres.
And it wasn't just a simple resident sphere.
They also put a lot of strange things into the resident spheres … because although Lin's pompoms were called back to the residential area, there were still a lot of miniature soldiers left on the platform, so Lin could see their movements.
But she didn't know what these Phoenix were putting …
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