Time passed quickly. The sun was like a rolling worm, appearing and disappearing at the same time. The rolling of the sun meant that the environment was changing. It meant that … the creature was growing.
Susumi had been to many places during this time. The rivers where dragons swam freely, the forests where monsters lurked, the mountains where pterosaurs screamed …
Susumi was the name Lin gave to the baby emerald dragon. There was no special meaning behind the name, it was just a random thought. Since Lin was bringing it along, she should give it a name to distinguish it from the other emerald dragons.
In the first thirty days, it only knew how to squawk and look around excitedly. Lin realized that although the creature was very curious, it lacked fear.
As a result, Lin taught Susumi fear, allowing it to run away and be afraid of dangerous things. This was because Lin only had Susumi with her during the journey. If it wasn't careful, it wouldn't be able to survive.
Lin also realized that these creatures with bigger brains were easily blinded by fear. Therefore, Lin had to teach it when to be afraid and when not to be.
Susumi was a fast learner. The first time it felt fear, it managed to escape the pursuit of a group of flying dragons. It was a fast, carnivorous dinosaur. After learning the basics, it began to learn language. This seemed to be easier to teach.
After sixty days, Susumi had learned a few hundred words, but it still liked squawking.
After ninety days, Susumi could speak more complete sentences, but it still didn't know how to use them.
After one hundred days, Susumi was taken away by a pterosaur. It knew how to use the words Lin taught it to call for help.
After the 120th day and night, Susumi was already able to communicate with Lin in a relatively simple manner, which surprised Lin a little. It was only a baby dragon less than thirty centimeters long.
After one hundred and thirty days, Pompom brought Susumi to the end of the forest. It was a plain. There were many different dinosaurs. Susumi named these dinosaurs according to Lin's teaching. The baby emerald dragon grew much faster than other skeletal dragon's, although it was still small.
After one hundred and fifty days …
"Roll, roll, roll on the beach, roll on the beach." Under the bright sun, Pompom rolled on the ground. It was surrounded by a large group of 'foot soldiers' and a small wyvern that was slightly bigger than it.
Almost half a year had passed, and everything had changed. The barren land outside the rift valley was now filled with all sorts of wondrous plants, and the same was true for the islands that were once occupied by plague fungi. The seeds that Lin had planted began to grow at an insane rate. They would be able to restore everything very quickly.
At the edge of the first forest on the continent, Pompom only had one mountain. It already had a few hundred foot soldiers.
Because it didn't want to live here. It wanted to live on an island with a view of the sea …
"Island, beach," Pompom after rolling on the ground, it looked at Pompom. Its size was no longer able to suppress the Wyvern, but because of this, the small Wyvern had a new use.
The brain bug said to the flying dragon, "Howl, howl twice to show that you want to go too."
"Pompom" Pompom "Pompom" Pompom "
Now, Pompom... After seeing the young Wyvern lying down, the headworm immediately rolled onto the young Wyvern's back and said, "Take off!"
"Ao Ao!" The little wyvern spread out its forelimbs, revealing a large wing membrane. It had already grown to the point where it could fly. When it opened its mouth, the air sacs in its body rapidly inflated. Following which, it flapped its wings and charged into the sky!
"Oh." The moment it flew into the sky, the Brainworm rolled down from the back of the Wyvern and fell to the ground. It immediately shouted at the sky, "Stupid creature. You can't grasp it correctly. Come down quickly! "
After the Cephalopod raised the young wyverns, it would often make loud noises. Its vocal sac had also become more developed, and it was able to roar without any damage.
"Roar …" The young wyvern was a bit disappointed as it landed beside the Cephalic Worm. The Cephalic Worm immediately rolled onto its body and said, "Continue the experiment."
"Ao Ao!" The little wyvern once again spread its wings and flew into the air. Unfortunately, the headworm soon fell to the ground because it lacked a grasping appendage. After that, the headworm tried a few more times, but no matter how many times it tried, it would fall down.
The Cephalic Worm tried ten more times and tried all kinds of postures before finally stopping. It looked at the sky and said, "This method is ineffective. We need to think of a new method. Perhaps, we can form the infantry into a ball and roll."
"Want to go to the island?"
While the Cephalic Worm was thinking about this, a huge shadow covered the surrounding land. An incomparably huge creature appeared above the Cephalic Worm.
This creature had a huge and streamlined body, covered in a layer of shiny black carapace. This was Lin's newly created Bechymos. In fact, it had been created long ago, but it only returned after wandering around the Fungus Island to check if the plague fungus had completely disappeared.
The new Bechymos was slightly bigger than before, about 60 meters in length. Its carapace had been replaced with a special skin layer, and its internal structure was also different. At the same time, it had a new jet system. Overall, its function was about the same as before. It could create a large number of troops to attack, and it could also perform other kinds of attacks.
But in this era of peace, these giant troops weren't very useful, but they could at least transport the Cephalic Worm and its colony to very far places, such as the island it had always wanted to go to …
The young wyvern seemed to be scared to death by the appearance of the Bechymos. It roared madly at the sky, and the Cephalic Worm bumped it a little. "Be quiet. You'll live longer."
The Bechymos slowly descended and opened the troop exit on its side. Lin didn't need to speak too complicated a language with the Cephalic Worm as it could understand her meaning. The Cephalic Worm let out a large number of infantry, including the Queen who was hiding in the rocky mountain, and entered the Bechymos.
After loading, the Bechymos slowly rose into the sky and flew towards the sea.
It wasn't a bad idea to let the Cephalic Worm live on an island, otherwise it might come into conflict with the Skeleton Dragon in the future. But which island should he bring the Cephalic Worm to?
Right … that island might not be bad. It's rather big and has a lot of creatures on it, enough for the Cephalic Worm to live in. Moreover, there's a 'neighbor' there.
"This place is not bad, I commend you."
The Cephalic Worm soon arrived at its destination. It rolled around on the white beach, appearing to be very happy. The young wyvern also rolled around with it.
This island was known as the 'Twin Islands'. They were two islands that were tens of kilometers long. Because they were shaped like a sphere that was cut in half, they got this name. The two islands were only about five kilometers apart, and the other island could be seen from the coast.
This place had never been contaminated by plague fungi, and there were many special creatures that were neither dinosaurs nor large arthropods living here. Lin believed that they should have evolved from marine life, and provided abundant resources for the Cephalic Worm's colony to grow.
Speaking of which, Lin had never seen any dinosaurs outside of the continent, only some pterosaurs that flew out from time to time.
The Cephalic Worm's troop reproduction was a rather complicated 'process'. Its Queen could only give birth to infantry and some other small troop types in the beginning, and only after the colony had grown to a certain extent would it be able to give birth to more troop types. For example, an 'ultimate troop type' like the Earthsplitter would require a rather large colony to give birth. How large would the colony need to be to give birth to an Earthsplitter? In fact, the Cephalic Worm wasn't too sure, so abundant resources were necessary.
After settling the Cephalic Worm down, Lin continued to pay attention to the young emerald dragon, Susumi's journey.
This was the 160th day since Pompom brought Susumi away from the emerald dragon colony.
Susumi and Pompom left the plains and arrived at a very special place. Lin called it … the Land of Crystallization!
"Crystallization! Crystallization! "
Susumi ran happily on the ground, pointing at a tree in front of her and shouting excitedly. It was a wonderful tree, one that Lin had never seen before.
However, she had seen many creatures similar to this tree. This tree's entire body was shining brightly. Its bark was made of crystals, and it glowed under the sun.
As long as a creature lived near a crystal, it would grow crystals on its body. They would eat the crystal fragments and use them as shell material. However, Lin didn't expect the same thing to happen to a tree. These creatures were collectively called 'crystallized creatures', but Lin recently discovered that some of the 'crystallized creatures' didn't have crystals on their bodies. They just imitated the color of crystals.
This was a wonderful place where the crystallized trees grew. Apart from the crystallized bark, the other parts of the trees were normal. The leaves were also green.
Susumi became excited when she saw the crystallized trees. She rushed into the sparkling forest.
"Don't move too quickly." Pompom barked at her and immediately chased after her. At this moment, Lin suddenly felt that the surroundings seemed to have become very cold.
Why did it seem like? Because only her sensory organs received the signal of coldness. In fact, the temperature didn't drop. This meant that this was a deceptive signal … Could it be that there was a creature …
Just as Lin was wondering, Susumi disappeared. Lin had taught her a lot of things, so she shouldn't have run around. However, this place felt … strange.
Right, this felt like … illusion. Perhaps there was some illusion in the air. Since Pompom didn't have a brain, the gas could only affect its sensory organs. However, it was more dangerous for creatures with brains.
Looking at the crystallized trees around, Pompom's sense of smell seemed to be less sensitive. However, Lin still decided to let Pompom enter this place to search.
It was now … the 170th day.
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