These creatures … were communicating.
This was a spacious underground cavern. The ground was covered with crystals and many small creatures were crawling around. However, the most eye-catching one was a group of scorpion-type creatures …
Lin called them 'standing scorpions'. They were scorpions that stood and walked around. They gathered in groups here and used crystals to build nests. Apart from them, there were many other commonly seen crystal Brond scorpions living with them. There were also some other creatures. Some of them looked like large beetles while others looked like caterpillars. The standing scorpions grabbed a caterpillar and gently squeezed it, using the mucus they spat out to stick pieces of crystals on top.
The beetles used their heads to scoop up the crystals and then piled them together. They had been using the crystals in the cavern to build a structure that looked like a crystal wall. It looked like they were a division of work species. When Lin first saw them, she thought so. However, there was a problem …
Lin often saw two standing scorpions communicating with each other and saying a series of complicated words.
If they were division of work creatures, they would not communicate like this, let alone use complicated language.
Perhaps they were not division of work creatures? But how could there be so many types of creatures mixed together? Lin even saw a caterpillar-type creature with a large abdomen. It was probably used to store food. Occasionally, a standing scorpion would pick up the things it spat out from its mouth. Creatures of this form, no matter how she looked at it, were division of work creatures …
However, this group of standing scorpions often communicated with each other. When they were building crystals, they would occasionally have disagreements due to differing opinions.
And so. Lin thought of a way. It would be better to identify what species they were. Because the Leviathan was too big and did not change color, it was difficult to enter. So, Lin began to assemble a special 'unit' inside the Leviathan.
Lin created this unit based entirely on the appearance of a standing scorpion. However, it was only the outer shell. Lin did not know how the inner shell looked like. However, it was fine as long as it could move like a normal standing scorpion. Of course, it also had to have the ability to emit light.
During this time, Lin had Susumi come back first. Lin put a 'filter' on it. Susumi was like an aquatic creature. Lin watched as it happily swam around the Leviathan. It felt like it would be fine to let it live in the water …
Because the internal structure was very simple, Lin created it very quickly. When the internal structure was finished, the Leviathan's carapace slowly split open. A creature that looked exactly like a standing scorpion slowly rose from inside …
"Caw …" Susumi, who was chasing after Little Fishy, was surprised to see the 'standing scorpion' rise from Leviathan's back. It was like a creature being born from a cocoon. After it came out completely, Lin tried to move its body. To familiarize herself with it.
Although the body's body shape, it was easy. Let's call this unit … 'Spy'. This was a new term that Lin had just discovered, and she felt that it was quite fun. Just as Lin was about to swim into the tunnel, Susumi suddenly grabbed the tail of this' Standing Scorpion '.
Lin looked at Susumi, who seemed to want to go with them.
Lin Lin thought about it for half a second. Then, she grabbed Susumi and swam into the tunnel with her …
After swimming through the tunnel, the 'spy' walked ashore. It walked on the ground like the other standing scorpions. Susumi followed behind it. Lin Lin believed that Susumi would be fine, as long as they were not a branch species …
This would allow Susumi to see more things. If something went wrong, Lin Lin would have a way to help Susumi escape.
Lin Lin walked toward a group of standing scorpions who were building crystals not far away. The standing scorpions also saw Lin Lin's' spy '.
"Oh?" A standing scorpion walked over and looked at the 'spy' suspiciously. The shell on the spy's body was glowing, and its shape was exactly the same as a real standing scorpion. Therefore, it did not attack immediately. Susumi quietly hid behind it and did not make any sound …
"Root, dig!" The spy suddenly raised its forelimbs and uttered a word. Lin Lin did not know what it meant. However, when she was observing the standing scorpions, she often noticed that they would say the same word when they met each other. Although Lin Lin had never seen a standing scorpion's vocal sac, she could perfectly imitate their unique voice.
The standing scorpion who was inspecting the spy immediately raised its forelimbs and said, "Root!" Then, it went back to building crystals. It no longer suspected Lin Lin …
As expected, these creatures were not the type to divide their work. How could this' spy ', who looked exactly the same as them, communicate with them? It seemed that they were a species with independent personalities like the Humerus Dragon. Species like them were not very good at recognizing their own kind.
But why were they cooperating with so many different species? Were they all living in symbiosis? Lin Lin had never seen so many multicellular creatures living in symbiosis.
The spy led Susumi deeper into the cave. There were standing scorpions building crystals everywhere. They stuck the crystals into the shape of walls. Then, they connected the walls to form a tunnel.
There were many crystal tunnels on the walls at the end of the cave. They might lead to other caves. Lin Lin believed that this was a huge network of underground caves.
"Coo …" At this time, a giant beetle walked past the spy. This beetle was about two meters long and one meter tall. It used the flat horns on its head to scoop up the crystals on the ground.
Because of this beetle and some other creatures, the standing scorpions looked like a branch species. Also, these creatures seemed to breathe through gills. From the beetle's transparent carapace, Lin Lin could see that there was a lot of water inside the carapace. There were also gill-like structures on both sides of its head. Could it be that they were once aquatic creatures?
"Oh?" At this time, another standing scorpion approached Lin Lin's spy. Most of the standing scorpions around were working, but there were always one or two who looked over in confusion. However, this standing scorpion did not think that the spy was strange. It was paying attention to the person behind the spy … Susumi.
"Macadi? Huh? " The standing scorpion said a bunch of words that Lin did not understand, but Lin could guess that it was asking, 'What is this?'
Lin said directly, "Susumi."
"Susumi?" This standing scorpion seemed to be stunned. Then, Lin immediately led Susumi away.
Lin turned around to look at the spy. The standing scorpion did not chase after them. It seemed that they had treated the spy as one of their own. It did not matter what the spy brought in …
In that case, she would continue to see what was going on with these creatures that looked like a branch species but not a branch species. Lin felt that this was just a construction site, and in their main nest … perhaps she would find something interesting. Floating astronomy.
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