Bam! There was another explosion. The two-meter-long crystal cones on the tortoise's back shot towards the Leviathan. This time, the Leviathan dodged the attack with its emergency jet. The missed crystal cones pierced into the center of a tree behind the Leviathan.
The tree was almost pierced through, but it did not react. Could it be that only the branches could scream?
While Lin was thinking, the tortoise was also on the move. It slowly turned its body because only two of the crystal cones on its back could be shot forward. If it wanted to shoot the other cones, it had to turn around.
But when it turned around, its huge body hit the tree it had bitten earlier. The tree trunk, which was not very thick, was smashed to one side by the tortoise's huge strength. Its roots also broke one by one. The whole tree fell to the ground with a loud crash. Its crystallized bark and branches were smashed to pieces.
"Ahhh!!!"
At that moment, a shrill scream rang through the entire crystal forest! The sound was extremely sharp and caused great stimulation to the Leviathan's auditory tentacles. The tortoise seemed to be unable to withstand the sound. It stopped turning and roared at the fallen tree.
The screaming tree and the tortoise seemed to be roaring at each other. The tortoise tried to drown out the tree with its own voice, but the screams only grew louder and louder. As if its eardrums could not withstand the stimulation, the tortoise finally gave in. It shook its head and fled the place.
The Leviathan shot a small sticky bullet at the tortoise as a mark and floated to the side of the fallen tree.
The sound was really piercing. It had caused a lot of damage to the Leviathan's auditory tentacles. After a few hundred seconds, the tortoise finally stopped. The sound did not seem to be coming from the tree. It was... underground.
At the broken part of the tree, Lin found some silk threads. These silk threads were connected to the trunk and extended to the branches...
Lin thought that the branches were some kind of trigger structure. As long as they were touched, they would scream.
The Leviathan reached out with its tentacles. It dug at the roots of the tree. Lin found that the roots of the tree were not completely covered in crystals. They seemed to be very long, but the structure was relatively weak. That was why the tortoise could easily break the tree.
After digging for a while, Lin dug out a strange-shaped … object. All the threads were connected to this thing. It looked like the shell of an ammonite, and its outer layer was covered in crystals. The Leviathan extended its tentacles into the shell to explore. At the same time, Lin saw that there seemed to be some liquid flowing inside the shell, and then some miniaturized soldiers were injected into it.
After a period of research. Lin discovered that … this thing was an organ.
Its main function was to … make sounds. The scream just now was made by it. There was a structure inside it that resembled a vocal sac. It could continuously vibrate to make sounds, as if the 'cold' feeling had nothing to do with it.
Why does this tree have such a structure? Was it for defense? That didn't seem to be the case. When it was bitten by the tortoise earlier, the sound it made was very soft. It would only make a loud noise when it was pushed down, but it was useless. It was located at the roots of the tree trunk, so Lin did not notice this strange structure before.
Regardless of how useful it was, the most important thing Lin discovered was that it could 'record' sounds. After it received a sound, it would play it exactly the same way as the original sound. Moreover, it could retain multiple sounds for a long period of time …
The threads from before were indeed receptors. If the threads were stimulated, they would immediately transmit this organ. Because the receptors were only at the ends of the threads, only when the branches were injured would they make a sound. This reaction mechanism was somewhat similar to a plant called 'mimosa'. If that was the case, perhaps …
The Leviathan used its electric tentacles to imitate the signals of the threads and gently shocked the organ.
"Ahhh —!!!" The scream from before suddenly rang out. Lin did not know what kind of creature it was, but it should be able to be replaced with another sound.
Lin shocked it a few more times, and sure enough, the tree made other sounds …
"Ga!" "Wa!" "Woo!" "Ohhhh!" All kinds of sounds came from the organ, including the roar of the tortoise from before. There were also some other sounds that Lin had heard before, but she did not recognize most of them. This organ had the ability to distinguish sounds. It only recorded the sounds of creatures, not footsteps or the sound of the wind.
Among the sounds of these creatures, Lin heard one: "Help …".
This was the vocabulary of the brain worm. Lin had taught Susumi before, and sure enough, Susumi had been here before, and it was calling for help at that time.
Unfortunately, Lin did not know how long ago this sound was. The Leviathan shocked it a few more times and found that there were about a dozen kinds of sounds, and only one of them was Susumi's.
Perhaps the other trees also recorded this sound? With that in mind, the Leviathan put down the organ and flew to the other trees nearby. It did not need to push them down to listen to their sounds. It only needed to reach its tentacles into the soil, drill into the roots, find the organ, and shock it.
This tree also found Susumi's voice. Just like the previous one, it was "Help."
Then, Lin tried many more trees. When she was further away, Lin heard different Susumi's voices, such as "hungry", "food", "cold …", "Lin …", "lost …", "water …", and so on.
The further away they were, the weaker Susumi's voice became. However, it did not seem to be under attack. The sounds recorded by the trees in the depths of the forest became fewer and fewer, and finally, only Susumi's voice was left.
The Leviathan tracked Susumi for about a kilometer in the crystal forest. It felt that Susumi's movements were very slow. Lin guessed that it had been circling around in the same place for many days and nights. Lin had taught it that in this situation, it should stop and wait for help. It did not seem to do so. Instead, it ran around, but it did not turn back to leave the forest. Instead, it went deeper and deeper into the forest.
Susumi became weaker and weaker in the end. From the recorded sounds, it could feel that death was approaching. There was no water or food here. How long could the emerald dragon live?
The Leviathan had walked for about two kilometers, and the sounds it heard from the trees had almost disappeared. Perhaps it had finally …
"Lin …"
Suddenly, Lin heard a small voice.
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